You also have to take into account that SNK was spiraling down the financial drain during the NGPC's run. They went bankrupt fairly soon after putting it out. Then everything got pulled off the shelves and sent back to the manufacturer, no clearance prices at the stores that carried it (at least at the Fry's Electronics where I bought mine). It was great that a couple years later you could pick up multipacks of games as the purchaser of SNK wanted to cheaply clear out its backstock. I regret that I didn't pick up enough titles for it at the time.