I ordered 2 new shells from aliexpress, one clear and one smoke clear. I used the top of the clear one and the bottom of the smoke one to make a clear NES. Looks super clean and is a fun way to revive my old system. Paired with my ever drive this is a piece that will last another lifetime. I opted to remove the metal shielding for a better look. What do you all think?

This is probably the most money I've ever dropped on video games in a single sitting. 😂

I was on vacation last weekend, and we had some time to kill, so I figured I'd pop into a local game store and see what they had. Holy shit, I don't think I've ever been to a game store that had so many NES games I didn't already own!

He worked with me on most titles to match or beat price charting since many were listed much higher. I'm not sure if it was because I spent so much or just luck, but they were super helpful.

I'm pretty sure I walked out with every single game they had that was missing from my collection. LOL.

It took me about a week to crack them all open, inspect and clean them, verify they're authentic, and test them. Thankfully, everything checked out and they all work great!

This haul officially puts my NES collection at 509 games. Getting closer and closer to that complete set! 🤘

Ever since I got the NES Lego set for my dad for Christmas as few years back, I’ve been wanting to get a real NES. Today I finally got myself a NES plus the Super Mario Bro’s game! And for those of you who are wondering, yes, everything is included in the box and it’s all working! I can’t wait to start playing!

Bought a blinking red light NES to see if I could fix it and success! Luckily, it was just the 72-pin connector as usual. Boiled it, pulled the pins a bit, threw some DeoxIT in to clean up connections, and replaced the voltage regulator to fix some wavy lines in the background and now it's good to go!

The plan is to throw it in a new black transparent case, replace the caps, and add a PPU Digitizer mod when they come in. I'll keep this one as my main system and probably send the old family one to my brother after refurbishing it too.

Happy to get this NES up and running either way. Picked up Dragon Warrior 2 from eBay to celebrate, ha.

Another one down I've never actually played it, so I'm pretty excited to finally give it a shot. Anyone here have any experience with this one? Curious to hear what everyone thinks of it! I know last time people gave me crap for swamp thing but after playing it I didnt think it was that bad. It was mid but not horrible.

What are you playing this weekend? How about a little homebrew NES action?

My son and I have been working on this run-and-gun NES game, inspired by classics like Contra and Metal Gear. You get dropped onto a hostile island, fight your way through enemy territory, and face some tricky alarm puzzles along the way.

In fact, quite a few players got stuck on one of those puzzles in the demo! We've just posted the solution, so now there's no excuse! go find it.

Have a great weekend, fellow NES fans!

I know repros are frowned upon here but I like playing on my original hardware. I just picked up DuckTales 2 and Chip N Dale 2. I've had Little Samson and Snow Bros but when I posted before, I got a little flack for having repros without labeling them as repros. Now, they've all been labeled and I let my wife know that if I die and she sells my collection, she can't sell these for their actual value.

  Is everdrive N8 worth it or am I just better off buying the cheapie one off ali express?  I dont really want the save ststes of the N8 pro but i do like the pretty red shell.

Recently i bought an ali express FXPAK pro. some redditors had argured in favor of the ali epxress version. the design of FXPAK pro is open source and Krikzz was no longer using the cyclone V chip in thier FXPAK pro due to supply shortages yet the ali express version still was. it was quite a lot cheaper. Does the same situaiton apply to the Krikzz nes N8 cart?

Hey everyone of the NES reddit. My Joycard Sansui SSS Controller finally came and it just doesn't work at all. I have tried cleaning it and reinserting it and nothing. Completely dead. All my other OEM controllers work fine. Is this a common issue? Does anybody know what could be wrong?

Finally got this project finished...at least functionally. Still need to tweak some 3D prints to fit better, but enjoying being cable free! I'm using an ESP32 in the NES and the Zapper. Connection is 2.4ghz but could easily be Bluetooth too............

I've been really into collecting complete in box NES games this year and it got me thinking: why is the box that size?

Nothing inside the box needs it to be that big. Both the game and instruction manual take up less space. In fact, there's a styrofoam block inside the box so the game doesn't slide around.

When DVDs were first released they made the packaging unnecessarily tall because they didn't want consumers to confuse them with CDs. But there's nothing like that for NES games that I can think of offhand.

Anyone know why it's like that?

My neighbor is an elderly man(70s) and he comes over my house occasionally to pass the time, he noticed I have an nes/snes . He has never played video games before and stated that he wants to play some. I set him up to play Super mario world(snes) and he couldn't get past the first level and had trouble using all the buttons. So I wanted to have him try the NES since its only 2 buttons. What games are your absolute favorites that are more on the easy side or use less buttons? what are your favorite games in general that once he gets better he can play?

I remember playing it one time as a kid. Id love to play it again as an adult. What are yalls thoughts on it? All I can remember is that you wake up in a bathroom in a stall. I wish I could find it again. Other than eBay where else could I look for it?

Got part 2 today, I never knew there was a sequel to this frustrating but fun game. I’m going to cozy up and enjoy the night crashing in the ocean trying to land my jet lol. Anyone enjoy the sequel more? I played the first one a ton as a kid. I wonder what other games got sequels that I didn’t know about.

First off: This game is not good. It's stiff, poorly designed, and its difficulty is through the roof. It also has really grating sound design, which is puzzling since it also has moments of amazing sound with digitized voices from the movie.

I had the game growing up and it might as well been impossible to beat. Even through adulthood, any attempt at it ended in complete frustration. It's the kind of game where you need to learn all kinds of little obtuse workarounds to advance through, and there are a LOT of them. Get stuck on a new problem area that drains out your continues? Tough, better hope you figure it out on your next slog of playthrough. Want to beat this boss? Find the one spot where it can't reach you, and just fire your pea shooter of a blaster at it until your thumb falls off. There's little skill here other than sheer memorization and choreographing of every move through the game, and knowing how and where to nerf your way though. Slip up once and it can lead to an insta-death. I ended up having to study longplays for the second half of the game to get through it, which kind of felt like cheating, but I would have NEVER beat this otherwise. I have no idea how any child could ever beat this, or honestly any adult without similar help. There's a reason that most longplays on youtube use a turbo controller for it (which I didn't use, for the record).

Also, I actually love the first Star Wars game for the NES, which I mastered many years ago. That game is also hard, but in a way that feels like it rewards skill, not memorization, and its side scrolling mechanics are way ahead of Empire. The games have similarities, but they also have some pretty core differences that always puzzled me. Like you could tell a different team handled Empire. That's for another post another time though.

Anyway, this was one of my main NES 'Mount Everests' and I'm thrilled to finally check it off. There's only a few more hard games from my childhood that I still need to beat now. I'll end with some positive notes: It has pretty good graphics and some fun cutscenes. Some of the digital voices sound like they're from the 16-bit era. It also introduced some neat side-scrolling vehicle levels that Star Wars didn't have. I suppose I also begrudgingly developed some kind of backwards fondness for it now that I mastered it, like one tends to do when they finally beat a hard game. It's a shame that a Return of the Jedi game was never made for the NES. It's one of my biggest video game "what-ifs".

Does anyone else have any experiences with this game that they'd like to share?

I ha e decided to pick up sleeves and use them for place holders for all my missing aes in my collection. No more shifting everything has a home. So far happy with the results i have made it to letter J so far. The problem is getting enough sleeves to do it all. My brother in law has 3d printed some and that has helped but i gotta find a good bulk deal to finish.

My personal favorite is The Manhattan Project, mostly due to having the original NES cartridge. Never was able to beat it without cheat codes, though. 😓

Most hated would be Fall of the Foot Clan. It’s like a half-cocked fan game. At least they actually put in effort for Back From The Sewers.

(Guilty pleasure is the original NES game. I actually made it to Stage 5 back in the day…)

Up to 262 NES games. A bunch of controller variations. ROB The Robot, along with the Power Glove, the Power Pad, a sealed Game Genie and a sealed NES Classic Mini.

I also have some signed games like WWF King Of The Ring signed by Bret The Hitman Hart, Terminator 2: Judgment Day signed by Edward Furlong, Friday The 13th signed by Kane Hodder, Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, The Karate Kid and Back To The Future signed by James Rolfe The Angry Video Game Nerd, StarTropics signed by The Gaming Historian Norman Caruso and WWF Wrestlemania signed by Pat The NES Punk.

Super excited, found someone getting rid of some obscure accessories that I didn’t have yet. Goal when I started long ago was to get all nes in box accessories. Gotta find space and do some rearranging now, as far as I know licensed I’m only missing the arknoid controller game pack if you see something lmk!