A Nintendo collection rarely seen. (Source: Reddit / KrisReed)
The estate of beloved relatives sometimes poses puzzles that can never be fully solved. This was also the case with a player who came across his grandmother’s curious Nintendo collection (via Mein-MMO).
What did the player find? As in matching Forum post to see the story, it’s about a large amount of GameBoy Advanced SP and multiple existing game modules for Warioland 4 and Mario Pinball Land.
The big question, however, is why you should buy such a collection?
With a view to the game modules, the grandson expresses the suspicion in the title of the forum thread that his grandmother did not know how to delete the save file stored on them. This can be useful, for example, to start again from the beginning or to select a different level of difficulty.
The procedure itself is simple, as can be seen in the video below from minute 1:27 using the example of the original GameBoy Advance: Instead of selecting one of the two slots, you activate the bottom option in the loading menu Delete Data
and then the desired slot to reset it.
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A separate GameBoy for each save state?
It would be conceivable that the grandmother not only bought a new game several times, but also a new GameBoy, because she didn’t have to deal with the issue in more detail if she wanted to completely restart Warioland 4 again.
Her preferred GameBoy Advanced SP was released in 2003 at a starting price of 129 dollars. Warioland 4 came onto the market at the end of 2001 for the regular GameBoy Advanced from the same year; corresponding games were in the price range of 30 to 40 dollars when released.
The photo of the collection shows a price tag of $4.99 on several game modules at the same time. This suggests that many parts of the curious Nintendo collection were bought used.
How much is the hardware still worth today?
The game is available on Ebay for around 20 to 30 dollars, a GameBoy Advanced SP is roughly in the price range of 80 to 90 dollars.
The grandmother’s other gaming legacy is just as unusual, but also touching: she left her grandson several printed tutorials from the Internet and messages that explain the games.
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Do you have a plausible explanation for your grandmother’s unusual gaming collection? Is gaming at least partly an issue for your own grandparents or have they never really come into contact with it? And what does your own Nintendo past look like, including possible old treasures that are still slumbering somewhere in the attic? Feel free to write it in the comments!
