RadarScope1
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SNES Game Collecting (Tips, discussion, and info for like minded collectors)
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It's a fantastic game. I highly recommend it.
SocksAndShoes
Banned
I have been lurking on here for a few years. I am finally at a point where I am only going after the more expensive games now. Anyway, here is my collection. All my games are CIB. Not pictured is SMW and Earthbound. I don't have boxes for those. Any major titles that you think are a must in a collection that I don't have?
Incredible collection man. Seeing that TMNT IV complete in box makes me woozy.
theSlacker
Member
Chaotic-Strike
Banned
It's really great, and it should literally take you a second to get Baby Mario back so you don't even hear his crying anyway.
desk_jockey
Neo Member
The prices have really gone stupid. I did most of my collecting a few years back, always cib. Some games I have had since new, but not many. I really hate seeing the prices go so high but I am glad to have got what I did when I did.
heh yeah.
anyway, get yoshi's island! do what I did and get the japanese SFC version. It'll work on your USA SNES if you either cut the tabs or use a passthrough device like an action replay
it only cost me £10 for a fully complete and boxed japanese yoshi's island. and yes, it's an AMAZING game.
Depends on what you like I guess, but there are still plenty of worthwhile US releases to get, let alone Japanese imports.
If you're going CIB only, though, a lot of the games you're missing are too far gone IMO like Harvest Moon, Hagane, X3, Final Fight Guy/2/3, Metal Warriors and Lufia II.
I think the Super Scope games are pretty rad and really affordable: Battle Clash, Metal Combat, Tin Star and Yoshi's Safari.
The Star Wars trilogy and Indiana Jones's Greatest Adventures games are pretty good as well, though slightly unpolished.
Batman Returns is a pretty great beat-'em-up. Pac-Man 2 is a really cute adventure game on the system.
The Magical Quest starring Mickey Mouse is also a good platformer along with it's sequel, the Great Circus Mystery. The 3rd game is Japan only, though.
If we're talking imports, which are ridiculously easy to play on an SNES, I'd say go for Umihara Kawase, Rockman and Forte, Mario's Picross, and Mario and Wario just to scratch the surface.
If you're going CIB only, though, a lot of the games you're missing are too far gone IMO like Harvest Moon, Hagane, X3, Final Fight Guy/2/3, Metal Warriors and Lufia II.
I think the Super Scope games are pretty rad and really affordable: Battle Clash, Metal Combat, Tin Star and Yoshi's Safari.
The Star Wars trilogy and Indiana Jones's Greatest Adventures games are pretty good as well, though slightly unpolished.
Batman Returns is a pretty great beat-'em-up. Pac-Man 2 is a really cute adventure game on the system.
The Magical Quest starring Mickey Mouse is also a good platformer along with it's sequel, the Great Circus Mystery. The 3rd game is Japan only, though.
If we're talking imports, which are ridiculously easy to play on an SNES, I'd say go for Umihara Kawase, Rockman and Forte, Mario's Picross, and Mario and Wario just to scratch the surface.
RadarScope1
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SNES is, on balance, my favorite console. I was 12 when it came out so it hits the mark on "formative years" for me. But I started NES collecting in the late 90s and never thought much about SNES because it wasn't as "old" and I had more pure nostalgia for NES, which was my first console. I currently collect CIB NES games but don't focus on SNES and when I do it's pretty just cart only. I got the ones I wanted several years ago before prices went bonkers.
desk_jockey
Neo Member
Thanks for the great suggestions! I completely forgot about Batman Returns and Mickey, both above average games. I have not played those in many years.
I play on an hd crt tv, so light gun games are out for me.
My short list includes Ogre Battle (never played it), Lufia 2 (its been years), and Dracula X (meh compared to sc IV). I will have to settle for a cart only Dracula X.
desk_jockey
Neo Member
I was born in 81, so the snes was the system I played most when I was young. It is by far my favorite system.
SocksAndShoes
Banned
Thanks to everyone who gave me tips to clean my SNES carts, they're like brand new now .
Now I just need to get a decent CRT TV and I'll be all set.
. Now I just need to get a decent CRT TV and I'll be all set.
SocksAndShoes
Banned
I checked today and didn't see anything, I'm gonna go check out my local Goodwills and Thrift stores this week.
I've been hearing that many Goodwills haven't been accepting donations of CRT televisions/monitors recently, so it may or may not be difficult to find them there now.
If you were anywhere near Hampton Roads Virginia I'd offer a CRT, have two of them sitting in a storage unit(at least I hope they still work).
If you were anywhere near Hampton Roads Virginia I'd offer a CRT, have two of them sitting in a storage unit(at least I hope they still work).
qualitydisc
Member
Same here in Maryland. They have signs on the door about it, noting that they get too many sets in non-working condition and that the cost to dispose of them properly is too high.
desk_jockey
Neo Member
In my area, Goodwills no, Salvation Armys, yes.
Bar81
Member
Awesome game but get an English language repro/play the JP version (it's called Assault Suits Valken) with English patch to get the full uncensored/unbutchered version.
sixteen-bit
Member
It's completely excellent.
Diomedeskun
Member
Just picked up Assault Suits Valken last week in Denden town. I need to pop it in and give it a try. I had only played Cybernator years ago.
WARNING!! A NUMBER OF PICTURES BELOW!
Well i got round to repairing my Snes Mini today as the fuses arrived.
This is the evil thing that caused me to blow up my Snes!
SUCCESS!
Is that a Sony PVM/BVM? Was it easy to find and do you mind if I asked what you shelled out for it? PM me if possible
.theSlacker
Member
Is that a Sony PVM/BVM? Was it easy to find and do you mind if I asked what you shelled out for it? PM me if possible
Another question for him would be; what is the deal with the control unit on top of it when that model of PVM doesn't come with, or require, it? Must have a BVM hiding around as well.
Is that a Sony PVM/BVM? Was it easy to find and do you mind if I asked what you shelled out for it? PM me if possible
Yeah its a PVM 20m4e. 20" 800TVL model. I got it off ebay. I'm in the UK and they are on ebay all the time. I paid £35 for that particular set.
I bought it for £1.20 off ebay. I see a lot of BVMs with no control panel crop up for auction and i bought it on the off chance a bvm might crop up cheap minus control panel and i would have one available when one shows up at the right price.
Azzurri
Member
So I headed over to ebay to see prices of three games I bought a year or two back and they have doubled to tripled in price.
Demons Crest
Chrono Trigger: I actually bought this game over 7 years ago for like $60 which was a lot at the time, it's now $300.
Pocky and Rocky
All 3 CiB
Demons Crest
Chrono Trigger: I actually bought this game over 7 years ago for like $60 which was a lot at the time, it's now $300.
Pocky and Rocky
All 3 CiB
Been thinking of picking up Plok. Is it any good?
sixteen-bit
Member
#RetirementFund
Chittagong
Gold Member
Love Plok. I think it was even NOE first party distribution in Europe.
Azzurri
Member
Hell, another 30 years and they'll be worth 5k each at this rate.
sixteen-bit
Member
Straight AES territory
D.Lo
Member
That's how antiques work. And that's basically what these will become.
I was amused by this thought. My town has many 'hip' antique shops. My girlfriend's parents love antique shopping for things from the 50s/60s, including children's items from that time. Famicom/NES games are just a couple of decades away form that.
Complete in near perfect condition required for top values however.
AES is a bit different, because they were insanely expensive at release too, and therefore much more exclusive and rare.
I love the stupid little wands that they point at things with, to avoid touching them. Should I be one of the "experts" someday, I'll use a vintage plastic Harry Potter wand. An important cultural treasure in its own right.
Azzurri
Member
I have a decent amount of TurboGrafx stuff too that's worth a pretty penny , HAH
sixteen-bit
Member
Jaki Crush is the last of the Naxat pinball trilogy and the only one available on SNES.
So..
Alien Crush
Devil Crush
Jaki Crush
Dragon's Fury is the same a Devil's crush right, so whats Dragon's Revenge?
sixteen-bit
Member
It's supposed to be a sequel to DC, but it's not a Naxat game.
dragonyeuw
Member
I have been lurking on here for a few years. I am finally at a point where I am only going after the more expensive games now. Anyway, here is my collection. All my games are CIB. Not pictured is SMW and Earthbound. I don't have boxes for those. Any major titles that you think are a must in a collection that I don't have?
All nice and neat in their cabinet:
My entire collection:
Gawd damn what a collection.
This unopened Rosalina Amiibo would normally be worth $500,000, but it has increased appeal due to your unique provenance, since you have exclusive "eye phone" video of your entire eight hour camp at night on the streets outside of Target. Recorded vertically, of course, which was the fashion of the time. For insurances purposes, I would say this should be appraised for $1,000,000, or approximately the same value today for that extinct coffee which you casually drank in the video. If only you had known... an entire preserved can of coffee could have funded your entire youth-cloning procedure.
sixteen-bit
Member
This post is hilarious.
IrishNinja
Member
nice! this one's high on my import list
jesus christ almost spit my drink
God damned shame that inflation will devalue the dollar so that $100,000 in the future equals today's $1.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/04/15/gamestop-to-offer-classic-consoles-and-games
Is this gonna be good or bad for us I wonder (price wise)?
Is this gonna be good or bad for us I wonder (price wise)?
I dont see it as a good thing. Gamestop sees it as a profitable market which means more exposure. More exposure means higher prices.
sixteen-bit
Member
For real. A decade ago GS is where I went for cheap-ass gen 4 games. I don't see that returning.
It's going to be a black hole that a large part of the retro game market vanishes into. And God only knows what "refurbishment" through them means. They might destroy or discard things their monkeys can't get working.