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.

[tom]

Good for you, in 2004 i decided to part with my boxed VCS collection (included a few unboxed titles), 300 games, with stuff like boxed/instr. Boing! ($2 at the time) and the light grey box/light grey label Hangman ($8 at the time, discovered to be extremely rare in 2005, both titles are like $1000 each nowadays).
Nevertheless, I made $3000 at the time for the whole collection, so I was happy.

I very much missed collecting VCS and in 2009 I started up collecting Atari 2600 again. So far I have 180 boxed titles, and I am very happy, but one thing's for sure, a boxed Boing! or a boxed light grey Hangman will never come cheap my way way again.
http://roomofdoom.powweb.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=194784

[MrSmiley381]

I did the same thing with most of my Dreamcast games. So after I started selling off 75% of my collection I used the money to pick up the now-undervalued awesome Dreamcast games that I just couldn't appreciate as much back in the day.

But I don't think I'm going to regret selling most of my games, as I really was never going to play them ever again. But if you're going to play your games, they're totally worth it.

[Zing]

I have been focusing on Castlevania and Mega Man over the past couple weeks. I am able to get to the final stage in Castlevania and the battle with Dr. Wily in Mega Man, but I have yet to complete either. I haven't had this much fun in a long time.

Also, I just had another round of acquisitions:

1943
Adventures of Lolo
Blaster Master
Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest
Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse
Clash at Demonhead
Cobra Triangle
Crystalis
Double Dragon
Dragon Warrior
Dragon Warrior II
Dragon Warrior III
Gyruss
Kickle Cubicle
Little Nemo the Dream Master
Metal Storm
Nightshade
Pirates!
Power Blade
Solar Jetman
Solomon’s Key
Solstice
Stinger
Super C

I intentionally avoided some of these the first time around due to my concern that the in-game batteries would be dead. I see now that most NES batteries are still going. I also learned how to change the batteries myself if needed, so my concerns no longer exist.

[jdheins]

Looks like a great list there, the NES is where it started for me too!

[sheath]

I started collecting NES games when I managed to purchase somebody's CiB SM3 NES several years ago. I agree with Zing on the cart only purchases of most games, and I have purchased several of these NES cart displays (http://cgi.ebay.com/Big-Lot-Nintendo-NES-Games-Plus-Bonus-Display-Case-/270702711684?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item3f07239384). Then I ended up with almost as many boxed NES games as cart only.

It has been a long time since I listed the games on all of my systems, but it is still what I would call a list of games I enjoy playing (but never do). I don't purchase games I don't like, and I fairly well never sell games unless its still "new" and quickly depreciating in value.

[Zing]

I dug out an old stand-alone CD shelf unit that I used to hold my 200+ audio CD collection. It has five adjustable shelves. The top shelf is holding my 46 PSone games. The second and third shelves are reserved for my NES games, as each shelf holds about 40 games. The fourth shelf has my Wii, GameCube, and PSone longboxes. The last shelf has the remains of my original DVD movie collection.