Congrats on the complete collection, that plus your perseverance with this series makes you a one of a kind RUclipsr. I look forward for your videos each day.
Congratz on the accomplishment! I got a PAL copy of Mr Gimmick a while ago and it's the second most expensive game I've ever bought behind Magic Knight Rayearth on Saturn
Congratulations on 1000 subs and on your complete Famicom collection! I was rather surprised to know just a minuscule percentage of your library had manuals with them, so kudos on figuring out how to play the more esoteric and weird ones.
Thank you! There's a few websites that have transcribed or scanned Famicom manuals, but that's only about half of them. And I do have 120 boxed games with manuals, it's just that it was a nightmare trying to fit them into the picture. I was going to do some insert shots with them, but my assistants were extremely interested when that box came out.
Thank you for making these videos and giving great info about games we never got here in the US. Looking forward to your Double Moon Densetsu episode! I played it recently and thought it was pretty good. Didn't beat it though...it started getting kinda tough.
One of the best youtube gaming channels by far, congratulations on your complete set! Also let's see more of those cats, they could guest host a video or two
Congratulations, I don't think I could plan something like that or get the cash to do it 😮 Good luck with the next year (that's a rough estimate) of episodes.
This is such an awesome project. Like genuinely one of the coolest things I've seen on this site, and should have waaaaaaaaaaaaay more views considering how important this documentation is. You've inspired me to start collecting when I visit Japan next week!
This is absolutely insane. You definitely deserve a wider following than what you currently have considering the huge amount of work you’ve done. Thanks for all of your hard work man I’m looking forward to watching the entire catalogue because of my keen interest in the famicom and it’s history. Thanks man!
congratulations 🎊 I do want to go for a full set eventually and I really like how you've drawn a hard line somewhere it can be tough as to what counts as a Famicom game and what isn't especially in the case of the Disk System and other addon cartridges heck I feel like this opens the discussion as to what you consider a video game platform to be and where everyone draws that line
Very neat! You mentioned Double Moon Densetsu (not a particularly good RPG from what I recall...) What would the top 3 rarest RPGs and top 3 rarest action games be in your experience?
Congrats on the collector's achieve and your enthusiasm to make this daily series that is a treat for gamers! Cheers. Edit: also on the 1K subs, underrated tho.
Nice! How much would you say it cost to acquire all these games total, or at least, would you say it tends to be less expensive acquiring the Famicom games than the NES games?
I love that you even made use of the second card for this video, haha. yeah that is a massive collection! given my situation I doubt I'd ever see a complete set of anything, but certainly admire anyone that can pull it off. shoutout to your assistants though, I'm sure I saw one of them in the Predator video? watching this has been a fun journey seeing a bunch of stuff I'd never heard of, or at the very least wouldn't have given a second look to. (but in some cases I probably should have!!)
1:31 oh yes - 1983 is still in the single screen maze chase era, and 1994 is kind of the heyday of the 2D platformer (and not too far from its decline)
I call it the homogenization of the 2D platformer when every game was a momentum based platformer. Unless we are considering the golden age to be 1985-1995, then I totally agree.
🥰 man! As someone who's first interaction with videogames was the famicom, i gotta say, i envy you in a healthy way of course!! It was my first console and still have my first game ever, a bootleg copy of tmnt 3. Also captain tsubasa vol 2. 😍
Pretty cute assistants! My cat also is always curious about anything I happen to be working on. She loves boxes and certainly comes by to investigate them😂 Anyway, congratulations!
My objection to collecting Datach games wouldn't be the attachment so much as the fact that most of them required a deck of barcode cards to be able to play, and what are the odds you'll find someone who hung onto every card? But for whatever official Famicom hardware variants that are impractical to collect, like Vs. arcade machines, I'm sure we'd still enjoy your impressions of the games through emulation, just for the sake of the completist experience!
Though now that I'm watching some more videos about the Datach, I'm learning that some games didn't even include a card for every option: They say the Dragon Ball Z game expects you to unlock some secret characters by just trying some barcodes from random store items until they produce something new, much like the Barcode Battler systems generating randomly-statted characters, which also got one Famicom tie-in game... Not sure if that's worth it! But basically, you might have to hack into each game and reverse-engineer what it interprets as what to be sure you've experienced everything the game has to offer.
I talk about it a bit in my episodes on the Family BASIC cartridges. Essentially, Hudson made Family Basic for Nintendo and to accompany it they made three cassette releases with Family BASIC games on them. One of them was a double pack of an expansion for the Famicom version of Lode Runner with 100 new levels and the other cassette held ten games. These aren't the only cases of Family BASIC games being commercially released on cassette but they are the only ones where you can draw a direct connection between the Famicom and the cassette. The other ones were things like cassettes that accompanied books on programming and things like that.
@@RndStranger and with what command is it loaded and executed? I thought that only basic code was stored on the cassettes, not binary information like the commodore64
I am surprised by the audio cassette with the super lode runner. I thought that from family basic you could only save and load code and run it, not load binaries like the commodore.
It's not Super Lode Runner, that's a different game. This is Lode Runner World and you have to use the tape load function in Lode Runner (or Championship Lode Runner, I guess) and load the levels individually. FWIW, later hobbyists did use Famicom Basic V3 to make binary games. They basically hacked the system, injecting their code into memory in a way that is unreadable and then the program that you "RUN" just a poke to force the program counter to jump to the binary they injected.
I do what I can, but you're right that it is very difficult to open them. I've seen people just pop open some very rare games with just a screw driver and a wince. One thing I do is try to get some carts that show some sign of wear. Gimmick, for example, was released in a period when Sunsoft labels used some terrible glue that oxidized the labels pretty much immediately, so if you find one that doesn't look "water stained" and faded, it's likely fake.
Any chance you know the number of Famicom exclusive games that were not made for the NES? Surprisingly, I can't easily seem to figure out this number, thanks.
The exact number depends on how you want to define "Famicom games", but by my count it's 654. The number goes up if you want to include expansion carts, Datach stuff, and non-commercially released carts.
I think I fished my complete collection of NES games at about 2000, I'm not sure when, or what my last game was. But I got cartridge only versions of many games, and some were in pretty bad shape with torn labels. But I ordered most of them through Funco, some were sold for $1 or even less. I got Stadium Events for probably less than $5. I got the 3 Panesian X-rated games for about $25 each. Tengen Tetris with box and instructions for about $150. And the Europian-Pal exclusives like Banana Prince, and Gimmick, HES game Red Hood, and even started buying a few Sachen games, but they seemed to be Nintendo Family Computer games being converted to NES by NES_God whom was selling them on Ebay in the late 1990's and early 2000. So I didn't consider them as part of the complete collection. But I did include Racermate II, Miracle Piano teaching System, and games like that. I started collecting some Family Computer/Family Computer Disk System, while trying to upgrade my NES collection. But found that the money I spent on that, I could get the N64 games that were being discounted and sold from Rental stores, caused me to switch to Nintendo 64 games. I managed to get all those also, along with their 64DD games. I scanned each of the carts/Disks of my N64 collection and made a slide video of them and put that here on RUclips back in 2008. I thought about doing that with my NES collection, but the torn labels, and stuff made that type of video less interesting, and more like showing off a lot of poor condition games. So I never made a video of them. But I'm still proud of my N64 collection, even though most are cartridge only. I even translated 5 of the N64/64DD games to English, Doshin 1-2, and Japan Pro Golf Tour 64, Yakochu II: Satsujin Koro a text based game, and Doraemon: Nobita to Mittsu no Seireiseki. Basically, I typed out all the characters and used Google Translator, MSN Translator, the older BabelFish Translator, and a few other sites to translate the text. I hoped to be the first person to buy, and beat all the N64 games, and get 100% on every game, lol. After translating Yakochu II, and beating Taz Express, first quest. I realized that spending 3 years translating one game was something I didn't want to do, just for a few percent points of in game completion. I also got nearly all the Virtual Boy games except Space Invaders, Gundam, and Athena Bowling. But I think I managed to get all the others in cartridge only. I'm sure, like me, you'll continue to collect some games, or some other game objects. I have about 1000 game guides, that it was fun to look up and try to collect. But sadly, I rarely play anymore. Even those I managed to create my own List of Prima Games guides/ BradyGames, text translations of Japanese games and other things which I was able to share on Internet Archive and other places. I always enjoyed watching, learning about new games. Thanks for the great series of videos.
Well, I'm afraid that you are not going to impress me that easily that you legit own every single Famicom game, regardless of being licensed or not. I don't think you have something like Super Maruo or Sexy Invaders, or all the Famicom peripherals ever made. Also, you can just easily start upgrading your existing collection from cart only to CIB. Usually when there is a good deal about any game, I always go for CIB, because collecting cart only for some software-like games is just straight pointless in my opinion (then again I assume you can speak and understand japanese quite well than me). You can also start collecting nearly-impossible to get first print runs of games that were released in Central Asia and / or Eastern Europe.
Congrats on the complete collection, that plus your perseverance with this series makes you a one of a kind RUclipsr. I look forward for your videos each day.
Congratz on the accomplishment! I got a PAL copy of Mr Gimmick a while ago and it's the second most expensive game I've ever bought behind Magic Knight Rayearth on Saturn
baller taste in video games
I am from Indonesia and I love this series so much. I will keep watching until The end
Congratulations on finishing your collection! And thank you as always for keeping me entertained and informed through Famidaily!
I admire the dedication and congratulations!
Congratulations on 1000 subs and on your complete Famicom collection! I was rather surprised to know just a minuscule percentage of your library had manuals with them, so kudos on figuring out how to play the more esoteric and weird ones.
Thank you! There's a few websites that have transcribed or scanned Famicom manuals, but that's only about half of them. And I do have 120 boxed games with manuals, it's just that it was a nightmare trying to fit them into the picture. I was going to do some insert shots with them, but my assistants were extremely interested when that box came out.
Thank you for making these videos and giving great info about games we never got here in the US. Looking forward to your Double Moon Densetsu episode! I played it recently and thought it was pretty good. Didn't beat it though...it started getting kinda tough.
Congratulations! great series
Congrats, Rndstranger! Keep up your work and have a good playing time with a nice chunk of those Famicom games :)
You deserve a lot of extra subscribers. I’ll be watching till the end.
One of the best youtube gaming channels by far, congratulations on your complete set! Also let's see more of those cats, they could guest host a video or two
Congratulations, I don't think I could plan something like that or get the cash to do it 😮 Good luck with the next year (that's a rough estimate) of episodes.
This collection is unreal.
Well done.
This is such an awesome project. Like genuinely one of the coolest things I've seen on this site, and should have waaaaaaaaaaaaay more views considering how important this documentation is. You've inspired me to start collecting when I visit Japan next week!
This is absolutely insane. You definitely deserve a wider following than what you currently have considering the huge amount of work you’ve done. Thanks for all of your hard work man I’m looking forward to watching the entire catalogue because of my keen interest in the famicom and it’s history. Thanks man!
Thank you!
congratulations 🎊
I do want to go for a full set eventually and I really like how you've drawn a hard line somewhere
it can be tough as to what counts as a Famicom game and what isn't especially in the case of the Disk System and other addon cartridges
heck I feel like this opens the discussion as to what you consider a video game platform to be and where everyone draws that line
Very neat! You mentioned Double Moon Densetsu (not a particularly good RPG from what I recall...) What would the top 3 rarest RPGs and top 3 rarest action games be in your experience?
Congrats on the collector's achieve and your enthusiasm to make this daily series that is a treat for gamers! Cheers.
Edit: also on the 1K subs, underrated tho.
Nice! How much would you say it cost to acquire all these games total, or at least, would you say it tends to be less expensive acquiring the Famicom games than the NES games?
I love that you even made use of the second card for this video, haha. yeah that is a massive collection! given my situation I doubt I'd ever see a complete set of anything, but certainly admire anyone that can pull it off. shoutout to your assistants though, I'm sure I saw one of them in the Predator video? watching this has been a fun journey seeing a bunch of stuff I'd never heard of, or at the very least wouldn't have given a second look to. (but in some cases I probably should have!!)
Congratulations!
Love famicom carts, im collecting some now, and your collection is the best, i love it. inspiring.
1:31 oh yes - 1983 is still in the single screen maze chase era, and 1994 is kind of the heyday of the 2D platformer (and not too far from its decline)
I call it the homogenization of the 2D platformer when every game was a momentum based platformer. Unless we are considering the golden age to be 1985-1995, then I totally agree.
🥰 man! As someone who's first interaction with videogames was the famicom, i gotta say, i envy you in a healthy way of course!! It was my first console and still have my first game ever, a bootleg copy of tmnt 3. Also captain tsubasa vol 2. 😍
Pretty cute assistants! My cat also is always curious about anything I happen to be working on. She loves boxes and certainly comes by to investigate them😂 Anyway, congratulations!
Congrats on such a big chore, and those are some cute cats
A big congrats!
My objection to collecting Datach games wouldn't be the attachment so much as the fact that most of them required a deck of barcode cards to be able to play, and what are the odds you'll find someone who hung onto every card?
But for whatever official Famicom hardware variants that are impractical to collect, like Vs. arcade machines, I'm sure we'd still enjoy your impressions of the games through emulation, just for the sake of the completist experience!
Though now that I'm watching some more videos about the Datach, I'm learning that some games didn't even include a card for every option: They say the Dragon Ball Z game expects you to unlock some secret characters by just trying some barcodes from random store items until they produce something new, much like the Barcode Battler systems generating randomly-statted characters, which also got one Famicom tie-in game... Not sure if that's worth it! But basically, you might have to hack into each game and reverse-engineer what it interprets as what to be sure you've experienced everything the game has to offer.
4:03 i cant find any info about the cassette tape game here - what is it? any info you can help with?
I talk about it a bit in my episodes on the Family BASIC cartridges. Essentially, Hudson made Family Basic for Nintendo and to accompany it they made three cassette releases with Family BASIC games on them. One of them was a double pack of an expansion for the Famicom version of Lode Runner with 100 new levels and the other cassette held ten games.
These aren't the only cases of Family BASIC games being commercially released on cassette but they are the only ones where you can draw a direct connection between the Famicom and the cassette. The other ones were things like cassettes that accompanied books on programming and things like that.
@@RndStranger and with what command is it loaded and executed? I thought that only basic code was stored on the cassettes, not binary information like the commodore64
Dynamite collection man
I’m very happy for you! Say hi to the kitties from me ❤
Beautiful cats! Also, nice collection 👍
I am surprised by the audio cassette with the super lode runner. I thought that from family basic you could only save and load code and run it, not load binaries like the commodore.
It's not Super Lode Runner, that's a different game. This is Lode Runner World and you have to use the tape load function in Lode Runner (or Championship Lode Runner, I guess) and load the levels individually.
FWIW, later hobbyists did use Famicom Basic V3 to make binary games. They basically hacked the system, injecting their code into memory in a way that is unreadable and then the program that you "RUN" just a poke to force the program counter to jump to the binary they injected.
Do you verify the authenticity of the carts in any way? Famicom carts aren't easy to open, unlike NES carts.
I do what I can, but you're right that it is very difficult to open them. I've seen people just pop open some very rare games with just a screw driver and a wince.
One thing I do is try to get some carts that show some sign of wear. Gimmick, for example, was released in a period when Sunsoft labels used some terrible glue that oxidized the labels pretty much immediately, so if you find one that doesn't look "water stained" and faded, it's likely fake.
Any chance you know the number of Famicom exclusive games that were not made for the NES? Surprisingly, I can't easily seem to figure out this number, thanks.
The exact number depends on how you want to define "Famicom games", but by my count it's 654. The number goes up if you want to include expansion carts, Datach stuff, and non-commercially released carts.
@@RndStranger awesome, thanks for the reply!
I have about 65 Complete in box games for the FC. I'm near the end of what I want to collect. Nice video though. And a year late to the party.
1042 that's a lot of famicom games
I love J4U. Most of my Game Boy games are from them.
I think I fished my complete collection of NES games at about 2000, I'm not sure when, or what my last game was. But I got cartridge only versions of many games, and some were in pretty bad shape with torn labels. But I ordered most of them through Funco, some were sold for $1 or even less. I got Stadium Events for probably less than $5. I got the 3 Panesian X-rated games for about $25 each. Tengen Tetris with box and instructions for about $150. And the Europian-Pal exclusives like Banana Prince, and Gimmick, HES game Red Hood, and even started buying a few Sachen games, but they seemed to be Nintendo Family Computer games being converted to NES by NES_God whom was selling them on Ebay in the late 1990's and early 2000. So I didn't consider them as part of the complete collection. But I did include Racermate II, Miracle Piano teaching System, and games like that. I started collecting some Family Computer/Family Computer Disk System, while trying to upgrade my NES collection. But found that the money I spent on that, I could get the N64 games that were being discounted and sold from Rental stores, caused me to switch to Nintendo 64 games. I managed to get all those also, along with their 64DD games. I scanned each of the carts/Disks of my N64 collection and made a slide video of them and put that here on RUclips back in 2008. I thought about doing that with my NES collection, but the torn labels, and stuff made that type of video less interesting, and more like showing off a lot of poor condition games. So I never made a video of them. But I'm still proud of my N64 collection, even though most are cartridge only. I even translated 5 of the N64/64DD games to English, Doshin 1-2, and Japan Pro Golf Tour 64, Yakochu II: Satsujin Koro a text based game, and Doraemon: Nobita to Mittsu no Seireiseki. Basically, I typed out all the characters and used Google Translator, MSN Translator, the older BabelFish Translator, and a few other sites to translate the text. I hoped to be the first person to buy, and beat all the N64 games, and get 100% on every game, lol. After translating Yakochu II, and beating Taz Express, first quest. I realized that spending 3 years translating one game was something I didn't want to do, just for a few percent points of in game completion. I also got nearly all the Virtual Boy games except Space Invaders, Gundam, and Athena Bowling. But I think I managed to get all the others in cartridge only. I'm sure, like me, you'll continue to collect some games, or some other game objects. I have about 1000 game guides, that it was fun to look up and try to collect. But sadly, I rarely play anymore. Even those I managed to create my own List of Prima Games guides/ BradyGames, text translations of Japanese games and other things which I was able to share on Internet Archive and other places. I always enjoyed watching, learning about new games. Thanks for the great series of videos.
subbed. i was lazy and got a twin famicom with a what's his name's multi cart. called it good...
Really wonder how much this costs. Like 10-15k USD? Probably much more with shipping. I have no clue, I must be way off.
if you buy famicom games, are they in Japan language or English??? if Japan language people can’t read and play the games
Most of the games are in Japanese, though for anything involving action you don't really need to know any of the language.
Well, I'm afraid that you are not going to impress me that easily that you legit own every single Famicom game, regardless of being licensed or not.
I don't think you have something like Super Maruo or Sexy Invaders, or all the Famicom peripherals ever made.
Also, you can just easily start upgrading your existing collection from cart only to CIB. Usually when there is a good deal about any game, I always go for CIB, because collecting cart only for some software-like games is just straight pointless in my opinion (then again I assume you can speak and understand japanese quite well than me).
You can also start collecting nearly-impossible to get first print runs of games that were released in Central Asia and / or Eastern Europe.
you have cute cats
moon crystal 🥺