If you love your Nintendo Gamecube games, there is something you can do to make sure that you will not suffer if they become lost or damaged.

The Mario Dance Pad is one of the possible and rarest of all the mats for the Nintendo GameCube. This pad has vertical grooves which feel good on bare feet, and it has a sticky texture on the bottom so that the pad won’t slip. This pad is also more responsive, and it features a silhouette of a break-dancing Mario in the center making it a cool collector’s item as well.

Every gamer is attempting to find something else – powerful visuals, steady control, well-crafted ideas – and to become emotionally concerned in their play. As with all companies, Nintendo gaming has evolved swiftly and is now a billion-pound worldwide industry, with many companies vying to come up with the most recent graphics, sound and gameplay technology to wow gamers everywhere. The pure delight in turning on a gaming system, and straight away becoming caught in a plot line of one of the best video games on the market, is for many the ultimate adrenalin rush.

Browsing Nintendo 3DS auctions fills me with mixed emotions. You can find brilliant offers through sites like eBay, but time and time again I see people making silly decisions and overpaying for both games and hardware.

We’re not all made of money. Perhaps if we were billionaires we could afford to buy every Nintendo 3DS game that is released, but it’s just not a feasible proposition for most of us.