Every NES game ever on eBay
By Conrad Quilty-Harper 
posted January 28th 2007 4:07PM
posted January 28th 2007 4:07PM
This isn't the first bulk sale of hundreds of retro games on eBay, and it certainly won't be the last, but that doesn't mean we're not impressed by the completeness of this particular collection. Currently the bidding is at an impressive $5,200 with just over 6 days to go, which isn't surprising considering what's included: 670 NES games, which the seller claims constitutes "every game ever made" for the Nintendo Entertainment System. If achieving your childhood dream of owning, we repeat, every NES game ever made, isn't enough for you, then you'll no doubt explode when you see that ROB the robot, a Power Glove, a multitude of other accessories, and that essential NES console are all part of the deal. When you wake up in a couple of hours -- after you finish reading this post you'll pass out due to an overwhelming wave of nostalgia, trust us -- you better cross your fingers and check this post's comment's section in the hope that someone has found a flaw in the deal, otherwise you'll be forever jealous of the winner.[Via Digg]
That's impressive!
Looks like the seller spent the last 6 months to collect all of them. Kudos to him!
Hmm...
Super Contra?
Mike Tyson's Punchout?
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If you went to a used gamestore thats been around for 15 years or more, I bet they have every single one of these games. Infact, I bet this guy owns his own used game store which is how he was able to get such a collection.
Seriously, just go to a used game store thats been around since the NES era and Im sure they will have every NES game ever released in the USA. Offer them 1000 bucks for all of them and I bet they would take that deal in a heartbeat, you could probably get them down to 75 cents a game depending on their stock.
its not that easy. most rare games are very hard to find. I have been collecting on ebay for a while and its hard work and the postage can be high too!. I think $3000 is reasonabl for value but the effort to find them all in one place can be worth a bit too
there is punchout featuring Mr.Dream but not Mike Tyson's Punch Out. Those are 2 different games and Im pretty sure they are both liscenced.
671 games according to Nintendo's website. Here's a pdf supplied by Nintendo listing all the official releases: http://www.nintendo.com/doc/nes_games.pdf
The one game that may be escaping him is another version of the game Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. There were two totally different games based on the movie. One made in 1991 by Taito and one made in 1993 by Ubisoft.
Mike Tyson's Punch Out! is missing from the list....
Only Mr Dreams is there :D
let's see.... if nintendo made all these available on the Wii VC then i could buy all 670 @ $5 and have all these games in perfect condition for only $3350!
Where's Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!?? Who the f@ck is 'Mr. Dream'?
This collection is crazy. It would seemingly take forever to get through all those games. If you played a new one every day of the week, it would take you 22 months to get through them all. And truthfully, it would take longer than that because many of them you'd play for days at a time.
As I post this it's @ $12,300. That's $18 a game if you don't include the accessories and you don't add the shipping. THAT'S WAY TOO MUCH!
And with hardly any boxes? Give me a break. I think I'm going to do the same thing and make a few grand profit for my work, and I'll get most of the unlicensed games too. This is almost as bad as PS3 eBayers. No real fan would sell this, no matter what the cost.
Every single game huh, well I know one game that was produced but never made it to store shelves . It's called Pipe Dreams by Blizzard. Actually I have one of 6 copies ever made.
Hey guys, this is probably not the place to ask, but I will do so anyway. So, there was a game on the NES where you controlled a boat and had to collect mines and transport them to the other part of the level (which was quite small, dimensions wise). The missions grew harder and harder and at the end you you had to battle a final boss - a dragon that threw (breathed) fire balls upon the boat. Anyone remember this game?
yea the game was called "cobra triangle" and some of those levels were hard. I actually have that game.
"Mr.Gimmick" is not among them :( - the best NES game ever made
I hve at least 2 Games that aint on there, Proboprotectors and Kick Off
Yeah it's just retarded to get ~700 boxes of old sh|t; 700 NES games fit on a CD if I'm not mistaken. And the NES emulators are like freakin' 3 megs and such. So what's with this junk bidded at 5k?
collectors of 'junk' pay outrageous amounts of moola for things that most people wouldn't even hesitate to spit on.
Hey patrick, thank you very much for the help! I just found it and played a bit. Man, nothing brings back old memories as much as games :)
You all say "well I can download this" and "I can get ROM's for that" but Danny is right, have you every held an Atari 2600 that has a wood finish, and it made you feel good.
Didnt think so.
It must have taken years to rack down every single game in excellent condition. It will have taken atleast $1000 to build this collection, a healthy profit is well deserved considering all the man hours involed with searhing retro shops and looking at dusty shelves at importers. Never mind looking through the countless eBay scams and other internet shops to get the games in good-to-mint condition.
Presumably the seller has just upgraded to a SNES?
I can't believe nobody mentioned that this guy claims a perfect 100% positive feedback but has never sold anything!
And I can't believe you don't understand English. 100% positive feedback is exactly that. He has 100% positive feedback from people he has purchased from.
As I write this the price is currently US $12,500.00
Sorry, maybe I should express what I mean more clearly. The seller says, "I have 100% feedback so Bid with confidence"
Now, typically I would understand from that that this seller has an excellent sales record. That is to say, the seller's excellent track record with other sales should inspire me to believe that I will have no problems. I would, after all, be paying over $12,500 to someone who has never shipped a single item to anyone under this user ID.
While it's great that the seller in question has won many auctions and paid promptly over the last ~7 months, I would be hesitant to make such a large purchase from someone who has evidently never shipped a single item.
I'm also a little surprised to see how many of this seller's feedback took place so quickly. A quick check shows 130 positive feedbacks in 46 minutes, all from "discountgames." I realize that some people are very fast at the keyboard, but isn't that a whole lot of feedback in a very little amount of time?
I'm not saying this isn't legitimate, I'm just saying that a purchase of this magnitude is something I wouldn't be so sure about with this seller's record.
Also, I understand English just fine. I see how my previous comment wasn't quite up to par. I always learned to attack the idea, not the person behind it. So no low blows back.
-Justin
Justin I think the time on the feedback page is the time the feedback was left. Someone like lukiegames and discountgames will use one of the software auction managers available that auto submit the feedback. What I find strange is that he appears to have only just purchased some of the games.
$15,300, 82 bids and still over 5 days to bid...
Who has the $20k to waste and no life?
Perhaps the engadget staff is looking for something to do around the mansion...
At this point I think people are just bidding this thing up. No one will fork over the $15.5k + for these games. I would be amazed if he receives the money.
I *hate* this new trend of "I think this auction is stupid so I'm going to bid it up". That's called FRAUD. It's not fair to the seller or the legit buyers. STOP DOING IT.
I think you're all just jealous... This guy just PWNED all of you...hardcore...
Ppl in this comment thread have said "I can download all the roms for free" and other ppl said "exactly, it's easy to get roms, but ALL NES cartridges, that's a feat."
In a sense I agree, but then I got to thinking.. what a waste of time! How unimportant is your time and your life that you spend it trying to be "the guy who has every game for a 20 year old videogame system"?
It's almost sad, really. They should put a wager on how much that guy makes a year and where he works. If he'd rather spend his time doing that then say... go to college, I'd say he works at a gas station making $8 (but only cuz he's been there for 3 years).
Any other guesses?
Holy CRAP!!! The bidding is over $220,000 dollars right now, on Teusday January 30
$25,350!!! :-O
It seems the guy is deleting some bids, or some are joke bidders, like what happened with the Colbert portrait. I saw it yesterday morning at $31,000, and now it's at $20,200.
Yeah if you check the bid history he has deleted many bids and listed the reasons for his decision.
The auction is no longer listed.