Huge Paper and SNES Score
Picked up two different lots today first off a SNES score including 16 complete games in mint condition including Super Adventure Island 2, Kirby Superstar, a couple of DKC's and others. This lot also came with 26 other loose carts with manuals including SMB RPG, Kirby Dreamland 3, and two storage cases and a SNES.
Next comes the paper score including the first 170 or so Nintendo powers in great shape complete with posters and cards.
Here are some various strategy guides, a couple of Fun Club News issues, and other various paper including a 1993 Funcoland price guide with Stadium Events listed at $59
This is a super power club official membership pack, lots of cool paper included.
There are also about 75 Game player magazines starting with issue 1, I don't know a lot about these but they are all NES/SNES era. Note the cover in the bottom right corner, Unlreleased California Raisins.
Also included were many game informer magazines including the early issues.
Boxes of Gamepro issues from way back (love the old Role Player Realm sections).
Now for some really good stuff. Games, manuals, and strategy guides for a number of games, including Ogre Battle, Lufia, Link to the Past, Super Metroid, Breath of Fire, and Final Fantasy III. He has the boxes in mint condition at his parents house and will be grabbing them for me the next time he goes home.
Nintendo Power Guides
He also included a large number of Electronic Entertainment issues and claims that they are worth some money. Anyone have any idea about them?
Lastly a full scope picture, each box is full of more magazines and guides. I can't wait to really start digging in and cataloging everything.
Comments
The first lot with the CIB games was $175 (she said that her son would kill her if he knew that she was selling his games) and the second lot was $300. I went for that one only knowing about the Nintendo Powers, started asking him questions about the games and walked out of there with everything for the price he wanted for just the nintendo powers. He did end up keeping his SNES, a Minty CIB Chrono Trigger with Guide, Mario Paint, Actraiser, and Super Mario World all for sentimental reasons.
I wonder if he will. Especially since she sold them for such a bargain price. And that is one awesome haul of gaming magazines. I still wonder what happened to all of the ones that I dropped off at a thrift shop early last year during a crisis. Someone probably made out like a bandit on those because seriously don't think the people I seen working there knew what the mags would go for.
*drooling* nice haul man !
I knew you would like it Acid! Now I need to make my own collection tool of literature.
My very first gaming magazines were 2 of the earliest issues of Game Players', they weren't very accurate with tips (but then I didn't need help with beating games even then) but were fun to look through them (and dream about games I didn't have yet), at least until I got Nintendo Power and other magazines several years after.