Fire destroys 20,000-game collection built over 43 years in Sacramento @KCRA
Fire destroys 20,000-game collection built over 43 years in Sacramento  @KCRA
Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A longtime Sacramento video game vendor says a fire at the Folsom Boulevard Flea Market destroyed a collection he spent more than four decades building. Dave Smith, owner of Dave's Retro Games, said he began selling video games in 1983 after falling in love with Atari. What started small eventually became a full-time business and grew into a collection spanning generations of gaming.

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