chrono trigger was 80 from any specialty retailer, had it preordered. that was a long summer of yard mowing.

 

Yeah, depending on the megabit size and the company (1st vs 3rd party), SNES cartridges ranged from $60-80 CDN. I remember SFII Hyper fighting was at least $80 new.

I've basically stopped collecting carts at the moment (except a few Atari 2600 carts here and there), unless I'm close to finishing a whole collection. I'm five carts from completing the NA N64 set and I bet everyone can guess which ones those are... I'm basically all about the flash carts now. I occasionally pick up a cart/CD when I see a price I can't turn down but I'm not actively hunting as much as I used to. My new unhealthy video game obsession is collecting console variants like different colored Game boys, N64's and Gamecubes. God, there's a lot of Gameboys!!

 

Well I beat Megaman X, had some trouble with Sigma second stage, but a quick youtube video and smoked him afterwards.

Stopped by the shops downtown and no Megaman X 2 anywhere but i grabbed these four. Super excited about the top two, they will be fun to play through. Im gonna need practice at Killer Instinct I think lol

 

If you don’t mind, I’m just curious which N64 carts you still need, which I assume are the most valuable. That’s pretty impressive to only need 5.
I’m guessing one is Clay Fighter Sculptor’s Cut, but what are the others?

 

- Clay Fighter Sculptor's Cut
- Worms Armageddon
- Bomberman 64 Second Attack
- Stunt Racer
- Super Bowling

It sucks too because I swear only five years ago Stunt Racer was a $20 game. Super Bowling too.

 

Retro carts are on a bit of a nostalgia tear, and it is deserved for some of them, but for others, it's just supply and demand. The flash ROM carts will probably bring this madness under control.

 

Haha! You'd think so, but no. Otherwise prices for a lot of games should've come down years and years ago. The proliferation of ROM carts just exposes the real madness: the prices aren't going up because people want to play the games. The prices are going up because people want to have them. Even if they can already play the game some other way. Even if they don't intend to play them at all.

 

I actually had to look up Stunt Racer and Super Bowling. I knew nothing about either of them. I do see now why they're valuable, with Stunt Racer being another Blockbuster exclusive and Super Bowling being one of the last N64 games and produced in small numbers.

I mentioned this here before, but I still remember the piles of Bad Fur Day clogging shelves at the TRU I used to work at, near the tons of unsold copies of Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever and Battlebots for GBA. I think they were marked down to $20-30 and still no one would buy one. I was tempted to get one more BFD to keep in the box, but I already had my copy. Of course now I wish I had bought every single one of them.

 

I have to admit, the interest in carts baffles me. I really only have interest in the older physical cartridges or discs if there is some personal attachment to them. You know, the "thunk" as the cartridge engages, the tick-tick of the loader dropping down. But NES Rygar? The aggro of Super Star Wars? Yeah, I played them, but the love isn't there. I respect that others want to "catch them all", but the game will only be worth what someone is willing to pay for them.

 

That's what I'm collecting right now, games I had when I was a kid, like Super Metroid, Mario World, Mario Kart, Megaman X 1 and 2, etc. There's some really collectible ones, and even great games I havn't played like Chronotrigger. Apparently that game was awesome, but I never owned it, nor played it, so not sure it would even appeal to me now since its so old. My 4 year old and my nephew who is 5 aren't interested in the vintage games that's for sure, they like Minecraft and Fortnite  

I have been eyeing a few boxed versions of my favorite games, but what am I gonna do with them really, sit there on a shelf in a high risk environment of moisture damage, sun damage, kids getting at them, getting dropped or dinged by accident and depreciating the value, they'd have to sit in a box somewhere safe, and what's the point in that really. I'm just after the basic loose carts I can play and won't hurt em if they get messed with at all.

 

if you get boxed games, definitely get acid free cases for them so they are protected from anything that could easily damage.

chrono trigger is amazing but there are cheaper ways to play it like the ds version. all u are really missing is frogs old english voice (which is pretty amazing but not worth the snes cart markup imo  )

 

Yes, collecting carts for some people is just another thing to collect, with no interest in actually playing them.

However, there's a lot of gamers who don't like the idea of losing the ability to play these classic cart games. Many of these games are not available in any way other than to either play the original cart or resort to emulation. And even the ones that are officially available to purchase digitally could potentially be removed without warning, and go the way of Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game, lost to the ether of the digital world due to expired licenses or some other reason. So it's become somewhat of a compulsion to archive game history. I sure don't see Nintendo making the Tengen version of Tetris available on Switch any time soon  

 

I picked Rogue Squadron up on Steam a while ago and recently been thinking about getting a flight stick. I remember playing the game on an N64 controller and was pretty good at it I got all the gold medals eventually. For some reason it doesn't feel like it used to, I wanted to check to see if anyone else has played it on PC and if it plays better with a flightstick than a controller.

 

I find newer releases of older games dont quite play like they did back on original hardware. The NES and SNES minis on a an LED TV or example, the lag from the mix of the LED TV, the USB control and the emulator itself, games are a few milliseconds off, making precise timed jumps or hits more difficult.

Ive played these games and drums for that matter for 25 years, i notice even a fraction of a second if they're off from what im used to.

Ever tapped on a drumset app on a phone or ipad? Thats exactly the lag im talking about. Ita close, and good enough to play, but still off. Playing the guitar hero ans rock band games always bugged me haha but man they were still fun to play.

 

Yeah, that's why retro gaming has the rabbit holes of CRT video monitors, FPGA clones, and emulator run-ahead. At least with music games though, you can usually adjust the game's timing to compensate for the display lag.

 

low input delay tv combined with an analogue system does close enough for me. used to play fighting games competitively and I dont notice anything on my hisense h9g (estimated 11-14 ms input delay).

 

I find it comes down to "feel". I can tolerate the lag on newer monitor, using a classic console. The FPGA systems are very nice, indeed.

 

I picked up F-Zero a couple weeks ago. It's fun.
I just buy the games that I both want, and can afford. In practice, this means I end up with battered, heavily worn carts because they're a lot cheaper. I buy them to play, not to display, so I don't care about condition, as long as they work.

 

I don't care about having the box and manual, and I'm not a perfectionist, but I like to buy stuff in decent condition. I but I made an exception for Super Turrican 2... got one with an almost completely destroyed label. Saved about $100 compared to the going eBay price at the time.

 

its not like you cant get a cheap retro label/front case plate on ebay and just put the original off to the side and have the best of both worlds.

same thing happened to me when I was able to get metal warriors for 60 with a torn label. not like I was ever going to turn that down