As early as December 2000, Somari started a Famicom game collection called 1986 Z Gundam mobile suit: Hot Scramble. And now, starting this spring, the YouTubers finally owns all 1,053 games for the consoles.
What makes Somari’s collection so interesting is that it’s not just a collection of games, but also their boxes and manuals. That certainly made the completion difficult.
The total time to complete this collection is twenty years and three months, with Somari receiving the last title in the 1990s Snow Bros.on March 11th of this year. The game cost her a cool 72,500 yen ($ 665)). Most expensive Famicom game Somari has bought is Battle Rush at 250,000 yen ($ 2,290), followed by Z Gundam mobile suit: Hot Scramble for 120,960 yen (1,108 USD) and Exciting boxing for 101,990 yen ($ 935).
According to Livedoor newsThe hardest Famicom game to find was the math title Sansu 5 ・ 6-nen: Keisan game. It’s not hard to find in just cartridge form, but incredibly difficult with its full packaging.
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The full collection was straight featured this week on Japanese morning TV.
“When I was in junior high, I went through a lot of terrible things that I don’t want to remember,” said Somari said in an emotional speech. “At the time, the Famicom helped me so much.”
These YouTuber, of course has a deep emotional attachment to the console and its games, which resonates with this collection so much more than a kind of purchasing service.
Somari added that there are still rare versions of the games that can be collected, such as the Namco Hard case versions as well as the Famicom games that are not available in retail stores. In addition, Somari hopes to collect Famicom Disk System games.
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