Is this super rare NES game Legit or Fake? Let's, find out...

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MR. GIMMICK CATRIDGE ►After years of watching and waiting, I finally pulled the trigger on one of the rarest NES games, Mr. Gimmick. However, upon receiving it in the mail and taking a closer look, I began to have my suspicions about its authenticity. So hey, let's open it up and take a look together to see if it's the real deal or not.

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After years of focusing on the best games for the NES, I decided to change gears and focus on lesser known cartridges that have, for one reason or another, generally escaped the public discussion and general nostalgia. This series highlights many of the relatively unknown, obscure, and unloved titles in the Nintendo Entertainment System's library. Some of these games are at best mediocre. Many are painfully bad, some of the worst NES games around. Most are hilarious for all the wrong reasons! Occasionally, OCCASIONALLY, a handful of them are actually good, borderline hidden gems.

While you won't find any of these on the NES Classic, some of these titles have managed to make their way onto the Nintendo Switch, so if you don't have an original Nintendo console or ROMs escape you ethically or technologically, there are several ways to play them.

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[BigOleWords]

This week, I made a different kind of video where I try to authenticate a rare NES game. I’m not sure how I feel about it honestly, but I do love this thumbnail that my wife mocked up for me :)

[fakeshemp]

I just found your channel and I just want to say that I'm super impressed with your content. Keep it up man 👍

[yvindlindahl]

The back shell was correct. Swap it back. SCN is Scandinavia

[ballandchaingaming]

I just cashed out all my store credit and picked up a copy from our local game store. You’d think it would be quicker to find board pics when searching online, but you were my first actual good source. Thanks for making this. It helped verify my copy 👏

[TheDarkQueen]

A year late with my comment but, I am from Sweden and can confirm that our NES carts have all english on the back of them, the common codes we used here was SCN and EEC. I have Mr.Gimmick myself and it looks just like your copy so it's totally a legit cartridge you have.

[Swagduckyyy]

As a Finnish person i can tell that this copy is legitimate

[flairnatureboywoo]

Did you put back the proper back cover on Mr Gimmick with SCN on the back label. Because the one you replaced it with is German DAS. This would totally devalue the game it you were going to resell it.

[chrisfrederick]

New Subscriber. Love your channel. Legit laughed when you were trying to get the board back in the cart. Lol

[MrMegaManFan]

The nice thing is that an EverDrive N8 lets you play all the PAL games without importing.

[oldschoolgamesstories]

Glad it’s the real deal. Great addition to the already amazing collection!

[markkoetsier]

4:28 Ackshually, if I'm gonna be pedantic, the FME-7 mapper is basically a 5B _without_ the audio channels, since the NES wouldn't be able to use them anyway. It's not a sound chip. Comparing Mr. Gimmick to 5B 'Gimmick!' for Famicom, you'll quickly notice the difference in music.

Great that you managed to grab a legit one, it's really rare! 👌 Think it only got a PAL release in Sweden of all places... Maybe that market just didn't have any translated back labels, not sure. (edit: yeah that's exactly the case, just saw the top comment 😆)

[goodmorningretro]

Impressive NES collection! I get incredibly nervous buying games online...stupid reproductions.

[ggbetz]

I have a buddy I bought Wall Street Kid for CIB, because it was legit his favourite game! I cant play it (not like its impossible, Im just no good at it), so I hope you do a video some day! Congrats on gimmick! Its a fun one!

[Dedicatedtolivinginthepast]

I don't usually buy super expensive games but what I do to make sure that the ones I am buying are not counterfeit I get carts that are dirty or have a slightly torn label or have a little cracked plastic or other blemishes like that when I see a game in perfect condition or is a super rare game but it is super cheap I usually pass on it

[thenewnostalgia]

This is a cool video. I just opened up a 3DS that I bought and there was a bed bug in it. So, it can always be worse.

[smerk]

Hi thanks im a subscriber.

Question please :

So all those black cartridges that say Tengen on them are AUTHENTIC ?

Theyre not knock offs and ok to sell on Ebay ?

How do we know if a cartridge is not an authentic licensed one ?

Like those gold ones that are shiny with like 4 games in one or with a switch on the back of the cart... Those are not Authentic and not ok to sell on Ebay right ?

Thanks.
Anybody knowledgeable please reply soon

[Sinn]

So wait a minute...are you telling me my translucent mint green copy of Little Sampson that I paid $24.95 is a fake?! I even made sure it had the correct copyright date "Some place in Japan on 19XX" and the vendor finished off with a pinky sware. What is the world coming to when you can't trust the guy that's selling a game in an alley behind an old hollowed out K-Mart from the back of a cargo van?! Dark times my friends, dark times indeed.

[RetroReminiscence]

Great collection my friend, from my research it looks legit. I also heard about return of the joker being used, but like you unless they are top notch scammers with insane skill I think it’s legit. Great pick up. Last time I seen it, they wanted 700 USD for it. So I’m sure it’s a lot higher now.

[BrainSlugs]

Cool find, but I'm kind of sad that you switched the back; despite the label being only in English; your original back plate has a big "SCN" plastered on it in the corner. SCN is the abreviation used for the Scandinavian region carts; it was most likely the original back. 🤷🏻‍♂

[rollinontheboard]

My Canadian NES games have English and French