How many carts of Famicom do you have and which?

[fcgamer]

Lol what's wrong with visual novel?

I agree that games like a Week of Garfield generally have less value to me than those sports and mahjong games.

They were just never my cup o' tea. 

The mahjong games are an interesting subset.  *Most* of them are dirt cheap.  I think I got my gray boxed mahjong for like 8 yen at Book-Eco in Shingu.  Even the ones that come with a controller/gimmick can often be picked up for only a few hundred yen.  But then you've got those *other* mahjong games that I'd be embarrassed to OWN, let alone be seen buying...and those ones aren't cheap. 

Haha, which might those be? 

[tappybot]

I should really catalogue my famicom games.

I recently arranged the 600-700 loose carts by English alphabetical, such as A games, B games, C games, etc.
Next step is to start entering them into my collection database.  Finding a famicom cart code database might be the best way to do it.

[fcgamer]

I should really catalogue my famicom games.

I recently arranged the 600-700 loose carts by English alphabetical, such as A games, B games, C games, etc.
Next step is to start entering them into my collection database.  Finding a famicom cart code database might be the best way to do it.

I have an excel list of the games, and everytime I get a new game I mark it off on the list.  I also printed out the list and keep it in a binder, but it gets updated less frequently.

At the moment, I organize my games by those I want to try out and play in the near future, and those which are crap, to get stuffed away in the drawer.  In a few years, when I move and get a new place, I hope to get some better shelves and to organize the games in alphabetical order.

[Raverrevolution]

Lol, I wonder how many people who own Mahjong carts actually know how to play it.  I'm pretty sure I have 1 or 2 myself.  I need to learn the game sometime.

[L___E___T]

I have a so called expert here, been meaning to learn someday.  

They say it's a ladies' game - not sure how true that is, maybe it's like bridge, seen as an older person's past time.

[fcgamer]

Lol, I wonder how many people who own Mahjong carts actually know how to play it.  I'm pretty sure I have 1 or 2 myself.  I need to learn the game sometime.

I want to learn Mahjong as well, but I am more interested in Chinese Chess.  I once watched my girlfriend's father and my girlfriend play Chinese Chess, and it is so similar to western chess, it quickly made me become interested (I really like western chess, so nothing liking adding a new spin on it).    So that is my first priority.

Second I want to learn mahjong though, but since you need four players, it is much harder for me to find people to play with and learn.

[Oreanor]

36 official among nearly 1100 total.   Tending to replace multicarts with single older pirates.

Organized here http://www.oreanor.host-ed.me/
The filter options are fully customizable via XML-file, so I could share this engine with anyone that need it

[fcgamer]

36 official among nearly 1100 total.   Tending to replace multicarts with single older pirates.

Organized here http://www.oreanor.host-ed.me/
The filter options are fully customizable via XML-file, so I could share this engine with anyone that need it

Very nice collection!  I will definitely be taking a closer look at this when I get home from work.

Also, you know, I have a lot of older single pirate carts, maybe I have some you need?

[P]

They say it's a ladies' game - not sure how true that is, maybe it's like bridge, seen as an older person's past time.

In America I heard mahjong mostly popular among ladies (especially Jewish ladies) but I don't think that's true in Asia? In Japan it's kind of connected to yakuza since it's perfect for gambling.

Chinese, Japanese and American rules are all very different (especially American as the types of hands you can get points for change every year! And you use very different equipment, like racks and chips) If you want to play video game mahjong, look for Japanese mahjong rules (also called riichi mahjong). The hardest part is probably that you have to memorize quite a large number of hands/conditions called yaku.

It's not really like bridge, more like poker (in the sense that you collect hands like straights, three-of-a-kind and similar) but much more varied than poker.

[UglyJoe]

I found the write-ups at Mahjong on MAME to be very helpful when starting out.  Explains not only the basic rules of Riichi Mahjong (which is what most Mahjong video games are), but also a lot of the more obscure rules that seem completely random if you're not aware of them.  Start with the "How to Play" page (linked above) and work your way down the list of pages on the left side ("Special Rules", especially).

I will note that nearly 100% of the Mahjong arcade games emulated by MAME are AV in nature.  Which is great if you're into that sort of thing.  However, they're not great for learning since they force you to make decisions in just a few seconds (which makes sense as it's an arcade game).  The numerous Famicom Mahjong games are a lot easier to learn from since you can take all the time you want.

[wholesalewatch648]

i have the 14 pulse lines,  a gomokunarabe pic label, a spare pulse line mahjong, super mario 3, exed exes , super monkey daibouken, bird week , CIB/NM  wild gunman (never used),  duck hunt(never used)  and some junk bandai sports games if memory serves

[Ghegs]

The numerous Famicom Mahjong games are a lot easier to learn from since you can take all the time you want.

Are the two Ide Yosuke Jissen Mahjong titles easy to learn from or even the slightest bit accessible to non-jp speakers? That special controller is kinda sexy.

[UglyJoe]

The numerous Famicom Mahjong games are a lot easier to learn from since you can take all the time you want.

Are the two Ide Yosuke Jissen Mahjong titles easy to learn from or even the slightest bit accessible to non-jp speakers? That special controller is kinda sexy.

Those controllers are awesome.  Been a while since I've played those two, but I don't remember it being any more confusing/difficult than other Mahjong games.  I believe it actually has modes for teaching Mahjong strategies, but that's not really helpful unless you can read Japanese

Most (if not all) of the FC Mahjong games are playable if you know the rules.  There are Japanese words/phrases common to all of them (ron, tsumo, etc), but those are all words you'd encounter on any good riichi mahjong tutorial.  What you end up missing out on is the extra "spice" features added to games -- like if the opponents talk to you, or if there's an RPG mode or something. 

[AlexRUS]

I have something like over 170 Famicom carts, including official ones and bootlegs.

http://somerussianmariodude.blogspot.ru/2014/08/videogame-collection-5-famicom.html
This is my collection of Famicom carts as for 04.08.2014 (DD.MM.YYYY)

It has grown a bit better since then...

http://somerussianmariodude.blogspot.ru/2014/08/pickups-10-famicom-cartridges-10.html
http://somerussianmariodude.blogspot.ru/2014/08/pickups-11-famicom-cartridges-11.html
http://somerussianmariodude.blogspot.ru/2014/09/pickups-12-famicom-cartridges-12.html

I have some other carts I haven't posted about on my blog, but due to me being busy with real life, I can't update my blog all the time immediately once I got new carts. :/

[DDCecil]

Time for an update - now at 100 FC carts! (97 official) + 8 disks (9 games):