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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
GamesHow to Tell a Genuinely Rare Retro Game From a Merely Expensive One"Rare" is the most abused word in a game listing. Here's how to tell genuine scarcity from a common game wearing an expensive word – before you pay the premium.
Condition & GradingBuying a Game Gear or Lynx? Check These Failure Points FirstPop the battery covers off a Sega Game Gear and sniff. That faint fishy smell is leaked electrolyte from failing capacitors – an amine odour every Game Gear tech knows – and it means the console in your hands is running on borrowed time, if it runs at all. Cartridge collecting is mostly about cosmetics. Classic handheld collecting is about the hardware itself, because on a Game Gear, an Atari Lynx or an early PSP, the shell can be showroom-clean while the inside is quietly dying. Here's how to