#745 - Chiller
NintendoAge
1/17/13
On a lark I was cruising the NA sell/trade forum and found another Canuck with an impressive list of games for trade. He was looking for some popular N64 titles to swap for some of the harder to find NES games, and lucky for me I just so happened to have some dupes on hand.
My sister is moving soon and, as part of the purge of as many of her possessions that she doesn't wish to relocate with her, I inherited her N64 and a stack of games. Among them were copies of Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and MarioKart 64. I had long ago scooped these up for a few bucks on some forgotten flea market trip, so I was able to set her carts aside as trade bait for the future.
Chiller is an unlicensed NES cart from American Game Cartridges where you have the novel option of 2-player light gun/zapper action. It's got some (for the time) mature subject matter as you splatter the screen with red pixels that are meant to be blood. It's charming in a way. In any case, the cartridge is one that has seen a price spike in recent years. I could have walked away with this game for $20 a couple years back but for some reason I passed on it. When I came to my senses and tried to go back to the comic book store where I found it, the store had closed up. Now eBay copies are 2 or 3 times that, which makes my trade look pretty good in my eyes. I'm sure the NA member I sent the N64 games to will make out just fine reselling them as Zelda and Mario games always carry a premium.
This completes my AGCI collection - Chiller, Death Race and Shockwave are all together:
