Part of me hopes to find my old video game systems (given out to my brother, sister, and her children) and take them back. My goal is to build a classic gaming center somewhere in the house. I have an idea of where this entertainment center will go. I have not yet decided how to set up a TV and the systems, but the biggest hurdle is one of the earliest. I found the NES, the 2600, and the Genesis boxed up in the attic. The NES was fine, works, and I played some games on it on the 46" HDTV. The 2600 met me with equal results. The back up NES and 2600 had some issues. But then there was the Genesis.
 
The Genesis was in the box. There was one three button controller boxed up with it. And there was a Ms. Pac-Man. But where was the power cord? Not in the box. Where was the TV connector? It was in the box, but the wires have been stripped off of it. So, the question becomes, why was the Genesis packed up without the power cable? Who had that bright idea? If it was up to me I would never have boxed any of the systems up. I enjoyed pulling the games out and playing them every once in a while. But I had an old TV at the time without multiple inputs and the house was getting cluttered. So, rather than the game systems being sold off they were packed up in the attic for when I would get my own house.  Since then, I have bought my own house and transferred all of my boxes over here. And since then I have unpacked every box and sorted through everything. And what I found was the Genesis without the necessary components to use the system. Of course, I am sure the cord is still somewhere, either packed up at my mother's house or mixed into another power cable. 
 
But still, the first part of my plan has hit a huge stumbling block. I did have the idea to MAME everything through a computer, but only using the games and the systems I possess, but I would still like to have a working version of the system. Until then, I can't play Ms Pac-Man, since every other game for the system is also still missing. But then, I don't remember owning that many games for the system not named Sonic. We had the Sega Channel for the majority of the system's life cycle and so never bothered buying that many games for it. 
 
I did find the Menacer, though.