nintendoWhy NES Collecting Is Still the Hobby's Reference PointPick up a grey NES cart and you're holding the founding document of game collecting. Before anyone slabbed a sealed SNES box or argued over PS1 longbox variants, NES owners were already debating five-screw shells, hangtab boxes, and whether that Stadium Events label looked a little too glossy. The Nintendo Entertainment System didn't just rescue the console business after the 1983 crash – it accidentally invented the hobby.
The black boxes that became the hobby's first checklist
When the NES
