What is going on at Twin Galaxies?

[DaveMMR]

I have to count them but I am sure I have over 500 NES games, including some rare ones and some others that looks a bit cheesy.  I do not see the point collecting carts.  Unless you have one of those huge lofts going waste, the stuff will be boxed, bagged and stuck in the attic until your Will is read.   

Do you have 500 actual NES games or 500 ROMs? Because if it's the former, and you think they're pointless, why are you holding onto them instead of putting them on eBay (or better yes, shipping them to me for free?)

[SavannahLion]

I would have a hard time making a list of bad games actually.  I mean the LJN garbage and the unlicensed games, but even the worst of the nes games I would consider "not bad".

Fair enough, but are you actually saying that games like Elevator Action (I'm sorry, I hate that game), JAWS and Deadly Towers are actually, "not bad"?

Don't get me wrong, I like the NES games. But I like my NES games. The ones I selectively chose when I bought them way back when. Now that we have access to the entire NES library, I look at the bulk of NES games I didn't buy and I'm just reminded as to why I didn't buy them back then (as opposed to now when I would buy them as a collector). Even accounting for the era and my own changes in perception, I would have to say that the percentage of crap titles on that console is roughly the same as the number of crap titles on nearly any other main stream console post ATARI.

[Howard_Casto]

Jaws is a LJN produced game, like I said, those are garbage.

Elevator Action is pretty fun... it's short, but earlier titles were like that.  Deadly Towers was actually the best selling game of it's day.  I think it's just "ok" but apparently I'm in the minority on that. 

There are certainly mediocre games on the console, but due to the short length of nes-era games there is still fun to be had in those.  There are very few bad ones though.  Now the SNES and beyond is another story, but the NES had a pretty solid library with the exceptions I previously mentioned.  My point was if you pull a random NES game out of a yard sale the odds are you'll enjoy it.  With other consoles, including Nintendo consoles, the odds aren't always in your favor.

[ark_ader]

I have to count them but I am sure I have over 500 NES games, including some rare ones and some others that looks a bit cheesy.  I do not see the point collecting carts.  Unless you have one of those huge lofts going waste, the stuff will be boxed, bagged and stuck in the attic until your Will is read.   

Do you have 500 actual NES games or 500 ROMs? Because if it's the former, and you think they're pointless, why are you holding onto them instead of putting them on eBay (or better yes, shipping them to me for free?)

Roms  The way I migrate globally having such material gets too expensive to ship.  I had 200 nes carts in my old collection that ended up at my local oxfam shop.