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The Nintendo Entertainment System, easily one of the most iconic and leading gaming console from the 80′s selling into the millions across America, capturing the imaginations of children while firmly grasping at the wallets of parents. For every coin collected, every duck shot, and for every Princess saved, the Nintendo Entertainment System has filled me …

Continuing my ongoing quest to make replacing batteries on your retro consoles a tab bit more informative, here is my next attempt: How to Replace the Game Saving Battery to a Sega Genesis Cartridge. I found my second attempt to be much quicker than my first. The battery swap only took me about 5 minutes …

The fighting craze is back in an upturn for the mainstream but you can take advantage of this trend by picking up some of the best joysticks out for the North American market. Hands down one of the best joysticks out right now for the North American market is the Madcatz Tournament Edition fight joystick …

I’ve been collecting arcade hardware for a few years now and I’ve learned one very important thing about this hobby: knowledge is everything and the more you know the better you can preserve your growing expensive collection. You have to keep in mind that some older arcade games have the dreaded suicide battery that kills …

Dead batteries are easily one of the most common annoyances of retro gaming. Nothing sucks more than finally finding that copy of Pokemon (insert color here) that you use to own when you were a kid, putting hours into the game, getting close to completing your campaign, and poof,  all your data has just disappeared …