Back to the NES

[Zing]

Up until about fives years ago, I still had all my original NES games from when they were first released, complete in box. My collection consisted of only the "core" classics, so I had maybe 20 games. At the time, the games were selling for $30-50 on Ebay, and I hated to see that "money" just sitting there collecting dust, so I sold out.

Well, I'm back. I just bought a stack of games and a NES from Ebay. I used to be a stickler for complete-with-box-only games, but this time around I decided to make it very casual and just settle for loose copies. I considered trying for manuals, but the manuals (non-Nintendo produced, anyway) at the time were often not worth the paper on which they were printed.

I'm excited. This was all triggered by playing the original NES Super Mario Bros. on the Wii Virtual Console. I will be adding the NES to my 32" Sony WEGA standard definition CRT, along with a PSone and Wii. Games look great on this thing.

Here is the list of my incoming games:

Bionic Commando
Castlevania
Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers
Contra
Dr. Mario
Duck Tales
Faxanadu
Gradius
Gun.Smoke
Ice Hockey
Jackal
Journey to Silius
Kid Icarus
Kirby's Adventure
Legendary Wings
Life Force
Mario Bros.
Megaman 2
Megaman
Metroid
Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!
Ninja Gaiden II
Ninja Gaiden
R.C. Pro Am
Snake Rattle N Roll
Strider
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Bros.
Tetris
TMNT
Willow
Yo! Noid

[Steven]

Groovy! Reading your post takes me back five years myself when I decided to reclaim bits and pieces of my childhood (with NES, Genesis and SNES).

It's a great time, for sure. Nothing quite like the early days of any monumental event. Enjoy it!

[j1e]

Reading your post takes me back five years myself when I decided to reclaim bits and pieces of my childhood.

No doubt like Gwen Stefani.

[savageone]

That is a great list of games you have incoming, I'd say almost all those titles are classics.

As for selling your old games it sounds like you made out well at least, nothing to regret there. For a lot of us here we can recall putting our games on garage sales for just a few bucks a piece. All my original NES/SNES/Genesis games were put on garage sale for about $5 each complete in box so I could buy newer systems/games. :P

[Zing]

I am usually a little OCD about my game collections. I don't just mean condition, but also with other factors such as publisher, etc. I have no idea why. Anyway, this NES thing will be interesting for me, as I am determined to just settle for cart only and not care about little things which would normally make me avoid certain games.

To form this list, I basically thought of the games I really enjoy. Then I browsed several "top 100" lists to refresh my memory of games I had forgotten and also point out games I have never tried. I then tried a bunch of these previously unknown games in an emulator. I didn't initially have a maximum number of games or amount of money I wanted to spend, but this seemed like a good amount.

[MachineGex]

Nice list of games.
Get Micro Machines. Great one player game, excellent two player mode...
...and if you like good two player games, get Tengen's Ms.Pacman. Excellent two player mode, with a lot of extra versions/features.