Started collecting Super Famicom JRPGs in June — how’s my collection looking so far?

I started collecting Super Famicom JRPGs back in late June, and this is what I’ve managed to pick up so far!

I’m not really trying to build some perfect complete collection or buy every expensive game just for the sake of owning it. Mostly I’ve just been looking around, finding games that are in pretty good condition, and grabbing things that look interesting. I especially want to collect JRPGs that I never got to play growing up, since there were so many Super Famicom games we never got in English.

That’s also why there aren’t any Final Fantasy games here yet. I’ve already played those, so they’re not really a priority. Chrono Trigger is the exception because it’s my all-time favorite SNES game, so obviously I had to have that one!  

So far I’ve got Tales of Phantasia, Mother 2, Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem, G.O.D: Mezame yo to Yobu Koe ga Kikoe, Terranigma/Tenchi Sōzō, and Chrono Trigger. Mother 3 obviously isn’t SFC, but I threw it into the picture anyway since I picked that up recently too.

Tales of Phantasia is actually my newest pickup. I found it today and it looked like it was in really nice condition, so I couldn’t resist.

I can read Japanese, which makes collecting these a lot more fun because I actually intend to play everything I buy. I’ve been playing Terranigma completely in Japanese and mostly without a guide, and I’m getting pretty close to finishing it now. After that I’ll probably just pick something from the pile and see where it takes me.

For those of you who collect Japanese Super Famicom RPGs, what do you think of the collection so far?

I’m also curious about which SFC JRPGs do you think are genuinely difficult to find these days? Not necessarily just the most expensive games, but games where finding a nice boxed copy in the wild can actually take some searching.

And if there are any weird, overlooked, or Japan-only JRPGs you think I should keep an eye out for, I’d love to hear about them. I’m really just looking to collect, play, and have fun with it rather than turn it into some kind of checklist.