For those of you that follow this blog, you may remember a handful of recent posts where I talked about a record/game store I wanted to open some day. In the first of those posts, I mentioned there were some games that I wouldn't take in trade because they were too horrible. I now have a (mostly) definitive list of what exactly is unacceptable. So, without further ado, I now present to you...
GAMES THAT MY GAME STORE WILL NOT ACCEPT FOR TRADE
I.) Genres and types of games we can't accept...
- ANYTHING that says LJN on the label, except Maximum Carnage...
- All Sports Games, with the following exceptions
Brutal Sports Football (Multi-Platform)
Ice Hockey (Atari 2600)
International Soccer (Atari 2600)
Madden game for the current year (Multi-Platform)
Mario Sports titles (Multi-platform)
NBA Jam (Multi-platform)
SEGA Sports titles (Multi-platform)
Nintendo World Cup (NES, GameBoy)
Wii Sports titles (Wii, WiiU) <---------- These are likely to be packaged together with the used Wii and WiiU consoles.
- All old computer games, except the insanely popular titles that will always sell (Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, Unreal, Half-Life, old Star Trek and Star Wars games, et al.)
^^^^This goes double for anything on a floppy disk of some kind. Not only are those drives not made anymore but, old computer games often require drivers and software patches that might not be available anymore. I don't want to sell a product that doesn't even work.
We can make exceptions for old computer games that are in a cartridge format for old systems like Commodore VIC-20/C64 & The Atari 8-Bit (400,800, XE, et al.) & ST lines.
II.) Hardware & Accessories
Atari 5200 w/o working controllers
Brøderbund U-Force (NES)
Konami LaserScope (NES)
LJN Roll & Rocker
Mattel Powerglove for the NES (It's so BAD...)
Nintendo Virtual Boy and ALL of its games
Philips CD-i and all of it's games
SEGA 32X
Tiger Game.com
Tiger R-Zone
III.) BANNED LIST BY SYSTEM
3DO
Jurassic Park Interactive
Plumbers Don't Wear Ties
Atari 2600
BASIC Programming
Basketball
Boxing
Education Games
E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial
Football
Ghostbusters
Golf
Grand Prix
Haunted House (Once they start piling up...)
Home Run
Karate
Math Gran Prix
Miniature Golf
Pac-Man (once we get more copies of it than we can bundle with the 2600 consoles we have in stock.)
Pelé's Soccer
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Real Sports Baseball
Real Sports Boxing
Real Sports Football
Real Sports Tennis
Real Sports Volleyball
Return of the Jedi: Death Star Battle
Spider-Man
Star Wars: Jedi Arena
Star Wars: The Arcade Game
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Super Football
Super Challenge Baseball
Super Challenge Football
Superman
Tennis
Atari Lynx
Batman Returns
Kung Food
Atari Jaguar
Attack of the Mutant Penguins (It's just too bizarre...)
Cybermorph (Probably the worst choice for a pack-in game that Atari ever had...)
Kasumi Ninja
ColecoVision
Cabbage Patch Kids: Adventures in the Park
Campaign '84
Chuck Norris Superkicks
Dance Fantasy
Dr. Seuss' Fix-Up the Mix-Up Puzzler
Learning with Leeper
Looping
Robin Hood
Slurpy
Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle
WarGames
War Room
Commodore 64
Batman: The Caped Crusader
Superman: Man of Steel
Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth
Commodore VIC-20
Anything that came on a Cassette Tape since they have probably degraded by now...
The Count
Mattel Intellivision
Dracula
Masters of the Universe: The Power of He-Man
Mission X
Utopia
Microsoft XBOX 360
Sonic the Hedgehog (aka Sonic '06)
NES
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Action 52 (No, I *DON'T* care if this cartridge is worth lots of money.)
Back to the Future
Back to the Future Part II & III
Barbie
Battletoads (Once they start piling up...)
Bible Adventures
Bible Buffet
Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure
Caltron 6 in 1
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (Once they start piling up...)
Cheetahmen
Cheetahmen II
Circus Caper
Commando
Conan
Day Dreain' Davy
Deadly Towers
Dick Tracy
Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones (Once they start piling up...)
Dr. Jeckyl & Mr. Hyde
Dragon's Lair
Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land
Fester's Quest
Fist of the Northstar
Frankenstein: The Monster Returns
Friday the 13th
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters II
Godzilla: Monster of Monsters
Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters
Home Alone
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Hook
Hydlide
Ikari Warriors
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Jaws
Joshua (It's a Bible game)
Jurassic Park
Kid Kool
King of Kings: The Early Years
Last Action Hero
Mario is Missing!
Mario's Time Machine
Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu
McKids
Menace Beach
Metal Gear (Once they start piling up...)
Milon's Secret Castle
Noah's Ark
Othello (After I manage to get at least one copy of it...)
Pictionary
Predator
Rambo
Rambo III
Sesame Street: Countdown
Silver Surfer
Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six
Spiritual Warfare
Street Fighter 2010
Sunday Funday
Superman
Super Glove Ball
Super Pitfall
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout
The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle
The Karate Kid
The Terminator
The Simpsons: Bart vs. The Space Mutants
The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World
Top Gun
Total Recall
Town & Country Surf Designs: Wood & Water Rage
Toxic Crusaders
Transformers
Uncanny X-Men
Wally Bear and the NO! Gang
Wayne's World
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Winter Games
Wolverine
Super NES
Batman Forever
Bebe's Kids
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park 2: The Chaos Continues
Lester the Unlikely
Mario is Missing!
Mario's Time Machine
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Shaq-Fu
Super 3D Noah's Ark
Super Godzilla
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Adventures of Batman & Robin
The Adventures of Dr. Franken
The Terminator
The Wizard of Oz
Wayne's World
GameBoy
Batman: Return of the Joker
Battletoads
Godzilla
King James Bible
Spider-Man
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2
The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 3
Toxic Crusaders
GameBoy Color
Dracula: Crazy Vampire
The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 4
GameBoy Advance
Spider-Man 2
Woody Woodpecker in Crazy Castle 5
N64
Superman 64
SEGA CD
Batman Returns
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Corpse Killer
Double Switch
Dracula Unleashed
Ground Zero Texas
Jurassic Park
Night Trap
Time Gal
Road Avenger
Sewer Shark
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective
Slam City with Scottie Pippen
Sol-Feace
The Adventures of Wally Beamish
Wonder Dog
SEGA Genesis
Action 52 (No, I *DON'T* care if this cartridge is worth lots of money.)
Back to the Future Part III
Batman: Revenge of the Joker
Bible Adventures
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Dark Castle
Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land
Ghostbusters
Joshua
Shaq-Fu
Spiritual Warfare
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Addams Family
Toxic Crusaders
Wolverine: Adamantium Rage
X-Men
X-Men 2: Clone Wars
SEGA Master System
Ghostbusters
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Rocky
SEGA Saturn
Street Fighter: The Movie
SEGA Dreamcast
Spirit of Speed 1937 (A game so bad that Acclaim had to resurrect the 'Shit Rainbow' to protect their brand name...)
Sony PS1
Independence Day
Sony PS3
Sonic the Hedgehog (aka Sonic '06)
TG-16 & TG-CD
Fighting Street
IV.) Rare crap we will keep in the display case
Any of the 'Atari
Porn' games for the 2600 (Bachelor Party, Bachelorette Party, Beat 'Em
& Eat 'Em, Cathouse Blues, Custer's Revenge, Gigolo, Jungle Fever,
Knight on the Town, Philly Flasher.)
Halloween (Atari 2600)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Atari 2600)
Mario & Zelda games for the CD-i
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And for those out there that look at this list and say 'Hey, a lot of these games are familiar for some reason...', well, that's because they are familiar. Most of these games were lampooned by the Angry Video Game Nerd. I figure if the game is shitty enough to end up on that show, chances are good that it has NO redeeming value whatsoever. There are VERY few exceptions.
- Lord Publius
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