Which has more value? Grey or Gold Adventure of Link?

[The Collector]

Which has more value? Grey or Gold Adventure of Link? I just found a grey one and i have the gold, which should i keep?

~bill

[tholly]

id keep 'em both since they are different

[Querjek]

I hear that the gray one is worth slightly more, but I would keep both too.

[dreamcaster]

I didn't know there was a standard grey one. :o

I assumed they were all manufactured as gold carts.

(Maybe in the PAL territories they all are)

[The Collector]

I dont want both, i like to keep my collection lean and mean :evil: . No doubles....no room.

[leonk]

Gold is the original, grey is a rerelease.. think of it as "greatest hits" for the NES.

The gold is more common, and hence isn't worth as much as the grey, but most stores don't know that.

If you're not a collector, but rather a gamer, I would keep the gold one since that's what most people remember and it looks cooler.

[NintendoMan]

The gold cartridge might have been very common back in the day, but if you look anywhere that has NES games, there is a far better chance you will find the gray one before the gold one.

The Gold cartridge is worth FAR more. Since I am a collector I would keep both, but then you said no room for doubles which is true sometimes for me. If you sold it on ebay you would guarantee get more for the gold. It's the original copy of the game, and of course looks alot cooler!

[PyroPenguin]

I find more Gold than Grey carts. I have both, but I'd keep the gold if I had to choose.

[Great Hierophant]

Golds have at least one problem grays do not. The actual color of the cartridge plastic is black, with gold paint sprayed on it. Eventually it starts to flake off. Finding an unblemished gold in the wild is very difficult. For the gamer, golds were made before grays, so its more likely that the battery in the golds has gone dead while the grays still save games.

[Daria]

Talking about gold Zelda cartridges... does anyone know of a safe way to clean one? I just picked up a gold link cartridge but when I went to scrub some grim off the back with a little toothpaste it turned the gold paint silver. O.O

So now I'm a little heistant to try much else on it.
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[Richter]

Gold is the original, grey is a rereleasererelease or a second print run?

[Lone_Monster]

Excuse my stupididity, but why would a rerelease be more rare?

[The Collector]

Gold is the original, grey is a rereleasererelease or a second print run?

I know the box these grey carts came in have a large red stripe across the top of the box that reads "Classic Series". One can be viewed here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8102437654&rd=1

And as far as a rerelease with a higher value, i believe its just a lower production run verses the original production run.

[Aussie2B]

The grey version is rarer and more valuable, period. There will always be dumb stores and fans who think "OMG! R@RE Gold version!!1!", but you're better off holding on to the grey version if you're only concerned with which cart is worth more and rarer.

[The Collector]

The grey version is rarer and more valuable, period. There will always be dumb stores and fans who think "OMG! R@RE Gold version!!1!", but you're better off holding on to the grey version if you're only concerned with which cart is worth more and rarer.


Yeah, that's what i was planning, grey in...gold out.

[christianscott27]

is it possible you've all lost sight of the fact that in either color its a ultra common game not worth more than $4 loose? just saying...

psst who wants to trade for my text label combat?

[Ed Oscuro]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8102985336&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Heh, I think you're on to something. (That's still a bunch to pay for a NES cart, though; if somebody gets it for $6 they'll end up paying $10 o_O)

Whatever the cost of the Classic Series Metroid is, though, I'd say that's worth it. I really don't like the regular look of that game; the Classic Series take on the cover is much better.

[ubersaurus]

is it possible you've all lost sight of the fact that in either color its a ultra common game not worth more than $4 loose? just saying...

psst who wants to trade for my text label combat?

What about the yellow color variant of Zelda 1? :P

[SoulBlazer]

So how does the first run of Zelda rank to the second run as far as value and ammounts made? (The first run had the original Nintendo Seal of Quality, the second had the newer. The first had no warning about the reset button on the save/continue/quit screen. And the first one had battery problems -- had to send mine back to Nintendo for a second run.)

And how about the value and commonality of gold vs gray Zelda II's and Metroids?

[EASports]

The first had no warning about the reset button on the save/continue/quit screen.

Kind of off topic... What was the deal with holding reset during power off, anyways? A lot of the old RPGs were all about that.

[SoulBlazer]

I'm not 100 percent sure, but I believe that because of the way that power interacted with battery carts in the NES, just shutting the power off straight away could cause a small surge that might harm game save data on the battery. By holding in the reset button, there's no surge and thus the save data is fine. This os only a problem with the first group of battery NES games -- later battery games had no problem with just hitting the power button. Mind you, I never READ this anyway, but it seems the most logical answer that I can think off knowing what little I know. :D

[Daria]

The grey version is rarer and more valuable, period. There will always be dumb stores and fans who think "OMG! R@RE Gold version!!1!", but you're better off holding on to the grey version if you're only concerned with which cart is worth more and rarer.


Yeah, that's what i was planning, grey in...gold out.

Personally I don't think the gray carts are rare enough to bother with. Zelda's always been about the gold cartridge/disk so if you're only going to hold onto one copy gold's like the traditional Zelda trade mark.
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[hydr0x]

(I'm talking of PAL now)

the gold one pops up on ebay 10 times as often as the grey one, so the grey one SHOULD be worth a lot more but i usually goes for 30-40% less than the gold one, i've also seen the gold one far more often in the wild than the grey one :o

[sniperCCJVQ]

The grey worth slightly more because it was released at the end of the NES life. Still, it's not an "extra rare" cart.

[leonk]

Excuse my stupididity, but why would a rerelease be more rare?

Same reason why a top loader is more expensive than an original toaster.

Gold's are really common when compared to the greys.

[Daria]

Excuse my stupididity, but why would a rerelease be more rare?

Same reason why a top loader is more expensive than an original toaster.

Grays work better then golds and look cooler? :P

That doesn't sound right...

Scarcity isn't everything. By that logic the Lunar Fan art edition should be in higher demand then the normal box set.
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[Ed Oscuro]

Gray does look cooler, especially when that crappy paint flakes off. I remember seeing a cart back in the early 1990s that was already starting to look bad...most are probably plain awful by now.

So actually the awful process for gold Zelda carts might ensure that perfect gold carts might be harder to find in the wild (or anywhere) than the gray carts.

In any case, Zelda no Densetsu 1 > all. I like the FDS release better than the US releases as well. Western Zelda carts have that 1980s style thing going but I don't really consider it a masterpiece.

[Bratwurst]

I have a perfect (well, near mint as you can get for one of these things) Gold Zelda. No one can deny they are very pretty carts- the vac-metal plating is really more durable than people give it credit for, it's just that in the wild they really take a beating. Heavy scratching and banging around is what causes the coating to crack and flake off.

They certainly don't flake off on their own. I've taken a cart to boiling water, paint thinner, and various mixes of acetone in an effort to get me a black shell and in most cases the plastic will melt before it gives up the shiney shellac.

[Aussie2B]

My gold Zelda is still holding up pretty well, and I didn't even get it until I bought it used in the late '90s. The battery still works fine; I played through both quests just last fall. :) I gotta agree that the grey version looks cool, though, even if most don't agree. I'd like to get all of those re-releases eventually (especially the spiffy Metroid re-release), but definitely not from GameStop or eBay. o_O