Hey there! You’re looking at an auction for what is possibly the single rarest game for the NES: Final Fantasy VII Advent Children!

Originally designed by Shenzhen Nanjing Technology for the Chinese SUBOR home entertainment console (which is also compatible with the Famicom, the Japanese version of the NES), this game was released with little fanfare over in China a little while ago. This game was featured on a few websites, so I started to look for it through some of my local contacts, and managed to get what might be the only copy of the game in existence in the American continent.

Even though the game was designed for the Chinese SUBOR home entertainment console, it should also work on ANY NTSC Asian Nintendo Famicom system, and on NTSC Nintendo Entertainment Systems (with an appropriate 60-72 pin adaptor). It should also work on most Famiclone systems. This game has been tested on real Nintendo Entertainment System hardware (using a 60-72 pin adapter) and worked perfectly.

The package includes the original game cart (untampered and with security stickers intact), original game manual, and original case with art.

via gamesniped.

Looking back Dragon Warrior on the Famicom seems simple, maybe even primitive by today’s class changing strategy RPGs. However, when it came out in North America Dragon Warrior was touted as a challenge. A fold out map and enemy chart were you companions on the quest to slay the Dragonlord. Have you beaten the original before?

If not or if you just want to reminisce take a look at this guide/review (1 / 2 / 3 / 4)that goes through the entire game. Here’s a clip of the end with the fight against the Dragonlord.

via silicon era.

Imagine that technology never advanced past what we had in 1985; imagine what Harry Potter would look like on the NES. Not a happy vision, is it? Here’s a video that proves just how far we’ve come.

This awesome NES casemod manages to squeeze a fully-functional Nintendo 8-bit console into the body of one of the system’s own game cartridges.

The Fami-Card started out its life as an original Super Mario Brothers cartridge. French modder Kotomi carefully ripped out its guts and transplanted them with the innards of one of those NOAC (NES on a Chip) system clones.

The console manages to cram in an NES cartridge slot, power and reset buttons, a pair of joystick ports and composite video and stereo audio outputs.

via technabob

Top 10 articles are a thorny subject — you can voice your opinion but it’s often that you’ll find dozens of fanboys claiming the superiority of their game/platform/company of choice. Topless Robot lists the top ten best Nintendo games that no one played; and I think they’re right, for the most part. Of the ten, I only got to play two as a kid, three up until now. I remember drooling over some of these while reading Nintendo Power, but was never lucky enough to play them even today. I’ll have to add these to my list of cartridges to hunt down.

Now, I think the average joe that runs into this list wouldn’t have played a single one. Certainly no one from the Playstation generation has.

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