It turns out that it’s kind of expensive. I own an SNES mini but I decided it would be neat to try to collect my handheld gaming systems again. Regardless I still have fond memories of playing Tetris on a green and black screen with no backlight, dying in the first world of Super Mario over and over, running out of batteries every hour on my Game Gear, and playing T2 Arcade colorized with a border on my SNES through my Super Game Boy. I owned all four at one point, but I was never the kid with the newest gadget and I never amassed even a tiny collection of games. Like many kids of the nineties, I fondly remember the NES, Game Boy, Game Gear, and Super Nintendo. After a busy season acquiring phones and other items, I shifted to a different nostalgia: video games.

I do have a few non-Apple pieces like my collection of Intel and AMD CPUs, my large array of Palm Pilots, and even a few Windows PCs and peripherals. My museum is mostly focused on Apple-related items, but it’s ultimately about nostalgia.

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