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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
Condition & GradingSpotting Repro Carts and Resealed Boxes Before You PayFlip a suspicious NES cartridge over and look at the two screws holding the shell together. If they're Phillips-head, you're holding a reproduction. Nintendo used a proprietary 3.8mm security bit on genuine grey carts, and no factory in 1988 shipped a game you could open with a screwdriver from your kitchen drawer. That single detail has saved plenty of buyers from dropping real money on a fake. Reproductions and resealed boxes have gotten good enough that a phone photo won't always give them a
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