Online Stores

Written by Link on 5th October, 2007

I know we normally link to eBay auctions, and with reason. That’s where we usually find the rarest stuff. There are a lot of differnt resources around however for buying used video games from online retail stores. That that link for example, JJGames.
Looking through their inventory I see they have copy of the SNES game [...]

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Web Hosting

Written by Link on 5th October, 2007

This is pretty much a rant because of a bad experience I’ve had with one of my webhosts lately. Finding a company to host a website for you isn’t exactly a difficult task finding one that is consistently reliable is a differnt matter however.
gameSniped for example, is hosted by 4ph.com. It’s definitely not the cheapest [...]

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Making Sure I Have Power

Written by Link on 4th October, 2007

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about redundancy in my workspace- making sure thinks flow and work as smoothly as possible. This is why I made the post earlier about online backups.
One thing I need to start thinking about, it power. The electricity was out last week for an afternoon, and pretty much my entire [...]

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Backing Up Your Files

Written by Link on 4th October, 2007

While not video game related, this is something I was writing for another site, and figured I should post a similar topic here.
I work online. That means at any moment I have a few hundred (or more) hours of work saved on my PC, most of which I haven’t been paid for. This means that [...]

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Displaying Your Collection

Written by Link on 2nd October, 2007

A lot of collectors don’t put more more thought into how to display their collections beyond building some custom shelving. What about your holy grails though? You can’t display your proto, your R10, or your pride and joy the same way you display your Combat and Super Mario/Duck Hunt carts.
Personally, I’ve looked at tons of [...]

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