{"id":12115,"date":"2022-06-27T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12115"},"modified":"2022-07-04T13:38:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T20:38:19","slug":"no-way-i-didnt-know-there-was-a-porn-trilogy-for-nintendos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/06\/27\/no-way-i-didnt-know-there-was-a-porn-trilogy-for-nintendos\/","title":{"rendered":"No way! I didn’t know there was a ‘porn trilogy for Nintendos’."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from Vanity Fair<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jason Brassard Spent His Lifetime Collecting the Rarest Video Games. Until the Heist.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The porn trilogy for Nintendos. Atari games from the 1980s. Pristine nostalgia, potentially worth millions, gone in a night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0JUSTIN HECKERT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Jason
ILLUSTRATION BY QUICKHONEY.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He tries his<\/strong>\u00a0best to forget about the safe. But when he has a few free minutes and is cleaning the pins of old Nintendo cartridges with rubbing alcohol and Q-tips, a little piece of him dies every time he thinks about how he could\u2019ve been so naive. When he ran the place, he would man the counter from a swivel chair next to the cash register, a can of Diet Coke by the keyboard of his desktop computer, his palms at the edge of a Super Mario World mouse pad. He\u2019d lined his shelves with Pok\u00e9mon and PAC-MAN figurines, Sonic the Hedgehog plushies, T-shirts and stickers with the store\u2019s logo, dog-eared stacks of\u00a0GamePro<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Nintendo Power,<\/em>\u00a0and a feng shui of other games. Drawers nested all sorts of controllers smothered in black cords. Until he was forced to sully the store by putting jail bars on the windows and installing security cameras out front, Trade-N-Games had been lighthearted in spirit and charming in its accentuations. He\u2019d wanted customers to experience what it had been like to be part of the video game generation that had discovered Nintendo and Sega. He had wished to replicate for people that feeling that usually disappears as they settle into adulthood. There\u2019s a \u201cgreat buys\u201d bargain bin and a giant glass collector\u2019s case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A placard above the employee gate by the desk reads NINTENDO REPAIR AVAILABLE HERE. The AS SEEN ON YOUTUBE sign he\u2019d taken down. He\u2019d had a kind of philanthropic hubris as an owner and collector, someone who never gave a second thought to keeping his legendary game collection a secret. He\u2019d gladly let YouTubers film in the back; he would even open the safe back there and show them, item by item, his Louvre. Other collectors had rare games, sure, but in the back room of\u00a0his<\/em>\u00a0store, and especially in the safe, he was proud to own 10,000 of what he described as \u201ccherry\u201d copies\u2014his preferred term for virgin condition. The cardboard on his Super Nintendo games was still crispy, as collectors like to say. His Sega Genesis and Master System games were as pristine in their clamshells as if they had been hanging from the racks at KB Toys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Vanity Fair Jason Brassard Spent His Lifetime Collecting the Rarest Video Games. Until the Heist. The porn trilogy for Nintendos. Atari games from the 1980s. Pristine nostalgia, potentially worth millions, gone in a night.  BY\u00a0JUSTIN HECKERT He tries his\u00a0best to forget about the safe. But when he has a few free minutes and is cleaning the pins […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}