Video game collecting is the hobby of collecting and preserving video games, video game consoles, and related memorabilia. Most video game consoles, and their games, are considered to be collectors' items years after their discontinuation due to their functional longevity and cultural significance. Collectors usually narrow their search to games holding characteristics they enjoy, such as being published for a specific video game console, being of certain genre, or featuring a specific character.
A collection of video game consoles, accessories, and memorabilia
The Super Mario Bros. game that sold for US$114,000, shown in the "slab" packaging. Wata's rating (9.4) and other details are shown on the top label.
Video game preservation is a form of preservation applied to the video game industry that includes, but is not limited to, digital preservation. Such preservation efforts include archiving development source code and art assets, digital copies of video games, emulation of video game hardware, maintenance and preservation of specialized video game hardware such as arcade games and video game consoles, and digitization of print video game magazines and books prior to the Digital Revolution.
Video game preservation seeks to collect games from a wide variety of game systems no longer in production.
The only known existing hardware unit of the Super NES CD-ROM, a Sony-produced Super Nintendo Entertainment System with a CD-ROM system and the predecessor of the PlayStation
