What got you into famicom?

[Silius]

The first time I have been made aware of Famicom games was when another kid brought a NES Multicart to primary school. This cart was quite a phenomenon and everyone tried to get their hands on it and borrow it for a few days. When a friend and I got hold of it we were amazed about the stunning 'Sky Destroyer' and asked ourselves 'Why don't we get such great games?'....

Fast forward to the year 2000. I went to Japan to visit a friend I'd met in a language school. Meanwhile, I got into NES games again and knew about the existance of the Famicom, but I was not really interested in it for some reason.... Anyway, during this first stay in Japan I only bought one (1!) Famicom game: a loose copy of Dragonbuster. 

It took another few years until I started reading about the history of the Famicom and the amount of Japan-only games. Thus, last year I took the chance when my girlfriend gave me some days off and flew to Japan again - this time I went proper game hunting. And I had a great time! 

[AlexRUS]

I have started playing these Famicom games in 2009 or something on emulator.
Sometime in 2012 I have watched Dendy Chronicles #1 from Kinaman, and was really surprised to see what Mario games there were on pirate carts in Russia and was interested in getting myself a Famicom or a clone system and play games on real cartridges. In summer 2012, I have wanted to get a Famiclone, and got one (Simba's, shaped like Famicom, but it's NOAC clone),so I finally could play my old Famicom carts that my grandparents had since 90s along with GameStar Famiclone (shaped like Sega Mega Drive 2), which also was in fact the very first clone I have played Famicom games on. Still working, but it's RF quality is crap.
After I got Simba's Famiclone I was interested to get some official Famicom carts. My first official carts are Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Galaga, Twin Bee, Lode Runner, Mach Rider and Pinball.

Since them, I am collecting some Famicom carts (official&pirate carts)  along with Famiclones, even though I got a real Famicom this summer.

There are still some games I really want to get on Famicom, but later about it. 

[DDCecil]

It started around 1991. My parents found an ad saying "Nintendo Game Cartridge with over 100 games!" The guy wanted something like $200 for it. We decided to get Castlevania: The Adventure for GB instead the guy was selling instead ($10), since what would we do if that cartridge broke?

Fast Forward to 1998. I had the internet, and stumbled upon NESWorld, where I learned there was a Final Fantasy II and III released in Japan? I had to know more, then I discovered Emulator and ROMs.

A few days later, I was working at my dad's game store on a fairly boring night. A guy comes in with 2 NES games and an Orange 52-in-1 NTDEC Famicom cart connected to a converter. I told the guy I'd give him $6 for them all. He said the Fami game had a lot of games and he'd take $9, so I gave him the money. After being bored of it, we sold it to a lady who wanted it for her son for $50.

Now Fast Forward to the summer of 2007. I discovered a Fami converter in my Gyromite! I was at the Classic Gaming Expo in Las Vegas, when fairly famous collector DreamTR was selling a bunch of Fami games. I saw Batman, and bought it to try out the converter. Then I discovered this website, and the rest is history.

[sconley666]

I had been collecting NES games for many years (20+) basically since the system came out.  I was aware of the Famicom but it always seemed really cheap looking to me.  Then when I got close to collecting every NES game I started to realize that I wanted to play and collect the Japanese games that weren't released in the USA.  I had played many on a PowerPak but wanted to play them on the real thing because I felt that it wasn't the same.  I bought a Famicom and the Disk system and a few games.  Mainly because I wanted to play SMB2J.  I bought a brand new disk and opened it and I was hooked.  I sold a bunch of my american games (around 300 of them) and replaced many of them with famicom games.  Mainly due to price.  I sold so many american games and got the japanese ones, which almost all of the time were cheaper and better either with enhanced gameplay graphics or sound, not to mention they take up about half the space.  Now I am totally hooked and I prefer the look of the Red white fami to the look of the american toaster NES.  Truth be told I still use my NES although I use a toploader that I AV modded as well as my famicom but I love the shit out of using the fami with the FDS, there is simply nothing like it.  So cool.

[ventrra]

Actually, I just kind of collect pretty much anything that can be considered a game system (even edutainment systems like the v.smile) if I can get them reasonably cheaply. I had the luck of finding a cheapish famicom twin on ebay one day and followed it up with some games for it.

[Raverrevolution]

I started collecting because I planned a trip to Japan for September from April.  My goal was to go there, visit, and bring back a Famicom and some good games.  I realized later that I could find better deals online than in Super Potato so I sort of lost my patience and started buying up.

I'm still going to buy games in Japan, but now I know the ones that I will be able to get a better deal on.

Also Famicom games are so much better than their English counterparts.  No censorship, better gameplay mechanics, and music puts a whole new spin on older games.

[P]

I have played video games ever since I was around 5 years old when we borrowed a friend's NES. We eventually got our own NES (and so did almost every family with kids at the time) and I never really stopped playing NES games.
Collecting Famicom games just came naturally since I always had an interest in anything Japanese and often imported Japanese games. When I was younger I used to have this romantic idea that the Japanese versions was always better in every way (which of course isn't always true), and also that America got much more games than we (which they did). Many people hardly even knew that the RPG genre existed (however Sega players got Phantasy Star and other games).

My NES was eventually thrown in the garbage (bad connector I suppose) without my knowledge so now I only have my Famicom.

[nusilver]

I bought a Super 8 because I didn't have an NES and wanted to play some 8-bit games on my SNES. Then I saw it had a Famicom cart slot, so I thought, "well, guess it's time to finally buy Devil World."

45 Famicom carts, an AV Famicom and a Sharp Twin Turbo later, I am a Famicom diehard. Would love to get Metal Storm and Moon Crystal next!

[FamicomFreak]

It's in my blood! Well, I actually played Famicom in my childhood and have always remembered all the experiences I had with it especially by playing those very odd pirates out there (Mario . Finally, all grown up, I decided to pursue the Fami-collecting venture and stumbled on this site while searching for Famicom games on google. I started collecting Famicom but then my love of NES came back with it and therefore started collecting NES. The love spread all over the rest of the retro consoles until I started collecting everything. I'm very picky about what I keep in my collection nowadays. You may see all of these amazing finds I have but the truth is, very few make it to my roster therefore keeping my collection very unique. I don't believe in collecting all the games like others out there, I just want my favorites. I really don't understand why people want them all, this is not Pokemon you know and even in that game I still only want my favorites. Anyways, I will keep collecting Famicom until I'm quite satisfied with my collection but that might take years upon years. I'm never happy with my collection so there will always be changes.

[famifan]

totally being forever alone for the years got me started into playing/collecting famicom games

[nerdynebraskan]

@FamicomFreak

Good call. I'm the same way: I only put games I'll actually play into my permanent collection. Everything else I stumble across gets traded or resold for something more interesting.

[NintendoKing]

I got into Famicom mainly because of my past, I lived surrounded by famiclones and pirate carts but didn't have the money for them. Now that I do, I have been hunting them down. I also got into the original games as well and well the collection kept growing. It's funny because Famicom collecting got me into NES collecting then to SNES collecting so I became an all around collector which means I have to be careful in my purchases since I have a small place. But after 2000 games bought, I can say I'm not stopping anytime soon...har har har!

It's in my blood! Well, I actually played Famicom in my childhood and have always remembered all the experiences I had with it especially by playing those very odd pirates out there (Mario . Finally, all grown up, I decided to pursue the Fami-collecting venture and stumbled on this site while searching for Famicom games on google. I started collecting Famicom but then my love of NES came back with it and therefore started collecting NES. The love spread all over the rest of the retro consoles until I started collecting everything. I'm very picky about what I keep in my collection nowadays. You may see all of these amazing finds I have but the truth is, very few make it to my roster therefore keeping my collection very unique. I don't believe in collecting all the games like others out there, I just want my favorites. I really don't understand why people want them all, this is not Pokemon you know and even in that game I still only want my favorites. Anyways, I will keep collecting Famicom until I'm quite satisfied with my collection but that might take years upon years. I'm never happy with my collection so there will always be changes.

You have posted your story twice. Hehe.

[wholesalewatch648]

well it all started when i was on ebay looking for super mario kart. it was alot more expensive then i thought like $20 - $25. But in the ebay search  i came across a listing for 3 mario games, super mario kart, super mario world, and super mario rpg all for $21.00 shipped. i couldnt believe it. but i noticed they looked different from normal snes carts and then i realised they were super famicom carts. reading about super famicom, i realized modifying your snes can play sfc games, so i bought the three games,and still to this day have and play them regularly.

honestly, not much of a NES/famicom fan, mainly like to just collect certain famicom games/accessories but not play them.
primarily, i play my SFC or modded SNES (or N64) as those are the consoles i prefer.

[nerdynebraskan]

Oh... We already one of these threads, and a ninja mod has merged them. Sorry... I guess I should've tried to search for a thread like this before starting a new one.

[tappybot]

For me, it was also living in Japan.

I'm not living in Japan anymore (came back at the end of March), but I did ship back my entire games collecton.. haha.