Dr. Morbis

Here's a great opportunity to fix some glitches (2p Clinger Winger, not that two people that awesome at Battletoads have ever been in the same room together). In fact, if they did clean up the code, I would probably pay the ridiculous asking price...

Yeah it did - you just need to know which game to re-skin...

Yeah, but there are two ROB posters: one says 'The Nintendo Game Plan' and one says 'Now you're playing with Power,' so, again that's not specific enough. My guess is that an original 1987 LOZ 5-screw release would have the latter ROB poster, along with the map and manual, of course...

Where are the PlayChoice games?

Well, many thanks for the last five titles you've provided in this thread. I cannot overstate how GREATLY appreciated this is. It looks like it's time for me to do another update of the main list later this week, and it's 100% because of your contributions. Thanks once again for all of your input so far, and for anything else that may come down the pipe in the future

Huh? How many print runs are there for this thing? I mean, I appreciate how you're handling this, but what makes you think that there is a different cart out there that will work 100% with your AVS? Either they ALL will work with the AVS 100% or they ALL will not, no? If there are multiple print runs of this game, then feel free to ignore my post entirely, but if they've only done a single print run, then why are you asking for an exchange? It seems like your options are to get an NES or get a refund at this point...

That would be, like, totally tubular!

It would have to be some sort of strategy/sim type game with a ton of different options for replayability. Action games are out, so are most adventure games. Even RPG's start to get old after you've beat them a few times. Chrono Trigger only has so many endings; Final Fantasy only has so many party combinations... So my pick is going to be Romance of the Three Kingdoms II on NES/SNES, because I've played it a million times and still don't get bored. It's got 6 scenarios with dozens of Rulers to choose from to start out, and you can actually kill off your Ruler on purpose at any time and choose any one of your followers to be your new Ruler for what seems like endless possibilities in who you beat the game with. You can go slow and build up provinces, or be a war-monger, or pretty much do anything you want. The only real constraint in the game is that if you were to drag out a campaign for decades, eventually all of your dudes would die of old age. But if I had nothing else at my disposal, I could easily play ROTK II for years...

This would be my concern as well. I'm not a homebrewer, but it certainly seems daunting for a company to have to make sure their "Nintendo game" works on a plethora of third party systems in addition to the NES. If it's a NES game, surely working on an actual NES is enough?!? I understand the AVS is a top-notch product made by bunnyboy, but come on, there is no such thing as a one-to-one identical system compatible with the NES. Only a NES is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT COMPATIBLE with a NES! Anyone who thinks otherwise doesn't understand electronics. Not even a toploader is 100% compatible, and that thing's made by Nintendo themselves...

Pricing has always been too variable. Anyone making a new guide, PLEASE just do the rarity of each game/item and not the pricing; rarity (by and large) doesn't change decade over decade, whereas prices are mostly out of date before the book even gets off the press. Look at the DP guide, for example. The rarity is about 70% correct, even though it's been 20 years, while the pricing is about as far removed from reality as a flying pig...

Wow, that's a great one, Trifecta! Now we just need NG III and we'll have the trilogy in the bag. You're like a one-man wrecking crew over here. I need to get off my ass and pick up a few sealed games; I haven't bought a sealed NES game in almost a year...

Retro for me is "not the current play style." Even though PS2 is old, the gameplay looks essentially the same to me as modern games, so it's hard for me to say it's retro. The only real difference in gaming in the last 20 years (other than "whoa - better graphics!") is the advent of online connectivity of virtually every game released, leading to games not being finished out of the box and micro transactions that never end. Remember when purchasing a game meant you were done paying for that game forever?!?!?!.....

What are its measurements?

There are some experiences on the older systems that you just can't get on the NES. Kaboom, for example is an awesome super fast-paced paddle game that's worth owning an Atari for by itself if you like games that test your hand-to-eye coordination at the most extreme and elite levels...

Yeah, thanks a bunch, Trifecta. I appreciate the posts and I'm really looking forward to hitting the 400 unique titles barrier, but right now needing 18 more games makes it seem so very very far away...

What bugs me about buying sealed games is that you can't just look at slabbed games anymore. It used to be that if a game on eBay was slabbed, that meant it was sealed, and that made it really easy for me to distinguish sealed games from non-sealed ones when I was looking to buy sealed stuff. But now that WATA has come along and will slab anything on earth you ask them to, it's become ridiculous. Oh hey Pro Wrestling slabbed for $700 - oh wait it's only CIB in fair condition, but somehow being entombed makes it worth an extra bajillion dollars?!? And there's no way to know what the cart or manual or inserts look like either. And then there's the loose games that are now being slabbed too - WTF is the point of that????? Sorry for the rant, but I guess it's sort of on topic because it's the disturbing trend that I've been personally seeing lately...

I actually was heavy into the NES completions threads for years on NA when my good friend the Wizard first started it up. My issue now, and it really irks me for some reason, is that after Scaryice took over the project, he took out all the unlicensed games!?! Why? It's less than a hundred games! How can you call it "Beat EVERY NES Game in 20XX" if you're not including all the games? And it's not like we run out of time, as the goal is usually completed with many months to spare! And the bizarre thing is that he's heavy into famicom stuff, so it's not like he's some sort of American Xenophobe who's just afraid of anything that's not an official NOA license. I just cannot wrap my head around it. Anyway, that's my oldtimer rant for the day...

I totally understand what you're saying, and it seems like a person would be either one or the other: "pure collector" or "pure gamer," but I am honest to God both of those in one. I have a chart tracking every NES/Famicom game I've beaten along with notes (was it a No-Death Run, etc) with the goal of beating every game on the system, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME, I am a pure collector who wants to own every NES game CIB with everything that came with each game. I know I don't need the cardboard to play a Nintendo game, but I still want to own it just as much as a stamp collector who can't send any mail with his stamps. You are right, I could use an everdrive, but I don't want to - I want to play each game on an actual NES hooked up to a big CRT with a blocky controller in my hand, and so that's exactly what I do. I want to own Color a Dinosaur and Barbie and every other game in the NES library, along with the cardboard they came in, both for gaming and collecting purposes. Call it a sickness if you will, but I'm not just a gamer or just a collector; if you knew how many tens of thousands of potential dollars I had lost from the hundreds of sealed NES games I've opened (and will always continue to open), it would boggle your mind... TL;DR version: What Mr. CIB said; there's room under the tent for everyone.

Nostalgia helped get me get back into the NES in 1999, and nostalgia helps me to want to play SMB for the three-thousandth time, but it has nothing to do with me firing up the 1200+ games in the NES/Famicom library that I had never played before I started collecting. It just seems to be the perfect middle ground of having good enough graphics that I can tell what everything is without going overboard with junk in the background (is that a platform I can land on?!?), along with super tight digital controls and a healthy dose of challenge. I don't care about stories in games or drama or OMGWOW graphics or anything else; I just want tight digital controls, fun level design, and challenging games, and the NES gives me that in spades. And NES/Famicom is not my only system, it's just the one I do 90% of my gaming on. I'm also going full set for TG16/PC Engine, but outside of that and the NES/Famicom, all my other system libraries combined make up maybe 3% of my game library...

I guess that's why I never get the desire to sell: I DON'T collect for nostalgia, I DON'T collect for the thrill of the hunt, and I DON'T collect for investment purposes; I straight-up collect because NES is my primary gaming console and I want to have a really big library of games to choose from every time I go to do some gaming. And that's it! If I sold, I'd be selling from my actual gaming selection, which would inhibit my choices next time I sat down to do some gaming. I guess if I collected based on feelings or future retirement plans, I might get the urge to "play the market" sometimes with my games, but I don't, I collect video games so I can play video games as the end goal in and of itself, so the thought of selling never crosses my mind.

Yeah, it makes no sense NOW, as the market is essentially stabilized, but trust me, if you got in this video game thing 20 years ago like I did, you would see that video games from 2000 to 2020 have FAR outgained almost all other forms of investments. In fact it's so much so, that I was going to create a thread about it in light of what I recently saw on eBay. Now, I buy my games for keeps like you and I don't care what they're "valued" at, however, eBay just recently put in a ton of extra information into my feedback, dating back like 12 years or so, and showing extactly what items I bought and for how much. And let me tell you, I've bought a TON of sealed games in the last twenty years, somewhat to help the sealed contents list, but mostly just to get dead mint CIB's for my collection, and the prices I paid for this stuff just ten years ago blows my mind compared to today's prices. I'm probably going to take some pics and make a thread at some point...

Austin, do you have the part numbers off the plastic pieces for the Cleaning Kit? If not, don't sweat it as I can get them off mine. Anyway, the updated list (as of July 1st) has finally been posted on Gamefaqs and can be found here: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/nes/916386-nes/faqs/49943 As alway, I want to send out a HUGE thanks to all those who keep posting contributions to this project. Keep the submissions coming

Nice one, austin532. So that's the non-1 version, or earliest version of the cleaning kit, judging by the box code. Gamefaqs still hasn't uploaded the update of the list I sent them last Tuesday, but whenever it does get posted, this Cleaning Kit won't be on the list yet, but that's not because it was forgotten...

Don't forget the lag in industries as large as this. All of the things that happened in late '82 and through '83 at the company/investor/manufacturing level weren't really seen or felt by actual consumers to their fullest extent until 1984. Check the stats on that year; that's the year that video games were "dead."

The game was manufactured by Acclaim, so if anyone is to blame for an abnormality (like no code on the manual), it's them...