Hello everyone. I want to tell you a short story about a fatal addiction that you may have heard of.
I can't say I became hooked on collecting NES carts one year or another. I was born in 1988 and NES was already there, for my older brother. I grew up with NES and I dedicated a lot of my free adult time for it too. Even when all odds were against me.
I lost my childhood NES collection back in 2005 when some thugs broke into my house and stole every single thing that had a power cord attached to it. Since the carts were lying behind the NES control deck, then well, why not grab them either. It was a tragic day. Lots and lots of boxed games from US region gone away forever.
I've started re-collecting (to a much more intense degree) games back in 2008-2009. The passion got me really hyped and I quickly reached the 75 cart status in two years (I'm not a guy with a pretty paid job, take that into consideration).
And then guess what.
In 2012 my basement was flooded leaving while I was on vacation. Banana Prince, Ufouria in box, Castlevania III in box, Princess Tomato... all of the rare and common carts rotted and became worthless..
I gave up on NES carts for a few years, seeing how prices went up and how much of an expense would it be to re-collect it for the third goddamn time..
But you probably know what I'm trying to tell you now, ain't it? I just wanna tell you it's like an addiction; you'll NEVER snap out of it. You'll dream about NES carts, you'll see them in local advertisements, you'd probably pop up on ebay out of your own curiosity to see if there's anything you'd buy if the price is good enough...
Yep! That's what happened!
30 years after I first saw the NES I'm starting from the scratch for the third time in my life. The prices are crazier now than in 2008 but hey, love knows no boundaries.
After this long introduction I want to make it official: Hello everyone! Hello nintendoage! Gotta take my nerdiness to another level..
To the Finder...
