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the market for old Nintendo games isn’t what it was, say, 20 years ago, plenty of people still love the older systems. But classic cartridges, unfortunately, don’t exactly age well.
The SNES, for example, turns 23 this year. While most of today’s games should have no trouble surviving that long thanks to their use of DVD and Blu-ray formats, the older cartridge technology is suffering.
Chris Morris: Journalist 