Many of us have a box of old gadgets, video games, and used batteries gathering dust in the attic. While clearing this out might sound like a chore, it could land with you with a tidy profit. Experts from Currys have revealed the retro video games that are now worth a fortune. Topping the list is Zelda Majora's Mask [Adventure Set] for Nintendo 64, which now has a whopping estimated value of 3,715.01. Meanwhile, if you have a copy of Snowboard Challenge for NES, you could be in line for a 2,935.80

Nestled between an original Donkey Kong arcade machine, a mint condition OutRun racing simulation game and booths wired up with GameCubes and Nintendo 64s, the engineer Luke Malpass works away dismantling a broken Nintendo Wii. There has been a steady stream of people bringing in their old game consoles for repairs or modifications, on the house, to Four Quarters, a retro games arcade in Elephant and Castle, which has been transformed into a games clinic for two days. Gabriella Rosenau, 35, brought in her broken Wii that had been in the garage "for years". "I still play my brother's old Nintendo 64 and I love it, but I'd really love to get [the Wii] fixed." "I've done the odd bit of Call of Duty and the PlayStation stuff, but I have more of an interest in the retro games," she adds. Rosenau is part of a growing community who are ditching contemporary video games and picking up the consoles from their childhood, or even before their time.

Two beloved games from the past have been rereleased in the last week: 2008's nauseating sci-fi horror Dead Space has been resurrected with modern technology, and 1997's first-person-shooter gamechanger GoldenEye 007 (pictured above) has arrived on Nintendo Switch and Xbox, looking somewhat less fresh. Dead Space (pictured below) was not my thing – I'm too sensitive for horror (I sometimes cry at adverts). But GoldenEye 007 brings back a host of great memories for me, as it does for anyone who was playing games during the Nintendo 64 era. Try to find a millennial who doesn't have fond recollections of gathering at that one friend's house after school for split-screen death matches, or a Gen Xer who didn't nearly miss a university essay deadline because of it. My first thought, whenever a game such as this arrives anew, is always: what if it's terrible now?

I am back from a week of running around Gamescom at a convention centre in Cologne, drinking German beer out of deceptively tiny-looking glasses, only to discover that Sony is – in this economy! The cost will remain the same in the US but everywhere else it will rise by up to 20%; in the UK, it will increase 6%, from £449.99 to £479.99 (or £359.99 to £389.99 for the cheaper model that has no disc drive). The hike is steepest (21%) in Sony's heartland of Japan. Given that middle earners are trimming costs and lower earners are facing heartbreaking choices between, for instance, food and heating when energy prices double this winter, this news has put me into a stage of late-stage-capitalism rage. Many are striking because people can't afford to live any more.

Don't look now but a new Nintendo remaster could be on the way. A job posting on Bandai Namco's website has listings for a planner and two visual artist positions, one of which entails performing "HD remastering of the 3D background." The listing was first identified by Resetera. "As a visual artist for a 3D action game project on a Nintendo contract, you will be asked to do image sketching and 3D background production work for design consideration," a translated description of one of the job listings says. Bandai Namco is the development studio behind many critically acclaimed Nintendo games, such as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, New Pokemon Snap, and Mario Kart 8.

Nintendo is adding The Legend Of Zelda: Majora's Mask to the Switch Online Expansion Pack lineup on February 25th. The classic title was first released for the Nintendo 64 in 2000, was the second Zelda game to feature 3D graphics and became one of the best-selling games at the time. It also received critical acclaim for its gameplay, writing and visuals that showed an improvement from its predecessor, Ocarina of Time. Majora's Mask picks up from where Ocarina of Time left off, with Link finding himself in a parallel world to Hyrule called Termina. There, he learns that the mask is being used to summon the moon and destroy the world within three days. Link is dragged into the world of Termina, where the moon is falling from the sky!

The original Nintendo 64 controller is an outlier in ergonomic design. Shaped like a dinosaur foot, it revolutionized 3D gaming with its analog stick. It also had strange C buttons for use as camera controls or a host of other functions. As remapped for the Nintendo Switch, the Joy-Con's X and Y buttons now function as the left and bottom C buttons respectively, and you can hold the Joy-Con's right trigger and use the face buttons as C buttons in any direction, while the B and A buttons remain stubbornly at the bottom. If that sounds confusing, it very much is, and as an avid Nintendo 64 player, it hurt my brain trying to rewire my muscle memory.

On Monday, Heritage Auctions sold off an unopened copy of the 1996 Nintendo 64 game Super Mario 64 for $1.56 million. According to the auction house, there were 16 bids, and the final price is the highest ever for a single video game. The vintage video-game trade has been booming over the past three years, especially during the pandemic, but this selling price even has seasoned collectors shocked and scratching their heads. A sealed Super Mario 64 just sold for $1,560,000 @HeritageAuction. "I myself and many other in this space are just blown away with these results," said Donald Brock Jr., owner of the collectibles site Columbia Comics.

A sealed, mint condition copy of the video game Super Mario 64 has sold at auction for more than $1.5m (£1.1m), making it the most expensive video game ever sold. The game cartridge, dating from 1996, was in high demand at US auction house Heritage Auctions for its "historical significance, rarity and condition" since there are "fewer than five copies" in such good condition. Super Mario 64 remains one of most critically acclaimed video games of all time, with its three-dimensional platforming helping to sell millions of Nintendo 64 consoles upon its launch. "It seems impossible to overstate the importance of this title, not only to the history of Mario and Nintendo, but to video games as a whole," said Valarie McLeckie, a video games specialist for Heritage Auctions, which handled the sale. The cartridge sold on Sunday had received a 9.8 A rating by the video game collectible firm Wata, which means it is "like new", in near-perfect condition and with an intact seal.

It was the company's last cartridge-based home console before the switch to optical discs and it introduced players to the joys of awkwardly-placed joysticks. And of course there were the games: the jump to a 64-bit CPU meant you could now experience the worlds of Hyrule and the Mushroom Kingdom in glorious 3D. However, while Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and GoldenEye 007 might be the go-to titles when talking about the Nintendo 64, the tastes of the Engadget crew run a little more off the beaten path, as evidenced by the memories our staff shared below. If there's one Nintendo 64 title I wish would make a comeback on the Switch, it's Diddy Kong Racing. I spent hours of my childhood on this game and, to this day, it's the one title that gets me to dust off my Jungle Green N64 and sit too close to the TV.