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vsp · 06-11-2003, 09:49 AM

NES units pop up at yard sales all the time for cheap; only PlayStations and Atari 2600s are as common.

The trick with yard-sale acquisitions is that you're hoping you're getting a unit in better shape than the worn-out one you're replacing, of course...

Some of the typical preowned vendors want crazy cash for their NES units, as if they were suddenly rare or collector's items. GameStop, for instance, has a ridiculous $60 price tag on an NES-with-one-game deal; they're actually charging more for an NES than they do for a preowned Super Nintendo ($50), N64 with a Pikachu game ($35), PSX ($30), the newer PSOne model ($40), a Game Boy Color with a game ($40), or even a SEGA DREAMCAST WITH A GAME ($50). Hell, a preowned GAMECUBE -- three systems NEWER and not even two years old yet -- is only $30 more than that...

Let's put this in perspective: For $50, you can buy a used Dreamcast from GameStop... which, with a copy of NesterDC, can play the same exact games that the $60 NES can (with hundreds of games on one disc), and can play the entire Dreamcast lineup as well. (And can also play Atari 8-bit games, Atari 2600 games, ColecoVision games, TurboGrafx/PC-Engine games, Genesis games, Sega Master System games, some Super Nintendo games, some NeoGeo Pocket Color games, many Game Boy/Game Boy Color games, and ports of Doom, Descent, Quake, Heretic, Hexen, Z-Machine (Infocom text adventures), VCDs, MP3s, low-resolution DIVX movies, and even LINUX.)

That, as they say, is ri-goddamn-diculous.

06-11-2003, 09:49 AM	#5
vsp Syndrome of a Down Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: West Chester Posts: 1,367	NES units pop up at yard sales all the time for cheap; only PlayStations and Atari 2600s are as common. The trick with yard-sale acquisitions is that you're hoping you're getting a unit in better shape than the worn-out one you're replacing, of course... Some of the typical preowned vendors want crazy cash for their NES units, as if they were suddenly rare or collector's items. GameStop, for instance, has a ridiculous $60 price tag on an NES-with-one-game deal; they're actually charging more for an NES than they do for a preowned Super Nintendo ($50), N64 with a Pikachu game ($35), PSX ($30), the newer PSOne model ($40), a Game Boy Color with a game ($40), or even a SEGA DREAMCAST WITH A GAME ($50). Hell, a preowned GAMECUBE -- three systems NEWER and not even two years old yet -- is only $30 more than that... Let's put this in perspective: For $50, you can buy a used Dreamcast from GameStop... which, with a copy of NesterDC, can play the same exact games that the $60 NES can (with hundreds of games on one disc), and can play the entire Dreamcast lineup as well. (And can also play Atari 8-bit games, Atari 2600 games, ColecoVision games, TurboGrafx/PC-Engine games, Genesis games, Sega Master System games, some Super Nintendo games, some NeoGeo Pocket Color games, many Game Boy/Game Boy Color games, and ports of Doom, Descent, Quake, Heretic, Hexen, Z-Machine (Infocom text adventures), VCDs, MP3s, low-resolution DIVX movies, and even LINUX.) That, as they say, is ri-goddamn-diculous.