Video Game "Look what I found"

[AppleQueso]

How long does it take on average to get a full NES set?

There's absolutely no way of knowing that. Depends on how lucky you are, how thrifty you are, how picky you are about condition, whether you're going for cart only or CIB, whether or not you decide to shoot for variants and unlicensed stuff, and how much disposable income you have to regularly throw towards it, among other things.

[J_Wil]

Complete sets of Atari 2600 and NES are virtually impossible.

I'd say an NES set minus the Nintendo World Championships and Stadium Events is doable I suppose. Still insanely difficult but possible.

Atari 2600 just has way too much crazy rare expensive shit like Air Raid, Red Sea Crossing, Video Life, Pepsi Invaders, etc...

I agree 100% on the 2600. NES, probably not so tough if you have the cash to throw at it but yes, unlikely for us normal folks with budgets- assuming we're talking officially licensed games only. I *was* going for a complete NES set but there's no way I can justify forking over more than $100 on any game let alone thousands for Stadium Events, which is something I would never even play. It doesn't help that I don't focus on a single system to collect either. So unless I got really luck a lot, not happening for me. It is possible for some though. There are folks who've started early enough when everything was cheap who are really close now. I can't imagine someone just starting to collect for either the NES or 2600 to have that sort of luck now that the prices have gotten out of control and everyone has access to see what games are roughly valued at.

[wclem]

Complete sets of Atari 2600 and NES are virtually impossible.

I'd say an NES set minus the Nintendo World Championships and Stadium Events is doable I suppose. Still insanely difficult but possible.

Atari 2600 just has way too much crazy rare expensive shit like Air Raid, Red Sea Crossing, Video Life, Pepsi Invaders, etc...

I agree 100% on the 2600. NES, probably not so tough if you have the cash to throw at it but yes, unlikely for us normal folks with budgets- assuming we're talking officially licensed games only. I *was* going for a complete NES set but there's no way I can justify forking over more than $100 on any game let alone thousands for Stadium Events, which is something I would never even play. It doesn't help that I don't focus on a single system to collect either. So unless I got really luck a lot, not happening for me. It is possible for some though. There are folks who've started early enough when everything was cheap who are really close now. I can't imagine someone just starting to collect for either the NES or 2600 to have that sort of luck now that the prices have gotten out of control and everyone has access to see what games are roughly valued at.

It is not easy at all. I did get a ton of them on the cheap and am over 500 on the way there. The days of finding one now are kind of rare and few and far in between. I could sit on ebay and go broke and finish it but it would not be fun at all. In the end, it is the fun factor of finding them in the wild and what me and the wife most enjoy. I did pay out a little for Bubble Bobble 2 but I got it all on trade! I get good deals trading in stuff I find at garage sales and such and I help the local store to be profitable.

[aaron]

there's currently a Caltron 6-in-1 and a Bonk's Adventure sitting at my local shop. $299 and $249, respectively.

[wclem]

The wife just updated me, 617 games for the NES. Now if I can remember the official total. LOL

[Fragems]

What I mean by going for a complete set is keeping each unique game I find. I never go out of my way to buy a game unless it is something I really really want.

So far the rarest game I have found for the Atari was Dice Puzzle. Really I just got lucky with it since the woman running the yard sale was going by VGPC prices and this game doesn't have one.

http://videogames.pricecharting.com/gam ... ice-puzzle#

Bulk of my collection came from a flea market buy in which I got 200+ carts and a couple manuals for $75.

[AppleQueso]

The wife just updated me, 617 games for the NES. Now if I can remember the official total. LOL

677 licensed carts.

90-something unlicensed iirc.

Total it comes out to a little under 800.

[wclem]

The wife just updated me, 617 games for the NES. Now if I can remember the official total. LOL

677 licensed carts.

90-something unlicensed iirc.

Total it comes out to a little under 800.

60 to go woohoo!

[RCBH928]

How long does it take on average to get a full NES set?

There's absolutely no way of knowing that. Depends on how lucky you are, how thrifty you are, how picky you are about condition, whether you're going for cart only or CIB, whether or not you decide to shoot for variants and unlicensed stuff, and how much disposable income you have to regularly throw towards it, among other things.

I wonder how much a complete set would cost...


If we assume NES has 800 titles , and I am going to average each game for $10 = $8000 . You know thats not too bad of a price for the complete history of a videogame console.

Any here owns a FULL set?

[AppleQueso]

How long does it take on average to get a full NES set?

There's absolutely no way of knowing that. Depends on how lucky you are, how thrifty you are, how picky you are about condition, whether you're going for cart only or CIB, whether or not you decide to shoot for variants and unlicensed stuff, and how much disposable income you have to regularly throw towards it, among other things.

I wonder how much a complete set would cost...


If we assume NES has 800 titles , and I am going to average each game for $10 = $8000 . You know thats not too bad of a price for the complete history of a videogame console.

$8k seems a bit low to me (there are some pretty expensive games out there), but it's kinda hard to estimate. Prices fluctuate a lot after all.

The cost isn't really all that important. The people who shoot for complete sets do so because, again, the journey is more rewarding and fun than the destination.

Any here owns a FULL set?

Duke.Togo I believe is very close to a licensed set, like less than 10 games away.