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@Brickman yeah it’s missing a couple goodies which is why I’m considering retitling this. I think it’s more of a “eff your collectors and gamers opinion…this is what the general public, and therefor the world thinks is what matters” list.

I tried to eliminate as much as that as possible. If you look at the raw data you can see I removed repros, labels, custom cases, etc. from search results

Mario Party 1 unfortunately might be a little bit higher. Because of the filters I have to exclude any mentions of Mario Party 2 and 3, or ALL mentions of 2 and 3. So if someone sells "Mario Party 1, 2, and 3" in a bundle then it gets cut out of the search results. Also, if someone searched for "Mario Party 1 and Zelda Ocarina of Time 2 game bundle" then it gets cut out too....

Oooh, I didn't think of ROM site data. But, maybe ROM sites that publicly post that kind of stuff have a feedback loop? I dunno. I know this data is *SOMETHING* good, I'm just not entirely sure what it exactly reflects. Some deep diving needs to, and can be done with it for sure.

That's pretty funny, and yeah there's a clear drop in popularity from #13 to #14 percentage wise. I'd expect the killer apps to have a huge dropoff, but not something so polarizing as 13 to 14. Crunching the numbers, it's a 22.52% drop between 13 and 14....that's HUGE considering there are no more major drops after that. Sold Title Dropoff 2510 Super Mario 64 2147 GoldenEye 007 14.46% 1946 Mario Kart 64 9.36% 1472 Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 24.36% 1292 Donkey Kong 64 12.23% 1193 Star Fox 64 7.66% 1146 Super Smash Bros. 3.94% 979 Pokémon Stadium 14.57% 852 Diddy Kong Racing 12.97% 791 Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 7.16% 693 Banjo-Kazooie 12.39% 658 Perfect Dark 5.05% 644 Pokémon Snap 2.13% 499 Yoshi's Story 22.52% 486 Mario Party 2.61% 466 Star Wars Episode I: Racer 4.12% 465 Wave Race 64 0.21% 448 Mario Party 2 3.66% 427 Pokémon Stadium 2 4.69%

EDIT: CHANGED THE TOPIC NAME. This list is just officially the Top 50 games sold in the last 90 days.... I did it for N64 now too. I wanted to highlight where my flaws are in my NES data and well, let's just say there are some interesting results in the raw N64 data. Anyway, here is the unbiased most popular N64 games. I only included the top 50 for this list. Rank Title Sold in 90 Days 1 Super Mario 64 2510 2 GoldenEye 007 2147 3 Mario Kart 64 1946 4 Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 1472 5 Donkey Kong 64 1292 6 Star Fox 64 1193 7 Super Smash Bros. 1146 8 Pokémon Stadium 979 9 Diddy Kong Racing 852 10 Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 791 11 Banjo-Kazooie 693 12 Perfect Dark 658 13 Pokémon Snap 644 14 Yoshi's Story 499 15 Mario Party 486 16 Star Wars Episode I: Racer 466 17 Wave Race 64 465 18 Mario Party 2 448 19 Pokémon Stadium 2 427 20 Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 425 21 Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire 417 22 Conker's Bad Fur Day 403 23 Paper Mario 387 24 Cruis'n USA 372 25 Mario Party 3 362 26 Turok 2: Seeds of Evil 362 27 Banjo-Tooie 360 28 World Is Not Enough, The 358 29 Mario Tennis 326 30 Doom 64 317 31 1080° Snowboarding 312 32 Turok: Dinosaur Hunter 310 33 NFL Blitz 309 34 Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards 294 35 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 287 36 WCW/nWo Revenge 282 37 WWF No Mercy 282 38 NFL Blitz 2000 269 39 Mario Golf 267 40 South Park 253 41 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 230 42 Jet Force Gemini 229 43 Disney Pixar's Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue! 225 44 Castlevania 213 45 Quest 64 206 46 Mortal Kombat Trilogy 202 47 Hey You, Pikachu! 201 48 Pilotwings 64 201 49 Gauntlet Legends 200 50 WWF WrestleMania 2000 196 Also, in the spirit of last thread, here's the top 25 most available N64 games on ebay Rank Title Available 1 Star Wars Episode I: Racer 1343 2 Donkey Kong 64 1188 3 Super Mario 64 1068 4 Star Fox 64 1002 5 Mario Kart 64 880 6 Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 870 7 Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire 857 8 Pokémon Snap 855 9 Perfect Dark 827 10 Turok 2: Seeds of Evil 794 11 Diddy Kong Racing 783 12 WCW/nWo Revenge 728 13 Kobe Bryant in NBA Courtside 654 14 Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 647 15 NFL Quarterback Club 98 639 16 WCW vs. nWo: World Tour 638 17 Wave Race 64 635 18 Pokémon Stadium 615 19 GoldenEye 007 611 20 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 592 21 Yoshi's Story 587 22 Banjo-Kazooie 578 23 Madden NFL 99 575 24 1080° Snowboarding 553 25 Mission Impossible 535

Nice I think it’s doable in a lifetime. Thats like 2 years of eBay supply

Probably really close to accurate. According to Wikipedia, Dragon Warrior/Quest 1 sold 2,000,000 units collectively across all regions for the NES & Famicom and is the 29th best selling game. My hype guide says that 3 to 4 copies sell every single day on eBay. It is the 8th most abundant NES game currently available on eBay trailing behind... Super Mario Bros. 3 (2507 copies) Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt (2289 copies) Tetris (1469 copies) Super Mario Bros. (1272 copies) Super Mario Bros. 2 (1250 copies) Dr. Mario (1218 copies) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1128 copies) Dragon Warrior (985 copies) In contrast, it is the 18th most sold NES game on eBay in the past 90 days. Super Mario Bros. 3 (2096 copies) Super Mario Bros. 2 (1531 copies) Legend of Zelda (1179 copies) Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt (924 copies) Super Mario Bros. (753 copies) Tetris (721 copies) Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (666 copies) Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (642 copies) Metroid (568 copies) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (526 copies) Contra (497 copies) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (485 copies) Final Fantasy (378 copies) Dr. Mario (367 copies) Excitebike (360 copies) Castlevania (359 copies) Mega Man 2 (348 copies) Dragon Warrior (334 copies) If AND ONLY IF The 2,000,000 figure is correct, then if he were to purchase 20,000 copies of Dragon Warrior (regardless of region) he'll own 1% of the supply ever made.

Next Inktober, I'll suggest he give it to you then (if he does an Inktober 23, and IF he gives the drawings away that is) I of course will have to come up with some seriously tortuous request to make it extra special.

It’s even more glorious in person @CasualCart thank you

Technically speaking, a "reproduction" game would entail making a game as close to 1:1, but from scratch, using little to no borrowed source material. iD (creators of Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, Unreal, and Fortnite) made a reproduction of Super Mario Bros. 3 for PCs as a demo to give to Nintendo to try to make a licensed port of the game....see here. Still, the point gets across and the verbiage has changed meaning. Just like how retro game means old game, rather than new game trying to look old.

I've been mining eBay data again and I decided to tabulate all 677 licensed US NES games, and the "classical" 91 unlicensed games to see where everything sits in terms of general availability, and popularity. I have a very strict search policy with a lot of disqualifiers but I'll leave that a mystery until I'm asked later on in the comments. For those interested in the raw data, here it is: Joseph Leo's eBay Rarity & Hype Guide So without further delay, here are my findings. Rank Title 90 Days Sold 1 Super Mario Bros. 3 2096 2 Super Mario Bros. 2 1531 3 Legend of Zelda 1179 4 Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt 924 5 Super Mario Bros 753 6 Tetris 721 7 Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! 666 8 Zelda II: The Adventure of Link 642 9 Metroid 568 10 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 526 11 Contra 497 12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game 485 13 Final Fantasy 378 14 Dr. Mario 367 15 Excitebike 360 16 Castlevania 359 17 Mega Man 2 348 18 Dragon Warrior 334 19 Double Dragon II: The Revenge 322 20 Tecmo Super Bowl 322 21 Castlevania II: Simon's Quest 299 22 Mega Man 3 292 23 Double Dragon 286 24 Super C 278 25 Punch-Out!! 268 26 Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse 258 27 Ninja Gaiden 249 28 Paperboy 244 29 Batman: The Video Game 242 30 Top Gun 241 31 DuckTales 231 32 Golf 223 33 Kung Fu 220 34 Ghosts 'n Goblins 218 35 Donkey Kong Classics 216 36 Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos 212 37 Friday the 13th 212 38 Metal Gear 208 39 Kirby's Adventure 204 40 Tecmo Bowl 202 41 Simpsons: Bart Vs. the Space Mutants 201 42 Duck Hunt 195 43 Double Dribble 194 44 Battletoads 194 45 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project 191 46 Marble Madness 190 47 R.C. Pro-Am 189 48 Rad Racer 187 49 Blaster Master 187 50 Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 187 51 Donkey Kong 179 52 Gyromite 178 53 Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones 174 54 Hogan's Alley 167 55 Little Nemo: The Dream Master 167 56 Mario Bros. 167 57 Kid Icarus 165 58 Mega Man 162 59 Blades of Steel 161 60 Pro Wrestling 160 61 Skate or Die 157 62 Goonies II 157 63 Ice Hockey 156 64 Adventures of Bayou Billy 153 65 Mega Man 4 151 66 Pinball 150 67 Fester's Quest 150 68 RoboCop 150 69 Bubble Bobble 149 70 Jaws 149 71 Rampage 145 72 Life Force 139 73 Bionic Commando 137 74 Spy Hunter 136 75 Crystalis 136 76 Wizards & Warriors II: Ironsword 133 77 Top Gun: The Second Mission 133 78 Wizards & Warriors 133 79 Faxanadu 133 80 Yoshi 130 81 Mickey Mousecapade 129 82 BurgerTime 127 83 Jackal 127 84 Back to the Future 127 85 Maniac Mansion 127 86 Tetris 2 126 87 Karate Kid 124 88 Rygar 124 89 Dragon Warrior II 124 90 Mega Man 6 124 91 Baseball 122 92 Adventure Island 122 93 Commando 120 94 Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart's Super Off Road 120 95 Shadowgate 116 96 Monopoly 115 97 Mega Man 5 115 98 Pac-Man [Tengen] 113 99 Bad Dudes 112 100 Star Tropics 109 Notice not a single unlicensed game made its way to the top 100...the Tengen Pac-Man is the licensed Tengen Pac-Man count and it was counted manually. But what are the most commonly available games? Well, here are the top 50 most commonly available NES games on eBay Rank Title Available 1 Super Mario Bros. 3 2507 2 Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt 2289 3 Tetris 1469 4 Super Mario Bros 1272 5 Super Mario Bros. 2 1250 6 Dr. Mario 1218 7 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1128 8 Dragon Warrior 985 9 Golf 934 10 Legend of Zelda 931 11 Top Gun 770 12 Double Dribble 760 13 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game 704 14 Zelda II: The Adventure of Link 687 15 R.C. Pro-Am 630 16 Rad Racer 626 17 Ice Hockey 621 18 Excitebike 611 19 Skate or Die 602 20 Major League Baseball 578 21 Silent Service 555 22 Blades of Steel 551 23 Captain Skyhawk 547 24 Double Dragon II: The Revenge 531 25 Castlevania II: Simon's Quest 528 26 Gyromite 517 27 Wizards & Warriors II: Ironsword 513 28 Bases Loaded 496 29 Adventures of Bayou Billy 483 30 NES Play Action Football 478 31 Metroid 476 32 Pinball 470 33 Bases Loaded II: Second Season 455 34 Kung Fu 454 35 Baseball 446 36 Marble Madness 441 37 John Elway's Quarterback 431 38 Top Gun: The Second Mission 429 39 Duck Hunt 424 40 Track & Field II 419 41 Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! 417 42 Double Dragon 416 43 Operation Wolf 415 44 Tecmo Bowl 412 45 Punch-Out!! 409 46 Fester's Quest 407 47 RoboCop 400 48 Mickey Mousecapade 382 49 Hogan's Alley 376 50 Wheel of Fortune 376 Once again, not a single unlicensed item. NOTE: Your top 100 may look completely different, but this is a mostly unbiased poll from the entirety of the United States purchase activity on eBay. Even if you compile your top 100 list it would only contribute 1 single point to each game, which would have effectively zero impact.

I know it isn't universally loved here, but I still wanted to share this tool with you all. Joseph Leo's WATA & CGC Graded CIB Calculator v2.0 Using the above tool you can see the difference in CIB scores between grading companies. While somewhat rare, it's certainly not impossible to have a different final grade between the two large competitors. Initial Findings: If you have a mint game, poor manual, and average box then WATA might give you a better final grade over CGC. If you have a mint manual, poor game, and average box then CGC might give you a better final grade over WATA. The above two statements aren't a guarantee, and are just in some fringe cases. More combinations and testing required to confirm these suspicions. So there you have it. Enjoy. DISCLAIMER: I don't personally grade anything whatsoever besides my initial WATA submission way back in 2018 or 2019? I own very few graded items, and I tend to open all my graded items when I receive them. I just like making tools like this to help anyone who might be interested.

I like it. Step in the right direction, as opposed to the current offerings by major players. We need more game collecting content to attract the next generation of collectors. Hobbies die when it becomes an old mans sport.

Nope, wish it was. that’s the only photo I have of one too.

Ultra, ultra rare....seen one in 10 years of collecting....might be on par with 5-Screw Stadium Events, 3-Screw Stinger, and 3-Screw DK Math.

8 off the list. 53 to go! Would be fun to finish up before the new year

25 AWAY FROM A LICENSED USA SET After 11 years, it's finally my turn to do one of these! I'm looking to buy the final NES CIBs to complete my licensed US NES set. Since I took a Top-Down approach, there aren't many very rare games on this list, and there are some surprisingly common games that I've just managed to completely neglect all these year. So, please, let me know if you have any of these for sale in decent, complete condition. WANTED: Bad News Baseball Bad Street Brawler Clash at Demonhead Defenders of Dynatron City DuckTales 2 Final Fantasy [SAVING FOR LAST] Frankenstein Ghoul School G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero G.I. Joe: The Atlantis Factor Kid Kool Krion Conquest Mario Bros. Mega Man 4 Mega Man 6 Motor City Patrol Overlord Popeye Puss 'n Boots Rainbow Islands R.C. Pro-Am II Short Order / Egg-Splode! Super Spy Hunter Wario's Woods Xexyz So, where am I going after this? Well, I'm gonna finish the unlicensed set, then chase CIB variants. There's about 150+ black box variant alone I still need after it's all said and done.

Congrats Didn't realize you managed to get one.

BOUNTY UPDATE: $100.00 total - Photo of new, previously unknown cartridge $100.00 total - Photo of Cartridge #0026, clear photo of Cartridge(s) #0122, #0150, #0182, and #0340 $10.00 ea. - New photos of existing cartridges, that I don't have too many of. Will mark which ones I have too many photos of later.

Here is a list of all confirmed 1990 Nintendo World Championships Grey Cartridges. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 0 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 1 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 0 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 2 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 3 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 0 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 6 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 3 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 2 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 1 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 5 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 5 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 4 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 3 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 5 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 1 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 4 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 1 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 2 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 2 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 4 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 2 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 1 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 2 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 3 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 2 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 3 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 1 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 4 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 3 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 3 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 2 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 7 350 0 15 8 7 11 4 15 10 7 9 3 #0??? The “Mario” Cart 85 Confirmed (With Good Photo) #0??? The “Striped” Cart 1 Confirmed (Blurry Photo) #0??? The “Chris” Cart 2 Confirmed via WATA Population Reports 3 Confirmed via Archived NintendoAGE discussion NWC GOLD NOTE 1 Rumored from Past Reliable Sources 26 Additional NWC cartridges were sacrificed to make NWC Gold. It is believed that there are currently 13 known surviving copies. 0 Secret Numbers 92 Total Known Copies 26.29% Discovered if 350 copies 23.00% Discovered if 400 copies NEW BOUNTIES! $200 - Proof of other undiscovered numbers. $100 - Photo of carts listed in Green, Yellow, Orange, and Red. $20 - Any new photo not in my database of a green listed cartridge. Go ahead, make some money at a convention by snapping a photo of a cart there. But there's one rule, only the first person at that event can receive the payout if it's in a display case....I'll count it as unique if you manage to hold it outside of the display cabinet. NOTE: The "Confirmed with No Photos" copies are considered known to exist because they were previously discussed on NintendoAge or are listed in graded Pop Reports. Photos have since been removed from the internet and no known photos currently exist but are reliable enough to count. The one "Rumored" copies are from very reliable sources who wish to remain anonymous. I do not have any photos to prove they exists, but I am highly confident that this source has no reason to lie especially considering that other items used to be on this same list. All cartridges in green or yellow are confirmed to exist. The 1 cartridge with a blurry photo is too blurry to make out the number, but its number is known because of past NintendoAge discussion. It may as well be considered "Confirmed with No Photo" since the blurry photo is the only one that I could find. PRIVACY NOTICE It is my solemn duty not to track owners, or sales data. IF YOU OWN A COPY AND WOULD LIKE TO KEEP ITS NUMBER A SECRET, PLEASE ALLOW ME TO KEEP YOUR SECRET SAFE. I have other confirmed numbers not publicly listed, and you can have yours added to the secret list.

@dpratt84 & @Jaeron Thanks I'll update the database, my buddy @DefaultGen already DM'd me earlier with photos. I'm really happy to see that people are aware of this thread to keep things updated though. EDIT: UPDATED to add #0345

See, this is where you’re 100% wrong…. Sports can only WISH they can be as popular as politics over here. And that’s saying a lot because sports are freaking POPULAR over here. But yeah I agree we did go a little too deep.

Welcome to the internet. This is what we call a forum. given enough time, ANY topic leads to Hitler. also the US ain’t bad…we have pizza bagels, and television!

>_> oh…good idea lol i don’t think I’m in that club though Wanna fight me about it though? HUH!?