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My neighbor had The Jetsons on NES. We played it all the time and when I got older and started to collect I was like Ah Shoot when I went to track that one down to play. I also rented Snow Bros a bunch from my local mom and pop rental store as a kid....that's about it. I definitely got a lot of the "heavies" for NES when I was collecting in the late 90s for $5 or less...Bonk, Panic, BB2, etc etc...mostly all from GameStop clearance bins and GameCrazy stores that were attached to Hollywood Video.

Just opened Raid 2020 on Jan. 1st 2020...yep lol. Just a cart with sleeve and manual, in a baggie. Really bare bones.

Bump.

Still waiting on a response from OP.

My mall had the exact same setup. Gurnee Mills in Gurnee, IL.

I also have one of these. Such a trip to look at old prices.

I picked up an NES lot last year and the guy gave it to me in this box...I was more excited about the box itself than the games I got! Now it lives on my Nintendo tv stand thing and is used to store my supply of extra styro blocks for cib NES games. Funcoland ruled and I did the same thing with the price sheets, just obsessing over which games I could potentially get on my next visit!

I will try to update this list as it changes. I have PayPal and also plenty of trade bait spanning many systems. Help me complete some cibs eh? Also, gonna just put this out there but I have about 500 boxed NES games and would be willing to trade a ton of just the boxes towards a loose copy of Bubble Bath Babes, Peek-a-Boo Poker, Myriad 6-in-1, or Cheetahmen 2. Here is my want list at the moment: NES manuals: All-Pro Basketball Castle of Dragon Death Race (need an AGC sleeve too) F-117A Stealth Fighter Greg Norman Golf Power Ultima Warriors of Destiny Untouchables black GENESIS manual only: Arrow Flash Chester Cheetah Too Cool Chiki Chiki Boys Death and Return of Superman Grind Stormer Rolling Thunder 3 Saturday Night Slam Masters Shadow Blasters Task Force Harrier Weaponlord Box only: Beyond Oasis (just the slip would be fine) Devilish Space Invaders '91 Rastan Saga 2 Stormlord Box/manual (or just another cib if price is right): Air Buster Cadash Dashin' Desperadoes El Viento McDonald's Treasureland Mega Turrican Mystical Fighter Punisher Ristar Skeleton Krew Sol-Deace Sparkster Syd of Valis Vapor Trail Wardner Also gonna put my list of wanted PAL NES exclusives right here, just in case. Looking for cart only: NES PAL exclusives (PAL B preferred) Aussie Rules Footy Banana Prince Devil World Dropzone Formula One Sensation International Cricket Mario Bros. (Classic Series) Mr. Gimmick! Noah's Ark Over Horizon Parodius Rod Land Trolls in Crazyland

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You pioneered the concept of catching one slippin'!

Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt pack-in with an Action Set...watched that sucker roll out on the conveyor belt from the magical back room of a Service Merchandise, it was glorious.

That would be terms for banning me if I did!

There was a part in Total Recall on NES in the level with the X-ray security machine where something went weird when I was supposed to break through the glass to exit as part of some automatic animation but Arnold never jumped through it because I was in a weird spot before the animation got triggered, so my dear Arnold kept running on autopilot into a wall instead of offscreen to next part of stage and I was forced to reset, but the biggest most brutal offense here was the final boss of Conquest of Crystal Palace. When you beat the first form of the boss, whatever you do DON'T prematurely jump down below to the next area before it drops you down you automatically. I jumped too soon once and it rang up as a pit death but then the screen scrolled down to the final phase of the boss anyway and my character never respawned as it should have. Since there is no timer to run out or anything there is no way to trigger a game over death, leaving you stuck on that screen watching the boss shoot projectiles at nothing since I am not present anymore and never respawned...had to reset and play all the way through again which takes like 45 min.

Die hard NES fan here. Have played almost the entire library to death but I still think Super Metroid on the SNES is one of the greatest video games ever created...aside from that I will go with the folks saying Tetris or maybe SMB1. Been playing smb3 lately and while yeah it's good I get bored in some parts of the game and it feels redundant at times.

Uncommon/rares I found for $5 or less in the wild, that I did not expect to ever find that cheap: Action 52, Kid Klown, Chip N Dale 2, Sword Master (with manual ), Hilsfar, Power Blade 2, Die Hard, Last Action Hero, Rockin' Kats, DK Jr Math, Mario's Time Machine, Baby Boomer, Indiana Jones Ubisoft, Pugsly's Scavenger Hunt, Jimmy Connors Tennis, Whomp 'Em, Mickey Adventure in Numberland...some others too but those come to mind first as they were true wild finds at garage sales, flea markets, and thrifts. Games I NEVER saw and actually think are way more rare than their price implies: L' Empereur, Pro Sport Hockey, Nobunaga's Ambition 2 (I think this is probably the rarest game on the system next to SE, if you want my honest opinion).

Little Samson (and it was what I expected since I started with dirt commons and worked my way up). I kept holding out hoping for "the find" but it never happened. Then on my birthday in 2019 I found and purchased a box of extremely rare skate video VHS tapes for cheap (I know a lot about skateboarding, whole other obsession of mine) and ebayed any of the ones I didn't keep individually...a week later the auctions all ended and I had an extra 1K in my PayPal (not even joking, yes off of skate VHS, one tape alone sold for $250 to my surprise). So, I found a nice copy of Little Samson and haggled a guy down to $875. Never in my life would I have otherwise spent that much on a game but I felt I owed it to myself as a belated birthday gift considering the circumstances and luck of finding that magical stash of VHS.

Nope.

Great thread. I think about this all the time as well, and since everyone traded games and shared/borrowed in my neighborhood growing up I have some titles burned into my brain as if they were part of my original library. I have a lot of other memories in the SNES and Genesis era but will just keep it NES for now as they were my earliest gaming memories... -Older kid that was my next door neighbor, cool ass dude who skateboarded and listened to punk music...he got me into both, and also let me borrow his copy of Skate or Die 2. I think he also had Commando. -older kid who lived a few houses past him: my first experience playing ICE HOCKEY, game ruled and always will. -other next door neighbor, who is actually on this message board and collects as heavily as I do (we have been friends our entire lives, since I was like 1 year old), had a plethora of iconic games but some of the ones I remember most: Rad Racer (borrowed it and fell in love with it), World Class Track Meet (first Power Pad experience), Spy vs. Spy, P.O.W., Double Dragon (first time playing it), Double Dragon II (got a LOT of co-op play over at his house), Skate or Die, T & C Surf Design (borrowed this one and absolutely loved it, still do), Metroid (first experience ever seeing/playing Metroid, ever, it blew my god damn mind), Dig Dug II (one of my favorite games to this day still, definitely borrowed this one), Little League Baseball (this got a LOT of play between the both of us, and any other kid that was over at his house hanging out; it was a fan favorite), River City Ransom (always the go-to for co-op, always). He also received Super C as a gift at one of his birthday parties and that was a huge crowd pleaser. Oh and the original TMNT game, borrowed that one for sure, have nostalgic feelings of playing that for the first time up in his parent's study. -older kid that lived across from him loaned me his copies of Tiger-Heli (which I attribute to my love for shooters to this day), Tetris, and my absolutely most favoritist baseball game ever BAD NEWS BASEBALL...I basically borrowed that one as long as I could until I was forced to give it back. -kid down the street: Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle, still love the game today. -different older kid next door to him: I never had any reason to go to his house as we were not friends but I hung around and watched him and his cooler older buddies play Gyromite, WWF WrestleMania, Ninja Gaiden, and Mike Tyson's Punch-Out when I was forced to be over there for a neighborhood block party thing one day. -kid who lived directly across the street from me loaned me a copy of Legend of Zelda and it basically changed my life (he also later loaned me Link's Awakening on the Game Boy). I would also play Kung Fu at his house as it was my go-to when I would be over there and it was Nintendo time. He also had Captain Skyhawk and I think Marble Madness. -friend of mine on other side of neighborhood: fond memories of playing Mickey Mousecapades, °720, California Games, Milon's Secret Castle, and The Jetsons on Saturday afternoons...most playtime was spent on Micro Machines, Contra, and Tecmo Bowl. -his next door neighbor: CYBERNOID, a game I have been fascinated by ever since but have never beaten. -different kid down that same street who was a rich boy everyone kinda hated: Anticipation, Double Dragon III, Phantom Fighter...that's all I can remember. THE MEGA RELIGIOUS FAMILY IN OUR HOOD: yep, you guessed it, Bible Adventures...I was bummed out the one and only time I hung out over there and we went to play Nintendo. -other friend in the neighborhood, Quattro Sports (yes, really), him and his brother and I would take turns playing the BMX portion competitively against each other. Also, he had OFF-ROAD I think. -only girl in the neighborhood I hung out with owned TMNT 2 the arcade game, Casino Kid, and Indian Jones Temple of Doom (I borrowed that one, still have nostalgia for it). Her and I also played Super Team Games on the Power Pad until we almost dropped dead from exhaustion. Good times. -kid I rode the bus with, we played NARC a lot and skateboarded in his driveway together. -different kid on the bus, Cobra Triangle...I borrowed it and loved it. -last but not least, older kid down the street who had CABAL which was awesome, but most importantly owned and mastered Battle of Olympus which was a game I coincidentally also owned. He was basically my Nintendo hotline game counselor anytime I got stuck in that game. I would call CONSTANTLY and his dad would be mega pissed if I interrupted dinner time or something. I also played Sega Master System over there, the Alex Kidd stock game, as he was the only kid who had one, and it was literally the only time I played one until I was an adult and got my own. -there is a very hazy, early memory i have of playing Ghostbusters and Rambo at some kid's house but have zero recollection of who he was or his name or anything, just the games lol. He moved away and a different kid moved into the same house, who's dad designed the SUPER NINTENDO kiosks you saw in stores all over the U. S....needless to say he had a great SNES library we would get down on. I think he had promo copies of games that weren't even out yet, before official release dates. -someone had Mega Man 2, I definitely didn't own it but mastered the game at a young age and remember borrowing the game from someone...anyway, in conclusion these were all the go-to games I went for first when I first started collecting. Most games listed are still some of my favorites today.

I would like to add, that any game with Namco engraving on back of cart will also say Namco on the inside of box near tray, others will have standard Sega logo if back of cart says Sega. It's something I noticed only because I had a few Namco cover art inserts and needed to harvest proper boxes to appease my OCD. I'm sure you covered this above but I just glanced at the thread briefly while at work here...will dive deeper later.

I think this already got handled but I felt like sharing anyway. X-Men, tough as balls!

Completely acceptable! Looks good.

I guess I didn't think this meme would trigger a different discussion about alphabetization when I arbitrarily grabbed pics from google. Just to clarify I was half-jokingly making a statement on the way the carts face on a shelf and that's all.