Most you've spent on an NES used game?

[ZeroCool]

I just recently bought Bucky O Hare for $65. Cart only. This is the most I've spent on a used NES game that was just a cart only. Just scanning Ebay and this games going for much more.. I totally lucked out on this. I remember not even a year ago it was going for $50 to $60. How the hell did it go so high in price? Must of been the times it was mentioned on Youtube. I'm not sure if I'm ever going to spent this much on a game unless it comes complete.

[goldenband]

Under $10, I believe, unless I'm forgetting some early-1990s purchase from Funcoland or BRE.

I don't really collect NES, so what little I buy is always cheap, though I've gotten some uncommon- to rare-ish carts along the way (Laser Invasion, etc.).

[celerystalker]

I spent $30 on Dragon Warrior IV with the manual and charts about 15 years ago, and I think that was it for a used NES game. Most of mine were bought by 2002, so I never spent a ton, but I stopped around 550 or so, and never did pick up stuff like Little Samson or Panic Restaurant. I still pick one up every once in awhile, but there's not much left in the US I want.

[Tanooki]

If you're talking actual cash $40 right after I moved back here in later 2012 on Dragon Warrior IV. If we're talking flips/trades then it gets more expensive. I tend to set a rule never to pay cash on a game for a value higher than the original retail cost. Before that it was something in the $20-30 range, but I always wanted that game, the cart was like in new like quality(cared for) condition, so I grabbed it.

[ProjectCamaro]

$20, sorry but NES games don't have enough gameplay to be worth big bucks.

[bb_hood]

Sometime around 2010/2011 I paid 700$ for Flintstones 2 near-mint/complete.

[Tanooki]

I think there are some games definitely that have enough play value to be worth more than $20, not a lot, but there are some. It was an early system, many of the games haven't aged well, but those of existing franchises or non-bungled arcade ports stand up well. Dragon Warrior IV I mentioned, that one was so freaking late it's right on par (audio/visual aside) with 16bit SNES RPGs in quality/game play. I do agree many of them aren't worth it, maybe like 50~ of the 700+ of them.

[Aussie2B]

Hmm, probably no more than like 15 bucks? I know I got Maniac Mansion online and that was like 12 bucks (Christ, that was around when I first started using eBay). Pretty sure I bought Final Fantasy online too and that was around that much as well.

The vast majority of my NES games were bought in brick and mortar stores, most in the late 90s/early 00s. $3 has always been my NES cart sweet spot. I'd drop that much for most NES games (outside of extreme commons and most sports games), but I'd rarely drop more. Granted with my way of acquiring NES carts, I'm missing plenty of the more desirable titles. I don't have a single Mega Man, and I don't have any Dragon Warrior past the first (but who really cares when there are cheaper ways to play all of those; for example, I have DQ1 and 2 on GBC and DQ4 on DS). But I have landed some more expensive games on the cheap. Gun Nac is one of my more recently acquired NES carts, got it just a few years ago for the aforementioned 3 bucks, had no idea it was worth anything when I got it. Back then it was a good deal because loose carts were going for 20-30 bucks, now forget about it, I probably never would have it in my collection if I was looking to get it these days. Nice to have it too, it's a really fun little shmup.

[Garry Silljo]

Wow, I had no idea Bucky had gotten so expensive. I got mine many years ago for maybe $10.

I've spent more than I wanted on a few different carts. I think the worst I spent (on NES) was $60 for a cart only Godzilla 2. What is really dumb is I don't even like the game. It's ass compared to the first game which I do like.

I'm not going to say I won't spend that much on a game again. I know I will, and more. However I've recently re-evaluated my collection and collecting habits and I'm only going to pay big bucks for good games I want to play. I was going for a complete set but I just can't bring myself to pay the moeny for Action 52, the trio of porn games, or Staduim Events which I technically already own under a different name. I have over 700 games now on 2 custom made shelves that were made to hold a complete collection. The bigger shelf holds 480 and I decided I'm going to fill that with what I consider the best and purge the rest, putting the earnings to a few expensive carts I still want (Little Samson ... OUCH!). Long Story short I've got a Godzilla 2 to sell or trade.

[Greg2600]

I have 70-something games, all loose, but I have the manuals for all. I've probably spent more getting certain manuals than the games! Now I would say that the majority were games I've had since the early 90's, and I don't recall paying over $20 for any NES cart since. I pretty much completed the collection of games I wanted to have by 2009 for both NES and SNES, as well as Genesis for the most part. So I stopped before the ebay prices went bonkers. Since that time of course the Everdrive/PowerPak solutions have kept me from buying any more games.

[Emperor Megas]

I don't think I've ever paid more than $15 for a used NES game, and I think the only one I paid that much for was a complete in box copy of Super Mario Bros. 3.

[Tanooki]

Wow, I had no idea Bucky had gotten so expensive. I got mine many years ago for maybe $10.

I've spent more than I wanted on a few different carts. I think the worst I spent (on NES) was $60 for a cart only Godzilla 2. What is really dumb is I don't even like the game. It's ass compared to the first game which I do like.

I'm not going to say I won't spend that much on a game again. I know I will, and more. However I've recently re-evaluated my collection and collecting habits and I'm only going to pay big bucks for good games I want to play. I was going for a complete set but I just can't bring myself to pay the moeny for Action 52, the trio of porn games, or Staduim Events which I technically already own under a different name. I have over 700 games now on 2 custom made shelves that were made to hold a complete collection. The bigger shelf holds 480 and I decided I'm going to fill that with what I consider the best and purge the rest, putting the earnings to a few expensive carts I still want (Little Samson ... OUCH!). Long Story short I've got a Godzilla 2 to sell or trade.

I used to feel that way through trades, but I can't and won't do it anymore. I've permanently written off Aerofighters on SNES and Little Samson on the NES due to how far things have fallen. In the last couple of years i've sold off a couple hundred games, more if you include rare pick ups at stores/flea markets that were lowly marked too. I'm like you, keeping the good I will use, and dropping the dead weight. It has an amazing benefit. The last purge I did more than half of last year got me into this new high tier gaming laptop I ordered back in December. The time I've put into it alone, and not just with online chit chat garbage has been more in time and $ value than the goodies (and crap) I put out to pasture. It's really worth it just getting away from how things have become. And like you I even went last year and got this big media shelf for games and movies. As it stands now 20% of it has games on the shelves themselves, and probably 1/2 are legos I got back into as they're fun and stress relieving. The rest is empty or has misc things on it and it doesn't bother me one bit.

[Garry Silljo]

And like you I even went last year and got this big media shelf for games and movies. As it stands now 20% of it has games on the shelves themselves, and probably 1/2 are legos I got back into as they're fun and stress relieving. The rest is empty or has misc things on it and it doesn't bother me one bit.

I actually built mine from scratch because the store bought ones just didn't fit right. I'm going to repurpose the other shelf to hold N64 games and controllers/accessories for all systems.

Back on topic some other games that I paid higher prices for would include .... Rainbow Islands for $35 (which I will keep with no regrets) and I nearly got Snow Bros. for $60 but took a pass and by the time I was ready to spend someone else had jumped on it.

I've paid higher prices for some of my Saturn and MVS games, but so far I haven't paid over $100 on a nes game. There are still some I want though. I almost pulled the trigger on $110 Cowboy Kid which I rented as a kid and really enjoyed but NEVER saw in a retail store. I'm sure I will eventually put that in my 480.

[retroman]

I would say around 20 bucks if I had to guess. Most of the high dollar games I still have from when I was a kid. So really nothing to expensive to buy.

[o.pwuaioc]

I didn't pay anywhere near that for Bucky. Most of the expensive ones I get FC versions instead. Up until last year it was much cheaper.

[treismac]

I think $35 or so for Tengen's version of Tetris.

[Casati]

The most I can remember paying for a used NES game is around $75 for a CIB Nobunagas Ambition 2, $55 for a CIB Uncharted Waters a few months ago, and a CIB Lolo 3 for $45. Back in 1989-90, I paid $30 to $60 for new NES games, so around $50 doesn't seem like much to me if I like the game. I returned to NES collecting a few years ago before the drastic jump in prices, so I didn't pay that much for most of them. I wish I had bought a Gun Nac before it's recent price jump, but I didn't have the spare money when it was readily available for $20-40 a couple years ago. If I save the money, I would pay over $100 for it though. I guess I have some "collector" in me that's willing to pay top dollar for a game even if it's somewhat antiquated.

[xelement5x]

Probably $15 at the most for a single loose cart, and to be honest I can't remember ever spending that much off the top of my head.

Like most folks, I will grab pretty much any NES cart if they are under $4 and sound interesting, in the $5-$10 range it needs to be something good or with extras like a box/manual or something. Above that, well I'm not sure that what would make me spend more. A couple years ago I spent like $30 on 5 CIB good games, seems like a good deal now since Faxanadu alone goes for near that, but I was seriously debating it back then.

Oh, and I got a copy of Bucky O'Hare a couple years ago at my local thrift for $5 (along with some other games), I had no clue how expensive it was when I got it.

[ProjectCamaro]

I lied, I paid $44 for 8 Bit Xmas 2014 from RetroUSB as well as some other homebrews from them.

My statement still stands for actual Nintendo cartridage games though.

[Gatucaman]

The most i ever spent on a game with real cash was 130 mexican pesos ($11) for fricking Panic Restaurant!

but when it comes to buying online, that's another story, if only because most japanese sellers have inconsistent and quite frankly crappy shipping fees, like $7 for shipping UNREGISTERED (tracking number i mean), and asking $6 for a adding tracking number or just $2 difference form that for EMS.

i don't know if packages arrive from japan to the US without the need of tracking but sweet jesus, and how about shipping with tracking to mexico, that is EVEN WORSE.

as for the games, while the games i have purchased seem artificially cheaper and good deals, it comes to the goddamn shipping scalping for crying out loud.

For example, Sweet Home on famicom is $18 cheapest right now non-shipped, and while shipping seems $4 the cheapest, it comes to the damn tracking fee that screw you over, so you might even ending paying more than what you paid for the game itself just to be safe it would not be stolen by the mail workers or get lost!

my copy of sweet home was bought at $9 + $7 from yamatoku-classic for a total of $16 for that one, and well, for that game and others, i ordered to be shipped to the US over my friend's mother's house (he is a real bro btw), so at the very least i guess tracking is not a problem in the US, but man o man, shipping can be a bitch!, and the people who put the fees can be bigger bitches!.

The most i payed was for GUN NAC from japanyouwant which was $21 alone at the end of the auction and shipping was $7 but at the very least they already included tracking number for my country and if you purchased another game you just add from 1 to 2 extra bucks, so at the very least those guys are nicer and i have gotten some nice gifts from them, in fact, i got Gun Nac from them along with Wai wai world for $12 including the extra buck for its inclusion in my purchase with Gun NAC, at the end of the day i payed $40 in the two games, but at the very least the fact that the $7 base fee for shipping already includes tracking for my country is decent enough, then again i had to put up with the snipers driving the auction price automatic so that there's not much difference in comparison to the cheapest BIN price