If you're looking to bolster your retro game collection on the cheap, you might want to check out your local mall, as vending machines containing stacks of Game Boy Pokemon cartridg♔es are starting to appear with frankly alarming regularity.
Take this , who explains that they were "strolling through a particularly sad mall in SoCal, when I chanced upon a couple of wack-ass vending machines. These machines only sold GB and GBA Pokémon carts at $16✤ a pop (or $15 if you’re paying cash!). Most, but not all, carts cont💧ained a solitary Jolly Rancher as a bonus, too. Neat!"
If the prices didn't give it away, the fact that this machine is selling copies of Pokemon Green - a game that ওwas never offiꦡcially released in English - might give away that these are almost certainly all bootleg cartridges. Reproduction cartridges for classic games are all over eBay and other secondary markets, serving either as a cheaper alternative to official carts or as a way to dupe unsuspecting buyers into spending big bucks when they don't know how to verify a cartridge's authenticity.
Bootleg carts tend to be a bit unreliable - I'll share my horror story about accidentally buying a fake LeafGreen cart and finding my save data corrupted after 20 hours of play - but given that classic Pokemon games now regu🌌larly go for🔯 triple-digit prices, rolling the dice for $15 might not be 🌳aꦅ bad idea.
Deeper in the thread above, the poster reveals that this vending machine was found at Westminster Mall in Orange County, California, and it turns out that this machine has been there for some time and been the s𒊎ubject of more than a few similarly incredulous anecdotes on social media. There are clips and images of the machine on and dating back for months, and there's even been - Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance -꧃ indicating that the business is only expanding.
Perhaps the strangest part of all this is that whoever is running these machines has their contaꦍct info plastered right on the main glass pane. I'm not sure I'd want to make it so easy for Nintendo's lawyers to ꦜget in touch with me, but hey.
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestl෴ing) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, t𓃲he latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.
