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diaries:
Y OF RETRO EDITOR, PAUL MONOPOLI’S GAMING JOURNEY...
Cross that I would lay eyes on my
first ever US Super Nintendo. The
boxy console was accompanied
by a collection of cartridges, some
genuine, but many of them pirates
multi carts. I took the console home
and nothing I could do would get it
working. I owned an NTSC compat-
ible TV, so that wasn’t the problem.
There was nothing I could do, so I
took it back and got store credit to
buy a Nintendo 64 of my own with
Goldeneye 64.
I did end up keeping one of the con-
trollers that came with the US Su-
per Nintendo, though this was an
accident. I found it a few days after
returning it, though I always forgot
to take it back. There are a few re-
grets with that one, as I should have
kept the games and negotiated a
return price for the console.
While I now owned the most cur-
rent Nintendo system, I found my-
self playing the previous generation
far more. I was starting to become
addicted to hunting down Super
Nintendo games. If I wasn’t spend-
ing time with Amy on the weekend
I would be visiting Cash Convert-
ers stores and buying up anything
that looked interesting. A bit later
in the year I signed up for an Ebay
account which opened up a whole
new world for me.
On Ebay I was slow to get started,
using the site as a way of seeing
what was out there and then hunt-