I agree, awesome Grandma. Make sure you never lose those memories.
When mine passed away one of the few things I took from her house was the metal ice cream scoop from the 30s which she had used forever. I still have fond memories of her making me a bowl of ice cream and using that scoop, and I value it more than most things in my house (and still use it!).
Glad to see someone else puts sentimental value on inanimate objects like I do.
The only NES games I remember her actually playing were Mario 3 and Dr. Mario, the latter of which she was the f*cking prodigy at. I've never seen someone kick so much ass at Dr. Mario as that woman. I miss taking turns on the 2-player against her with my cousins.
Unfortunately, her NES & copy of Dr. Mario have yet to be located, and Mario 3 went to my cousin after she died, but like I said before, there were several other games I received that I actually like/have memories attached to. For instance, Little Nemo may have been one of the first video games I ever played. I have vague, dream-like memories of trying to play it at her house in Ohio when I was a wee lad.
I also got the copy of Battle of Olympus that she loaned to my dad several years before he also died. According to my mother, he invented new curse words just for the first Lamia boss.
I really did intend to keep the Mega Man games, and planned on eventually getting the first game & completing the series on the console. I just never had that much interest, I guess...But I'd rather see the games go to peeps on here that will actually play/enjoy them, rather than scalpy Evilbay collectards.
Thankfully, the Rockman games are much cheaper on the Famicom than their US counterparts & I can always use more Famicom games. Better label artwork for those, anyway.