Over Twenty Years Later, Nintendo Fan Completes Famicom Game Collection

Again in December 2000, Somari started a Famicom recreation assortment with the 1986 title Cell Swimsuit Z Gundam: Sizzling Scramble. And now, as of this spring, the YouTuber lastly owns all 1,053 video games for the consoles.

What makes Somari’s assortment so fascinating is that it’s not only a assortment of video games, but additionally their bins and instruction manuals. That definitely has made completion tougher.

The whole time to complete this assortment is twenty years and three months, with Somari buying the final title, 1990’s Snow Bros., on March 11 of this 12 months. The sport value her a cool 72,500 yen ($665). The most costly Famicom recreation Somari has bought is Battle Rush at 250,000 yen ($2,290), adopted by Cell Swimsuit Z Gundam: Sizzling Scramble for 120,960 yen ($1,108) and Thrilling Boxing for 101,990 yen ($935).

In keeping with Livedoor Information, the toughest Famicom recreation to search out was the maths academic title Sansu 5・6-nen: Keisan Recreation. It’s not onerous to search out in cartridge-only type, however extremely tough with its full packaging.

The complete assortment was even launched this week on Japanese morning TV.

“After I was in junior excessive, I skilled a lot of terrible issues I don’t wish to keep in mind,” Somari mentioned in an emotional speech. “At the moment, I used to be helped a lot by the Famicom.”

This YouTuber clearly has a deep emotional attachment to the console and its video games, which makes this assortment resonate a lot extra than simply some sort of purchasing feat.

Somari added that there are nonetheless uncommon variations of the video games left to gather, such because the Namco onerous case variations, in addition to the non-retail Famicom video games. What’s extra, Somari additionally hopes to start out accumulating Famicom Disk System video games.