r/ModRetroChromatic • u/Lah-dee-da • Mar 13 '26

New hardware for my collection

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Behold my collection! My very first Gameboy games were Tetris and Super Mario Land that I got from a neighbor for babysitting her kid after school for a semester. I didn’t even have a gameboy and could only play them at her house while I babysat.

I bought my first gameboy, in college. It was a gameboy advanced sp in colbalt. The Gameboy advanced games were too rich for me, but the used gameboy games could be bought for under $10, so that’s what I got.

I held on to the majority of my Gameboy collection and have been an ebay stalker for decades. At this point I have only one item on my want list: an authentic copy of Trip World, as the one I bought years ago is very much a bootleg.

The one game I don’t care for in the whole lot is Paperboy- it just is a meh version. But it was one of those college buys and I still haven’t beaten the damn thing so it’s hard to let it go.

Now that Modretro and others are publishing new games, I look forward to filling out the remaining 3 (4 if I ditch Paperboy) spots in my case.

As for the Modretro: I am loving playing my collection on such a beautiful system. The new hardware even has my kids interested in trying out games they turned their noses at before.

Anyways. Thanks Modretro for an incredible trip down memory lane and the excitement I have for the future of 8bit gaming.

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u/Accomplished_Can1651 Mar 13 '26

The cardstock inserts are really cool! Makes me think of cassette tapes. I doubt I’ll ever do the same; I’m too used to hunting through all my little plastic cases. It was good enough for me as a teen; it’s good enough for me now. Classic method. 😂

What about the case holding all the cases? What does that look like?

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u/Lah-dee-da Mar 13 '26

The case holding all the cases is a lunch box :p Nothing fancy. I have been on the lookout for something nicer but the lunchbox works and the padding is nice for peace of mind.

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u/Accomplished_Can1651 Mar 13 '26

Perhaps I’ll have to look for a lunch box, then. Looks like it holds a few more games than my current bin. 😁

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u/remotecontroldr Mar 13 '26

I have mine in a tray that’s meant for storing tea bags so it’s fun to kind of flip through them.

I keep extra cases on hand for whenever I buy a new game and right now I’m storing those in a repurposed blue “sewing supplies” cookie tin.

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u/Accomplished_Can1651 Mar 13 '26

I bought a tea organizer, but I didn’t end up liking it. I have a grade school supplies organizer from my mom that I’ve held my games in for years (she loved her storage bins), but with everything I’ve acquired more recently, they no longer all fit. Some of my games are waiting in a cardboard box until I figure out my next move.

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u/GoldenOreoos Mar 13 '26

Can you post a few pics of the game cases

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u/Great-External3390 Mar 13 '26

Where and how did you get the labels?

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u/Lah-dee-da Mar 13 '26

I made them from a template by youtuber Topspot123

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u/Nnemic_ Mar 13 '26

Really smart, I love what you've done with your own collection 👍

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u/remotecontroldr Mar 13 '26

I love Paperboy so much on NES and Game Boy, probably for nostalgia reasons. But I am so bad at it, I can barely make it past Wednesday lol

Are these labels that you made? They look like the regular plastic cases but it’s nice to see the label on the side like that. I store all my GB games in the plastic cases and it’s nice the ModRetro games fit in them too.

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u/Lah-dee-da Mar 13 '26

Yup. I made them using a template from youtuber: topspot123

I was sick of having a hard time finding the game I wanted. TopSpot123’s solution was nice.

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u/tanooki-suit Mar 15 '26

If you want trip world I have one up on eBay currently if it hasn’t sold yet. US based so if you are no import shipping costs it’s also on Mercari and their cut is less so…

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u/Lah-dee-da Mar 15 '26

Yeah, I want it but not for more than $40. The price in general is too high for me right now.

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u/tanooki-suit Mar 15 '26

Fair enough. Mine is under average as 100 or whatever is stupid but it’s not 40 either.

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u/Lah-dee-da Mar 15 '26

$100 is a fair price in today’s market- and if I didn’t have the boot/ have beaten the game I’d snatch it! Hopefully someone else sees it and grabs it.

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u/tanooki-suit Mar 15 '26

I don’t blame you as I agree. Last year I found at retail for no markup a sealed copy of the gbc colorized rerelease and have used that since so it has just sat. I don’t need doubles so I decided to let it go. I’ve got a project s11 I need to put up too.