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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
nintendoBuying a Game Boy Advance Without Getting a Fake CartTwo cobalt-blue Game Boy Advance SPs on the same shelf: same clamshell, same honest scuffs, same price. Flip them over and read the sticker on the bottom – one says AGS-001, the other AGS-101. That middle digit is the whole ballgame, and if the seller hasn't mentioned it, you should be the one who checks. The GBA is the rare platform where the hardware revision routinely matters more than the game in the box. It's also – less charmingly – home to some of the most counterfeited cartridges in all
nintendoHow to buy an original Game Boy without getting a re-shellSlide the battery cover off before you talk price. On an original Game Boy – the grey DMG-01 brick Nintendo shipped in 1989 – those four AA terminals will tell you more about the machine's last few decades than any glamour shot in the listing. By spec-sheet logic, the brick should have lost. Its Sharp LR35902 ran at roughly 4.19 MHz and drove a 160×144 screen in four shades of pea-soup green, while Sega's Game Gear and the Atari Lynx offered full-colour, backlit displays. But those rivals devou