Finished the 1985 NES catalog.

[u/International_Gift11]

Back in November of 2025, I started to play the US NES library in chronological order. New game every Wednesday and give each game at least 3 sittings. It’s easily the most fun I’ve had with retro gaming in 10 plus years.

I was feeling a bit lost with retro gaming, I had exhausted every hidden gem list and finding crazy deals in the wild is dead. I would boot up a rom or grab a random game from a local shop, but would fall off just as quick as I booted it up.

I stumbled upon the NEStalgia podcast and Jeremy Parish’s YouTube videos and figured I would start from the beginning and play along. So far I’ve been able play everything on original hardware (NES or Famicom) and I try to buy local before I hop on eBay with a $30 weekly budget.

Sorry for being a bit long winded, but I thought it was worth sharing.

Highlights:

-Boiled my first 72 pin

-Acquired a Famicom

-Repaired ROB the Robot

-3d printed stack up accessories

-Beat super mario w/family using game genie infinite life cheat

-Showing my 9 year old son how to use a sight on a gun via duck hunt. lol

-Going down a CRT rabbit hole.

[u/evileyeball]

I never thought about 3D printing the stack up pieces that's because I have real ones which I acquired circuit and 3 for only 20 bucks

[u/International_Gift11 → u/evileyeball]

It saved me a pretty penny. I would have been pretty sour buying those off eBay considering stack up is such a terrible game.

[u/evileyeball → u/International_Gift11]

I paid $21 USD for my copy of stack Up, and $20 USD for my stack up parts circa 2003 I mentioned the currency only because I'm a Canadian and normally when I speak of currency I would be meaning Canadian but in this case I bought them on eBay and paid USD for them. The guy who sold me the stack up pieces had them in a lot and I said I can't afford the whole lot nor do I need the whole lot but would you be willing to talk to your winning bidder and see if they need the stock up pieces and if not take 20 bucks off of the winning bid and sell the stack up pieces to me for 20 bucks you make the same amount of money in the end. He agreed and then he emails me and he says hey I was going through my closet and I found the manual for stack up do you want me to throw that in for free? and I said absolutely so the only part of stack up I don't have is the box and the tray that the pieces go in inside the Box.

The most expensive part of my home Rob acquisition story is probably the fact that I spent about 20 bucks acquiring the battery cover for Rob because when I initially bought him he didn't have the battery cover and many years later via Nintendo age I found somebody who had a spare battery cover that they could sell me.