August 2009 Finds

[Cornelius]

You should probably also return that final fantasy III, there is a goodwill located close to my house if its convenient for you. :wink 2:

Send me the address, and I'll be sure to clean it ou... I mean return it there.

[NayusDante]

You should probably also return that final fantasy III, there is a goodwill located close to my house if its convenient for you. :wink 2:

Any chance that one would be for sale? I've been hurting to play it again, but all I have is the PSX version. I REALLY want to get it complete, but if you offered a good deal I'd pick up a loose copy in a heartbeat.

[BetaWolf47]

Ahh, that's just not fair. I've never owned a classic Final Fantasy game, and I keep seeing you guys getting 2 & 3 for pocket change.

[Kuros]

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k413/Kuros2/finds080409.jpg

SNES with:

Total Carnage, Super Mario RPG, Super Street Fighter 2 (2 copies), Mortal Kombat, Maui Mallard, Super Mario All Stars, DKC 2, Street Fighter 2 and Super Mario Kart - $30

Sim Earth (PC) - $2.20

[DigitalSpace]

Yesterday was a Sega day.

Genesis (all cart only):
Chester Cheetah: Wild Wild Quest
FIFA Soccer '95
Judge Dredd
Stargate
Valis III
$1 each

Game Gear (all cart only):
TaleSpin - $1
Zool: Ninja of the "Nth" Dimension - $1
T2: Judgment Day - $2

GTA IV map (for the 360 version) - free

[garagesaleking!!]

nice snes lot, where did you scavenge that up from?

[Kuros]

nice snes lot, where did you scavenge that up from?

Craigslist.

[hellfire]

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k413/Kuros2/finds080409.jpg

SNES with:

Total Carnage, Super Mario RPG, Super Street Fighter 2 (2 copies), Mortal Kombat, Maui Mallard, Super Mario All Stars, DKC 2, Street Fighter 2 and Super Mario Kart - $30

Sim Earth (PC) - $2.20

Im suprised the snes is not piss yellow.....

[ncman071]

just ordered a turbo grafx 16 with keith courage from estarland.com...luckily i had several spare snes's i was able to trade toward it. the price isn't great but not much more expensive than anything i've seen on ebay/amazon for a complete tg 16 system.

also just got Animaniacs volume one and mystery men both on dvd form amazon.com.

[SEGA_Queen]

I found a couple of nice things today.

First, I went to Value Village and found around 10 Sega Master System games for $2.99 each. But since I'm trying to stick to a budget, I just grabbed 3 games that looked the most interesting:

Ys: The Vanished Omens (Complete)

Aztec Adventure (Complete

Alex Kidd and the Lost Stars (Box & cart only)

Now I just need to find a cheap SMS or the Power Base Converter for the Genesis.

Then I went to a little collectible shop and bought Sword of Vermilion (complete and includes the hint book!) for $5.00.

[cityside75]

Picked up a Gameboy Player and disc for $1 at a Garage Sale.

Asking price was actually 50 cents, but I only had a dollar and didn't have the heart to take the GB player and my 50 cents change back, so I told him to keep the change ;)

It will make a nice bundle with the $5 Gamecube and $1 Zelda TP and $1 SSBM discs I picked up recently.

[Kuros]

Sweet find with the GBP.

[Ryaan1234]

Friday:

Got out to sales. There weren't many today :(.

I found Japanese (WTF How the heck did these get to Texas??) copies of Space Harrier and Aerial Assault (Game Gear) for $1 each at a garage sale. The lady said they were her son's and she didn't have anything else with it. Makes me wonder how the heck some Japanese Game Gear games ended up in Texas all by their lonesome.

At the same sale I got 2 copies of Pokemon Silver, one with one and without their labels for $3 and $1 respectively. I also got a copy of Pokemon Crystal for $3, which is nice :).

[BetaWolf47]

I found Japanese (WTF How the heck did these get to Texas??) copies of Space Harrier and Aerial Assault (Game Gear) for $1 each at a garage sale. The lady said they were her son's and she didn't have anything else with it. Makes me wonder how the heck some Japanese Game Gear games ended up in Texas all by their lonesome.
Hey, I've seen Japanese Game Boy games at Gamestops here in Florida, pretty much at the opposite end of the planet from Japan. You'd be surprised...

[Lostdwarf]

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii255/LostDwarfCards/IMG_7201.jpg

50 cents each at a garage sale

[Atarileaf]

A thrift store find:

NES games, buck each:

Tetris 2 w/manual
Renegade
Faxanadu w/manual
Crystalis w/manual
Nes Open Golf w/manual
Tecmo Super Bowl w/manual
Bad News Baseball w/manual
Swords and Serpents w/manual
Chris Evert & Ivan Lendl Top Players Tennis
T&C Surf Design
After Burner
TMNT
Blades of Steel

Guides: 50 cents each

Prima Turok Evolution (N64)
BradyGames Socom II (PS2)
Versus Books Starfox Adventures (GC)
Nintendo Power Eternal Darkness Sanity's Requiem (GC)
Prima's Half Life (Dreamcast)

Are those Guide books worth anything? For 50 cents I thought I'd grab them but I won't use them.

[Lostdwarf]

i can use the sanity's requim if you wanna trade it

mike

[darkslime]

i can use the sanity's requim if you wanna trade it

mikeSame here.

[Atarileaf]

Hmm. Whats a sanitys requiem guide worth?

Here's a video of everything including the guides. I was told on another forum that Half Life never made it to the Dreamcast but there's a Prima guide for it. Weird.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejC63QZiqA4

[ncman071]

i just got the TG 16 in the mail today already from estarland.com....i am really impressed with some very fast shipping. i just ordered this machine YESTERDAY!! Anyway, now i need to box my 2 snes's to ship to them to complete the trade.

Also, just got The complete first season of Generation 1 transformers on dvd as well as the star wars prequal trilogy.

[hellfire]

A thrift store find:

NES games, buck each:

Tetris 2 w/manual
Renegade
Faxanadu w/manual
Crystalis w/manual
Nes Open Golf w/manual
Tecmo Super Bowl w/manual
Bad News Baseball w/manual
Swords and Serpents w/manual
Chris Evert & Ivan Lendl Top Players Tennis
T&C Surf Design
After Burner
TMNT
Blades of Steel

Guides: 50 cents each

Prima Turok Evolution (N64)
BradyGames Socom II (PS2)
Versus Books Starfox Adventures (GC)
Nintendo Power Eternal Darkness Sanity's Requiem (GC)
Prima's Half Life (Dreamcast)

Are those Guide books worth anything? For 50 cents I thought I'd grab them but I won't use them.

half life never got released for dreamcast

[ncman071]

the prima guide did however come out for half life on the DC

[Atarileaf]

the prima guide did however come out for half life on the DC

Exactly, I wonder why that would happen. Were they told the game's coming out, make the guide and then it got shelved? (bad pun)

[hellfire]

Exactly, I wonder why that would happen. Were they told the game's coming out, make the guide and then it got shelved? (bad pun)

A couple people own a copy of half life for dreamcast

[Lostdwarf]

sanity guide on the bay is going for 0.99 - 34.95 depending on which guide

[Atarileaf]

sanity guide on the bay is going for 0.99 - 34.95 depending on which guide

Its the Official Guide From Nintendo Power.

[FOnewearl]

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Super Mario Sunshine (No Instruction Manual, PC)
Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness (Complete)
2 Different Pac-Man Glasses

$7

Got to this sale right at 8 as it's the same place that I got some Playstation, Saturn & PS2 games at over the last few years, they had GameCube games as part of the advertisement which was new this year. They still had a ton of said games left over from previous years as I expected. Glasses were .50 each and I offered $6 for 2 games (they were asking $5 each).

2x NESes & 2x 2600 controllers - $2

2nd sale today saw this marked for $2. This sale was also running on Thursday so I was surprised these lasted, maybe they just got put out on Friday or nobody was interested without any wires on Thursday even if they were dirt cheap.

x2 NES Controllers
Super Mario Bros 3
Tetris (Tengen Version)
Legend of Zelda, The (Gold In Plastic Case With Manual & Map)

$7

Asked about games at this sale, girl mentioned a brother who didn't live here but just happened to pop out the door as he just stopped by (he lived just down the street). He mentioned having some "doubles" and I came back about 20 minutes later. When I got back the brother was gone and I was told he was asking $40 if I was interested in all of them. It was just over 20 games & 6 controllers. I picked out what I got and offered $5, after a little back and forth ended up at $7.

[Lostdwarf]

Its the Official Guide From Nintendo Power.

what do you want for it?

[gokugohandave]

sweet find on those pacman glasses, i have the black and blue one, they might not be worth much who knows but its fucking awesome.

[Ryaan1234]

sweet find on those pacman glasses, i have the black and blue one, they might not be worth much who knows but its fucking awesome.
Just on a side note, did you know those glasses were originally sold at Arby's? Nothing wrong with that, I just thought it was an interesting factoid about them.

[jeffg]

I love Play N Trade
Got all the following there at hte buy 2 get 1 sale

I actually traded in a Sega Genesis/CD combo and got these games.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/jeff_in_edon/101_0969.jpg

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[Tupin]

Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel, boxed? It's worth like $20 loose, how much is it worth boxed?

I got mine for $6 loose a couple of months ago. :D

[jeffg]

actually complete and pretty close to mint.

That one made my day but the sonic blastman II is pretty tough and it is complete, not as nice as Zero.

They were all around $8.99 each then I got my 10% off from my card, then got buy 2 get 1 free, and got extra tradein for my genesis/cd combo.

[NayusDante]

Either your toes are bleeding or someone isn't good at removing nail polish. o_O

[InsaneDavid]

Either your toes are bleeding or someone isn't good at removing nail polish. o_O

Thank you for not making it me to be the first to point that out.

[Sonicwolf]

Thank you for not making it me to be the first to point that out.

Maybe someone cut their nails too short.

[The 1 2 P]

Either your toes are bleeding or someone isn't good at removing nail polish. o_O

Who takes pictures aiming the camera one way while their feet are coming in from another angle? Either thats someone else's feet or he's a contortionist. I'm going with the former.

[NayusDante]

Who takes pictures aiming the camera one way while their feet are coming in from another angle?

I don't know but maybe that's what led to the toe injury. :P

I think this is usually the point where someone just says "try not to get feet in your finds photos."

[Kitsune Sniper]

Friday:

Got out to sales. There weren't many today :(.

I found Japanese (WTF How the heck did these get to Texas??) copies of Space Harrier and Aerial Assault (Game Gear) for $1 each at a garage sale. The lady said they were her son's and she didn't have anything else with it. Makes me wonder how the heck some Japanese Game Gear games ended up in Texas all by their lonesome.

*AHEM*

You should pay more attention to my finds, I've found Japanese PS1 and PC games, Russian PC games, and lots more stuff over the years.

That said, I'm back home! Expect some finds as soon as I get my ass to the flea market in oh, four hours. :P

[Atarileaf]

what do you want for it?

Not sure. Its probably not worth more then $5. Not worth the hassle of shipping something like that and I don't have a paypal account.

[jeffg]

It is my 6 year old daughter's feet. Look at the feet size compared to the snes games, I am small guy but not that small

[Lostdwarf]

Not sure. Its probably not worth more then $5. Not worth the hassle of shipping something like that and I don't have a paypal account.

if your near NJ i can meet up with ya thats the only thing i can think of.

[Pezcore343]

Today at a flea market:

Alien 3 for Sega Genesis (in box, no manual)
Star Trek Star Fleet Academy (4 CD-ROM Set)

$2 each

[Atarileaf]

if your near NJ i can meet up with ya thats the only thing i can think of.

Nope, Canada. Sorry.

[Ryaan1234]

Well, I hoped for a better garage sale day today (saturday) but I found A SINGLE ZAPPER.

meh.

(But the zapper cost a dollar and it's mint in the original box. The zapper itself is in pristine condition so I'm not that disappointed)

I will be going to my local flea market tomorrow so I'm hoping for some good deals.

[Kuros]

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k413/Kuros2/finds080809.jpg

The day started crappy but quickly got a lot better.

32x complete in box with all cables, loose 32x system, Genesis 6 button controller, Sealed Mega Bomberman, Sealed T-Mek 32x and complete BlackThorne - $12

Wizards and Warriors, Tetris, Barbie, SMB/DH, Punch Out, Tiny Toons Buster Busts Loose, Super Game Boy, Mickey Mania, Lion King, Super Mario World, Mickey's Ultimate Challenge and a smelly NES themed bag (which is not pictured) - $12

I really gotta wash the bag

Friends Season 10 with Friends Birthday's DVD - $3

Virtual Fighter 5 - $5

Red Octane PS2 to Xbox/Gamecube/PC converter - $.50

Resident Evil Apocalypse BluRay - $1

PS2 Network Adapter - $10

(Not pictured) Bundle of Cat5 and USB cables - $.50

A good day.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Well, this was waiting for me when I got home:

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Office XP Professional with Publisher (OEM version) - I got that for a buck on the day I left on vacation. Heh. :p Gonna sell it here since eBay won't let me post it. And, Vandal Hearts is from Goozex. I forgot to set myself on vacation mode so I ended up getting it while I was away. The disc is scuffed and the manual is worn but it's in decent shape either way.

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Cart on the left: The Pinball Of The Dead! I got that for $5. I was originally planning on selling it on eBay since I already have the box and manual for it (I got it in one of DreamTR's $20 boxes a while back) but the prices seem to have tanked, so I'll keep it for myself. The CD... well, it's been at the flea market for about a month and a half now, and it kept catching my eye. I didn't expect to still see it there so I grabbed it. It needs a buffing but it should play fine. I have no idea what it is, but we'll see. It was $1.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j238/foxhack/DP/dp-2009-08-08c.jpg
Alien Vs Predator Gold Edition was $3 at one of my usual haunts. They had some Dreamcast games too (Gauntlet Legends, Mortal Kombat Gold Hot!New) but I didn't pick 'em up because I ran out of money. I may go back for 'em tomorrow. Hardcore ECW Revolution and Surfin' Sam were found in another booth among a pile of porn VCDs. o_O Surfin' Sam IS a porn game, I think - I grabbed it for MobyGames, honest! I thought the guy on the cover was Strong Guy - er, Gabriel Knight from GK2!

Finally, a booth that had a ton of Dreamcast jump packs for sale before I left still had them today! But it was closed. I'm going there tomorrow to see if I can negotiate a lower price for 'em so I can sell them on eBay.

[Damaramu]

A visit to a Goodwill yielded some good finds:

Star Craft - $1.99
Star Craft Brood War Expansion set - $2.99
No One Lives Forever - $1.99
INXS - Kick (a great album btw) - $3.99

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/Damaramu/stackogames.jpg

and most unexpectedly:

Bonk's Adventure - $2.99
Bonk's Revenge - $2.99
Turbo Express - $5.99

The games and system are minty. The system works great, has one dead pixel (not noticeable during play), but unfortunately has the audio problem (very low volume).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/Damaramu/turbo.jpg

This Goodwill location also had an NES Toploader bundle: System, hookups, two dogbone controllers and a stack of around 6-8 games for $49. I passed on it, however.

[PentiumMMX]

While the garage sales where weak, it still was an awesome week, mostly for the non-gaming finds.

- Namco Museum: Volume 3 (PSX. Non-GH in near mint condition): $2
- .hack//GU: Reminisce (PS2. In case for .hack//SIGN: Volume 6): $3

I may already have that particular .hack game, but considering that pawn shop sells all PS2 games for a flat rate of $10, it's quite a good deal (Because somebody stuck it in the case for a DVD, they took it in and sold it as such). Also, that copy of Namco Museum is in better shape than the old Greatest Hits copy I bought when the local Gamestop opened years ago.

Non-gaming items:
- 9 Star Trek VHS tapes (8 Original Series episodes and 1 TNG episode): $1 each
- Disney's The Black Cauldron (VHS. Used in near mint condition): $1
- .hack//Legend of the Twilight: Volume 1 (DVD. Used in very good condition): $3

All the Star Trek stuff is from the local Goodwill (All the tapes are in good playable order, though one I'm going to attempt to clean because of how dirty the inside is). Also, I need to track down a copy of Volume 2 of .hack//Legend of the Twilight...

[kobunheatforum]

I've been posting all of my finds on a semi-regular basis at Wired. I just finished a massive post full of pictures and even went so far as to list the DP Guide value for all of my readers... Maybe I went TOO far.

Anyway: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/08/weekend-thrifting/

I love these threads.

[sebastiankirchoff]

Went garage saling and didn't find much, just:

DS Game Case- Free
Empty 35mm Film Reel- .50

The film reel surprised me, since I have been looking for one for ages. It is an authentic reel that looks like it previously had film (people said there used to be film on it). It was originally 1.00, but I offered .50 and the guy took it. I will put it on my wall as decoration.

[Tupin]

Today, I got in the mail an external USB floppy drive so I can play all of my old floppy games.

[VACRMH]

Didn't find too much today but the price was right.

Super Mario All-Stars - $1
Star Trek: Federation Compilation (New in big box) - Free
Sim City 2000: Special Edition - Free

I was going to offer a buck or two for the PC games before the guy just said I could take them. Sim City has everything in the box....except for the disc :(

But there was a copy of C&C Red Alert in there ;)

[The 1 2 P]

It is my 6 year old daughter's feet. Look at the feet size compared to the snes games, I am small guy but not that small

I knew they weren't your feet. I'm not sure what the other guys were thinkingLOL

[FOnewearl]

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Boxed NES Action Set With 3x 1st Party Controllers, 1x 3rd Party Controller, A/V Cables, 1st Party System Cleaning Cart & N64 Superpad.

Games

Contra
Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off-Road *
Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt *
Wheel of Fortune *

$18

Got out late (10ish) and found this at the first sale I stopped at that wasen't on my list of sales. Asked about games and this and a boxed Genesis that was only the Genesis 2 & AC Adaptor were brought out. I looked it over offering $5 but that wasen't gonna happened as the guy said he was thinking $25 and gently mentioned something about how he was thinking about keeping it for his kid(s). I offered $15 from $20 and offered to meet him in the middle which he agreed on so I just went ahead and rounded up and gave him $18. Games with a * came with a slip cover.

The guy told me I could get a replacement AC Adaptor at GameStop, I've gotten this a few times at yardsales and everytime I have to politely explain that they haven't carried older stuff like this in ages lol.

Q*Bert (PSX, No Manual), 2 different Playstation Code Books - .75
Bo Jackson: Two Games In One (GB) - .25

2 different sales, they actually lowered the price for me on Q*Bert from a buck to .50 and the books were .10 each but I thanked them and said I didn't need the change.

For Bo Jackson, asked about games lady said she had some but after 5+ minutes came out with a brick gameboy and this in it saying that she couldn't find the rest. I wasen't interested really but she asked me if I wanted the game at least and I offered .25. She was kind of surprised that I wasen't really willing to offer a buck at least but I kindly explained that I would probably never play it as it's a sports game and she ended up just saying I could have it for .25.

Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko
Robotron X
Roll Away

$1.50

IAP was A Buck each took $1.50 for all three, all complete.

Sonic The Hedgehog Book - .05

Asking .25 but easily took the last of my silver change in a nickel :D

Dragon Warrior III (GBC) - $1-2

I got this with a Beyond The Far Side book for $2 total so I figured about a buck and change of that was for the game. Offered a buck for both (from $3 & .75) and countered with $2. This was pretty late also, probably about 1:30ish.

Sega Saturn (Model 1) With original 1st Party Controller, 3rd Party Controller, Iron Storm In The System! & 1st Party PS2 Controller

$3

It was really late in the day when I found this stuff (probably about 2) at an unadvertised sale on one of the main streets downtown. Younger girl running the sale asked $2 for the system & I offered $3 with the PS2 controller added in.

No Saturn games in sight just some PS1 games at this sale but I was happy with what was inside as I don't have Iron Storm but do have a manual I got free at a yardsale about 4 years ago. I hope the system works especially being a Model 1 (my Model 1 I got new when the Saturn first came out acts up) but I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't as it is rather dirty.

[FOnewearl]

Just on a side note, did you know those glasses were originally sold at Arby's? Nothing wrong with that, I just thought it was an interesting factoid about them.

Thanks for mentioning this as I was wondering where they came from. They had a TON of glasses at this sale and I figured they were from a fast food joint as I recognized some of the other ones from McDonnalds that they had (Flintstones & Garfield). These were the only Pac-Man ones they had.

Also nice find on the Turbo Express Damaramu.

[Damaramu]

Also nice find on the Turbo Express Damaramu.

Thanks! I found it sitting amongst old blenders, toasters, and phones at the very back of the store in the "electronics" section. I almost didn't go back there cause I've never really find anything good. Glad I did this time. LOL

[Pezcore343]

Today was an excellent day. Other than the two small finds I listed earlier (Star Trek Starfleet Academy for PC and Alien 3 for Genesis for 2 bucks each) I came home to find a package on my doorstep. It was shipped in an original Xbox box and taped like crazy. After getting it open I realized it was the Sega Master System I had won on eBay, however thanks to some convenient mixups I ended up getting it for free. Yay for clerical errors. It came with two controllers, AC adapter, RF and AV cables, and the following games:

After Burner
Bomber Raid
Cyborg Hunter
Double Dragon
Hang On/Safari Hunt
R-Type
Rampage

My first Master System so I'm pretty excited about it.

[Goodwill Hunter]

Friday & Saturday Finds:

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Picked up 4 NES boxes for a buck apiece from behind the counter of a used game store

8 PSX games for a buck each at a rummage

JVC Genny controller, GBC Frogger, GBC Pokemon (complete) $1.99 each at Goodwill

Xbox Spiderman $1.99 and XBOX360 sampler disc .99 at another Goddwill

And finally a post on CAG alerted me to the fact that the Best Buy in Brookfield had a bunch of games stickered at 50% off. Got Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway Collector’s Edition for $19.99 (was marked $49.99, but rang at $39.99) and Scene it 2 for $9.99. Still a bunch of 50% off games there for the Milwaukee crowd.

Rich

[InsaneDavid]

JVC Genny controller

Nice pickup on the JVC X'Eye controller.

[PapaStu]

And finally a post on CAG alerted me to the fact that the Best Buy in Brookfield had a bunch of games stickered at 50% off. Got Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway Collector’s Edition for $19.99 (was marked $49.99, but rang at $39.99) and Scene it 2 for $9.99. Still a bunch of 50% off games there for the Milwaukee crowd.

Rich

GAH! If they've got anymore i'd love one. Will gladly pay a bit extra for the time and travel+ shipping (for either Scene it or Brothers In Arms). Let me know!

[cowmando6]

I picked up this weekend:
Boxed Intellivision I with Intellivoice and 21 games (all with overlays):
B-17 Bomber
Bomb Squad
Space Spartans
Tron Maze-A-Thon
Space Hawk
Donkey Kong
Burgertime
Astrosmash
Frogger
Poker
Tron Deadly Discs
Space Armada
Lock 'N' Chase
Skiing
Beauty and the Beast
Auto Racing
Night Stalker
Snafu
Space Battle
Bump 'N' Jump
Armor Battle

Commodore 64 (sadly doesnt power up correctly) with 1541 disk drive, boxed 1530 cassette unit and games such as Snakman, Cutthroat, Realm of Impossibility and a bunch of arcade games such as Tapper and Frogger all on homemade discs

TRS-80 Color Computer
TRS-80 Color Computer 2

2 Wico "The Boss" joysticks with joystick adapter for the Ti-99/4a

All of the above was $10 at one tag sale

Spongebob: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman
Star Wars Racer: The Revenge
$1 each

Three Disney VHS movies $5

A Box full of Power Rangers Weapons $1
I'll post pics later, when I finish sorting through everything
All in all, a good day though :-)

[SamuraiSmurfette]

I usually don't post in the "finds" section unless I get a really GOOD find....
I pick up games all the time, and there's no point in listing everytime I get a Sega game at a yard sale for a buck, or buy the latest new release at EB Games.
That said, this week I had a FIND:

Found this bag at my local charity thrift. Couldn't really tell what was in it, because everything was piled together tightly in a heap. Looked like transformers bits and pieces, and for $3.75, I'd take a chance. But after taking everything out, and putting everything back together, I realized what I had:

2 Blitzwings with weapons
Complete Topspin + Twintwist
Complete Fastlane + Cloudraker
Inferno with some accessories
complete Thundercracker (cockpit is damaged, but I have an extra chassis to switch out)
And the grail: COMPLETE PREDAKING...ALL WEAPONS O.o

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/SamuraiSmurfette/PDRM2751.jpg

Keeping Predaking because he is AWESOME...rest will probably be up for grabs.
There's also a Jet-boat type 'transformer' (back right) in red/yellow/black. I don't know what this is. I thought that it's a knock off, but it's stamped "®Tomy Japan". Any Ideas?

also, silly old Pac-Man ceramic pencil holder $1.45

[Goodwill Hunter]

GAH! If they've got anymore i'd love one. Will gladly pay a bit extra for the time and travel+ shipping (for either Scene it or Brothers In Arms). Let me know!

I checked late this morning, but sadly those games were gone. Once something gets posted in this neck of the woods, it tends to go fast.

Rich

[Jimmy Yakapucci]

I hit the flea market today and took my wife and grandson along. Lately I have only had good luck when my wife has been with me. Maybe because we go later on those days, but I digress. Only picked up one item and it is not game related. I got a VHS tape of the unaired pilot episode (3 versions) of the US version of Red Dwarf. I only paid 50 cents for it. I got it from the woman who usually has a lot of pre-order goodies on her table. She had some demos and stuff, but nothing I wanted.

JY

[Ryaan1234]

Keeping Predaking because he is AWESOME...rest will probably be up for grabs.
There's also a Jet-boat type 'transformer' (back right) in red/yellow/black. I don't know what this is. I thought that it's a knock off, but it's stamped "®Tomy Japan". Any Ideas?


Firstly, nice G1 transformers! I only see one or two together at garage sales every once in a while, and they're usually broken in some way.

Tomy is a toy company that made electromechanical games and wind-up toys, not to mention the awesom Pac-man shaped tabletop game. That transformer is probably not a knock-off, just from another series of transforming toys. I seem to remember a series of Tomy robots called star-something. I might be wrong on that.

Sunday at flea market:


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Okay, firstly I got two empty cases and a bonus disc for Star Trek season 2 & 3 everything for $1. Now I need the CDs and all of the other stuff.

City of Villians was $2 and I think I might try it out. I got a SNES game and 3 NES games that I wanted for my collection for $13. It's Megaman 3, Deadly Towers, Prince of Persia, and Castlevania 3 if you can't tell.

The calculator is an early 80s Ti-30 II slide rule calculator. Apparently it's a rare first version of this model calculator. It's worth a little money methinks. It cost me $2.

http://ryaan1234.googlepages.com/finds070909-2.jpg
Speaking of 80s toys, I got all these for $14. They're mostly 3rd, 4th, and 5th series. I saw a few 2nd series with them also.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Good thing I went back to the flea market today... Someone I was looking for never showed up; maybe I'll have better luck later. As for the finds...

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j238/foxhack/DP/dp-2009-08-09a.jpg
I went back for MK Gold and Gauntlet Legends, and picked up NBA Showtime too. $9 for the lot. Super Dodge Ball and Maniac Mansion are dirty but should play fine, they were $3 each too.

Karaoke Revolution Country... well, there's a bit of a story behind it. I bought it from a guy who sets up during the weekend and sells games then, but he spends the other days of the week hunting for other stuff to sell, kinda like me (but he specializes in hardware, furniture, that sorta stuff). Anyway I figured I'd go say hi since I hadn't seen him in a month, and I noticed he was placing some games out. I asked about them and he had Karaoke Revolution Volume 1, KR American Idol, KR Country and I forget what other game. He told me that someone had asked him to get those games and even gave him a deposit, but he never went to get the games... and since it was a long time ago, he figured he'd sell the games and make back the money he spent getting them. (I'm sure he'll give back the deposit if the guy ever goes for his games.) He was asking for $15, and I hesitated, but I ended up buying it. Why?

I already have KR: Country, but my copy is really messed up and scratched;
I have KR Volume 1 and I can bundle it with KR Country to sell it on eBay. Heh. :p

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j238/foxhack/DP/dp-2009-08-09b.jpg
Acrobat: $2, new
CDs, $1 a pop

The booth where I got those CDs? I didn't even glance at it yesterday. The booth owner told me she had like 50 albums there and I missed out on most of 'em. Augh! Looks like they had tons of classic Jazz albums, too >_<

[Shaq-Funaki]

I got a nice Craigslist score today.



-SNES Mini w/ all the hookups and one controller

-Kirby's Dreamland 3

-Kirby Super Star

-Yoshi's Island (2 Copies)

-Super Metroid

-Donkey Kong Country 2

-Super Mario Kart

-Super Mario All-Stars (Player's Choice)

-Super Mario World

-Sunset Riders

-Mega Man X

-Starfox

-NBA Jam

-NBA Jam Tournament Edition

-Zoop

-Mortal Kombat

-Spiderman/X-Men Arcade's Revenge

-Batman Forever

-Super Gameboy



All for $65. I think I did pretty well.

[garagesaleking!!]

Man this pisses me off, my local bestbuy is a joke. They absolutely never have sales on anything. if i ever go and ask about clearance they are clueless and point at the regular priced games, he says some games in their are clearance because they are cheaper, im like no those are called platinum hits titles, not clearance lol.

[Kyle15]

Yes. :D
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i168/kyle152006/Commodore.jpg

The box itself is in wonderful condition, as are the contents. It didn't come with any manuals, though. It was $15!

OH YES! @_@
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i168/kyle152006/TheNeverhood.jpg

The manual is wonderful, and the disc is mint. I'm not sure if the case is supposed to have an insert or not. The outer box was missing, unfortunately.
This was $1!!

[Kitsune Sniper]

The manual is wonderful, and the disc is mint. I'm not sure if the case is supposed to have an insert or not. The outer box was missing, unfortunately.
This was $1!!

Yes, it should. But it doesn't matter, does it? ;)

[Kyle15]

Yes, it should. But it doesn't matter, does it? ;)

For a dollar, I don't suppose so. :)
Normally I'm really picky about such things, but there was no way I could pass this up for so little.

Any idea on what you'd rate the rarity? Its not in the DP guide.
Personally, I'd say maybe an R6 or R7. This is the very first copy I've ever seen.

[Streetball 21]

I'm going to post some find from last week, didnt have a chance to do it last week...

Hollywood Video sale, $4.99 each,

Harvest Moon-GC-complete
Blue Dragon-360-complete w/all 3 discs
Sonic Unleashed-360-complete
Burnout Revenge-XBOX-complete with black case/not a green XBOX case
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07-Wii-came w/only the rental case, no manual

Then the flea market finds,

PS1 games:
WWF Smackdown-complete
WCW Mayhem-complete
WCW Nitro-complete
Twisted Metal 2-complete
Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi-only with front insert, no instructions
Darkstalkers 3-missing instructions
WCW/NWO Revenge Prima Strategy Guide

Also found WWE Smackdown: Here Comes the Pain (PS2) with the strategy guide for $5.00. Last but not least, not a find but I bought Wii Sports Resort.

[Swamperon]

Browsed around charity shops earlier today, all they had was crappy over priced PS2 sports games and one had a few Xbox games but I passed as I don't have an Xbox.

Went to a second hand electronics store which always has a decent amount of games but can be very hit n miss with its prices (generally over priced). Ended up buying Sonic Compilation CIB for £4.99 which isn't bad as it usually goes for 10 or more on ebay/amazon.

Amusingly it has a sticker on the front depicting Knuckles punching a cigarette packet with the tag line: "Smoking - Who needs it?" with a 'summer tour 1995' hotline number to call. I guess Sega were concerned over kids' health!

[SEGA_Queen]

Ended up buying Sonic Compilation CIB for £4.99 which isn't bad as it usually goes for 10 or more on ebay/amazon.

Amusingly it has a sticker on the front depicting Knuckles punching a cigarette packet with the tag line: "Smoking - Who needs it?" with a 'summer tour 1995' hotline number to call. I guess Sega were concerned over kids' health!

Hey Swamperon, I'm interested in seeing that Knuckles sticker. Can you post a pic of it?