By Cameron Miller at The Gamer
Highlights
- Pokemon Snap, A Link to the Past, Super Mario Bros. 3, and Tetris are classic games that are still easily accessible and relatively cheap.
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Super Mario 64, Final Fantasy 7, Resident Evil: Directors Cut, and Star Wars: Battlefront 2 are also readily available at retro shops and online.
- Pong, being one of the earliest games, is a mainstay on various consoles and can be found almost everywhere, making it widely accessible.
As time goes on, you might think that it will only get more and more difficult to find some of your favorite classic video games. While that can be true for certain gems like Chrono Trigger, there are still tons of older games that aren’t hard to come by and are relatively cheap.
For whatever reason, it can feel like some classic games will never go away, even if some of them were originally released all the way back in the eighties. Copies of games have to run out at some point, but it seems like these truly never will.
This silly little game about taking pictures of Pokemon was a surprise hit, so you might think it would be a bit rarer to come by these days. While that could be said of the complete in-the-box presentation, it’s certainly not the case for loose cartridges.
Almost every retro game shop seems to have at least one copy of this game available for someone to pick up, and the price is usually somewhere between twenty and forty dollars. Not bad for a game that lets you toss apples at Pokemon for some pretty pictures.
A Link To The Past is one of the all-time classic Zelda games, and it might even be your favorite from the series to this day. Due to its popularity and how long it’s been since its initial release in 1991, no one could be blamed for thinking it might be a rare collector’s item at this point.
While it’s not one of the cheaper games in the Super Nintendo’s library, it is almost always readily available at fan events, retro shops, and even online. Usually, a copy will set you back a bit over fifty bucks on the low end, but the game does always seem to be lurking around for fans of the series.
When most people name a classic from the NES, one of the first titles that will spring to your mind is Super Mario Bros 3. The classic platformer still holds up to this day, making it a fairly widely sought-after game to add to a collection.
It might be due to the fact that the game has been re-released so often, but it really isn’t tough to find the original NES copy. If you’re lucky, a copy of this game will only set you back around twenty bucks, and it’s pretty much always available anywhere that sells classic games.
View the rest on TheGamer.com
Mixed Media Magazine 