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I'm sure this has already been done, but what are the top 10 hardest to find licensed NES games?  I know everyone will have their own opinions, but I'm going for a full US set, and wanted to know what to keep an eye out for.  Anyone care to chime in?

Well, I can't really help ya, but you can bet'cher ass someone around here will!

All the best on attaining a full run, by the way.

Thanks, I expect Duke, Crabmaster, and Shadow to respond soon.  Oh and by the way, I'm not counting Stadium Events.

I'll just add in a caveat here: This does depend on supply in your area vs. online sales...

Generally speaking, however, these are ones I feel need to be in the Top 10:
Bonk's Adventure
Flintstones: Surprise at Dinosaur Peak
Bubble Bobble Part 2
Little Samson
Cowboy Kid
Panic Restaurant
TMNT: Tournament Fighters
Gun+Nac
Power Blade 2

EDIT: Bandit Kings is in NA's Top 10? There's been one sitting at the flea market for some time...

OK, not counting Stadium Events, here are the other 6 licensed games I still need:

Color a Dinosaur
Flintstones: Dino Peak
Little Samson
Panic Restaurant
TMNT: Tournament Fighters
Zombie Nation

Beyond those I'd say Bubble Bobble 2, Bonk's Adventure, Bandit Kings of Ancient China, and Stack-up with the parts.

Shadow has a pretty good list there. You can swap a few titles in and out like:

Snow Brothers
Dragon Fighter
Wanye's World
The Jetsons
Fire 'n Ice


A few sports titles to keep an eye out for too are:

Dusty Diamond's All Star Softball
Jimmy Connor's Tennis
Pro Sports Hockey
RC Pro Am II

All pretty hard to find too.

That soon enough for ya?  ;)

We were within the hour :) He got the order wrong though :P

Haha!  Yeah I figured it would depend on your area.  Thanks guys, and for what it's worth I have:

Jimmy Connors Tennis
Dusty Diamond's All Star Softball
(Fire N Ice and The Jetsons: Cogswells Caper are getting shipped to me tomorrow.)

It is pretty random. I've found a couple Duck Tales 2 and Power Blade 2's locally, and missed a $5 Fire 'n Ice by a day recently.

My advice is just to always look around your area, and flip what you end up with to get the ones you never seem to find.

Sounds like you already have a good grasp on things then and are off to a good start. Keep us posted with any other updates. Its fun to see you other guys get closer to your goals too.

I sure will.  It's been a few years, but it seemed like Color a dinosaur popped up regularly around my area.

Missed locally, by sheer stupidity or just not having money available at the time:
Fire 'N Ice ($5, but passed due to a peeling label)
Flintstones
Cowboy Kid
Little Samson
TMNT Tournament (CIB)
Jimmy Connors
Dusty Diamond
Gun+Nac

Things I often find in my area:
Snow Brothers (I've sold 2 here)
Wayne's World (Never realized this was rare)

I would also add in the Ubisoft version of Indian Jones & the Last Crusade in the hard to find list.

Shadow let me know if you come across anymore Snow Bros. please.

And I'll take your next Wayne's World :D

Seen 3 of those in the past 6 months... :/


I think Wayne's World is still available. I'll check next time I'm out. As for Snow Brothers, I've not seen one in about a year.

Shadow:

Cart only I can believe but CIB is hard to find. You do seem to have a better market for NES games then where I live though.

I'll chime in and would throw Chip & Dales Rescue Rangers 2 in the top 10-15.  Other more rare titles include: Kid Klown in Night Mayor World and L’Empereur.

Shadow, I'll take that Bandit Kings of Ancient China if it is still around and also need a Wayne's World, after you take care of Crabby's of course. ;)

If you want to get into what games are rarest CIB thats a completely different story though. Then your talking stuff like Wacky Races, DK Jr. Math, Chubby Cherrub instead of many of the titles we've been talking about already.

Speaking of boxes...ahem....does anyone know of any online sites that sell NES game boxes?

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Yep, http://www.tradengames.com.  They sell some quality stuff and at good prices.  Good luck.

direct link: http://www.tradengames.com/ProductCart/pc/viewCategories.asp?idCategory=167

Thanks.

This store is in my area and is a great place to get some hard to find stuff. He is a very cool guy.  If you don't see it on the web site email him and ask.

Great place to get just a box or just the instructions to complete a set.

Also Duck Tales 2 has come up locally on craigslist 3 times in the last couple months in St. Louis

Yeah, when I was younger I didn't think Ducktales 2 and Tengen Tetris was that hard to find, I seemed to have traded multiple Tetris's at one time.  From what I hear now, it is getting harder to find.

is tengen tetris somewhat rare now? i've had a loose copy for quite a while and never really looked into whether it's worth much or not

Someone else could probably answer this better than I can, but I personally wouldn't call it rare, but it gets a bit pricey.  I would consider it not an easy find.  I did see them all the time though, back in 94,95, etc.

It would most likey fall into the uncommon category depending how you want to define it. There was a time when it was thought to me much rarer than it actually was and the price of the game got fairly high, but once people realized it was a bit easier to find than initially thought the price came back down. That really doesnt happen very often, so Tengen Tetris is a little unique in that aspect, because of that and its unique history (and being know as one of the best Unlicensed games to actually play) its kind of settled into a decent price point now considering all that.

Hey, I will trade you Nintendo Tetris for Tengen Tetris.....

Nobody went to Gamereproductions.com and list all those NES repro games.

I think the discussion was more about licensed NES games, otherwise the NWC carts, the 6 in 1 games, the Panesian games and others like that would be the clear hardest to find.  NES reproduction carts are kind of under the same category, though you can usually order those anytime, so they aren't really that hard to get a hold of.