I got a Tronica Air Revenger for a little over three dollars. I've seen some consoles like the Gamecube and the PS2 for a really cheap price, but they had no connections.
I got a Tronica Air Revenger for a little over three dollars. I've seen some consoles like the Gamecube and the PS2 for a really cheap price, but they had no connections.
I found Magical Chase (TurboGraphx16) with the manual a couple summers ago. Sold that bad boy for 802.00$. Cost 2$.
Other than that I found a
PS1 debugging station, still have it. The blue one. Cost 30$
and Just recently I found Custer's Revenge (Atari 2600), still have it. Cost 4$
added costs.
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In yo face!
Nothing really impressive, but
1. NES and N64 box for 50 cents each (each had everything inside but systems)
2. Neo-geo pocket color with bust-a-move with for $1
3.castlevania: legacy of darkness of darkness CIB for free
1: A 80 Gig PS3 (Backwards Compatible) for my old DS
2: A FREE Super Nintendo Mini in the box! (Came with the PS3)
3: A FREE Sega Pico that was in a guys garage for years and worked!
A NES System with 9 Games and everything needed to play for $5.
A Sega Saturn with 23 games and everything needed to play for $50.
A FZ-1 3DO with (20?) games and everything needed to play for $75.
A working Sega Genesis and SNES console with no cords both for $10.
an atari 2600 with 9 games included for $35 3 games to note in this collection were crypts of chaos beefsteak tomatoes and a "complete" breakout
My Systems: Atari 2600, 7800 Intellivision Nes(top loader) Snes Virtual Boy N64 Gamecube Wii GBC GBA(original) DS(brick) Genesis Dreamcast Ps2 Ps3 PSP(phat) PSP 3000, LYNX
Gotta update this:
1. Found a CIB NES toploader for $.99 at a local Electronics Boutique (remember those?) back in Austin circa '97.
2. A few years ago, a co-worker gave me his boxed and minty Virtual Boy, Mario's Tennis (loose of course), Mario Clash, Nester's Funky Bowling, Panic Bomber, and Wario Land (all CIB and minty as well) for free.
3. At a local Goodwill, found a Turbo Express (minty shape but with one dead pixel and typical sound problem) for $5 along with Bonk's Adventure & Bonk's Revenge ($3.99 a pop).
Atari 2600 system in box heavy 6er with serial number 480,At Value Vilage for $12.99
Today I got a loose Sculptor's Cut for 3 dollars and a Toejam and Earl for 5.
For me, I think my best three finds were:
CDX Thrift store lot: Found a CDX with two controllers and about 17 CD games, almost all loose for $25 about two weeks ago. The games were all junk save for Sonic CD which I already had and Dungeon Explorer, and the CDX's laser is messed up and I have to get it fixed, but still a very good deal. And now I don't have to deal with 3 power supplies from my Model 1 Genesis/Sega CD/32x combo, and it allowed me to sell of my Sega CD for $60, which in the end worked out for me.
SNES lot from a friend: A friend of mine 3-4 years back was getting out of video games and sold me his non-yellowed (and is still that color today) Super Nintendo with two controllers and about 15 games, mostly good stuff for $15. Came with the Super Mario World + All-Stars cart, the 3 Super Star Wars games, the 3 Donkey Kong Countries, Tiny Toons Wacky Sports, and some other games.
Chrono Trigger MIB $10 Flea Market: Found a Chrono Trigger at a flea market for $10 mint in box but opened with all the papers and whatnot inside for $10 at a flea market. I'm not an RPG guy though, so I ended up selling it for about $65 through a forum. Not the best price, but I still sextupled my money so I'm happy.
And not really a find, but still notable:
Sega Nomad Free: The brother of the friend who sold me my Super Nintendo above gave me a Sega Nomad for free after citing that it ate up too many batteries. Still works today, although the tubes need to be replaced as it takes about a minute or two for them to heat up and the screen to come on. And there's a nick or two from me dropping it once. But hey, if you're not going to use something, what's the point in owning it right?
2 and 4 aren't really finds, but aside from the CDX and Chrono Trigger, I haven't really had any WHOAMG finds in the wild.
EDIT: Heh, I clicked on the back page and saw my post from about a year ago in this same topic, forgot that I had found a Donkey Kong Game and Watch for $1 at a thrift store. Front is all scratched up though, but the back and inside are nice and minty. But, it's a Game and Watch, so eh.
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Last Year at goodwill
Street Fighter Alpha 2 SNES $2.99
Final Fight 2 SNES $ 2.99
so far i got 1
Final Fantasy 7 Black Label Ps1 in mint shape for 4 bucks at a good will store
1. 2 Sealed copies of Pokemon Stadium 2 for the N64. Found for $8 each at the same thrift store they were at.
2. Intelligent Qube for the PS1. A pretty rare game. Bought it for $2 at a used game section at a video store. Pretty good condition.
3. Super Mario RPG for SNES. Difficult to get, but it took me a couple games to trade for it. And it was excellent mint condition, for a cart only game.
1. Found a gold NWC cart in a box of 100 NES games for $80 at a flea market.(80 cents a game, not too bad)
2. Bought two label-less nes games for $3 each(megaman 2 proto, Crystalis proto)
3. Found two Atari 2600 protos for $3 each(Bridge and Frogger)
The flea market has been kind to me, but I use to check'em every week..... I put in the time.
Yet another youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkT...tyNJnjPw-2co7g
Back in high school, a kid in my US Studies class always talked to me (too much, also annoyed me) about classic games and he insisted that I "borrow" his Super Metroid for the SNES. He also had a second copy of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars that he gave to me. He ended up failing the class and got pulled out and I never saw him since. I feel kind of bad sometimes.
I also found The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for the SNES for $0.99 at a used book store (in pretty good condition, too).
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From a thrift store i got
Castlevania
Contra
Galaga
Ironsword
Super Metroid
Mike Tysons Punch Out
Solstice
Top Gun2
To The Earth
All for nintendo in dust sleeves, for $10!
meoooooowers
A boxed SNES with 21 boxed games including Final Fantasy II and III, Breath of Fire I and II, Wild Guns, A Link to the PAstand Mega Man X for $35.00 on the 127 sale 4 years ago.
A sealed copy of Mermaids of Atlantis for the NES for $2 at a garage sale. Also got sealed TMNT, Star Tropics 1 and 2 that day for $2
A Turbo Grafx 16 and 6 controllers along with a Turbo Tap and 8 games for $20 or a boxed Jauar for $15.00.
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My best finds in the wild:
Earthbound and Secret of Mana at a swap meet for $25 combined.
Chrono Trigger on SNES at a pawn shop for $2, mixed in with a bunch of sports games.
I suppose if "finds" doesn't mean I actually bought it...
After mentioning it to my friend, he is not going to let me forget it. I had heard rumors what it was worth, but I didn't believe it at the time, so I passed up a Stadium Events cart for $8.99 at GameStop in like 2002. Unsurprisingly didn't see any on ebay, and I was like "whoa! Who would pay $1000 for a title variant of a dirt common game?"
Arc the Lad Collection as part of GameCrazy's 3/$10 deal. Seems it's still a deal, even if it's missing one of the Arc III discs. I also got Game & Watch Gallery and Diddy Kong Racing (which I gave away as a gift).
Future rarity? I got a complete Game & Watch Collection (DS) from GameStop for $17.99. That allowed me to spend my points on G&WC2 instead.
I tend to find Popful Mail and Shining Force CD for the Sega CD a lot in thrift stores, complete. Now I just give them to friends to use as doorstops, it seems. And no, I have never heard of a place called eBay.