> Is this a sign of the publicly available stock dwindling? Could be. The front loaders tend to wear out their cart connector due to the weird VCR loading mech

> Is this a sign of the publicly available stock dwindling? Could be. The front loaders tend to wear out their cart connector due to the weird VCR loading mechanism. It's easily fixable now but at the time it probably doomed them to the trash. The top loaders were always sorta rare because they came out way late in the NES's lifetime (post SNES and Genesis) and IIRC only sold for a couple years.