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SEATTLE — Game collectors brought their treasures to the Retrogame Roadshow panel at Penny Arcade Expo to show them off in front of an appreciative audience and learn what they might be worth.
Collecting experts Frank Cifaldi, Mike Mika and Steve Lin joined me for another exciting panel full of amazing collectibles, with a twist this time: Audience members could come on stage and play a Price Is Right-style mini-game. The audience member who guessed the closest price to the one we concurred on won a prize.
Here are some of the collectors who came to the show with their treasures. (You can watch parts 1 and 2 of the archived live stream of the show on Twitch.)
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Nicholas Beaudrot of Seattle, Washington holds two accessories for the Nintendo Famicom system: The Disk System floppy disk add-on and the Nintendo Family BASIC keyboard.
“I picked up both of these at one of those junk toy stores in West Tokyo when I was visiting last October,” Beaudrot said during the Retrogame Roadshow panel.
The panel appraised both of these accessories together, along with (not pictured) their original boxes and the hard-to-find AC adapter for the Disk System, at $200.
Collecting experts Frank Cifaldi, Mike Mika and Steve Lin joined me for another exciting panel full of amazing collectibles, with a twist this time: Audience members could come on stage and play a Price Is Right-style mini-game. The audience member who guessed the closest price to the one we concurred on won a prize.
Here are some of the collectors who came to the show with their treasures. (You can watch parts 1 and 2 of the archived live stream of the show on Twitch.)
Above:
Nicholas Beaudrot of Seattle, Washington holds two accessories for the Nintendo Famicom system: The Disk System floppy disk add-on and the Nintendo Family BASIC keyboard.
“I picked up both of these at one of those junk toy stores in West Tokyo when I was visiting last October,” Beaudrot said during the Retrogame Roadshow panel.
The panel appraised both of these accessories together, along with (not pictured) their original boxes and the hard-to-find AC adapter for the Disk System, at $200.
All photos: David Ryder/WIRED