There's a store just like that near my home in NM. They like to REALLY overprice their games. It'll cost you $35 bucks for any of the Mega Mans loose. They sell regular ol' Bubble Bobble for that much, too. I don't get it myself either. I guess this store is lucky to pretty much have a monopoly over the NES market in Albuquerque.

It's probably also the name recognition. My bro who's 15 and was raised on Playstation 1, 2, GameCube and XBox knows nothing about the NES. He'd be one of those stupid ones to think it's actually worth $42 -- saying to himself "OMG the original!"

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I was wrong about my bro. Looks like he's even more stupid than I thought:


jerahcordova (11:25:54 PM): Question: How much would you think the original NES Final Fantasy is worth?

T*********3 (11:26:22 PM): hm

T*********3 (11:26:22 PM): 200

jerahcordova (11:27:02 PM): i'm not taking prototype or anything, just the game. care to revise some?

jerahcordova (11:28:23 PM): ?

jerahcordova (11:29:41 PM): a-hem

T*********3 (11:30:08 PM): uh

T*********3 (11:30:13 PM): what do you mean

T*********3 (11:30:14 PM): revise?

jerahcordova (11:30:24 PM): care to raise or lower your guess

T*********3 (11:32:14 PM): hm

T*********3 (11:32:20 PM): 150

jerahcordova (11:32:31 PM): ha! i knew it!

T*********3 (11:32:38 PM): what?

jerahcordova (11:33:14 PM): i made fun of you on the NES forum today about not knowing jack-shit about NES prices cause you were raised on Playstation, XBox, etc.

T*********3 (11:34:05 PM): BITCH


You can't blame the kid, I guess. He's just from a different gaming era.

I pray to God noone buys it at that price. I paid like $24 for a mint complete copy with maps, manual, handbook, and everything else. But you can't blame people for not knowing but still.....

i was able to get my FF for $12 at Funcoland many years ago luckily. I think theres a store like that everywhere that overcharges people. Theres a place out here in NJ that no one even knows the name of, no name on the sign, everyone just calls him Crazy Julio. He has a bit of everything when it comes to video games, but his pricing system is extremely questionable. Everything is so expensive and so....inconsistent. Megaman 3 for $39.99. The Zelda games for $29.99. Super Mario Bros 1 for...$8...$12...$16 and one for $28.....aparently this guy cannot even price the same game the same on all carts. needless to say he does not get my money.

There's a store near where I work, which has their NES games stacked on top of each other in a display case. The price ranges from how high or low they are in the stack. For example, if Super Mario Bros. was on the bottm and you wanted it, $50. If Bubblebath babes was right on top, $2. It's really annoying sometimes, when theres a specific game you want and it's in the middle. But also really good, when a good find lands on top.

Around mid-late 2005, EB Games was selling loose Final Fantasy games for 39.99$.  Eventually, they finally got knocked down to 9.99$ after some price drops of 5$ at a time.  No one ever knew they were at the store because they kept them behind the counter, but the store would and could easily get the 15$ price tag they had on Zelda every time they put one out.  Not everyone can/wants to shop on ebay so they go to places like this and pay more...it isn't that big of a suprise to me, especially with all the people that I hear about coming into EB looking for NES games.