The most common SNES games I encounter.

[VG_Maniac]

I buy and resell lots of games on Ebay, and here is a list of SNES games that I always come across. It seems like whenever I buy a lot of games from someone, the following games are almost always in there:

Batman Forever
any of the Madden Football games.
Frogger
Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures
Wheel of Fortune: Deluxe Edition
Scooby Doo Mystery
Clue
Super Mario World (obviously)
Super Black Bass
Family Feud

I baffles my mind why so many people had these particular games in their collections (other than Mario World of course). What's also interesting is the SNES version of Frogger came out in 1998 when the system was already dead and people had moved on to the Playstation and Nintendo 64...yet the game still ended up in a bunch of people's collections.

[ishashobar]

Perhaps many people bought Frogger because retailers put them on clearance almost immediately? Or maybe alot of unsold stock hung around stores for a long time.

[Leo_A]

Pac-Man 2, and Clue were among the Majesco reissues in the late 1990's, which is responsible, in part, for how common they are. I'm sure a significant number that you come across are in Majesco cartridge casings with the back sticker missing with the information instead molded into the plastic. Perhaps even the majority of them.

They might've even reissued the other third party games you listed. But they didn't interest me in the late 90's like things like Super Battleship, Jungle and Urban Strike (They only reissued Desert Strike with the other two for the Genesis, for some reason), Top Gear, and many others did that I picked up in those days.

[SpaceHarrier]

Super Black Bass is still the best fishing game ever made.

[DreadIsReal]

Super Black Bass is still the best fishing game ever made.

Amen.

[VG_Maniac]

Pac-Man 2, and Clue were among the Majesco reissues in the late 1990's, which is responsible, in part, for how common they are. I'm sure a significant number that you come across are in Majesco cartridge casings with the back sticker missing with the information instead molded into the plastic. Perhaps even the majority of them.

Yes, not only is the back sticker missing on them...but the front label is of obvious lower quality than other SNES games as well. I remember when I bought a brand new copy of Earthworm Jim 2 on the SNES back in 2000 that was on clearance at Toys R Us for only $9.99...it was like this too, and the booklet was black and white instead of being in color.

[Edmond Dantes]

At least Pac-Man 2 is easy to find. EVERYBODY needs to play that game.

My own CIB is the original, not some effing re-issue, and nobody is ever getting their hands on it!

[Leo_A]

Yes, not only is the back sticker missing on them...but the front label is of obvious lower quality than other SNES games as well. I remember when I bought a brand new copy of Earthworm Jim 2 on the SNES back in 2000 that was on clearance at Toys R Us for only $9.99...it was like this too, and the booklet was black and white instead of being in color.

I remember spilling a tiny drop of water on the label of my Frogger cart. The label came right up. Would've never happened with the high quality glossy labels used during most of the run (The Player's Choice releases done by Nintendo during that same time thankfully stayed the same as they always were, high quality labels and full color manuals).


Perhaps many people bought Frogger because retailers put them on clearance almost immediately? Or maybe alot of unsold stock hung around stores for a long time.

I don't remember any clearances in the late 90's/early 2000's for the Majesco rereleases around here. They seemed to stay at $19.99 until they were gone. Picked up a good number of them for both the Genesis and the SuperNes during those days.

Never did get Majesco's Frogger for the Genesis until recent years. Sure beats the SuperNes effort mentioned in this thread.

[allyourblood]

I don't remember any clearances in the late 90's/early 2000's for the Majesco rereleases around here. They seemed to stay at $19.99 until they were gone. Picked up a good number of them for both the Genesis and the SuperNes during those days.

I bought gobs of them from the Toys R Us I worked at when they dropped in price to $4.97-$1.98. For SNES: two Star Wars games, Wario's Woods, Risk, Super Castlevania IV, and a few others. Super Tennis was 97 cents. I can remember when we had "dump bins" filled with them, and a handful of Mario RPG for $19.97 (of course I didn't buy any because they "cost too much"!!).

For Genesis, I remember Frogger, Clue, Castlevania: Bloodlines, Jeopardy, Risk, Super Battleship. There were more, but I can't recall.

When we finally got rid of our final Game Gear stock, the systems were $9.97 and all games were 97 cents!

[Edmond Dantes]

Crud, I wish I had bought a few extra Game Gears back then!

[BenG76]

I have found several of the Scooby Doo and Black Bass games through the years. I have got them several times in lots I have bought.

[Baloo]

At least Pac-Man 2 is easy to find. EVERYBODY needs to play that game.

My own CIB is the original, not some effing re-issue, and nobody is ever getting their hands on it!

Everybody? I don't think I'd wish for anyone to have to play Pac-Man 2, it's just that bad!

[Shingetter]

I see Toy Story often, actually a lot of Disney games. And of course Star Fox.

[Variman]

I totally agree about the Madden Football games, but I also buy boxes of games from EBAY, and I've never seen Frogger, Scooby Doo Mystery, Clue, or Super Mario World at all!

The boxes I buy come from a warehouse in Miami, Florida, so maybe that's why?

The ones I see constantly are:


Championship Pool
Mario Paint
NBA Live 95
NBA Showdown
NCAA Basketball
NHL 94
NHL Stanley Cup
Super Caesars Palace
Super Nes Super Scope 6
Super Play Action Football
Vegas Stakes


And Mario Paint is the most common by far!

[Limited Gameplay]

I think it's weird that retro game stores always have Mario Paint and the Super Scope game but never have the mouse or super scope.

[Gatucaman]

This reminds me, has anyone EVER saw the non-majesco re-issue of Super Godzilla?

I think that game used to be rare in it's original release up until the Majesco re-release because of the 98 movie, after all it was licensed by Toho, and i expect that game to be in the same vein as Super Aleste.

[Kevincal]

F-Zero seems to always pop up. Seems one of the most common SNES games.

[Tanooki]

I think Mario Paint and the SS6 cart as up without the parts people people are stupid and destructive. SS6 is huge so that's an easy one to break parts off of rendering it annoying to useless and the mouse you could jack the cord up or just easily lose it.

Variman's list is pretty spot on, though I think it's fair to say very often Pac-Man 2 pops up as well.

[SpaceHarrier]

NCAA Basketball



After hitting my fair share of swapmeets the last couple years, this is the one I've seen the most.

[Doonzmore]

This thread brought back some memories. I remember paying 5 for Super Star Wars Return of the Jedi from Meijer in the fall of 2000. They also had Frogger (Snes) for 10 and non majesco releases like Prime Time Football Starring Dion Sanders and SF 2: Special Champ Ed for 1.00!

In the summer of 99, my brothers and I bought Jungle Book (Majesco), Top Gear (Majesco) and Zelda (Player's Choice) from Best Buy. Can't remember the prices though.

On the last day of summer before entering 4th grade (fall 2000) I bought Tiny Toons: Buster's Hidden Treasure for 5 from Toys R Us. I also remember them having Castlevania: Bloodlines and of course, a bin full of 5 dollar GG re-releases!

[VG_Maniac]

Looking back at all the games I listed when I started this thread, most of them are Majesco re-releases. Any game that Majesco re-released is super common, and always much more common than the original release.



This reminds me, has anyone EVER saw the non-majesco re-issue of Super Godzilla?

I think that game used to be rare in it's original release up until the Majesco re-release because of the 98 movie, after all it was licensed by Toho, and i expect that game to be in the same vein as Super Aleste.

I have the original release of Super Godzilla...but it took me forever to find it. There's probably one copy of it out there for every 50 Majesco versions.

[SparTonberry]

I've wondered if the popularity of Frogger could have anything to do with the Seinfeld episode.

Add Metal Combat and Super Caesar's Palace to the list of games I still see regularly sealed for cheap on ebay.
Arkanoid was also pretty common to find cheap sealed, for a late game. Space Invaders I also see a lot loose, even though those and Frogger were the final three NA games.

[Gatucaman]

I have the original release of Super Godzilla...but it took me forever to find it. There's probably one copy of it out there for every 50 Majesco versions.

Pictures please?, that probably would be a unique case of a game that was probably rare up until the Majesco reprint.

[SparTonberry]

If it's like other Majesco releases, the telltale signs on the cart are the molded caution warning, possibly "Made In Mexico" on the front label (not certain though. I think the MAJORITY of original releases were Made In Japan), a B&W manual and an extra line of legal text on the back of the box ("Distributed by Majesco Sales, Inc." or something like that).

[Tanooki]

Legit and majesco legit later re-do stuff were both done in Mexico from around 1995 I believe. Games like Chrono Trigger, Mario RPG, Wild Guns, Dracula X and others have that.

[VG_Maniac]

Pictures please?, that probably would be a unique case of a game that was probably rare up until the Majesco reprint.

Here you go.


http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a573/RetroGamerAaron/003_zps11457e65.jpg

http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a573/RetroGamerAaron/002_zpsf12415dd.jpg

[Tanooki]

Well if the super collector nazis you see over at NA get into turning SNES stuff into an expensive pissing contest to the top with SNES variants other than the style of plastic the shell uses (like the gray N64 carts for color carts) I could see even that being an expensive sticker variant at some rate. If you can find like 1 JAPAN to like 10 Mexico games that would show scarcity.

[Gatucaman]

Here you go.


http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a573/RetroGamerAaron/003_zps11457e65.jpg

http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a573/RetroGamerAaron/002_zpsf12415dd.jpg

Oh my god, and in pristine condition of all things, that one has the regular grey label on the back right?

Also i think i there is like 4 different versions of Super Star Wars on SNES

1.- The Regular JVC version
2.- The THQ Version
3.- A Version who does have the End label title font in the regular Green Font for games licensed by Nintendo themselves
4.- the Nintendo Player's choise version

Or i am wrong?

[SparTonberry]

I don't think THQ ever published the first game, only the sequels.
Though I do see plenty of JVC copies on ebay in both the older and the new cart cases.

The "end label in green font" is probably the final release, as the E rating replaced the K-A rating (Nintendo re-released several games after the Player's Choice run, with E ratings).

[VG_Maniac]

Oh my god, and in pristine condition of all things, that one has the regular grey label on the back right?

Yeah, it has the regular label on the back.

[Gatucaman]

I don't think THQ ever published the first game, only the sequels.
Though I do see plenty of JVC copies on ebay in both the older and the new cart cases.

The "end label in green font" is probably the final release, as the E rating replaced the K-A rating (Nintendo re-released several games after the Player's Choice run, with E ratings).

Do those re-re-releases share things in common with the Majesco re-releases?, like the glossy label and the cheap paper, i own Supper Tennis, (tough it sucks to me as a game) but i have never saw other SNES nintendo titles that have the ESRB rating like that, unless they are ugly custom labels.

[SparTonberry]

E-rated Nintendo re-releases I have are Super Pinball: Behind the Mask and Tetris 2. I've seen photos of SimCity as well.
I checked my Super Pinball. Made In Japan, glossy label.

The E rating was first used in 1998, which is about the end of production for SNES (in 1999, judging by my N64 collection, the ESRB switched the ratings logo from white letters to black, so black K-A is not a real ratings logo).