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I got nothing super duper special Nintendo I don't think. In the last thread I said 1.1 No Mercy just because I had a highly memorable year searching for it literally every day on Ebay. Mail order Doom v1.1 is probably my best combination of rare-ish and a game I absolutely love.

I know less about SNES but here's some games I'd say "matter": SNES Classic must have type stuff: Chrono Trigger Contra III Donkey Kong Country Donkey Kong Country 2 F-Zero Final Fantasy III Mega Man X Secret of Mana SimCity Star Fox Street Fighter II (Turbo) Super Caslevania IV Super Mario Kart Super Mario RPG Super Mario World Super Mario World 2 Super Metroid Super Punch-Out!! TMNT: Turtles in Time Zelda ALTTP Other big Nintendo Stuff Donkey Kong Country 3 Kirby Super Star Kirby's Dream Course Kirby's Dream Land 3 Mario Paint Pilotwings Super Game Boy Super Mario All-Stars Tetris Attack RPGs. They're timeless so it's illegal to discount any of them. Breath of Fire Breath of Fire II Earthbound FF Mystic Quest Final Fantasy II Illusion of Gaia Lufia Lufia II Ogre Battle Secret of Evermore Shadowrun Soul Blazer Star Ocean Some big third party stuff ActRaiser Aladdin Axelay Buster Busts Loose Castlevania Dracula X Demon's Crest EVO Earthworm Jim Earthworm Jim 2 Gradius III Harvest Moon Killer Instinct Legend of the Mystical Ninja Lost Vikings Maximum Carnage Mega Man X2 Metal Warriors Mortal Kombat II NBA Jam Pocky and Rocky Pocky and Rocky 2 R-Type III Rock N' Roll Racing Sparkster Street Fighter Alpha II Sunset Riders Super Bomberman Super Bomberman 2 Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts Super Smash TV Super Star Wars Super Star Wars ROTJ Super Star Wars TESB The Lion King Top Gear UN Squadron Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Zombies Ate My Neighbors Are these any good/classic enough to make the list? I dunno: Death and Return of Superman Desert Strike Fatal Fury 2 Final Fight Final Fight 2 Final Fight 3 Final Fight Guy Flashback Goof Troop Joe & Mac 2 Jungle Strike Jurassic Park Mega Man X3 Mortal Kombat Out of this World Populous Stunt Race FX Top Gear 2 Top Gear 3000 X-Men Mutant Apocalypse Sports games that are only going to get token representation because they're sports games: International Superstar Soccer Tecmo Super Bowl Super Tennis NHL 94 Madden 94 (Is this the "NHL 94" of Maddens?) NBA Live 95 (Again, is this the "NHL 94" of NBA games?) KGJ Winning Run? KGJ Presents MLB? I honestly don't know which people prefer Are any of the wrestling games really classics? Saturday Night Slam Masters? Just poking at making a list of top titles. I'd personally have an easier time cutting this down to 50 because I've played way less of them than the NES list, so it's harder for me to judge.

Everything you had to cut and you found room for Strider somehow.

Would a $500 Little Samson even truly be cratering? In the grand scheme of things, 2012-2017 was an exception to the rule, a time when vintage gaming was extra trendy and exponentially growing. I realize this is a gross oversimplication, but that would put loose Little Samson relatively close to where it had been slowly, steadily tending for the years prior. That makes more sense to me than exponentially going to $3000 any time soon, at least because it doesn't feel like the hobby is growing exponentially in terms of people collecting loose carts and full sets. For the super common and available stuff, I don't see why they wouldn't stay where they're at more or less. I mean SMB3 according to GVN is already $7.31. I guess if it drops to $5 that's technically a significant drop but the point is they're cheap enough to where it doesn't even matter. While $0.50 NES games would be cool, I think Nintendo is just too relevant to completely bottom out like the now-irrelevant Atari, as evidenced by the NES Classic. People still play Zelda, Mega Man, and Final Fantasy games and will have at least novelty interest in the originals. Only vintage gamers will ever care about what Keystone Kapers even is.

I know VGChartz is basically hearsay and magic based on NPD numbers, but apparently Just Dance 2019 sold 240,000 copies on Wii. No way is that a bunch of weirdo full set collectors. I know my Walmart always has 1-2 years of Just Dance in stock for Wii.

CIB starts at $55 for the slowest/cheapest tier and you might be restricted to higher tiers based on declared value. Plus two way shipping and insurance.

I've got 16 games I couldn't imagine not being on an NES list, the "NES Classic" type games: Super Mario Bros. Super Mario Bros. 2 Super Mario Bros. 3 The Legend of Zelda Zelda II Contra Kirby's Adventure Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! Tetris Ninja Gaiden Final Fantasy DuckTales Mega Man 2 Metroid Castlevania Dragon Warrior These are a chunk games I'd consider classics. Not 100% great games, but when I think NES, I still think crap like Top Gun, top selling B-listers like Rad Racer, and some of the games that have held up over time best. I didn't even include some of the less renowned black box games, some people might call all of the black box games classic. They'd be wrong, but you could. Adventures of Lolo Balloon Fight Bart vs. the Space Mutants Baseball Stars Bases Loaded Batman Battle of Olympus Battletoads Bionic Commando Blades of Steel Blaster Master Bubble Bobble Castlevania II Castlevania III Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers Crystalis Double Dragon Dr. Mario Dragon Warrior IV Duck Hunt Excitebike Ghosts 'n Goblins Guerrilla War Ice Hockey Ikari Warriors Jackal Kid Icarus Kung Fu Legacy of the Wizard Life Force Little Nemo: The Dream Master Marble Madness Mega Man Mega Man 3 Ninja Gaiden II RC Pro-am Rad Racer River City Ransom Rygar Shadowgate Solomon's Key Startropics Super C Tecmo Super Bowl Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II Tengen Tetris Top Gun Wizards & Warriors There's the enthusiast fan-favorites. Someone will get mad at you for snubbing one of these to include Bubble Bobble or whatever instead. Sorry if I forgot your favorite here. Battle Kid 2 Bucky o Hare Gimmick Gun Nac Gun.Smoke Journey to Silius Kabuki Quantum Fighter Kickmaster Little Samson Metal Storm Power Blade Shatterhand The Guardian Legend Vice: Project Doom Zanac Then there's a bunch of ports where the NES version isn't the definitive version, but still might be a popular game. Do you drop Donkey Kong because it's missing a level or Maniac Mansion because you don't have a mouse? Donkey Kong Donkey Kong 3 (Actually, we can probably all agree to cut this) Donkey Kong Jr Gradius Maniac Mansion Mario Bros Metal Gear Paperboy Pool of Radiance Popeye Ultima: Exodus Ultima: Quest of the Avatar Then there's a list of mostly-renowned games in the same franchise as games above that will probably not make the cut because it feels like "We've already got one of those". Or do you include all 6 Mega Mans and that takes up 12% of your entire collection? Adventure Island II Adventure Island III Batman: Return of the Joker Bubble Bobble Part 2 Darkwing Duck (Mega Man) Deja Vu (Shadowgate) Double Dragon II Dragon Warrior II Dragon Warrior III DuckTales 2 Fire 'n Ice Mega Man 4 Mega Man 5 Mega Man 6 Ninja Gaiden III Tecmo Bowl The Uninvited (Shadowgate) Zoda's Revenge Then there's games like Koei strategy games, computer-style RPGs, and puzzle games that always get snubbed from top lists because they're less popular genres. And crap, Action 52? Bible Adventures? You bet your ass I want that crap in my collection just because it's silly. You could piece together a list a list that focuses on the historical classics or the best representatives from each genre/series or the most modern-day playable favorites but I don't think you can fit the whole of NES into 50 games.

I use the Raphnet adapter. It was stupid cheap, like $9 unassembled or something. It can't play cards but I've probably only played like 4 SMS games on it since I got it because... they're SMS games.

I'd find pretty much any other Nintendo console easier to pare down to 50. N64 with Nintendo/Rare games. GC, Wii, Wii U with basically the big exclusive Nintendo games. Switch with all the games that aren't ports. Nintendo's never had better, exclusive third party support than NES/SNES. I can think of too many "B-tier" games like Shadowgate or Bart vs. the Space Muants or Simon's Quest or Duck Hunt that wouldn't make the cut for the top 50 NES but I'd consider core parts of the NES library.

"Konami 5-screw fun variants", is that the official name of them? It is now.

No way. The shelves are thinner than a DVD case (recent Oskar 1080s, not sure about older ones or 756). Even regular DVDs overhang by a few millimeters. Bookcases like the IKEA Billy are good if you have room, since they're typically too deep for uncased games.

Nooooo

In a Fractal Design case, lol. Love it.

Here's my PC. I don't really care about LED lights and all (the window faces the wall anyway), just noise. I have a 2080 Ti and 3700X but that's just a placeholder for the 3950X whenever I can get one. I wanted a 3900X which I would've been happy with but gave up after months of searching. I haven't been blown away by modern games yet. I played the new COD, it was OK. I played the new Forza Horizon, it was OK. I play Rocket League sometimes but certainly don't need a gaming PC for that. It's a video editing beast until I find my new jam. Or you know, Runescape and NES emulators.

Great work. Are the rarities cart, CIB, or a hybrid? I always thought of Chubby Cherub as an available cart but tough box, although my notion may be super out of date since it's been a long time since I ever cared about Chubby Cherub.

Rollers of the Realm There hasn't been a good fantasy pinball game since Flipnic on PS2. Shooting humanoid figures with health bars across giant playfields isn't what makes pinball fun, it makes it tedious.

My guess is $20 and some luck on a CIB BIN. There are completed listings with an insert here and there, so it would probably be easiest to piece it together. I doubt people will ever be foaming at the mouth to have this 100% complete. Looks like a complete one went in August for $18 + shipping at auction. Edit: Or get one now before Wata puts out an article!! Hype!

Don't hide Runescape under the generic label "PC games"

I have a RSI wrist injury from playing too much Path of Exile, like heroin addiction, never sleeping too much. Way, way, too much. I haven't played in a year and it still sucks. Don't get addicted to video games.

I forgot that the main way (or main way I knew of) to make money in Animal Crossing is catching giant terrifying beetles on a tropical island. I'm not sure I would last in AC.

About a dozen copies in the past couple weeks have sold for ~$50 as more keep hitting the market because they were selling for $100s a couple months ago. The only reason that listing exists it to basically try to trick someone who thinks it's sealed and worth a bazillion dollars because it's graded.

I just want to document CQ history. iam8bit has actually listened to the show. Context if you don't listen to the show (That's OK!): We dump on iam8bit's $100 reissue carts constantly on the show.

Not normal. VGA hardcore failed to capitalize on this market. As an outsider it seems in short like they "don't care" because, correct me if I'm wrong, their only response to Wata has been a brief sale? Wata rode an initial wave of goodwill of being modern/having well known faces/grading CIB and had a much better business strategy overall. Remember, one of the big thing that brought in investors was Mario, a game that was crossed over from VGA to Wata before being sold, and big time collectors, investors, and an auction house had their hand in that deal which hugely legitimized Wata. As far as I understand how it recently went down in comics, CBCS (Steve Borock, Wata advisory board member!) hit the market and made waves. Subjectively people liked their holders better, but their prices were slightly lower than existing CGC books because people had more trust in the existing standard, which isn't the case with VGA.

If I was pricing these kinds of in demand games with BINs my asking price would err on order-of-magnitude ridiculous too just to see what happens. There's a CIB copy of Halo on Ebay right now for $2900 for essentially no reason. You need a big hook to catch a whale.

Hey it's that whitefire guy from GameTZ