NES Game Collecting

[bobby_light]

Game collecting is a dangerous hobby, my friend. It goes from "Man, I had this game when I was a kid, I've got to play it again!" to "Man, I always wanted to play that game as a kid, I've got to get it!" to "Pokemon! Gotta catch 'em all!" really fast.

You don't want to know how many NES games I've bought in the last couple of years and never played...

[Brasel]

I picked up a few games today since it's payday. Cost me about $20.

- Little Nemo: Dream Master -
I played this game a few times as a kid, but I never got into it. I've seen a lot of recommendations for this game, so I decided to pick it up.

-Blaster Master-
Believe it or not, I've never played this. I've seen pictures and a bit of video, but I've never actually played the game. So far it seems really cool. This will probably be one that I end up playing until I beat it.

-Dragon Warrior-
It was really cheap, and I used to own it. I went ahead and picked it up just because it's a good game.

-Double Dragon II-
I played the hell out of this game as a kid. I used to own it, but I"m pretty sure I sold it at some point. I'm glad to have it again, and I hope to get one of my friends to play through it with me.

[Brasel]

I picked up Castlevania III, Contra for the NES, and Super R-Type for the SNES. Got the latter two at Goodwill for cheap. I picked up Castlevania III off of an eBay auction.

[SUCCESSOR]

I have an NES with a controller and an extension.

Games:
Mario / Duck Hunt
Mario 2
Mario 3
Paperboy
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Final Fantasy

Trying to sell it all but people are cheap bastards.

[Blanka]

That's cool Anthony! You're off to a great start.

[ctrl-alt-delete]

Strictly from memory, as they are currently stashed at mom's house.

Zelda 1 and 2
Super Mario Bros 1, 2, and 3
Baseball
Kung Fu
Spy Hunter
TMNT II
Hydlide (Worst game in the history of the world.)
Bad Dudes
T&C Surf Design
Etc.

I'll pull them out someday and update.

[Blanka]

Strictly from memory, as they are currently stashed at mom's house.

Zelda 1 and 2
Super Mario Bros 1, 2, and 3
Baseball
Kung Fu
Spy Hunter
TMNT II
Hydlide (Worst game in the history of the world.)
Bad Dudes
T&C Surf Design
Etc.

I'll pull them out someday and update.

I can't tell you how many hours I spent playing Mario 2. One of my favorite in the series. How can you not love a main boss that you must feed healthy food to in order to kill. lol

[Tim]

Between mine and my grandmother's games, I had:

Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
The Legend of Zelda
Chip N' Dale: Rescue Rangers
Anticipation
Megaman 6
Kirby's Adventure
Yoshi

I think that's all my small collection has.

[Binx]

As I recall, I didn't have a whole lot of NES games when I was a kid, it was basically just:
Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt
SMB2
SMB3
Dr. Mario
Tetris
The Legend of Zelda
Zelda II
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (that game SUUUUUUUUUUUCCCKKED)
Excitebike
Ice Hockey


Yeah, I think that's it. I played a lot of the other games on friends' systems over the years, but I was lucky I had video games at all when I was a kid.

EDIT: Though, I should probably mention that I've always been that way, I'll pick up a handful of games for each console during their run and just stick with those.

[MottZilla]

If you want to have an online listing of what you've got you can go to here: http://backloggery.com/ There are other sites as well.

I've got a decent collection of everything from NES to N64. I do have some PS2, DreamCast, and GameCube games too. If you're actually interested in playing games, particularly expensive ones, you should buy a Flash Cartridge. Certain good games like Little Samson for NES go for well over $200 as just the loose cartridge. The game definitely isn't worth that as a game. But it is a game worth playing. This theme repeats itself with lots of games. Games which are very good but cost obscene amounts of money now. The problem is that retro game collecting is in a fad like stage.