My NES Collection is SHOCKINGLY Small

[@JohnRiggs]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3_SZ4CortZ6obM Here are some great NES games to buy when you're kinda broke.

[@joshuamackey2326]

Boy metal jesus is about having "the stuff" ain't he 😂😂

[@dwaynemenzies8824]

I love Astyanax, Street Fighter 2010 and RC ProAm.

[@wargodsix]

Never know those low priced games could go up for few reasons

[@kevinstyles1991]

Always love your vibe. Remind me of so many of my friends growing up.

[@joshalexander9018]

It is funny you speak of Star Tropics at around 5:00 or so when you found Zoda's Revenge and you point out the art on the wall. I spotted a Star Tropics came tucked away in your background next to the Dr. Robotnik you have on the shelf.

[@efuntron]

I feel like I’m constantly curating my collection and only keeping stuff I will play or that I’m nostalgic for. I started seriously collecting when I was probably 15 or 16. I like having shelves of games though. It’s easier for me to appreciate them when they’re well organized. Kinda like my own little video store where I can grab it off the shelf and play it.

[@Jarod_Schultz]

I only have 8 NES games. I want hundreds more.

[@thanvar]

I love your videos John! Pure positive vibes and heartfelt truths and stories. Keep being you. Love from Greece.

[@chiefchimp2789]

My collection is all thrift store finds between 1998-2002. I found a little over 200 games that I paid no more than 3 bucks each for. Nothing shocking or super rare. My best finds were Toxic Crusaders, Ninja Gaiden III, Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt, and a CIB Dragon Warrior II. I've had them for so long that they feel like childhood games.

[@Parody42]

Despite how much I love retro games, and the fact I have a whole podcast dedicated to them, I have a relatively small collection. It used to be a bit bigger, with some heavy hitters, but over the years I just find myself being only interested in the carts that I grew up and stuff relative to my interests (like unlicensed carts).

[@charleybarley7148]

Mine is relatively small for a collector as well. I have maybe 600-650 games across 6 consoles and handhelds. I know this is a lot, but I have collector friends who have thousands. I am STILL working through them (and enjoying every minute). It is the hidden blessing behind the high prices (I am not buying as much and thus I have more time to spend on the games I have).

[@sabin97]

i have thousands of nes sms and snes roms......

[@charleybarley7148]

@@sabin97 nobody cares

[@WMARUoriginal]

I’ve whittled my collection down a ton, but the weird thing is I have over 150 switch carts. It’s just so collectible and fun to actually play too!

[@gi_nattak]

Size of your collection doesn’t matter, it’s how you use it.

[@chaospoet]

I love Maniac Mansion. I haven't played it since like 1991 but the instant you showed it the music when you enter the Mansion started playing in my head. I was obsessed with it when it came out. Never got all the endings either.

[@Roshenbo]

I remember being a kid, back in the days of no internet. (Simpler times...) And literally having to look game stores up in the phone book, and then, convince an adult to drive me to them. I was on the hunt for one game. Maniac Mansion... I simply loved this game as a child. Mostly because when I'd play it, my younger brother would sit there and watch me play it for hours on end. I too, never got all the endings. But that didn't matter to me. I still own the copy I found in a pawn shop over 30 years ago. I'll never get rid of that game! (Sigh)... Here's to the good ol days 🤜🤛

[@danielespeziari5545]

I grew up with the Super Nintendo, not the NES, but I love owning my 63 boxed and my 117 loose NES games. Of course I don't need them, since I also own the N8 Everdrive, but having them on my shelves motivates me more to play them. Everdrives allow so much choice that I often end up not playing anything at all. Anyway, why should I sell my carts, as long as I don't need to make money out of it? But I respect your point of view of course

[@retrojoe85]

Your attitude about original cartridges and emulation is really appreciated. Despite my honest love behind the act of buying and owning several game cartridges and old gaming systems, sometimes I just prefer to open to emulator and play them on a PC that I'm already using for other things. I've also pumped my old Windows 7 PC (that can't be updated to 10 due to some driver issues on the motherboard) as a nice emulation machine. For NES, I don't care about CIB or loose...sometimes I prefer loose cartridges, because at the end I just wanna play the game on the console. I bought as CIB pieces just some of the games that I really care about. For Genesis (Mega Drive here in Europe) I buy only CIB games because cartridges are way more fragile and can broke more easily. Even if I'm more an emulation guy, I still love to buy physical games and old consoles, especially the most obscure ones. I still own all the 2600, NES and Master System games survived from my childhood, even some LCD handhelds but, from now on, only emulation is allowed in my life, since I've no free space anymore in my room... 🤭

[@sabin97]

i gave up windows years ago....the best choice i could have made. so far not a single screen equivalent to the blue screen of death. currently running ubuntu, with my own custom version of retroarch. there were certain things it wasnt doing that i wanted it to do. so i cloned the repository and made my changes, got the libraries i needed and compiled it myself. works like a charm..... if i could just get tekken 4 to run in mame that would be even better....

[@newspooiechannel]

In the early 2000s, I started buying up a ton of NES, SNES and Genesis games on the super cheap. Games that no one wanted, having already moved on to the Playstation and N64. I didn't keep up with a lot of modern gaming at the time and it took a few years into the PS2/Xbox/GCN era when I started getting back in. When I did, it was such a huge leap in technology, I found myself buying up numerous games for each system I owned (GCN, PS2 and GBA all bought in 2003, Xbox in 2005) and after a couple years, I realized I had purchased way more games than I was ever going to play. I kept doing that for a few more years until the Wii U, PS4 and XB1 came out and got burned out again. Then I started going back and picking up PS2 games I missed out on for literal pennies on the dollar (Gamestop's famous fire sale, liquidating 1/3 of their PS2 library at 10-for-$1). But by then I almost never played anything. That all changed when COVID hit and I was instructed to work from home for 1.5 years. Suddenly, I finally had all that extra time I needed to start diving into all those games again. And what I realized was that life by then had taken me in a different direction and my priorities had changed and I cared very little about most of the game library. So I made the decision to sell off a number of them and either replace them with cheap digital copies, cheap used copies or buy their newer HD counterparts on sale. This finally culminated with selling off my boxed Shantae and several order MIB/Sealed GBA games and several other sealed games and grabbing the game on the Switch, my first new Nintendo system in 14 years. And, you know, since I've begun selling off games from my collection, at no point have I looked back and had any regrets. I regretted selling off one or two NES games maybe 15 years ago when I felt the need to downsize, but in the last year and a half, I've had none. There are, however, a few that I feel I need to keep. Similarly, I feel obligated to hold on to each of the original NES MegaMan games, even though I own them on something like 5 or 6 different platforms now. But I could probably sell off or trade away upwards of 90% of my collection and never look back.

[@justinsmith7087]

I'm not against emulation I have a modded Wii with every NES and SNES game on it but I like having a physical collection to see and hold in my hands 😂😂

[@bskok82]

Man I've wanted one of those Princess Tomato carts since I was a kid reading about it in nintendo power, but they seemed to be impossible to find where i lived because my mom never tracked one down. Still want it today but not a fan of the huge price tags on them, so guess I'll keep waiting and hunting hoping to stumble upon a cheap copy? I'm weird though, after using emulators for a number of years it just doesn't do it for me anymore. It's the ceremony of putting a cartridge in the original machine, turning it on, playing on my old CRT... playing games on an emulator lacked that special part of it for me.

[@billchief397]

That may not happen depending what cheap is defined. I sold my copy at our local game store for almost 200.00. I was surprised how rare this game was

[@RandoReviews]

I remember buying a sealed Bucky O Hare in 2007 for about $25. I sold it and the rest of my collection (over 200 games) which included games like Metal Storm which I bought for maybe $5 at most all a few years later for get married. I think it sold for around $400. Still don’t regret it.

[@GregsGameRoom]

I don’t have many cartridges either. With Everdrives there’s little reason to overspend on a large collection of games.

[@BlackMoore82]

I've been married to the NES port of Bucky O'Hare since it's release, I'd rent it so much throughout 1992-'93 that I ended up buying it from the store I rented it from. Also married to Missile Command for the Atari 2600 and Illusion of Gaia on the SNES.

[@wbdx9785]

Your channel has been consistently great. Keep it up man. "Came for MJ, stayed for Riggs..." 😆

[@nynick716]

Maniac mansion and kid Icarus were underrated classics and mega man 2 spent hours (best mega man imo)

[@danbauer3669]

Princess Tomato and the Salad Kingdom. You're great, John Riggs. I think I rented that game as a kid and hated it, but every game is somebody's favorite. Bucky O Hare was the last most expensive game to add to my NES collection. Guess what? $250CDN. Yeah. Also, I recently spent $400 on a Game Gear game. Haha! I love the SGG and hope to have a complete collection someday. That game is GG Aleste. I got Mega Man and Fantastic Dizzy as a kid, but there are others that are getting ridiculously expensive. I have about 150 NES games. Love your channel, buddy. Discovered you through MetalJesusRocks. Great stuff!

[@DarkPitTheFallenAngel]

You have the japanese version of princess tomato in the background.

[@russdoesburg1720]

i love your message at the end. So often in the Retro Games Community its like "LOOK AT ALL THE STUFF!!!!" and its cool and all but having something that never gets used simply because you want to lord over it like a dragon is not my vibe. I love playing these games and i have all the games from my childhood and a few extra that i didnt know about as a kid. i have them stored close for convivence but and display a couple i really love. I personally want function over display. that doesnt stop me from watching room tours of people collection.

[@bok3rnes425]

I love NES. And today you can have large collection by playing with emulator and NES romset for PC. By the way Great Review John ❤❤❤❤

[@FreddieFraggs]

I have plenty of NES carts but emulation is definitely the way to go. Especially the enhancements that are possible with emulation. 👍

[@darktetsuya]

definitely a great stack of games! my wife actually bought me my copy of clash at demonhead off of amazon. I remember renting it once or twice back in the day but never finished it. luckily I DID beat that copy so definitely feel vindicated from my childhood, it is kind of a fun one!! had no idea you got princess tomato in the same way, what a great story.

[@agarven1]

Omg John that so awesome how you got Bucky O’Hare for 5 dollars. I showed you my Bucky O’Hare complete in box I got for 8 dollars. It was amazing meeting you over the weekend. You’re such a cool dude and very kind

[@MrAdrenaline1982]

11:29 that's similar to when I bought Snatcher for Sega CD. KB Toys had like 10 copies discounted to like $14.99. I had no idea it would turn out to be such a rare game.

[@CRXJDM88]

I've tried numerous times playing emulators not saying they're bad but it doesn't have that original feel but I'm definitely a big fan of Castlevania got to start getting back to that game

[@subversive1219]

My collection habits are like yours. I don't collect to invest, I want to play them. I could emulate everything but, nothing gives that nostalgic feel like physical games. My first console when I struck out on my own was an NES. A couple of years later, I bought a Sega Genesis. I started re-collecting Genesis games about 3 years ago. The rising prices, brought that to a screeching halt. I have about 70 games. I did buy games I had wanted back in the day but, couldn't afford at the time. I do want to start collecting NES again at some point. I played the living hell out of LOLO =D LOVE your channel ;)

[@erikrosenquist9839]

Timeless finds, John.

[@mraycgz]

Maniac Mansion blew my little mind when I was a kid. I couldn’t imagine believe video games could tell a story like that.

[@hfield07]

sold most of my collection this year. kept 25ish nes and 25ish snes games just for when i wanna play original hardware on the crt and feeling nostalgic.

[@christinestachurski9435]

I only got into the game collecting scene recently behind my son's love for retro games. Retro gaming is probably one of the few things we can connect with and the only thing we can do together that I can share from childhood. Anything in our collection is what we have wanted to play or have played. I have zero issue with playing retro nintendo games via nintendo online..with the exception of Ocarina of Time..the controls are so specific to the 64, it just throws me thru a loop. We're pretty limited on space too, so this is another reason why I'm not a completionist and tbh..still might not be even if I won the powerball today and could have a game room 2x bigger than our current house. I like to be able to say I've played the games I have at one time or another.

[@Big-Bert]

WOW! I have a VERY similar story with the SAME game! Had rented a handful of times as a kid but never got it finished. Hunted it for years and never found it. My GF gave it to me for my B-day and we’ve been together 10 years now!

[@neilthomas6042]

I think your collection is a good one, keeping the ones you love. I sold my collection years ago, for a pittance. I collect CD's. DVD and Bluray. I have around 700 CD's, many of which I have not listened to. The same goes for my Blurays and DVD.

[@CrazyHomelessWeirdo]

John I absolutely love this video I think over the years I've watched a lot of your stuff and I enjoy your content but this has got to be my favorite just you talking about video games that you love and it just made nostalgic and reminded me of my own love for the classic NES the system that made my childhood. And I absolutely adored your princess tomato story

[@davestevens3252]

This is an awesome reminder that enjoying retro games doesn't need to be accompanied with surrounding yourself with stuff. There are so many totems to the hobby; items like Little Samson are merit badges.

[@sabin97]

the only physical things i bought for my retrogaming are a wii classic controller(the very best of the modern controllers) and a usb adapter for it. all my games are emulated with retroarch as the frontend.

[@chrismccloy6539]

I love Bucky ‘o Hare, it still holds up today in my opinion. Punch Out is my favorite NES game. I enjoyed the video John.

[@DavetheNESGuy]

Your message at the end of the video is bang on!

[@L_o_c_a_l_G_u_y]

My three favourite NES games of all time are River city Ransom, maniac mansion, and princess tomato. We totally should have been friends in school.

[@richardbarth918]

One of my best gaming memories is beating tyson and completing silver surfer

[@richterbelmont5506]

Silver surfer is beatable?

[@matts9382]

Speaking of cheap games, my local video store sold off their NES games when I was in 5th grade, so mid 1996. I scored a copy of Mega Man for two bucks. By the end of that summer, my collection went from maybe a dozen games to like forty. Wild times!

[@supermustachepika]

Kirby's Adventure was a game from my childhood that I 100% completed and I have all three Castlevanias and Zoda's Revenge I played through and completed before Startropics and never owned Startropics. One game I would like to add to my NES library is Dragon Warrior IV but it is very expensive.

[@prestowilso9]

Love the message!

[@Slotmassacre]

Time to go back and release longer form, “All games by Data East”. Absolutely love those videos but they are too short John!

[@charlesminchew3847]

The older I get the more I realize there's not a lot of reason to actually collect carts (FOR ME PERSONALLY!). If I just want to play the games, either a system + Everdrive or something like a modded mini system covers whatever I'd really want to play. Prices have gotten way too ridiculous to justify even rebuking my childhood collections.

[@hectormontalvo5565]

And ridiculous they are! I remember back in 2005 I sold NES games for $1 mint CIB. Flashforward to now resellers want $50 for the same game loose with magicmarker writing on them! Ridiculously high! I wouldn't mind so much if they were mint CIB or sealed but then resellers want $100s for them. I'm out of retro collecting until prices are realistic again!😭

[@RealziesCuts]

Vouch 💫🎮🏆

[@teeveeparty]

I honestly don't care how people play their retro games, but there are lots of great deals to be found on fun games if people are willing to buy loose carts.

[@charlesminchew3847]

@@teeveeparty that's true. There are deals to be found. But the collection aspect has lost its appeal over time for me. For example. Last year I bought myself an n64. And instead of buying a few carts that have shot up in price like Papar Mario or Smash, I bought an Everdrive. I also bought the expansion pack, rumble, transfer and memory packs and HD cables. Now I have every n64 game I'd like to play, plus a few Japanese games that got English translations and rom hacks. It's also been a great space saver not having to collect for anything basically below the ps2. And while I do have a small collection of about 70 ps2 games, I'll probably end up using Free McBoot to play the more rare and expensive titles. Now, I do understand the appeal of collecting, finding a deal, or wanting the physical item. This isn't an emulation superiority post. Just offering my own perspective on why my collection is much much smaller than it used to be.

[@leeartlee915]

This. And honestly, that’s becoming the case across the board. I also just want LESS stuff in my life, not more. I can just imagine the day I die and people need to get rid of my shit. If they come across a small collection of systems with ODEs and emulators, that’s less of a burden. In general, I find that there are two types of retro gamers. One who likes to collect games and those who want to play them. I can tell you, dollar to donuts, the people who are less concerned with their labels and manuals and all that stuff that is related to games are the same people who find “they don’t have time” to play games more.

[@MasterDayTrader]

Damn, respectfully I never thought that I had more bigger NES collection than you. Based on your content, and videos I thought you were killing it in the Nintendo collection game.

[@jcchaconjr]

I literally only have 3 games from my youth (I was 18, lol). OutRun for the Master System, then John Madden Football and Madden ‘92 for the Genesis. Not sure how I came to hold onto these. I had passed my Atari and Genesis collections (all CIB) to my brother, who just traded them in a few years later for an N64 😩 Anyway, About 15 years ago, I started rebuilding those old collections. I have the equivalent era consoles once again (Model 1 Genesis, Heavy Sixer VCS), and all the games I originally had (and more) - all CIB. Yeah, I guess I’ve always been OCD like that, lol. My entire collection across 16 consoles and handhelds is all CIB, including the consoles.

[@cratedivizion]

yeah i'd buy and sell a lot of the higher end games. like ghoul patrol for snes...think it goes for 200+ or something. buy it...beat it....sell it. did that with a ton of games. gargoyles quest 2. wacky races... 2 of my top 10 favorite NES games are golgo 13 and snake rattle n roll. among the most super common and go for $5 - $10 panic restaurant was a real nostalgic childhood game for me, definitely holding onto my copy of that though.

[@fmdof]

50 bucks in 2001 for princess tomato loose? that was spensive for an nes at that time.

[@Jay_AB_]

Another great video John. Lots of nostalgia

[@leeartlee915]

I really like the vibe of this video and the message behind it. I’ve been trying to preach that this obsession with having the most “choice” retro gaming collection is absurd. Like, ask yourself, what is it you really want: is it to play video games or to say you own video games? Because if you would have told my 8 year old self that there was a way to have every 8-bit and 16-bit game ever made loaded onto a handheld device, I would have crapped myself. When I was buying games in the 90s, I did it because it was the only way to play games. But we have so many more options today. And frankly, as the trends in modern gaming move forward, physical games are gonna disappear. No joke, in 50 years, no person under the age of 40 is gonna give a crap about having a “wall of games”. It’s gonna be seen for what it is: are kick in old-fashioned. It reminds me of people who collect vinyl records and swear it’s the “best way to listen to music”. It’s objectively wrong and unnecessary. So like Riggs says, you wanna play games, just go play some games. There has never been a better time in history to access them than right now.

[@janX9]

*_Atari E.T._* is the _one_ game I'm keeping after selling off my game collection.

[@damondelgado4603]

You should put it in a pile and burn it, so he can be with his family 🤣

[@janX9]

@@damondelgado4603 is actually not a bad game for its era.

[@djmiggy1778]

Clash At Demonhead is one of my favorites.

[@alanfike]

I'm also old school, and: - I've never beaten Contra without the 30 lives code. - I love Mike Tyson's Punchout and have never beaten Mike Tyson. And I'm fine with both of these things. Maybe one day I'll beat Mike Tyson, but I don't like Contra enough to beat it with 3 lives, and I used to play Contra all the time. The Princess Tomato story is great.

[@dwightdixon8508]

Sure would be something special seeing Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom in VR like The Legend of Zelda

[@tommyozzy317]

My collecting started as an urge to get back everything I have lost/broke/sold over the last almost 4 decades. After getting almost everything back, it kinda spiraled out of control. I would like to get my hands on as many old carts considering they wont be around much longer. No idea if ill ever complete it but will be picking up as much as i can handle.

[@strawmancomics]

Good message at the end there.

[@otterspotter]

Not a collector either by any stretch. i kind of feel bad that in another comment I made on your channel I was suggesting that I had many more SNES cartridges than you, and while perhaps true, I think the "brag" fails to account for that I am the oldest of five children. We pooled our resources. I was born in 1980, and my parents were awesome in getting me an NES that Christmas or birthday or whatever. I have literally no idea how many NES titles I co-own. They are all my youngest brother's possession now. I feel like we had a lot, but again, all our games were my brother's and sister's collective property. I don't own a single game, but collectively we have a decent stock.

[@CrazyHomelessWeirdo]

Did you know that as far as the US release is concerned Kirby's adventure is the biggest NES game ever released. I don't mean in size of scope or time to play I mean in size of memory they use to make the game. It is 6 megabits big. I think there might be one bigger game made that was released only in Japan but I'm not 100% on that

[@Mr.Hatchet224]

Awesome channel man tnx for the content.

[@evgaming9390]

This is why I like your channel more than Metal Jesus. You seem more authentic in talking about games.

[@NESADDICT]

Sometimes that’s better

[@erikmolnar6585]

I have two multicarts and a shoebox in a closet full of OGs. They will all end up back in circulation as folks die off or go through life changes where it's not practical to have them anymore.

[@redtrojanhorse]

I played princess tomato on emulator, it is one of my favorites nes game, such a diamond you've got there.

[@redtrojanhorse]

Hi john, I enjoy your content so much greetings from Costa Rica. I played princess tomato like 15 years ago, on an very old computer using emulation, it was during a hard time. When I was a kid I had a famiclone, it was so difficult to get an American Nes, but mine played american carts, most of the games I know have been through emulation, the Latam way lol.

[@dimelo8826]

I always imagined you had a huge collection of NES games John. I’m shocked and appalled 😂

[@michaeljohnson1443]

River city ransom is a AWESOME game. Also, be careful wraping or putting games in plastic. Plastic will make it sweat.

[@fredo3161]

I have a few classics, some games from youth. Very few games I feel like I need the cart or box (I have no CIB games) for.

[@sethallison5682]

I sold maybe 75% of my games when I was on tough times. I kept my small childhood stacks of nes, snes and ps1 and that’s really it. Stuff that my parents bought me when I was a kid is hard to part with, like rad racer and the black cart Pac-Man that my mom stuck in an Easter basket when I was maybe 6. Otherwise it’s all gone. I miss having it all but really the modded mini classic consoles do it all and better. I’d rather spend the money on collecting switch stuff.

[@archdawg5688]

Maniac Mansion was my favorit game growing up!

[@historyb5786]

I had a Nintendo growing up and love it still. My one regret is selling my commodore 64 for 20 dollars to pay my rent. Someday I will get one back

[@LaCourierInCrysis]

I've watched Bucky in the far past when I delivered The Olympian on bike. That's awesome man I had all those games in Scott lake

[@andrewlawrence5396]

Love the vibes man. I hoarded a complete CIB snes set for 7 years. It was fun putting it together but it just collected dust. I liquidated it and never looked back. I feel free. And I also have money in the bank😘. Walls of games is soooo 2010 KZbin

[@Railbrony]

I’ve been collecting nes on and off over the past few years. Currently at 28 games all loose carts

[@LowestDifficulty]

its hard for me to collect for nes when my retropie displays very crisp and the games are all right there to pick from. hard to go back and the price of some of the nes games now makes it even harder for me

[@gabbothegiver]

IL be honest, I love the stickers in the games especially from blockbuster, great video and nice collection Mr Riggs.

[@JohnRiggs]

I like stickers, too.

[@mtshark7]

Awesome stuff John!

[@volvoguy804]

NES is the only system I collect for, besides 3do (which is completed). I use Everdrives with my other consoles. I have close to 120 NES games and a few of the ones you showed. Some of the games in your collection are high-dollar though. Die Hard, Gun Nac, and Ducktales 2 are probably the most expensive I own.

[@richterbelmont5506]

Would you ever sell gun Nac?

[@Radd1976]

I don't have Mario 1, 2, and 3 either. Much to my surprise. I think I remember my old self thinking, "I have Mario All Stars, so I can trade these"........... Had to get a 3DO somehow LOL.

[@sethallison5682]

Maniac Mansion has some of the best 8 bit music of all time IMO

[@dimelo8826]

I never tried or got into mappy land or princess tomato. Would see it as a kid and never appealed to me. Funny how sometimes games become either more rare or just plain cherished and looked at differently.

[@SmokeBreakWithHuck]

About half my boxed NES games are from our local Crazy Mikes.

[@watson3047z]

I haven't gotten into CIB collecting yet either. I like to collect sets of series of games. For example I have all of the Time crisis games for the different systems and I just got Ikari Warriors 3 to complete that set.

[@JustinLaClair]

I am going to tell myself that your copy of Air Fortress is on the shelf behind you, with Castlevania 3 :)

[@scottg7660]

They say it’s not about the size, it’s how you use it.

[@agarven1]

John I seen you said about Contra. I actually beat Contra without using the 30 man code. I beat it within the 3 lives years ago.

[@billchief397]

Wow I just finally sold my princess tomato with the instructions. Had no idea it was so rare.

[@Villain_Killin_Dylan]

Me too. I've got all mine cib but my collection is limited to Mario1 and 3, Zelda 1-2, DonkeyKong and Dr.Mario. all 6 complete

[@manganmegamangan]

the only nes game i have left from my childhood is werewolf the last warrior. it stand in my retro shelf

[@nerderousrampage]

I also share your philosophy with collecting games. I have a copy of clash at demonhead that was my personal copy when growing up, I dont think I'll ever part with that cart. That hat is awesome, where did you get it?

[@dhall888]

I have all the wrestling games on the n64 and I still love them! Wrestlemania 2000 and no mercy were top tier!!!

[@gaminggambino8185]

I’ve got a copy of Metal Storm as well, similar label damage. For some reason I see a lot of label damage on those!

[@inTheBandTree]

Maniac Mansion is my favorite game of all time.

[@CapnRetro]

You're missing some gems Willow⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The battle of Olympus⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Shadowgate⭐⭐⭐⭐ Legendary Wings⭐⭐⭐⭐ Karnov⭐⭐⭐

[@gameaholicadam1969]

I have a small nes collection. I was gonna get my first nes about 2 or 3 years ago and a friend gave me a retron 1 with famicom adapter. So i starred colecting slowly. I have like 20 games currently. Including like 4 or 5 famicom games. Moatly like double dragon 2,river city ransom,kirbys adventure,wanpaku grafiti. There my famicom games

[@KillSwitch80]

No joke , Princess Tomato is my favorite NES game of all time. I just installed the rom on my Steam Deck. Now it’s going to be even harder to find 😑

[@SirStuckey]

I also still have my childhood alarm clock

[@CoolDudeClem]

Still bigger than my steam collection.

[@retrogameenthusiast4703]

I see that Princess Tomato next to Dr Robotnic as well 😬

[@commentresurrection1841]

My only boxed game also is the Tengen Tetris. I still need the manual though.

[@AKATenn]

My issue is that I could never see the value in a rom chip and a chunk of plastic(why are they so expensive today?)... to me, all the value was in the 1's and 0's stored on that rom chip, so I was always fine with those multi-carts, as long as the game itself, the 1's and 0's are the same, the rest is just a generic rom chip and a waste of space... I collect games, not ancient methods of storing data. although i do see the value of using the actual system hardware and controllers and CRT's, so you know the game is being played/looking the way intended, loading something from rom, or floppy, or CD doesn't matter if the 1's and 0's are the same...