Ok, I added a menu screen. Nothing to reference here so I had to make it up. What do you think?
Ok, I added a menu screen. Nothing to reference here so I had to make it up. What do you think?
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. )
I noticed they never listed Nintendo World Championships. I wonder what would happen if someone tried to sell theirs to GameStop?
(would they consider it a non-official game, since it wasn't retail?)
Last edited by SparTonberry; 07-10-2014 at 12:24 PM.
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.
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.
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/...7996526436.jpg
Not sure if it has any nostolgic value or not but held on to it all these years.
Flintstones 2 cheaper than Flintstones 1? Safe to say that is NEVER going to happen again.
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.
That's also the only place you'll find a game called "Dudes with Tudes" or "Lethal Weapon 3" for the nes
FuncoWorld is finally in the App Store. Hope you all like it. I had a blast making it. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/func...898098082?mt=8
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?
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.