Mega Man's dissapearing blocks on NES is responsible for one controller shaped hole in drywall. Also, how I learned how to repair drywall. Thanks, Dad. ❤
😂😂😂😂😂 yeah mine was rage stomping on my controller. Though after 6 months of working around the house I was able to buy the turbo nes controller. It has as well seen some rage😂
I had a TON of SNES games because I git a lot of "Whole Box o Games" deals at tag sales and flea markets. I had like 250 different titles and a ton of duplicates. I ended up selling the whole thing (with my SNES) for well over market value (at the time) but I really should have hung onto at least one of each of the games. But that's life and that's the way it goes sometimes! 😂
Good list! I don't have any of the NFR listed, but four of those that are not. All were hard to find, and expensive. The rest are on my list to get, but as this video shows, they are damn rare and you won't find them cheap!
Before anyone says “just emulate for free”… there isn’t a single retro physical game player/collector that isn’t aware of that option. It’s simply not an option for us. /PSA Cool list!
I actually own all of the SNES North American library. Turtles in Time is absolutely awesome! I also own of the Genesis games for the American library.
@@Fortefyre It’s based on Turrican II and has a giant representation of Dolph Lundgren in it. Levels and enemies were changed to fit the aesthetics. I’ve never played Turrican II, so I don’t know how it compares. It does play like a Turrican game, so I suppose it depends on if you like Turrican as far as it being any good.
SwatKats was a great show and a fun game. I rented it once and played the crap out of it. I seem to remember it being rather hard, but I remember enjoying it a lot, though, not 200 bucks enjoyment
Well, if he ever does an actual top ten most expensive SNES games based on the current average loose prices from Price Charting, the list is likely going to look like this unless one of these games drops out of the top ten. And I'm talking actual games, not stuff like the Burn In Test Cart or the Combat Simulator software that the US Army had (yes, that's an actual thing!) I'm also not counting "Not For Resale" versions as I feel copies with that label tend to be collector bait and an excuse to slap a much higher price on a game that generally doesn't go for that price. Current Top Ten Most Expensive (as of 6/22/24 based on loose prices from Price Charting) #1: Aero Fighters at $1,353 #2: Hagane: The Final Conflict at $830 #3: Pocky and Rocky 2 at $409 #4: Metal Warriors at $397 #5: Earthbound at $349 #6: Mega Man X3 at $325 #7: Harvest Moon at $323 #8: Wild Guns at $303 #9: Castlevania: Dracula X at $290 #10: Mega Man 7 at $244 As you can see, Earthbound and Hagane make the list. EVO: The Search for Eden is barely out of the top ten currently and would be in 11th place with a price of $235 (it sinks to 13th if we include NFR copies of Killer Instinct and Star Fox, but as I said: collector bait and available for much cheaper)
I'll say what I say, and if people like it, so be it. But yeah, if you like the idea of giving away the script for what I'm going to make videos about, then sure lol.
Yeah they are, the differential for Loose/CIB is really weird for SNES. At least for NES there was a more definitive separation between what was rare, but most of the more expensive SNES games hover around a uniform $150-$300.
Back in the 90s a neighbor who was older than me ( I was maybe 9 or 10) came home to tell me someone wanted to sell me a game, there was this weird dude in a beat up car with a lady and handed me zero the kamikaze squirrel, I didn’t know what to do I didn’t had money, my parents wasn’t at home, I said to him I’ll test the game, the game was the most beat up snes game I have seen in my life , I played the first stage, didn’t like it and I knew that game was stolen maybe from a video rent store, I was afraid I was going to get robbed 😂 . The most expensive game I have, I got it for 5 dollars when they were cheap and its R type 3, and also tmnt in time
The Hyperstone Heist is good, but Turtles in Time is vastly superior...how are you going to have Rocksteady as a boss but no Bebop?! And they did a boss rush level!!
Just curious: you say expensive (yet practical) for the title of the video, yet with the exception of NFR copies of SF2, everything in this list isn't exactly cheap (not that I'd count $190 for the original version of SF2 "cheap" in this case, but it was the only title on the list you had at under $200) What makes these "practical" in your eyes? None of these titles are particularly easy to find. On the off chance that I walked into my local RGS today and they had a copy of any of these titles, I'm not walking away for under $200. I'm mainly curious about your criteria for one BIG reason: CHRONO TRIGGER IS NOT ON THIS LIST! It's a game that's right in line with all these other titles in terms of price ($208 loose on Price Charting as of 6/22/24), and frankly if I walked into a RGS with $250 burning a hole in my pocket and every single one of these games was there for $190-$250, then there's no contest: I'm walking out with Chrono Trigger. It just boggles my mind and I can only see someone not going with Chrono if they absolutely HATED RPGs, especially as many of these titles are fairly bog standard for their genre, mediocre, or relatively short in terms of length. Also, how did you come to your prices? Was it just from eBay data? Most shops/folks I've interacted with tend to use Price Charting for their average game prices, either for selling or buying. I know this wasn't a straight up "10 Most Expensive SNES games" list, but even factoring in price fluctuations in the time it took to record this, none of the prices given seemed accurate (and I'm assuming we're going off the loose price) Hell, Wild Guns is currently $303 loose (once again, as of 6/22/24) according to that website while Zero The Kamikaze Squirrel is currently sitting at $220 loose. That actually puts Zero on the lower end of this list in terms of pricing and should put Wild Guns at the top of the list if pricing was your main criteria for where these games were slotted in the video (and on that note, the current price on Wild Guns would firmly put it at about 8th place on the most expensive list if we're counting actual games and not oddities like a Burn In Test Cart, international releases outside the US) It's not a bad video and was quite enjoyable. I'm just wondering about how this particular list came to be as it's clear you weren't going for a standard most expensive list, especially as Chrono Trigger is a glaring omission that's well within the price range of every other game that made this list (and contrary to popular belief, a game that hasn't even been in the top 10 most expensive SNES games for quite some time)
Sure. What I do first, is take the holy grail items, things that are exceptionally rare, and/or highly sought out, and they get their own 10 list, then I trickle down the most expesnive based on sales and what doesn't make the impractical list gets placed on the practical list. I love Chrono Trigger, but Chrono Trigger floats around the high $100s and the low $200s. It's not nearly as sought out as it was before. Now I will say I could have put it on the 10 spot, but I felt it would be neat to include a NFR because it's something that isn't talked about often. It's a hybrid of what is available on VGPricing and current Ebay listings, for example, Wild Guns on Ebay, right now, is somewhere in the neighborhood of 250+. I'm not going to consider the outliers on prices, someone is selling a NES Mario loose for 1 Million right now lol. I promise I know what I'm talking about :) I'm glad you enjoyed the video though!
Not in this case. I went off of loose listings for this video because everything hovers around $200-$300. Chrono Trigger recently, at least in sales I've seen, has been low $200 or high $100s. There's still people holding on to the idea that it's worth $300+, but it's artificial inflation, like we see with the TG-16/PC-Engine. I love Chrono Trigger, I own 3 copies of it across different platforms lol.
How can a game you describe as "run of the mill" also be in this "expensive, yet practical" list. What do you mean by "expensive yet practical"? Why is it practical to put down hundreds of dollars on a came that is "run of the mill"?
I'll try to hit all your questions:) 1. It's all based on supply and demand, as well as the quantity of print. 2. Expensive yet practical means that it's expensive, and it's practical to buy it from a collectors standpoint. 3. Because people out there want to collect games.
I wish I was smart enough to to buy the retro games when Gamestop had them in bins for practically nothing. Ugh Gotta say my most expensive CIB game that I still have from my youth is Resident Evil 2 for SNES. The most expensive one that I have gotten CIB to recently is Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for PS1.
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Mega Man's dissapearing blocks on NES is responsible for one controller shaped hole in drywall. Also, how I learned how to repair drywall. Thanks, Dad. ❤
😂😂😂😂😂 yeah mine was rage stomping on my controller. Though after 6 months of working around the house I was able to buy the turbo nes controller. It has as well seen some rage😂
I had a TON of SNES games because I git a lot of "Whole Box o Games" deals at tag sales and flea markets. I had like 250 different titles and a ton of duplicates. I ended up selling the whole thing (with my SNES) for well over market value (at the time) but I really should have hung onto at least one of each of the games. But that's life and that's the way it goes sometimes! 😂
Hindsight is 20/20!
The Not for Resale SNES games were also used as prizes for giveaways by Nintendo. I won a NFR Contra III from Nintendo Power.
Oh nice! I didn't consider that.
Sonic Blast Man 2 is a great game. Nothing run of the mill about it!
Eh, I'll see when I play it all the way through. Lol.
Good list! I don't have any of the NFR listed, but four of those that are not. All were hard to find, and expensive. The rest are on my list to get, but as this video shows, they are damn rare and you won't find them cheap!
It's going to be tough!
Oh man, SWAT Kats takes me back. And yes, it still holds up today.
Yes they were vigilantes. They were also machine who worked in a junkyard and used discarded items to make and maintain their jet.
I BARELY remember it. It looked cool!
Before anyone says “just emulate for free”… there isn’t a single retro physical game player/collector that isn’t aware of that option. It’s simply not an option for us.
/PSA
Cool list!
Truer words have yet to be spoken!
I remember watching SWAT KATS when I was a kid it's still awesome today and it should never been canceled in the first place. 😀👍🐱🎮
Great video brother, I wish I would of kept my games growing up, I had no idea what I had at the time! Keep up the good work brotha!
I did for the most part.
Mega Man 7: “You must wecovah aw de energy immediately, W W- MegaMan!”
Wait, that Mega Man 8.
🤣🤣🤣
The best part of Mega Man 11 was the Bounce Man stage.
The whole game is decent :)
The main character of Incantation looks like Eric Cartman in that episode when he joined the Special Olympics.
LMFAO well I won't unsee that now.
I actually own all of the SNES North American library. Turtles in Time is absolutely awesome! I also own of the Genesis games for the American library.
That's awesome! I've only completed two libraries myself, and they are obscure as hell, the Milton Bradley Microvision and the Action Max lmao.
There was a Turrican game on the Genesis/Mega Drive that was rechristened Universal Soldier, and was allegedly based upon the movie of the same name.
Yeah I saw that. Was it good?
@@Fortefyre It’s based on Turrican II and has a giant representation of Dolph Lundgren in it. Levels and enemies were changed to fit the aesthetics. I’ve never played Turrican II, so I don’t know how it compares. It does play like a Turrican game, so I suppose it depends on if you like Turrican as far as it being any good.
That's fair.
I vaguely remember the swat cats show. One of the voice actors in the show was also one of the ninja turtles too.
Interesting! I did have a few VHS tapes of TMNT.
@@Fortefyre It was Barry Gordon the voice of Donatello who voices one of the main characters. Looked it up just now lol
Oh snap! He was Inky in that weird Pac-Man animated show lol.
@@Fortefyre that’s cool to know lol
My highest value is probably a mint copy of Big Nose Freaks Out that I grabbed in a lot at a yard sale last month.
That's awesome!
SwatKats was a great show and a fun game. I rented it once and played the crap out of it. I seem to remember it being rather hard, but I remember enjoying it a lot, though, not 200 bucks enjoyment
Yeah I can't justify that much money either lol.
Let’s see, Impractically Expensive Games…. Earthbound, Hagane, EvO, and 7 others.
You might be right on a few :)
Well, if he ever does an actual top ten most expensive SNES games based on the current average loose prices from Price Charting, the list is likely going to look like this unless one of these games drops out of the top ten.
And I'm talking actual games, not stuff like the Burn In Test Cart or the Combat Simulator software that the US Army had (yes, that's an actual thing!)
I'm also not counting "Not For Resale" versions as I feel copies with that label tend to be collector bait and an excuse to slap a much higher price on a game that generally doesn't go for that price.
Current Top Ten Most Expensive (as of 6/22/24 based on loose prices from Price Charting)
#1: Aero Fighters at $1,353
#2: Hagane: The Final Conflict at $830
#3: Pocky and Rocky 2 at $409
#4: Metal Warriors at $397
#5: Earthbound at $349
#6: Mega Man X3 at $325
#7: Harvest Moon at $323
#8: Wild Guns at $303
#9: Castlevania: Dracula X at $290
#10: Mega Man 7 at $244
As you can see, Earthbound and Hagane make the list. EVO: The Search for Eden is barely out of the top ten currently and would be in 11th place with a price of $235 (it sinks to 13th if we include NFR copies of Killer Instinct and Star Fox, but as I said: collector bait and available for much cheaper)
I'll say what I say, and if people like it, so be it. But yeah, if you like the idea of giving away the script for what I'm going to make videos about, then sure lol.
I found a sealed copy of Sonic Blast Man a few years ago and have refused to open it (because I heard that it was donkey shit)
Eh, I don't know if it's THAT bad, but I haven't played it more than a few minutes for footage lol.
Ninja Warriors (loose) was a little pricey, but I enjoy it.
Absolutely!
Fun list!
Thanks brother!
I’m assuming those prices are loose?
Yeah they are, the differential for Loose/CIB is really weird for SNES. At least for NES there was a more definitive separation between what was rare, but most of the more expensive SNES games hover around a uniform $150-$300.
Never hold back while praising Natsume, at least they get their due respect in Japan
Facts! I love that company.
Back in the 90s a neighbor who was older than me ( I was maybe 9 or 10) came home to tell me someone wanted to sell me a game, there was this weird dude in a beat up car with a lady and handed me zero the kamikaze squirrel, I didn’t know what to do I didn’t had money, my parents wasn’t at home, I said to him I’ll test the game, the game was the most beat up snes game I have seen in my life , I played the first stage, didn’t like it and I knew that game was stolen maybe from a video rent store, I was afraid I was going to get robbed 😂 . The most expensive game I have, I got it for 5 dollars when they were cheap and its R type 3, and also tmnt in time
That's one way to get a second hand game :P Thank you for sharing the memory and giving me a laugh, it's been a tough day.
INCANTATION was, is, a really cute game. 💗💗
It is cute, but someone mentioned the main character looks like Cartman lol.
Mega Man 7 kick ass. 😀👍🎮
I need to play it properly at some point.
The Hyperstone Heist is good, but Turtles in Time is vastly superior...how are you going to have Rocksteady as a boss but no Bebop?! And they did a boss rush level!!
TRUE. Beyond true!
Just curious: you say expensive (yet practical) for the title of the video, yet with the exception of NFR copies of SF2, everything in this list isn't exactly cheap (not that I'd count $190 for the original version of SF2 "cheap" in this case, but it was the only title on the list you had at under $200)
What makes these "practical" in your eyes? None of these titles are particularly easy to find. On the off chance that I walked into my local RGS today and they had a copy of any of these titles, I'm not walking away for under $200. I'm mainly curious about your criteria for one BIG reason:
CHRONO TRIGGER IS NOT ON THIS LIST!
It's a game that's right in line with all these other titles in terms of price ($208 loose on Price Charting as of 6/22/24), and frankly if I walked into a RGS with $250 burning a hole in my pocket and every single one of these games was there for $190-$250, then there's no contest: I'm walking out with Chrono Trigger. It just boggles my mind and I can only see someone not going with Chrono if they absolutely HATED RPGs, especially as many of these titles are fairly bog standard for their genre, mediocre, or relatively short in terms of length.
Also, how did you come to your prices? Was it just from eBay data? Most shops/folks I've interacted with tend to use Price Charting for their average game prices, either for selling or buying. I know this wasn't a straight up "10 Most Expensive SNES games" list, but even factoring in price fluctuations in the time it took to record this, none of the prices given seemed accurate (and I'm assuming we're going off the loose price)
Hell, Wild Guns is currently $303 loose (once again, as of 6/22/24) according to that website while Zero The Kamikaze Squirrel is currently sitting at $220 loose. That actually puts Zero on the lower end of this list in terms of pricing and should put Wild Guns at the top of the list if pricing was your main criteria for where these games were slotted in the video (and on that note, the current price on Wild Guns would firmly put it at about 8th place on the most expensive list if we're counting actual games and not oddities like a Burn In Test Cart, international releases outside the US)
It's not a bad video and was quite enjoyable. I'm just wondering about how this particular list came to be as it's clear you weren't going for a standard most expensive list, especially as Chrono Trigger is a glaring omission that's well within the price range of every other game that made this list (and contrary to popular belief, a game that hasn't even been in the top 10 most expensive SNES games for quite some time)
Sure. What I do first, is take the holy grail items, things that are exceptionally rare, and/or highly sought out, and they get their own 10 list, then I trickle down the most expesnive based on sales and what doesn't make the impractical list gets placed on the practical list. I love Chrono Trigger, but Chrono Trigger floats around the high $100s and the low $200s. It's not nearly as sought out as it was before. Now I will say I could have put it on the 10 spot, but I felt it would be neat to include a NFR because it's something that isn't talked about often.
It's a hybrid of what is available on VGPricing and current Ebay listings, for example, Wild Guns on Ebay, right now, is somewhere in the neighborhood of 250+. I'm not going to consider the outliers on prices, someone is selling a NES Mario loose for 1 Million right now lol. I promise I know what I'm talking about :)
I'm glad you enjoyed the video though!
No Chrono Trigger?
Not in this case. I went off of loose listings for this video because everything hovers around $200-$300. Chrono Trigger recently, at least in sales I've seen, has been low $200 or high $100s. There's still people holding on to the idea that it's worth $300+, but it's artificial inflation, like we see with the TG-16/PC-Engine. I love Chrono Trigger, I own 3 copies of it across different platforms lol.
How can a game you describe as "run of the mill" also be in this "expensive, yet practical" list. What do you mean by "expensive yet practical"? Why is it practical to put down hundreds of dollars on a came that is "run of the mill"?
I'll try to hit all your questions:)
1. It's all based on supply and demand, as well as the quantity of print.
2. Expensive yet practical means that it's expensive, and it's practical to buy it from a collectors standpoint.
3. Because people out there want to collect games.
@@FortefyreI see. I was thinking you meant expensive, but practical because the quality of the game made it worth the money…. Now I gotcha
Yeah lol. Don't overthink my work, I'm just a boy lol.
I wish I was smart enough to to buy the retro games when Gamestop had them in bins for practically nothing. Ugh Gotta say my most expensive CIB game that I still have from my youth is Resident Evil 2 for SNES. The most expensive one that I have gotten CIB to recently is Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for PS1.
.....Resident Evil 2 was never on the SNES bub.
Sounds like a Freudian slip lol. Probably meant N64.
DongCorleone, those are great games though. I WISH I was in an era where Gamestop handled retro games.
@@Fortefyre Dammit, yeah. N64. I had SNES on the brain. hahaha
:P
Just go buy a copy of Hagane: The Final Conflict CIB for $1,500. LOL.
God I wish. I love Hagane, it's stupid fun.