July 2007 Finds

[DigitalSpace]

Nothing that special today, but it beats going home empty-handed:

NES:
R.B.I Baseball (cart only, unlicensed) - 50 cents

This puts me at 130 NES games. :) It's also my second Tengen cart (the other one is Fantasy Zone), and the third unlicensed game in my NES collection (I also own Spiritual Warfare).

[incubus421]

Got "Guitar Hero Encore Rock the 80s" today. New release isn't so much a find but I did get mine for $40 as opposed to $50. I was in Wal-Mart and they were matching it to Best Buy's $40 pirce tag, so I had to grab it.

[Aussie2B]

A couple days ago I hit up several different stores and came home with:

From GameCrazy for 2.50 a piece:

Super Scope 6 (SNES) - loose
Battle Clash (SNES) - loose
Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge (SNES) - loose
Jurassic Park (Genesis) - loose

I was really happy with these since I only went because I figured they'd have Super Scope 6, which would help me complete the boxed Super Scope I got earlier. I wasn't expecting to find even more Super Scope games and getting the ones that are often regarded as the best games for the Super Scope makes it even better. Obviously, they're not rare or valuable, but it was good timing finding them there. :) I just threw in Jurassic Park since I don't know if you have to buy an even number of games to get the "2 for $5" price, and everything else was crap.

At GameStop:

Yggdra Union (GBA) - 19.99 sealed (I figure it'll probably never get much cheaper than this since it already seems there's not enough copies out there to meet the demand. I actually stopped in to look for Musashi for PS2, which I'm interested in getting now that I'm playing Brave Fencer Musashi on PS1, but I sort of missed the boat with that one. I should've picked up a copy when that clearance sale first started. Maybe I'll find a GameStop that still has a copy eventually.)

At a thrift:

The 7th Guest official strategy guide - 2.99 (I figured it would go nicely with the copy of the game I recently got.)
Star Wars: Rebel Assault (PC) - 2.99 complete (More random PC purchases, except this one seems like a real bust. I don't have any interest in the game myself, and it doesn't seem to be worth squat.)
Giant Sonic the Hedgehog plushie - 1.99 (This was such a moment finding it. I'm quickly walking through the mounds of stuffed animals, just barely looking for video game related stuff, and all of the sudden I see this huge blue-spiked head sticking out of the pile looking right at me. *yoink* Then I'm walking all over the store with this ridiculous thing, haha. And it definitely took my boyfriend by surprise when I held it out in front of me and walked through the door. Anyway, it's from 2005, and I'd say it's 2 and 1/2 to 3 feet tall. My mom, who's completely clueless about games, had never even heard of Sonic the Hedgehog before, and she's taken up calling him "Sputnik". Now we're all calling him that, haha.)

Finally, at another thrift:

Blaster Master 2 (Genesis) - 2.99 complete
An official Dreamcast controller - 2.99 (Looks practically brand new, and it's about time after all these years that I pick up a second controller.)

[cyberfluxor]

Got a few games today:
3DO:
ESPN Step Aerobics
Madden Football
Twisted: The Game Show (Demo - Not for sale)

- $1 each, all complete and in great conditions, no scratches.

[theshizzle3000]

Got "Guitar Hero Encore Rock the 80s" today. New release isn't so much a find but I did get mine for $40 as opposed to $50. I was in Wal-Mart and they were matching it to Best Buy's $40 pirce tag, so I had to grab it.

Yep I got this as well at Play'N'Trade except I used store credit to pick the whole thing up.

[98PaceCar]

Went to Play N Trade to pick up my GH80's preorder and found this:

http://www.mugzy.org/cm/albums/userpics/10003/P7240111.JPG

A bit rough and seems to make some noise through the audio outputs when I play a cd, but both the cart and disk work.

[bangtango]

In the past couple of days I have found the following items in the following locales:


From the local antique store:

-Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past loose cart for SNES: $0.50 (save battery is good)
-Super Mario World/All Stars loose combo cart for SNES: $0.50 (save battery is good)
-Evander Holyfield Boxing cart and manual for Game Gear: $0.50
-Madden 2002 disc and ex-rental case (no inserts) for Playstation: $2.00 (disc is in good shape)
-Velvet Revolver debut cd (complete and in good shape): $0.50
-Streets of Rage manual for Game Gear: free, the antique store owner said she remembers selling the game a year ago but the guy never took the manual with him


Yard Sale

-Original Game Boy, good condition and works (just missing the battery cover): $5


Goodwill (*)

-Tetris loose cart for Game Boy: $2
-Miner 2049'er loose cart for Atari 5200: $0.99 (I'll be selling this one probably)


*Passed up a shitload of insanely overpriced Dreamcast, NES, 2600 and Genesis games at the same Goodwill today, games I'd have eaten up if they were $1.99 or so. Thankfully one or two were sports games and they will rot on Goodwill's shelves for a few weeks before they bring the prices down to earth on a 50% off day or just a plain old markdown.

[DigitalSpace]

Got this today since Kamino recommended it to me after picking up a copy himself not too long ago. He says it's similar to Commando and after trying it out, I have to agree.

Game Boy Color:
Sgt. Rock On The Frontline (cart only) - $2.99

[InsaneDavid]

Yet another Tuesday at the local flea market. A couple quick showers the night before caused some of the vendors to bug out and not show up but by mid morning temperatures were already rapidly climbing and the hunt was on.

As usual, NES cartridges were the take of the day, Popeye and Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf were $2.50 each. I needed a copy of Popeye for my next RTM article (which I should be finishing up right now) and remembered that I was without a copy of Fighting Golf although I've always enjoyed the game. I picked up five more loose NES cartridges from a seller that's there all the time and always has the same games - but today something made me ask how much he wanted for his few NES carts. I guess the head vendor of the space wasn't there and one of his buddies was covering. He asked me how much I think I should pay because he doesn't know and I told him $2. He said he was going to go find the head guy and ask and I continued that $2 is what I spend over on the other side of the yard. (where I get big discounts from the two Chinese gentlemen that I buy from all the time, so it's not exactly a lie) He agreed and I picked up all but one of his NES carts. He had some Dreamcast commons as well but I didn't want to press my luck. Nothing great but good games, one hard to find title, and seven more holes in the list filled.

$2.00, NES - Adventures of Dino Riki
$2.00, NES - Kickle Cubicle (R5)
$2.00, NES - Kung Fu
$2.50, NES - Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf
$2.00, NES - Paperboy
$2.50, NES - Popeye
$2.00, NES - Pro Wrestling

http://www.classicplastic.net/digitalpress/DP-Finds-2007-07-24(01).jpg

The big junk wholesaler had a box of mixed DVD's, $2 a pop and I managed to find a copy of The Rocketeer - the most underrated Disney film second only to TRON. Ahhh, the film verson of Dave Stevens' masterwork. :D Over at the seller I mentioned earlier, the one that cuts me deals, I picked up a pair of GBC games. Pokemon Pinball was there last week but Link's Awakening DX was new this time. $5 a piece, $4 total savings.

$5.00, GBC - The Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening DX
$5.00, GBC - Pokemon Pinball

http://www.classicplastic.net/digitalpress/DP-Finds-2007-07-24(02).jpg

I've been having a lot of fun with Pokemon Pinball, must have spent at least three hours playing it today. The other GBC game is Commander Keen which I found at a Goodwill for $2.50 later in the day - I paid about $2.49 too much if you ask me - the perspective is just WAY too zoomed in for Commander Keen. Oh well, I'll either make even trade with my vendor friends next Tuesday (which would basically be like getting one of their games for half off) or sell it for $5 in an upcoming yard sale I have planned. Either way I double my money.

Sadly the seller that gave me that NES prototype last week wasn't there this time. ......really should have looked through all of his stuff last week.

[cyberfluxor]

InsaneDave:
I've been wanting to find The Rocketeer on laser disc for awhile now. It's one of my top Disney movies too.

[InsaneDavid]

InsaneDave:
I've been wanting to find The Rocketeer on laser disc for awhile now. It's one of my top Disney movies too.

Hopefully the print is better than the DVD, it's a little muddy in some places. This film really deserves to be restored and get a proper deluxe release instead of a standard no-frills version. I'd be willing to pay. Hell, I paid like $80 for my R2 Japanese restored Robot Carnival DVD. (the one that also has the Streamline Pictures English language track for Presence and A Tale of Two Robots) A lot of money for a single disc but hell, so much better than that bootlegish Chinese version that's everywhere for $8. Has a cool art book too.

[Mayhem]

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.

Nice going there :)

Guess that makes my work on the guide worthwhile heh... even beat up it might go for $30-40 on eBay, or more depending on the flutter of the butterfly wings...

[VACRMH]

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Otakon buys.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Flea Market..
I found-passed up some cool items ..Some unique tabletop games,Stuff I've never seen at a flea market.The WOW! factor was there for once...Somethings I saw I own already-want to sell now,that I had to buy on Ebay way back...Yet I can't even get the price on ebay that they want at the flea...
It was cool to see these things but not price wise....
I'm sorry but just because I see-find awesome stuff doesn't mean I have to pay the high price for it.these vendora are nuts..:beaten:..One guy hasn't sold a thing(game stuff) in months because he won't come down on his prices....His prices hit me in the head like a brick..

$65.00 for a Scratched up Gameboy SP?..with no plug..

I wound up seeing a lot but not buying anything..

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I got this Japanese stuff however>$5.00 Each..but it wasn't a flea market vendor on the table thing....It was from a friend vendor who brought the stuff for me specific..He got it for me from another seller elsewhere..

I wonder if I modify a N64 will it play these N64 games..They won't fit in the US unit..Two blocks inside,blocking..

I don't really know if I'm getting a good deal on this stuff as I've never really been into Japanese stuff..But I find it intriguing

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v21/Chris1/Pocket%20Bikes/38950d21.jpg

[InsaneDavid]

I wonder if I modify a N64 will it play these N64 games..They won't fit in the US unit..Two blocks inside,blocking..

They will, you have to cut those two blocks out of the cartridge slot. I usually open the system up, remove that piece of the assembly, and cut them out with a dremel. It's pretty much the same as removing the tabs from a Super Nintendo so that Super Famicom games will fit, but in that case you don't have to take anything apart and the tabs can be broken off with a pair of pliers.

[Videogamerdaryll]

They will, you have to cut those two blocks out of the cartridge slot. I usually open the system up, remove that piece of the assembly, and cut them out with a dremel. It's pretty much the same as removing the tabs from a Super Nintendo so that Super Famicom games will fit, but in that case you don't have to take anything apart and the tabs can be broken off with a pair of pliers.


Yup,yup..Thanks..I just did it,took like 5 minutes ..Cut them out,cleaned it up nice and it works..
I found the green part below in a standard black N64 system that I was cleaning up for a sale..So I put it in my US launch system.
Now with it in there and it cut I can look in the N64 and know it's modded.

Says on Screen FAMISTA 64 when I fire up the Baseball game..


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v21/Chris1/Pocket%20Bikes/b534c860.jpg
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I guess I should not buy the Japanese N64 system the guy has for $30.00 or is it worthwhile to pick it up for what it is?


Ohh..
Admittance to Stupidity by me::smash:

I took the lid off one N64,plugged it in with the Japanese game and got a Green Screen,then I popped in a US game and still the same....Cleaned the games,system contacts and same thing..Went back online to look for info in this worried I fried something.
Took more N64s apart and they did the same thing with US games ...Flipping out that something burned out as the first 64 worked with the lid on via US game.

I realize with the lids off the Ram chip isn't in and all you get is a green screen.....What a stupid ass I am..:embarrassed::embarrassed::embarrassed::embarr assed:

[InsaneDavid]

I guess I should not buy the Japanese N64 system the guy has for $30.00 or is it worthwhile to pick it up for what it is?

Japanese N64 really isn't worth much so I'd pass.


I realize with the lids off the Ram chip isn't in and all you get is a green screen.

I've done that a couple times myself.

[Putney]

A Craigslist lot from this weekend, $150 total:

http://www.creaigdunton.com/images/nintendolot.jpg

3xNES Toasters
NES Toploader (with dogbone)
Super NES
Mini SNES (doesn't seem to work)
3xN64's
PSOne

Variety of controllers and most cables for the systems (lots of NES Max's for some reason) and:

NES-
Vegas Dream
Xexyz
Jurassic Park
Back to the Future
Rescue Rangers
Bases Loaded II
Caesars Palace
Super Off Road
Bart vs. The Space Mutants
Tecmo Super Bowl (x3)
Wrestlemania
Ice Hockey
TMNT
P.O.W.
Yoshi
Iron Tank
Adventures in the Magic Kingdom
Jordan vs. Bird
SMB 3 (x3)
Adventure of Link (x2)
Jackal (x2)
Play Action Football
Double Dare
Jack Nicklaus Golf
SMB/Duck Hunt (x5)
RC Pro Am
Double Dragon 2
TMNT2
Super Mario 2
Tetris 2
Operation Wolf
Gotcha
1943
Darkwing Duck
Golf
RoadBlasters
Paperboy
Smash TV
Super Dodgeball
Ghostbusters 2
Excitebike
RBI Baseball
Cleaning Kit
Game Genie

SNES-
Mario Paint
Battleclash
Killer Instinct
Super Game Boy

N64-
007-The World is Not Enough (x2)
Waverace 64
NFL Blitz
Star Wars Episode 1 Racer
Rayman 2
Star Wars Rogue Squadron
1080 Snowboarding
Star Wars Shadows of the Empire
WCW/NOW Revenge
Army Men Sarge’s Heroes
Gameshark

Playstation-
Dukes of Hazzard (GH)
Rugrats
Oddworld Abe’s Odyssee (GH)
Pro Pinball: Big Race USA
Spongebob Squarepants (GH)
Rising Zan
Dragon Tales
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater (GH)
Tekken 3 (GH)
Tarzan
Casper: Friends around The World
Gran Turismo 2 (GH)
Tekken 2


All are loose except the PS1 games, which are mostly complete. Figure I'll repair the connectors on the NES's and put them on ebay, can probably make the money back on the consoles. Not sure about the Top Loader though, I know it's worth a decent chunk of change, but I've never had one. We'll see...

[Vinnysdad]

Been a slow month for me but I finally found something. Nothing too special.
Both for NES
10-Yard Fight-$1
Baseball Simulator 1.000-$1

[Steve W]

Stopped by a thrift, picked up a MadCatz GameCube LCD screen for $5.19, but with no cables or power supply to try it out. Also picked up a Gamester brand Xbox controller for the same price.

Went to a classic game store in Stonebriar Centre in Frisco, TX and bought a really sweet Logitech 3DO controller, very Saturn looking. Also bought a 'Champ' Colecovision numeric pad that I can plug Atari joysticks into, so I don't have to use the crap-tastic Coleco controllers. Both were $9.95 each.

The girl behind the counter of the game store was telling me how she bought a Neo-Geo at a Half-Price Book Store location with dozens of games for $200. I really hate myself for not going into Half-Price stores more. Deal of the century.

[DigitalSpace]

Got a Wendy's Frogger 2 toy for twenty five cents today. Can't provide a photo since I don't have a camera and couldn't find a decent photo on Google, but it's a little Frogger figurine with a small digital clock in his back. Unfortunately, the battery is dead and there doesn't seem to be a way I can open up the toy and replace it, but it'll still look good on the shelf.

[deaditeash2]

on Monday at Goodwill:

Half a dozen Atari 2600 Carts ($1 each) - loose that I needed (Breakaway IV, Pac-Man (Sears), Space Invaders, Missile Command, and Bugs (can't get working...ugh)

on Tuesday at another Goodwill:

Nintendo 64 System with two controllers, 1 memory card, and all hookups for $10 plus 5 games at $2 each (Super Mario 64, Mario Kart, Episode 1 Racer, Legend of Zelda, and Yoshi's Story).

Not bad I thought...

[aaron7]

No finds really but glad to see this thread is back!

[jcalder8]

I bought a Wii last night for 69 cents from Blockbuster. Thanks goes out to Roger's for making their sales so good that I was able to buy 5 games from them and almost have enough for a Wii, with a couple of my own games thrown in for good measure I was able to pick up this wii little system for less than a buck.

Now all I need is another Roger's sale so I can pick up a few games

[Cornelius]

Got scooped at the first sale I went to today... someone had already bought a nintendo and a bunch of games. grrr. Still had this one there with Toobin' one of the Namco Museums and Burnout for $14.
http://home.comcast.net/~evanwink/images/games/finds27.jpg

Then I picked up this gamecube lot for 90. I had thought the Hot Wheels game was Eternal Darkness until I had it in the car, but oh well. The LoZ: CE disc and MK:DD will be sold and maybe a couple of the others.
http://home.comcast.net/~evanwink/images/games/finds26.jpg

Last was the Lynx (actually Lynx II) for $15. I really waffled on this one, but figured I wasn't likely to see one in the wild again, and it had a few games so I picked it up. Now I've just got to figure out how to open the battery pack thing.
http://home.comcast.net/~evanwink/images/games/finds25.jpg
sorry some of the pics are blurry... unsteady hands I guess.

[orangest]

goodwill goodies:

-2600 heavy-sixer (SN# 31459) w/ grey power supply
-2 epyx 500xj controllers
-2 pair of paddle controllers (one that says "paddle", and one with the atari logo)
-1 pair of driving controllers
-a square cut out of the indy 500 box listing the game variations
-bowling, star ship, brain games, hunt & score, 01 combat, 11 indy 500, 12 street racer, miniature golf, pitfall (blue label)-all loose

$56, which is too much to pay, but my collector insanity wouldn't let me leave it there.

[Ryaan1234]

(I usually post at the end of the weekend but this find's too good to wait!)
Prepare for some PS1 goodness:

http://home.hot.rr.com/jmdavis/finds72707.jpg (http://home.hot.rr.com/jmdavis/)
I went to an estate sale expecting the stuffy usual estate sale stuff and I find my old English teacher is running it. And she has games!
These games were $2, $3, $4, and $5 apiece. The Bug's Life game was $1 at another sale :). It added up to a total of $30 (she let me have all the PS1 games for $29), including the free Game Gear manuals.
Games included(from top to bottom and left to right):

Disgaea: Hour of Darkness ($4)
A Bug's Life ($1)
Breath of Fire III ($3)
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (dreamcast?! what's this doing here?) ($3)
Final Fantasy IX ($4)
Final Fantasy Chronicles ($2)
Lunar 2 Eternal Blue Complete ($4)
Grandia ($3)
Warhammer: Dark Omen ($3)
Castlevania: Symphony of The Night ($3)

The sad part was that these games belonged to my English teacher's mom, who died of (lung) cancer (sounds like a cool lady). The other sad part is these games smell like cigarettes. The scent is not that bad. You really can't smell the smoke unless you put your nose right on the jewel case. She had some other games including Beyond the Beyond and a few others that she'd sell to me for a cheaper price if they are still at the sale tomorrow.

[misfits859]

Nice find Ryaan.

Here's my poor showing from Goodwill today:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v126/misfits859/DSC01163.jpg

[garagesaleking!!]

today i found at a thrift store hey you pikachu for n64 complete in the box but its missing the microphone, it has the voice unit though, pokemon stadium 2 complete in the box, super mario world for snes, and then i bought 5 gameboy advance games, but when i looked later i found out they were bootlegs, one of them says 130 in 1 and has mario and other games on it, they look kinda cheap. So nothing too great.

ya ryaan nice find!

[misfits859]

Probably my most unlikely yard sale find...ever. Walked up to a garage sale in the rain. First thing I notice is an assortment of wheelchairs, walkers and items you might find at an elderly persons home or estate auction. There is an older lady running the sale and sitting directly in front of her table is two large boxes of very nicely cared for PS2 games. I count 72 in all with each priced at $5. She explains that her grandson's family is preparing to go on vacation and she is selling his games so he can have some spending money. I picked out about five games I wanted (Monster Hunter, Gallop Racers, and some Koei titles) and then asked what kinda deal she would make for those games. She said I could have both boxes full for $1 per games. My jaw dropped and then I handed her a check. There was also about 10 PS1 games, a couple of Xbox titles and a Super Mario 64 DS. Fantastic deal!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v126/misfits859/DSC01165.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v126/misfits859/DSC01164.jpg

[thetoxicone]

Part two of the auction I picked up the atari items at last week. This week I checked it out and won a box of nes and snes items, including two nes systems, a snes mini, 29 nes games, and 4 snes games. Also for some strange reason the box also had 8-10 remote controls in it for various tv's and vcr's. Ended up being 20 nes games that i didn't already own and the other 9 have been added to my selling list.

[jeffg]

not too bad finds recently:
Guitar Hero II no guitar $7 at pawn shop
Karaoke Revolution volume 1 for PS2 complete $15
Singstar Rocks with both mics $15

NES
Castlevania III, Mega Man 6, Zelda $2.50 each

Ikaruga GC complete and mint $20
Mario Kart DD complete $7
Super Smash Brothers Melee GC complete $5
PSO I & II GC complete $15

[darkhades]

I found this Intellivision system at a garage sale this morning. I don't collect this stuff so I have no idea to the value of any of it. I got this all for $10. Did I get a good deal? All the games come complete with box, manual, and inserts.

[Cobra Commander]

I found this Intellivision system at a garage sale this morning. I don't collect this stuff so I have no idea to the value of any of it. I got this all for $10. Did I get a good deal? All the games come complete with box, manual, and inserts.
Damn. That's a good deal!
As for me, I picked up this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160141243156
I've never seen Gumshoe complete and clean like that for so little. I've been snapping up those black box games as fast as I can. I only have 8 left to complete my sub-collection.

[snes_collector]

Recent finds:

Contra- loose $2
Saturn w/ Genesis ac- $10
Mutant League Football- CIB $3
Super Robot Taisen: Origional Generation- new $20
CT Special Forces 2- loose $4

Now I need to find hookups and controllers for the Saturn

Also whats the cartrige slot on it for?

Passed up:
loose PSX- 10
Genesis with 2 controllers- 10
boxed Intellivision- 10(was that I good deal?)
CIB Genesis games- 3 each

[Perkar]

Atari 7800 system with POWER SUPPLY, rf, 2 controllers, and suitcase! $17

[joshnickerson]

Mega Man 6 $2.50


Nice! I wonder what's up with all the cheap Mega Man games lately?

Rainy day at the dirt mall for me, but I managed to walk away with a few things.

Chuck Rock SNES - $4
GI Joe: Atlantis Factor NES - $3
Uninvited NES - $2.50
Simpsons: Bart Vs. Space Mutants NES - $2.50

I didn't realize until after I'd paid and walked away that I had bought the CRAPPY GI Joe NES game... oh well.

[Kevin H]

These are over the past few weeks.
New Wavebird Controllers- 2 at 10.00 each
New Gameboy Gamecube players- 2 at 7.00 each
Spider-maze and Vulture Attack for Atari 2600 for 250.00
Bunch of Atari games- various prices. includes Hero, Up and Down, etc. None over 7 bucks though.
Gamecube- no controllers or wires. 5 bucks
N64- 1 buck
5 arcade games including Space Gun, Punch-out, Thunder-blade mini, Rally X mini, and Neo Geo cabaret 1 slot, plus one slot machine game for 650.00

[8-bitNesMan]

Had a pretty good day yesterday. Picked up a boxed Mario Party 6 (GC) and a boxed Time Crisis: Crisis Zone with the Gun Con 2 (PS2) for $25 at the local flea.

Also had a funny thing happen to me while I was there. I walked up on a guy setting up shop for the day and spotted a stack of 3 original Playstations and a ziploc bag with some games in it. I walked up to his table and asked him about them. He told me would make me a great deal on ALL of it. So I'm like alright, how much? Being dead serious, he calmly stated 400 dollars!!! WTF??!! So I'm like dude that's WAY too high and started to walk away. So then he's like alright how about 35? I think the guy may have been on crack or something;) He did have an original Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy VII, but everything else was junk or demo discs. He had a 64 and a PSOne also. I decided to pass on the "great" deal he was going to cut me in on, but I was interested in the FF VII. I inspected it, and sure enough, no disc 1. I had a $20 bill and two ones in my wallet. I told him there was a disc missing and that I would come back by if he would look for the disc among his wares. When I came back by, he had not found it. I really don't think he even bothered to look. The guy seemed more than a little off in the head. I told him I'd give him 2 dollars for that old Playstation game, as is:D At this point, he seemed offended. I told him without disc 1, it was pretty much useless. He said he had better hold onto it. I just figured $2 was a pretty good offer when he had wanted to sell the whole lot for $35. But I wished him good luck and moved on.

Later in the day, I went with some family and friends to Logan's Roadhouse to celebrate mine and my sister's birthday. After our meal, we went to Circuit City because I wanted to look at MP3 players. When we got there I went straight to the games (like I always do) to see if there were any deals to be had. I looked at the dwindling selection of last gen games. While browsing through the Cube games, I saw a Twilight Princess priced at $19.99. I took it up to the counter and had the salesgirl ring it up. She told me "54.08" I quietly pointed to the price sticker and said in a humble tone, "But ma'am this is priced at $19.99." Without a single word of argument she voided it off and sold it to me for the marked price. Score! Probably the last Cube game I'll ever buy new. Kinda makes me sentimental... Hope everyone has a Kick Ass week!

[Videogamerdaryll]

Flea Market Nice SNES System with Game $20.00

This is the "FIRM" $45.00 Snes system from last week..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v21/Chris1/Pocket%20Bikes/a47aa5df.jpg

Long Story,but after a major lost Wii in shipping ..
I have two now.
One will be for Sale..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v21/Chris1/Pocket%20Bikes/5de4a06e.jpg

[Kitsune Sniper]

Phantasmagoria II - A Puzzle of Flesh (PC) - $2. That was it, the flea market sucked. Again.

Oh, I got Resident Evil (PC) for $3 last thursday, but that was it. :(

[RadiantSvgun]

I recieved Puzzle Bobble 4 Artwork, manual and baggy from VideogamerDaryll yesterday. I don't have any cabinets of my own, but I love the artwork!

[Aussie2B]

Yet another stop at a thrift yesterday, and I got:

Warcraft: Orcs & Humans and Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness (PC) - 2.99 each complete in jewel cases but no outer packaging (I saw these the last time I was there, and I decided they'd be worth picking up to resell.)
Laser Lords (CD-i) - 2.99 complete (I've never seen a CD-i game in the wild before, so I just had to pick this up, haha. I don't even own the system, and I don't plan to get one any time soon either. Just the packaging alone was worth the purchase, though, with the horribly bad 2-headed green alien screen shot on the back and the iguana-man in a spaceship with a head set on the front.)
Snorlax Pokemon plushie - .49 (I'm not even into Pokemon much, but he's damn cute. :) )

And since I forgot the last time, he's all the stuff I've gotten recently from members here on the forums:

ColecoVision system with the following games: Space Fury, Pepper II, Cosmic Avenger, Looping, Zaxxon, Donkey Kong Jr., and Carnival
Dual Hearts (PS2)
Wings of Wor (Genesis)
SNES Super Scope receiver
Final Fantasy III (SNES) strategy guide (not the Nintendo Power one, but rather the one by Gary Olafson)

[jeffg]

Little road trip today:

1st is my Big Find
Miracle Piano System for SNES: Cartridge, piano, AC ADapter, Adapter to hook up to snes, foot pad. Missing the manual though Anyone have one for me?
$25 from Craigslist

Movie Trading Company
Thousand Arms 19.99
Turbo Grafx games $3.99 each, all complete
R-Type
Bonk's Adventure
Bonk's Revenge
Alien Crush
Sinistron

Zelda Collection for GC complete $9.99 at Pawn shop

Flea Market finds $45 for all
Yoshi's Island snes
DKC 1
DKC 2
DKC 3
contra for nes
mike tyson's punchout
tecmo bowl
metroid
super smash bros n64
mario 64 n64

[orangest]

neigborhood sunday swap meet, $3 each:

playstation:
romance of the three kingdoms IV-wall of fire (longbox)
final fantasy VIII (greatest hits)
jampack vol. 2
burstrick wake boarding (unopened)

dreamcast:
evolution-the world of sacred device
vigilante 8: second offense (there was also a burned copy of 18 wheeler inside the case)
south park rally
south park chef's luv shack
sonic adventure 2-the trial
street fighter III 3rd strike-fight for the future (japanese version)

[Azraelscross]

put down half for persona 3 and got Art of Fighting anthology a couple days ago.

and i bought FF VIII + OST*both complete* Ar Tonelico*With soundtrack. all sealed*, THUG 2*Sealed* , and all 3 xenosaga games plus bonus dvd*sealed and non-GH* on ebay. they should be coming any day now

kind of a pricey month.

[Borman]

Just make sure that OST is legit :)

[Azraelscross]

Just make sure that OST is legit :)
well. we'll find that out when it comes. i assume so because, unlike most think, some sellers are smart about weather what they have are boots or not

[Kitsune Sniper]

well. we'll find that out when it comes. i assume so because, unlike most think, some sellers are smart about weather what they have are boots or not

You'd be surprised at how many people buy OSTs off eBay thinking they're legit... even praising the sellers for pushing counterfeit items. Just look at GKWorld.

Also, yay, someone else bought AOF Anthology!

[Azraelscross]

You'd be surprised at how many people buy OSTs off eBay thinking they're legit... even praising the sellers for pushing counterfeit items. Just look at GKWorld.

Also, yay, someone else bought AOF Anthology!
not like i don't know that. but w/e. looks legit to me. and i bought AoF to see if i like it. and its ok so far i guess. haven't played much though

[cyberfluxor]

I have been passing up on lots of games lately, just haven't felt like buying much but I decided to drop $4 today for the hell of it: Galaxy Force II boxed, no manual for Genesis. A bit over priced, sure however it looked too much like After Burner to pass up on it. Also, I've only seen the game loose around here.

[Videogamerdaryll]

I recieved Puzzle Bobble 4 Artwork, manual and baggy from VideogamerDaryll yesterday. I don't have any cabinets of my own, but I love the artwork!


Awesome..Glad to hear,glad to hear..:)..

[Nesmaster]

Monster Madness
Forza 2
Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Resident Evil 4 (Wii)

$20 each.

[thetoxicone]

Well I figure I'd finally get around to posting a picture of my auction purchase from saturday

This is not including cords, and a couple snes games and 9 nes games that hit the tradelist.

[Kitsune Sniper]

I got ten Elebits plush figures for five bucks.

... What the hell am I going to do with them?! ;p

[BydoEmpire]

My CGE haul:
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/2889/im001110yk5.th.jpg (http://img129.imageshack.us/my.php?image=im001110yk5.jpg)

Nothing spectacular, but all within my budget (and didn't have to check luggage). The 2600 Jr was a buck, and my original 2600 is on the fritz so I couldn't pass that up. The 500XJ was a quarter - it fires every time you move, but the four directions work great, so for maze-type games, it's going to be perfect. I love that joystick. I've been wanting to get Venture II for a long time, too. I got the manual, but that didn't make it in the pic.

Got a couple of my carts signed (John Sohl signed my Astrosmash, Dave Warhol signed a Thunder Castle I picked up at the show, David Crane signed my Pitfall). I won the Astrosmash competition at the Retrotopia party, and won the Inty handheld, which I had signed by Keith Robinson.

I could have spent soooooooooooooooooo much money there, so I think I was pretty restrained.

[garagesaleking!!]

I found at a thrift store 42 nes games all complete in the box and all in mint condition for 2.49 each. They are some weird titles, they are not your typical find, there are no mario games or mega man games and no donkey kong, its some broderbund and taito games and others. The lady was putting these out as i was walking into the store and i bought all of them except like 8 of them that were sports stuff. Let me know how good this find was? thanks.

[Kitsune Sniper]

I mentioned a lot of 10 Elebits dolls a bit ago. Well I looked at them and found the runt of the litter.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j238/foxhack/DP/blindelebit.jpg

Dude's got no eyes! XD Wonder if this is worth anything...

[bangtango]

In the past couple of days, I have found the following items in the following locales:


Goodwill:

-Original grey Gameboy (works great and has the battery cover): $6
-NFL Quarterback Club 96 for Sega Genesis (complete): $2
-Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past loose cart for Super NES (the second copy of this game that I've found in the last two weeks): $3


Salvation Army:

-Three original Super NES controllers (all in good cosmetic shape): $1 each
-NHL 96 loose cart for Super NES: $2
-Williams Arcade Classics loose cart for Super NES: $2


Yard Sale:

-The Incredibles loose cart for Gameboy Advance: $4
-Tetris loose cart for original Gameboy (the second copy of this game that I've found in the last two weeks): $4


I am sad to report that I passed up a boxed R6 Super NES game today (Soldiers of Fortune), I need to find some time tomorrow and see if it is still there at Goodwill. Doubtful, I bet. Nothing I want to play and it only sells for $10-12 but it may make good trade bait. I assumed it was just another $4 R2 type of game.

[Xexyz]

I found at a thrift store 42 nes games all complete in the box and all in mint condition for 2.49 each. They are some weird titles, they are not your typical find, there are no mario games or mega man games and no donkey kong, its some broderbund and taito games and others. The lady was putting these out as i was walking into the store and i bought all of them except like 8 of them that were sports stuff. Let me know how good this find was? thanks.

Well, we can't do that without a listing of titles, or better yet, pictures!

[thetoxicone]

I found at a thrift store 42 nes games all complete in the box and all in mint condition for 2.49 each. They are some weird titles, they are not your typical find, there are no mario games or mega man games and no donkey kong, its some broderbund and taito games and others. The lady was putting these out as i was walking into the store and i bought all of them except like 8 of them that were sports stuff. Let me know how good this find was? thanks.

If one of the broderbund games was Dusty Diamond's Allstar softball you got a good deal on that...and I'd be glad to take it off your hands too.

[Aussie2B]

I just spent more than I probably ever have spent in a single visit to a thrift store today. I got:

The following complete Master System games for 2.99 each:

Great Baseball
Great Ice Hockey
Hang On/Safari Hunt
OutRun
Pro Wrestling
Rampage
Sports Pad Football

I got so excited when I saw all these Master System games since I've never seen any Master System stuff in the wild before. I bought every single one they had, although it's a shame that most of them are sports titles.

I also found and bought a Master System Light Phaser for 2.99. Between that and the Hang On/Safari Hunt combo cart, I figure these all came from someone who bought the Master System with Light Phaser bundle. I was really, REALLY hoping I'd find a Master System somewhere in the store, but search as I may, nothing turned up. I guess one was never brought in at all or somebody purchased the system and left everything else. Who knows, maybe there were so many sports carts because the games were picked over for more desirable titles? Oh well, doesn't matter regardless because I'm happy with what I got. This has been an interesting summer for me as far as game hunting goes. I haven't gotten anything amazing but I have been finding games for fairly obscure systems, as opposed to the usual Nintendo/Genesis/PlayStation finds. First ColecoVision, then CD-i, and now Master System.

I also found some other nice stuff at the thrift:

Tecmo Super Bowl (NES) - 2.99 loose (Gonna sell it, but I do get another NES sleeve to keep. :P )
Baseball Stars (NES) - 2.99 loose (Always happy to get more SNK games.)
Super Mario All-Stars (SNES) - 2.99 (Another to sell. Probably should've bought the Super Mario Bros. 2 that was there to sell as well, but meh.)

And for 4.99 a piece I got the following Genesis games:

Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure - with case (Because apparently there's some unwritten rule that I can't leave a thrift without a licensed Genesis game.)
Burning Force - with case
Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Quest - with case (For some reason I was thinking that there was a rare Beauty and the Beast game and that this was it? I must be losing it.)
Virtua Racing - complete

I kinda got burned by these since I was hesitant to spend that much on them to begin with, but I thought it wouldn't be so bad since they looked really mint and I figured they'd be complete. Turns out I was wrong and only one of the four was. Plus the Beauty and the Beast game wasn't even what I thought it was. Oh well, I figure most if not all of them should be pretty fun, at least.

[wallydawg]

I bought a lot of crap today lol.

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/1895/ataribs9.jpg
All games were CIB and $2. All 7800 except for River Raid (bought cause of a label variant) and Pole Position (which I thought was a 7800 game since it looked exactly like the rest of the 7800 games lol).

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/7798/nintendobz4.jpg
SNES not as yellowed as it looks in the picture $15. All games were $2. (also bought Jurassic park cart only for $1.50)

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/8206/othersyk0.jpg
NES games $1.50 each, ps1 games $2.50 each except for megaman, which is sealed for $7. The gamegear and joe montana was $1, the screen hardly works (picture is horribly faded green) and no sound.

[atariboy]

Went to flea market today and got:

Go! GO! Hypergrind For Gamecube
Sonic Gems Collection For Gamecube Both for a total of $15.

also got Green Gameboy missing battery cover but it was only $.50

I will post my CGE finds at a later time.

[misfits859]

Here are my finds for today. I was particularly happy about the Phantasy Star III hint book. Never ran up on any of those in the wild before. The COD2 360 game was on the five dollar rack at my local variety shop today. Sega CD's were $3 each, Game Gear's were $2 each and the SNES were $4 each. Ratchet and Jak were on the same $5 shelf as the COD2. Central Kentucky has an annual yard sale which runs down a prominent highway and invades about a dozen counties. It's this weekend and I'm looking forward to some nice finds. Anyway:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v126/misfits859/DSC01167.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v126/misfits859/DSC01166.jpg

[BydoEmpire]

I have been passing up on lots of games lately, just haven't felt like buying much but I decided to drop $4 today for the hell of it: Galaxy Force II boxed, no manual for Genesis.Galaxy Force II is one of those games I really WANT to like (being a big Afterburner/Space Harrier fan), but every time I pop it in I'm disappointed. The game feels awfully chopping, and just doesn't seem to control right. I thought at first it was the autofire I didn't care for, but I've switched to different configs and they don't help either. I think I paid $6 or thereabouts for it CIB. Every six months or so I think to myself "I haven't played GFII in a long time, it's probably better than I remember" but it never is. ;-)

[Videogamerdaryll]

Flea Market..

Though I'm selling most of my handheld-tabletop collection I just could not pass these up for 50 cent each.
Total $7.00 and they all work..


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v21/Chris1/Pocket%20Bikes/Wiis034.jpg

[Cornelius]

So I saw an ad on CL go up on the 25th for 79 snes games at 2 dollars per. I responded pretty quickly, but never heard back. Assumed they'd be gone, but on a lark last night I emailed again (ad was still up) and got a reply this morning. Went over to check them out, and the story is that the guy only got replies from people trying to offer him a dollar per or less (I'm sure my initial email got lost in the flurry). Well, the guy was really nice and let me pick through them although he later said he'd have been ticked if I only wanted a couple. Didn't actually find anything that great like I expected to. The odds seemed pretty good out 79 games, but oh well, I still had trouble controlling myself, and picked up 40 of them. I'm sure I left something good behind since I don't know my SNES games well. Now the best thing could be yet to come, since he said he had 2 more boxes like that in storage, and that because I was polite in my email and on the phone and didn't try to jack around with the price, he'd call me first when he digs them out in a week. So, keeping my fingers crossed on that.

The games I got: AAAHH!!! Real Monsters, Battle Cars, Battle Clash, Battletoads/DD, Bugs Rabbit Rampage, Captain Commando, Chester Cheetah, Choplifter III, Claymates, Daffy Duck, Darius Twin, Earth Defense Force, Great Waldo Search, Gun Force, HyperZone, Incredible Crash Dummies, Inspector Gadget, Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings, Joe and Mac, Kirby's Dream Course, Lester the Unlucky, Lost Vikings, Maui Mallard, Road Riot, Road Runner's, Skyblazer, Speed Racer, Spider-Man/Xmen, Stuunt Race FX, Super Adventure Island, Super Empire, Super Mario Kart, Super Mario RPG, Yoshi's Island, Taz Mania, Tetris Attack, Turtles IV, Wing Commander, World Cup USA 94, Yoshi's Cookie

[Gapporin]

Picked these up at the Goodwill:

Bedlam (PC, sealed) - $2
Nintendogs: Lab And Friends (DS, sealed) - $10

Not everyday you find brand new games at the thrift store.

[Jimmy Yakapucci]

Today I received a package in the mail from a friend who moved to Korea a little while back. He sent me the Japanese Mega Drive versions of Phantasy Star III and Sword of Vermillion. All in all, a very nice little present.

JY

[bangtango]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v21/Chris1/Pocket%20Bikes/Wiis034.jpg

That yellow "talking" baseball game you grabbed, I had the very same one when I was a kid. It was one of my favorite handheld games when I was younger. I loved that one, the fact it actually used real players was cool. The blue Pinball was another favorite and I used to own Lights Out. That is a good find.