colicub
12-07-2007, 11:38 PM
OK, sorry mods if this is in the wrong place, but has anyone had any fantastic finds lately? Or even some fantastic baragain-acious ones ever? I've had a couple in the past few years or so (working at Gamestations all over Scotland had to have SOME benefits!) and just a few awesome chance encounters.
Some of the more memorable ones from the past: boxed, mint/near-mint SNES copies of Super Castlevania IV, Prince Of Persia and Chaos Engine for £3.99 each, CIB Japanese Mega Drive Batman, Fantasia and Runark for £1.49 each, CIB near-mint US Master System Castle Of Illusion for £3.99, all from Cash Converters (not on the same day, sadly!). A still sealed copy of F-Zero on the SNES for £7, numerous rare games at silly prices (£2.99 each for Zero The Kamikaze Squirrel on MD, Spiderman: Return of the Sinister Six, and 2 copies of Outrun 3D on the SMS, all CIB, for example), plus numerous free pirate Mega Drive and Gameboy games, all from working in Gamestation. Then, when our store became a Blockbuster, all our retro (ie. anything PSX and before) went down to £2.99 buy one get one free, so that added to my collection.
Last month, I went into Cash Generator on the off-chance that they'd had any retro traded in. That morning, someone had traded in their Saturn, so I got CIB copies of Discworld, Earthworm Jim 2, Guardian Heroes, Keio 2, Spot Goes To Hollywood, Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo, Tetris Plus, Wipeout 2097, Need For Speed, Fighting Vipers, Road Rash and a Saturn Memory Card for £12 total. And the next day, I got a Warhammer: Shadow Of The Horned Rat for £1.
Also, our store was clearing out our stockroom a few months ago, with a large amount of stuff just getting thrown out. From this stack of "junk" I rescued about 50 2600 carts, a few decent Spectrum games, a bunch of NGP and Lynx games, a new Dreamcast keyboard, and a Barcode Battler! Recent finds have been thinner on the ground, sadly, however I did recently get an unboxed Action 52 for the MD for £0.50 and a haul of Shenmue 1&2, Power Stone 2, Metropolis Street Racer and THPS2 on the Dreamcast and Point Blank 3 on PSX for a combined total of for a total of £8.97.
I'm running out of shelves. Thanks for letting me ramble.
Ummmm..........back to the point, have any of you had a truly awesome find? Like the sort of thing you'd tell your grandchildren, if you have any and they were retrogamers?
Some of the more memorable ones from the past: boxed, mint/near-mint SNES copies of Super Castlevania IV, Prince Of Persia and Chaos Engine for £3.99 each, CIB Japanese Mega Drive Batman, Fantasia and Runark for £1.49 each, CIB near-mint US Master System Castle Of Illusion for £3.99, all from Cash Converters (not on the same day, sadly!). A still sealed copy of F-Zero on the SNES for £7, numerous rare games at silly prices (£2.99 each for Zero The Kamikaze Squirrel on MD, Spiderman: Return of the Sinister Six, and 2 copies of Outrun 3D on the SMS, all CIB, for example), plus numerous free pirate Mega Drive and Gameboy games, all from working in Gamestation. Then, when our store became a Blockbuster, all our retro (ie. anything PSX and before) went down to £2.99 buy one get one free, so that added to my collection.
Last month, I went into Cash Generator on the off-chance that they'd had any retro traded in. That morning, someone had traded in their Saturn, so I got CIB copies of Discworld, Earthworm Jim 2, Guardian Heroes, Keio 2, Spot Goes To Hollywood, Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo, Tetris Plus, Wipeout 2097, Need For Speed, Fighting Vipers, Road Rash and a Saturn Memory Card for £12 total. And the next day, I got a Warhammer: Shadow Of The Horned Rat for £1.
Also, our store was clearing out our stockroom a few months ago, with a large amount of stuff just getting thrown out. From this stack of "junk" I rescued about 50 2600 carts, a few decent Spectrum games, a bunch of NGP and Lynx games, a new Dreamcast keyboard, and a Barcode Battler! Recent finds have been thinner on the ground, sadly, however I did recently get an unboxed Action 52 for the MD for £0.50 and a haul of Shenmue 1&2, Power Stone 2, Metropolis Street Racer and THPS2 on the Dreamcast and Point Blank 3 on PSX for a combined total of for a total of £8.97.
I'm running out of shelves. Thanks for letting me ramble.
Ummmm..........back to the point, have any of you had a truly awesome find? Like the sort of thing you'd tell your grandchildren, if you have any and they were retrogamers?