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Buying & SellingHow to Buy Retro Games Without Getting Burned by ReprosThat gold-label copy of Pokémon Crystal for a suspiciously low price? Flip it over. If the back sticker's font looks a hair too bold, the ESRB rating box is slightly off-centre, or the cartridge shell has a seam that doesn't quite line up, you're probably looking at a repro. And once you know what a fake Game Boy cart looks like, you start seeing them everywhere. The reproduction market has gotten good. Really good. Chinese factory boards now come with proper battery-backed saves, silkscreened
GamesPokemon Gold and Silver Still Reward Careful CollectorsPop the back off a Game Boy Color copy of Pokemon Gold and you'll find the thing that decides whether the cartridge is worth buying: a CR2025 battery soldered to the board, quietly dying since 2000. That battery didn't just hold your save. It ran the internal clock that made Bellsprout appear in the morning and Hoothoot at night. When it goes, the game still plays, but a chunk of what made these carts special goes with it. Why the 1999 sequel still outclasses the original Gold and Silver land
ConsolesThe Sega Dreamcast Was Right, Just Two Years Too EarlySeptember 9, 1999. Sega ran the "It's thinking" campaign and shipped a console with a built-in 56k modem when most people were still fighting their family for the phone line. The Dreamcast launched in North America that day and moved a genuinely huge number of units in its first weekend. For about a year, it looked like Sega had pulled off the comeback. Then the PlayStation 2 was announced with a DVD player inside, and the air went out of the room. Why the hardware still feels ahead of its ti