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  playstationCollecting the PS4 Before Nostalgia Beats You to ItSony built exactly 12,300 units of the 20th Anniversary PlayStation 4, painted them the same grey as the 1994 original, and watched them evaporate. That was December 2014 — barely a year into the generation. The PS4 announced it would be a collector's console almost immediately. Most of us were too busy playing Destiny to notice. Now the generation is properly over, and the window where PS4 hardware and print runs are still cheap and plentiful is closing the way these windows always do: slowly,
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  Condizione e GradingHow to Grade GameCube Discs, Cases and Console BundlesTilt a GameCube mini-disc under a desk lamp and turn it slowly. Honest wear looks random — a stray arc here, a fingerprint there. But if the whole surface carries one uniform, circular swirl from hub to edge, like it went for a ride on a buffing wheel, you're looking at a resurfaced disc. That's not automatically a dealbreaker. It is something the seller should have mentioned. Small disc, small margin for error The GameCube's proprietary 8 cm disc is based on miniDVD technology, and its size
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  Condizione e GradingWhat Separates a Shelf-Worthy Mega Drive CIB From a BeaterThe hinge gives it away every time. Open a supposedly mint Mega Drive case and a healthy clamshell swings freely and clicks shut with a firm snap; a tired one creaks, wobbles on a single pin, or simply falls into two halves in your hands. Sega shipped its 16-bit games in hard plastic cases while Nintendo was still using crushable cardboard, and that one decision is why so many complete copies survive today — and why grading them is its own little discipline. Read the case before you read the g