1Life RetroRun : Blue Shadow (NES)

While rearranging the collection closet with all the stuff that came in lately, I had to test my boxed NES at last. With all the stuff going on the last few weeks I haven’t found the time to do so. While I always test a newly arrived NES with a known to work game, I…

DOS meets LAN

So now you have your precious DOS Retromachine installed with all its necessary components to begin playing the games you always wanted to; and having a lot of original Big Box Games is a plus because you can install them directly from the CD-ROM or floppy. But what about the ones you download from one…

A boxed NES… Waaaa !!!

Damn, that title says it all… any readers left? The plan today was to write a blog to warn all of you collectors that a deal is only complete when you have the goods in your hands. Until that moment there’s always a chance the deal is off or someone scammed you. I had 2…

Controlling the Collecting Budget

Any retro video game collector who’s browsing the internet daily, goes to a flea market each weekend or visits every retro video game convention there is, knows that you can spend all your money in the blink of an eye. If there’s 10 things you want right now, go to EBay and pay whatever the…

Our first award – The Liebster Award (AuronnBE)

Paul Michael Egan, a fellow blogger made us one of his 11 nominees for the Liebster Award. An award I’ve never heard of, but any award is good, no? Positive or negative, it’s a way to gain some well needed public in the big pool of blogs spread across the world wide web. The Liebster…

Leveling up the collection…

Awaiting the blog I’m writing for Wednesday, I’d like to share some finds of this week with you in the meantime. None of the finds were in the top 5 of my want list post from a couple of weeks ago, but still, I had been on the lookout for these for some time. The first one arrived in the mail…