Cataloging our NES collection

[CZroe]

Ichinisan and I added another 13 games to our NES collection today so I thought I'd start cataloging someplace where we can always reference it. What better place than here?

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## = total of section

### = running total

-Itallics = Entries which do not count (usually a pointer for an alternate title)

Current total of unique cartridges/titles (no dupes): 442

• 10-Yard Fight
• 1942 (boxed)
• 1943: The Battle of Midway
• 3-D Worldrunner
• 720°
• 8 Eyes
  -06-006

Section Complete

• Abadox
• The Addams Family
• AD&D Heroes of the Lance
• Adventure Island
• Adventure Island II (FC version AKA "Takahashi Meijin no Boukenjima II")
  
• Disney's Adventures in the Magic Kingdom
• The Adventures of Bayou Billy (with manual)
• Adventures of Dino-Ricky
• Adventures of Lolo (boxed)
• Adventures of Lolo 3 (boxed) (with strategy guide)
  
• Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Air Fortress
• Airwolf
• Al Unser Jr's Turbo Racing (dupe)
• All-Pro Basketball
  
• Alpha Mission
• Amagon
• American Gladiators
• Anticipation
• Arch Rivals (with manual)
  
• Archon
• Arkanoid (also have boxed and loose FC versions AKA "Arkanoid Syndrome") (dupe) (1 NES and 2 FC Vaus controllers)
• Astyanax
• Athena
• Family Fun Fitness Athletic World
  -25-031

• Back to the Future
• Back to the Future II & III
• Bad Dudes (with manual)
• Bad News Baseball (FC version)
• Bad Street Brawler
  
• Balloon Fight (boxed)
• Bandai Golf Challenge Pebble Beach (dupe) (boxed)
• Barbie
• The Bard's Tale
• Barker Bill's Trick Shooting
  
• Cyberstadium Series: Base Wars
• Baseball (dupe) (with manual)
• Baseball Simulator 1.000
• Baseball Stars
• Baseball Stars II
  
• Bases Loaded
• Bases Loaded 2 II Second Season (with manual)
• Ryne Sandberg Plays Bases Loaded 3 III
• BATMAN The Video Game (boxed) (dupe)
• BATMAN Return of the Joker
  
• Battle Chess
• Battle of Olympus
• Battle Tank
• Battletoads (dupe)
• Beetlejuice
  
• Bigfoot
• Bill Eliot's NASCAR
• Bionic Commando
• The Black Bass
• The Blue Marlin
  
• Blades of Steel (dupe)
• Blaster Master
• Bomberman
• David Crane's A Boy and His Blob Trouble on Blobolonia
• BreakThru
  
• Bubble Bobble
• The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout
• The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle
• Bump'n' Jump
• Burgertime (boxed) (dupe)
  -40-071

• Cabal
• Caesar's Palace
• California Games
• Captain Skyhawk
• Casino Kid
  
• Castlequest
• Castlevania (boxed) (dupe)
• Castlevania II Simon's Quest (boxed)
• Castlevania's III Dracula's Curse
• Caveman Games
  
• Championship Bowling
• Championship Pool
• The Chessmaster
• Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers
• Clash at Demonhead
  
• Cobra Command
• Cobra Triangle
• Code Name Viper
• Commando
• Contra
  
• Super C
• Crystalis
• Cyberball
• Cybernoid The Fighting Machine (dupe)
  -24-095

• Dance Aerobics
• Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat
• Days of Thunder
• Deadly Towers
• Defender II
  
• Defender of the Crown
• Deja Vu
• Desert Commander
• Destination Earthstar
• Dick Tracy
  
• Dig Dug II: Trouble in Paradise
• Dirty Harry: The War Against Drugs
• Donkey Kong Classics (with rental case instruction card) (dupe)
• -Donkey Kong (see "Donkey Kong Classics")
• Donkey Kong Jr
• Donkey Kong 3
  
• Double Dare
• Double Dragon
• Double Dragon II The Revenge
• Double Dragon III The Sacred Stones
• Double Dribble (with manual)
  
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Dr. Mario (boxed) (dupe)
• Dragon Spirit
• Dragon Warrior
• Dragon Warrior II
  
• Dragon Warrior III (FC version AKA "Dragon Quest") (boxed)
• Sullivan Bluth Presents Dragon's Lair
• Duck Hunt (dupe)
• DuckTales
• Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball
  
• Dynowarz The Destruction of Spondylus
  -31-126

• -Eggsplode/Short Order (see "Short Order/Eggsplode")
• Eliminator Boat Duel
• Excitebike
  -02-128

• Faxandu (boxed) (dupe) (with manual)
• Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge
• Fester's Quest
• Final Fantasy
• Fisher-Price: Perfect Fit
  
• The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy
• Formula One Built to Win F-1 B.T.W.
• Freedom Force
• Friday the 13th
• Fun House
  -10-138

• Galaga: Demons of Death (with manual) (dupe)
• Gauntlet
• Gauntlet II (boxed)
• George Foreman's KO Boxing
• Legend of the Ghost Lion
  
• Ghostbusters
• Ghostbusters II
• Ghosts 'N Goblins (with manual) (dupe)
• Goal!
• Gold Medal Challenge '92
  
• Golf (dupe) (also have boxed FC version)
• Golf Grand Slam
• Golf Power ft. Greg Norman (boxed)
• Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode
• The Mafat Conspiracy (Golgo 13 Episode II)
  
• The Goonies II
• Gotcha! The Sport!
• Gradius
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch The Video Game
• The Guardian Legend
  
• Guerrilla War
• Gun.Smoke
• Gyromite (with FC adapter) (dupe)
• Gyruss
  -24-162

• Harlem Globetrotters
• Heavy Barrel
• Heavy Shreddin'
• High Speed
• Hogan's Alley
  
• Hollywood Squares
• Home Alone
• Hoops (dupe) (with manual)
• Hydlide
  -09-171

• Ice Hockey (with manual)
• Ikari Warriors
• Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road
• Ikari Warriors III: The Rescue
• Image Fight
  
• The Immortal (boots with issues)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (licensed)
• Infiltrator (dupe) (one with box) (one with manual)
• -IronSword: Wizards and Warriors II (see "Wizards and Warriors II")
• Iron Tank
• Isolated Warrior
  -10-181

• Jack Nicklaus Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf (dupe)
• Jackal (with manual?)
• Jaws
• Jeopardy! (with manual)
• Jeopardy! 25th Silver Anniversary Edition
  
• Talking Super Jeopardy!
• Joe & Mac
• John Elway's Quarterback (dupe)
• Jordan Vs Bird One on One
  -09-190

• Karate Champ
• Karate Kid
• Karnov
• Kickle Cubicle
• Kid Icarus (boxed) (dupe)
  
• Kid Kool
• Kid Niki Radical Ninja
• Kings of the Beach
• King's Quest V (also have PC version)
• Kirby's Adventure (dupe)
  
• Knight Rider
• Krusty's Fun House
• Kung Fu
• Kung Fu Heroes (dupe)
  -14-204

• L'Empereur
• The Last Ninja
• The Last Starfighter
• Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf
• Legacy of the Wizard
  
• Legendary Wings (with manual)
• Life Force (AKA "Salamander")
• Little League Baseball Championship Series
• The Little Mermaid
• Little Nemo The Dream Master (dupe)
  
• Lode Runner
• The Lone Ranger
• Low G Man: The Low Gravity Man
• Lunar Pool
  -14-218

• Mach Rider
• Magic Johnson's Fast Break
• The Magic of Scheherazade
• Magician
• MagMax
  
• Major League Baseball
• Maniac Mansion
• Marble Madness
• Mario Bros.
• Mario is Missing
  
• MC Kids
• Mechanized Attack
• Mega Man
• Mega Man 2
• Mega Man 3
  
• Mega Man 4
• Mega Man 5
• Mega Man 6
• Metal Gear
• Metal Gear II: Snake’s Revenge
  
• Metroid (with manual) (dupe)
• Michael Andretti's World Grand Prix
• Mickey Mousecapade (dupe)
• Mighty Bomb Jack
• -Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (see "Punch-Out!!, Mike Tyson's")
• Millipede
  
• Milon's Secret Castle
• Mission: Impossible!
• Monopoly
• Monster in My Pocket
• Monster Party
  
• Tag Team Match M.U.S.C.L.E.
  -31-249

• NARC
• NES Open Tournament Golf
• NES Play Action Football (dupe)
• NES Cleaning Kit (two boxed) (dupe)
• NFL Football
  
• Nightmare on Elm St.
• Nightshade
• Ninja Crusaders
• Ninja Gaiden (boxed) (dupe)
• Ninja Gaiden II Dark Sword of Chaos (dupe)
  
• Ninja Gaiden III Ancient Ship of Doom
• Ninja Kid
• Nintendo World Cup
  -13-262

• Operation Wolf
• Orb-3D
• Othello
  -03-265

• Palamedes
• Paperboy
• Pictionary The Game of Video Quick Draw
• Pin-Bot
• Pinball
  
• Pipe Dream
• Platoon
• Popeye
• POW Prisoners of War
• Pro Wrestling
  
• Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream
• Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (with manual) (dupe)
• The Punisher
  -13-278

• Q*Bert
  -01-279

• Racket Attack
• The Adventures of Rad Gravity (boxed)
• Rad Racer
• Raid on Bungeling Bay
• Rainbow Islands
  
• Rally Bike
• Rambo
• Rampage (with manual)
• RBI Baseball (FC version AKA "Pro Yakyuu Family Stadium") (case)
• RC Pro-Am Racing
  
• MTV's Remote Control
• Renegade
• Target: Renegade (Renegade 2)
• Rescue: The Embassy Mission (with manual)
• Ring King
  
• RoadBlasters
• Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
• RoboCop
• RoboWarrior
• Rock 'n' Ball
  
• Rocket Ranger
• The Rocketeer
• Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball
• Rollerball
• Rollergames
  
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms (FC version AKA "Sangokushi") (case)
• Roundball 2-on-2 Challenge
• Rush'n Attack (AKA "Green Beret")
• Rygar (dupe)
  -29-308

• Section Z
• Seicross
• Sesame Street 1-2-3
• Sesame Street A-B-C
  
• Sesame Street Countdown
• Shadow of the Ninja
• Shadowgate
• Shingen the Ruler
• Shooting Range
  
• Short Order/Eggsplode
• Side Pocket
• Silent Service (dupe)
• Silk Worm
• Silver Surfer
  
• The Simpsons: Bart Vs. The Space Mutant
• The Simpsons: Bart Vs. The World
• The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man
• Skate or Die
• Skate or Die 2: The Search for Double Trouble
  
• Ski or Die
• Sky Kid (dupe)
• Sky Shark
• Slalom
• Smash TV
  
• Snake Rattle N Roll
• Soccer
• Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warship
• Solomon’s Key
• Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos
  
• Space Shuttle Project
• Spelunker
• Spot: The Video Game
• Spy Hunter (with manual) (dupe)
• Super Spy Hunter
  
• Spy vs. Spy
• Sqoon
• Star Force
• Star Soldier
• Star Trek 25th Anniversary
  
• Star Tropics (boxed)
• Zoda's Revenge: Star Tropics II (boxed)
• Stealth ATF
• Acclaim's Star Voyager
• -Star Wars (FC version Japanese exclusive)
• -Super C (see "Contra 2")
• Starship Hector
  
• Street Fighter 2010 The Final Fight
• Strider
• Super Dodge Ball
• Super Glove Ball
• Super Mario Bros (with manual) (also have boxed FC version) (dupe)
  
• Super Mario Bros / Duck Hunt (boxed) (dupe)
• Super Mario Bros / Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet
• Super Mario Bros 2
• Super Mario Bros 3 (boxed) (also have FC version) (dupe)
• Ivan Ironman Stewart's Super Off-Road (dupe)
  
• Super Spike V'Ball (dupe)
• Super Spike V'Ball / Nintendo World Cup Soccer
• Super Team Games
• Swords & Serpents
  -58-366

• Taboo: The Sixth Sense
• Tag Team Wrestling
• TaleSpin
• -Target: Renegade (see "Renegade 2")
• Tecmo Baseball
• Tecmo Bowl
  
• Tecmo Super Bowl (boxed) (dupe if borrower returns)
• Tecmo NBA Basketball
• Tecmo World Wrestling (dupe) (FC version AKA "Gekitou Puroresu!! Toukon Densetsu" boxed)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (with manual) (dupe)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II The Arcade Game
  
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III Manhattan Project
• Tennis
• Terminator 2 Judgement Day
• Tetris (boxed) (with manual) (dupe)
• Tetris 2 (dupe)
  
• The Three Stooges
• Thundercade
• Tiger-Heli
• Time Lord
• Times of Lore
  
• Tiny Toon Adventures
• Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Trouble in Wacky Land
• To the Earth
• Toki
• Tom & Jerry: The Ultimate Game of Cat and Mouse!
  
• Top Gun (dupe)
• Top Gun 2: The Second Mission
• Top Players' Tennis, Chris Evert & Ivan Lendl
• Totally Rad
• Town & Country Surf Designs Wood & Water Rage
  
• Town & Country II: Thrilla's Surfari
• Track and Field
• Track and Field II (with manual) (dupe)
• Treasure Master
• Trog!
  
• Trojan
• Twin Eagle
  -37-403

• Ultimate Basketball
• The Uncanny X-Men
• Uninvited
• Urban Champion
  -04-407

• Vegas Dream
• Volleyball
  -02-409

• Wayne Gretzky Hockey
• Wheel of Fortune (boxed) (dupe)
• Wheel of Fortune featuring Vanna White (with manual)
• Wheel of Fortune Junior Edition
• Wheel of Fortune Family Edition
  
• Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego (boxed) (dupe)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
• Wheel of Fortune: Jr. Edition
• Wild Gunman
• Willow
  
• Win, Lose, or Draw!
• Winter Games by Epix
• Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
• Wizards & Warriors
• Wizards & Warriors II, IronSword:
  
• Wolverine
• World Class Track Meet (boxed) (second manual)
• World Games
• Wrath of the Black Manta (dupe)
• Wrecking Crew (with manual)
  
• WURM: Journey to the Center of the Earth
• WWF Wrestlemania
• WWF Wrestlemania Challenge
• WWF Wrestlemania Steel Cage Challenge
  -24-433

• Xenophobe
• Xevious
• Xexyz
  -03-436

Section Complete

• Yo! Noid (damaged case but PCB works)
• Yoshi
• Yoshi's Cookie
  -03-439

• Zanac
• The Legend of Zelda (boxed) (with manual) (extra booklet) (dupe)
• Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (boxed)
  -03-442

 

[007ELmO]

What are the numbers for? Also, who has who?

The duplicates I've been getting are going to my sisters. Today, the duplicates they get are Zelda 2 Gold, Tetris, and TMNT 1.

 

[CZroe]

What are the numbers for? Also, who has who?

The duplicates I've been getting are going to my sisters. Today, the duplicates they get are Zelda 2 Gold, Tetris, and TMNT 1.

-[total of section]-[running total]

I split it up to make it easier to edit on mobile devices and did that to make it easier to fix/verify totals. So far there are 148 unique game paks/cart titles... if you count the official NES Cleaning Kit.

Not sure if you noticed but we acquired Super Mario Bros. 2. I think we added over 11 games that day thanks to the $3 bin. Could've got SMB2 for $9 but I paid $12 (working on a different deal with that seller and I'm trying to develop some goodwill). Unfortunately we didn't see the titles you were looking for.

 

[007ELmO]

That's OK, thanks! I'm slowly collecting myself. I'm trying to move the TV into another room to connect the NES, but it's 85 lbs - not easy to wield by myself, lol.

Today, I have 2 games coming.
1) NES Playaction Football
2) River City Ransom

I wonder if there is an application to help us catalog our collections, similar to blurays.

 

[CZroe]

Added the following from a local indie game shop:
Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos

Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road

Jeopardy! (with manual)

Tecmo Baseball

Also, Ichinisan reminded me that we loaned our copy of Contra to a coworker so it didn't make the list before.

 

[007ELmO]

The other Contra games are fairly expensive on ebay. I have yet to get Contra 1.

If there is not a program that documents NES game collections online I can likely make a simple website for that. The question is, where is the documented list of all NES games ever created.

Is Ikara Warriors similar to Guerilla War? I used to rent Guerilla War all the time. It's amazing how many NES games I rented and the NES still worked, its 72pin must have been gunked to all hell and back.

Dad had an Atari 2600 at the time, I remember chewing the leather off the stick (I was 1 or 2). I wonder why he threw those consoles out, we used to have like 50 games for it.

I remember I but a Jack the Ripper skateboard game, and Dad made me return it (saying I didn't know who jack the ripper was).

 

[CZroe]

The other Contra games are fairly expensive on ebay. I have yet to get Contra 1.

If there is not a program that documents NES game collections online I can likely make a simple website for that. The question is, where is the documented list of all NES games ever created.

Is Ikara Warriors similar to Guerilla War? I used to rent Guerilla War all the time. It's amazing how many NES games I rented and the NES still worked, its 72pin must have been gunked to all hell and back.

Dad had an Atari 2600 at the time, I remember chewing the leather off the stick (I was 1 or 2). I wonder why he threw those consoles out, we used to have like 50 games for it.

I remember I but a Jack the Ripper skateboard game, and Dad made me return it (saying I didn't know who jack the ripper was).

There are a lot of collection manager apps but all the free ones I find for iOS have serious issues that keep me from using them. There are more than a few websites as well, but I want something I can point my phone camera at and take a snapshot with notes for every entry and filter titles in real time as I type letters from anywhere in the title. It seems to me like a spreadsheet is the best way for now.

There are some spreadsheets and checklists online but I haven't succeeded at getting any to open on my phone in a way where I can edit them. I do have a list in my notes app that was almost entirely typed by hand due to terrible formatting of copied and pasted PDF titles.

Edit: Wow! I tried to paste the list but Tapatalk errors out and tells me that the message is "too short!"

Edit2: I was able to post the list using web view but I moved it to a dedicated post and edited out the games I have (shortened it).

 

[CZroe]

Added the following from a flea market vendor who specializes in retro games:
Guardian Legend, The
Low G Man
Nightshade
Terminator 2
Town & Country II: Thrilla's Surfari

 

[CZroe]

Just picked up the following from a local pawn shop:
Donkey Kong Classics (yes!)
Skate or Die 2
Battle of Olympus
Popeye

Spent more than I usually would but I really wanted DK Classics.

 

[CZroe]

Moving the list of missing titles I intend to find/obtain to this post. These are the ?? titles I would want to add to consider myself "done" if I'm not going to continue trying for a full set. Each game in this list is one which:

I've owned or played before or
I always wanted to play or
I knew someone who owned or enjoyed it or
is generally considered an NES classic (specifically, the NES version) or
was published by Nintendo or
supports a special accessory (Power Glove, Four Score, etc) or
I already have boxes of manuals for or
completes a series containing another game which fits those characteristics.

• Adventure Island III
• Adventures of Gilligan's Island, The
• Adventures of Lolo II , The

• Bases Loaded IV
• Batman Returns
• Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team
• Boulder Dash

• Clu Clu Land

• Day Dreamin' Davey
• Donkey Kong Jr. Math
• Dragon Warrior IV

• Fist of the North Star

• Godzilla
• Gumshoe

• Ice Climber

• Jeopardy! Jr. Edition
• Jurassic Park

• Mario's Time Machine
• Ms. Pac Man

• Pac-Man
• Paperboy 2

• R.C. Pro-Am II
• Rad Racer II
• River City Ransom

• Stack-Up
• Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Street Cop
• Super Pitfall
• Superman

• Tiny Toon Adventures Cartoon Workshop
• Twin Cobra

• Wario's Woods
• Wizardry II: Knight of Diamonds
• Wizards & Warriors III
• World Champ

I already plan to get the Japanese-exclusives "Sweet Home," "Mr. Gimmick," "Lagrange Point," and "Holy Diver" to load translated ROMs onto and I'm already considering doing the same for Dragon Warrior II and IV (substitute translated Dragon Quest), so I might as well BOLO for alternate-region copies or reproductions of these that I have no intention of paying original US prices for:

• Bubble Bobble: Part 2
• Bucky O'Hare
• Bomberman II
• Bonk's Adventure
• Chip 'N Dale: Rescue Rangers 2
• Color a Dinosaur
• Contra Force
• Cowboy Kid
• Duck Tales II
• Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak, The
• Gun Nac
• Jetsons: Cogswell's Caper, The
• Jimmy Connors Pro Tennis Tour
• Little Samson
• Panic Restaurant
• Power Blade 2
• Stadium Events
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters
• Wacky Races
• Zombie Nation

 

[CZroe]

Moving the list of remaining games to this dedicated post. Some of these are unicorns I didn't specifically call out above, others are simply too expensive to justify, and most are games I will happily pad the collection when if I can get them for next to nothing.

Addams Family Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt, The
AD&D 2 + 3 + 4
Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle and Friends, The
Alfred Chicken
Alien3
Arkista's Ring
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Bandit Kings of Ancient China
Battleship
Best of the Best: Championship Karate
Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure
Blues Brothers
Bo Jackson Baseball
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Break Time: The National Pool Tour
Burai Fighter

Captain America and the Avengers
Captain Planet
Casino Kid 2
Castelian
Castle of Dragon
Chubby Cherub
Circus Caper
City Connection
Classic Concentration
Cliffhanger
Conan: The Mysteries of Time
Conflict
Conquest of the Crystal Palace
Cool World
Crash 'n the Boys: Street Challenge
Darkman
Darkwing Duck
Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum
Defenders of Dynatron City
Demon Sword
Destiny of an Emperor
Die Hard
Digger T. Rock: Legend of the Lost City
Dr. Chaos
Dragon Fighter
Dragon Power
Dungeon Magic
Elevator Action

F-117A Stealth Fighter
F-15 Strike Eagle
Family Feud
Faria: A World of Mystery & Danger
Felix the Cat
Fire 'N Ice
Fisher Price: 2, 3
Flight of the Intruder
Flying Dragon: The Secret Scroll
Flying Warriors
Frankenstein: The Monster Returns
G.I. Joe + The Atlantis Factor
Galaxy 5000
Gargoyle's Quest II
Gemfire
Genghis Khan
Ghoul School
Goal! Two
Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters
Great Waldo Search, The
Hatris
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Hudson Hawk
Hunt for Red October, The

Incredible Crash Dummies, The
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1 + 2
Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu
James Bond Jr.
Journey to Silius
Jungle Book, The
Kabuki: Quantum Fighter
Kick Master
Kid Klown in Night Mayor World
King's Knight
Kiwi Kraze
KlashBall
Krion Conquest, The

Laser Invasion
Last Action Hero
Legend of Kage, The
Legends of the Diamond
Lemmings
Lethal Weapon
Little Ninja Brothers
LoopZ
Mad Max
Magic Darts
Mappyland
Mendel Palace
Metal Mech
Metal Storm
Mickey's Adventures in Numberland + Safari in Letterland
Might & Magic: Secret of the Inner Sanctum
Mighty Final Fight
Monster Truck Rally
Motor City Patrol
Muppet Adventure: Chaos at the Carnival
Mutant Virus, The
MULE
Mystery Quest
Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing
Nobunaga's Ambition + II
North and South

Overlord
Peter Pan & the Pirates
Pinball Quest
Pirates!
Power Blade
Power Punch II
Predator
Prince of Persia
Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom
Pro Sport Hockey
Puss 'N Boots: Pero's Great Adventure
Puzznic
Qix

Race America
Rampart
Ren & Stimpy Show: Buckaroo$, The
RoboCop 2 + 3
Rockin' Kats
Rollerblade Racer
Romance of the Three Kingdoms II
S.C.A.T.: Special Cybernetic Attack Team
Sesame Street: ABC/123 + Big Bird's Hide & Speak
Shatterhand
Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular
Snow Brothers
Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six
Stanley and the Search for Dr. Livingston
Star Wars
Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back
Stinger
Super Cars
Swamp Thing
Sword Master
Tecmo World Cup Soccer
Terminator, The
Terra Cresta
Thunder & Lightning
Thunderbirds
Tombs & Treasure
Touchdown Fever
Toxic Crusaders

Ultima: Exodus + Quest of the Avatar + Warriors of Destiny
Ultimate Air Combat
Uncharted Waters
Untouchables, The
Vice: Project Doom
Videomation
Wall Street Kid
Wayne's World
Werewolf: The Last Warrior
Where's Waldo?
Whomp 'Em
Widget
World Championship Wrestling
WWF King of the Ring
Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, The
Zen: Intergalactic Ninja

 

[Fallen Kell]

Oh man you HAVE to get Life Force. Just plan on dying a million times until you learn the levels.

 

[007ELmO]

I remember renting Life Force and enjoying it, but never beating it. I really like how NES was based on essentially no input lag at all, nowadays lag -code is built into everything to account for TV delay, network play, etc. - can't depend on 0ms input response.

 

[CZroe]

Got a few more:
Michael Andretti's World Grand Prix

John Elway's Quarterback

Defender II

Oh man you HAVE to get Life Force. Just plan on dying a million times until you learn the levels.

...moving it to the "buy" list. Thanks!

I remember renting Life Force and enjoying it, but never beating it. I really like how NES was based on essentially no input lag at all, nowadays lag -code is built into everything to account for TV delay, network play, etc. - can't depend on 0ms input response.

Well, technically the controllers could have been designed without the 4021 shift register encoder chip to shave off a few more cycles but silicon was cheaper than adding more wires:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKqDVi_JcOg

Luckily, it's a standard off-the-shelf part, which really came in useful recently when I found a dead one in a broken NES dogbone controller. Once I narrowed it down to the dead 4021 by swapping known-good parts, I ordered a pack of three from China and fixed it for good. :thumbsup:

 

[sweenish]

This just seems like vain boasting.

If what you wanted to do was actually track games between the TWO of you, a shared document on any cloud storage service would have sufficed.

But no, there should be a topic on a public forum that's mostly just you multi-posting. Seems great.

 

[CZroe]

This just seems like vain boasting.

If what you wanted to do was actually track games between the TWO of you, a shared document on any cloud storage service would have sufficed.

But no, there should be a topic on a public forum that's mostly just you multi-posting. Seems great.

You do realize that few collectors collect just to keep it to themselves, right? Would you rather I started ANOTHER stupid YouTube channel? There are tons of collectors uploading new videos with each new addition and I don't want to add to that noise. This works for me.

Part of the problem is that a lot of this is done at a flea market where there is no cellular signal. I have a plain-text offline copy of the OP and the buy list which I routinely update before going offline. What I really need is a printout of all the pricecharting prices before I go offline.

Why does it have to be "between the TWO of" us? The part about "where I can reference it" is important. It's a public link I can give to someone else random when we are working out trades. I don't want some cloud service with some required app or a downloadable text file or spreadsheet that some phones wouldn't know what to do with. I don't have to sign up for web-hosting or friend them on Facebook or invite them to a Facebook group.

Speaking of Facebook groups, being "on a public forum" doesn't mean we can't socialize and look for others similarly excited about certain subjects. Your primary complaint stems from the misconception that social posts don't belong on public forums.

Facebook groups don't seem to work nearly as well for collection-tracking/updates. They are chiefly local which drastically limits those interested in participation. I already got a suggestion I would not have had on my buy list if it weren't for this thread. My Zelda II thread was social and that legitimately helped me in ways that would have been ruined if I just looked up an online FAQ or walk-through.

If multi-posting annoys you, how do you feel about thread-crapping? The only reason you see so many posts in a row up there is because the nature of the content, which someone asked for (participation, remember?), required me to break up a single post and integrate it into four. Tapatalk glitches and won't let me edit posts with long lists in code tags so I had to turn a "Complete" list into a reply with "Have," "Want," and "Remainder" lists. The extra posts would have been integrated into replies or updates otherwise with plenty of back and forth. Even if you don't consider all of those a reply to him at least I responded in a way that undeniably added some utility to my list while skirting Tapatalk's glitches.

Now: You clicked the thread so I assume you had SOME interest. How familiar are you with the NES library? Do you have any suggestions that should be in my "buy" list?

 

[futurefields]

This is fascinating. Are you and Ichinisan brothers? A married couple? Who owns who? Who gets to keep the stuff if one of you moves away?

 

[CZroe]

Figured out that I already owned Romance of the Three Kingdoms and a few different R.B.I. Baseball games when identifying the Famicom games we got in a lot last year. Added!

Also moved a few more titles I recall playing to my "buy" list.

This is fascinating. Are you and Ichinisan brothers? A married couple? Who owns who? Who gets to keep the stuff if one of you moves away?

We are twins. We each have our own apartments so we end up shuttling the Nintendo/Famicom Twin/Super Famicom back and forth several times a month. The bulk of our collection (the stuff we don't play frequently) stays in a 16x16x16 building that was built as a game room at our mother's place.

I originally posted these here when it was under construction back in 2004:

Just like when we were kids and we only had one game: it all belongs to both of us. We couldn't afford the hobby otherwise! When I went to San Diego for four years I took the Wii and PS3 but the collection stayed there.

 

[CZroe]

Added the US version of Arkanoid and paid way too much so I can experiment with fixing a broken NES Arkanoid Vaus controller or adapting a Famicom Arkanoid Vaus controller. Doesn't increase the count since it's technically a dupe, but I couldn't resist adding 4 others:
Ikari Warriors (reminds me that I still need Ikari Warriors III)
Star Voyager (different vendor was charging more a week ago)
Karate Champ (reminds me that I still need The Karate Kid)
Rocket Ranger (reminds me that I still need The Rocketeer)

Recently did an SNES dupe check which led to me adding Aero the Acrobat and The Rocketeer so I should probably start tracking changes in that library too.

Until I can format it:

Aero the Acrobat
Aladdin, Disney's (x2)
Axelay
Batman Forever (x3)
Batman Returns (x2)
Battleclash
Battletoads in Battlemaniacs
Big Sky Trooper
Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage
Castlevania IV
Choplifter III Rescue * Survive (resealed)
Chrono Trigger (x2)
Clayfighter Tournament Edition
Contra III The Alien Wars (with manual)
Cool Spot
Darius Twin
Demolition Man
Donkey Kong Country (x2) (one 1.0) (one with manual)
Donkey Kong Country 2 Diddy's Kong Quest (x2)
Doom (x2)
Dragon Quest V (Japanese) (x2)
Dragon Quest VI (Japanese)
Dragon's Lair
Excite Stage '94 (Japanese)
Excite Stage '95 (Japanese)
F-Zero (one boxed) (x3)
Fighter's History (Japanese)
Final Fantasy II (with partial box/manual)
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
Final Fight
Flashback-The Quest for Identity
Hunt for the Red October, The
HyperZone
Illusion of GAIA (x2) (one sealed with bonus)
Incredible Crash Dummies, The
Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2 (Japanese) (boxed)
Joe & Mac (x2)
Jurassic Park
Justice League Task Force
Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball (x2)
Ken Griffey Jr.'s Winning Run (one NFR) (x3)
Killer Instinct (x4) (one sealed)
Kirby Super Star
Kirby's Dream Course AKA "Kirby Bowl" (Japanese)
Krusty's Super Fun House
Lagoon
Lion King, The (x3)
Lost Vikings, The (with manual)
Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse, The AKA "Mickey's Magical Adventure" (Japanese)
Mario Paint (x3) (one boxed) (one loose) (one loose Japanese)
Mario's Picross (Japanese)
Mega Man X
Metal Combat
Micro Machines
Mortal Kombat (x3)
Mortal Kombat II
MTV's Beavis and Butt-head
NBA Hangtime (x3)
NBA Jam Tournament Edition (x2)
NBA Pro Basketball (Japanese)
NCAA Basketball (x2)
NFL Football (box only?)
NHL Stanley Cup
Operation Logic Bomb
Parlor! (Japanese)
Perfect Eleven (Japanese)
PGA Tour Golf
Pilotwings (x3) (one boxed)
Primal Rage
Prime Goal (Japanese)
Ren & Stimpy Show Veediots!, The
Rocketeer, The
Rockman 7 (old pirate)
Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends
Secret of Mana (x2) (one Japanese)
Side Pocket
SimCity (x3) (one boxed)
Spawn
Star Fox (x3) (one old shell)
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Street Fighter II (x2)
Stunt Race FX (x4) (one NFR) (one boxed)
Super Based Loaded, Ryne Sandberg Plays
Super Bases Loaded 2
Super Battleship
Super Bomberman 4 (Japanese)
Super Empire Strikes Back
Super Formation Soccer (Japanese)
Super Formation Soccer II (Japanese)
Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts
Super Mario All*Stars (x3) (one PC Million Seller) (one Japanese)
Super Mario All*Stars + Super Mario World (x2) (one with manual?)
Super Mario Kart (x2) (one PC Million Seller) (one with manual)
Super Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Stars (x2) (one Japanese)
Super Mario World 2 Yoshi's Island (x2) (one boxed)
Super Metroid (x2) (one PC Million Seller) (one with manual)
Super NES Super Scope 6 (boxed)
Super Play Action Football
Super Punch-Out!! (x2) (one with manual)
Super R-Type
Super R.B.I. Baseball
Super Star Wars (x2) (one PC Million Seller) (one with manual)
Super Street Fighter II
Super Tennis (x2) (one boxed) (one new shell)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV Turtles in Time
Tetris & Dr. Mario
Tetris Attack
Tin Star
Tiny Toon Adventures Buster Busts Loose (new)
Top Gear (x2) (one old shell)
Top Gear 2
True Lies (resealed)
Turn and Burn: No Fly Zone
Uniracers
Vegas Stakes
Wheel of Fortune Deluxe Edition
Wings 2 - Aces High
Winning Post (Japanese)
Wolf Child
WWF Royal Rumble
WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game
X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse
Young Merlin

123 unique titles

 

[007ELmO]

I remember playing Ikari Warriors a couple times, but I recently picked up Guerilla war instead. I seem to remember having a lot more fun with that.

 

[exdeath]

Got a few more:
Michael Andretti's World Grand Prix

John Elway's Quarterback

Defender II


...moving it to the "buy" list. Thanks!


Well, technically the controllers could have been designed without the 4021 shift register encoder chip to shave off a few more cycles but silicon was cheaper than adding more wires:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKqDVi_JcOg

Luckily, it's a standard off-the-shelf part, which really came in useful recently when I found a dead one in a broken NES dogbone controller. Once I narrowed it down to the dead 4021 by swapping known-good parts, I ordered a pack of three from China and fixed it for good. :thumbsup:

The original PC/XT keyboard did the same thing.

74LS322 1 in 8 out shift register with sign extend.

The 8 bit parallel output went to port A of the 8255 PPI that you read at 60h, the clear/reset lines went to some bits in port B of the 8255 @ 61h, but the magic is that the sign extend of the 74LS322 pushes a bit out the end into a single 74LS74 flip flop whose output drives pin 19 of the 8259 PIC for INT1.

They keyboard sends 9 bit bytes with a start bit such that on the 9th shift the start bit is pushed out into the 74LS74 once the last bit of the scancode is shifted in, which triggers INT1.

The interrupt routine installed by the BIOS reads the byte at the shift register presented by the 8255 @ 60h, translates/stores it in the BIOS data area keyboard buffer, toggles the shift register and flip flop clear/reset presented as bits in 8255 @ 61h, acknowledges and clears the interrupt, and the process repeats.

It's so simple it's genius.

I'm on a massive hardware kick right now.

Going to build me one of these:

http://www.mtmscientific.com/pc-retro.html

Then experiment with connecting a Cyclone II FPGA to the ISA slot and try making my own console style VDP (tile based multi layer scrolling, sprites, etc) for the PC.

There's not reason with a 4.77 MHz 16 bit CPU with an 8 bit bus @ 1.19 MB/s can't do SNES+ quality graphics. Consoles had a huge advantage with 2D hardware acceleration for over a decade.

Hell even most other PCs had some form of hardware sprites or BITBLT or something.

 

[CZroe]

I remember playing Ikari Warriors a couple times, but I recently picked up Guerilla war instead. I seem to remember having a lot more fun with that.

My only memory of Ikari Warriors was that a friend brought it over once when we were kids and it was great fun beating it with two players. The label even promotes that with something like "Two can play together!" on the front. I recall that it either had arcade-style unlimited continues or it was very generous with them which is why we were able to just keep going. I think the ending had a sort of cinematic with an airplane and the president's daughter or something.

Edit: Looks like that was Ikari Warriors III: The Rescue, which is the only one I still don't have.

The original PC/XT keyboard did the same thing.

74LS322 1 in 8 out shift register with sign extend.

The 8 bit parallel output went to port A of the 8255 PPI that you read at 60h, the clear/reset lines went to some bits in port B of the 8255 @ 61h, but the magic is that the sign extend of the 74LS322 pushes a bit out the end into a single 74LS74 flip flop whose output drives pin 19 of the 8259 PIC for INT1.

They keyboard sends 9 bit bytes with a start bit such that on the 9th shift the start bit is pushed out into the 74LS74 once the last bit of the scancode is shifted in, which triggers INT1.

The interrupt routine installed by the BIOS reads the byte at the shift register presented by the 8255 @ 60h, translates/stores it in the BIOS data area keyboard buffer, toggles the shift register and flip flop clear/reset presented as bits in 8255 @ 61h, acknowledges and clears the interrupt, and the process repeats.

It's so simple it's genius.

I'm on a massive hardware kick right now.

Going to build me one of these:

http://www.mtmscientific.com/pc-retro.html

Then experiment with connecting a Cyclone II FPGA to the ISA slot and try making my own console style VDP (tile based multi layer scrolling, sprites, etc) for the PC.

There's not reason with a 4.77 MHz 16 bit CPU with an 8 bit bus @ 1.19 MB/s can't do SNES+ quality graphics. Consoles had a huge advantage with 2D hardware acceleration for over a decade.

Hell even most other PCs had some form of hardware sprites or BITBLT or something.

Alright, Woz, you've convinced me. *shove aside* Now you let me do the talking.

I have been thinking about asking my friend to search his dad's shed for his old PC XT so I can poke around but never thought about making a clone. I guess it'd just be too easy to pick up an old one with the floppy drives and input and everything good to go.

 

[CZroe]

Added 14 games:
Kings of the Beach
Kung Fu Heroes (dupe)
Life Force (AKA "Salamander;" thanks, Fallen Kell)
Lode Runner
Mach Rider
Mega Man 3
NES Open Tournament Golf
Rescue The Embassy Mission (with manual)
Rush'n Attack (AKA "Green Beret")
Target: Renegade
Tetris 2
Top Players' Tennis, Chris Evert & Ivan Lendl
World Games
Wrath of the Black Manta

I finally decided to cough up for something on my buy list that was on eBay and another in a local shop that was almost $30 (Mega Man 3), which was the most I've spent on an individual game so far. I'm not looking forward to paying what Mega Man and Mega Man 5 are worth but I might as well get what I can out of the way.

5 of these were from eBay marking my first attempt to collect stuff I haven't found locally. One doesn't count because it's a dupe.

I remember playing Ikari Warriors a couple times, but I recently picked up Guerilla war instead. I seem to remember having a lot more fun with that.

Yeah. I played a little bit of Guerrilla War last month and thought it was great!

 

[HeXen]

Target Renegade is tough. I liked Renegade so much better. I was stupid with my NES games and threw them all away years ago. Did that with a lot of PC games too. ....but then I kept my Sega Genesis/CD and it's games, makes sense huh.

 

[CZroe]

Added:
Two copies of Al Unser's Turbo Racing but one is in such bad shape that it's almost unrecognizeable. They were both $1 and, well, I can't turn down any NES game for $1. That's worth it just for the cart shell and especially with a PCB that I can make it into a Zelda II hack. :awe:

The same guy didn't even bother to clean off the grease spatter from a nearly-ruined copy of RoboCop... or whatever this waxy substance is. It doesn't feel greasy (but it's very old) and when you scrape it off the plastic is horribly blistered and discolored underneath. If it wasn't from hot grease then it's gotta be some kind of chemical reaction so I'll be washing my hands after handling it until it's cleaned off. It's obviously not useful for reusing the cart shell but, hey, it works and I didn't have RoboCop. $1 well spent?

More from the same guy:
-A terrible copy of RoadBlasters with only the remnants of a label. Same deal: $1. It works. I didn't already have it.
-Defender of the Crown with strange label damage, strange discoloration, a black edge on the PCB, and a back label that looks like it was burned off.
-The Rocketeer with a portion of the cart shell missing.
All worked. I considered buying his copy of Metal Gear but it is in a Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt shell with cracks and holes, a torn label, permanant marker including a giant "X" over the old label and "Medal Gear" (sic) written on the front, but I already have Metal Gear. At least they spelled it right on the back... with more permanent marker.

Out of the 35+ games I tested for the first time, the ONE GAME that didn't work was a minty copy of Pin-Bot. I opened it to confirm it looks good inside and out and it was clean. Looked as good as new, but it still doesn't work. I tested it hundreds of times in three perfectly-working consoles (original connector, replacement connector, top-loader) with multiple PSUs and it is dead as a door-nail. Always a blank screen with no graphics or sound, not even once did I see a garbled graphic. The CIC lockout chip seems to work because I can get it to flash or not flash, so that's definitely not it.

I paid $2 extra for the boxed copy of Golf Power ft. Greg Norman because I thought I'd get a manual too. I didn't. I couldn't check because it was behind the glass and I didn't ask because I was buying so many games that such questions would have pushed us way past closing. At least it came with a dust cover. They really should note these things where they aren't available to inspect!

Lesson learned but I did it again deliberately at the very next place. They had a ratty boxed copy The Three Stooges and, once again, I paid about $2 over the typical loose price for the box and dust sleeve with no manual. That's because this one was on my "get" list and I hadn't seen it elsewhere at or below the loose price. When I tested it I thought I got stuck with a board swap because it starts up with a Ghostbusters II title screen and then The Stooges come on screen and on converse about being "in the wrong game." By that point I was already reaching for my list to see if Ghostbusters II was a more or less valuable game, so they got me good! David Fincher's Fight Club Blu-Ray fake-out is less original than I thought.

I FINALLY got a copy of Fester's Quest for a price I was willing to pay. For a super-common game there was no way I was paying the inflated local prices I was seeing for this game even though it's one I genuinely want to revisit. It was only going for a few dollars more but I wasn't about to pay more just to end up with a dupe from a near-future lot purchase. Their $8 asking price is almost twice as much as it is worth! Strangely, I bought it for $3 at an alt location for one of those places that was charging too much. Now I know that I have to check both places before committing. More work.

On my quest to pick up all the Power Pad games, I added Short Order/Eggsplode... or Eggsplode/Short Order depending on what part of the label you choose to read. Never knew it existed back in the day but it looks like it was published by Nintendo so... *shrug* I would've bought it either way.

I restored my empty Tecmo Super Bowl by buying a replacement Tecmo Super Bowl game pak. If the guy who borrowed my original ever returns it then I guess I'll have a $15 dupe.

I couldn't decide between Little League Baseball Major League Baseball, so I bought both. They were cheap.

Getting Cobra Command is twisting the knife in the hole that is Cobra Triangle. I keep accidentally checking off CT and operating like I finally got it before realizing and having to correct it. List management is getting tedious.

I bought an eBay lot to get a deal on Toki, an uncommon title, but that resulted in more dupes including some I had just bought locally only hours earlier: Tetris 2, Top Gun, and Wrath of the Black Manta. Ouch! At least The Uncanny X-Men and Urban Champion make up for it.

Urban Champion is one of the early "black box" games that always features pixel-inspired art on a black box. My only prior experience with Urban Champion was the version released on eReader cards for the Game Boy Advance. It was the same game running in an NES emulator but, IIRC, people extracted the ROM (LOL! ...from paper!) and determined that it had been changed to a different memory mapper. The eReader's built-in NES emulator probably didn't support emulating whatever memory mapper scheme the original version used. They didn't bother to emulate the more complicated mapper chips since most of those ROMs would need to be printed on far more than the pack of 5 cards NES eReader games had to fit on.

The only other black box game I added was Pinball featuring Mario. I strongly considered adding Volleyball but it just wasn't priced right.

I might've over-paid for Eliminator Boat Duel and Heavy Shreddin'. The prices looked good when compared to the value I had printed up but I forgot that AVGN had recently talked about these. Often their online value might get a temporary spike that makes these slow-to-change retail prices look good in comparison. I know Heavy Shreddin' was cheaper than another place in town so it's probably not too bad.

I also bought another CIB Family Computer copy of Arkanoid for some research I've been doing on the controller. It was a US seller and the controller alone was worth the price. This makes three now: Two Nintendo Family Computer, one Nintendo Entertainment System.

The rest:
Adventures of Dino-Ricky
Barbie
Baseball Simulator 1.000
Beetlejuice
Built to Win, Formula One
California Games
The Chessmaster
Code Name Viper
Cyberball
Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge
Golf Grand Slam
High Speed
Pictionary The Game of Video Quick Draw
Racket Attack
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
RoboWarrior
Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball
Rollerball
Roundball 2-on-2 Challenge
Sesame Street Countdown
Side Pocket
Sky Shark
Star Force
Tecmo NBA Basketball
Wayne Gretzky Hockey

I still might be forgetting some. I'll be lost in editing for a little while.

Target Renegade is tough. I liked Renegade so much better. I was stupid with my NES games and threw them all away years ago. Did that with a lot of PC games too. ....but then I kept my Sega Genesis/CD and it's games, makes sense huh.

I would've had Renegade to mention in that same post but eBay glitched and it went to someone else for less than I was willing to pay.

I typed in my bid, moused-over the dialog with a tap-to-click touchpad and it just disappeared. I didn't tap but if it thought I did I couldn't just bid again without checking to see if my old bid went through. That proved easier said than done and the crucial last 30 seconds evaporated. I realized later that it was an eBay glitch because it happened three more times on other lots from the same seller. A different glitch made me lose even more, but this was a mobile app glitch: the seller's list of auctions would sort by ending soonest until you look at one and then go back. While you think you are waiting for the next one to end (they are spaced a few minutes apart) others are ending left and right. I has a sad.