You're forgiven then.
This thread reminds me to play my SNES. Ogre Battle has been sitting in my SNES waiting for me to continue my save for like 2 months... ugh.
I don't know about storing them though, just use whatever. Probably wrap them up with something first. I've never stored any of my consoles and a few of them have been in my posession going on like 15-16 years.
The fact that you own the top loading NES has me very jealous. I can store it for you. It might magically turn into the original version but hey, it'd be protected.
