10 Holy Grail NES Carts

[@juicybear1986]

I appreciated the "run to your collection and see" part. Gave me a good laugh. I personally didn't run to my collection because I had already done that previously before seeing this video. And you pretty much described every one of my experiences to the T lol. No luck yet

[@deathbob091]

big same, it was a good one

[@Fortefyre]

I definitely ran to my collection 🤣

[@jakek5417]

I laughed too, good one bro 😂

[@josephpeeples5192]

This is why I love emulators. I can play them all for free.

[@Fortefyre]

FACTS

[@zacharyagler3007]

Yes I got them on my mini for nes, snes and so on.

[@commentresurrection1841]

Well yea you can play them all for free but that has nothing to do with collecting

[@Margann1987]

Exactly!!! 😂

[@Stinger420]

Indeed!

[@Riz2336]

That’s crazy to think pat the nes punk has both gray and gold nwc carts, probably the only dude with both

[@Fortefyre]

He had the money at a great time during the collection era!

[@bildo1977]

I have Lucianne’s Quest for 3DO. It’s not complete in box, but it does have the jewel case and instruction manual.

[@Fortefyre]

That's awesome!

[@UstraMage]

I had a friend, back when I was around 7, he had Stadium Events. To a 7 year old, it was a fun game to play.

[@Fortefyre]

Wow! I wonder if he still has it!

[@joeparrish4910]

Been binging on your videos the last week. Now subscribed you have enjoyable content and I thank you sir

[@Fortefyre]

Oh thank you! I appreciate that!

[@michaelbarley7399]

During the summer of 1995, after the game was released, our state fair in York, PA hosted Nintendo as an attraction with a Donkey Kong Country competition.

[@michaelbarley7399]

At the time, I was a big NES geek. I participated in the competition and won second prize, which was a leather hat with Diddy Kong on it. I lost first place by a narrow margin, for which the winner received a Donkey Kong Country jacket.

[@michaelbarley7399]

That was my one Nintendo competition memory. In my mind at the time, that was my Fred Savage Wizard moment. And just like any other kid, my goal of working for Nintendo or being a baseball player was crushed over the next few years when reality took over. I still dreamt of those World Championships, though.

[@Fortefyre]

Damn, the closest I got was a Gamestop promotional thing for F-Zero GX haha. This was awesome! Thank you for sharing!

[@common_c3nts]

I have the racermate for the NES. The only mod to the console was removing the lockout chip. I also have the commodore racermate cart.

[@Fortefyre]

Nice! That's awesome!

[@NESADDICT]

I did a video on that computrainer cart. I used a top loader nes to get it to work. My game store let me borrow it for the video. Nice video!

[@Fortefyre]

I was actually about to reach out to you see if you had any spare footage I could use for this, since it's the only time I would really cover it lmao.

[@NESADDICT]

@@Fortefyre any time you need footage just take it! Permission permanently granted! 🙌

[@Fortefyre]

Haha, I would rather do a nifty collaboration than just run and grab footage. 😄

[@NESADDICT]

@@Fortefyre that works too!

[@chrisd6287]

Those Dr.Mario skills at the end there were crazy

[@Fortefyre]

Absolutely, you could tell that person practiced for their score run.

[@spiff83]

Great video with good history and information. One thing I think you could mention in later videos, are the differences in prices between NTSC and PAL versions. Example Stadium events cost a leg for the NTSC version, but the PAL version will only cost you a finger or two.

[@Fortefyre]

Absolutely, the price points between NTSC-U, J, and PAL are insane sometimes

[@mr.milehi9883]

I'm even astonished as to how valuable some of these things are. I guess the easiest thing to do would be look for five screw cartridges and hope you find one somewhere. Seems to be the most logical idea to me. Looking forward to your how to spot counterfeit reproduction cartridges episode. If you could please do that for the NES and SNES eventually they would help a lot of people who just don't know better. That said though. They have all kinds of different colored cartridges clear translucent green pink orange you name it the reproduction cartridges are really cool looking. They've really come a long way with those.

[@Fortefyre]

Indeed! I always love the concept of Everdrives as well! We can still use our true hardware, but don't have to fork out the money for it.

[@pharmcat8484]

This video is proof positive that the 90s were the best of times.

[@Fortefyre]

Society went downhill when Taco Bell transitioned from the blue and white 90s cups.

[@tidepoolclipper8657]

Although, I'd personally say the PS2/GCN/Xbox/GBA and Wii/Xbox 360/PS3/DS/PSP were the generations home to some of the greatest games.

[@Fortefyre]

Yeah I'm impartial to it as well, but that was the meat and bones of my childhood.

[@stevefields2027]

‘Exploded like PepCon’. Solid reference

[@Fortefyre]

And incredibly accurate LMAO

[@onefootflipper]

Why would adding a box to a loose 5 screw game add $10,000s of dollars if the box is identical to the normal box?

[@Fortefyre]

It's not just a box when we talk CIB, it's stickers, manuals, feelies, in the case of some NES games they have registration cards, promotional stuff, and more. Here's an outlier that breaks down everything for a 5-screw Mega Man www.ebay.com/itm/186311070710

[@Woodmanclassics]

@@Fortefyrethat’s why it went unsold. All the 5 screw variants you mentioned all share the same box, manual, inserts as a one of its 3 screw variants. I know because I own them 😅. For better information than my humble comment can give you check out CGC’s reference guide for complete in box games

[@KeviRun]

I wouldn't dare call it the crown jewel of my collection, more like the royal dingleberry encrusted on the side of the family jewels from a failed wipe... but I do have a copy of Cheetamen II in my collection. I had made a hail mary bid on an auction and for what I can only assume is an abundance of common sense in other people, it wasn't challenged; so my copy did not cost me $4,000 to acquire. I also have a copy of Action 52, so I have that going for me. If I ever catch a stream of yours I would be happy to validate live. I picked up a non-Myriad Caltron 6-in-1 at a local game store when someone apparently needed some cash and traded in a handful of grails, many of those you talked about in your last video. None of my 5-screw variants are worth anything. I didn't have to run and check.

[@Fortefyre]

Wow! This is what I wanted to see, people who have these stuff. That's so cool!

[@KeithAlumbaugh]

I got to participate and play in the 1991 campus challenge at Clemson University. Sadly I wasn't good enough to be a finalist. Good times.

[@Fortefyre]

And then you joined the army. Imagine how different your life would have been if you only practiced PinBot 🤣 thanks for your service (USAF myself)

[@pharmcat8484]

I saw a few years ago a man was selling his NES collection that was nearly complete. The only licensed game it didn’t have was Stafium Events. Everything else was CIB. I couldn’t justify taking out a second mortgage for it.

[@Fortefyre]

Yeah my wife would kill me, resurrect me, and kill me again indefinitely if I did that lol.

[@NESFriend]

Just discovered your channel. Great vid!

[@Fortefyre]

Welcome! Thank you!

[@zeldahatguy8607]

Stadium Events PAL version will run you about 600-1000 bucks if you want a "cheaper" option..

[@Fortefyre]

That's not a bad idea actually.

[@gamingtheologian8515]

I have Jaws and Mega Man. What would I look for? I am also surprised when discussing championships that you didn't mention the Wizard.

[@Fortefyre]

So you want to see if it has 3 screws, or 5 screws on the back. Check out my System Shock episode on the NES and I have a little blurb about it!

[@themidcentrist]

My holy grail video game would be an Atari 2600 CIB Sears Superman with the yellow text picture label. Atari Sears Telegames is my video game collecting niche. That said, it's a great thing that any Atari 2600, 5200, NES, SNES, Genesis, TG-16, N64, Neo-Geo, etc. cartridge based game can be played on original hardware with SD cartridges. Me and my friends had wild fantasies back in the day of a magical NES cartridge that had every single NES game ever made on it. It was a crazy idea that we never dreamed would ever actually happen. It's now 2024, and I have one of those magical cartridges inserted into my AV Famicom.

[@Fortefyre]

I'm a HUGE supporter of Everdrives!

[@Marc_Araujo]

That 3-in-1 multicart of Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet is a pure rail of snortable nostslgia...WOOO!! P.S. That was a Ric Flair "WOOO" at the end.

[@Fortefyre]

Which is a rail of snortable...nostalgia we'll say nostalgia haha

[@robertanderson2898]

Not on the list, but I bought Panic Restaurant from Ebay around the early 2000s, and got rid of it before games got valuable. Oh well. I still have Dragon Warrior 1 and 3 complete in box, plus parts 2 and 4 loose. Also Battletoads, Startropics 2, Faxanadu, and Metroid CIB, and BT & Double Dragon loose, among a few others.

[@Fortefyre]

I want to say Panic Restaurant was in the impractically expensive NES games episode.

[@robertanderson2898]

@@Fortefyre Cool i'll have to check it out!

[@DongCorleone]

I totally agree. Why send the cartridges to be graded so they can sit on a shelf somewhere doing the same thing that your Babe Ruth card is doing. I collect games not just to have them, but to play them as well and feel the nostalgia and the days of no responsibilities flooding back.

[@Fortefyre]

Right? It's a stupid business model. Oh yeah, nice, I have a rare unopened copy of a game that I could buy for 5000% less, and no, you're not allowed to look at it, only compliment me. So silly.

[@tidepoolclipper8657]

I never even knew about Nintendo Campus Challenge 91.

[@Fortefyre]

Yep!

[@donnellmoore656]

I never even heard of that bike game or the bike machine.

[@Fortefyre]

Yep it's a far out one lol.

[@clemont-ib6pl]

Anyone who has rushn attack has the 5 screw variant. I mean, come on.

[@Fortefyre]

I actually have the 3 screw haha.

[@bildo1977]

Ah, Bubble Bath Babes. Should’ve been compatible with the Power Glove. All of the NES pron games should’ve been.

[@Fortefyre]

Why stop there, 3D glasses too!

[@ThunderFist1978]

I have repros of Nintendo World Championships, Campus Challenge and Cheetahmen II. Definitely can’t afford the real deals!

[@Fortefyre]

There's no harm in that at all!

[@WillACarpenter]

My holy grail was complete Earthbound. And I had it. and I sold it to finance completely restarting my life across the country.

[@Fortefyre]

That's a heavy decision. I hope that I don't find myself in that situation, but I would give everything away to make a dream for my family come true

[@WillACarpenter]

@@Fortefyre I had several months of bad times. I finally got into therapy where I was like but I have this wonderful woman and she proposed to me 3 months ago! 3 days later while we're in a bubble bath together she tells me she's a lesbian. It was radically change my life... Or no more life.

[@MegaThenman]

Imo if you're collecting to use, get a famicom AV, the console has the best of the original NES and the toaster, with games that generally ballpark 20 dollars

[@Fortefyre]

I mean, I have a AV modded Famicom, so I use that instead.

[@TruthInc]

I own every single one, in my head movies. 😮

[@Fortefyre]

😆 what a dream though! I need my antidepressants to just give me a moment with a complete library. Like an hour tops.

[@johneygd]

Wooaah i didn’t know that nintendo did had a ‘hometrainer’ for the nes😁

[@Fortefyre]

It did!

[@worldoffood123]

Always great to hear people rant about how evil Wata games is. Absolutely ruined the market for retro fans. Everything is so expensive now it sucks!!

[@Fortefyre]

I fucking HATE WATA. They alone, are responsible for inflating the retro game market. Period.

[@WizardoftheGhost]

That was great how u had us look cuz u know we have jaws and punch out

[@Fortefyre]

:P Now the question is, are you going to work tomorrow? XD

[@magnusdiridian]

whoo, I got mega man 1. only 3 screws though

[@Fortefyre]

Back to work for you :P

[@magnusdiridian]

@@Fortefyre And the thing is, I bought it on 2/24/88, just when it came out. So...I'm not sure how one could have gotten the 5 screw version, unless you lived in japan.

[@deathbob091]

"you dont own it do you" kek

[@Fortefyre]

:P

[@Firetomysoul]

Remember things are only worth what people will pay

[@Fortefyre]

Absolutely true!

[@mikeburkhart8336]

I bought that whole NES MegaMan collection on 3DS for about 40 dollars...there is no way I'd spend thousands of dollars for ANY game...(Even Tengen Tetris.)

[@Fortefyre]

Not bad!

[@jonnelson602]

You don't have thousands of dollars.

[@TT-jl1qs]

I got almost a full NES set including all non licensed games. The only games I'm missing are not licensed and they are the 3 porn games you showed and cheetahmen 2. I don't count 5 screw or game variants towards my count so no Myrid or Stadium Events.

[@Fortefyre]

I don't know if I WANT the porn games on my shelf lmfao.

[@doomslayerdave]

Some individuals don't truly grasp rarity and the monetary assignments based on rarity. People will collect anything. Not just sports cards and comic books. Toys, video games, books, coins, watches, carpets, cars... I can emulate if I want to play a game. Collecting based on value, grading and rarity had zero to do with video gaming itself. The nuances of the early days and limited print runs give some titles a lot of value.

[@Fortefyre]

Indeed!

[@STEELTOKEN420]

i have a excitebike 5 screw cart

[@Fortefyre]

That's about a $10-$12 game.

[@stevejackson2624]

They all exist on a ROM

[@Fortefyre]

Indeed they do!

[@paultondolojr9432]

Had the game in the intro

[@Fortefyre]

Sure did!

[@paultondolojr9432]

@@Fortefyre i did as well. Not sure what it was called, my parents bought it off the tv hotline (maybe qvc). What was it called? Worth anything? Doesnt matter since I don't have it anymore 😂

[@Fortefyre]

@paultondolojr9432 the two games were: To the Earth and Eliminator Boat Duel. The latter is a $20 game.

[@joemerkel20]

I have the 5 screw Metroid… doesn’t go for much

[@Fortefyre]

I want to say I have a 5 screw for a few, but they aren't rare.

[@The_Smoother]

Someone’s going to work tomorrow. 😂

[@Fortefyre]

🤣🤣🤣

[@jorycole4742]

Shout-out NATC

[@Fortefyre]

Indeed! Lmao (North American Testing Center for the sensitive folks)

[@m0ocow_love783]

I would rather play a cheap fun game than spend 200000$ to look at a cartridge through a plastic case

[@Fortefyre]

Same! It's absolutely pointless to me.

[@TJR219]

First comment? Woot! Holy grails arent worth it honestly. Collect what you like.

[@Fortefyre]

I feel the same way, and my collection strategy is weird, I don't go for the "must haves" or "must plays" I'll grab anything and everything, I think that's why I enjoy doing it so much.

Everdrive son....

[@Fortefyre]

Yuppppp

[@stepheneickhoff4953]

9:10 Why do they have to be white? And angry?

[@Fortefyre]

Because as an angry white person, only someone like me can do something so absurd as apply a grade to something lmao.

[@ohnoohyeah3205]

Do anything? Careful 😅

[@Fortefyre]

Anything 😈

[@vegaspaul9428]

Nice video, new here. Sub

[@Fortefyre]

Welcome to the community!

[@thishandlehas3ormorecharacters]

i have 1 of them.. i'm not gonna say which 1, but i own 1 of them

[@Fortefyre]

Nice!

[@thishandlehas3ormorecharacters]

@@Fortefyre the 3 1's was a clue so i guess you can guess xD not letting that one go anytime soon.. and you're right, definitely not worth the price.. glad i didn't buy it myself, and especially glad the person who initially payed for it didn't buy it in todays market

[@Troll_On_YouTube]

Please, the nes isn't worth a red cent.

[@Fortefyre]

LMAO

[@christopherr3053]

You talk too much

[@Fortefyre]

Well, I don't make PowerPoints I make videos. Do you feel better?