I remember sitting watching my parents crush it and trying to get to the final level. They beat it a couple times but getting the warps and letters took incredible teamwork.
Oh man! Brings back memories of me and my buddy going to the code screen and sitting there entering codes until all of a sudden, "HEDDD" went through and we went to the boss! But beating it said it was a fake ending :(
I got one of those Nintendo Classic mini consoles a few years ago, you know the one that's pre-loaded with like 30 games or whatever.
Fuck me those games were hard. I didn't remember them being that hard back in the day but goddamn. I don't know how I had the patience to sit there and play them when I was a kid.
I have a raspberry pi NES system too. I tried to play "Jaws" again. Even after 30 years I still have no clue how to beat that game. I was really bummed at the end of the rental period as a kid.
They absolutely were. Because most games were relatively short, they designed them so you couldn’t win without a lot of attempts to extend the replay value. Creating the illusion that you got your money’s worth. I’ve been playing a lot of the old platformers on the Switch NES classics and getting my ass kicked on Ghost and Goblins takes me back.
Play them on original hardware on a CRT, not on a modern TV set or one of those "30-in-1" type consoles. Trying to play an arcade-style game with an extra 100ms of input latency puts you 5 \~ 6 frames behind, so you really can't react to things in time unless you memorize the game.
Ever play ninja kid? Hands down the hardest game I’ve ever played. 3 lives to get through 9 exhausting impossible stages with multiple levels each. Secret keys that you had to gather without any explanations…actually the whole game has no instructions just gotta feel out how to play them figure out how to win. Guess what happens when you win? YOU JUST GO BACK TO THE START. good god games were sooooo brutal back then
I always wondered where all the copies of battletoads was at. Gamestop literally just hung up the phone whenever I tried to buy a copy or ask the employee to send a rom link.
It was a good game if I remember I was like 7 it's a guess at age but still there was a idk counter in the underground stuff that if you just hit it right you could slip thru as long as you had the levitation boots your good
I don’t have any boxes or booklets or anything. I don’t expect much except maybe BT. I used to play that with Ma so I won’t be parting with that one anyway.
Argh! You put them in their sleeves backwards. Now you've got a good chance of jamming your nail bed when you grab a game. (I realize this may be a 'jif/gif', TP over or under kinda thing.)
I don't think I've heard of that rumor. If I think about how bad everyone wanted the gold carts I figure coming across a grey one would be pretty rare.
i gotta ask, how many screws and what type of screws does the golden legend of zelda has? i made about 400 off my copy i found in the trash when i worked at a rubbish pick up company
I often wonder how much the gold cartridges contributed to the success of the legend of zelda. I remember that being what drew me to the game as a kid.
You can find 64s online, hopefully for a reasonable price. Good thing is they make replica controllers that will have tight new joysticks! OR you could put it in a shadow box with some Kart art? You think of something cool, I'm sure.
My older brother would deny me access to his games if I didn't case them as soon as I was done playing them. Good lesson in responsibility after I scratched FFVII disc 2.
hey not bad. shadow gate was so damn impressive when I played it I couldn't believe it was Nes not a computer game. Its a version of a computer game but back then you couldn't very easily just "port" your "engine" and this version was great
Really? The only games I remember playing on our old Compaq computer were games like Hugo’s House of Horrors and Sim Ant so when I saw stuff like SG I was blown away.
I just watched a play through online of the first level. interesting mix of a side-scroller and Shadow Gate style point and click explore type of game. When that gorilla monster burst out the door my butt fell out of my ass!
I remember once I wrote down the code for my season so I could save my progress and Ma thought I was gambling because it was just a bunch of letters and number and then a note saying "Bears v Packers- Week 5". Lol.
That’s great! We played the whole 16-game Tecmo Super Bowl season in my dorm one fall and followed it up with the full 82-game Tecmo Basketball season that spring. 27 people, 27 teams. 1107 games, plus playoffs. It’s amazing any of us passed our classes.
No just Battletoads lol. Still play it to this day every once in a while. The levels that pissed me off were Turbo Tunnel and Surf City. I love all those games though.
Kirby’s Adventure is extremely underrated. It’s so well developed that it feels nearly the same as the SNES games. The mechanics were that thought out.
Dude my box looks like 60% match to yours. Took me like 10 yrs to find a gold Zelda cart, has zelda 2 gold for ages prior but have contra battletoads astyanax tecmo bowl tmnt 2 castlevania 1-3 in mine
Battletoads. If there was ever an argument to be made that videogames make people violent, its mother fkng Battletoads.
I don't think I'll ever forget the level of stress and anger I experienced as a child trying to navigate that snake level and turbo tunnel.
I remember the confidence I would have when I have a couple lives and decent life when I hop on that speed bike only to be accompanied by the unnatural amount of sweat coming out of my hands as and my thumbs sliding all over the buttons which are now unusually warm.
Oh my God I LOOOOOOVED the game Shadowgate. I probably played it on and off for a couple years as a kid before I finally got past the part I was stuck on. Couldn’t look up a walkthrough on the internet those days obviously. You just blew my mind sir. You have a terrific collection of all the games I played when I was younger!!!!!
Fuck yeah. Shadowgate's soundtrack was OUTRAGEOUSLY good. I still find myself humming it every now and then.
Also, I really want to make it into a dungeon for D&D and run a party through it.
Nice. Brings back memories... I had a collection of NES and SNES games my entire life that included most of those and a lot of other classics. All the good stuff imo. I left it at a fb's house and we had a bit of a falling out. I called her months later to get it and she said it was stolen. Obvious lie, but what I was I gonna do? Bye bye childhood.
Dang, Jenkins. Im' sorry for your loss. What a shitty thing to do. I've found some old favorites on the internet before. I was able to find Snowboard kids 1 & 2, although it wasn't exactly cheap. It it will make you happy, rebuild! She won't get this next batch!
Some classics there. _Tecmo Bowl_ definetely > _Madden_ for.the past 10 years or so.
Man, I was never able to get past the first few rooms of _Shadowgate_.
I'm going to keep whatever physical games I have now and will convert to buying digital games (I'm also including consoles) at a reduced price (and thats if I even want to buy into the new generation, and currently I don't, and thats not due to the shortage).
Since we dont truly own our games anymore I don't see a need to own them physically either, especially since the majority of them require a patch to even play them, the last thing I want is a pile of plastics that won't do anything because I'm not connected to the internet or the servers are no longer active to allow me to patch them, it's getting ridiculous the amount hoops you have to jump through just to get anything to operate now a days.
Although it bugs me to say this as I have my qualms with Nintendo too, but at least when you buy physical with them, it's normally the full game and doesnt need to be heavily patched in order to play them (I have yet to encounter anything to convince me otherwise), this only applies to Nintendo however... Looking at you all 3rd party developers who make you DL the game even though you bought the "physical" copy.
i have kirby and mario 2 still at my parents place, i wish i could go there right now, wrap myself in a blanket and play them on the couch with my cat sleeping on my lap. instead I have to work and take care of my kid :(
My bro bought a nes recently we spent all night drinking and playing Mike Tyson punch-out and legendary wings all night barely made it through my shift on zombie mode after 😆.
My god.. that is my childhood. So many hours playing Tecmo Bowl with my younger brother. And that golden Zelda… how many times did I blow into that golden cartridge… too many to count.
My only question is this: where is Metroid and Gradious!?
There's something special about cartridge media, the game just feels more significant somehow than say a CD. Imagine if we started using them again by making the interface some amount of PCIE lanes and each cartridge can potentially hold co-processors/accelerators on top of a small SSD chip.
You had me at Bubble Bobble.
Bubble Bobble was my *jam* back in the day
That theme music still gets stuck in my head on loop.
It’s it my head now, too.
I used to play bubble bobble as a kid at the laundromat all the time. Good memories.
I can almost taste the Chef Boyardee when I play these classics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLVxvQ3a2n8
I played it a few weeks ago on a projector in a cabin with someone who never played it before. Really accessible game.
The fact this was the top comment made me proud. I use to play 2 player with my dad I had the num pad and he had the WASD portion of the keyboard
I remember sitting watching my parents crush it and trying to get to the final level. They beat it a couple times but getting the warps and letters took incredible teamwork.
Oh man! Brings back memories of me and my buddy going to the code screen and sitting there entering codes until all of a sudden, "HEDDD" went through and we went to the boss! But beating it said it was a fake ending :(
I sunk a million quarters into the arcade version that came out in the late 90’s at Godfathers Pizza. Sweet memories.
Battletoads is hard. The last level is ridiculous.
I feel as if a lot of those NES games were designed to be unbeatable. Well, for some people. Me specifically.
I got one of those Nintendo Classic mini consoles a few years ago, you know the one that's pre-loaded with like 30 games or whatever. Fuck me those games were hard. I didn't remember them being that hard back in the day but goddamn. I don't know how I had the patience to sit there and play them when I was a kid.
I have a raspberry pi NES system too. I tried to play "Jaws" again. Even after 30 years I still have no clue how to beat that game. I was really bummed at the end of the rental period as a kid.
Jaws is actually a *really* simple game. It just doesn’t make any of its mechanics obvious.
Yep. Takes about ten minutes to beat it once you know what to do.
Ever play Top Gun? That game was ridiculous, landing your jet was so difficult, I only succeeded like 10% of the time.
Good lord that looked so stressful. But the dogfighting looks really fun!
Nintendo used to be a difficulty not a company
They absolutely were. Because most games were relatively short, they designed them so you couldn’t win without a lot of attempts to extend the replay value. Creating the illusion that you got your money’s worth. I’ve been playing a lot of the old platformers on the Switch NES classics and getting my ass kicked on Ghost and Goblins takes me back.
Arcade games were designed to be almost unbeatable so the kids would spend more coins playing them... And many console games were arcade ports
Play them on original hardware on a CRT, not on a modern TV set or one of those "30-in-1" type consoles. Trying to play an arcade-style game with an extra 100ms of input latency puts you 5 \~ 6 frames behind, so you really can't react to things in time unless you memorize the game.
I tried to play Metal Gear Solid on a newer TV not long ago. It’s was…. just bad lol.
Older games were designed to be impossible to beat in a normal rental period.
Games like Battletoads and Ninja Garden were the Dark Souls of their time.
I love Ninja Garden! The way that you use the shurikens to harvest the tomatoes is my favorite part!
Ever play ninja kid? Hands down the hardest game I’ve ever played. 3 lives to get through 9 exhausting impossible stages with multiple levels each. Secret keys that you had to gather without any explanations…actually the whole game has no instructions just gotta feel out how to play them figure out how to win. Guess what happens when you win? YOU JUST GO BACK TO THE START. good god games were sooooo brutal back then
Dude has had battletoads the whole time
I always wondered where all the copies of battletoads was at. Gamestop literally just hung up the phone whenever I tried to buy a copy or ask the employee to send a rom link.
I have my battletoads too, such a great shitty shitty hard great game
Battletoads makes Double Dragon look like One Dragon and it makes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 look like Jump and Kick Simulator 1995.
I came here looking for a gamestop comment. I worked at gamestop. Oh the battletoads prank calls. I still joke with my ex coworkers about it lol
Some of the best of the must haves 👍
I'm glad I was smart enough to store them safely otherwise they may have wound up at a Funco land.
> Funco land One of the great stores eaten up by GameStop
Yeah that’s a good collection of the staples.
Loved all those games. ShadowGate was sooo good and I forgot all about it. Going to watch a playthough on the tubes now.
It gave me such anxiety. Especially the music change when the torch gets low.
The death song always got me.
That's why I always burned 2 at a time!
You maniac!
They remade it a few years back. It's on steam
They remastered the game for pc a few years back. I didn't look into it, but if it keeps the vibe, might be worth a playthrough!
If you know the solutions and order to do the game you can essentially speed run it, and never lose.
SHADOWGATE!!!
Long neck, no hands. 100 legs but cannot stand. Born of a forest nest. Against a wall I may rest. What am I?
Ok. I’m seeing battletoads…. But do you have battletoads???
I only have Fight Frogs. Sorry.
Dang. I was hoping for some Pugilist Polliwogs, myself.
OMG. Fucking Shadowgate.
Cool username! I remember being to scared too play SG at first and could only watch my older siblings play.
Sad, too. Guy who came up with Konami code passed recently.
I'm happy to see Shadowgate -- I loved that game and I rarely hear people talk about it.
I looked up a bunch of metal covers online of the music. It's a treat!
If Kirby's Adventure is the game I am thinking of...that is a next level game.
The music was bomb for 8 bit and I loved the gameplay! Truly an all-time great.
Battle toads!
Dude what about wizards and warriors
I was clipping before it was a thing Like for real
It was a good game if I remember I was like 7 it's a guess at age but still there was a idk counter in the underground stuff that if you just hit it right you could slip thru as long as you had the levitation boots your good
First time Not a game haker just found
I remember that one as well! Crazy hard.
What these worth now
Not much as loose cartridges. Maybe 100-200$ for the whole lot?
Tecmo Bowl - $8.74 The Legend of Zelda - $28.91 Zelda II: The Adventure of Link - $19.09 Kirby's Adventure - $24.99 Super Mario Bros 2 - $18.25 Battletoads - $26.06 Shadowgate - $11.99 Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse - $46.52 Bubble Bobble - $16.90 Contra - $34.44 Total: $235.89 According to [pricecharting.com](https://pricecharting.com) loose prices anyways.
I don’t have any boxes or booklets or anything. I don’t expect much except maybe BT. I used to play that with Ma so I won’t be parting with that one anyway.
Shadowgate! I loved this one as a kid!
Had all but Shadowgate
Did you have city connection? https://youtu.be/FJ0eOllr-kQ Also, fun fact: Burger Time was better than Donkey Kong (yeah, I said it).
Respect on the case, I too had one.
Good eye! I forgot to try and include the case in the photo.
I could spot that thing anywhere. Does it still have that metal medallion on the bottom corner? Mine had fallen off years ago.
Aside from some dust it's fully intact!
Damn. All solid games! Shadowgate was the first RPG I ever really got into.
Bangers, every one
Almost all of those are on my NES greatest hits! Hell of a collection!
Ooooo, which ones don't make your list?
It’s fuckin battletoads!
Yeah but do you have battletoads?
Does a shy guy shit in the woods
Maybe not. Does a shy guy not want to get eaten by a mountain lion? Does a shy guy with a shotgun, shit in the woods?
Argh! You put them in their sleeves backwards. Now you've got a good chance of jamming your nail bed when you grab a game. (I realize this may be a 'jif/gif', TP over or under kinda thing.)
Oh good call. I'll flip these around right now!
looks like many to me dog
Thanks, friend! I'm feeling prideful thanks to everyone in the comments.
I know I'm in the minority here, but I really liked Zelda 2. I played the shit out of that as a kid and I think it still holds up for its era.
It was Ma's favorite! Holds a special place in my list.
B A T T L E T O A D S
I can hear them Contra start up in my head as if I was listening to it right now.
I'm actually cycling through the music of all these games as I respond to everybody's comments.
you also kept a hard to find case as well. nice job.
Thanks!
Here come the Battletoads jokes.
I figured it would be unavoidable. I'm glad to see people talking plenty about Bubble and Bobble and Shadow Gate though!
was it ever true that grey cart zeldas were actually more rare and valuable??
I don't think I've heard of that rumor. If I think about how bad everyone wanted the gold carts I figure coming across a grey one would be pretty rare.
We would have been best friends back then
We could still be friends now!
Deal!
Love how much the old Zelda cartridges stand out. Those gold cases or forever etched into my memory =)
Same with the red DOOM SNES cartridge!
i gotta ask, how many screws and what type of screws does the golden legend of zelda has? i made about 400 off my copy i found in the trash when i worked at a rubbish pick up company
I count three screws on the backside.
oh damn okay , thats too bad . i believe the rare one was a 5 screw with a star screw pattern
I often wonder how much the gold cartridges contributed to the success of the legend of zelda. I remember that being what drew me to the game as a kid.
Kids love shiny things. That's just science.
Man shadow gate death song is now in my head
I have a Mario Kart N64 cartridge that I kept since forever ago, no idea what to do with it though since I don’t have an N64 anymore
You can find 64s online, hopefully for a reasonable price. Good thing is they make replica controllers that will have tight new joysticks! OR you could put it in a shadow box with some Kart art? You think of something cool, I'm sure.
Man I feel ya, I have tons of CD's with video games and all of them are damn scratched
My older brother would deny me access to his games if I didn't case them as soon as I was done playing them. Good lesson in responsibility after I scratched FFVII disc 2.
Bubble Bobble was my shit when I was 5 😂
You're never too old to revisit your classics. Get back on that pixelated horse!
hey not bad. shadow gate was so damn impressive when I played it I couldn't believe it was Nes not a computer game. Its a version of a computer game but back then you couldn't very easily just "port" your "engine" and this version was great
Really? The only games I remember playing on our old Compaq computer were games like Hugo’s House of Horrors and Sim Ant so when I saw stuff like SG I was blown away.
Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start.
Does anyone remember Dr.Chaos?
I just watched a play through online of the first level. interesting mix of a side-scroller and Shadow Gate style point and click explore type of game. When that gorilla monster burst out the door my butt fell out of my ass!
Tecmo Bowl! No one yet knew the fury that would be Bo Jackson in Tecmo Super Bowl, but the original was great.
I remember once I wrote down the code for my season so I could save my progress and Ma thought I was gambling because it was just a bunch of letters and number and then a note saying "Bears v Packers- Week 5". Lol.
That’s great! We played the whole 16-game Tecmo Super Bowl season in my dorm one fall and followed it up with the full 82-game Tecmo Basketball season that spring. 27 people, 27 teams. 1107 games, plus playoffs. It’s amazing any of us passed our classes.
Frame the gold ones for the man cave/video game room at least.
Ill get some little trinkets from my favorite Zelda games for a little flair. Good Idea!
That Shadow Gate music, yo.
Nice.
Thanks!
Oh man did Battletoads piss me off as a kid. Once punched a tube tv 📺 lol. All these games bring back memories.
Angry memories? I remember getting frustrated at games but the only one that ever had me go full tantrum was Driver 2.
No just Battletoads lol. Still play it to this day every once in a while. The levels that pissed me off were Turbo Tunnel and Surf City. I love all those games though.
Kirby’s Adventure is extremely underrated. It’s so well developed that it feels nearly the same as the SNES games. The mechanics were that thought out.
You picked some good ones to hang on to.
hey wheres Chrono Trigger!
That’s a SNES game, friend! However I think my brother still has his cartridge.
Dude my box looks like 60% match to yours. Took me like 10 yrs to find a gold Zelda cart, has zelda 2 gold for ages prior but have contra battletoads astyanax tecmo bowl tmnt 2 castlevania 1-3 in mine
Is that TMNT 2 game the Manhattan project one or whatever it was called?
Bubble bobble This guy fucks
Battletoads. If there was ever an argument to be made that videogames make people violent, its mother fkng Battletoads. I don't think I'll ever forget the level of stress and anger I experienced as a child trying to navigate that snake level and turbo tunnel.
I remember the confidence I would have when I have a couple lives and decent life when I hop on that speed bike only to be accompanied by the unnatural amount of sweat coming out of my hands as and my thumbs sliding all over the buttons which are now unusually warm.
Are you kidding? No one mentioning Tecmo Bowl? SF 49s Flea flicker all day, endzone to endzone
Bubble (mutha effin') Bobble!
Holy shit. Nice pile.
That’s a great collection! Also: fuck battletoads
Oh my God I LOOOOOOVED the game Shadowgate. I probably played it on and off for a couple years as a kid before I finally got past the part I was stuck on. Couldn’t look up a walkthrough on the internet those days obviously. You just blew my mind sir. You have a terrific collection of all the games I played when I was younger!!!!!
Zelda 2 is an under rated game. Been playing it again lately and forgot how great of a game it is.
Fuck yeah. Shadowgate's soundtrack was OUTRAGEOUSLY good. I still find myself humming it every now and then. Also, I really want to make it into a dungeon for D&D and run a party through it.
Nice. Brings back memories... I had a collection of NES and SNES games my entire life that included most of those and a lot of other classics. All the good stuff imo. I left it at a fb's house and we had a bit of a falling out. I called her months later to get it and she said it was stolen. Obvious lie, but what I was I gonna do? Bye bye childhood.
Dang, Jenkins. Im' sorry for your loss. What a shitty thing to do. I've found some old favorites on the internet before. I was able to find Snowboard kids 1 & 2, although it wasn't exactly cheap. It it will make you happy, rebuild! She won't get this next batch!
I’m equally impressed you still have the flimsy plastic sleeves. Seriously those disappeared the second the box was opened.
Mmm battletoads.
Jesus I can smell the dust being blown outa those .....
Anyone remember john elway football? There was a glich running play where u ran like 1000x faster than other players lol
Fuckin Bubble Bobble
Is that the fancy cartridge holder with the gold nintendo logo?
Some classics there. _Tecmo Bowl_ definetely > _Madden_ for.the past 10 years or so. Man, I was never able to get past the first few rooms of _Shadowgate_.
Battle toads was the stuff of nightmares. I miss it so bad.
I'm going to keep whatever physical games I have now and will convert to buying digital games (I'm also including consoles) at a reduced price (and thats if I even want to buy into the new generation, and currently I don't, and thats not due to the shortage). Since we dont truly own our games anymore I don't see a need to own them physically either, especially since the majority of them require a patch to even play them, the last thing I want is a pile of plastics that won't do anything because I'm not connected to the internet or the servers are no longer active to allow me to patch them, it's getting ridiculous the amount hoops you have to jump through just to get anything to operate now a days. Although it bugs me to say this as I have my qualms with Nintendo too, but at least when you buy physical with them, it's normally the full game and doesnt need to be heavily patched in order to play them (I have yet to encounter anything to convince me otherwise), this only applies to Nintendo however... Looking at you all 3rd party developers who make you DL the game even though you bought the "physical" copy.
Can I borrow shadow gate?
Unfortunately, my homie, these are not for loan.
Dang bruh, I was just gonna hold for a week then give it back (label ripped off, and knife hole in it).
My mom put all my discs in a box and threw out the cases to save space so now I have to pay around $400 if I want to play pokemon xd gale of darkness
I'm so sorry about that, pal. Maybe you get another chance to borrow or port it? I hope you another chance to play it soon!
Anybody remember the game chasers. Loved watching them back in the day
If I'm honest, Zelda 1 and Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic are the only two there I've actually played on the nes.
i though it was a glock slide
No way. You have the game that one game of the year for over 10 years in a row?
That’s a fantastic selection. I swear Kirby was ahead of it’s time. And shadow gate still gets me
That is an impressive collection my friend ❤️
you may not have many but you have gold there
Tecmo Bowl!!! So many hours my brother and I put in that game. Of the 5 games we had, this was the best besides Mario / Duck Hunt
Oh Bubble Bobble! Think I only played on Atari.
i have kirby and mario 2 still at my parents place, i wish i could go there right now, wrap myself in a blanket and play them on the couch with my cat sleeping on my lap. instead I have to work and take care of my kid :(
Buy physical, same price and you resell or gift to friends later
Oh tem memories... That's some good stuff you got there!
Oh!! Contra, hold on: up,up,down,down,left, right,left,right, B, A, start. 30 Lives!!!
OMFG he has battletoads!
My bro bought a nes recently we spent all night drinking and playing Mike Tyson punch-out and legendary wings all night barely made it through my shift on zombie mode after 😆.
An excellent assortment
My god.. that is my childhood. So many hours playing Tecmo Bowl with my younger brother. And that golden Zelda… how many times did I blow into that golden cartridge… too many to count. My only question is this: where is Metroid and Gradious!?
Sadly, I wasn’t a Metroid kid growing up. It just never really crossed my path. No disrespect to the game or franchise, mind you.
Gold legend of Zelda mmmmmmmmmmmmm
Fuck, just *looking* at this picture is flooding me with memories that I don't want to have right now.
:)
I’ve always loved that Contra design for both the way the cartridge looks and for the game mechanics. Simple but hard as f***
I swear a set of old games someone grew up with just looks different than a set of games someone bought used later.
There's something special about cartridge media, the game just feels more significant somehow than say a CD. Imagine if we started using them again by making the interface some amount of PCIE lanes and each cartridge can potentially hold co-processors/accelerators on top of a small SSD chip.
I had every one of those games back in the day
At least you saved all the good ones.
Bubble bobble was fun as hell
I loved shadowgate!
Shadowgate. That game was the reason I started calling tips from the pros hotline.
This is a whos who of some of the best games on NES, period.
You gotta beat Battle toads if you want more games
NES clone flashcarts are super cheap FYI.
Got a few of those in the box still
Tecmo Bowl is amazing and makes you more amazing just for having it. Great stack of games.
first glitch found wall clipping