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Super Nintendo games & collectibles

The console that aged best and yellowed worst. Carts here are cleaned and save-tested; consoles are noted honestly for shell discoloration, because the bromine in that plastic browns whether or not anyone did anything wrong.

5 pieces on Super Nintendo

Buying Super Nintendo secondhand

  • RPG carts save to a CR2032 soldered inside — a thirty-year-old cell is living on borrowed time.
  • Yellowing is chemistry, not neglect, and it is not evenly distributed; two halves of one shell often differ.
  • Check for a snapped cart tab: SNES carts have plastic tabs that break when forced into a front-loader.