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$7,000 for Famicom games?
Topic Started: Jan 20 2009, 02:46 AM (309 Views)
saucey feet
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Ok, so there is a set of Famicom games out there (a complete set, over 1000 games), and it is for sale. The offer that it almost sold for was $7,000!!! WTF!!! That is an insane amount of money for what are probable almost all shitty games. I realize that they're classics, w/e. That's insane.

I would never put forth so much money for games. Is there any collectible or collection out there that you would pay insane amounts of money for, if you had the money? This story brought about my curiosity =P
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Cars. If I was rich, I would collect cars. And build a crap load of high end PCs, just for fun.
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Never. To some people 7000 is like a weeks pay so it means much less to them. They may also plan on reselling them piecemeal for a profit. While I would pay a bit more for original classics, I don't have any of the systems now, which makes them pointless to get. Also since I bought the original Zelda only to return home and find my NES gone but the wires still there probably influences this quite a bit.
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I would collect EVERYthing just stuff i like. Like i have a thing for old guns and old medical equpment and books lots of books.
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I would be the kind of person that would have a huge library in my house, and not read a single book in it, lol.
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Cars. If I was rich, I would collect cars. And build a crap load of high end PCs, just for fun.
Have you seen Jay Leno's car collection? Holy crap it's insane!

And now that you mention it, I might also have a nice collection of awesome modified PC's =P
*pride in aqua pc*
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Well, I haven't seen it personally... that would be awesome, lol. But yeah, I know that's not what you meant. I have seen it on TV, and I do believe it's one of the largest collections in America..
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Would you collect old/classic cars, newer cars, or both?
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Depending on the kind of money I would have, all cars! I would probably start out with cars that I would actually like to have, which are mostly Tuners, and some Muscle Cars. After that I would expand my Muscle Car collection, my dad would really enjoy that. Then I'd move into Exotics, because they're just awesome cars. Don't really care to much for anything before the '60s, so those are all out of the picture.
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Yeah i just love old things. Ther is no ONE thing i would collect just alot of everything.
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Wow bunch of packrats. I can understand the wanting the cars thing but I'd rather just have like 4. A really nice car (Like a Saleen S7), an SUV, a pickup truck, and a car to absolutely destroy (a beater). Somewhere along the lines I lost my "I want it all" thing when I realized I'd rather just have what I really want and a sh*tload of free time to enjoy it.
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Yea I agree with that one. Collect the stuff you really like, but there's a line you have to draw. If you don't have the free time to enjoy your collection what's the point of having it?
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Yea, as much as I love cars, I'd have a nice exotic for me to drive, an SUV for friends, and pick-up for hauling, a chopper for cruising, and a rice rocket for me to run from the cops with! :) I'd collect guitars, definitely. Collecting guitars is like collecting paintings. Guitars are a piece of art, they have soul and beauty. To see a line of say 365 guitars racked on a wall would just take the breathe away from me. ...That was kind of weird..And I have no idea what Famicom games are, lol.
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The Famicom is a cartridge based console released by Nintendo back in 1983. It sold well and all, but naturally it's hard to come by working consoles and games nowadays. So this collection is insane... but $7,000? I donno man...
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Put more simply than that, the Famicon is the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), although the appereance was different, they were the same. They just renamed it for us westerners.
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Pretty much the same, but not quite. Aside from the obvious case differences, the amount of pins on the cartridges differed. They had to make adapters so the Japanese Famicom cartridges could be played on the NES. The controllers for the Famicom were hardwired to the back, not on the NES. And there were a few other differences with peripherals that were only made for the Famicom.

Had to research to find out =p
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Still the same machine though, lol.
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How do you figure? If I have a Famicom, and I have a NES... I cannot play the same games on them. That's what makes this collection worth so much and not a NES set. I don't see how they're the same machine.
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The Famicon became what we know as the NES, it's just been repackaged. It might have been a newer revision, because early models had issues, but they were both 8-bit gaming consoles. The NES was just he western version of the Nintendo Family Computer (Famicon), that was released two years after the Famicon in Japan.

Here's the wiki.
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And that makes them different machines =p
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