Speedy_NES

Thanks for the tag @nesmaster14. This item is from Venezuela, released by the Nintendo knock-off "Nintendo de Caracas" company, so it is unlicensed. AFAIK, Nintendo won a lawsuit against the company and their leftover inventory was meant to be disposed of some years ago, but in the process some of it made its way onto markets like eBay. Definitely has collector value, but it is not official Nintendo. They released at least 15-20 different accessories for NES and Famicom. I've attached a photo of the box.

Nice one. For those not in the know, there's only 30 of these green ones. IIRC #1-30 were green, #31-100 were purple. Great deal as a purple one sold for $150 earlier this year. Good luck with the sale.

Thanks -- I'll take that as a compliment I started acquiring these types of items for that very purpose, to archive and catalog for the community, but obviously stopped sharing that info years ago due to the effect it had on prices. Still have plans to share all that info (or collection) at some point in time, in some shape or form, but not sure yet how. FYI, the one I have is sealed, so it might be nice to scan your manual if you decide to sell, just to have it documented. There's actually two versions of the Triton controller, both about equally rare. This one's likely a re-release based on model #.

A whole inventory of new old stock of the US release was found ~10? years ago, so they frequently pop up in new condition, which has affected the price. With the condition that yours is in, I'd estimate current market value at ~$25-35 FYI.

Nice Triton Pad -- like you said, that one's incredibly rare (only seen yours, which I missed in 2012 IIRC, and one I got from a Nintendo employee, which supposedly came from Nintendo of America's own archives). Not much of a mark-up for rare accessories without seal of quality, though. Realistically, you'll probably have a hard time finding a buyer above $40 for it.

Thanks! I'd definitely like to scan some of this stuff eventually, but for now, I make sure to preserve it well in a cool and dry place away from light etc. I used to scan everything up until a decade ago, and then time just became too scarce.

Great deal for a rare NES hardshell carrying case: $50 shipped https://www.ebay.com/itm/GREY-CARRY-CASE-FOR-THE-NINTENDO-NES-CONSOLE-ALSO-HOLDS-GAMES/224237476017?hash=item34359858b1:g:P2QAAOSw-11froEz

Yes, for example, but also from other publishers. From what I've been told, various publishers handed out these unused flattened boxes at CES shows as promo material, and some excess stock have been sold on eBay over the years. I've folded some of these as box upgrades, and they look no different from a new sealed copy with shrinkwrap removed. Not looking to be a negative Nancy, but this should be a real concern for NS graded 'new' games.

Add 9: used game with folded new-old-stock box. All you'd need is to match the exact weight of the contents, and there's really no way for them to know for sure that the contents are new or not, unless they open said NS games.

Awesome! Yeah, that mall is a treat for game fans. Probably had the best banana waffles at this cosplay cafe (had never heard of this concept before) there called Chitty Mood, where the goal of the waiter was to turn everyone's frown upside down. Great experience.

Nice pickups -- the top two games were also among the ones I bought in Taipei, wonder if we got them from the same store. Pretty sure I also paid 100 each.

Nice catch! It's Bingo 75, unfortunately generic release. I don't have the list handy right now, but I believe this one didn't come in any original game-specific packaging, right?

Thanks guys! Sorry that I only see this now, took some distance from the forums the last couple months as working from home brought lots of other distractions with it. I was actually contemplating reaching out to you (to Dave, as I knew with certainty that he was in Taiwan) after I had booked the tickets, but felt it was too short notice at the time as I had booked the trip only a couple days before departure as a spontaneous add-on to a larger Asia/Australia trip. I travel to or through Asia more often, so I'm sure that I'll be in Taiwan again soon, after the Covid situation has settled a bit, and then I'd love to grab some beers and talk games (and maybe do some game hunting, too)!

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Cool stuff! I noticed this in Tapei last November, too, and bought a bunch of sealed DC games at a place in Tapei City Mall. One of the bigger stores there, but I forgot the name. He had a few on display, and when I asked him if he had another copy of a game w/cracked case, he brought out a box of sealed games from behind the counter. You probably already checked all the stores there, but in case not, might be worth checking out.

I've also noticed that changes in their value calculation were not (always) retroactive, meaning that one really cannot compare month to month. Their graphs are therefore misleading. I also noticed that values (at least previously) took past values into account, which, for the aforementioned point, leads to skewed data.

It seems that for some (Cheetahmen II, Bubble Bath Babes), stated value reflects the highest sold data point from the last 5 years, and for others (like your examples), they are more blended. Can't see any consistency really, unless they implemented a rule if less than X sales, use single highest sale value.

Another big shout out to Andrew! It is because of his help, that I have been able to add the following cool pieces to the collection. Immensely thankful for your help, Andrew! Some photos to share the largely paper (but also other media/accessory) goodies. Can anyone spot the highlights? Excuse the game stuff in the first photo; not part of the lot, but did not have time to clean the area where I process new arrivals.

Congrats on the set! Like others, I doubt there's many, if any, to have acquired all of these together -- amazing feat. Thanks for sharing with us.

Cool, yeah, haven't seen this version before. Jeco published a number of different ones, some of them in 7-pin format, too (seem to be harder to find). I started to slowly expand into Famicom accessory territory some years ago and have been picking up things here and there. The transition went more like NES --> NES/Famicom clones --> Famicom

Good luck with the sale. I'm also one of the guys who messaged you on eBay complimenting on the set. Lots of original boxes in there, too, very nice!

I'm in Belgium and I did not even know about it, very nice! The console box sleeve is a common Belgian/French promo console thing.

Thanks for the pics. Nice Famicom one, looks like a Beeshu Jammer clone. Is that Jeco International-branded?

Very nice collection! Thanks for sharing. It's great to see these hardware sets, often harder to complete than game sets IMO.

Cool stuff! Awesome Action 52 MD clone. Also curious about the joystick -- looks like Sega MD given the 3 buttons? What's the branding? It's very similar to the NES Camerica TurboTronic / FC NTDEC Turbo-202.