Found some SNES games in my parent's basement

Daybreak

So I was cleaning out all of the junk I've stowed in my parent's basement, and I found some SNES games and other things. Namely:

Super Street Fighter II
The 7th Saga
Final Fantasy 3
Super Gameboy Adaptor
Game Genie for the SNES
Game Genie for the Gameboy

Is this stuff worth anything? I imagine that FF3 might be, but I really have no clue.

h8b1llg8ts

Super Street Fighter II is a great game. I can't wait for them to release that on the VC ...

Brue

7th Saga... very underrated RPG... definitely worth a playthrough.

Daybreak

I should also add that I don't own a SNES

slash000

Those are some good games. You should play them. No idea what the resale value of them might be.

But I say you should keep them.


And also play Metroid II using that Super Gameboy.

randombattle

Daybreak wrote: »

I should also add that I don't own a SNES

Fix that problem then. :P

Taramoor

Those games are worthless.

However, I've got a SNES I'm fixing up and need to test it out on some old games.

I'll give you $10 and pay shipping for everything you listed.

Best deal you're going to get.

I swear.

LewieP

I offer $11

Aiserou

I think I paid $30 for my copy of FF3 several years back. I think that's about the average going price for a copy in decent shape.

And yes, fix your "problem" and play FF3. Edit: Oh good, you've already played it.



Edit: I'm also seriously considering buying it off you so that I can have a backup copy around.

ASimPerson

That copy of FF3 is completely worthless. You should probably just give it to me so I can take it off your hands.

Just kidding

I'd give you at least $20 for it

Probably more

MegaMan001

Yeah FF3 would probably be worth up to $30.00 to $40.00. I have two of the old carts myself, but I can't imagine why it's worth so much considering it is now on the PS1 and the Gameboy Advanced.

Daybreak

I don't want it to sound like I've never played these games before: I played the hell out of them as a kid. Though I liked FF2 better than FF3, I still played 3 a bunch. And SF2 (along with FF2 and LTTP) was part of the holy trinity of SNES gaming of my youth.

7th Saga, though, I never made it very far in. I remember the difficulty jumping substantially, just after you get to recruit another one of the main characters on your team. I always played as the robot dude. Man, I really do need to play this one again!

But yes, I am looking to unload all of this. I just don't have the time to go back into nostalgia, and I already have GBA versions of FF3 and SF2 (no 7th Saga, obv). I'll scope out prices on ebay and such, and of course I'd be very happy to sell it to a fellow PAer.

Aiserou

MegaMan001 wrote: »

Yeah FF3 would probably be worth up to $30.00 to $40.00. I have two of the old carts myself, but I can't imagine why it's worth so much considering it is now on the PS1 and the Gameboy Advanced.

FF3 (and an accompanying SNES) has a permanent seat in my games library. Right next to Tribes and Starcraft. I will always own an original copy of this game. I will start selling organs before I part with any of them. Even if I never play them again. I'm just like that.

apotheos

A local pawn shop sells all Square SNES games for $100.

They have a shrinked copy of Chrono Trigger for $250.

Sure, they are valuable. But that much? Come on.

Aiserou

Amazon has a new copy of Super Mario RPG for $495. I'm nostalgic, but some people are just weird.

Edit: Moreover, why didn't the original owner play the damned thing?

Edit 2:Holy crap, used copies of Earthbound start at $73.

expendable

I have a working SNES that I still use. I'd be willing to buy one or more of the games.

The_Spaniard

Daybreak wrote: »

I should also add that I don't own a SNES

Did your parents have a secret second son, you know one that they actually loved?

MegaMan001

Aiserou wrote: »

MegaMan001 wrote: »

Yeah FF3 would probably be worth up to $30.00 to $40.00. I have two of the old carts myself, but I can't imagine why it's worth so much considering it is now on the PS1 and the Gameboy Advanced.

FF3 (and an accompanying SNES) has a permanent seat in my games library. Right next to Tribes and Starcraft. I will always own an original copy of this game. I will start selling organs before I part with any of them. Even if I never play them again. I'm just like that.

I totally agree. I've accumulated three SNES's (SNESES?) with appropriate cables and controllers and original carts of FF2, FF3, that Mystic Quest thing, Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, etc. Don't get me wrong - I love them, but I can't imagine people spending that much money for them.

apotheos

When I worked up north in the oil industry in 2000 a local store (Zellers, think Canadian Target) had a new copy of Earthbound on the shelf next to their N64 games bearing the original retail price of $79.99.

I have no idea why I didn't buy it and still regret it to this day.

ASimPerson

I suspect they're selling them to johnny-come-lately's like me.

For whatever reason, even though I had a SNES as a kid I never played RPGs. I played my first Final Fantasy in college in 2003.

So, you've got a game that isn't being produced anymore and that people tend to hold on to. It wasn't exactly exceedingly common in its day, either. And there's a lot of people who've only discovered these classics in the past few years.

Law of supply and demand, folks.

That said, I do own FF6 Advance, which helps. But what about games like Chrono Trigger? I figure if Square was going to re-release CT they'd have done it by now. (All I want is a FF-Advance style release! I don't need a fancy remake....)

Taramoor

Daybreak wrote: »

I don't want it to sound like I've never played these games before: I played the hell out of them as a kid. Though I liked FF2 better than FF3, I still played 3 a bunch. And SF2 (along with FF2 and LTTP) was part of the holy trinity of SNES gaming of my youth.

7th Saga, though, I never made it very far in. I remember the difficulty jumping substantially, just after you get to recruit another one of the main characters on your team. I always played as the robot dude. Man, I really do need to play this one again!

But yes, I am looking to unload all of this. I just don't have the time to go back into nostalgia, and I already have GBA versions of FF3 and SF2 (no 7th Saga, obv). I'll scope out prices on ebay and such, and of course I'd be very happy to sell it to a fellow PAer.

The Robot dude (Lux was his name) was the second-hardest to complete the game with, with Wilme (the alien monster thing) being the most difficult.

I usually partnered Lux with the Elf chick (Esuna) or the Cleric (I forget his name but he was a douche anyway).

The main issue with 7th Saga was that it was a grinder's RPG in most respects. There would always be an easy method for defeating most of the bosses, but the enemies from area to area were usually more difficult than the boss fights. A lot of grinding was needed to beat each section of the game, and the bosses you faced from time to time that were the other playable characters scaled up as you leveled and were somewhere between insanely difficult and absolutely impossible.

apotheos

ASimPerson wrote: »

That said, I do own FF6 Advance, which helps. But what about games like Chrono Trigger? I figure if Square was going to re-release CT they'd have done it by now. (All I want is a FF-Advance style release! I don't need a fancy remake....)

They did re-release Chrono Trigger on PSX. While the load times are unbearable, its not nearly bad enough to pretend it doesn't exist.

Aiserou

ASimPerson wrote: »

(All I want is a FF-Advance style release! I don't need a fancy remake....)

My dream (and probably the dream of most of the people reading this) is a direct port of every NES, SNES, and 64 game to the DS. No fancy graphics, hell, I'm not even sure I want bug fixes.

Stupid licensing.

Blackjack

Taramoor wrote: »

Daybreak wrote: »

I don't want it to sound like I've never played these games before: I played the hell out of them as a kid. Though I liked FF2 better than FF3, I still played 3 a bunch. And SF2 (along with FF2 and LTTP) was part of the holy trinity of SNES gaming of my youth.

7th Saga, though, I never made it very far in. I remember the difficulty jumping substantially, just after you get to recruit another one of the main characters on your team. I always played as the robot dude. Man, I really do need to play this one again!

But yes, I am looking to unload all of this. I just don't have the time to go back into nostalgia, and I already have GBA versions of FF3 and SF2 (no 7th Saga, obv). I'll scope out prices on ebay and such, and of course I'd be very happy to sell it to a fellow PAer.

The Robot dude (Lux was his name) was the second-hardest to complete the game with, with Wilme (the alien monster thing) being the most difficult.

I usually partnered Lux with the Elf chick (Esuna) or the Cleric (I forget his name but he was a douche anyway).

The main issue with 7th Saga was that it was a grinder's RPG in most respects. There would always be an easy method for defeating most of the bosses, but the enemies from area to area were usually more difficult than the boss fights. A lot of grinding was needed to beat each section of the game, and the bosses you faced from time to time that were the other playable characters scaled up as you leveled and were somewhere between insanely difficult and absolutely impossible.

I partnered everyone--especially the elf chick--with the cleric, because the cleric gets the most broken spell in the whole entire game.

Elixir. It heals you completely. HP AND MP.

Taramoor

Blackjack wrote: »

I partnered everyone--especially the elf chick--with the cleric, because the cleric gets the most broken spell in the whole entire game.

Elixir. It heals you completely. HP AND MP.

I know that. It also replenishes the MP needed to cast it.

How that made it through any design doc ANYWHERE I'll never know.

But I liked the game because it was hard. Suddenly having it turn into mindless pablum at the end was no fun at all, that's why I HATED the cleric.

Blackjack

I look at it as a reward for getting to the end.

Ababyatemydingo

I still have all the PSX FF remakes..(anthology, etc). The CT did have long load times but I still play it when I have a hankering, and my crowning acheivment is a sealed original Final Fantasy Box that I picked up in the middle of Wisconsin somewhere for like 30 bucks in '97. It was sitting on a shelf in a run down old gas station/mini mart next to some old tapes with a ten dollar price tag....my idiot friend exclaimed loudly and the old, fat man behind the counter jacked up the price.

Xenogears of Bore

apotheos wrote: »

ASimPerson wrote: »

That said, I do own FF6 Advance, which helps. But what about games like Chrono Trigger? I figure if Square was going to re-release CT they'd have done it by now. (All I want is a FF-Advance style release! I don't need a fancy remake....)

They did re-release Chrono Trigger on PSX. While the load times are unbearable, its not nearly bad enough to pretend it doesn't exist.

It only lead to a temporary dip in the price you could get for CT. A few months after people played it, it started going for a new high on ebay.

That being said, you can get serious cash for a sealed copy of earthbound in that giant box. I saw one sell at an auction a year or two ago for almost $500. I bought mine for $7 on clearance.

august

Oh god 7th Saga.

I swear that game gave me PTSD.

PkErthbnd

Daybreak, I'll also be interested in taking those off your hands when you figure out some prices.

MC Mystery

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

apotheos wrote: »

ASimPerson wrote: »

That said, I do own FF6 Advance, which helps. But what about games like Chrono Trigger? I figure if Square was going to re-release CT they'd have done it by now. (All I want is a FF-Advance style release! I don't need a fancy remake....)

They did re-release Chrono Trigger on PSX. While the load times are unbearable, its not nearly bad enough to pretend it doesn't exist.

It only lead to a temporary dip in the price you could get for CT. A few months after people played it, it started going for a new high on ebay.

That being said, you can get serious cash for a sealed copy of earthbound in that giant box. I saw one sell at an auction a year or two ago for almost $500. I bought mine for $7 on clearance.

My life's biggest regret is that I didn't own a SNES, so when I saw brand new copy of Earthbound @ Walmart for UNDER TEN FUCKING DOLLARS, My grandmother wouldn't buy it for me. This also, wasn't that many years after it came out. Maybe two.