Weekend find: NES top loader

[krisjohn]

Hi All,

 

Brag time. I scored a working (once I added a power supply) NES top-loader this weekend, with 4 games. A$5. That's roughly US$2.20.

 

Not only is it smaller, thus easier to find a home for when I want to hook it up, but it happily plays the 30-odd "Asian Version" carts I bought a while back that my standard NES wasn't interested in.

 

Of particular note amongst the poorly labelled old carts was a copy of "Dragon Spirit" -- a very nice shoot-em-up that I enjoyed a few rounds of over the weekend. Also in my previously unplayble collection was a nice legit version of Metroid which I had never played on real hardware before.

 

[Brad2600]

Sounds awesome.

 

Top loaders go for $$$ on EBay. You're lucky to find one that was in the wild and not too pricy either. I have never seen a toploader in my area of the States.

[MacGurl]

Sweet, you got yourself a good deal

[BoOchan!]

This Weekend I Found:

Boxed Sega Saturn With 10 Games and RCA Leads: AU$62

Commodore 64C With Disk Drive, Printer and 3 Inches of Dust : AU$4

Front Loading NES With Weird HES Game, Zelda II And Boxed Dogbone Controller: AU$10

[King Atari]

Very good finds there, I still haven't found a top loader in my area.

[glitch]

I've just recently seen my first top loaders in my area. My local GameSwap has 2 of them complete w/o boxes for 89.99 each. Tempting but not quite tempting enough.

[Big Player]

What is the average price range for a top loader? I know they are in great demand but was just wondering how much demand.

[krisjohn]

What is the average price range for a top loader?  I know they are in great demand but was just wondering how much demand.

Well, call my buy US$2 and the two glitch mentioned US$90 and the average price is US$60.67

 

Seriously though, checking completed eBay auctions, the average is about US$90 for a loose one. A few dip below that and many others are bundled with at least a few games, so it's hard to be exact.

 

Mine came with no power supply, no RF adapter/cable thing, only one controller and four very common games. It would have probably got only about US$70 on eBay. Mind you, that's 35x what I paid for it...

[RMila75]

Would you believe I actually had one in 1993 and returned it because the graphics looked inferior to the original NES?

I bought that thing new for only $45 at Sears and I RETURNED it!

[sdstuff64]

$2.50?I hate you!I had to pay $90 for mine,but I got the box and 14 games so I guess it was worth it.

[sku_u]

sdstuff64:

 

Your avatar is making me dizzy