who has them all?

[michaelthegreat]

Not counting a few super joysticks which were sold in every mall across america, I've found one yard sale that sold a few super famicom games. Never found the at the pawn shop, never found them at a thrift store, and only seen a famicom craigslist add once.

If I were going for a complete nes collection, I would be well on my way. I've sold more nes games than I own and I still have a couple hundred! I've bought a racermate cart for $3.50, dragon warrior 4 for $1, and earthbound in a lot of many snes rpgs for $35 (including mana and FF3 which would have paid for the lot itself).

Not only is it hard to get the games here, but it's also hard to get a good price--and sometimes hard to get a fair price!

It really is much harder to get a full famicom collection.

I think many of us have to make our own limited complete ideas such as nensondubois's extra sound carts. Many will have all the pulse line carts or whatever. Nobody has all the baseball games. It's not humanly possible.

Come back in 10 years. Hopefully some of will be much further!

[lingolingo]

dont say Nobody, and dont say humanly impossible, cuz I swear that I will, and I will show it! and not in 10 years, it will take a lot less than that.   

[Bramsworth]

Either you have lots of money, or are severely underestimating what funds you'd need to be able to accomplish this

[manuel]

True.
I'd estimate (I could be horribly wrong, though) it costs at least 7000US$ (and probably over 10000) to get a complete collection and that probably doesn't include shipping.

[lingolingo]

yes its true, more or less 10.000 US $, but its not impossible ive seen people spending 3.000 on one videogame, or our friend ryo with all the special editions, I donno how much money he spent there. So yes, you are right its a big amount but for a lot of games, and its not impossible.

[manuel]

Impossible is nothing!

As I said, with enough money you can get a complete collection without major problems.

[Nightstar699]

My goal is just to get every one I like 

[senseiman]

I think it depends on whether you live in or out of Japan.

If you are very patient and live in Japan you could probably put the whole thing together for as little as two or three thousand dollars. 

Outside of Japan then yeah, 7-10 thousand sounds about right.

Out of curiousity, has anybody put together a complete NES collection?  I'm curious what that would cost (for someone in North America).

[nintendodork]

A few people on NintendoAGE have.  Most have CIB collections.  I dunno how long/the cost though.

[Bramsworth]

My goal is just to get every one I like 

That's my goal too. Screw collecting all the crap that's boring, just because it makes the collection. Just give me what I'll play

And I always sell copies of my games when a better condition one comes along.

[nensondubois]

I think it depends on whether you live in or out of Japan.

If you are very patient and live in Japan you could probably put the whole thing together for as little as two or three thousand dollars.  

Outside of Japan then yeah, 7-10 thousand sounds about right.

Out of curiousity, has anybody put together a complete NES collection?  I'm curious what that would cost (for someone in North America).

It also takes lots of time, at least for Gimmick. I've seen just about every other Famicom game on ebay and a few other places and Gimmick isn't even considered rare like Batletoads and Arkanoid 2 (hell, I've even seen the controller for it as well.) Collecting them all is just about impossible if you can't even find the games rearing towards the very uncommon side.

[manuel]

In your case, nenson, Gimmick may not be too rare (but not common, either), but it's popular. I see it sometimes, but prices are ridiculously high for cart only.

[nensondubois]

The same deal for the original Chrono Trigger, yes.