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As the retro video game market continues to surge, so does the risk—counterfeit games, reproduction cartridges, and homebrew titles are now more widespread than ever.

I popped in a Pokémon DS game that wouldn’t load. The pins looked clean, so I started to suspect it might be a fake.

Fake Pokémon games have become increasingly common in the used gaming market in recent years.

A couple of years back, while visiting with family over Thanksgiving, my cousins and siblings and I started playing the card game we call King Peasant.

Before horror games leaned into cinematic cutscenes and ray tracing, they were grittier, slower, and arguably more terrifying.

Back in the 80s, we were glued to our Nintendo consoles while our parents wondered what was so exciting about little pixelated plumbers.