

If you end up stumbling on this piece half a decade post publication, the world on a possible precipice of nuclear holocaust thanks to a calamitous Republican tailspin, the information in this article will probably be grossly out of date. Only twenty-five years ago we were still jamming fiddly cartridges into front-loading Nintendo Systems and impatiently tearing packaging and manuals asunder - embellishments that now constitute the vast majority of a game's worth.

One could argue it took comic books a lot longer than it's taken video games to go from throwaway kids product to desirable collector's item. We've since updated the list with more formats and amended some of the details. Editor's note: This article was originally published last year under the title Super Bank Breakers.
