Lately, I’ve decided to get back into the fray of console collecting. Anybody who has paid attention to my ramblings over the years knows that my collection is quite vast, and often, completely ridiculous. So I was trying to narrow down to one console to truly dedicate some time and resources to. What about the Nintendo64? Certainly the most neglected of my systems. My collection of N64 games is a give and take of quality. For every Ocarina of Time there’s a Quake II, and so forth. And certainly, the market is flooded with cheap, high quality titles that languish on the discount racks of stores. So there it is. I shall resume my obsessive collecting nature with Nintendo’s ill-fated 64-bit powerhouse…

But then something happened.

I was hooking up my Nintendo64 and gathering up my games for a quick inventory. My current organization system is comprised of a giant box filled with plastic bags. Each bag has the cables and controllers for a particular console. The consoles live on a shelf, precariously perched next to each other, with the games in storage containers not far away. Yes, this system sucks, but it has served me well over the last 5 years or so. So as I was digging, I came across my bag of Sega Saturn stuff, and the nostalgia rolled over me like a warm summer breeze.

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