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I was an idiot and traded all my NES and Gensis stuff in for a gamecube. :(

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I never owned an NES. I grew up a SEGA kid. I probably had about 10-15 Genesis games. They're still in a box back home and only about half of them work anymore. We sold our SMS and some awesome games (Phantasy Star I, Alex Kidd in Miracle World, etc.) shortly after getting the Genesis to a kid we knew for $70 bucks. Seemed like a good trade at the time, but I kick myself over it now.

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I am slowly ebaying off all my NES stuff now, but all the games are crap anyway...someone can have them for $.99 each for all I care!

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that's a lil over 10 bucks a cart. Little pricey, no? He must have some real rare ones in there...

I got rid of my NES a long time ago. It was brand new looking and I'm sure I made someone very happy. Was I silly to sell it?... maybe. But I didn't use it anymore, and it wasn't right for a system that could make someone happy to sit and collect dust. It made my childhood very happy so it served it's purpose in our household. For the few games I miss, there's always VC.. now if they would just release RoadBlasters I'd be a happy camper. :)

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My parents never let me have a NES. (And they never knew why I always wanted to sleep over my friends' houses.) I was finally able to get a Genesis after years of pleading - can't tell you how many hours I wasted on Altered Beast. Pretty sure I still have the thing around somewhere.

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When my NES broke I trashed it and sold all the games.....I was a dumb 15 year old boy...now I am looking to replace it..and I think I have a few dollars laying around maybe I will get this....does it come with duck hunt?

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Well, being an Arab and having Arab parents, they always considered games a waste of time and I bought into game quite late...I started with a SNES and had only 4 games on it. Then I moved to a PS1 but again, only had like 20-30 games on it, and that's because it was modded and I bought all my games as pirated copies...Sad yes, but very, very true...I bought a gamecube not knowing what I was doing and bought only 6 games during its 5 years of life and 2 of them were the shittiest available on the system. I actually had Harry Potter 2 and sonic DX. Now however for the Wii, I am a much different person. With 8 games (9 if you include Wii Sports) and many more to come that I will more than likely buy and some more which i will buy after their price drops, I expect this to be my most game-rich system yet, with 5 games and counting on the VC (I just recently bought a CC and decided it is the best controller ever and that I should buy into more VC games as they are the funnest things I have played in a while plus they are VERY practical) and god knows how many WiiWare titles I'm going to buy into.
So that's my story of why I don't have the NES,but I am experiencing on what I missed out on with the VC. Thank you nintendo :D

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I still have my original NES that I played as a kid and about 5 games. I still bust out Super Mario Bros 1 from time to time. It amazes me how quick I can beat it when I warp.

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Still have the Original NES w/ Rob, & light Gun, With over 100 Games.
*Wish I didn't sell my Atari & Coleco...

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Held onto and cherished until 2007. Sold it along with my SNES, N64, Atari 2600 because I'm a broke college student. Wound up getting a PS3 with the money I got for it. I had 50 some-odd NES games, 4 SNES games (got the console right before N64 came out...) 35 Atari games, and 20 or so N64 games...

Cherished for a while but with the virtual console, and the fact that my NES didn't work properly, I figured why not, right?

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I still have my Colecovision, NES, and Sega Genesis systems. Do I play them? No. Will I sell them? Maybe one day, but I am pretty much a pack rat.

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Still have Super Mario/Duckhunt, Super Mario 3, Asterix (what was I thinking when I bought this?!) and one of my all time favorite games: Kirby's Adventure! All in working order last time I checked them. I bought a snes soon after.

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Of course I still have my NES (and made my husband's parents search their house to get me his) so all counted I have two NES, two light guns and 100+ games. Will I ever part with them? Never. Besides, we don't have WiiWare here yet so I have to get my Dr. Mario fix somewhere right?

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Still have my NES and I still play it.

Ah, I remember clutching that controller in my pudgy "I'm not old enough to read" hands. Technically, it was my parent's system, but around the time I was 3 or 4, they started to buy me some games that I could handle. Damn, I also remember pushing in the Zelda games and just having fun wandering around. I was too young to understand what the hell I was doing, but I had fun killing things.

I used to watch mom play Super Mario Bros. 3 because I wanted to see frog-Mario.

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^_^ i never had a NES (in fact, my first ever console was a PS2... yeah, talk about a late bloomer)...

but i did find my sister's NES in a closet a few months ago! it still had Donkey Kong 3 inside! i couldn't play becuz there were no plugs... or controllers. but i found a controller a few weeks ago in the backyard!

is this as sad as sounds?

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I got rid of my original NES long ago, but when a friend of mine's girlfriend bought him one for his birthday a while back, I had a fit of jealousy and had to go get another one. I picked up a Top Loader NES from a Gamestop (when they still had such things) and a handful of games. I've got around 25 games right now and another front loading system. I'll probably wind up buying more games from ebay over time. What can I say... NES is my all time favorite!

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Yeah, I had a lot of NES stuff....and SNES stuff.....and N64 stuff....then, while I was at college, my parent's house burned down....so not anymore with the retro type stuff.....

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Is it just me or is this "collection" sold every few months? I swear I've seen this pic and heard this story of "739 games!" at least twice before.

Sadly, my NES was sold at a garage sale when I was eight. By that time I had the SNES and my parents didn't see the point in keeping it. I was old enough to stash my SNES and Genesis though and still have them in working order plus a dozen games for each.

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*ahem* .... *angrily looks at gf*
Well, anyways, ignore the sabotage from my gf.

The first NES I had wasn't really mine, it was my uncle's if I remember correctly...
There's the SNES... and it's somewhere in the garage. ...we've moved so much it's impossible to track it down to WHICH BOX it really is in... too many boxes.

-back to NES- We didn't have that many games, just the basics... In fact, we never really had that many games until post-Sega-Saturn... though, right now my Wii game collection will soon beat my ol' xbox collection... and after that, it'll beat my DS collection, then after that, it'll beat my PS2 collection...

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I have my toploader nes, snes, n64, and gamecube set up in our spare room, along with at least thirty games for each. I should probably point out that most of those games and the SNES were acquired after I got to college. My mom liked playing Atari and NES, but Sonic made her sick and she gave up on games for good around 1994. I had 5 nes games, 5 genesis games, and maybe 7 N64 games before I started buying games for myself. And for the record, the genesis is still with me with the 4 games I have left( someone stole my vectorman) and the atari with its 22 games are still at my parents house. My little brother tells me my mom still throws in River Raid from time to time

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Emulators... enough said


btw, does anybody REALLY buy VC games? Because theres this thing thats been out for a while called EMULATION... and its FREE

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I still have mine in the basement somewhere. I didn't have many games. The 3 Mario games and duck hunt was basically all I played.
I wish Gamestop still sold the old games and systems. That's what raised it to above average store. There's enough places selling the new stuff already.

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My NES and Genesis busted. My N64 is on the blink. I have several husks that used to be PSX and PS2's. I came into possession of a SNES with SMW I already bought on VC. And my brother just returned with my Wii from camping and it overheats now.

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Bought my first NES about 4 years ago, since I never owned one as a kid. I just played at my friends' places. Since buying one, I now have around 80 games, plus a lightgun and the NES advantage controller.

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I used to have a german NES but was living in Italy, so I couldn't buy or even borrow any games from nobody ever...I never liked doing the salesman so I just gave the whole thing away to the next boy sitting beside me in class.

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I think I have roughly 400 or so games for my NES. Some in boxes, some not, but all playable and in near-perfect condition.

I spent alot of time collecting them, and ended up focusing more on the systems themselves. Wonder what my collection would go for on the net..

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I still have my original nes and probably 30-40 games, but the nes is almost completely dead so I can't really play any of the games.

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I got my NES in 89 while in kindergarten. I still have it (with the manuals and box) and all my games. The system is actually plugged into my TV and sitting proudly beside the other four Nintendo consoles. I was playing it just the other day because I randomly felt like I needed some Mario 3.

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