What Are Your THREE Greatest Finds in the Wild?

[jahvybe]

Saterday I got an Xbox 360 for $39.99 at goodwill. It had a sign on it that said it didn't work. I bought it and it works perfectly.

A couple of weeks ago I got a virtual boy in the box for $15 on craigslist. Oh yeah before that I got one with out the box and no foam eye sheild thingy for I think $3 at goodwill.

A month or so ago I got Harvest Moon 64 for $2.99 at goodwill.

Pretty much every gaming item I own I got for a deal somewhere because I am cheap.

[neist]

Hm.. Not sure if I've ever gotten anything overly amazing, but I have gotten:

1. 30+ TG-16 games for around $30 back in the late 90's.
2. Recently acquired a sealed De La Jet Set Radio. It wasnt incredibly cheap, but, I found one.
3. Sega Game Gear back in the late 90's in a Toys'R'Us bargain bin for around.. $15? Games for around $2.

[jb143]

At goodwill once I found a boxed Odyssey2 with a bunch of boxed games for $6. One of the games(Killer Bees!) was a rarer one.

Just a few months ago I bought a box of video game stuff for $30 that included the following: A Sega Nomad, Game Gear with a few games, original gameboy, playstation, N64, SNES, Super Scope + cart, a bunch of genesis games, a few NES games, and a bunch of random controllers.

I can only think of 1 other thing but it's not too spectacular and that was a boxed and complete Legend of Zelda for $4

[DJ Daishi]

bought 3 mint dreamcasts w/ 4 controllers at a local goodwill for $5...I was pretty happy that day.

[Ryaan1234]

Let's see:

1. A ton of PS1 RPGs including FFIX, Grandia, Lunar 2 complete, Castlevania: SoTN, Disgaea (PS2), Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (DC), Breath of Fire III and few other games for $30. Got it at an estate sale 2 summers ago. Something like $200 worth of games.

2. Earthbound and the guide for $10. My first big find-- 3 years ago.

3. Glib for 2600 (R7 in DP guide, R8 in Atariage guide) for $1. Got it at a flea market. Found 2 summers ago also, probably the best garage sale/flea market summer I've had.


honorable mentions:

A mint and boxed Bombsweeper Game & Watch for $1, found last summer at a garage sale. It's beautiful!

FFVII (mint) for $0.50. Found at a garage sale a few years back.

FFIII (SNES) for $10 at a flea market.

Mint and boxed Final Fantasy for NES. $5 at an estate sale.

Megaman 4, 5, 3, and Bubble Bobble for $12 total at Trader's village. ($10 for 4, 5, and Bubble Bobble and I went to the booth next door and proceeded to get Megaman 3 for $2).

[Game Freak]

well, you didnt say video games so yeah

50 games (ps1 and genesis) and a genesis - $2

a MINT copy of Michael Jackson's Thriller on vinyl - $1

yeah...thats unfortunately it. I only just started last year, and havent come up on a lot of stuff.

[SEGA_Queen]

My first two "greatest finds" happened at the same game shop (but at different times, of course!):

1) I went into the shop, hoping to find Lunar: SSS and Lunar 2: EB for the PS1. I browsed through the entire store, and didn't find anything good. Then I decided to take one more look 'round the shop, to make sure I didn't miss anything. It's a good thing I did, because tucked in the back of one of the display cases were: Lunar: The Silver Star Story and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue for the Sega CD!

2) A couple of months later, I went back to the shop with a wish list of rare/uncommon games in hand: Tales of Destiny I and/or II, the GBA Klonoa games, and any one of the Dance Dance Revolution games for the PS1. I went in there not expecting to find any of them. However, fate must have been smiling on me because I came out with:

Tales of Destiny II (Ex-rental and pretty beat up)

Klonoa 2: Dream Champ Tournament (Cart only)

and a sealed GH copy of Dance Dance Revolution: Konamix

Now the prices for them weren't super cheap, but they were still better than Ebay. Besides, I didn't really care about the prices, I was just shocked that I actually found the stuff I had been wanting all at the same time!

But wait, it gets better! As I was waiting at the register to pay, this guy standing at the counter notices my stack of games w/ the two PS1 games on top. So, he asked me if I owned a PS2. I told him, no, I just had a PS1. Then the guy told me he's got a PS2 he no longer uses, and asked if I wanted for FREE! Of course, I told him "yes" immediately! I got it from him a couple of days later. It was pretty dusty on the outside, but I worked great when I fired it up. This PS2 actually came in handy right of the bat, because Disc 1 of Tales of Destiny II wouldn't load in my PS1. But it worked like a charm in my free PS2!

3) About a week after the find mentioned above, I decided to check out Pawn Shop that I had never been into. It was bit dodgy looking, so I was kind of hesitant to go into it until that day. Anyway, I walked into the shop and start browsing through their limited selection of PS1 games. I found the following gems tucked in-between some crappy sports games:

Tales of Destiny $7.50

Wild Arms 2 $15.00

What's funny is that because ToD has a multi-disc jewel case, the employees was thought it was missing a disc.