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JohnRiggs

JohnRiggs

Жыл бұрын

I love my NES. The Nintendo Entertainment System was my favorite system growing up and is my favorite of all time. With all the years I've been playing you'd think I'd have this massive collection. Truth be known, it's a lot smaller than you think.
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@JohnRiggs
@JohnRiggs Жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3_SZ4CortZ6obM Here are some great NES games to buy when you're kinda broke.
@joshuamackey2326
@joshuamackey2326 Жыл бұрын
Boy metal jesus is about having "the stuff" ain't he 😂😂
@dwaynemenzies8824
@dwaynemenzies8824 Жыл бұрын
I love Astyanax, Street Fighter 2010 and RC ProAm.
@wargodsix
@wargodsix Жыл бұрын
Never know those low priced games could go up for few reasons
@kevinstyles1991
@kevinstyles1991 Жыл бұрын
Always love your vibe. Remind me of so many of my friends growing up.
@joshalexander9018
@joshalexander9018 Жыл бұрын
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.
@Jarod_Schultz
@Jarod_Schultz Жыл бұрын
I only have 8 NES games. I want hundreds more.
@Thunderbutt1978
@Thunderbutt1978 Жыл бұрын
Nostalgia is the biggest driving factor behind my collecting. I love finding games I played growing up. Doesn't matter how bad it may have been.
@gi_nattak
@gi_nattak Жыл бұрын
Size of your collection doesn’t matter, it’s how you use it.
@justinsmith7087
@justinsmith7087 Жыл бұрын
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 😂😂
@thanvar
@thanvar Жыл бұрын
I love your videos John! Pure positive vibes and heartfelt truths and stories. Keep being you. Love from Greece.
@wbdx9785
@wbdx9785 Жыл бұрын
Your channel has been consistently great. Keep it up man. "Came for MJ, stayed for Riggs..." 😆
@WMARUoriginal
@WMARUoriginal Жыл бұрын
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!
@Parody42
@Parody42 Жыл бұрын
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
@charleybarley7148 Жыл бұрын
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
@sabin97 Жыл бұрын
i have thousands of nes sms and snes roms......
@charleybarley7148
@charleybarley7148 Жыл бұрын
@@sabin97 nobody cares
@CrazyHomelessWeirdo
@CrazyHomelessWeirdo Жыл бұрын
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
@mraycgz
@mraycgz Жыл бұрын
Maniac Mansion blew my little mind when I was a kid. I couldn’t imagine believe video games could tell a story like that.
@nynick716
@nynick716 Жыл бұрын
Maniac mansion and kid Icarus were underrated classics and mega man 2 spent hours (best mega man imo)
@BlackMoore82
@BlackMoore82 Жыл бұрын
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.
@chiefchimp2789
@chiefchimp2789 Жыл бұрын
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.
@chaospoet
@chaospoet Жыл бұрын
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
@Roshenbo Жыл бұрын
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 🤜🤛
@richardbarth918
@richardbarth918 Жыл бұрын
One of my best gaming memories is beating tyson and completing silver surfer
@richterbelmont5506
@richterbelmont5506 Жыл бұрын
Silver surfer is beatable?
@bok3rnes425
@bok3rnes425 Жыл бұрын
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
@FreddieFraggs Жыл бұрын
I have plenty of NES carts but emulation is definitely the way to go. Especially the enhancements that are possible with emulation. 👍
@danielespeziari5545
@danielespeziari5545 Жыл бұрын
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
@AlanFehr
@AlanFehr Жыл бұрын
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.
@Jay_AB_
@Jay_AB_ Жыл бұрын
Another great video John. Lots of nostalgia
@RandoReviews
@RandoReviews Жыл бұрын
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.
@bskok82
@bskok82 Жыл бұрын
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
@billchief397 Жыл бұрын
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
@Mr.Hatchet224
@Mr.Hatchet224 Жыл бұрын
Awesome channel man tnx for the content.
@danbauer3669
@danbauer3669 Жыл бұрын
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!
@darktetsuya
@darktetsuya Жыл бұрын
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.
@DavetheNESGuy
@DavetheNESGuy Жыл бұрын
Your message at the end of the video is bang on!
@djmiggy1778
@djmiggy1778 Жыл бұрын
Clash At Demonhead is one of my favorites.
@mtshark7
@mtshark7 Жыл бұрын
Awesome stuff John!
@chrismccloy6539
@chrismccloy6539 Жыл бұрын
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.
@retrojoe85
@retrojoe85 Жыл бұрын
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
@sabin97 Жыл бұрын
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....
@prestowilso9
@prestowilso9 Жыл бұрын
Love the message!
@CRXJDM88
@CRXJDM88 Жыл бұрын
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
@fmdof
@fmdof Жыл бұрын
50 bucks in 2001 for princess tomato loose? that was spensive for an nes at that time.
@janX9
@janX9 Жыл бұрын
*_Atari E.T._* is the _one_ game I'm keeping after selling off my game collection.
@damondelgado4603
@damondelgado4603 Жыл бұрын
You should put it in a pile and burn it, so he can be with his family 🤣
@janX9
@janX9 Жыл бұрын
@@damondelgado4603 is actually not a bad game for its era.
@erikmolnar6585
@erikmolnar6585 Жыл бұрын
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.
@erikrosenquist9839
@erikrosenquist9839 Жыл бұрын
Timeless finds, John.
@strawmancomics
@strawmancomics Жыл бұрын
Good message at the end there.
@matts9382
@matts9382 Жыл бұрын
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!
@MasterDayTrader
@MasterDayTrader Жыл бұрын
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.
@russdoesburg1720
@russdoesburg1720 Жыл бұрын
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.
@archdawg5688
@archdawg5688 Жыл бұрын
Maniac Mansion was my favorit game growing up!
@efuntron
@efuntron Жыл бұрын
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.
@MrAdrenaline1982
@MrAdrenaline1982 Жыл бұрын
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.
@Slotmassacre
@Slotmassacre Жыл бұрын
Time to go back and release longer form, “All games by Data East”. Absolutely love those videos but they are too short John!
@agarven1
@agarven1 Жыл бұрын
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
@gabbothegiver
@gabbothegiver Жыл бұрын
IL be honest, I love the stickers in the games especially from blockbuster, great video and nice collection Mr Riggs.
@JohnRiggs
@JohnRiggs Жыл бұрын
I like stickers, too.
@evgaming9390
@evgaming9390 3 ай бұрын
This is why I like your channel more than Metal Jesus. You seem more authentic in talking about games.
@JustinLaClair
@JustinLaClair Жыл бұрын
I am going to tell myself that your copy of Air Fortress is on the shelf behind you, with Castlevania 3 :)
@retro_anime_gamer_8716
@retro_anime_gamer_8716 Жыл бұрын
Excellent picks
@GregsGameRoom
@GregsGameRoom Жыл бұрын
I don’t have many cartridges either. With Everdrives there’s little reason to overspend on a large collection of games.
@dwightdixon8508
@dwightdixon8508 Жыл бұрын
Sure would be something special seeing Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom in VR like The Legend of Zelda
@retrogameenthusiast4703
@retrogameenthusiast4703 Жыл бұрын
I see that Princess Tomato next to Dr Robotnic as well 😬
@SirStuckey
@SirStuckey Жыл бұрын
I also still have my childhood alarm clock
@andrewlawrence5396
@andrewlawrence5396 Жыл бұрын
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
@redtrojanhorse
@redtrojanhorse Жыл бұрын
I played princess tomato on emulator, it is one of my favorites nes game, such a diamond you've got there.
@redtrojanhorse
@redtrojanhorse Жыл бұрын
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.
@balloonedraccoon2503
@balloonedraccoon2503 Жыл бұрын
I wish my dumbass would have kept my childhood consoles and games. "Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu" is the one I am most upset about.
@DarkPitTheFallenAngel
@DarkPitTheFallenAngel 4 ай бұрын
You have the japanese version of princess tomato in the background.
@tommyozzy317
@tommyozzy317 Жыл бұрын
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.
@Railbrony
@Railbrony 5 ай бұрын
I’ve been collecting nes on and off over the past few years. Currently at 28 games all loose carts
@manganmegamangan
@manganmegamangan Жыл бұрын
the only nes game i have left from my childhood is werewolf the last warrior. it stand in my retro shelf
@alanfike
@alanfike Жыл бұрын
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.
@newspooiechannel
@newspooiechannel Жыл бұрын
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.
@hfield07
@hfield07 Жыл бұрын
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.
@LaCourierInCrysis
@LaCourierInCrysis Жыл бұрын
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
@sethallison5682
@sethallison5682 Жыл бұрын
Maniac Mansion has some of the best 8 bit music of all time IMO
@subversive1219
@subversive1219 Жыл бұрын
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 ;)
@trevnerdhubbabubba6230
@trevnerdhubbabubba6230 Жыл бұрын
That is an awesome hat bro
@supermustachepika
@supermustachepika Жыл бұрын
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.
@fredo3161
@fredo3161 Жыл бұрын
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.
@keithmichael112
@keithmichael112 Жыл бұрын
as long as you have princess tomato in salad kingdom you can't say you have a bad collection
@davestevens3252
@davestevens3252 Жыл бұрын
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
@sabin97 Жыл бұрын
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.
@billchief397
@billchief397 Жыл бұрын
Wow I just finally sold my princess tomato with the instructions. Had no idea it was so rare.
@watson3047z
@watson3047z Жыл бұрын
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.
@dhall888
@dhall888 Жыл бұрын
I have all the wrestling games on the n64 and I still love them! Wrestlemania 2000 and no mercy were top tier!!!
@dronejunglistplatoon
@dronejunglistplatoon Жыл бұрын
you the man john!
@historyb5786
@historyb5786 Жыл бұрын
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
@krZabii
@krZabii Жыл бұрын
Loving the stray beard hair
@commentresurrection1841
@commentresurrection1841 Жыл бұрын
My only boxed game also is the Tengen Tetris. I still need the manual though.
@maxmulder
@maxmulder Жыл бұрын
Love Maniac Mansion!
@Radd1976
@Radd1976 Жыл бұрын
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.
@holddamayo7474
@holddamayo7474 8 ай бұрын
I wish it was only my collection that was shockingly small
@jcchaconjr
@jcchaconjr Жыл бұрын
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.
@scottg7660
@scottg7660 Жыл бұрын
They say it’s not about the size, it’s how you use it.
@cratedivizion
@cratedivizion Жыл бұрын
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.
@christinestachurski9435
@christinestachurski9435 Жыл бұрын
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.
@skeletor7908
@skeletor7908 Жыл бұрын
Clash at Demonhead? That's the name of a band in Scott Pilgrim vs The World.
@galenhead5252
@galenhead5252 Жыл бұрын
Riggsbotnik has the NEbest collection sweet
@Harry-Sachs
@Harry-Sachs Жыл бұрын
Omg. Me and princees tomato go way back. Hardly hear about it anymore
@A_C_007
@A_C_007 Жыл бұрын
I still have my childhood copy of Princess Tomato, I have the sleeve and manual but got rid of the box years ago lol. Oops
@charlesminchew3847
@charlesminchew3847 Жыл бұрын
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
@hectormontalvo5565 Жыл бұрын
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
@RealziesCuts Жыл бұрын
Vouch 💫🎮🏆
@teeveeparty
@teeveeparty Жыл бұрын
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
@charlesminchew3847 Жыл бұрын
@@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
@leeartlee915 Жыл бұрын
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.
@gaminggambino8185
@gaminggambino8185 Жыл бұрын
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!
@Tizzifyy
@Tizzifyy Жыл бұрын
Games can come and go, but the fun can last forever
@agarven1
@agarven1 Жыл бұрын
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.
@sethallison5682
@sethallison5682 Жыл бұрын
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.
@gameaholicadam1969
@gameaholicadam1969 Жыл бұрын
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
@leehamilton7788
@leehamilton7788 Жыл бұрын
Tengen Tetris is my go to
@Christophersanchez1326
@Christophersanchez1326 Жыл бұрын
Right on. 😎
@NESADDICT
@NESADDICT Жыл бұрын
Sometimes that’s better
@nerderousrampage
@nerderousrampage Жыл бұрын
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?
@Big-Bert
@Big-Bert Жыл бұрын
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!
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