I am not one to part with my toys; once I have purchased a console, game, or peripheral, it stays in my library forever. This would explain how I've amassed over a thousand physical games for nearly two dozen different platforms.
I don't keep my entire collection in one place, though. Some of it remains where I lived when I acquired it: my parents' basement. It's a site I recently found myself alone in as I performed computer maintenance on my parents' Macs and iPads. What to do while I waited for these automated tasks to finish? Go excavating, of course.
In the course of a few hours, I unearthed countless treasures: old NES and SNES games, imported Super Famicom titles still in the box, Nintendo World Championships prizes, Blockbuster promotional signage, and more. Armed with only my iPod Touch, I snapped and tweeted twenty photos. I enjoyed sharing these memories of long-forgotten games, both good and bad, and discovering some prizes I didn't even realize I had.
Those photos can be seen in the below gallery or in a Storify that collects the tweets. Fortunately, I don't need these photos by which to remember these artifacts: they're a part of my permanent collection.
My favorite part of visiting my parents. #NES #childhood
More SNES!
Or maybe some Super NES? #SNES
A few of my consoles, both common and rare.
My Nintendo fanny pack! Won at the Nintendo World Championships in 1990. #NWC #PowerFest
Poster for the original StarFox. Probably came in Nintendo Power.
Totally stole this Turok poster from my job at Blockbuster. "Make dinosaurs extinct. Again." #N64
"Rent it now: StarFox 64! Now feel what you see with the Rumble Pak!" Another #BBV remnant. #N64
Doom 64! Rent it today!... Let's not and say we dis. #Doom #Doom64 #N64
Kept most of my game boxes, too. Here are some titles from late in the NES's life. #NES #Megaman #Lolo
Here's my entire Sega Saturn library. Panzer Dragoon Saga FTW. http://saturn.gamebits.net
Almost all these Game Boy Color games are still in the shrinkwrap--unsolicited review copies. #GBC
I don't have a Jaguar CD, but I do have a game for it.
Lufia 2: Rise of the Sinistrals STILL IN ORIGINAL SHRINKWRAP. #SNES #RPG
Final Fantasy V for Super Famicom? I own this? I had no idea. #FFV #RPG #SFam
These Super Famicom games come from a dark & lonely period in my life.
Midway's War Gods for N64 was an early 3D fighter that let you play as ancient gods, like Anubis. Rent it... today?
As requested by @JonHelfrich.
Video Paradise of Fitchburg, MA. Long defunct but still with words of wisdom: avoid magnetic fields.
Before there were Let's Plays, I recorded my NES gameplay on a VCR. Not sure why. Still have 'em though.