July 2007 Finds

[xtremegamer]

A few things I've been wanting over my week off work:

Star Wars Episode II, X360, Complete, $5.99 at goodwill
Hitman: Bloodmoney, X360, Complete, $10 at local pawn
X360 Racing Wheel (Gift from wife for birthday)
Forza 2 (Gift from wife)
Pre Order Halo 3 Limited (Gift from wife)

I also picked up 2 NES Advantages and 1 NES Max for $10 at pawn shop.

Really a dry market around here right now.

[Cornelius]

Probably overpaid, but it was still only $6 for everything:

http://home.comcast.net/~evanwink/images/games/finds20.jpg

[geneshifter]

Bought a 20Gig PS3 system for 325 dollars with a single controller and the standard hookups.

Good deal! You can just exchange out the HDD if you want more space. I think buying the 20GB versions cheap right now is the way to go.

[suppafly]

Today was a great day at the flea markets! I found

Complete NES system, smb 1 2 and 3, mega man 4, tmnt 1, Gorilla`s surfari and other game i cant remember: $14 US

Complete genesis games: Warrior of rome 2 (R7), chuck rock and super hydlide: $14 US

Loose NES rf adapter: 40 cents

Complete Time Crisis for PSX: 90 cents!

I cant complain!

[Cornelius]

Complete NES system, smb 1 2 and 3, mega man 4, tmnt 1, Gorilla`s surfari and other game i cant remember: $14 US

Grrrr! MegaMan 4 has eluded me thus far. Just one of those games, not super rare, but I just haven't come across it. I'm sure once I do I'll soon get a bunch in a row. It is also the only NES MegaMan I don't have yet.

Good finds, btw!

[PDorr3]

went to some garage sales this weekend, one place had a mini PS1 with 5 crappy games for $22, alittle too much for me to spend on a system I will most likelu never use (I have original ps1, ps2, ps3)

However I got lucky and got to a garage sale and noticed a kid holding like 6 ps2/xbox games in his hand, I almost died thinking he was holding a ton of gems but luckily he only ended up getting 2 games (one of them rygar on ps2). I managed to nab ratchet and clank going commando, gungrave, jak 2, savage skies, riddick escape from butcher bay, all non GH for $25 total. Not a bad deal since I had just planed on getting ratchet from gamestop for $15 alone.

Ebay wise I scored a dark cloud (ps2) counter standee for $18 total, I figured I would never see one of them again so I was willing to pay up to $30 for it.

[Goodwill Hunter]

Had one of my best rummaging weekends in a while (which isn't too hard, as I don't go nearly as often as I used to. All of this came from 3 rummages that either advertised "games" or "video games." It pays to read the classifieds and get up early:

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/507/pachinkobz0.jpg

The pachinko machine was $25, works great, and has an LCD slot machine screen in the center. Same rummage had a Gamecube with 2 controllers and 2 games $20 (but my best score there was a like-new, 2-stage $700 snow blower for $100!)

Boxed Master System, 3d glasses, 4 games, all for $20. Boxed Tron tabletop, green gameboy, Pokemon Stadium 2...$3 each.

8 PS1 games $1-$2 each, 13 gameboy games 50 cents each, Commodore Might and Magic, complete...$1.

Felt like the good old days!

Rich

[Cornelius]

Wow, that SMS haul is outstanding! Whole post is actually. I'm very jealous... for some reason I just love the SMS packaging/box art.

[WSUCougars]

Had one of my best finds ever this past weekend. So we were having a new fridge delivered on Sunday, and my wife and I went out to pick up some foam coolers, to store food, etc. On the way back, we decide to stop at a random yard sale. This was around noon on a sunny day, and there were already close to a dozen people at the sale, browsing around. Needless to say, I wasn't expecting to find anything. As we're walking up to the house I spot a large black plastic case laying in plain view in the middle of the driveway with "TurboGrafx 16" printed on the front. We open it up, and inside is a TG16 + CD-Rom expansion (both in beautiful condition), along with a controller and loose copy of Air Zonk. Total price: $5.00 :)

[Slate]

Had one of my best finds ever this past weekend. So we were having a new fridge delivered on Sunday, and my wife and I went out to pick up some foam coolers, to store food, etc. On the way back, we decide to stop at a random yard sale. This was around noon on a sunny day, and there were already close to a dozen people at the sale, browsing around. Needless to say, I wasn't expecting to find anything. As we're walking up to the house I spot a large black plastic case laying in plain view in the middle of the driveway with "TurboGrafx 16" printed on the front. We open it up, and inside is a TG16 + CD-Rom expansion (both in beautiful condition), along with a controller and loose copy of Air Zonk. Total price: $5.00 :)

I'm so jealous. I live in no turbo land.

[wallydawg]

http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/5749/ps1kw0.jpg

Board Game was $3; Silent Hill $4; Syphon Filter, Heart of Darkness, and Syphon Filter 3 were $2 each.

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/2169/othersep1.jpg

NES games were $2 each, needed Pro Wrestling, others I will most likely bundle with a system up on ebay. Driver for PC was 99 cents, Xenosaga was $2, and Championship Pool was $1.50

Also got Who Wants to Be a Millionare 2nd Edition for PC, still sealed, for 99 cents

[Gamemaster_ca_2003]

Gots Me 3 games over the weekend

GEN -NBA Jam Tournament Edition $3
PS2 -Taito Legends 2 $20
DS -Konami Classics Colection $25

Plus My younger Brother Got

DS -Pokemon Pearl

[RadiantSvgun]

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y188/Shin-Richard/000_0310.jpg
Genesis games 3.99 each
Guardian Heroes Loose
Kingdom Hearts $10
Final Fantasy Tactics $5
Megaman 4 boxed, $3 at a thrift store
GBA games free from friends.

[InsaneDavid]

Nice modern pachi find, Goodwill Hunter!

[crivit]

No luck at all with the yard sales Friday and Saturday, but the flea market Sunday saved my weekend :-)

Mixed bag of classic games, $20 for all, all cart only

Intellivision:
The Jetson's Way With Words
Melody Blaster

Colecovision:
Up N Down
Fraction Fever
Defender
Star Trek
Super Cobra
Super Action Baseball
Zaxxon
Looping
Carnival

2600:
California Games x2

7800:
Centipede
Asteroids
Title Match Pro Wrestling x2
Joust
Dig Dug
Ms Pac Man x2
Realsports Baseball x2
Galaga x2
Robotron 2084
Food Fight x3
Mario Bros
Choplifter x4
One on One Basketball x2
Karateka x3
Centipede

Also picked up a complete Tonka Rescue Patrol for Gamecube $10
Playstation carrying case $2
Two Tyco Power plugs for Genesis $4 each.

[Kitsune Sniper]

I got a new copy of Deep Raider (really crappy Tomb Raider ripoff) for $1. It sucks, HARD, but it included a new PC gamepad which kinda resembles a Saturn pad so I got it just for that.

Today I got Caesar III (Mac) almost complete for $3, and at another booth I got Diablo II (CDs + case + key), a bunch of random CDs and a sealed Oprah 20th Anniversary DVD set for $3! The Diablo II is going to eBay, and a few of the CDs and the DVD set are going to FYE for credit.

[YoshiM]

Garage saleing for me lately has pretty much been a bust. Last weekend was no exception. My favorite thrift store, however, pulled through for me again:

N64 24 cartridge drawer(which I needed): $1
3 issues GMR magazine (#4, 7 and can't recall the last): 10 cents each

Non game related I picked up a double-cd set of New Order's "1987" for $2.

Sunday my game room TV died so we upgraded our living room TV and moved the old to the game room. My wife and I spent hours looking at LCD units and we weren't really happy. We stopped of at the local Rex so I could look at their tube TVs (as most everywhere else had junk). I found one that both of us liked: a Samsung tube HDTV with 2 HDMI ports, 2 component connections, S-Video and HD and standard tuner. The only many might see as a negative (and might ask if I was nuts) is that it's a 4:3 screen. I honestly don't give a hoot about a physical wide screen TV and neither does my wife. Plus the price was right: $379 new. It fit in the cabinet perfectly and looks fantastic.

So it was a pretty decent weekend after all.

[snes_collector]

From a former Rhino(now GameStop) everything was 75% off plus another 10% with the GameStop card.

All loose unless noted:

NBA Jam Tournament Edition(Gen) .45
Top Gear 2(Gen) .90
Race Drivin'(Gen) .45
NBA Jam(Gen) .30
Skitchin(Gen) .45
Battle Chess(NES) .75
Hardball 3(SNES) .30
Bill Walse College Football(SNES) .22
NCAA Football(SNES) .15
College Football 97(SNES) .30
Crazy Taxi 2(DC) 1.50
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX w/manual(DC) .75
Ferrari 355 complete(DC) 1.50
Sega Rally Championship(DC) 1.20
Tennis 2K2(DC) 1.20
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2(DC) .90
Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future w/manual(DC) 1.20

[DigitalSpace]

Reposting this since the finds thread is unlocked, making the personal finds thread I originally posted this in pointless:

On Friday night, I spotted this with the clearance games while looking around at a Fred Meyer, and I've wanted to check it out and thought it was a decent price:

PS2:
Family Guy Video Game! (new) - $7.98

[BIGMIKE]

the latest from the hills. man i gotta have a yard sale soon
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g69/BIGMIKE304/100_1158.jpg
this stuff was a present, meaning freebie central, from a guy at work. he knows i like the games. guess he tried to sell all of it at his yard sale (for $5 at that) and noone came by. lucky me. almost 60 of these. mostly all dupes. few i didn't have handy. the whole time at work i was antsy to see what was underneath the mess. atari stuff was on top. i waited to get home to see everything else just hoping for some goodies
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g69/BIGMIKE304/100_1161.jpg
another part of the haul. lots of nes goodness there. again lots of dupes but good ones
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g69/BIGMIKE304/100_1159.jpg
again more haul. got me a Slammaster wooooooooo

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g69/BIGMIKE304/100_1162.jpg
last of the haul. was hopin a toploader would appear. keepin my fingers crossed on that one to pop up soon. the 32x had an extra cord or something with it. that man is alright in my book
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g69/BIGMIKE304/100_1165.jpg
other stuff along the way, double pack should not be in the pic. oops. Just lovely Lara
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g69/BIGMIKE304/100_1163.jpg
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g69/BIGMIKE304/100_1160.jpgds bag at the Good, DS games by way of TRU sale, buy one get one and Phoenix was on sale for $10 and Ndogs was bday present to my lil girl
i think thats all.........wooooooo Jess

[InsaneDavid]

Good day at the flea market, that's three weeks in a row! To begin with I found a Robo The Fan, an R.O.B. looking oscillating fan. Zemmix has one in his room of doom (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=103116) pictures and it seemed to peak a lot of interest. I just happened to come across one on my way out, seller wanted $7 but I got him down to $6 (wouldn't take $5). It was pretty dirty which is why I was trying to haggle but oh well. He kept offering to show me that it worked but I know he's out there all the time and didn't need to see. One of the lightbulbs in the head was out when I got home - wish I would have let him plug it in after that - would have been able to get it for $5. ;)

After disassembly of most of it, some cleaning, and replacing both lightbulbs it looks and works great...

http://www.classicplastic.net/digitalpress/DP-Finds-2007-07-17(01).jpg

The sucker really does resemble R.O.B.. Part of the head is a tiny bit warped from what I would assume is heat from one of the lightbulbs. I replaced them with 5 watt ones instead of the 7 watt bulbs that were in there when I bought it.

Next I finally found a copy of Donkey Kong for the Game Boy. Been looking for this title for awhile as it plays a lot like the Game & Watch Donkey Kongs and is a predecessor to Mario Vs. Donkey Kong. Lots of great platforming puzzles.

Last stop of the day was at a vendor I hadn't seen out there in awhile. He had a bunch of video games and a few crates of NES and VCS cartridges. All were pretty dirty but I thought I'd take a look so I went around the table and began looking over his inventory. I found a copy of Sqoon and a prototype cartridge. When asked how much he said I could have the proto, suppose figuring it was junk. I looked over the rest of his NES games, and stupidly didn't look over the VCS stuff... it was just way too dirty so I didn't give the games more than a passing glance. Hopefully he'll be out there next week and I can spend more time checking things out. The proto ended up being Caesar's Palace but I haven't had time to see if anything is different from the released version.

GB - Donkey Kong $5.00
NES - Caesar's Palace (Prototype) Free
NES - Sqoon $3.00

http://www.classicplastic.net/digitalpress/DP-Finds-2007-07-17(02).jpg

Nothing like finding a proto and then it ending up being a low profile game. LOL Oh well, we'll see and I can't complain considering it was free.

[Barbarianoutkast85]

Today I got some loose Snes games, they are:
Super Mario All Stars
The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
Donkey Kong Country 3
Bubsy 2
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

All for a whopping 3 dollars.

[orangest]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/orangest/fluid.jpg

playstation PAL fluid promo only disc-$7 at an hole in the wall thrift store i'd never noticed before 5 minutes away from my place. they also had a copy of jonah lomu rugby, which i passed on. although i've been lucky finding import stuff in the wild through the years living in L.A., it was still worth $7 to me for the novelty of finding something like it so close to home. not to mention the new-found knowledge of how to write "promo only-not for resale" in many different foreign languages.

oh, and the $5 TG-CD and free proto finds are out of control.

[Cambot]

Here are some finds from the last few weeks. All in the wild...

http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/6568/dsc0003vb0.jpg
By cambot (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/cambot), shot with NIKON D40 (http://profile.imageshack.us/camerabuy.php?model=NIKON+D40&make=NIKON+CORPORATION) at 2007-07-18

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By cambot (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/cambot), shot with NIKON D40 (http://profile.imageshack.us/camerabuy.php?model=NIKON+D40&make=NIKON+CORPORATION) at 2007-07-18

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/ckeene/DSC_0014.jpg

[DigitalSpace]

Went to a CD/Game Exchange this evening, and left with a good NES haul:

Karnov (cart only) - $2.50
Snake Rattle N Roll (cart only) - $2.50
Ice Hockey (cart only) - $1
Slalom (cart only) - $1
Track & Field (cart only) - $1

[Goodwill Hunter]

Just picked up what looks to be an opened but complete and like-new Red Octane Xbox 360 Guitar Hero II/controller package for 34.99 from Goodwill. I'm guessing it's from Target. I don't have a 360, so I can't even hook it up, but I felt like I couldn't pass it by. Did a double take when I saw that huge box in the display case. If nothing else, I can return it for store credit within 10 days.

Rich

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/9038/gh2df3.jpg

[Cambot]

Stopped by the thrift store on teh way home from work and had a nice NES find. Two, actually:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/ckeene/chip-pac.jpg

Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers 2
Tengen Ms. Pac-Man

[Kitsune Sniper]

Just picked up what looks to be an opened but complete and like-new Red Octane Xbox 360 Guitar Hero II/controller package for 34.99 from Goodwill. I'm guessing it's from Target. I don't have a 360, so I can't even hook it up, but I felt like I couldn't pass it by. Did a double take when I saw that huge box in the display case. If nothing else, I can return it for store credit within 10 days.

Rich

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/9038/gh2df3.jpg

Honestly?

That's a USB plug. And where there's a USB plug, there's a way to plug it into your computer... And that leads to ... http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/

Edit: Oh, and it's not complete, someone used the stickers on the guitar. :p

[Nate Nanjo]

I got Lemmings and Oh No more Lemmings for the PS1 for 5.00

[Goodwill Hunter]

Honestly?

Would I lie to you? In fact, I went back to the same Goodwill on my day off this morning, and found this mint gameboy with game light and 10 games for $9.99:

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/2167/gbvo3.jpg

And the pair of bendy dino skeletons was only 99 cents! Goodwill has always been very good to me!

Thanks for the heads up on the freeware for the guitar...going to try it tonight...and I found what was left of the stickers for the guitar when I unpacked it :-/ ...oh well.

Rich

[robotriot]

It's been a long time since I last bought anything "classic", but I found Super Hydlide and Galaxy Force II CIB for MD at the flea market today.

[theshizzle3000]

I got a complete mint in-box tiger game.com with two games for 9.99.

[Jimmy Yakapucci]

Some people might not consider this a good deal, but I do. I traded a CIB copy of Pirates! Gold for the Genesis for a CIB copy of Psychic Detective for the PS1. If you look at just the "values", it may not that good of a deal, but when I consider that I only paid $5 for the Pirates! game, the deal gets better, especially when you factor in the rarity of the PS1 game.

JY

[DTJAAAAMJSLM]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/dtjaaaamjsl/gamezone50.jpg

Stopped by a local shop in Lynnwood, WA called Game Zone that was closing down and had everything for 50% off. If you're in the area, they're still open for a week or two. I ended up leaving with:

PS
---
Crusader: No Remorse
Fade To Black
Hugo: The Evil Mirror
Starwinder

NES
---
Back To The Future 2 & 3
Beetlejuice
Genghis Khan
High Speed
Home Alone 2: Lost In New York
Little Mermaid
Mechanized Attack
Nobunaga's Ambition
P.O.W.
Stack-Up
Videomation

N64
---
Chameleon Twist 2

SNES
---
Doomsday Warrior
Mickey Mania
Rocketeer
Rocky Rodent
Wolfchild

GEN
---
Atomic Runner
Cliffhanger
Desert Demolition
Liberty Or Death
Lost Vikings
Mercs
Outlander
P.T.O.: Pacific Theatre Of Operations
Socket
Superman
Thunder Force 2
Tiny Toons: Acme All-Stars

[Steve W]

Only stopped at a couple of places today, all I picked up were a loose copy of Cosmic Creeps for the 2600 for 99¢ and a Sega Dreamcast component video cable for 94¢.

[thetoxicone]

today's purchases:

APF TV Fun system - standalone pong system $2
Blue Label Grand Prix (2600) - $1
Demolition Man (Snes) - $1.50 (actually 1.61 after tax but I was given back 89 cents change after paying $2, so it was actually $1.11)
Aahhh Real Monsters (Snes) - $2
Infiltrator (Nes) - $3
Rescue The Embasy Mission - $3

I consider it all free though since it was paid for by profits from previous finds that just finished selling on ebay

[Videogamerdaryll]

My wife picked this sealed Xbox game out of some bargain bin store marked down via at register ..for $99 cent..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v21/Chris1/Pocket%20Bikes/f2cfd19b.jpg

[bangtango]

No thrift store finds at all, I passed on everything I've seen for close to ten days. A real slow month, I guess. So I have been doing a little swapping.

For 5 months, I had my name on a waiting list for a 2600 system at my local, indie game store. The owner called me the other day to say he had an untested unit come in with no hookups that he'd let go for little or nothing. He also told me that he had a 3DO FZ-10 come in that he needed to test but had no 3DO games to test it with. I'll get back to that other point later.

When I went in the next day, it turns out there were 3 games and 3 controllers with the loose 2600 system. So I acquired that for 5 used dvd's from my collection. About the 3DO, I traded the shop owner a common 3DO game for a loose N64 and a loose PS1 system, both of which need repair. He had way too many of both laying around to ever get around to fixing them himself. Don't know if I will bother holding onto them very long.

Aside from that, I traded four old western paperback books to an old woman near my work for a loose copy of Pokemon Silver for Gameboy Color. The battery is dead, just as I expected, but it will serve as a good guinea pig for my first cartridge battery-changing operation.

[miaandjohnrule]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/dtjaaaamjsl/gamezone50.jpg

Stopped by a local shop in Lynnwood, WA called Game Zone that was closing down and had everything for 50% off. If you're in the area, they're still open for a week or two. I ended up leaving with:

PS
---
Crusader: No Remorse
Fade To Black
Hugo: The Evil Mirror
Starwinder

NES
---
Back To The Future 2 & 3
Beetlejuice
Genghis Khan
High Speed
Home Alone 2: Lost In New York
Little Mermaid
Mechanized Attack
Nobunaga's Ambition
P.O.W.
Stack-Up
Videomation

N64
---
Chameleon Twist 2

SNES
---
Doomsday Warrior
Mickey Mania
Rocketeer
Rocky Rodent
Wolfchild

GEN
---
Atomic Runner
Cliffhanger
Desert Demolition
Liberty Or Death
Lost Vikings
Mercs
Outlander
P.T.O.: Pacific Theatre Of Operations
Socket
Superman
Thunder Force 2
Tiny Toons: Acme All-Stars


That guys prices were always pretty high. How much did you spend?

[Lemmy Kilmister]

What'd guys think about this? Legit?

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r290/Lemmyk/th_IMG_0228.jpg (http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r290/Lemmyk/IMG_0228.jpg)
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r290/Lemmyk/th_IMG_0227.jpg (http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r290/Lemmyk/IMG_0227.jpg)

I found it today for 25 bucks and I'm probably going to put it up on eBay.

[orangest]

from various thrift stops in the san fernando valley...

TG-16-$1 each
legendary axe II
bloody wolf
battle royale

loose colecovision b.c.'s quest for tires-$1

mario's fundamentals CD-rom-$1

black gamecube w/hookups, two controllers and paperwork-$35

[BIGMIKE]

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g69/BIGMIKE304/100_1174.jpg
almost always make a stop at the Good after work. this day was halfy off stuff. got me some of that super rare wrap on that one thang.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g69/BIGMIKE304/100_1171.jpg
found me another out of the way place to go every once in awhile. came upon some gap fillerooooooooooo's
ahhhhhhh go Jess

[Kitsune Sniper]

Would I lie to you?

Heh, that isn't what I meant. When I said "Honestly?", I said it as in "Honestly, blah blah blah blah..." as if saying my honest opinion. Sorry if it came out wrong. :)

[misfits859]

Finally, after nearly a year of searching, I tracked down a copy of Stubbs in the wild:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v126/misfits859/DSC01153.jpg

And the old school take from local yard sales and flea markets today:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v126/misfits859/DSC01152.jpg

Gave $1 for the N64 driving wheel at a local yard sale. It's unopened:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v126/misfits859/DSC01154.jpg

Some old games from the C64 and Amiga 500 era I salvaged from my parents basement...more photos to come simply as a reference:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v126/misfits859/DSC01155.jpg

[garagesaleking!!]

Today i got some go stuff at garage sales and church sales. At a garage sale i got a nintendo 64 with 43 games and 3 controllers all complete in the boxes for $125. All the mario games are there and all the classics. I also got a gameboy advance with about 20 games for $20 at a flea market. I got a nes with a couple games for $3 at a church sale. And i also got 30 ps1 games that are all non sports, mostly disney games for $20. And ddrmax and 2 dance pads for $5. Some other stuff too, i did pretty good.

[ecresto]

Just picked up what looks to be an opened but complete and like-new Red Octane Xbox 360 Guitar Hero II/controller package for 34.99 from Goodwill. I'm guessing it's from Target. I don't have a 360, so I can't even hook it up, but I felt like I couldn't pass it by. Did a double take when I saw that huge box in the display case. If nothing else, I can return it for store credit within 10 days.

Rich

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/9038/gh2df3.jpg

i went to a salvation army and they had a guitar hero in condition just like yours , for 50.00 . i said what a coincidence , i was gonna get it until i looked at the disc and noticed a thick ring around the disc . damn

[DTJAAAAMJSLM]

That guys prices were always pretty high. How much did you spend?

Yep, that's why I was a bit hesitant when a friend told me about the store closing. I think I blew about $120.

[BIGMIKE]

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g69/BIGMIKE304/100_1175.jpg
another fresh pickup. all minty newy condition
tetris
revenge of the gator
marioland
marioland 2
alleyway
solar striker
baseball
motocross
NFL
sadly the star wars box is partially empty. was in a bag of games and cords and i just ran out of money. was gonna get the bag, but lets move on. the owner thought the game was in the bag and then it dawned on him that he probably threw it away b/c he got rid of the system. boooooooooohoooooooo
but the styro is in there and i think the instructs too. yeah
$8.50 for all

[Nesmaster]

That's a totally unexpected thing to find at goodwill there, Goodwill. Good find!

For me:
Motorstorm new, $40
Meet the Robinsons 360 used, $15

[Flack]

Due to popular request I've restickied this thread. Feel free to post monthly finds in here or, if you have something really special, start your own thread.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Due to popular request I've restickied this thread. Feel free to post monthly finds in here or, if you have something really special, start your own thread.


Sweet!!...Thank you...

[Videogamerdaryll]

Flea Market:

My Goal today was to take one of my pocketbikes,pop it on at a friend vendors table and give out my TSMMR-upcoming race event Flyers.

I just didn't feel up to it so I didn't bring the bike.......I had a feeling I might run into something at the flea market that would surprise me.
Something that I had not seen there....I was right on that.

When I walked into the market the first thing I saw was an Arcade Machine/still on the back of a vendors truck to be unloaded...I Never see arcade machines at a flea market..
It was a small orange sides-front arcade machine..Asking the vendor what it was and how much!..He said it's Galaga and $200.00 with working coin mechs etc.
I'm not sure what the control panel was,it looked like a Ms. Pac Man overlay..
Was it worth $200.00 to be,no because I have machines and can't buy anymore..To someone else who was looking for an Arcade machine.. Yes..
It was not a original Galaga cab or I would of grabbed it,the cab itself was from something else(a conversion)
http://www.klov.com/G/Galaga.html
I considered buying it and putting it in storage but that does me no good..

My Dad bought a Lathe so that took up the room in his vehicle.

A friend vendor of mine had a Japanese N64.....
I don't know anything about them nor ever owned one so I passed on it...It had no games with it either..
Passed up a nice shell SNES system but it's inputs on the back side were destroyed.

Picked up :
Two for $5.00 DVDs
Collateral Damage DVD,(gave to dad)
Freddy VS Jason
Intolerable Cruelty.

SNES Star Fox $3.00

Japanese PS2 Games..Eight Games For $30.00
Training Wheels $1.00(to put on trainer pocketbike)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v21/Chris1/Pocket%20Bikes/420195ca.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v21/Chris1/Pocket%20Bikes/86312593.jpg

Now I don't know anything about Japanese PS2 Games,nor even if I got a good deal but they Intrigue me.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v21/Chris1/Pocket%20Bikes/f9da652f.jpg

[Nate Nanjo]

Do you keep going to same flea market? Or is it different one's everytime you post?

Anyways:
Romance of the 3 Kingdoms for NES - $2.75
Zoda's Revenge NES - $4.60

[nintendan]

I know... this space is generally reserved for used goods (and not retail purchases), but today's Yard Sales yielded nothing for me!!

So...Here are my finds today (all new merchandise... there were no good garage sales in my area):

DVD's:
Oz - Season 1 ($19.99 from Future Shop)
Oz - Season 2 ($19.99 from Future Shop)
Oz - Season 3 ($19.99 from Future Shop)
Oz - Season 4 ($19.99 from Future Shop)

MAGAZINES:
N-Revolution #10 ($12.95 from Chapters)
Retro Revolution (Mini-Magazine which came free with above mag)
Pocket Revolution (Mini-Magazine which came free with above mag)

WII STUFF:
Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition ($34.83 from Wal-Mart)
Wii Points Card ($25.98

Note: The Wii Points card is the FOURTH one I have boughten -- I must love that classic stuff, eh?

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/547/findsiu6.th.jpg (http://img53.imageshack.us/my.php?image=findsiu6.jpg)

Dan

[Porksta]

Nice job on those Oz DVDs.

[WSUCougars]

Some old games from the C64 and Amiga 500 era I salvaged from my parents basement...more photos to come simply as a reference:


Nice "find." That Ultima would sell for quite a premium on Ebay, if you ever choose to part with it. If you have the cloth map, it would fetch even more. I have mine framed and hanging on my game room wall (next to the map for Ultima IV). :)

[DTJAAAAMJSLM]

Picked up a few original GB games at GameStop:

Buster Bros.
Tiny Toons: Wacky Sports
Double Dragon
Double Dragon 2
Operation C
Captain America & The Avengers
Ninja Gaiden: Shadow

[misfits859]

Nice "find." That Ultima would sell for quite a premium on Ebay, if you ever choose to part with it. If you have the cloth map, it would fetch even more. I have mine framed and hanging on my game room wall (next to the map for Ultima IV). :)

Yep, I have two of the cloth maps from Ultima 3...Story is, me and my best pal from those days usually each bought copies of RPG's we liked and played them together to help each other figure out the tougher areas of the game. Somehow I ended up with his maps. His has a cigarette burn in it though, ouch. I have two copies of the Ultima 4 map too hehe...

Anyway, here are some other games I retrieved from my old playing days. Cinemaware always did such a fine job with their box art I thought:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v126/misfits859/DSC01161.jpg

[Kamisama]

http://www.x68000.de/shots/ps-fluid.jpg

this is cool.. :)

[snes_collector]

Complete Strider~ $5.00

[joshnickerson]

Not a bad day at the dirt mall... not at all...

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b235/joshnickerson/072207A.jpg

At one table...
Toobin' (complete)
Super Team Games (complete)... oddly enough, it had the Mike Tyson letter from Punch-Out!! mixed with the rest of the paperwork...
Wizards & Warriors (Cart + Manual)
Clu Clu Land (loose)
Silver Shi--er, Surfer (loose)

$4 each.

then as I was leaving I found another table that'd just opened up...
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b235/joshnickerson/072207B.jpg

Mega Man 3
Mega Man 4
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Super C

50 cents each O.O

[damerush]

http://www.x68000.de/shots/ps-fluid.jpg

this is cool.. :)

I love Fluid, i`ve got three copies the japanese version (Depth) the original and the special edition with music cd. I`m trying to get a sealed copy and the promo. I`ve also got limited edition promo dj slip mats with the logo on

[thetoxicone]

Just got back from an auction in my town that advertised games being available. There were only two items I saw one was a box with an atari and a bunch of games, another a box of random crap that just happened to have a copy of bad dudes for nes sitting in it. I set my bid limit for the atari at $35 and waited.

Ended up winning the atari items for $25 and I offered the guy that won the box of random crap $2 for the copy of bad dudes. Went through the box of atari items and there ended up being an atari 2600 jr., all the original cords, three joysticks (two standard and a gemstick), a set of paddles (one of them was broken so I tossed them) and 47 games. The most notable games that I needed out of the bunch were ghostbusters, burgertime, crystal castles, millipede, and quite a few commons I hadn't found in the wild yet. I may take a picture later and add it here.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Do you keep going to same flea market? Or is it different one's everytime you post?


Anyways:
Romance of the 3 Kingdoms for NES - $2.75
Zoda's Revenge NES - $4.60


Different ones,depends on where I'm traveling for the day..If I'm racing,or practicing it'll be the one near the track..If I'm doing stuff local it'll be local..

There was a flea market today local but I didn't go-I need to catch up on things,selling listing stuff on ebay..

I want to start hitting Thrift stores..


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Just my feelings on Flea markets...

To be honest: Though I love the hunt,the hunt is drying up...I find way too much junk...
I totally pass up junk,I pass broken systems now unless the price is give it away cheap and sometimes I don't even do that..I won't touch a 5200 system..I can't do anything with them.:frustrated:
The time,money I spend traveling around to some of these flea markets isn't worth it...though I still love the hunt it's just dying for me...Right now I go for my own hunt and my Dads who's having blast finding non video gaming items,I've found out that it's easy to give my racing flyers out at these events so I do that in the hunt-kills two birds with one stone.
I'll walk through 100-500 vendors and only come home with what I got-get...
I don't pass much up because it's just not out there..If it is it's junk and or overpriced..

For instance:
Saturday Flea market..Vendor had:SNES system,used one controller with hook-ups..$45.00 FIRM...with the word FIRM written Huge next to the price.
Why would I want to pay $45.00 for a used SNES at a flea market..That's a rip..I can only see this as a deal to someone desperate or of No knowledge of the computer-ebay.
I can only get $25.00 for them,cleaned up,fully working and with Super Mario World.
Do I want to buy and sell SNES systems anymore..Hell No!!

The problem I'm having is...
Overpricing due to the other buyers...I know a lot of the vendors I deal with personnaly..I've known some of them for over 10 years.They tell me the truth on things,where they get stuff,things they sell and to whom they sell to,plus offers they get for stuff...
High offers due to other buyers who don't haggle...They are honest with me and they laugh at the people who overpay for stuff..
Just Saturday a vendor was telling me how he sold a video game item for way overprided because the buyer just had to have it.(he overheard the buyer say he could get more then he paid for it on ebay yet the seller already checked on the prices and his asking price was higher)...The buyer didn't even haggle him and the vendor said he would of went way down in price if he had..... (said that to me with laughter after he told me that...



Curious.
Would people Pay $160.00 for a out of box Famicom system,with no games at a flea market?..untested as is.

Would people pay $125.00 for a used-dirty Xbox at a Flea Market?untested as is..

[orangest]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/orangest/nes.jpg

from my neighborhood sunday swap-$7 each, all complete (incl. styrofoam). hogan's alley still has the shrinkwrap on, with a slit cut open on the top flap. the SMB 3 cart is still in the plastic bag; the box and paperwork look like they've barely been touched.




Curious.
Would people Pay $160.00 for a out of box Famicom system,with no games at a flea market?..untested as is.

Would people pay $125.00 for a used-dirty Xbox at a Flea Market?untested as is..

if i'd just smoked a bathtub full of crack, sure.

[RadiantSvgun]

I didn't get any of the following cause I'm broke until the 1st of August, but I went to some pawn shops out in the boonies with one of my friends.

We saw:
2 SNES Minis, $10 each. He got one of them
1 Genesis 3, $4 he also bought that.

At another shop we saw:

2 mint loose copies of Manic Mansion, $3 each
Game.com for $7
Mint in the box SNES system with Mario All Stars+world. $45

When the 1st of the month rolls around, I'm going back to all those stores. Luckly no one in that area knows anything about games, and none of my other collector friends know where they are.

[Ryaan1234]

(My first time to post pictures! yay!)

A Pretty Good Weekend!
Saturday and Sunday finds 7/21-7/22:

http://home.hot.rr.com/jmdavis/finds1.jpg (http://home.hot.rr.com/jmdavis/)
The Nes games were $.25 each, the Genesis was $2.00 (It came with the controllers and hookups, not pictured), the Casio Portable TV was $10, the transformer was $.25, the Casio SA-8 keyboard was $1. There's a funny story about this Nes System. It was free. When I got to the sale that had this system, there was this big sign that said "VIDEO GAMES 25 CENTS EACH". I got 2 stacks of Nes games (my dad got a stack of nes game, a few N64 games, an N64($2), and a Genesis game). I bought my games and then asked the lady running the sale if they had the system. She said they threw it out because "It was blinking" and they thought it was broken. The lady told me she threw it out near the top of the can and she was kind enough to reach into her trash cans to get it. It came with the controllers and it had Donkey Kong 3 inside.

http://home.hot.rr.com/jmdavis/finds2.jpg (http://home.hot.rr.com/jmdavis/)
This stuff(except for the PS1 game case) was purchased on Sunday at an estate sale. Each computer item was $1, except for the crushed Summer Games II, which was $.50. The Top Gun is new and sealed. I also got(at the estate sale) a Mattel Computer Gin for $4 and shiny metal/plastic mousepad(looks like graph paper with tiny metallic white squares and blue lines-definitely 1980's) for $.50. How much do you suppose the Top Gun is worth?

And the best for last:
http://home.hot.rr.com/jmdavis/finds3.jpg (http://home.hot.rr.com/jmdavis/)(
(Doh I accidentally put the PS1 case in both pictures!)
Pokemon Silver Pikachu and Pichu edition Gameboy Color with a worm light, case(s), 18(all GBC) games, all the manuals and a big pile o' Gameboy cords for $30. My dad got a GBA with 7 games for $20 at the same sale(nothing special). The GBC games are mostly cartoon and movie games but notable games in this lot are: Spiderman, Batman Beyond, Racin' Ratz(never seen this one), Donkey Kong Country, and X-Men Mutant Academy. Also pictured is a Trivial Pursuit 1980's edition that I got for $1.

I also got a Dilbert Book(1 of 3 cool things purchased on Friday) for $.50, The Human League "Romatic?" album(any good?)for $1, Paperboy and Desert Strike for Genesis(on friday too, a day before I got the Genesis!) complete for $1 each, and Far Cry:Instincts for $4(not pictured, cause I'm playing it!).

[Cornelius]

shiny metal/plastic mousepad(looks like graph paper with tiny metallic white squares and blue lines-definitely 1980's) for $.50.
This sounds like the mouse pad for an early optical mouse. I worked in a lab that used these with the SGI UNIX boxes. The mouse had to be on one of these pads to work at all. Don't know when they started making them, but that lab was still using them in 2000 when I gradumatated.

Congrats on your finds, looks like you got some good deals!

[darkhades]

Alright, here are some of my recent finds, nothing spectacular but ok.

Garage Sales:

Super Nintendo games - Wizardry V (CIB) $2
Brain Lord (CIB) $2
Lemmings .50 cents
Doom .50 cents
Sim City .50 cents
Daffy Duck Marvin Missions .50 cents
Mario Allstars + Super Mario World .50 cents
NBA Jam .50 cents

Gamecube games - Resident Evil 3 $2
Viewtiful Joe $2
Viewtiful Joe 2 $2

Game & Watch Super Mario Bros. $1

Goodwill finds:

Genesis games - Revenge of Shinobi (CIB) $1.99
NBA Jam T.E. (CIB) $1.99
Super Wretlemania (CIB) $1.99

[Cornelius]

Managed to pick up a couple of lots off CL recently. Much of it is for re-sale to pay for themselves, but I still needed enough of the games to make it worth my while.

Picked up the 19 NES games for $25 off CL, and Spot for $1.75 at a garage sale. That sale was interesting 'cause the guy would just always buy his son's friend's games whenever they wanted to upgrade. Only problem is he used to do flea markets and was using one of those price guides a store (funcoland?) used to put out. Outdated, though, cause $25 for MGS just won't fly anymore (although it looks like they've gone up recently since I only got ~$5 for mine a few months ago), And 8.50 for Donkey Kong Jr. Math was just too much for me. Almost bit on the sealed 7800 Galaga for 4.50, but I would have just be re-selling it.
http://home.comcast.net/~evanwink/images/games/finds21.jpg

More NES goodness... well, okayness. Paid 90 for the 38 games and zapper. The boxed games are in very nice shape.
http://home.comcast.net/~evanwink/images/games/finds23.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~evanwink/images/games/finds24.jpg

SNES games from the same guy as the previous lot... 20 for all of it.
http://home.comcast.net/~evanwink/images/games/finds22.jpg

ps/edit: I don't collect boxed NES games, so if anyone wants those two let me know/make an offer. I'd trade them for loose ones (w/ manual preferred) in decent condition for the cost of shipping and maybe another common NES game I don't have.

[Jimmy Yakapucci]

This one was actually a surprise find for me. I was at my local Goodwill today and saw that they had some Commodore 64 games for sale. I picked out one that looked kind of neat. It has the beat up box and instructions. It was called Sammy Lightfoot. Turns out that it is an R7! Not bad for $2.

JY

[NEOFREAK9189]

Mad Catz Universal Component Cable $10
gears of war x 360 $25
konami classics series arcade hit ds $20
GHOST RIDER EXTENDED EDITION BLU RAY DVD $24
Crime Fighters pcb $40
Taito Legends 2 for ps 2$14.99
capcom classics series 2 for ps2 $20

[Kitsune Sniper]

At the flea market this morning, some jerk got to a barrel full of video games before I did... He grabbed all the good ones, but for some reason he left Mega Man 3. It cost me $2.

[Atari 5200]

Not bad today...

http://i14.tinypic.com/6ftob40.jpg

My main find today was Telstar Regent (R7). It was pretty dirty but fired up just fine. :-D

[wallydawg]

Found some neat stuff today. All were $2 each :)
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/8863/albertoddesseyyr7.png

Hoping there are more Saturn games tomorrow as when I got those they were stocking the case. Didn't have time to stick around as I had to go to work lol