nintendo 64

So last weekend, my wife and I took our newborn son to a flea-market in a pretty posh part of town.  She asked me if I minded getting up at half past silly(yes, that is a real-time) in order to go to get there before everybody else, and I eagerly agreed, knowing full well that there was a Sega Genesis or a ColecoVision with my name on it that some rich widow was gonna sell to me for under 20 bucks.   That’s right, I refuse to pay more than 20 bucks for any console.  That’s part of the challenge! (See rules below). [...]

This is the first of hopefully a series of articles in which I attempt to find ‘retro’ consoles and games at rock bottom prices.  All of the classic games and consoles can of course easily (albeit expensively) be bought on ebay or amazon marketplace, but that’s not how I roll. As I get older, I realize more and more who I am: A hunter-gatherer.  I hunt for consoles, and  I gather them.  So far I only have 3 retro consoles, but I have aspirations of grandeur…oh yes..oh yes…  It all started last fall when I happened to find a little tiny [...]