First, I want to emphasis that NONE of this is going to be sold and that I purchased everything strictly for my collection. For those of you who just want to see the pretty pictures, scroll down. Those of you who want a little back story, start here.  I've been trying to piece my collection together strictly from finding stuff locally and the few trades/purchases here on NA and completely avoiding Ebay, hell I don't even have an Ebay account. The only things in my collection from ebay are a SMB3 Famicom cart from my mom's boyfriend and my Mario Pepsi bottlecaps from my sister.  That's one reason this find was so huge for me. About a week before Scott (crazyhoratio) posted that he was trying to sell his boxes/manuals from Game Xchange he posted it locally on craigslist and I swung by the next day and told him I'd be interested in any boxes/manuals I needed for my collection and we set a time for me to meet up and go through everything. As I was going through everything I sat 1 and only 1 of everything I needed off to the side, I had went in with the intention of only buying what I needed no matter what duplicates I left, and I left some really nice duplicates (Best of the Best, Powerblade 2, RC Pro-Am 2, and plenty of others). I wanted others to have a chance to get stuff they needed too. Scott and I then agreed on a price of $2.50 per item (which luckily for me came to a total just under what my tax return was ). I may have overpaid for a lot of the manuals but for someone trying to complete as much of his collection locally as possible I don't think I did too bad overall ... Most of the boxes are in excellent condition, a few are pretty trashed, but the majority of the rare ones are mint or near mint.

The refolding process




Non-HT Balloon Fight, FFF Athletic World


BotB is in nice condition


HT Clu Clu Land


Non-HT DK3


DK Jr. Hangtab tore off but DT2 is mint


F2 may be a little sunfaded I can't quite tell for sure and it does have the BB barcode sticker on the back








LS is mint, MM is first release and just a little beat




PR and PB2 are both super nice






SMB3 was the Bros. under the M variant that I didn't have


Tennis is pretty sunfaded and TMNT TF is nice on the front but has a maybe water damage kinda wavey like back


Volleyball and WG are both nice and HT boxes










Fire and Ice is missing the cover






And the shelf that I built for the boxes... The top is a little crooked but not too bad for an amateur


Never fear, Jim has boxes and boxes of box protectors on the way for me!

Rad! You got a ton of the boxes that are tough/super expensive to get, that's a great haul.

i think you made a VERY good deal overall. congratz.

Holy shit. I just saw the F2! Very good deal!!!!

Wow man, epic haul. Congrats on an amazing purchase!

very awesome to see a score like this

Jesus, FFFAW/F2/CluClu/LS in one lot? Among all the other rares. Insane score man, one of the finds of the year so far that I've seen.

That negro modelo sure looks good.....oh and nice haul....

Holy shit! Nice haul!

Amazing score there. In one fell swoop, you practically knocked out every truly rare licensed NES box, and a good many of the scarcer titles .

Has to be one of the best finds of the year. So did they just have these stored away for years?

Congrats Amazing find!

My understanding of how the boxes worked was something like this. If they had a game and didn't have a box they made a scan and put it in a DVD case or such, if they had a game and had the box, then the box went out on the shelf for display and the game in the back, if they didn't have the game/had multiple boxes for a game/or sold all the copies of the games they had then the boxes went on the back shelf and if they needed more room on the back shelves then they folded up the extra boxes and boxes they didn't have games for. That's why the majority of the rare boxes are in such good shape with the more common boxes being more random as to what shape they are in.

You cheater, I told the guy I was gonna give him $5 for each of the boxes. Assuming this is the same guy from the thread earlier this year.

Jesus, $2.50 an item? That's like...wow. What a deal.

I'm confused and speechless but I'm happy for you...!?!?!??

Seriously. $2.50? You can barely get games that cheap...

Like everyone has already said. Awesome haul! Little Samson and Panic Restaurant boxes...wowzers!

Definitely some great titles in there, good bit of black boxes too. Congrats on all that man, shelving unit looks good too.

Awesome haul but my one comment..... NO MEGAMAN V?

Thanks everyone for the congrats, I still can't get over how awesome of a haul this was for me.
If it's the Game XChange guy you're thinking of, I actually got all of these from him before he created his NA account. He posted locally on Craigslist a few weeks before that he was going out of business so as soon as I saw it I swung by his store and asked him what he was doing with the boxes and to call me as soon as he knew. The list he posted in his thread was what was left, which was still a lot of good NES stuff. Not to mention I didn't take any of the SNES or N64 stuff, I did get to look at all the pretty boxes tho haha.

I know MM 5 was the only box he didn't have, and on another funny side note... The only MM3 box he had was the one I got which is horribly sunfaded, for a game I find so often as a cart I would have thought he would have had multiple MM3 boxes laying around

Absolutely Amazing Haul Josh!! that is "bust a nut" worthy!......................done

Balls. Excellent score dude!!

Wow, amazing haul and one of the better ones I've seen this year also. Grats!

We've had a ton of really good finds posted here over the years, but as far as finds that are completely for a collection, and nothing extra for resale, I'd say this tops them all. Amazing haul man!

Wow, that's nuts. Congrats man!

Sell that F2 box and pay for the whole damn thing. Very nice pick up dude, congrats.