$5 NES Game vs. $2,000 NES Game... NES Platformers

[@JohnRiggs]

$1 - $150 NES Sports games kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJjbe6Rqg8qhns0

[@lifespanofafry1534]

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[@jamesmuller1481]

I remember Super Mario Bros 3 on Player Choice 10 too like a year before it came out. Thanks for the reminder.

[@AngryCalvin]

That's also how I remember it. Went to the bowling alley arcade with my friends just to play it. So I already had experience with the game before it came out.

[@RynoDBones]

My uncle, a narcoleptic, would invite me over to play Tiny Toons with him so when he fell asleep I could take over and he wouldn’t lose progress.

[@exodous02]

10:24 I have to tell this story every time I see this game mentioned. When I got my SNES, saved up for it, we went to Toys R Us and they were getting rid of all their NES games for like $4.99. Not behind glass, just a huge bin, and there were a ton of Little Samson. Had I known I would have said 'screw the SNES I'm just spending all my money on copies of Little Samson!' We almost got it anyway, our local rental place had it and we loved it. What makes it worse is if I would have gotten my SNES when everyone else did I wouldn't have this memory, I got mine a year or so after everyone else. Mine came with Link to the Past and it was the last one with that game. Oh well, not a bad memory, it is like friend that was always collecting this stuff on the internet for fun, bitcoin or some weird thing. That happened to me also.

[@LazarusLong314]

Little Nemo the Dream Master is my favorite NES game. I loved it as a kid, and I love it now. It's the only NES game I have CIB.

[@c64konami96]

I bought my Mickey game at Sears for Christmas back when it came out. Now just bought the box on Whatnot recently and then bought the manual and cartridge on Etsy because I liked it when I was a kid.

[@wolfemanxd]

My cousin used to have panic restaurant and I used to play it all the time. It was and real hard game so odd as a kid not knowing she had such a rare game. I used to have wacky races as a kid loved it.

[@broken1394]

Shout out for Bucky O'Hare, outside of Mario my favourite NES platformer. Another great Vid. 💯🔥🕹🙋🏻‍♂️

[@gamecheaterz]

Tiny Toons and Little Nemo hold a special place in my heart I rented these games countless times, both are great gotta love the 80's and 90's

[@AngryCalvin]

Both great and memorable rentals for me also. Little Nemo got plenty of hype from Nintendo Power and a commercial but didn't get anywhere near the success it deserved. It's one of the greatest NES games ever made! Tiny Toons is Konami so of course it's good. If anyone else made the game it would have been just another generic franchise game. I think the only thing Konami did wrong was the LazerScope and I happened to have one I got on clearance.

[@JLAvey]

Reminds me of Albert's Oddessey on Saturn. The North American released somebody was trying to sell for a thousand dollars. The Japanese version, I bought for eleven dollars. I later got ahold of a repro, with jewel long case and all of that, for far less than a thousand. Thus, if a game gets too expensive, the gray market thrives.

[@BradTheProducer]

I have a copy of Panic Restaurant that I bought for five bucks at a pawn shop in Alaska. Thinking back to the early 2000’s when shops would have HUNDREDS of NES games for $2-$5 each makes my heart drop sometimes.

[@JohnRiggs]

I miss those glory days.

[@bmwolgas]

I remember scoring a mint copy of Little Sampson for $30 and then selling it later for $50.

[@At_the_Bottom]

I got my CIB copy of Little Samson for $5 back in the summer of 98 when my uncles local rental place liquidated all of their NES games to make room for DVD's and Disk based games. Also got Final Fantasy 1 CIB, CIB Crystalis, as well as a few others.. All for $5 each.

[@someoneout-there2165]

Yeah, I remember as a kid, begging to go the flea market just for the video game store. It was walls and walls of NES games. I could have spent hours and hours in there.

[@owlbelieveit6811]

Bucky O'Hare is worth the money it goes for. I got mine for about $180 in December.

[@joeosborne4788]

Not sure if you’ve covered the topic of ranking horror games for the NES, SNES, Sega, etc! Love the way you do your reviews!

[@UndeadEggmiester]

It's kinda funny to look at old news games and be like " man I remember seeing some of these back for under 20$ in the 90s at a local used store. With that said little Nemo is masterpiece game and being only 10$ is a steal.

[@colt5189]

I was one of the first kids in America to play Mario 3. Back in late 88, a kid from China or Japan moved in down the street. And he had a weird video game system with a game I'd never seen before where Mario could fly. It was awesome. I told all the kids about it at school, but no one believed me. Then later in 89 we all saw Wizard which showed off Mario 3, etc. Decades later, I found out that kid must of had a Famicom with the Japan version of Mario 3. Mario 3 is still my favorite game of all time!

[@JohnRiggs]

I love stories like that. I knew someone else, too, who had the friend with a famicom. Crazy to think that, back then, Japan would get games that far in advance but they sure did.

[@colt5189]

@@JohnRiggs Yeah, it was fun playing a secret Mario game that no one knew of. Though I never could get far into the game as they only had one TV. And we'd only get to play when his parents went into the kitchen to eat. I still remember the oriental smells from their food. And so I'd only get to play for like 20-30 minutes at a time. And would have to start over each time. And I knew nothing of the game, so I'd explore each level trying to find the secrets, etc.

[@isd8894]

Amazing how little correlation there is these days between the quality of a game and its price. After having never played Little Nemo as a kid, I picked up a copy on E Bay for $20, including shipping. That game would be a good buy at $500. Conversely, I have games that I paid 10x more for, which plainly suck.

[@Kumimono]

I've not seen a NES game in years! (Small town) But, that's 10 bucks saved on Little Nemo, in a tattered box. Great game.

[@deathbob091]

whats crazy is that both a 5$ and a 2000$ game are no bigger than 471kb's (kirby's dreamland)

[@JJJ82882]

2 games that are the same game World Class Track Meet $5 Stadium Events $10k

[@Pholiage]

$765??? for Panic Restaurant? Well I sold my copy for $120 last christmas. Pal cart only. But still...

[@broken1394]

PAL can be a great alternative for physical collectors. 🔥

[@mjdf122]

Altus and Taito are usually expensive for NES

[@superdave3093]

Love these type of videos. Will you let us know in future videos whether this pricing is Loose or CIB? Thanks Riggs! 😊

[@KeviRun]

All of the prices he listed were loose copy prices from pricecharting.

[@TnTGameZone-]

John....LOVEEEE these kind of vids !!! Great job

[@someoneout-there2165]

Thanks so much for putting Tiny Toon Adventures on here. Hadn't thought of that in many years but that was my favorite game as a kid. I probably played through like 20+ times. 😂 Ahh.. good nostalgia.

[@Wyndigospirit]

Actually, I just bought Tiny Toons for my collection! I paid 20 bucks CAD but I was so surprised to see it was at an affordable price because it's such a fun game!

[@Nifterific]

It's crazy that Mickey Mousecapade is only $5. It's a certified classic! I actually got my 7 year old hooked on it a couple weeks ago. It's really good.

[@DeEvolveMe]

I rented Mousecapade so often as a kid, maybe it was because my parents worked for Disney. I loved playing that game

[@petesmart1983]

Actually it not really often the best games sold really well and often bad games or non promoted didn't. Mickey games were hugely popular so sold amazingly so there's so many copies

[@Nifterific]

@@petesmart1983 yeah I get that but Mario games aren’t $5 and the same logic could apply. That’s all I’m saying.

[@CacklingGoblinX]

Thankfully if you just want to collect some NES games there are still some cheap cool games to pick up. One that I love that is seldom mentioned is Tom & Jerry :)

[@supergeoff]

Great video, John I really enjoy Wacky Races and Rockin Kats

[@retrojoe85]

I play retro games just because I really love them. They still bring me so much fun and joy, but when prices start to give you only pain... Yeah, it's better to find alternative ways to play some of them.

[@milotaloneightyone5518]

Little Nemo. I would like to own a copy, considering it was my favorite game growing up

[@freddyvidz]

I watch these videos and I LOVED collecting for the NES, but it got too ridiculous. I loved games because I loved playing them. The NES truly changed my life and I loved every minute of it. I am finally to a point where I can let it go, but I hate it is becoming too expensive for others to enjoy.

[@colt5189]

I rented that Little Nemo game a lot back then.

[@DubiousGamingOnline]

Taz, Nermal, Plucky are the tiny toon names you were looking for.

[@KamenRiderGumo]

Furball, actually. Nermal is a character in Garfield.

[@TonyGonzo13]

Great Muttley laugh!

[@KamenRiderGumo]

Whomp 'Em was, I think, Saiyuki World 2 in Japan, obviously the sequel to Saiyuki World and both based on the novel of the same name. Obviously not a huge fanbase for that here in the US, and I only know as much as I do about it because it was the original basis for DragonBall.

[@jasonmoore3036]

I remember buying my second NES game and I had Mega man vs deadly towers in my hands. I chose Deadly towers that day. I chose poorly. lol.

[@MotherKojiro]

Funny you should liken Whomp 'em to Shovel Knight: there's actually a rom hack of Whomp 'em where you play as Shovel Knight.

[@roguedr0id]

Dang...Wacky Racers dropped. I saw it about a year ago for $400 at a local shop.

[@RickyRockstarTNS]

I would say Little Samson kind of deserves to be higher than Flintstones because IMO Flintstones doesn't really control all that well in comparison. I prefer a cheap game like Big Nose the Caveman for my prehistoric NES fix. What's great about unlicensed NES is that a lot of NES collectors disregard them which helps keep their prices down some. But some of them are really great like Tengen Ms. Pac-Man.

[@danielespeziari5545]

You inspired me to play the original Mega Man (again) yesterday night, and I think it still has a lot of charm, although it's a bit lacking compared to its sequels. The point system is useless, some weapons (Bombman's and Gutsman's) are useless or not fun to use outside of boss encounters, there are no extra characters (no Rush, no Protoman), the music isn't nearly as good as MM2 or 3 (but it still has charm), stages are pretty short, there are only 6 Robot Masters instead of 8.... So yeah, it's certainly not the best in the series, but the fun and the challenge are there. Oh, and the PAL box art is actually awesome

[@makedaevilmage]

Tiny toon adventures looks like a fun game, never heard of it. Was also kinda expecting to see Rescue rangers in this vid tho. Also a very fun game, although the second itteration might put you off a little in terms of price. I'll be sure to check out tiny toon adventures tho. Thanks John.

[@someoneout-there2165]

Tiny Toons was, for a good while it was my favorite NES game.

[@awesom3herbz]

Great video format

[@khreativa]

Peanuts! Now let's do the same for the Neo Geo AES.

[@mjdf122]

John Riggs NES time from cheap to expensive

[@Mike__P]

I'd be more willing to shell out $2000 for a rare NES game than an electric bike 😆

[@mcorivervsaf]

Mickey Mousecapade is really a Hudson title, Capcom merely published the same game with several changes made to the characters in the game.

[@krisfrederick5001]

So...John. You were one of those legendary kids. How hard was it to play Mario 3 with the joystick on the Playchoice? I imagine it didn't matter. You were playing effing Mario 3.

[@joeyfarris2543]

Little Nemo The Bed Wetter goes for $100,000 dollars because it's a very limited release on the NES

[@blademaster7879]

I buy games to play them. So when games really get up there, I have no issues finding a quality repro.

[@goranisacson2502]

I feel so, so, SO fortunate that I got to play Little Samson on actual hardware back in the day in i family friend's kids NES. Good game, real fun, wonderful style and playing a dragon back in the day was way too rare... but it's not "worth thousands of dollars"-levels of great. If Gimmick can get a re-release, why not this I wonder...

[@jasonhewitt9542]

Betcha you just made the price of Tiny Toons and Little Nemo increase

[@unclejoker9975]

8:13 pretty close😂

[@screw_3259]

Liked for Mickey's Mousecapade. Low key goated

[@GeorgeBoudousquie-w1z]

Can you, do a video on every battery saved game for the nes, and a price it goes for. Because some of the nes games I'm surprised that some games are sports games. Not all of them are just RPG's and Adventure games.

[@NightshadowZX]

I love this idea for videos!!

[@jackschleich9475]

i know from the beginning that the right is Little Samson

[@g041583]

Would you be able to do a review list of best stores around US (retail or online) to acquire NES games in CIBS and sealed games? Please do one on Texas video games stores😊

[@JohnRiggs]

I've only been to one video game store in Texas where they had a great selection but the prices weren't great.

[@keithswiniarski7766]

Here's a hypothetical question: would you consider having a few repro carts as part of a complete collection or do you only consider legit copies a part of a full collection?

[@JohnRiggs]

Never. Only legit.

[@keithswiniarski7766]

@@JohnRiggs Normally I'd agree but I think certain exceptions should be made. Like the championship carts or Little Samson. The games that are essentially impossible to acquire.

[@lyhuewynegar7312]

Why the zoom on the mouth at Rockin Cats? Weird lol

[@EuSouRCS]

Whomp'em is an official rom hack of Saiyuuki World 2 💗💎💗

[@bucksatanII]

These prices are just for the game right not with box and manual?

[@JohnRiggs]

Yeah, loose.

[@game_master_rukia]

mario 3 is a great game but i wasn't gonna pay 20-30 bucks for it so i waited and found one for 10 bucks

[@doublebass1985]

little dreamo the neam master

[@KeviRun]

I am disappointed that you did not touch on the clearly best platformer game on the NES, Cheetamen II. Surely for the price that a copy goes for, it would clearly surpass the enjoyment of any of the other games you have listed here. SMB3 still gives the best bang for the buck, but Little Nemo comes really close.

[@adlorin]

Wow, my copy of megaman is worth how much?! I still have both the box and comic too. :)

[@danghootenanny]

I loved Mickey Mousecapade

[@EternalLoveAnkh]

Are you saying you'll sell Flintstones? I was the guy in the wheelchair at SEGE who asked you if you had a copy. RJ

[@JohnRiggs]

I'm working something out with someone already. It's still here but already claimed for the other dude.

[@EternalLoveAnkh]

@@JohnRiggs If it fails, can I take hold? RJ

[@elmeme007]

What about Metal Storm? Lol

[@sonatonemaster]

Someone is talking about Little Samson?

[@AngryCalvin]

I wouldn't pay $5 for Mickey Mousecapade. One of my siblings had it. Not good at all. Terrible actually. Little Nemo is a classic. One of the best NES titles ever. One I need to get in my collection. Tiny Toons is Konami so it's really good. Really cool gameplay and fun game. I don't have this one in my collection either. Little Nemo is my priority but this just might come after. Little Sampson looks like a great game. Appears on almost every underrated game list. I rented a ton of games back in the day but somehow missed this one. I loved Shatterhand but wouldn't pay over $100 for it or any game. Little Sampson looks like a great game but not going to be buying it with that pricetag.

[@Joshuah24]

i walked in to aretro gamestore saw little samson going for 2grand and i asked the dude why so high for this nes game he replyed whip out your credit card and i'll tell you i was like uh no i'll pass i remember renting it back in the past and i told the owner this he said no you didnt was kinda rude to me. just for asking qustions so i pulled out my android phone started playing the rom lol as i was walking out, i walk in to retro stores and see these prices and think yep thats why emulation exsists

[@jennatransgirl]

😂 i have a bootleg of little Samsung because I cant afford the real one. Best game for me, bucky O'Hare

[@Kevinsyel]

Now accepting donations for a legit copy of Panic Restaurant and Little Sampson for my collections. Your donation is not expected but much appreciated!

[@joesshows6793]

I rented mega man 1 a dozen times. So goof

[@jackschleich9475]

140 more like for battletoads,not rockin cats, might as well be mc kids

[@repomanzilla]

Xbox 360 marketplace is shut down and not working. Just got off phone with Microsoft and they have no eta for the fix and no plans to extend the deadline. So as of right now you can’t buy games via your Xbox 360 console or from online via browser on computer or anything. 😅….they have massively dropped the ball on this

[@Dwayne-m4t]

It's a little bit racially insentive, I know you'll say I'm a white dude. My Grandma was 100% Mohawk , she didn't want me to that game.

[@greenmanplus]

And where is the mention of the Nintendo World Championship, it probably costs $100,000 for an ordinary unremarkable cartridge case and $10000000000000000 for a golden beautiful cartridge case.

[@TurdFerg117]

Todays standards suck

[@jarredkrum9894]

Little Samson not worth what ppl want for it. Its so overrated. id rather buy alota other nes games over that game tbh