Official NES/ SNES Classic Thread

[MechDeus]

And Konami: Just doing NES games.

You're missing a bunch of games, forgetting about the publishing workarounds they had for NOA's limited release amounts.

Add on the list from Ultra, and I removed the few doubles from Chux's list:
Skate or Die! (December 1988)
Q*bert (February 1989)
Defender of the Crown (July 1989)
Silent Service (December 1989)
Kings of the Beach (January 1990)
Snake's Revenge (April 1990)
Mission: Impossible (September 1990)
RollerGames (September 1990)
Ski or Die (February 1991)
Base Wars (June 1991)
Nightshade (January 1992)
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (February 1992)
Pirates! (October 1992)

[Yoshi]

I think some of those are published but not developed by Konami... at least I hope so for their sake.

[MechDeus]

Doing a quick search:
Skate or Die was a port by Konami.
Defenders of the Crown was another port.
Silent Service was developer by Sid Meier, ported by Rare, and published by Konami. wtf

But really Base Wars is the only game on the list that matters.

[Brisco Bold]

Silent Service was developer by Sid Meier, ported by Rare, and published by Konami. wtf

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[Darmonde]

Completely off the current topic, but this seemed like the best place to ask.

Last weekend Mzo had some free time so we went out randomly looking for garage sales looking for old stuff, nothing in particular. Long story short, we ended up at Swap O Rama like 45 minutes before it closed, and found a couple stalls with... Central/South American employees.. that had a bunch of old games, but it was basically impossible to look through stuff because it was behind counters or in boxes on boxes. Mzo was pretty solidly unhelpful by not wanted to ask questions in Spanish, but we didn't even know what we wanted anyway (besides Earthbound for snes).

Everything we saw was stupidly overpriced, is this normal? like 20 bucks and up for garbage, and 'good' things were probably much more. Do you just go to places with specific titles in mind and ignore the rest, try to cut a deal on 1 or 2 things you actually want without letting them know you really want those things? Or are there actually places with gobs of awful NES games for super cheap, and sometimes you just find a good game?

[Chux]

The flea market I go to, the dude has hundreds of games and no matter what it is, $5. Then you go to other places and people think they're cute by charging $25 for games that are not rare, but popular. Mario Bros, and Mike Tyson come to mind. Every now and then you'll find some place that charges the right price for the right games.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

It just sucks that he takes so long to ship.

[Chux]

But he does it with santa wrapping and makes you feel bad for asking.

[Brisco Bold]

Then you go to other places and people think they're cute by charging $25 for games that are not rare, but popular. Mario Bros, and Mike Tyson come to mind. Every now and then you'll find some place that charges the right price for the right games.

Contra for $25 or $40 is ridiculous, and that's what this one guy at the flea market near my parents' place was charging. This was back in early 00s, so right about when "collecting" and "retro games are cool" became a thing in my area. Customers wouldn't think twice; they'd recognize Metroid and, overcome with nostalgia, they'd drop the cash. It was like buying a DVD to them. The weird thing about the flea market guy was the fact that he never knew how to charge for things that were actually rare or sought after. Tengen Tetris for the NES was $99 back then when it was going online for $200 or $300. Meanwhile, he's selling, I dunno, Rocky for Master System for $69. Neo Geo AES for $200 or $150 (!) when it was going for $300+ online.

He also had this annoying habit of putting these horrible stickers not on, say, the plastic case of a Genesis game case, but the actual paper inlay. These were the cheapest, shittiest stickers that'd ruin the inlay if you tried to remove it. Just the worst. Like, there was no rational reason to do that. He was trying to cater to the serious collector market, but failing miserably. I think he's still around.

How I dealt with him: Got four or five bullshit NES games I either got for free or 99 cents and trade them in for that "$60" game. I once bought this terrible Master System Castlevania clone elsewhere for $15. Traded it in and got the ludicrously priced Kensieden for free. Kensieden was $69. I think I got SF Turbo for the PC Engine for a 3DO controller and $10. He was charging $65.

I see the same shit with records. There are a few shops I frequent in Toronto, one of which specializes in hip-hop and equipment. I overheard a customer telling the sales clerk about how he saw other customers buying up all the dollar bin rock, disco and soul records and re-selling them to the record stores that specialize in rock and funk for like $4-5 a pop. Those records in turn get sold for 8.99-12.99. It's the way shit goes.

[Darmonde]

Ok, so basically don't even bother with the places with high prices and find somewhere else.

One table outside had naked n64 games.. and like sports games had $30 price tags, on top of the terribly faded cart stickers. I think Mario 64 was labeled 40. It was pretty awful.

I doubt it, but is there any kind of site or list of games/systems/rarities to look out for just in case?