Childhood treasures recovered !
It has been about a year since I joined this site now. In my introduction post I wrote about how my childhood collection had sadly been sold away by my mother and I had to come to terms with my games being lost for ever.
I recently went back to Norway on vacation to visit my grandmother for a week. While being there I decided to help her go through a lot of my grandfathers stuff (he has been dead for 20 years) and throw away anything worthless. So I went through the basement and attic working through tons of stuff he had stockpiled over the years (he was a major hoarder of about anything). We threw away tons but also found cool stuff like a nice video camera from the 50s and other old technical stuff.
But to the point of the story. Among all this stuff was a large chest belonging to my older brother (who sadly died some years ago). The box was locked and I could not open it even though I tried for some time. I knew my brother had a quite large collection of comic books and was pretty sure this was the content inside and decided to get someone to open it for me. So I dragged the box with me and drove to the nearest lock smith. After about 5 minutes he managed to get it open.
To my huge surprise and amusement it did not contain any comics at all. Inside were loads of video games, boxes and manuals, some of which had actually belonged to me!
Alas I didn't take any picture of the find as it would have been cool to show here.
To sum it up, I found about:
25 NES games, 10 boxes and a few manuals
20 SNES games, 5-6 boxes and manuals (a very cool custom made Super mario world box made and drawn by my brother as well)
7-8 Game Boy Games + console and a couple of boxes
12-13 Game Gear games + console
Even though I have bought up many of the same games within the last year, it is really cool to have games from my childhood again and a few Scandinavian variants can't hurt my little collection
I recently went back to Norway on vacation to visit my grandmother for a week. While being there I decided to help her go through a lot of my grandfathers stuff (he has been dead for 20 years) and throw away anything worthless. So I went through the basement and attic working through tons of stuff he had stockpiled over the years (he was a major hoarder of about anything). We threw away tons but also found cool stuff like a nice video camera from the 50s and other old technical stuff.
But to the point of the story. Among all this stuff was a large chest belonging to my older brother (who sadly died some years ago). The box was locked and I could not open it even though I tried for some time. I knew my brother had a quite large collection of comic books and was pretty sure this was the content inside and decided to get someone to open it for me. So I dragged the box with me and drove to the nearest lock smith. After about 5 minutes he managed to get it open.
To my huge surprise and amusement it did not contain any comics at all. Inside were loads of video games, boxes and manuals, some of which had actually belonged to me!
Alas I didn't take any picture of the find as it would have been cool to show here.
To sum it up, I found about:
25 NES games, 10 boxes and a few manuals
20 SNES games, 5-6 boxes and manuals (a very cool custom made Super mario world box made and drawn by my brother as well)
7-8 Game Boy Games + console and a couple of boxes
12-13 Game Gear games + console
Even though I have bought up many of the same games within the last year, it is really cool to have games from my childhood again and a few Scandinavian variants can't hurt my little collection
Comments
a very cool custom made Super mario world box made and drawn by my brother
What a Gem! I imagine it would personally be the best item in the box.
Finding all these kind of rekindled my collecting interest, after a while being way too occupied with my studies