pacowles

Many thanks to @MegaVolt for an awesome transaction! Super fast shipping, and everything was very well packaged!

PMing you… I’m nearly dead broke, but you have several items on my wish list

It was awarded as a prize for a Famicom Golf competition in Japan prior to the official retail release of Mike Tyson’s Punch Out. My understanding is that only 10k total copies were produced. It originally came with a box and instructions, but I wasn’t willing to pony up the $600+ for a complete copy. Plus the gold cartridge is really the cool part from my perspective. More info: https://famicomworld.com/workshop/articles/the-holy-grails/holy-grails-punch-out-special/

Finally grabbed a gold Famicom Punch Out!! cart. Need to find a better place to display it, but excited that I managed to grab it for a fairly reasonable price.

Just some Japanese Virtual Boy games. Some are allegedly brand new. Maybe they didn’t shrink wrap these in Japan?

CIB Adventure Island signed by Takahashi Meijin. Found this on Yahoo Auctions Japan and was shocked to have zero competing bids. Perhaps because it’s an NES game in the land of Famicom? Either way, I’m super exited to add this to the collection.

Is the CIB Donkey Kong Classics for NES still available? If so, I’d love to see photos to determine the condition.

Hudson all the way! Adventure Island series, Bonk, and Bomberman are all classics.

PM’d

Conquest of the Crystal Palace - NES. I was just introduced to this game maybe five years ago, and it seems like something I would’ve loved as a kid in the glory days of the NES.

@Code Monkey- Yeah, I was using a standard text search on Google. I’m not familiar with what you’re describing, but at any rate this thread provided the info I needed.

@Code Monkey - I had no idea that the parent system was called Famicombox until someone provided a link with context in this thread. All I had to go on was that this was a black Adventure Island cartridge labeled “for business” in Japanese with an upside down label. Google searches including combinations of those terms mostly returned results for home brew carts in aftermarket black shells. Not sure how you searched in your screenshot above, but I wasn’t finding anything.

I’m a sucker for peer pressure, so I bought it lol. You may see it posted in the “Selling” forum if I have buyer’s remorse.

@MrWunderful - The cost would be around $120 USD shipped. The seller is in Japan. Since you have some experience with these carts, do you know if they can be played in an NTSC NES console, or something like the AVS/Analogue NT? The form factor looks identical to an NTSC NES cart, but I can’t find a definitive answer online as to whether they can be played as such on a US console.

@360collector - Thank you! That was a huge help in understanding what this cart is. Now I’m still debating whether I want it at ~$120 or so after shipping…