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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
nintendoWhy SNES Shell Yellowing Is the Honest Collector's TestFlip over the next SNES you find at a flea market. Odds are the top shell and the bottom shell are two different colours – one drifting toward old margarine, the other still close to Nintendo's original grey. That mismatch isn't grime, and it isn't just sun damage. It's chemistry, and it's the most useful thing to understand before you buy, sell, or restore Super Nintendo hardware. Why one console yellows in two different shades The SNES shell is ABS plastic mixed with brominated flame retard