Candidates for "Find of the Year" Award

[ianoid]

Mike Kennedy found 4 Intellivision Basic carts at a flea (that I should have been hitting every week when I lived in SoCal) for about $4. He sold a couple for around $400, and traded me one.

What have I found? x_x Nothing rare live or unreleased. A Spitball Sparky. 2 Vectrexes on the same day. A loose Pole Position for Vectrex (not related.) Chuck Norris/Spikes Peak. Those are the best things I can think of offhand. Since I moved, the reset button was pushed in my head, so I can't quite remember stuff from the first half of the year.

ian

[portnoyd]

If this happened this year, the guy who owns www.ataritrader.com wins (and it's not a gag), hands down.

A $2 Gold NWC.

dave

[GENESISNES]

2 Toaster Nintendos with 3 controllers, doube the hookups (one is complete and it is the challenge set and has all of the original bags and styrafoam) 6 games. Also a Zapper

1 Sega Genesis with 6 game boxes(no games)

and 1 Super nintendo with all hookups and 2 controllers

ALL FOR THE LOW LOW PRICE OF FREEEEEE

[samuraiX]

Not that these are quite as nice as a few of the other posts but:
Radiant Silvergun complete w/ spine for $25
3 Magic Knight Rayearth new (Saturn) for $5 each
Like new Stack Up complete w/ everything and original receipt from Nintendo for $20
Playstation neon sign for free =D

and a few others amazing finds over the past 12 months...

[The Clonus Horror]

Just today I found a perfectly working and clean original model of the Sega Genesis, with adapter and composite video cable for $12.75. I also picked up a boxed Phantasy Star II with booklet for $10. I was pretty satisfied, to say the least.

[hamburgler]

my very best find was a lot of 5 sealed saturn games
They were:
Panzer dragon saga
Shining force 3
Nights
Burning Rangers
And Shining wisdom at a local toy's'r'us for a low price of $20.00 each.

[kainemaxwell]

I'm adding myself to this- when else do you have a friend give you a PS2 and around 20 games?

Out of these I've picked what looks to be the best 6 or 7 of all them and setting up the poll. The poll will be posted in a day or two.

[JerryG]

What the hell, I'll throw my hat in the ring. I covered this in my year-end-review post, but I don't think I'll burn out the link. Picked this up at a Milwaukee flea in February for $95. A bit pricey for a brag, but I've yet to hear of anyone who knows of another one in existence. May I present the Sears 2600 Video Game Selection Center!


Works like a charm too!
Rich

I have one sitting in my game office! Traded it for an old hand held.I haven't figgured out what to do with it so it is sitting on top of my walnut bookcase staring at my 2600 collection!

JerryG

[digitalpress]

I have one sitting in my game office! Traded it for an old hand held.I haven't figgured out what to do with it so it is sitting on top of my walnut bookcase staring at my 2600 collection!

JerryG

Hey Jerry, since you don't know what to do with it, I have a suggestion. Bring it to CGE in August! Then, hand it to me. Then, walk away. Then, never ask for it back, no matter how many times you may see me afterwards.

See? Problem solved. I solve problems of this nature all the time.

[orrimarrko]

Wow -

I can't compete with the $2 NWC Gold cart, nor the $5 NWC Grey cart.

Maybe, my find is a little behind the $.25 stadium event carts.

Definitely no where near Joe's success at the home of Comma Vid.

However,

I would like to think that my MINT boxed with MINT manual and MINT label
Q*Bert's Qubes that I found in a game store for $1.99 was a pretty damn good find.

Again, not enough to win against the pretty heavy hitters, but better than most.

[brandver3]

I'm going to toss in myself for that California Raisins prototype i got for the low low price of free.

I think that was a good find.

[Tempest]

My find wasn't a game (yet), but a person. When it all gets said and done I think it will turn out to be the find of the year...

No more hints from me, my lips are sealed (so don't bother with the e-mails...)


Tempest

[JerryG]

I have one sitting in my game office! Traded it for an old hand held.I haven't figgured out what to do with it so it is sitting on top of my walnut bookcase staring at my 2600 collection!

JerryG

Hey Jerry, since you don't know what to do with it, I have a suggestion. Bring it to CGE in August! Then, hand it to me. Then, walk away. Then, never ask for it back, no matter how many times you may see me afterwards.

See? Problem solved. I solve problems of this nature all the time.

If this involves your handing me that boxed Video Life that you never play you've got a deal!

JerryG