I got all nostalgic about FuncoLand and then this happened

[thrsn]

I got all nostalgic about FuncoLand and then this happened http://imgur.com/a/Shpz3

I've been using newspaper scans found here for reference. I'm trying to be as accurate to the source material as possible. All prices end in .49 or .99, there's only a $-sign on the first price, and consoles are bold. Anything else I should watch out for?

[Tanooki]

What year is that? I don't remember them ever asking $90 for Aerofighters in the 90s or earlier 00s. Surprising also to see the SNES test cart listed.

[ApolloBoy]

What year is that? I don't remember them ever asking $90 for Aerofighters in the 90s or earlier 00s. Surprising also to see the SNES test cart listed.
LOL that's not a real FuncoLand listing.

[thrsn]

What year is that? I don't remember them ever asking $90 for Aerofighters in the 90s or earlier 00s. Surprising also to see the SNES test cart listed.

Those are current prices.

[Tanooki]

I don't believe that, but hey if you can get me Aerofighters for $90 to complete the last piece of my lost SNES cart collection, I'm game.

[Ro-J]

You can find some real Funcoland scans in this thread (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?92772-Funcoland-Price-Lists/page2). Aero Fighters was a little cheaper back then.

I believe the OP is trying to recreate Funcoland's style with today's prices.....maybe? The prices are still off if that's the case.

[bb_hood]

Where is Stadium Events for 7$?

[thrsn]

I don't believe that, but hey if you can get me Aerofighters for $90 to complete the last piece of my lost SNES cart collection, I'm game.

Good catch. I get prices from pricecharting.com where it's correctly listed for $469. Clearly there's something wrong with my code.

[Rickstilwell1]

I have a full newspaper from 1999. I should scan it for you all when I get my place cleaned and organized.

[thrsn]

I have a full newspaper from 1999. I should scan it for you all when I get my place cleaned and organized.

There's actually quite a few scans floating around these forums. They've been very helpful while designing the app.

[thrsn]

All fixed now http://imgur.com/a/Shpz3

[Tanooki]

I got to admit it looks good and convincing.

[SparTonberry]

Somewhere I uploaded the November '99 sheet and it seems to have passed around.
Dragon Warrior IV was literally the only NES game over $20 on that list.
Now that game probably isn't even in the top 10 most expensive.

For some reason, I strongly recall July 2001 being the last list at my local store.

[Rickstilwell1]

I remember when FuncoLand and Game Crazy advertised having the Neo Geo Pocket Color and games. 2 Years later, nobody who worked at either store even remembered carrying them.

[thrsn]

I've been using the 1993 and 2001 sheets found in this thread (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?92772-Funcoland-Price-Lists/page2) to try to determine how they changed over the years. Originally all the prices ended in .00 and .90 but somewhere along the way they switched to .49 and .99. Aside from that there aren't a lot of changes. Probably one of the reasons the sheets are so memorable.

[justfadeaway]

Good catch. I get prices from pricecharting.com where it's correctly listed for $469. Clearly there's something wrong with my code.

I don't care how good/bad/rare a game is. No game is worth almost $500

[fluid_matrix]

Stadium Events.........$0.29

Wonder if anybody ever turned theirs in for credit at this price.

[Kevincal]

I sold an old funcoland newspaper on ebay sometime back. forget for how much and what year it was from... Now I really miss Software etc., G&G and Suncoast (anime)? And I also miss arcades from the mid 90s. Was so exciting when games like virtua fighter, Daytona, mk3, killer instinct, alpha, tekken came out in arcades etc. Ah, life before the internet.. I mean internet was around in 1995 but most still didn't have it. I didn't have pc and net until 1997.

[SparTonberry]

Stadium Events.........$0.29

Wonder if anybody ever turned theirs in for credit at this price.

Someone did.
My most regrettable purchase is not buying it when my local store had one for $8.99.
I didn't wanna spend $9 on a game I couldn't play!
I had heard a rumor then of it being a $1000 game then, but thought it had to be BS.
Told my friend years later. "Yeah, you should've bought it if you had even HEARD that kind of rumor."

Not surprising though. That was the early 2000s. Not many people probably heard of the game until the $12k auction.

[thrsn]

For some reason my FuncoLand (all FuncoLands?) kept the NES games on a shelf behind the counter making it impossible to browse. Instead I would stand there with my highlighted sheet calling off games one-by-one as the clerk looked for them. No, no, no, no, no, yes, no, no, no...

[thrsn]

Ok, I added a menu screen. Nothing to reference here so I had to make it up. What do you think?

http://i.imgur.com/uYJo2Aj.png

[SparTonberry]

For some reason my FuncoLand (all FuncoLands?) kept the NES games on a shelf behind the counter making it impossible to browse. Instead I would stand there with my highlighted sheet calling off games one-by-one as the clerk looked for them. No, no, no, no, no, yes, no, no, no...

Later on the stores near me only locked up games priced over $10, leaving cheaper games out on a shelf (so yes that Stadium Events I found once was left out chillin with the Bases Loadeds and the Super Mario Bros.. No armed guard/laser tripwire, etc. :D )

I noticed they never listed Nintendo World Championships. I wonder what would happen if someone tried to sell theirs to GameStop? :D
(would they consider it a non-official game, since it wasn't retail?)

[ApolloBoy]

For some reason my FuncoLand (all FuncoLands?) kept the NES games on a shelf behind the counter making it impossible to browse. Instead I would stand there with my highlighted sheet calling off games one-by-one as the clerk looked for them. No, no, no, no, no, yes, no, no, no...
That's what the FuncoLand near me did as well. I remember they stopped doing that once all the FuncoLands became GameStops and then all the games were out on the floor in stapled baggies.

[bb_hood]

For some reason my FuncoLand (all FuncoLands?) kept the NES games on a shelf behind the counter making it impossible to browse.
The funcoland stores near me had the nes and snes games displayed on the floor. When people would trade in nes boxes and manuals the people who ran the store would let me just take them for free. I asked them why one day and they said that because of lack of space they just throw them away (most of the time). I would beg the managers not to do so. A few times I would go into the store and they had a large cardboard box filled with nes boxes just waiting for me.

[spman]

Funcoland was a very interesting company, I wish there was more background out there on the company and its history. My what I've read and been told is that the company started in the early 90's by just one guy who sold used Nintendo games out of his garage through the mail, and even though the company eventually grew very large encompassing hundreds of stores across the country, it was always just run by the one guy and a handful of his friends and family. It was a far cry from todays corporate owned Gamestop.

I was very sad when Gamestop bought them out, as it became immediately apparent that the retro games were not in that companies plans. I think Gamestop immediately stopped accepting trade ins on older stuff, moved it all from behind the counter to racks out on the floor, and spent the next year liquidating it all, and it all went. Although I do remember seeing ton of Genesis sports titles and copies of Top Gun for NES that lingered for years and were probably eventually thrown in the trash.

[chuckydj]

Somewhere I have a laminated copy of the last price list funcoland ever did for all the original nes, snes n64 and original playstation games. Its the flyer they used to have every month with all the prices of all the games made on it. kinda like this one: https://warosu.org/data/vr/img/0010/37/1377996526436.jpg

Not sure if it has any nostolgic value or not but held on to it all these years.

[Rickstilwell1]

Somewhere I have a laminated copy of the last price list funcoland ever did for all the original nes, snes n64 and original playstation games. Its the flyer they used to have every month with all the prices of all the games made on it. kinda like this one: https://warosu.org/data/vr/img/0010/37/1377996526436.jpg

Not sure if it has any nostolgic value or not but held on to it all these years.

Wow, some of those prices have actually come down since then, like Bust-A-Move being $55? Ouch. That's even more than a CIB copy I once bought.

[SparTonberry]

Flintstones 2 cheaper than Flintstones 1? Safe to say that is NEVER going to happen again. :D

Several of those came down.

In the case of Bust-A-Move, I suppose the numerous sequels.

What year is that? Because I'm sure in 2000, I only paid around $20 for a loose copy of Lufia 1, and that didn't seem like an unusual price on ebay.
(then again in 2000 ebay was still primarily an auction site and not filled with unrealistic BIN listings that will sit there forever.)
Chrono Trigger's price seems to have always been a bit of a roller-coaster. It was $60 then I see, but the one time I actually saw a copy in at GameStop after they switched to price-stickers (so 2003 probably), it was $40.

$65 for Breath of Fire II. I sniped mine on ebay for about $20 in like 2009 (if I wanted to guess a BIN then would've probably been maybe $40), though that seems to be another game with inconsistent value.
Apparently Joe & Mac 1 is another. For awhile, it was like a $3 game on ebay, but last I knew it was like $20-30. I know the sequel was always a higher-value game.

[peeingas]

That's also the only place you'll find a game called "Dudes with Tudes" or "Lethal Weapon 3" for the nes

[thrsn]

FuncoWorld is finally in the App Store. Hope you all like it. I had a blast making it. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/funcoworld/id898098082?mt=8

http://i.imgur.com/Hk81nCs.png

[Rickstilwell1]

FuncoWorld is finally in the App Store. Hope you all like it. I had a blast making it. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/funcoworld/id898098082?mt=8

http://i.imgur.com/Hk81nCs.png

How about a printable pdf version where you don't have to have iTunes or an apple brand device to use it?

[thrsn]

How about a printable pdf version where you don't have to have iTunes or an apple brand device to use it?

Go for it.

[Tanooki]

I'd like to see this in action. Are there plans for it to be on anything other than the overpriced hipster devices from apple?

[Gentlegamer]

I'd like to see this in action. Are there plans for it to be on anything other than the overpriced hipster devices from apple?

It's on the correct device to cater to yuppy instant collectors.

[Tanooki]

Good point, that does fit that well. I'm sorry I ever had an iPad2 at one point, damn thing has problems heaps have and apple refuses to correct or repair without a charge around its wifi setup among other things. I'm glad my kid broke the dumb thing and I had the $60 from gazelle on it along with some paypal bucks I saved up to replace it with a nicer android based option late last year.

[Rickstilwell1]

Go for it.

You go for it. You're the one with the list who made it.