Nes vs other nintendo systems collecting wise
Im coming to find out compared to collecting for the snes and n64 the Nes is by way far harder to collect. I built a complete loose n64 collection in a couple months(almost all cib see n64 thread for help) and I just started on snes a few weeks ago and have about 350 boxes, close to 400 games and few hundred manuals for less than i paid for a couple of my rare nes games. Plus with the exception of a couple n64 games everything for the other systems seem to always be on ebay so you dont have to wait and wait. I think nes on a larger scale has a lot more collectors than the atari. maybe be more hardcore atari collectors but I think more people pursue the nes making items harder to find or they dont last long on ebay. It may slow down but finding all the games boxes and manuals for nes I think is quite a accomplishment
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some of the rarer items can go over $800 too, like competition carts etc...
it is still defintely worth while, there are SO MANY cool and fun snes games. SNES is the focal point of my collecting.
**Any leads on some N64 loose carts? I am starting to collect N64 and need some big purchases to start off.
Atari
NES
Neo Geo in that order.
~~NGD
Yeah, I agree. I never knew how interesting and fanatical some collectors can be. NES is a hobby for me, though I'm not aiming at a full set of 765 (that's the official count, right?), but rather a set of desired titles and such. I'm also going for a 100% manual count where applicable. I'm around 88% right now.
I kinda wish I had started earlier...
SNES I need to get a few titles for like Street Fighter and Super Metroid... Such classics I never owned and still don't own.
1. Atari 2600 (there's at least 10 games that command $1000+ each, and a couple or three that potentially could hit $2000+, even loose)
2. Game Boy (far too many boxes and manuals were thrown away...people were thinking portability here, as a result, you have people like DreamTR who at one point offered $175 for the box for Captain America and the Avengers)
3. Neo-Geo ($12,000 for Kizuna Encounter? $8000 for Ultimate 11? average price of $100-$200 per game? I think I'll pass)
4. NES (ever-increasing challenge, but not too late to jump on board, as there are still sleeper rarities and most games remain less than $100 each, though a few boxes are ridiculously painful to search for)
5. Odyssey (while very few boxes survived, as well as very few games with all the extra pieces, very few different games were made, as well, and sheer age plays a bit of an unusual factor here...the system is 35 years old)
And one more bit, maximus_clean: I have a few spare loose N64 carts: message me, and I'll get you a list
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=013&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&item=230154485075&rd=1&rd=1
I like the challenge of going after the set, the thrill of the hunt, as it's called. I don't like to spend tons of cash (read: $1000-$3000 per game for more than 3 or 4 games) putting together a near-impossible collection (Atari 2600, Neo Geo). I'd say NES collecting fits the bill perfectly. Assuming we're talking CIB stuff, this is how I would rank collecting by systems, my top 5:
1. Atari 2600 (there's at least 10 games that command $1000+ each, and a couple or three that potentially could hit $2000+, even loose)
Just curious, which games are the Atari ones that go for over $1000 that you mentioned? I remember one time there was a guy on craigslist who claimed to have a huge collection of games for various systems, and he just so happened to have some of the rarest atari games and stadium events, plus tons of other stuff and he only wanted $400. I think it was fake or something, because who the hell just happens to have this stuff, sell it for that cheap, and just so happen to mention those few titles out of the other hundreds of game titles he claimed to have. Anyway some of the atari games mentioned were: Quad Run, River Patrol, and Music Machine. I am guessing those are some of the $1000 games for Atari, what are the rest?
Tooth Protectors and Pepsi Invaders I remember are worth something.
Well I have also heard of the fabled Atlantis 2 of which only 10 copies are alleged to exist. This is supposed to be worth probaby close to $100,000. There is a story that goes behind it too, but I don't wanna explain it, just look it up on wikipedia or something.
There is no way its worth 100,000.
Atari collecting is WAY harder than NES.
There isn't a single collector with a complete US collection and most of the big guys STARTED collecting in 1995 or so. I remember the threads where we would debate if NES would ever be collectable as it was post crash. Sure NES has a few rare games but Atari is impossible.
NES is just so appealing and is more Memorable than the SNES N64 etc.
blam thats it lol. it made way more of an impact than ANY other nintendo system (well the Wii can be argued on that right now i guess) But for instance>> you take 100 random people. i gurantee you at least like 80 percent to 85 percent either owned, played, saw, read about, heard about an original NES game, system, whatever. now say ya had n64 or snes, no where near that many people. Heck man i heard of kids parents buying nintendos just for themselves back in the day. When was the last time a 40 year old guy went and bought a nintendo 64 to play lol. Especially when they came out. Same exact thing goes with the Atari. Honestly who has never played an Atari??? So theres the figures, the more popular it is, the more people look for it, collect it, buy it for memories, want it, etc. Thats why NES and Atari are our leaders in Game Collecting :-)
-mark
The NES hit at exactly the right time. It is THE gaming system to a generation af kids and parents. My mom still calls any gaming system a Nintendo!. NES was so huge at it's peak, it was everywhere, it had a starring role in a movie for pete's sake! That's why it's so collectable. The people who where kids at the time are now 25-35 years old, and are at the stage in their lives when they are more financially secure. They now have the money to start collecting sonething and the NES is something that was just such a huge part of their childhood. I have only played my NES maybe 2 times in the 7 years I've been collecting, I just collect because the NES has such good memories of my childhood tied to it.