Does anybody have all the famicom games (without counting gold carts or special editions)?
I assume you also mean excluding pirates. In which case, no one here on this board does. :P
No one? why not? whats the deal, the famicom games are not very expensive, and neither difficult to find. I thought that with so many collectors here, there must be somebody with almost all.
I will get all the carts ;)
Quote from: lingolingo on January 11, 2010, 06:55:11 am
No one? why not? whats the deal, the famicom games are not very expensive, and neither difficult to find. I thought that with so many collectors here, there must be somebody with almost all.
There are a couple of rarities that keep it from being an easy task. Good luck finding a cheap Recca, for instance. Also, shipping costs are a big issue with FC collectors outside of Japan.
WHAT IS RECCA?
Summer Carnival '92: Recca was a game used in a competition (although it was available for sale). It's a pretty crazy shmup, especially considering the FC's hardware limitations.
More info:
http://hg101.kontek.net/recca/recca.htm (http://hg101.kontek.net/recca/recca.htm)
true, but Im making the collection without boxes so is not so expensive or difficult to find. Great I heard about Recca. But anyway, when I will get them all I will let you know ! ;)
And the guy from the photos is ADOL, a french guy that has super famicom, pc engine and a lot more collections 100% completed. WHAT A BEAST! :o
mod edit: don't double post, please!
Even without boxes, you'll still have a bit of difficulty finding at least few, and Recca loose is still like $100 I think.
Plus, it's not complete until you get all the special editions and gold games. And since there are only 4 (?) gold Rockman 4s in the world, you're gonna have to drop some serious cash for it.
I am currently in the process of collecting all the Famicom carts (loose, and not including pirates).
At the moment I have 373 different carts, which is a little more than 1/3 of the total. I don't have any of the particularly rare carts yet, nothing that retails for more than 3 - 4,000 yen or so per cart.
It has taken me a little over a year to get to this point. I'm hoping to have them all (or at least almost all) within the next 3 years.
I'm keeping a blog of my collection, I'll try to put a picture of the whole 373 up sometime soon (along with updates on my progress, since I passed the 300 mark I've been slowing down quite a bit):
http://famicomblog.blogspot.com/
Quote from: nintendodork on January 11, 2010, 02:15:03 pm
Even without boxes, you'll still have a bit of difficulty finding at least few, and Recca loose is still like $100 I think.
Plus, it's not complete until you get all the special editions and gold games. And since there are only 4 (?) gold Rockman 4s in the world, you're gonna have to drop some serious cash for it.
Well I think that if you have the average rockman 4 you dont need to own the gold cart because is the same game basically. I would only say that Recca would be the only one that would be a pain in the ass to get.
Recca is only a pain in the a** if you want it cheap. For the right price you don't have to search long, it's readily available on several internet shops.
I also played with the thought of getting all, but that would mean I'd get at least 600 games I don't like and most likely wouldn't play, so that would be a great waste.
I'm working on collecting games with sound expansion first and so far I have 68 percent of them (not including disks).
Quote from: lingolingo on January 11, 2010, 11:12:40 pm
Well I think that if you have the average rockman 4 you dont need to own the gold cart because is the same game basically. I would only say that Recca would be the only one that would be a pain in the ass to get.
Just saying if you want a
complete collection, you'll have to hunt it down. I agree that if you're not going to spend money on special carts, there's no reason to pay for all those shitty baseball and mahjong games.
HAHAHA true my friend! but those are the ones I bought the first!!! The horrible majhong and baseball games!!!
Not counting a few super joysticks which were sold in every mall across america, I've found one yard sale that sold a few super famicom games. Never found the at the pawn shop, never found them at a thrift store, and only seen a famicom craigslist add once.
If I were going for a complete nes collection, I would be well on my way. I've sold more nes games than I own and I still have a couple hundred! :) I've bought a racermate cart for $3.50, dragon warrior 4 for $1, and earthbound in a lot of many snes rpgs for $35 (including mana and FF3 which would have paid for the lot itself).
Not only is it hard to get the games here, but it's also hard to get a good price--and sometimes hard to get a fair price!
It really is much harder to get a full famicom collection.
I think many of us have to make our own limited complete ideas such as nensondubois's extra sound carts. Many will have all the pulse line carts or whatever. Nobody has all the baseball games. It's not humanly possible.
Come back in 10 years. Hopefully some of will be much further!
dont say Nobody, and dont say humanly impossible, cuz I swear that I will, and I will show it! and not in 10 years, it will take a lot less than that. 8)
Either you have lots of money, or are severely underestimating what funds you'd need to be able to accomplish this :P
True.
I'd estimate (I could be horribly wrong, though) it costs at least 7000US$ (and probably over 10000) to get a complete collection and that probably doesn't include shipping.
yes its true, more or less 10.000 US $, but its not impossible ive seen people spending 3.000 on one videogame, or our friend ryo with all the special editions, I donno how much money he spent there. So yes, you are right its a big amount but for a lot of games, and its not impossible.
Impossible is nothing! (http://www.adidas.com)
As I said, with enough money you can get a complete collection without major problems.
My goal is just to get every one I like ;D
I think it depends on whether you live in or out of Japan.
If you are very patient and live in Japan you could probably put the whole thing together for as little as two or three thousand dollars.
Outside of Japan then yeah, 7-10 thousand sounds about right.
Out of curiousity, has anybody put together a complete NES collection? I'm curious what that would cost (for someone in North America).
A few people on NintendoAGE have. Most have CIB collections. I dunno how long/the cost though.
Quote from: Nightstar699 on January 15, 2010, 01:02:25 pm
My goal is just to get every one I like ;D
That's my goal too. Screw collecting all the crap that's boring, just because it makes the collection. Just give me what I'll play :P
And I always sell copies of my games when a better condition one comes along. :P
Quote from: senseiman on January 15, 2010, 06:03:48 pm
I think it depends on whether you live in or out of Japan.
If you are very patient and live in Japan you could probably put the whole thing together for as little as two or three thousand dollars.
Outside of Japan then yeah, 7-10 thousand sounds about right.
Out of curiousity, has anybody put together a complete NES collection? I'm curious what that would cost (for someone in North America).
It also takes lots of time, at least for Gimmick. :) I've seen just about every other Famicom game on ebay and a few other places and Gimmick isn't even considered
rare like Batletoads and Arkanoid 2 (hell, I've even seen the controller for it as well.) Collecting them all is just about impossible if you can't even find the games rearing towards the very uncommon side.
In your case, nenson, Gimmick may not be too rare (but not common, either), but it's popular. I see it sometimes, but prices are ridiculously high for cart only.
The same deal for the original Chrono Trigger, yes.