# Securing video games and consoles: the box, the battery, the console

> Securing games: do not open sealed cartridges, take batteries out of old devices, store boxes dry.
> Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/videospiele-konsolen-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion

A sealed game and a console with a rechargeable battery are two risks. One is cardboard. The other can leak. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) you separate the two.

## What time does

Sun fades the cardboard. A battery that stays in the device leaks and eats the contacts. You take rechargeable packs and batteries out of devices in storage. What is sealed stays sealed. Discs and cartridges sit dry, not in the window.

## When someone comes

Consoles and small cartridges go easily, a shelf full of cases more slowly. The expensive sealed pieces and the one rare console do not stand by the door. Proof on the list, box uncrushed.

## The folder

System, title, sealed or loose, with original packaging or without, proof. Device and game are two lines.


## Häufige Fragen

### Leave the batteries in?

No, when the device is in storage. A leak is damage without a thief.

### Open the game?

Then it is no longer sealed.

### Console in the certified safe?

If it fits and the price calls for it. Otherwise locked, and not by the door.