Collecting and Playing excellent Video Games

Like Barbie dolls, G.I. Joe figures, Star Wars toys, baseball cards, and any amount of other pop culture playthings that transfixed so many thirty- and forty-somethings while their childhood years, superior video games have come to be something of a commodity in the collector's market. Video game conventions, such as the superior Gaming Expo, have sprung up all over the world, bringing in fans by the thousands to ogle dealer rooms filled to the brim with nostalgic goodness. Items for sale ordinarily contain older games still in their primary packaging, rare systems such as the Adventure vision and the Rca Studio Ii, boxes of common (and thus inexpensive) Atari 2600 cartridges, newly released "homebrew" titles (produced by fans), vintage handheld electronic games, back issues of Electronic Games Magazine, and much more.

Ten years ago, rummaging straight through carport sales, flea markets, and thrift market was a good way to go about building a superior video game collection, but these days, such a quest is usually fruitless (at least for those looking for pre-Nintendo era games), thanks to the proliferation of online dealers, the perceived value of game cartridges, and the addition scarcity of older games. For those who can't make the convention scene, but are craving the simple, yet enthralling pleasures of retro-gaming, these days the best places to look are eBay and other used video game sites. Try using a used video game search (see reserved supply box below) to collate the prices in the middle of all of these used video game sites. To give gamers some idea of what to expect when searching for a exact title online, a amount of offline resources are available, together with Video Game assembler (a quarterly magazine with price guide), Atari Age (a whole Atari website), and the varied collector's guides published by Digital Press.

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By far the best way to play any of the superior video game systems is to acquire the originals, along with the along cartridges, controllers, and other peripherals. There's nothing quite like hooking up an actual ColecoVision to a 19-inch television set, plugging in a Roller Controller trackball and a Centipede (or Slither) cartridge, and blasting away at bugs and mushrooms (or at snakes and cacti) for hours on end. Or, booting up an Atari 2600 and playing Video Olympics (a collection of Pong variants) with up to three other players using Atari's fabulous rotary paddle controllers.

For some gamers, it is simply not practical to purchase and setup vintage video games. And, there are casual gamers who may want a blast from the past, but are only looking for a taste, not a full policy meal. For these non-purists, there are a amount of retro collections ready for varied contemporary consoles (and computers), together with Intellivision Lives! (featuring more than 60 titles), Activision Anthology (containing 48 Atari 2600 games), and Atari Anthology (home to 67 Atari 2600 titles and 18 Atari arcade games). Unfortunately, most of the other Golden Age systems, together with the Atari 5200 and the Odyssey2, lack such compilation discs, but most systems have been emulated online, meaning gamers can download and play hundreds of console classics on their home computers.

There are a amount of other ways to play superior games, together with retro-style joysticks and operate pads that hook up directly to the audio/video ports of contemporary television sets. These nifty gadgets, such as the Atari Classics 10-in-1 and the Intellivision 25, are an easy way to palpate old school cool without dishing out a lot of dough or taking up a lot of living room space. Slightly more ambitious gaming enthusiasts may want to try the Atari Flashback and/or the Atari Flashback 2, both of which are modeled after the primary Atari 2600, but with the games built inside the unit. There are also new game systems that play old cartridges, such as the Fc Twin, which is compatible with Nes and Super Nes carts.

Whatever route nostalgia buffs care to take, playing console games of yesteryear is a great trip down memory lane. And, for younger players, superior video games contribute a enthralling view into the past, when games were simplistic both visually and conceptually, yet imbued with a distinct charm and elegance of their own.

Collecting and Playing excellent Video Games

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