Category: Video Games

by Lauren Sisselman | March 18, 2024

 Welcome back to this week's Weekly Video Game Auction Gem rundown! Each week, we'll look at Heritage's weekly video game auction to see which items should be on your radar! 

by Lauren Sisselman | March 14, 2024

Music and pinball go hand in hand. The two can create a symphony of lights, sounds, and excitement that few other things can replicate. For decades bands and solo artists have had their music forever encapsulated inside many solid-state machines. 

by Lauren Sisselman | March 11, 2024

Welcome back to this week's Weekly Auction Gem rundown! Each week, we'll look at Heritage's weekly comic book and video game auction to see which items should be on your radar! 

by Lauren Sisselman | October 15, 2023

Since the 1980s, video games and video game collectibles have become a delightful way for fans to show off what franchises they love the most. The idea of collecting items from a game -- that aren't the actual games themselves -- has exploded in popularity within the...

by Matt Tuck | September 26, 2023

Nintendo Power was a childhood staple for many gamers, but there’s more to the magazine than simply nostalgia. With the prices it's commanding, you’ll wish you had hoarded every issue. "NOW YOU'RE PLAYING WITH POWER" Baby boomers have long...

by Lauren Sisselman | September 17, 2023

Donkey Kong - We know it; we love it. But we almost didn't have it at all. At least, not without the perfect storm of a hurting video game market and a snub from Popeye the Sailor Man. In 1980, Nintendo of America was hurting....

by Josh Robbins | September 16, 2023

Should you be digging in your old stuff for The Noid collectibles? Maybe, maybe not, but the red-suited villain always stuck with me as an odd pop culture figure, with a strange dark timeline.  The almost forty-year-old character recently returned to Domino’s...

by Lauren Sisselman | September 15, 2023

In 1981, Bally released their second video game with a soundboard, Flash Gordon. The game, based on the pulp era hero, coincided with the now cult classic film that came out 2 months prior. As a fan of pulp-era heroes, Flash Gordon is a grail pinball machine...

by Lauren Sisselman | September 11, 2023

If you're like me, you grew up with wrestling in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This period of wrestling is fondly looked back on as one of the best -- we saw larger-than-life athletes, matches that are still talked about today, and storylines that were so...

by Joseph Parziale | August 31, 2023

Let’s set the scene. It’s 1998. You’re sitting on the stuffy school bus with some of your friends on the way to school or maybe waiting in the schoolyard to be let into the building. A crowd forms around you as you begin...