I look at Repros this way. They’re fine because the company that originally made them aren’t making any money off them and no game is worth $100+ dollars no matter what anyone else says.
I have a repro of Oracle of Ages and it doesn’t look anything like the one I had as a kid so I realised because of the shell, the cheaply printed sticker and the price that it wasn’t an original.
These ali express carts are actually really interesting, they can be reflashed using a joey or a gbx cart, shantae is actually patched to save to tge same flash as the rom, and the sram pulls alot more power than the original carts so saves only last about a year
When you say ‘I think it was released on the eshop’ or ‘I’m not sure why it was so expensive’, it would be good to research those things prior so the video is more informative.
@@TheRetroFuture It feels more real this way, at least for me. It's more like a conversation "Oh I think X", "Oh interesting, let me check that fact" :)
I mean, if you're getting an unofficial cart anyway, you're probably just getting it to play. Why spend more on a different plastic shell if it's not a real cart? As long as it plays and saves, that's all that really matters.
Clear cart makes sense, otherwise someone might assume it runs on their original Game Boy, but it doesn't. It only works on GBC (and GBA via backwards compatibility). I assume you get an error message if you stick the grey Shantae cartridge into a GB.
I’ve been waiting forever for a video like this. I love hearing about more obscure GB titles. There’s some interesting Europe only releases like Monster Max, Populous, and Mr. Do that would be cool to see a review of, since they’re virtually unheard of here in the states.
Man, I'm so tired of you saying everything in "dollar" amounts. I'm American, so I have to convert to British Pounds, and then back to American dollars just to understand the cost. It's so frustrating.
Now image the whole f* world having to deal with the short scale (billions vs millions), imperial units and your "liberty currency" in international trading
Shantae is cool in small ways, like playing at night and the sprites colors change to match nighttime, the music and story, the fact that she does a little booty wiggle when crawling. It’s all just so fun. I feel like that game has a lot going for it for the GBC era.
Also what I remember from a couple of games back in the days: the story was completely in the booklet, not much text or explanation in the game itself and I liked it. Whenever I or a friend of mine bought a new game, we tried to get as far as possible without checking the booklet and see who came farther ^^
since they're reproductions, most likely from the repos i have they'd be a small pcb about half the size of the cart with a cheap flash chip, sram, and maybe a battery for any rtc features
Immediately "ClayFighter: Sculptor's Cut" came to my mind which was only "released" by Blockbuster Video. So either you stole it back in the days or you had a chance to buy one once they closed down. Prices are absolutely nuts on this one.. up to 2,5K USD :X
I'd argue it's okay to emulate a game that's far too difficult for basically anyone to afford who isn't a hardcore collector, especially if it's no longer being produced.
"They're reproductions." Well at least they're good ones. I got a bootleg Spanish Pokémon Crystal and it was pretty funny to play. A but glitchy with terrible translations. Anywho, Merry Christmas Elliot and Emily. Have a Merry Christmas and a happy New year. Lots of love from New York.
shantae asking price is absolutely insane for the gameplay being as average as it is graphics are amazing though, sometimes i just pop it in to say "damn this is really on a gbc" but yeah, as an owner of the real deal, repro is the way to go for that one.
You need to understand everyone doesn’t have the same relationship with their mother or family. I have a friend that always hug/say I love you to his mom but he actually doesn’t like his mom that much. I also have a friend always being annoying to his mother but always help her mother doing house chores and anything. Don’t judge their relationship just because he didn’t say ‘i love you’ .
Crazy how in just a little over ppl are selling games for almost 2 to 3 times more. Pokemon Red, Blue or Yellow, for example, start at no less the $40-$50. Sapphire, Ruby or Emerald... $75-$125.
Just in the past month greedy sellers on eBay have pushed the price of emerald up to $200 and ruby/Sapphire up to $90. it makes me sick as a collector..
Blame the pandemic. The whole thing started, and for some reason the demand for Game Boy consoles and games skyrocketed. Demand goes up, so do prices. More and more people are just buying repros nowadays, so fakes and repros have become more common too. Not to mention with consoles themselves, I hate to say it, but modders are kinda messing those prices up. The more they mod, the less originals there are, the higher the demand gets. I see some people modding like 5-6 consoles at a time. Some people with an entire shelf full of modded GB, GBC, GBP, GBL, and GBA consoles. Along with the occasional DS Lite "GBA Macro" mod. I really wanna get a GBC to mod myself actually, but I can't find just a plain loose GBC online for less than $70-80. And then I'd have to spend another $50 or so on a backlit screen, and maybe even another $15 on a new shell. A GBC should be like $30 at most, but nope. I'm gonna end up having to use my limited Pokemon Gold childhood GBC if I want one with a Backlit screen, or I'm gonna have to spend $120-$150 on a pre-modded one (which, let's face it, I'd just get a damn Analog Pocket if I wanna spend that kinda money.)
Trip World is a fun game.. but very short! It only has 5 worlds.. and as you've noticed you went to World 2 pretty quickly. It gets a tad more difficult though later on and the boss can be a pain. The biggest difficulty is that when you're game over, you'll have to restart from World 1. So keep your lives as high as possible till the end ;)
@ The Retro Future You should review some of your favorite Gameboy games for each generation. Review anything you want, it's your channel. Also thanks for the awesome videos. Keep up the great work! 🎮🕹️🖱️🖲️
Wow! Great video. Love this channel. I wait everyday for a new video and am thrilled when there is one. Thanks for making such a great channel! Merry Christmas!
Quite nice to have as real copies. The other close candidates are Wendy: Every Witch Way and Avenging Spirit, even the Japanese releases, Magical Chase GBC, ZAS, Banishing Racer.
"Shantae looks like it might be for the young girls" oh boy you try looking at the dlc for those later games and see if you still think that. (PJ mode)
Shantae wasn't popular when it first came out, it only got this rare after people started buying it since the later games came out and gained a cult following.
I bid on a lot of 3 gameboy games on Ebay in 2015. I bid on it because I wanted Kirby's Dreamland 2, but there were two other games included. Monopoly, which is whatever, and a game I'd never heard of called Mole Mania. I ended up winning with a bid of $7.50. I decided to look at what these games were going for nowadays and it turns out that game I never heard of is selling for around $70!
Good news for Shantae, its getting an official reproduction GBC cartridge from its publisher WayForward! It's only available through Limited Run Games so it is a limited time print until October via preorders.
you should do a nes review of Bucky O'Hare. its a decently rare nes title that's worth some money. My friend sold his to some kid for $20 when he could have sold it for close to $300 since it was a original copy that was still in its packaging. Remember kids, don't let your friends miss out on a big selling opportunity
We can also make the reproductions ourself, by doing a cartmod. It would make a better quality repro as we don't know how much times those chineses ones will last (a cartmod will last as much as an original cart, as it's a modified original cart).
If I qas buying such an expensive game, I'd want to see multiple pictures, including on the PCB, so anyone trying to sell this as a legit copy probably won't be catching anyone with that.
Been collecting gameboy games for over 10 years, have all those carts apart from amazing tater, shantae was originally a gb color game... another gameboy game although advance is ninja 5 o... but these are rare and are worth a pretty penny..
Picked up a copy of Shantae at kb toys for 40 bucks back in the day. Fun part the kid working the register tried to talk me out if it and into a gba instead
There is also Chikyuu Kaihou Gun Zas. It is also really expensive but I don't know if they make a repro Card of it. With box I saw an offer for over 1000. Ridiculous price.
Nice I hope you get Kid Dracula one day, just saying it is a soft castlevania... worth a play... I'm not a collector so I'm just enjoying the rom Edit just remembered it was Christmas... Marry Christmas and happy holidays
Great video! While I don't normally support the purchasing of repro carts (unless it's for something like an English translation for foreign games) it's nice to see these games shown off for posterity's sake. Also, Shantae is definitely one of the finest GBC games out there. Well worth shelling out the money to get it legit.
I’d like to get back into collecting for the gb/gba I sold my nes gba sp about 10 years ago is it possible to put an ags 101 screen in an ags 001? Also are shell swaps hard for the sp?
Man, I WISH Pokemon was still $20-30. They're going for like $60-80 nowadays. Also, "purist" collectors should mind their own business, honestly. If you wanna collect original games only, that's cool. Good on you. Have fun. But if someone just wants to play a game, and wants to own a physical cart, and they're not really a collector, then why should they spend ridiculous prices on games, when there's cheaper alternatives? Even if they ARE a collector, maybe they just wanna play an expensive game while they wait for the chance to buy one. A reproduction cart is gonna act almost exactly the same as a real cart like, 90% of the time. Sure, sometimes you'll get a janky mess. But carts are so cheap to make, and easy to flash nowadays, that anyone can do it, even at home, with minimal effort. There's absolutely no reason to spend that kind of money on carts if all you want them for is to play the game. If you're collecting, then sure, maybe you only want official carts, and again, that's fine. But don't go being dickholes just because someone doesn't wanna pay $300 for a single loose out-of-box Game Boy game. NOT TO MENTION, repro carts, a lot of times, are super cheap. So if one ever does have some kind of issue down the line, you probably only spent $5-10 for it, and probably got your money's worth of fun out of it. If I didn't have a couple flash carts, I'd probably buy some repros here and there. I ain't paying a collective $240 for the three Castlevania GBA games. But I'd totally pay like, $30 for a set of repros. On top of that, you also have the option of buying non-original repros. As in things like rom hacks, fan-translations, full color hacks, etc. I wouldn't mind getting the Mario Land 1-2 Color hacks on real carts. I wouldn't mind getting the likes of Pokemon Polished Crystal, Pokemon Brown, or Pokemon Prism on real carts. There's hacks of the original 3 Castlevania GB games that make your character faster that I'd totally get repros of. There's also Shantae, Wendy, and the Zelda Oracle games with the GBA modes forced on, that'd be neat to have as real carts. Like, again, I get not wanting to buy repros. But don't be assholes about it if someone ELSE wants some repros. Honestly, I think it'd be super neat to have a whole ass collection of Pokemon Rom Hack repros.
Not sure about the source for this, but I think shantae on gameboy is a rare game because of sexist reason, they couldn't publish it until the very end of the gameboy area because it was considered that "a game with a female protagonist couldn't sell" (sorry for broken english)
Why is Shantae so expensive? It is a late only for GBC game (the reproduction cartridge should be transparent), so the other games you presented are much older. And presumably rarer.
So it's NOT just me? They could have made it look fine if they just did it differently. But they just kinda....tossed on some shapes. Like, for the longest time I didn't even realize that it was an official design. I thought the one I saw was just some stickers someone put on a normal GBA. I almost wanna go design my own tribal GBA in my art program now, just to prove it could have been made to look good.
Sadly, the market.for.used games is all to often overpriced; making it impossible for.most people to collect an entire library for some retro systems,.especially when.some systems have, 1,000/2,000/ or more games. As a result of cost and lack of space, most gamers don't get to experience most.of.tje.games.on a system.
As we have seen with some.games regardless.the format/media used, or wither it is for a.console, PC, mobile, etc; some games have been lost to history.
I think a video from you that was more of a retro review and retrospective might be reallh cool, I would watch it and it could be a worth while experiment
I can understand a collector's anger but at the same time no.. i wouldn't spend 500 dollars on a game UNLESS i already know it and am sure it's good and worth. For me a mario game would be worth that money because i love them and know they're good. But well with an unknown game i wouldn't spend over 100...
I'm trying to get one. I found one for like 9 dollars. I'm gonna buy it. I hope the guy who's selling just doesn't know that it's rare, rather than it being broken.
I thought Shantae was a GBC title first... Learn something new every day. Edit: I own a mint/complete copy of Trip World that I got for VERY cheap (on Ebay crazily enough) way back when... Tried it on an emulator... Sunsoft always nice graphics and music but gameplay kinda sucks imo.😐Haven't kept up with the prices; guess I should get a protector box for it (it's just been sitting still wrapped in bubble wrap in my closet for years). Edit 2: ah Shantae WAS for the GBC. Forgot it was a repro cart. Thought Castlevania Legends (also a legit bad game) and Metal Gear were expensive ones as well (own both complete; also in mint condition)? How do they rate? Fun story "I" (rather my dad) bought Legends on a trip to Germany when I was a kid for I believe 300-400 SEK (was in marks at the time). My parents forked up some money in the store to get me to stfu and then deducted it from my allowance; the boxart was so cool to me that I nagged as I needed to have it. Gameplay... Meh but the music was really good. They kept saying "what if it won't work? You can't change it if the cart is faulty! It's SO MUCH MONEY and, like all games, WILL NEVER BE WORTH WHAT YOU PAID" Looking back at it now... 😝
Tripworld = I tried on the 3ds back a while ago. Was good fun though very short! I recommend you play Hollow Knight, this game WILL blow you away. I have this on the switch and man o man, this is some good game believe me. The boss fights, the level design, the music, just WOW! I have bought it from eshop, but I find it so good, I just bought also physical copy. Highly recommended! Hollow Knight has me surprised, as like Zelda Breath of the Wild did for me. And also Warioland 4 on the GBA! Good one on Donald The Trumpman!
I grew up in the 80's and 90's, so I love your channel. And it's funny, but I ordered Shantae a couple days ago to play on my 20 year old GBC. Keep up the good work. Best regards. Rick.
I discovered Trip World a few years ago and I absolutely adore the game's OST, one of my favourites on the Game Boy Btw Trip World doesn't cost 20 bucks on the eShop, it's only a few quid iirc like any other GB game on the eShop (only in Europe and Japan though, the game didn't come out in NA neither back then or now)
The story for Trip World is at the beginning before you press start, let it run and see a great cut scene. The music in that game is truly amazing
I look at Repros this way. They’re fine because the company that originally made them aren’t making any money off them and no game is worth $100+ dollars no matter what anyone else says.
agreed
Agreed too, I bought some gba repros for this same reason
Ironically, the game people tend to have the most hours in are free
EA does not agree with this statement! xD
I have a repro of Oracle of Ages and it doesn’t look anything like the one I had as a kid so I realised because of the shell, the cheaply printed sticker and the price that it wasn’t an original.
These ali express carts are actually really interesting, they can be reflashed using a joey or a gbx cart, shantae is actually patched to save to tge same flash as the rom, and the sram pulls alot more power than the original carts so saves only last about a year
good to know
When you say ‘I think it was released on the eshop’ or ‘I’m not sure why it was so expensive’, it would be good to research those things prior so the video is more informative.
Yes very true. Apologies.
@@TheRetroFuture It feels more real this way, at least for me. It's more like a conversation "Oh I think X", "Oh interesting, let me check that fact" :)
Or do your own research if that part interests you....Elliot..as you were
@@BluejuiceT4 why that was just legit criticism.
@@TheRetroFuture No worries. It wasn't a dig.
The og shantae cart had a clear plastic shell. You can get repros of that version but you pay quite a bit extra compared to the grey case version
I mean, if you're getting an unofficial cart anyway, you're probably just getting it to play. Why spend more on a different plastic shell if it's not a real cart? As long as it plays and saves, that's all that really matters.
Clear cart makes sense, otherwise someone might assume it runs on their original Game Boy, but it doesn't. It only works on GBC (and GBA via backwards compatibility). I assume you get an error message if you stick the grey Shantae cartridge into a GB.
I’ve been waiting forever for a video like this. I love hearing about more obscure GB titles. There’s some interesting Europe only releases like Monster Max, Populous, and Mr. Do that would be cool to see a review of, since they’re virtually unheard of here in the states.
Man, I'm so tired of you saying everything in "dollar" amounts. I'm American, so I have to convert to British Pounds, and then back to American dollars just to understand the cost. It's so frustrating.
Hahaha what the f 😂
@@TheRetroFuture Might not be familiar with the concept that not all Dollars are US dollars...
Pounds and dollars are kinda close so it's not rocket science.
@@kennethherrick8436 I'm making fun of someone else's comment.....
Now image the whole f* world having to deal with the short scale (billions vs millions), imperial units and your "liberty currency" in international trading
Shantae is cool in small ways, like playing at night and the sprites colors change to match nighttime, the music and story, the fact that she does a little booty wiggle when crawling. It’s all just so fun. I feel like that game has a lot going for it for the GBC era.
Also what I remember from a couple of games back in the days: the story was completely in the booklet, not much text or explanation in the game itself and I liked it. Whenever I or a friend of mine bought a new game, we tried to get as far as possible without checking the booklet and see who came farther ^^
I would have loved to see you open up the cartridges and show the insides of it
since they're reproductions, most likely from the repos i have they'd be a small pcb about half the size of the cart with a cheap flash chip, sram, and maybe a battery for any rtc features
@@BlastoiseVeteran still would have been nice to see
Immediately "ClayFighter: Sculptor's Cut" came to my mind which was only "released" by Blockbuster Video. So either you stole it back in the days or you had a chance to buy one once they closed down. Prices are absolutely nuts on this one.. up to 2,5K USD :X
I really love Trip World. I don't own it, because I can't afford it, so I just emulate it.
I'd argue it's okay to emulate a game that's far too difficult for basically anyone to afford who isn't a hardcore collector, especially if it's no longer being produced.
@@mjdxp5688 That's my reasoning, as well. Even if I could afford it, none of my money would be going to the developers anyway.
"They're reproductions." Well at least they're good ones. I got a bootleg Spanish Pokémon Crystal and it was pretty funny to play. A but glitchy with terrible translations.
Anywho, Merry Christmas Elliot and Emily. Have a Merry Christmas and a happy New year. Lots of love from New York.
shantae asking price is absolutely insane for the gameplay being as average as it is
graphics are amazing though, sometimes i just pop it in to say "damn this is really on a gbc"
but yeah, as an owner of the real deal, repro is the way to go for that one.
Isint shantae on the 3ds store?
5:42 yeah uh huh we all know an older sibling/relative came in and solved it for you when you weren't filming lol
U didn't say love u to ur mom. Lol
Pro Noob yes he did
You need to understand everyone doesn’t have the same relationship with their mother or family. I have a friend that always hug/say I love you to his mom but he actually doesn’t like his mom that much. I also have a friend always being annoying to his mother but always help her mother doing house chores and anything. Don’t judge their relationship just because he didn’t say ‘i love you’ .
Naqib Harith Jesus dude... jumping to conclusions a bit
I think its coz he was filming a video
Abit like a family member calling you at work
Learn to type...
I played Amazing Tater as a kid in the 90's on some multicart I got from Spain 😅😂
Merry Christmas Elliot - Thankyou for getting me back into the Gameboy!
Crazy how in just a little over ppl are selling games for almost 2 to 3 times more. Pokemon Red, Blue or Yellow, for example, start at no less the $40-$50. Sapphire, Ruby or Emerald... $75-$125.
Just in the past month greedy sellers on eBay have pushed the price of emerald up to $200 and ruby/Sapphire up to $90. it makes me sick as a collector..
Blame the pandemic. The whole thing started, and for some reason the demand for Game Boy consoles and games skyrocketed. Demand goes up, so do prices. More and more people are just buying repros nowadays, so fakes and repros have become more common too.
Not to mention with consoles themselves, I hate to say it, but modders are kinda messing those prices up. The more they mod, the less originals there are, the higher the demand gets. I see some people modding like 5-6 consoles at a time. Some people with an entire shelf full of modded GB, GBC, GBP, GBL, and GBA consoles. Along with the occasional DS Lite "GBA Macro" mod.
I really wanna get a GBC to mod myself actually, but I can't find just a plain loose GBC online for less than $70-80. And then I'd have to spend another $50 or so on a backlit screen, and maybe even another $15 on a new shell. A GBC should be like $30 at most, but nope. I'm gonna end up having to use my limited Pokemon Gold childhood GBC if I want one with a Backlit screen, or I'm gonna have to spend $120-$150 on a pre-modded one (which, let's face it, I'd just get a damn Analog Pocket if I wanna spend that kinda money.)
Catrap is another really good entry. Fell for it almost thirty years ago and it still holds up. Great channel - fun content. 👍
Trip World is a fun game.. but very short!
It only has 5 worlds.. and as you've noticed you went to World 2 pretty quickly.
It gets a tad more difficult though later on and the boss can be a pain.
The biggest difficulty is that when you're game over, you'll have to restart from World 1. So keep your lives as high as possible till the end ;)
@ The Retro Future
You should review some of your favorite Gameboy games for each generation. Review anything you want, it's your channel.
Also thanks for the awesome videos. Keep up the great work! 🎮🕹️🖱️🖲️
I do understand why you bought the reproductions and I don't mind that (I would've bought them myself), but the title is clickbaity because of that
I had no idea what to call this video...
@@TheRetroFuture I bought repo Carts of expensive games.
Alot better than lying to people
amazing tater is basically kwirk lOL
@@TheRetroFuture has no integrity
I didn't think it was clickbait but then again I've watched a ton of trf content and know what to expect.
Wow! Great video. Love this channel. I wait everyday for a new video and am thrilled when there is one. Thanks for making such a great channel! Merry Christmas!
Wow. You provide a very informative channel. A-mazing Tater is my new favorite. Thanks from Las Vegas during the quarentine.
Congrats on your new place Elliot! Would love to see you review review gameboy games.
Quite nice to have as real copies. The other close candidates are Wendy: Every Witch Way and Avenging Spirit, even the Japanese releases, Magical Chase GBC, ZAS, Banishing Racer.
"Shantae looks like it might be for the young girls" oh boy you try looking at the dlc for those later games and see if you still think that. (PJ mode)
All of your videos are awesome and quite enjoyable to watch. Keep up the good work!
Shantae wasn't popular when it first came out, it only got this rare after people started buying it since the later games came out and gained a cult following.
I bid on a lot of 3 gameboy games on Ebay in 2015. I bid on it because I wanted Kirby's Dreamland 2, but there were two other games included. Monopoly, which is whatever, and a game I'd never heard of called Mole Mania. I ended up winning with a bid of $7.50. I decided to look at what these games were going for nowadays and it turns out that game I never heard of is selling for around $70!
Just a little FYI:
Not much of a story for Trip World but the main character makes a cameo in Galaxy Fight and I believe in Waku Waku 7 too.
Good news for Shantae, its getting an official reproduction GBC cartridge from its publisher WayForward! It's only available through Limited Run Games so it is a limited time print until October via preorders.
Who cares.. what a waste of money..
you should do a nes review of Bucky O'Hare. its a decently rare nes title that's worth some money. My friend sold his to some kid for $20 when he could have sold it for close to $300 since it was a original copy that was still in its packaging. Remember kids, don't let your friends miss out on a big selling opportunity
We can also make the reproductions ourself, by doing a cartmod. It would make a better quality repro as we don't know how much times those chineses ones will last (a cartmod will last as much as an original cart, as it's a modified original cart).
Which store did you u get these from? Last time I tried to order a trip world it never arrived
I have the First three games at Home i am suprised that they are so rare
Which version of Trip World is rarer; NOE, FRG, or Japanese 🥺?
A DS costs a few hundred dollars? You must mean the switch, right?
If I qas buying such an expensive game, I'd want to see multiple pictures, including on the PCB, so anyone trying to sell this as a legit copy probably won't be catching anyone with that.
Been collecting gameboy games for over 10 years, have all those carts apart from amazing tater, shantae was originally a gb color game... another gameboy game although advance is ninja 5 o... but these are rare and are worth a pretty penny..
I love your videos, your accent and the volume you speak always helps me study. Plus now I feel like I can fix these systems with zero experience 😂
I used to have a game very similar to The Amazing Tater on my PC Engine years ago. Something about a tomato maybe? Fun little puzzle game!
They aren’t technically the most expensive though…Pokemon Red and Blue are worth more mint in box but idk for ones that aren’t factory sealed
Merry Christmas, Elliot and Emily! :)
Picked up a copy of Shantae at kb toys for 40 bucks back in the day. Fun part the kid working the register tried to talk me out if it and into a gba instead
There is also Chikyuu Kaihou Gun Zas. It is also really expensive but I don't know if they make a repro Card of it. With box I saw an offer for over 1000. Ridiculous price.
Nice I hope you get Kid Dracula one day, just saying it is a soft castlevania... worth a play... I'm not a collector so I'm just enjoying the rom
Edit just remembered it was Christmas... Marry Christmas and happy holidays
Merry Christmas to you and Emily!
Great video! While I don't normally support the purchasing of repro carts (unless it's for something like an English translation for foreign games) it's nice to see these games shown off for posterity's sake.
Also, Shantae is definitely one of the finest GBC games out there. Well worth shelling out the money to get it legit.
I have Trip World for Game Boy and didnt even know it was a rare game. Thank you!!!!!
I’d like to get back into collecting for the gb/gba I sold my nes gba sp about 10 years ago is it possible to put an ags 101 screen in an ags 001? Also are shell swaps hard for the sp?
Spud's Adventure? More like Misfortune
That screen jumpscared me when I saw it.
amazing tater is also the game kwirk right? looks the exact same as kwirk i play on my gb lol
Man, I WISH Pokemon was still $20-30. They're going for like $60-80 nowadays.
Also, "purist" collectors should mind their own business, honestly. If you wanna collect original games only, that's cool. Good on you. Have fun. But if someone just wants to play a game, and wants to own a physical cart, and they're not really a collector, then why should they spend ridiculous prices on games, when there's cheaper alternatives? Even if they ARE a collector, maybe they just wanna play an expensive game while they wait for the chance to buy one. A reproduction cart is gonna act almost exactly the same as a real cart like, 90% of the time. Sure, sometimes you'll get a janky mess. But carts are so cheap to make, and easy to flash nowadays, that anyone can do it, even at home, with minimal effort.
There's absolutely no reason to spend that kind of money on carts if all you want them for is to play the game. If you're collecting, then sure, maybe you only want official carts, and again, that's fine. But don't go being dickholes just because someone doesn't wanna pay $300 for a single loose out-of-box Game Boy game.
NOT TO MENTION, repro carts, a lot of times, are super cheap. So if one ever does have some kind of issue down the line, you probably only spent $5-10 for it, and probably got your money's worth of fun out of it. If I didn't have a couple flash carts, I'd probably buy some repros here and there. I ain't paying a collective $240 for the three Castlevania GBA games. But I'd totally pay like, $30 for a set of repros.
On top of that, you also have the option of buying non-original repros. As in things like rom hacks, fan-translations, full color hacks, etc. I wouldn't mind getting the Mario Land 1-2 Color hacks on real carts. I wouldn't mind getting the likes of Pokemon Polished Crystal, Pokemon Brown, or Pokemon Prism on real carts. There's hacks of the original 3 Castlevania GB games that make your character faster that I'd totally get repros of. There's also Shantae, Wendy, and the Zelda Oracle games with the GBA modes forced on, that'd be neat to have as real carts.
Like, again, I get not wanting to buy repros. But don't be assholes about it if someone ELSE wants some repros. Honestly, I think it'd be super neat to have a whole ass collection of Pokemon Rom Hack repros.
Not sure about the source for this, but I think shantae on gameboy is a rare game because of sexist reason, they couldn't publish it until the very end of the gameboy area because it was considered that "a game with a female protagonist couldn't sell" (sorry for broken english)
What is your for GBA favorite game name I saw you play but I don't remember the name.
Why is Shantae so expensive? It is a late only for GBC game (the reproduction cartridge should be transparent), so the other games you presented are much older. And presumably rarer.
I’ve found Shantae and amazing tater before. Ninja five-o on gba is another rare game I’ve found in the wild.
I am sure LRG or other small publisher will release them if they are given the license to do it.
Your videos are great. Very informative, and funny!
Has anyone checked if ali express Trip World would also work on the first Gameboy?
Thankfully we can get Shantae on other systems, even steam. Cause ouch that price tag. I have a bunch of shantae games on my gpd win2
Hey Elliot, Can the GBA stretch the Aspect Ratio of GB games?
You should check out Robopon Sun Version, it's similar to Pokémon but it's considered pretty rare, but it's really interesting.
One of the most expensive GB carts at the moment is Chikyuu Kaihougun ZAS
How do you make your sp play games in black n white?
Good work as always your doing so well great research as always too keep this up ur channel will grow merry Christmas
Repros may be more reliable. Saves in many repros don't rely on batteries.
His reaction to spud's adventure is like a little kid looking at something their not supposed to see.
Even at the age of 9 I thought the tribal tattoo style GBA SP was butt ugly.
So it's NOT just me? They could have made it look fine if they just did it differently. But they just kinda....tossed on some shapes. Like, for the longest time I didn't even realize that it was an official design. I thought the one I saw was just some stickers someone put on a normal GBA.
I almost wanna go design my own tribal GBA in my art program now, just to prove it could have been made to look good.
@@TXFDA I’m my opinion the whole tribal tattoo craze was a mistake that humanity has to pay for.
Happy Christmas to you and Emily.
Sadly, the market.for.used games is all to often overpriced; making it impossible for.most people to collect an entire library for some retro systems,.especially when.some systems have, 1,000/2,000/ or more games. As a result of cost and lack of space, most gamers don't get to experience most.of.tje.games.on a system.
As we have seen with some.games regardless.the format/media used, or wither it is for a.console, PC, mobile, etc; some games have been lost to history.
Shantae is amazing. Period.
When your mom calls you
Makes me thing that your mom calls you a lot
Another great video from the good twin of Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Can you make a video on re flashing a new rom on unoriginal cartridges?
I think a video from you that was more of a retro review and retrospective might be reallh cool, I would watch it and it could be a worth while experiment
Great video, gotta love GBC content 👌
I can understand a collector's anger but at the same time no.. i wouldn't spend 500 dollars on a game UNLESS i already know it and am sure it's good and worth. For me a mario game would be worth that money because i love them and know they're good. But well with an unknown game i wouldn't spend over 100...
Love that you kept in the mum call
DID YOU JUST ASSUME SHANTAE'S GENDER?!
5:12 It's similar to Sokoban.
Sokoban and Tetris are not alike at all.
Anyway, happy Yule; may the winter be plentiful, but merciful.
Do they ACTUALLY sell for that price? I can list tetris for £500 buy it now but ide never get an actual buyer.
Umm yes.. these are the cream of the crop as far as gameboy goes. Tetris is not even in the same conversation..
@@Gameboy-Unboxings that's fair enough..😃👍
I actually own a genuine copy of Spuds Adventure... I didn't know about that prices wow
I'm trying to get one. I found one for like 9 dollars. I'm gonna buy it. I hope the guy who's selling just doesn't know that it's rare, rather than it being broken.
@@louiekazooie3771 haha dude that's definitely fake..
@@Gameboy-Unboxings Yeah, it was.
shantae was first game in the line of games . there is new one , witch came out this year
I thought Shantae was a GBC title first... Learn something new every day.
Edit: I own a mint/complete copy of Trip World that I got for VERY cheap (on Ebay crazily enough) way back when... Tried it on an emulator... Sunsoft always nice graphics and music but gameplay kinda sucks imo.😐Haven't kept up with the prices; guess I should get a protector box for it (it's just been sitting still wrapped in bubble wrap in my closet for years).
Edit 2: ah Shantae WAS for the GBC. Forgot it was a repro cart. Thought Castlevania Legends (also a legit bad game) and Metal Gear were expensive ones as well (own both complete; also in mint condition)? How do they rate? Fun story "I" (rather my dad) bought Legends on a trip to Germany when I was a kid for I believe 300-400 SEK (was in marks at the time). My parents forked up some money in the store to get me to stfu and then deducted it from my allowance; the boxart was so cool to me that I nagged as I needed to have it. Gameplay... Meh but the music was really good.
They kept saying "what if it won't work? You can't change it if the cart is faulty! It's SO MUCH MONEY and, like all games, WILL NEVER BE WORTH WHAT YOU PAID" Looking back at it now... 😝
The people who made my game are the same people who made tater adventure
Tripworld = I tried on the 3ds back a while ago. Was good fun though very short! I recommend you play Hollow Knight, this game WILL blow you away. I have this on the switch and man o man, this is some good game believe me. The boss fights, the level design, the music, just WOW! I have bought it from eshop, but I find it so good, I just bought also physical copy. Highly recommended! Hollow Knight has me surprised, as like Zelda Breath of the Wild did for me. And also Warioland 4 on the GBA! Good one on Donald The Trumpman!
I grew up in the 80's and 90's, so I love your channel. And it's funny, but I ordered Shantae a couple days ago to play on my 20 year old GBC. Keep up the good work. Best regards. Rick.
As long as it's made obvious that the game is a reproduction by thr manufacturer I have no issue with it.
Don't give bootleggers money. They are often connected to organized crime. If you want to play these games use a flashcart
I like re-pros that don't completely look like the original on the outside.
Didn't realise the Channel Islands had switched to dollars....
I wonder if the creators of Vegi tales grew up playing these games...
Personally I'd rather buy the new bootleg copy of an old game than to spend a load of money on an original with a dead battery.
I discovered Trip World a few years ago and I absolutely adore the game's OST, one of my favourites on the Game Boy
Btw Trip World doesn't cost 20 bucks on the eShop, it's only a few quid iirc like any other GB game on the eShop (only in Europe and Japan though, the game didn't come out in NA neither back then or now)
Amazing tater reminds me of the super potato stores' names
Shantae is rare because it was released a year after the GBA came out.