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the ASI carts were also imported to Europe BTW.

i have the same one,
bought it around 1994 in my own country (The Netherlands)

i remember buying it while we were on holiday.

i currently have issues with my phone, so can't place photo's right now,
but the box has a sticker on it, saying it includes a Dutch manual.
paid 39,95 guilders for it back then, price sticker is still intact on the sadly flattened box

i don't care what it is, as long as it has Super Mario Odyssey 2 as a launch title please

here's another i don't see on the list yet:

Cannonball Run II (1984)

Jackie Chan playing a version of Pac-Man

on a small tv in their super car,

which starts at 1:42:51 into the movie

the problem with the Miracle Piano, is that for Europe, we had a French version and German version, i'm quite curious to know how bad this was sold back then, because although the French version is the more rare one, both of them are usually only found as NEW, even with the original shipping box still included.

so unlike the USA version, if we want a copy of the cartridge, we'd pretty much have to resort to buying the entire still brand new Piano, which at this point has risen in price to at least 1500+ euros.

which is quite a difference from the 2 brand new German ones i bought like 8? years ago for 170 euro each.

so yeah, although not really sought after, a loose copy is almost never offered of the PAL-B one.

and because it's not really sought after,
it gets easily overlooked,
as most people only hype about the big titles.

NES as the main collection,

but i also buy loose Game Boy games that i just want to play

in case it helps for the rarity guide...

this is pretty much the current state of the PAL-B market.

1. Phantom Air Mission
2. Ultimate Air Combat
3. Snowboard Challenge
4. Air Fortress
5. The Miracle Piano Teaching System (loose copy)
6. R.C. Pro AM II
7. Gold Medal Challenge '92
8. Goal! 2
9. Mighty Final Fight
10. P.O.W - Prisoners of War

games like Mr. Gimmick and Flintstones - The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak are NOT rare at all, just uncommon and expensive.
but still offered way more than any of the ones listed above.

On 11/7/2023 at 2:37 AM, LifeGame said:

I can finally cross this childhood favorite off the list

 

makes me think of this

mostly these few:

- young people under 30 collecting NES/SNES,
and talking about said games being classics,
as if they were even alive when those games were released.

- people showing off their collection of NES games,
and saying Ninja GAY-den instead of Ninja GUY-den,
i instantly close the video in this case, as said person is clearly an amateur.

- people who post "top 10 rarest NES/SNES/N64 games" videos,
and then keep copy-pasting each other in constantly saying that Stadium Events for the NES was pulled from shelves back then, even though there is no evidence for that at all, as Pat explained, most of them probably were never stocked, and the ones that did sold poorly.
coupled with a potentional lower print run, and you got yourself a pretty rare game.

- the overblown hype of some games USA releases,
which makes the hype carry over to European releases of the same games.

i know this is precise........

but for Monster in My Pocket,

with the MIMP and smaller styrofoam piece being at the top,

does anyone know if the MIMP figure was on the LEFT side or the RIGHT side of the box?

39 minutes ago, guitarzombie said:

We did and it didn't work haha

if anything, it just made it worse.......

sent you a PM

i do, but the prices these days and the sudden fact that all the games you could pretty easily find until like 2? years ago, or perhaps even still last year, all seem to be gone now..... makes collecting quite annoying.

all my wants are harder to find now, and suddenly 3 or 4 times more expensive.....

can we please go back to 2012/2013 era prices? pretty please.......

52 minutes ago, RH said:

If someone had a pair of CIB RC Pro AM 1 & 2s, for the price of RCPAM 1, then yes, it'd be worth the risk.

i agree, unless it was obviously fake, worst case scenario would be, you returning the games again as fakes, best case would be both are indeed legit.

heck, you could have even re-sold the RC Pro AM 1, and got your money back, while keeping RC Pro Am 2, if both were legit.
you'd have a free CIB game.

not sure if i'm getting the point of the list correctly,
but here's 4 missing ones i don't see on there yet.

- Police Academy 7 - Mission to Moscow (1994)

has of course the use of the original Game Boy

- The Nanny season 2 - episode 1 Fran-Lite (1994)

2:20 min into the episode, Niles the butler references the Nintendo
starting at 6:27 min into the episode, when the character of Brighton is in his room with Fran, you can see a few boxed NES games on his desk (with Dr Mario laying on top and some black box games underneath)

Murder, She Wrote TV Movie - South By Southwest (1997)

an original Game Boy is used in the story

Space Jam - A New Legacy (2021)

in the 1998 flashback at the start of the movie, an original Game Boy is used

HELL NAW! 

i want the full European NES set of loose carts,
everything else is just extra.

that game was only released with a green case, you got scammed

On 1/28/2023 at 7:17 AM, Code Monkey said:

I'm curious how different a game needs to be in order to no longer be a variant. What exactly is the requirement?

 

Possibility 1 - the code on the cartridge is different

NO!

as for the PAL region that would mean you'd need like 50 copies of each game, as we have FRA, EEC, HOL, NOE, FRG, GPS, SCN, UKV, ITA, AUS, ESP, GBR, etc, etc, etc.......

 

Possibility 2 - the artwork is different

NO!

this would be the same game, but with alternate artwork,
for example in Europe we have Adventures in the Magic Kingdom with the normal castle label, but also the SCN code version with a very colorful label with Mickey, Donald and Goofy on the front

 

Possibility 3 - the title is different

Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade on NES was released by Taito and Ubisoft but this isn't just a label change, they're 2 completely different games. How can they be variants if they're completely different

they are NOT variants, they are 2 different games, made by 2 different companies.

 

Possibility 4 - the license code is different

I'm talking about the code that appears on the inside box flap, front of the manual and front label of the cartridge. These are provided by Nintendo for each different game that applies for a license. If this is the requirement then what about games that had a change to this code? Batman: Return Of The Joker on NES made a mistake in their code and initially the boxes were printed with NES-48-USA but later changed to the correct NES-P48-USA.

still the same game

Possibility 5 - all of the above

What about games that were different between regions like Contra and Probotector? Alex DeMeo's Race America and Corvette ZR1 Challenge? Kiwi Kraze and The New Zealand Story?

imo they are not variants, but their own games, as clearly something has been changed, the sprites, the labels, the titles, etc....

All of this leads into my main question about World Class Track Meet and Stadium Events. Are they different games?

yes, they are different games

Because of which specific requirement? What's the rule? Or is Stadium Events just a variant?

Stadium Events came first, WCTM is the variant, but as per what i said above, this would be it's own game, otherwise everyone who is going for a complete loose collection would already be done by getting WCTM, and completely ignoring Stadium Events.

there are def. some (outdated) issues with that list though for PAL releases:

- some games are listed under HOL code, but are actually FRA code, with a HOL coded back label.
if you include those under "HOL" , you are missing some of the black box games there, as well as the often overlooked Athletic World with USA code on the front, which actually has a HOL coded back.

i also see Stadium Events listed under "EEC"
yet no mention that there are actually 2 versions:
also meaning 2 different manuals.

- German version with EEC front and DAS on the back
- Scandinavian version with EEC front and SCN on the back

the German version with DAS back has a blue manual
SCN version has a yellow manual.
only the box is the same, which always has the EEC code on the side flaps.

just started again with buying stuff last month,

first games i bought in general since late 2019.....

as a European,

i am still missing 2 of the Australian exclusive games for the NES.

- Aussie Rules Footy
- International Cricket

the ones on Ebay are either all damaged or the people won't ship overseas.

same problem with online gamestores, they only offer shipping within Australia.

looking for loose carts in as mint a quality as possible.

preferably both from the same seller, who is willing to ship to The Netherlands.

payment through paypal.

here's another site that has a different photo of the 5 screw cart

https://pricespy.co.uk/games-consoles/computer-video-games/other-consoles/nintendo-nes/mike-tysons-punch-out!!-nes--p112338

the games from my childhood, or ones that i play the most as an adult

- Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)
- Astérix (NES)
- Kirby's Adventure (NES)
- Blades of Steel (NES)
- Snow Brothers (NES)
- Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (NES)
- Kirby's Dream Land (GB)
- Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins (GB)
- Felix The Cat (GB)
- TMHT - Back From The Sewers (GB)
- Tom & Jerry - Frantic Antics! (GB) damn you kitchen level....
- Disney Infinity (Wii U) why did Disney ever pull the plug on this...... sob sob.....
- Dragon Ball Z - Tenkaichi Budokai 3 (Wii)

any PAL NES game that says CLASSIC SERIE or CLASSIC SERIES

is always a GERMAN re-release, so your best bet would be the German version of Ebay

Fester's Quest is usually the DUTCH/FRANCE release
but finding a good quality box of this one is really tough....
not to mention finding the tips and tricks foldout poster that came with this game, in good condition.

overal terms, it's needs to be as new as possible.....

no label damage, no knicks, no discoloration, no label peeling, no scratches on the cart, no bend/curved/warped carts, everything has to be original, no swapped backs, unless it's one from the same game with same number printed into the back label.

i CAN however make an exception if needed, the PAL version of The Miracle Piano cart for example, the piano itself did not sell that great, so finding a loose cartridge is much harder than simply buying a still brand new complete piano (even still in the shipping box)

however, that also means said cartridge has been in that box for 31 years now, meaning the warmth inside may have caused the label to peel slightly on the top, both of my carts had this, and both were from brand new unopened before Miracle Piano's.

there's also some other carts that seem to have labels more prown to damage, such as Disney's Beauty & The Beast (La Belle et La Béte / Belle en het Beest)

7 hours ago, ThePhleo said:

Damn it @DefaultGen I told you to ping me if it was important. But fine, I’ll contribute.

 

Rarest games in the NES library go like this:

1. Sqoon
2. Chubby Cherub
3. Minnesota State Lottery
4. Donkey Kong Jr Math
5. Family Fun Fitness: Stadium Events
6. Family Fun Fitness: Athletic World (Family Fun Fitness variant)
7. RC Pro Am 2 (PAL)
8. Hagane
9. Maj Jong (not to be confused with Mah Jong)
10. Howard Phillips signed copy of Super Mario / Duck Hunt / World Class Track Meet

you might want to make an adjustment to nr. 7

loose Spanish (ESP coded) copies of Ultimate Air Combat , Phantom Air Mission & Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat , are WAAAAYYYYYY harder to get.