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Meh don't feel bad. At least you weren't too god damned lazy to link to a video.
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Are people seriously recommending getting Earthbound on cartridge? It's a game worth playing, sure, but the SNES cartridge alone usually goes for at least $180 U.S. on eBay, so, unless you have very deep pockets, you're better off playing a Virtual Console version.
That's the general problem with SNES collecting, prices have skyrocketed for anything remotely JRPG-ish over the past few years. You can still get some great SNES games, like my favourite licensed SNES game, Batman Returns, for under $20 U.S., but any cult game like Earthbound, Secret of Mana, or Chrono Trigger is in the stratosphere if you want to collect it on cartridge instead of just playing it on VC (or getting a port for a more recent system like the DS).
That's the general problem with SNES collecting, prices have skyrocketed for anything remotely JRPG-ish over the past few years. You can still get some great SNES games, like my favourite licensed SNES game, Batman Returns, for under $20 U.S., but any cult game like Earthbound, Secret of Mana, or Chrono Trigger is in the stratosphere if you want to collect it on cartridge instead of just playing it on VC (or getting a port for a more recent system like the DS).
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It's a shame when that happens. Just like what happened with comic books in my youth.
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Try to look around locally. Ebay prices are inflated.
Garage sales can have some decent stuff sometimes but most of the time its a miss on anything older than PS2 era. If you do find some of the old stuff its typically cheap unless they arent asking for garage sale prices in which case they shouldnt be selling at a garage sale. Estate sales can have some stuff but they will usually be a bit pricier than garage sales.
Local retro stores are probably your best bet. We have a regional chain store that has SNES games but the quality of the cartridges it pretty shit and most of the games kinda suck. Prices are okish. I havent checked the other local stores that we have. We have around 3 others that are locally owned but I havent checked out the quality of thier inventory.
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This is so frustrating to me being a collector, the game is far from being rare. There were around 200,000-300,000 made. Back in 1995-1997 you couldn't give these things away, nobody wanted them, in fact you could pick them up heavily discounted for around $30 at Best Buy and Toys R Us.
Fact is, it's not rare. It's a demand driven up by nostalgic millenials who have rose tinted glasses for things they never purchased or cared about. Flash forward to 2017 after a few years of being talked about on YouTube and people calling the game "rare" and it's shot up in an inflated fashion. There isn't a lack of supply either. There are dozens of copies that sell every couple of days off eBay.
I could go on and on about how the retro bubble is finite and will eventually burst or plateau, but it's irrelevant. This game is one of the big reasons retro collecting is dead and no longer viable for your average person who wants to just have a physical copy.
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Thank you.
BatChatillon
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The upcoming SNES classic gives you a good list of games that were awesome back then, but by no means that list is complete there.
Some other hidden gems were:
- Breath of Fire II
- Demon's Crest
- Street Racer
- Alien 3
- International Superstar Soccer Deluxe
- Jimmy Connors Pro Tennis
- Axelay
- Parodius
- Actraiser
- Tiny Toon Adventures
- TNMT Turtles in Time
Those are games I played when the SNES came originally out, including most titles from the SNES classic.
Basically back then Capcom and Konami established their brands to a large audience where almost every game was a sure-fire hit. Avoid games that were conversions from Neo Geo games (Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, Samurai Showdown) and as usual most movie licenced games (except for Alien 3 and most Disney games like Aladdin or Mickey Mouse).
Some other hidden gems were:
- Breath of Fire II
- Demon's Crest
- Street Racer
- Alien 3
- International Superstar Soccer Deluxe
- Jimmy Connors Pro Tennis
- Axelay
- Parodius
- Actraiser
- Tiny Toon Adventures
- TNMT Turtles in Time
Those are games I played when the SNES came originally out, including most titles from the SNES classic.
Basically back then Capcom and Konami established their brands to a large audience where almost every game was a sure-fire hit. Avoid games that were conversions from Neo Geo games (Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, Samurai Showdown) and as usual most movie licenced games (except for Alien 3 and most Disney games like Aladdin or Mickey Mouse).
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The Super Star Wars series of games were also pretty good fun if you don't mind a "throw your controller at the screen in frustration during the first ten attempts at beating some bosses" kind of challenge.
I've never played Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures, but it's from the same developers as the Super Star Wars series and probably quite a similar gameplay experience but with whips instead of Lightsabers from what I can tell from longplay videos.
Plus Batman Returns, which I already mentioned, was a top-tier Konami beat 'em up.
FYI you guys, he must be British, so he has the ugly version that looks like a cheap answering machine rather than the badass tank with purple switches.
Understand the regional lockout where the European and Japanese cartridges are rounded on three ends and have two end grooves and tabs in the slots compared to American cartridges.
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Taking it back to SNES again, us Americans had it pretty easy when it came to simply removing the tabs inside our US console slots to stick the Japanese Super Famicom carts in. That's one saving grace despite the system's boxy design.
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If you don't have the space or a CRT or don't want to keep an aging TV around. Go on ebay and search for both a "Composite to Scart adapter" and a "Scart to HDMI video converter" This will fix a bare minimum fix for the degraded visuals on a modern tv and you will only pay $32 max. If want the best picture on a HD Tv, either get a SNES Mini or be ready to pay over $500 and brush up on soldering.
MysticMisty
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It has the advantage of not having multiple levels based off of one scene, so it progresses a lot quicker, story-wise. I don't think it or the Super Star Wars games are great, but they're among the better movie adaptations for sure.
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There's also Super Back to the Future Part II from the same developers but that one never left Japan officially because other game companies had the Back to the Future rights in most other parts of the world.
It's supposed to be the least-bad Back to the Future game ever made, at least of those made in the 20th century.
It's supposed to be the least-bad Back to the Future game ever made, at least of those made in the 20th century.
MysticMisty
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Yeah, it's easily the best of the Back to the Future platformers as long as you don't mind cute anime graphics. And despite the lack of English dialog it's easy to follow along if you're familiar with the movie.
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Oh, if only that came over.
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The Telltale Back To The Future games are amazing by the way, just saying.
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With that beautiful rendition of the BttF theme song, in 16-bit mind you, of course its the least-bad. But that does seem to be its only song in the game.
The levels are really long though, and the hit point bar isn't much (just 3 hits) and the attack system is really weird.
Oh, its playable, yes. But its still like a 6/10 for me.
Marty's sprite is really weird too. And his girlfriend, for some odd reason looks more like the actress who played her in the first movie (she got replaced by 1989).
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Indeed, I haven't tried playing a ROM of it but my understanding of the Super Back to the Future Part II game is that it's kind of tedious to play and not anywhere close to being a top-tier 16-bit platformer. But it's still miles better than any other 8 or 16-bit console game with the Back to the Future license. (There's supposedly a Back to the Future PC game from back in the day that isn't *that* bad, relatively-speaking, compared to the LJN or US Gold "games".)