So I won a ‘lot’ of famicom games on eBay. I received 6 or 7 games for about $10. The cool thing is–they came directly from Japan. One of them is the Japanese NES version of the Untouchables based on the film with Sean Connery. Three of them I can’t play because they require you to be able to read in Japanese. It’s pretty funny to plug them in. My Famicom collection now includes (but is not limited to):
The Transformers
The Untouchables
Mah Jong
and Several Other Games I can’t pronounce.
I almost won an auction for a Superman Famicom cartridge on eBay recently. For those who don’t know, Famicom is the Japanese version of the NES. Boy, am I glad I didn’t win. I found a site that has an NES emulator and several ROMs. It has different screen sizes and works pretty well.Here is the Superman one. I’ve also added a perma-link to the sidebar for http://www.1980-games.com/.
The only piece of advice I can give to anyone who enjoys Superman is this: Don’t ever buy the NES/Famicom game. Superman can’t even fly. And he looks like a Weeble Wobble. The music is also incredibly lame.
I was surprised to learn that the NES version of Galaga is actually not that bad…
Enjoy.
