COLLECTOR’S CORNER READERS TAKE US THROUGH THE RETRO KEYHOLE
BOXING CLEVER
Here’s a collector who wants to get physical
SAMURAI SHODOWN
I ordered this as soon as they were announced from Pix N Love, a fantastic low-print publisher from France. Who could pass up these collector’s editions in original Neo Geo Shock Boxes?
PAID: £85 (EACH)
NES SIGNED BY MASAYUKI UEMURA
I bought my NES from a friend in the Nineties. A few years ago, I had the pleasure of photographing Masayuki Uemura, the designer of the NES hardware, for Retro Gamer 155 and he signed the box for me.
PAID: £10
BIO
NAME: Matt Taylor
LOCATION: Nottingham
FAVOURITE GAME: Shinobi (arcade)
FAVOURITE SYSTEM: SNES
COLLECTION WORTH: £12,000-£15,000
CONTRA SPIRITS
When it was localised in Europe as another Probotector game, that just wouldn’t do, so I eventually picked up this original release from eBay.
PAID: £25
Itseems FOMO, the ‘fear of missing out’ phenomenon which apparently grips the social media obsessed youth of today, has now entered the retro world. “The collecting game has changed,” Matt Taylor assures us. “In the past, a console would die and you’d pick up games for it dirt cheap. I have PlayStation stuff I paid pounds for which is now worth hundreds but you can’t do that now. There are limited physical releases and if you don’t get them immediately, you won’t ever get them. Or else you’ll have to spend well over the odds – in months, they are fetching triple the original price. I’m getting my games at the cheapest possible price… but that isn’t cheap either!”