NES collecting in Japan?

[Duke.Togo]

So I'm curious to know if there is a collector scene in Japan for NES carts, similar to how many foreigners are interested in Famicom. Can anyone comment on this?

[manuel]

I wouldn't say there is no scene, but it surely isn't as big as the Famicom scene outside of Japan. (There are bound to be a few people who collect the releases that didn't come out in Japan.)

For example I have never seen an NES cart for sale anywhere.

[fredJ]

There are on YAJ
http://auctions.search.yahoo.co.jp/search?ei=UTF-8&p=nes&auccat=22853&slider=0

There is a market, but I would say it is very marginal.

[lobdale]

I saw a few boxed NES games at a Mandarake in Osaka once, but it was like 6 games and they're all ridiculous.  Overall much smaller than the Famicom collector's scene in America, except as a curiosity.

[michaelthegreat]

There must be a market or why were Nes cartridge to famicom adapters made?

That being said, is there a single awesome US release that wasn't released in Japan? I mean besides Color-A-Dinosaur and Bible Adventures...

[manuel]

Star Tropics
Some consider it awesome. (I never played it.)

[Jedi Master Baiter]

Wolverine. I consider that awesome.

http://auctions.search.yahoo.co.jp/search?ei=UTF-8&p=nes&auccat=22853&slider=0

I like how Snake's Revenge is on there. That game must be quite the novelty.

[Duke.Togo]

There were quite a few games that didn't get a Japanese release. For example, Gumshoe which was even developed by Nintendo.

[UglyJoe]

I can imagine a Japanese buying an overpriced NES Gyromite with built-in pin converter from YAJ, and then using another pin converter to play it on their Famicom

[fromjapanwithpixels]

That being said, is there a single awesome US release that wasn't released in Japan? I mean besides Color-A-Dinosaur and Bible Adventures...

StarTropics and its sequel are both great, so are Nightshade, Felix the Cat, KickMaster and Darkwing Duck.

[80sFREAK]

There must be a market or why were Nes cartridge to famicom adapters made?

Look, you have NES(let's say front loader) and bunch of carts for it. You've got Famicom and started to collect carts for this system. Now your NES is dead(or maybe not), but you have lots of carts for it. How to use'em?

P.S. Can't see C64 or ZX+ but can see X68000. Just the different market space

[treismac]

There were quite a few games that didn't get a Japanese release. For example, Gumshoe which was even developed by Nintendo.

That makes me feel a bit better about Nintendo never bringing Devil World over here.

I can imagine a Japanese buying an overpriced NES Gyromite with built-in pin converter from YAJ, and then using another pin converter to play it on their Famicom

I'd enjoy a picture or video of that happening.  

[133MHz]

why were Nes cartridge to famicom adapters made?

For us South Americans who got both the official NES and 60 pin clone consoles in our markets!

[egg_sanwich]

I saw a few boxed NES games at a Mandarake in Osaka once, but it was like 6 games and they're all ridiculous.  Overall much smaller than the Famicom collector's scene in America, except as a curiosity.

Mandarake is definitely the only place I've seen NES anywhere in Japan. Usually <10 games in stock, some SNES too, but that's it.

[manuel]

I can't say for sure, but I'd guess your best chances of finding NES games in Japan would be cities near American military bases. And of course the Tokyo and Osaka areas, where lots of foreigners live.