Not to say that the TurboGrafx didn't have some great games, but for the most part, NES owners didn't really have much reason to be jealous of its library beyond the added graphical horsepower. Bonk's Adventure was one of the few games that made NES kids feel like they were missing something by not having a TG Again, this meant a low print run and a high resell value for future collectors of the technically-impressive port.
Nintendo existed as a company for almost 90 years before it tried its hand at electronic gaming. Only given away to participants of a contest in Japan, this rare variant of Super Mario Bros. Though it has settled a bit after its outrageous peak a few years ago, collectors are currently paying top-dollar for complete-in-box N64 games, making it perhaps the most overall expensive to collect for mass-market console at the moment.
Among the games that are hardest on the wallets of those looking for complete PAL N64 sets is Snowboard Kids 2 , which can set you back over a thousand bucks. All for a game that isn't half as good as Snowboarding. Nobody seemed to care much for Shantae until the Game Boy Color original began fetching four figures on eBay from retro collectors trying to complete their libraries.
The renewed interest caused WayForward to revive the series and its purple-haired protagonist in , and its now on its fourth installment and going strong. It's always sketchy to include unreleased games on a list like this, but there are a few reasons why we felt Cheetahmen II should be an exception.
For one, the copies that collectors cough up almost fifteen hundred bucks for were found in a warehouse for eventual sale and aren't just aftermarket cartridges built around downloaded ROMs.
The other is that it is a spin-off to the infamous Action 52 , a mini-game collection for the NES and Genesis that was legendarily terrible and, at times, literally unplayable— but in and of itself, is a prize for hardcore collectors. Once again, this is the kind of game that would've just blurred into the background of a million other forgettable C-tier action titles of the era had it not shot up in price years later.
A lot of the people who have paid hundreds— if not thousands— for Hagane in recent years have felt the need to sell it as some underrated gem. We would too if we paid that much for it.
We mostly stuck with Western releases for this list as things get complicated when trying to determine the rarity and value of Asian titles, but Virtual Bowling is worth discussing for a few important reasons.
The game is often mistaken for Nestor's Funky Bowling , also for Virtual Boy, but the two titles are completely separate. Virtual Bowling 's cost also makes it an especially expensive proposition to get a complete worldwide Virtual Boy collection, which many collectors attempt thinking it an easy pursuit given its small library.
Small, yes Zelda games have so many variations that some collectors go for a "complete set" of a single title. When you start getting into different colored cartridges, versions that are part of combo packs, "Not For Resale" versions, Player's Choice versions, and so on, it can prove surprisingly difficult.
The specific set of variables for this version of the N64's Majora's Mask — grey cartridge and marked "Not For Resale" as it was part of N64 store kiosk displays— makes it currently the most valuable version of any single Zelda game. In the earlys, a company called Panesian released a trio of unlicensed NES games of a, let's say, salacious nature.
Because of the recall, the original Stadium Events is one of the most collectible NES games of all time. Only 26 copies were made available through a contest in Nintendo Power magazine. Pat had bought the cartridge from its original owner, the winner of a Nintendo Power contest.
This numbered gray cartridge was used during the Nintendo World Championships. You can adjust the time each competitor gets to play using the physical switches at the top. These cartridges are quite rare and collectible. Bonk was the mascot for NEC's ill-fated Turbografx console. He also made his way to the NES, albeit with lower-quality graphics grafx? Sometimes, some games go slippin' through the cracks. We're noticing a pattern developing here -- the lesser-known sequels of popular, fun NES games are worth serious bank.
A highly limited number of cartridges were sold. Another rare competition cartridge, this time-trial version of Star Fox was shipped to Nintendo dealers around the country for a weekend event in These cartridges wound up in the public's hands, again, as part of a Nintendo Power contest.
It's unclear if this Taito game was ever released to video game stores -- best we can tell, it was a direct-to-rent exclusive of Blockbuster Video. Then, the japanese guardian angel arrived … the NES. The NES did something that no other console before it could, it delivered on its promises.
Consumers had lost their trust in the industry, for years games had been marketed using visuals that completely misrepresented the actual highly underwhelming graphics of the games. Nintendo was different. They valued quality game design over everything else. We decided to approach this feature by first asking ourselves the following question: if we could only save games from the Nintendo Entertainment System for posterity, what would they be?
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