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nintendoCollecting the Nintendo 3DS After the eShop Went DarkWhen Nintendo ended new purchases on the 3DS eShop in March 2023, it didn't just retire a storefront – it turned every cartridge into the only remaining door into the library. Pushmo, Intelligent Systems' brilliant block-pulling puzzler, was digital-only. So was Game Freak's oddball golf-poker hybrid Pocket Card Jockey. Neither ever got a cartridge, so on 3DS there's simply nothing left to buy. Why the closure made cartridges the whole story Even physical releases lost something. Fire Emblem:
ConsolesThe Nintendo 64 Deep Dive Every Collector Should ReadCartridges in 1996. Sony had already proven the CD was the future with the PlayStation a year earlier, and Sega was fumbling around with the Saturn. Then Nintendo shipped a 64-bit console that still read chunky plastic carts, and somehow it worked anyway. That decision explains almost everything interesting about the N64 - the good, the ugly, and the reason certain games now cost more than the console itself. Why the cartridge gamble mattered more than the polygons The Nintendo 64 launched in
Market InsightsThe Atomic Purple N64 Is the Clear Console Everyone WantsHold a translucent Atomic Purple Nintendo 64 up to a window and you'll see exactly why collectors keep bidding these up: the smoky-clear shell shows off the board, the heat sink, the whole industrial guts of a 1996 console Nintendo usually hid behind grey plastic. It's the same NUS-001 hardware inside every other N64, but the funhouse-clear casing turned an ordinary console into a shelf piece. Right now it's one of the fastest-moving N64 variants changing hands. Why the clear shell is spiking