NES Color Dreams Games - Black & Blue and my sealed find

[ewrann]

I recently stumbled upon a treasure chest (actually an old NES store display) loaded with sealed/new/unopened games in the locked drawers under the display. A few of them are Color Dreams games. They all still had the $49.99 price tags on them

Any way to tell without opening the games which variant they are? The Blue or the Black?

I'm sure some of you want to know what was in this display..here's the list:

Magic Of Schererarzade
Solar Jetman
Burai Fighter
Golgo 13
Orb 3-D
Robo Warrior
NightShade
Phantom Fighter
Bad Street Brawler
Shatter Hand
Rocket Ranger
Super Gloveball
Street Fighter 2010
Resolve: The Embassy Mission
Black Manta
Mission Impossible
Metal Storm
Abadoy
Isolated Warrior
Life Force
Werewolf: The Last Warrior
Super Team Games
Vice Project Doom
Target Renegade
Tombs & Treasure
Untouchables
Journey To Silius
Dr. Chaos
Platoon
Destination: Earthstar
Legendary Wings
Willow
Hydlide
Solstice
M.U.L.E.
Legend of Kage
Hoops
Mafat Conspiracy
Rocketeer
Bomberman
Dance Aerobics
Time Lord
Racket Attack
Captain Comic
Clash At Demonhead
Quantum Fighter
Image Fight
Power Blade
Rad Gravity
A Ma Gon
Dash Galaxy
Code Name Viper
Vindicators
Raid On Bungeling Bay
Boulder Dash
Low G Man
Thundercade
Rolling Thunder
Athena
Seicross
Heavy Barrel
8 Eyes
Snakes Revenge
Dr. Jeckyl & Mr Hyde
Mag Max
Metal Fighter
Master Chu & Drunkard Hu
Galactic Crusade
Double Strike
Skulls & Crossbones
Star Soldier
Alien Syndrome
Taboo
Ikari 3
Trojan
Impossible Mission 2 (SEI)
Section Z
Athletic World
Robo Demons
Tagin Dragon
Infilitrator
Xevious The Avenger

The display type was the kid that had the hard plastic "sleeves" that fit 4 double sided cards showing pics from the games. Presumably you would tell the store owner what you wanted and they would unlock on eof the six drawers underneath and get you what you wanted.

I bought four and am auctioning them off. They're not exactly cheap so hopefully I'll get my investment back.

Is this a goldmine or just a "meh'?

Believe it or not I decided to quit collecting NES stuff about a month ago and then I stumble upon this guys junk shop this past weekend..less than two miles from my home!


Thx,

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[Kejoriv]

Holy Shit! You NEED to post pics!

[ewrann]

Holy Shit! You NEED to post pics!

Yeah - I went back today and bought four more and was thinking I should bring my digital camera next time....then I punched myself.

Haha...seriously..I might do that sometime this week..

Don;t even get me started on the sealed Genesis games....

(none of it first wave BTW...this is all late 80's/early 90's stuff....)

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[The_Kodiak65]

OMFG!!!
how much did you pay??

[Videogamerdaryll]

Holy Shit! You NEED to post pics!

Ditto
Yes take picks Please....

[TheRedEye]

When you say you bought them you mean the entire displays, right? Tell us how much each "display" is and about how many games are in each, and we can probably tell you if these are "meh" or not.

[ewrann]

Whoops. Let me clarify.

The "Display" is one big unit. Red & Black. "Now You're Playing With Power" and Ninendo logos on it. It's about 6.5'' tall and maybe 4' wide. The upper portion of it has a rack w/ hard plastic pages that you turn to see card stock place holders showing the game box covers and descriptions. Some of the cards came from the game companies but some appear to be photo copies of the boxes (the bigger companies ie Capcom and SNK had nice color ones - the small companies had photocopies of box art). The lower half of the "Display" is 6 drawers. The drawers have dividers inside to hold the games.

I have only purchased 8 games so far. I bought Legendary Wings, Schererarzad, Bomberman, Snake's Revenge, Street Fight er 2010, Ikari 3, Imp Mission 2 & Hydlide. Four of them I put on Ebay (I'm ewrann on ebay if you want to look them up).

In a few days I plan on going back and taking pics. I'm also gonna see if they'll cut me a deal to buy all of them.

Since I'm not really collecting anymore I have to consider it investment potential. I looked many of them up on Ebay and was surprised that so many of them were going for less than $10. Some not even selling at all.....so really it would be a bad investment for me to pay 10+ each each for many of these(right?).

The guy who onws the place still seems miffed that he paid full wholesale for them back in 1990 and they never sold which is why they're not siting there with $1 price tags (I wish!!!). We'll see what happens.

The drawers didn't have many duplicates - off hand I only remember dupes of Master Chu & Bomberman. Additionally, my list came from the "pages" and not the drawers so it is entirely possible some of the games sold out and they didn't remove the "page".


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[Austin]

Wow, quite a find!

I can't say I know enough about sealed NES collecting to comment on the investment potential, but it's awesome to hear that there are treasure troves like that still out there.

[XianXi]

$10+ a piece is a deal if they are sealed. If you list them in one big lot you could probably make your money back at least 5 fold.

[Kejoriv]

$10+ a piece is a deal if they are sealed. If you list them in one big lot you could probably make your money back at least 5 fold.

I dont know about that. It all depends on the titles. If they are commons. I highly doubt that. You could get lucky though...

[Bronty-2]

$10+ a piece is a deal if they are sealed. If you list them in one big lot you could probably make your money back at least 5 fold.

Yeah, what he said. Not a chance are they worth $50 each. Most of those titles sell for 10-15 on ebay pretty regularly.

Besides, selling in one big lot is guaranteed to get you less on a per game basis, not more..

[ewrann]

Yeah, what he said. Not a chance are they worth $50 each. Most of those titles sell for 10-15 on ebay pretty regularly.

As I just found out. Pooey.

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