About 15 games there are my originals from when I was a kid: Mario 1, 2, 3, Contra, Danny Sullivan, Metal Storm, Mega Man 2, Bionic Commando, Battle Chess (my dad got that for himself), Adventures in the Magical Kingdom, North & South, Double Dribble, Ice Hockey, Tecmo Super Bowl, Smash TV, and Iron Tank). 

Then… SNES and Genesis took over and I didn’t get back into the NES until I got a bunch of games at a neighbor’s garage sale and started buying here and there with my own money at Game Crazy and EB Games and places like that, joined some early forums, some pre YouTube retro game content creators making recommendations, etc.

This is what I have left. When my now husband and I decided to move in together back in 2014, I cut my total game collection in half and sold off about a third of the NES collection. Kinda wish I waited because man, what I sold the games I got rid of for doesn’t even touch what they’re going for today but c'est la vie, whatyagonnado?

Anywho, I mostly game on my Retro USB AVS for NES stuff nowadays . Still have my toaster (I installed a Blinking Light Win in it a while ago) and a Top Loader, but the AVS is getting the most use now. 

I rarely buy an original NES game nowadays. I believe the last official NES game I bought was Family Feud just because some friends wanted to play it and we had a grand old time. 

My humble collection (represents collecting from 1999 to about 2018)