Looking for Factory Sealed NES Games

[MentalAcrobat]

Hi:

Lately, I've decided to beef up my Nintendo collection and am interrested in Factory Sealed Nintendo games. Anyone out there interrested in selling some, or trading for some?

P.S. Now that I've become a collector, I'm looking for games that are completely sealed (no shrinkwrap coming off) and that are overall in great shape, not squashed with creases and no dented corners.

Thanks,

[Epic Wolf]

you would have an easier time building a time machine:roll:...

[alonzomourning23]

I have lemmings, star tropics 2 and addams family, but I'm not interested in selling them.

[MentalAcrobat]

Well, I've managed to scrape up 18 over the last month and a half, I don't know, maybe more.

Deja Vu
Shadow Gate
Arkista's Ring
Mendel Palace
Xexyz
Batman - The Return of the Joker
Deja Vu (again)
Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Mario
Castle Quest
Dr. Chaos
Vindicators
Star Tropics 2 - Zoda's Revenge
Hydlide
Gauntlet 2
Golgo 13
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Adventures of Bayou Billy

So, it isn't impossible. I had to pass on way too many, but still, I want to know what is out there and how much it would take for one to part with them. I've seen posts on here indicating someone's willingness to trade new sealed games for old sealed games. I probably have more than 75 sealed games if you count computer games as well (which make up the smallest portion of my collection). I have sealed games for the NES, Super NES, PS1, DreamCast and GameCube.

[alonzomourning23]

Well, I've managed to scrape up 18 over the last month and a half, I don't know, maybe more.

Deja Vu
Shadow Gate
Arkista's Ring
Mendel Palace
Xexyz
Batman - The Return of the Joker
Deja Vu (again)
Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Mario
Castle Quest
Dr. Chaos
Vindicators
Star Tropics 2 - Zoda's Revenge
Hydlide
Gauntlet 2
Golgo 13
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Adventures of Bayou Billy

So, it isn't impossible. I had to pass on way too many, but still, I want to know what is out there and how much it would take for one to part with them. I've seen posts on here indicating someone's willingness to trade new sealed games for old sealed games. I probably have more than 75 sealed games if you count computer games as well (which make up the smallest portion of my collection). I have sealed games for the NES, Super NES, PS1, DreamCast and GameCube.

I think the difficult part is not so much the games, but the condition of the shrinwrap.

[smalien1]

Well, I've managed to scrape up 18 over the last month and a half, I don't know, maybe more.

Deja Vu
Shadow Gate
Arkista's Ring
Mendel Palace
Xexyz
Batman - The Return of the Joker
Deja Vu (again)
Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Mario
Castle Quest
Dr. Chaos
Vindicators
Star Tropics 2 - Zoda's Revenge
Hydlide
Gauntlet 2
Golgo 13
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Adventures of Bayou Billy

So, it isn't impossible. I had to pass on way too many, but still, I want to know what is out there and how much it would take for one to part with them. I've seen posts on here indicating someone's willingness to trade new sealed games for old sealed games. I probably have more than 75 sealed games if you count computer games as well (which make up the smallest portion of my collection). I have sealed games for the NES, Super NES, PS1, DreamCast and GameCube.


Just out of curiousity do you really have two copies of Deja Vu or was that purely for the purpose of the joke?

[MentalAcrobat]

Funny. No, that was not a joke, the first one I bought looked like hell, so I bought another that was in good shape. I almost bought 2 copies of Gauntlet 2 as well. The shrink wrap on all mine are in great shape except for Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde. The condition of the shrinkwrap was not disclosed and there was a silver dollar size piece missing. You wouldn't believe the shape of most all of them. Many are very crsip. On a couple the shrinkwrap wore through on the corners (very small).

[Epic Wolf]

I think the difficult part is not so much the games, but the condition of the shrinwrap.
Exactly, your looking for games that are nearly 15 yrs old if not more, http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8206921877&category=62053&rd=1 , occasionally you might find some complete boxed set's but expect to spend some serious $$$

[alonzomourning23]

This thread makes me remember that when I was younger my mother tossed all my boxes, saving some manuals and cutout backs. I had over a hundred boxes all tossed. The only good thing is I don't think much valuable was tossed (just more sentimental, I'd love my mario and bonk boxes back, and my snoopy olympics box back since it was my first game ever). The only ones that I can find that I know I had boxes for, and have any value, were turbo grafx games (though I still have the jewel cases, and the only one that didn't come with jewel cases, have value and were tossed was air zonk, new adventure island and soldier blade). I'm glad she didn't do this a few years later, I still got the boxes to mega man x2 and 3, spiderman web of fire (32x), shining force, dkc competition etc. and boxes to old games I bought later (dragon warrior 3 for example).

If I ever decide to sell them, it's gonna kill me knowing how much more I could have gotten if they just had the boxes that got tossed.

[MentalAcrobat]

I had a bunch of Tubo GrafX games too. I even had Sherlock Holmes. I liked Bonks Adventure. My brother and I were really good about keeping everything we could. We almost never looked at our manuals and didn't want others to look at them for fear they would bend or crease them. We kept the boxes in good shape too. I haven't seen them for a while, I wish I knew where it all was. I had Gulvalious and many more. Maybe I will see about getting it and hooking it up some day. Really, I had a NES, Master System, Genesis, Super Nintendo, Turbo Grafx, PS1, N-64, Dream Cast and GameCube. Everything I bought new I kept all components, some of the used stuff were carts only. Unfortunately, we sold all our NES games and one point and bought them all back. My brother like a crazy gave his Super NES away with all the games! So, don't have much for that system anymore except for a factory sealed Warrio's Woods.

What my mom threw away was all the Star Wars figures, all the Heman figures with Snake Mountain, all the GI Joe figures and all our Transformers saying they were evil and of the devil. The interesting thing about all that was, why did you let us buy them for so many years? Luckily she didn't touch our video games. Besides, there is nothing evil or of the devil in them, right? Just a little violence here and demons there, nothing that's gonna hurtcha :o )

[Roufuss]

This thread makes me remember that when I was younger my mother tossed all my boxes, saving some manuals and cutout backs. I had over a hundred boxes all tossed. The only good thing is I don't think much valuable was tossed (just more sentimental, I'd love my mario and bonk boxes back, and my snoopy olympics box back since it was my first game ever). The only ones that I can find that I know I had boxes for, and have any value, were turbo grafx games (though I still have the jewel cases, and the only one that didn't come with jewel cases, have value and were tossed was air zonk, new adventure island and soldier blade). I'm glad she didn't do this a few years later, I still got the boxes to mega man x2 and 3, spiderman web of fire (32x), shining force, dkc competition etc. and boxes to old games I bought later (dragon warrior 3 for example).

If I ever decide to sell them, it's gonna kill me knowing how much more I could have gotten if they just had the boxes that got tossed.

Lcukily my mother took the opposite approach: she said these things were expensive enough that I was going to take extremely good care of them, and that "someday they might be valuable". She stored them all in a cabinet and we kept really good care of them.

Thanks to my mom's good advice and thinking, I've held on to complete copies of Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 3, Secret of Mana, Super Mario RPG, Earthbound, and at least 65 complete NES games, not to mention other snes games.

[the_deej]

Lcukily my mother took the opposite approach: she said these things were expensive enough that I was going to take extremely good care of them, and that "someday they might be valuable". She stored them all in a cabinet and we kept really good care of them.

Thanks to my mom's good advice and thinking, I've held on to complete copies of Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 3, Secret of Mana, Super Mario RPG, Earthbound, and at least 65 complete NES games, not to mention other snes games.


Mother knows best

[alonzomourning23]

Lcukily my mother took the opposite approach: she said these things were expensive enough that I was going to take extremely good care of them, and that "someday they might be valuable". She stored them all in a cabinet and we kept really good care of them.

Thanks to my mom's good advice and thinking, I've held on to complete copies of Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 3, Secret of Mana, Super Mario RPG, Earthbound, and at least 65 complete NES games, not to mention other snes games.

I believe I have ff3 boxed (I remember a box on my shelf and if I bought it it's still boxed, I think I bought it used years ago at funcoland, it was never played and the game was still in the box). I'm pretty sure I still have the box to super mario rpg. I can find most of the snes boxes, but not the mario rpg box at the moment, but I'm rearranging my whole house so it may just be buried somewhere at the moment.

Though I forgot my mother threw out a bunch of stuff later too, I found a bunch of cutout backs fron n64 games, but nothing that came out after the first few months seems to have been cutup (wave race, mortal kombat trilogy, star wars etc. early first gen games, strangely mario 64 wasn't cutup, even though it was bought on launch day with pilotwings which was tossed), and things like ogre battle 64 are still intact. I really hope my mario rpg box didn't get ruined, though I think I remember seeing a few months ago it.

My mother never thought any games would be worth money (kinda odd, since we owned a sports card store and my father is into antiques, and in that market almost everything has potential value). I didn't want her to toss the stuff, I knew some may have had potential value (only had marginal awareness of this though, mainly due to the fact a local game store was selling phantasy star for sms for 100 bucks, which I had gotten in the wantad in a giant sms system with 50 games lot for 100 bucks), but the main reason was I just wanted the stuff complete. She just saw the boxes as taking up too much space (though she only tossed cardboard boxes, nothing plastic), and i had a ton of games that we were running out of space for.

At least I have every game that I've ever owned, something not many can say. If its entered my personal collection it's stayed there.

[Theenternal]

I have code name viper sealed, found it at a walmart about 4 years ago :P

[rarebucky]

I still have sealed copies of Mario RPG, Space Megaforce and Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (all for SNES) and Phantasy Star IV for Genesis that I bought for about $10-$20 apiece way back when. Pretty cool, huh?

[VidgamesgivemeA_D_D]

These aren't sealed or for sale. This is my Boxed NES game collection

Metroid
The Legend of Zelda
The Adventure of Link
Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros 2
Super Mario Bros 3
Mike Tyson's Punch-out
Ninja Gaiden
Ninja Gaiden II
Ninja Gaiden III
Castlevania
Castlevania II Simon's Quest
Castlevania III Dracula's Curse
Metal Gear
Snake's Revenge
Battletoads

Neat huh? there's a few more that I own but I'd like to get the boxes to eventually. Kid Icarus, Super Dodgeball and Tecmo Bowl.

[Lucasp]

I have lemmings, star tropics 2 and addams family, but I'm not interested in selling them.
Ooooo you're sooo cool. Very helpful indeed.

If you call around to your local game stores they sometimes pop in on trades. Very rare... I turned in a couple of them while working at funco land a couple years back.