Xenoblade Chronicles i got through a trade in so i didn't have to pay full price.Sea of Stars was a preorder iam8bit just gave the game a physical release recently.
Xenoblade Chronicles i got through a trade in so i didn't have to pay full price.Sea of Stars was a preorder iam8bit just gave the game a physical release recently.
When I found the time I did a bit of game hunting, bought an Evercade cartridge, the Duke Nukem Collection 1. Bought Slain Back From Hell and 2064: Read Only Memories for the PS4 from my new favorite game store, the next day I ended up buying the Turbo Super Stunt Squad game for the PS3 because I've only come across a copy maybe three times since I started collecting for the console. Then I bought a sealed Knights and Bikes for the PS4. The same store had the game ExaSkeleton for the original Xbox, an exclusive Japanese game. It looks pretty cool, but I don't have any way of playing it. If I had a Japanese Xbox, I would have jumped at it. I know shops where a few other Japanese Xbox exclusives are, scattered across the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
Unknown Date (probably early May: )
Coolboarders 2 (PS1, with box and manual) - $3
Friday, May 17:
Xbox 360:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (With Box and Manual)
Xbox One:
Batman Arkham Knight (With Box)
Call of Duty Advanced Warfare (With Box)
Call of Duty WWII (With Box and other papers)
Gears of War 4 (With Box and what seem to be stickers)
Gears of War Ultimate Edition (With Box and a few other things)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (With Box)
So apparently, game manuals don't really exist now, or is it just this lot?
$6 total, from one yard sale.
Monday, May 20:
Browsing Facebook Marketplace for Yard Sales, I saw an ad for one that was posted around 2 PM on Sunday. There was a NES with games (which I missed,) and I found this that I picked up.
Sega Genesis model 1
Sega CD Model 2 (not working, I may still be able to fix it easily.)
Sega Power Adapter 1602 (only one, not two)
1 Video Cable that converts video to a later type of Sega video cable.
Genesis Games:
The Lion King (game only)
Batman Forever (with case)
F-117 Night Storm (with case and manual)
NBA Live 96 (with case and manuals)
NFL Football 94 (with case)
Rolling Thunder 3 (with case) - This one has a very silly ex-rental sticker on it.
WF Royal Rumble (with case and manual)
Sega CD Games:
MegaRace (with case and manual)
System is missing the extension for under the Model 1 system. Genesis is missing the ext port door and the red plastic, and it's also missing the headphone volume slider plastic. No controllers included.
Games are all working.
Paid $50. It's still well worth it, even though the Sega CD system isn't currently working. It might only be a fuse, and I hope that's all it is.
Also, why exactly is it that out of the 5 Sega CD systems I've acquired through the years, my first one was on eBay in 2003 and then all the others were in yard sales or otherwise local? 3 of them were within 5 miles of home. My 4th one was within 25 miles, and I got that one for $15 because it was being sold as broken. That one just had a fuse issue, too. Maybe a bunch of locals bought them around 1995 - 1996 when the system was in the clearance bin.
I'm kind of glad I blew the fuse in my first one by plugging a NES Adapter in it, seeing as the fuse seems to be such a common problem with these.
- Austin
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Since the site's been up and down lately, I haven't had the opportunity to post anything in a bit. I ordered Dead or School off Amazon - the Euro version was in English but cost more, and the Japanese version stated it was multi-language. Sure enough, even though it doesn't say anything on the box about it, it automatically switches to English in a North American machine. A nice little hack and slash with a lot of Japanese silliness.
Days later, I went to a Half Price Books and bought Danball Senki and Soul Eater: Battle Resonance for the PSP. I hit a few thrift stores and only found a Coleco Amaze-A-Tron in box.
Today I went to the headquarters of the Movie Trading Company and bought Neptunia Virtual Stars for the PS4, then saw that they also had loads of import games, for the 360, PSP, Wii, Wii U, PS2 and PS3. I bought Yakuza 0 and Yakuza 5 for the PS3, then Surprised Mouse and Primopuel My Special Partner for the PS2, even though I have no way of playing them at the moment. Later on I stopped at a GameStop and bought Skully.
Slate (06-02-2024)
It's been a while since I've been on, but things in my neck of the woods are slim for pickings.
My mom decided to move back up north (which is a whole lot of drama, which I'll spare the DP denizens) and decided to leave a bunch of stuff behind as she didn't want them/need them. So I got all her gaming stuff....a lot of which I gave her over the past how many years as gifts so it was a bit bittersweet.
NES
Front loader with OEM ZIF socket (that I installed), two controllers, orange-barrel Zapper.
Bee-52 (loose)
Big Nose the Caveman (loose)
(note on the above Camerica games: my Mom bought these off of QVC back around 1993 when we moved into a country house my senior year of high school. These games went back and forth between us a couple of times.)
Golf (loose)
Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet (loose)
Nintendo Wii system with 2 controllers, chuks and Wii Sports
Nintendo DSi XL Super Mario Anniversary Edition with Zelda 4 Swords installed
Non Game Related:
Tabletop CD/MP3 50's style jukebox (was a gift from my Dad, who died in 2014, to her. Still works and has the original CD that it came with).
A bunch of DVDs and BluRays (like the Harry Potter series, Flash Gordon, Princess Bride, etc.)
Beyond that, I picked up some things but not for any real killer deals save maybe scoring a refurb 64 GB Steam Deck. That system is dang surprising at what it can do, lemme tell ya.
While "organizing" the basement (i.e. putting the piled crap that's been sitting down there for years in actual bins and tossing out just loose plastic, empty wet boxes, etc.) I found a Magnavox VCR/DVD Recorder system that looks hardly used. I tried it out just passing video through (no recording yet) and it works great! My OG Xbox is hooked up to it via S-Video to the CRT and it looked beautiful! Of course I got rid of my switch boxes and cables years ago so now I'm on the hunt again.
Slate (06-02-2024)
Last week my mom had a medical emergency and I haven't been able to do anything other than go back and forth to the hospital. She's home again and in good health, and my sisters are both in town taking care of her, so in-between picking up supplies and stuff I've managed to squeeze in a bit of game shopping. The Outer Worlds, Professor Rubik's Brain Training, and Gintama Rumble (another Singapore release that would never get translated into English otherwise) came from a GameXchange, Days Gone came from a Half Price Books, Lumote: The Mastermote Chronicles and Earth Defense Force 4.1 came from a Movie Trading Company. UFO Robot Grendizer - The Feast of the Wolves was an Amazon purchase. I find it odd that the French name is Goldorak - I just looked it up and that's what French language versions of the anime were named.