Which NES goal should I go for first? (POLL)

[Britboy]

I have several goals sketched out, which do you think would be the best to start with? I know collecting is a personal decision thing, but I was just interested in what you guys would do.

[michael]

DUH!
Buy them all!

[buttasuperb]

Get the games that you want to play. My recommendations.

Mario 1-3
Contra series
Castlevania series
Mega Man series
Kid Icarus
RC Pro Am
Micro Machines
Ninja Gaiden series
Bubble Bobble
River City Ransom

there's plenty more, but these games are a good start.

[Captain Wrong]

Don't underestimate the 5200. That and MAME are all I've been playing in the last few months.

(Yes, I know that was a joke option, but yes, I'm being serious...kind of.)

[den68]

I'd do the "grab what you can when you can" method. you should be able to build a fairly large library quickly and pretty cheaply.

If your ultimate goal is to get the whole library you won't pass up stuff you'll want later by starting with too narrow a focus.

If it's not you've got some trade bait to use when filling out the stuff you do want to focus on.

[Savedman]

I agree with grab what you can. Especially if you have a buy-sell-trade shop nearby that sells them cheap. I got most of my games when I wasn't really looking for them. Just sort of hit some local BST's and thrift stores and grabed everything that I didn't already have. It's worked pretty well for me. I've been collecting NES carts for a few years now and I think I'm at around 425.

[Keir]

Well that was an easy poll! ( I voted for the 5200)

[Masco73]

Grab anything you can cheaply and trade for what you want later. It is starting to get harder and harder to get even NES games for cheap any more.

[autobotracing]

id say get what you like or just grab whatever you come accross thats what I do

[CrazyImpmon]

I'm also with grab-anything as well because you never know what you may come across. I usually frequent Funcoland for loose NES games and I've found many NES games I'd never thought of actually finding in the wild like the Tengen Tetris and (Bira-bira was smiling that day) a CIB Namco Pac Man. (It's the same as Tengen version but has only Namco copyright no mention of Tengen)

I also picked up 3 Stackups in one store cuz they were cheap! No box or parts though :P

[kainemaxwell]

Hmm, i think I'll go for the "grab what I can" myself..along with focusing on games I want to play as well before I figure excatly how to jump into NES collecting.