Comments on: Store Paying Insane Prices For Sealed NES Games

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:57:25 +0000

Makes me wanna go back and buy all the NES games during its closing days not knowing that people would buy crazy money for this.

I actually bought a sealed game from one of these sellers. Puss N boots pedros great adventure, someone else actually wanted this game also i ended paying 40 for it. its displayed in my room i like the cover. id like to have bubble bobble or a kid icarus metroid but no way im paying a lot for them

By: Lightning

Lightning — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:38:09 +0000

Well… just in case there are any readers here who’d like to get into that “thrill of collecting” I’m going to liquidate my collection of legitimate, original NES and 1st-generation GameBoy prototypes so speak up if you are interested. I also have some interesting Nintendo paraphenalia from their CES shows.

By: racketboy

racketboy — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:54:36 +0000

Personally, I think people are just getting caught up in the thrill of collecting

By: Grooveraider

Grooveraider — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:49:39 +0000

This factory sealed NES “trend” is for those who are short-sighted with money to burn. I’m a child of the 80s – I grew up on the 8-bit NES and i’ll say while it’s nostalgic to see these sealed NES titles. Those prices are friggin RIDICULOUS from a hardcore gaming mindset.

I KNOW for a fact some of those ridiculously priced NES games are technically INFERIOR to the Famicom versions! Take for instance Konami’s CONTRA. The U.S. version was stripped of some detailed animation and cutscenes. From a collectors stand-point – why would I pay more for an inferior NES version ??? Besides, Famicom games usually had the beautiful artwork, colorful carts and instruction manuals. For the price of some of these sealed NES games – I could import several reasonably mint condition Famicom titles from a highly respected Japan video game retailer getting more bang for your buck and collectors value.

Other concerns about these sealed NES games are the battery back-up games like The Legend of Zelda. Its been well over 20+ years for some of them. Do batteries tend to rot overtime??? You don’t intend to open the game to see wether or not game still works or was destoryed by battery rot.

In the end, video games were meant to be opened and played on – not displayed like baseball cards.

But hey, there’s SUCKERS born every minute.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:48:04 +0000

I would like for you to add

Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Jr.
Donkey Kong 3
Mario Bros. Arcade

To the Factory sealed Games List

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:48:21 +0000

Will you please add Donkey Kong 3 to the games