The last licensed NES game to be released, according to, was Wario’s Woods on December 10, 1994, a game made by Nintendo. During that nearly ten year span the console had 822 games released for it (licensed and unlicensed) and as mentioned before, 26 of them were games made by Taito. The Nintendo Entertainment System was released in North America in October of 1985 and was discontinued in August of 1995. (Prices are rounded for simplicity of reading)įor a company that only released 26 games to the NES platform, just over half of them are almost worth more together than several hundred other NES games combined. I obtained these prices from current Video Game Price Charting prices so that we can all be on the same page. Since a majority of NES games go for five dollars or less, let’s consider a “valuable” game to be worth at least $15. Well, let’s start by mentioning the Taito games that are valuable. So, why are NES games by a company like Taito, that has no jolly Italian maintenance man or furry varmint as their lovable mascot so darned expensive and sought after? The Games Other than licensed cartoons like The Flintstones and The Jetson’s that Taito acquired the rights to for making video games, you never see any legendary Taito characters on t-shirts at gaming conventions.