Overview
- The Holler family returned to their Puyallup home Sunday evening and found the shelf holding Roger Holler’s NES cartridges emptied after someone forced entry.
- The family reported the burglary to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office and contacted their home insurer, and no arrests have been announced.
- Holler said the haul included more than 860 cartridges collected over roughly 40 years and that he was three games short of a full North American NES library.
- Local collectors and the online creator A Gamer’s Basement have started fundraising and donating replacement games, including a local donor who delivered more than 40 NES titles and consoles.
- Collectors’ markets show some rare NES items can fetch very high sums at auction, which helps explain the owner’s $50,000–$100,000 estimate and the loss of a planned inheritance for his grandchildren.