Articles in Collector’s Clips
Collector’s Clips: F-Zero GX stickers
As a fan of the original F-Zero on SNES, I was at Target on day one for F-Zero GX, the Sega-developed Gamecube edition of the high-tech racing franchise. I plunked down my fifty dollars and …
Collector’s Clips: Yars’ Revenge: The Qotile Ultimatum!
This is the comic book that came with the Atari 2600 game Yars’ Revenge. The comic book gives the history of the flylike Yar species and how they came under assault by the Qotile, and …
Collector’s Clips: Capcom used to be so hip
So hip, if you joined the early-1990s Capcom Craze Club, you received a free hip pack!
This tri-fold brochure was crammed inside Game Boy game boxes of the day. This was back when Capcom had the …
Collector’s Clips: Crystal’s Pony Tale
One of the weird side effects of buying games in lots is excess. You can build a collection for very little money doing it this way, as long as you’re really, really careful and you …
Collector’s Clips: the back of the Metal Gear box
As hard as it is to understand Metal Gear games today, it’s nothing compared to the localization train wreck that was the first Metal Gear for NES. I’m not even going to talk about the …
Collector’s Clips: Colecovision Storage Instructions
In the time before NES, we had Colecovision. In those days, it appears that storing your console in a way inconsistent with these instructions was expressly prohibited. Why else would they use words like, “must?” …
Collector’s Clips: NES era Nintendo Power promo insert
“Plug into the power,” urges this small folding insert that came out of an NES game box. Back in the 1980s, before the World Wide Web, the only feasible way for gamers to get a …
Collector’s Clips: Rayman Arena pop-box
This was mailed to me sometime during 2002 or 2003. Back then, you used to get all kinds of great crazy crap in the mail if you registered your games or were on the PlayStation …
Collector’s Clips: Ms Pac-Man/Galaga Class of ’81
In 2000, Namco released a special arcade cabinet that combined Ms. Pac-Man and Galaga into a special “Class of 1981″ machine. From what I can tell, they prepared three different versions: a coin-op upright, a …
Collector’s Clips: The Magic of Scheherazade travel map
Years ago, I played The Magic of Scheherazade just because it was there. I discovered this obscure Culture Brain RPG on the shelf at my parents’ video store, took it home, and was amazed. This …
Collector’s clips: the back of the Gyruss box
I have a handful of NES games I’ve collected over the years beyond the three Castlevania games. Let’s see… there’s Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers, Gyruss, The Immortal, Legacy of the Wizard, The Magic of …
Collector’s clips: Animal Crossing flyer in Super Mario Sunshine
Super Mario Sunshine is just one of those games. By this I mean it’s just not very good. Today I picked it up for the third time when I found someone with a mint complete …
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