# Everything You Need to Know About Yerlan Dzhaksybekov's 212 Games Nobody Ever Sold

A flat above a bakery in Almaty holds the largest shelf of cancelled games anywhere. Its owner would like to talk about the shelf, not about playing them.

By Beatrix Callender · 2026-11-09 · Street · Almaty

The hum starts the moment Yerlan switches on the tube television. Fifty hertz, steady as a fridge. He will not fix it.

Behind him, four pine shelves hold 212 games that never reached a shop. Grey cartridges, taped labels, one box with a corner chewed by a previous owner's dog. Downstairs the bakery is pulling the first loaves and the whole flat smells of them. Outside, Almaty is a white haze at minus two.

I ask what I came to ask. Has he ever played one to the end?

"Define the end," he says.

I define it. Credits, a last boss, anything.

He offers tea. I ask again. He pours.

Two hundred and twelve games, and the most finished thing in the room is the hum.

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