Retro-Bit Lifts The Lid On Its Multi-Cart Collections For The NES And SNES

Very nice indeed! Especially the Joe & Mac and Brawler's carts. I'm sure owner of the SNES original hardware will appreciate the effort.

I remember a good deal of those games and have fond memories of a few. Can't say I want to play any of them again though but there is some good games there.

The Mac & Joe one is tempting. I've only played the first one on the NES, but it waa fantastic.

Ring King!!

Joe and Mac!!

Cool idea but not so sure of the quality of the games in question.

Interesting idea.
Although budgetwise i wont be picking these up. They do make for good collectors items. I would look forward to similar things from other developers going forward.

Personally would rather have these collections on the Nintendo Switch... and while they are at it, release all the arcade games by Data East too

Interesting...

But will these cause the SNES to catch fire?

I'm interested in the Brawlers pack and will pick it up for sure. I'm disappointed the Bases Loaded games are not on here.

I use to fancy myself a collector and would have purchased all of these! Adulthood has been keeping my collection tendencies in check however....parenthood is a big factor in the mix.

If I get anything it will be the brawler pack! 👊

Shame there's no Shadowrun for the SNES on the Data East collection

Pretty neat. If I were to get one it would be the Joe and Mac cart. I love brawlers but Jaleco's games are on the shallow side of that spectrum.

They obviously have a licensing agreement for these games. Perhaps they should take the next step and get them on the Switch eshop?? Data East classics are hard to come by!

@tangram

still have my snes mini. thing's barely bigger than the carts.

this is cool. also that re-release of street fighter 2 sounds nifty.

Dammit Retro-Bit why is Kid Niki not included in any of these? Anyways I may pick up the Jaleco Brawler Collection and the Data East Classic Collection.

Lovely.... Except how many original Snes owners out there? Most have them in their storage and doubt will dig them out for these. The market should be small, that will not make these cartridges profitable for them.

The one thing going for them is the upcoming retrocade console...

I don't really see much "classic" in any of these.

I didn't know that Magical Drop 1 and 2 was on the snes.

Edit: And for a reason. It's Untranslated.

Why are these not coming to the 3ds or switch instead?! I can play them on my Super Nintendo or my SupaBoy S but why would anyone release games for a long gone system?! Bizarre.

Wow they lost my interest. When they pitched these originally it was a full set of old Jaleco games on a single Gameboy(missing! GRRR), NES and SNES cart for a set price. Now you have diced up collections of a few games in each cart for a higher price. Not cool.

I want them all !!!!!!

This is a great idea!

Why buy a fancy cartridge when you could get a 500 in 1 game cart for 4 bucks

@evilnatt Or hop on your PC and play every NES and SNES game ever made for free.

@evilnatt @eaglesfly76 Why buy a fancy cartridge when you could get a 500 in 1 game cart for 4 bucks or hop on your PC and play every NES and SNES game ever made for free.

Why buy this when you can get those old games for free right? Because by doing so you are actually supporting the developers therefore if they earn money from this then they can use that to potentially make new games (probably for the new systems like PS4, Switch, or Xbox One). You're not going to make a difference buying those illegal 500 in 1 game cart or play every free roms on a Retro-Pie. Yes it benefits you and you get to play them for free but by doing that you aren't helping the people who made the games therefore any attempts for Jaleco and Data East to ever return to make games again failed cause it would make them no money. When they can't make money on their games, they won't be able to get money to make new games. So in a way it's a loss to us cause new games are what keeps the industry going. You may laugh your ass at them cause you can find way to play those games for free without giving them money but in the end it's them who got the last laugh cause without them earning money you get no new games from them. Something that could had happen never happen because you didn't let it happen.

Looks good to me. The two packs I'm interested in would only be for one game (Congo's Caper and Super Side Pocket), but honestly I've never played the others on those collections so one or both of these could be a buy for me.

A cool alternative to plug-n-play devices if you have the original hardware!

@retro_player_22 Let's not go overboard here. If I want to play a game that's 30 years old and hasn't been on sale anywhere in forever, I don't feel that it's a big deal to play it on your PC for free. Developers aren't making money on it because it isn't sold anyway, so who cares. And there aren't any emulator police out there arresting people, so go ahead, play away. That's just my opinion, and you don't have to agree with it, which is fine by me.