January 2015 Finds

[orangest]

Happy still sort of New Year.

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Japanese PS1 Monster Farm 2-$1.99 at Salvation Army.

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2 Skylander Trap Team Orchestral Score CDs, both shrink wrapped-$1.99 each at Goodwill.

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Valis IV: The Fantasm Soldier for PC Engine-$2.99 at a different Salvation Army.

[Niku-Sama]

PS2 Taiko drum master for 5 bucks.
Every thing but the game it self...kinda odd but I'm sure I can find the game cheap, even have the manual to the disc. Ok shape overall, not good but not bad

[Enmity]

Helped a friend move over the weekend and he ended up giving me a bunch of stuff as we packed.

Megabloks
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empty boxes
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A little scratched
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iomega SCSI to USB adapter ( sell for a stupid amount on ebay )
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[camarotuner]

320gb PS3 Slim - 115 bucks

I've killed 2 PS3's so far, here's to hoping number 3 lives. In amazing cosmetic condition, came with the Sony brand HDMI cable, dual shock 3, and the other cables, yay.

WiiU - retail price (300)

I finally bought one, I wanted to play mario, speaking of which...

New Super Mario Wii U - 35
Call of Duty Black Ops 2 PS3 - 25
Batman Arkham Origins PS3 - Free
(B2G1 at Gamestop)

I was also given a gamecube compatible white wii for free because the owner bought a wiiu and didn't want it. So I added it to my collection just because.

Most I've bought in quite some time.

[Niku-Sama]

nice, gamecube compatable wii with component, you'll like it even more

[PutUrQuarterUp]

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Ushered in the new year with an amazing find. 68 complete in box Sega Genesis games in mint condition. Paid $3 a piece at Goodwill.

Lot includes the following titles:

Alisia Dragoon
Atomic Runner
Batman Returns
Beast Wrestler
Beauty & The Beast Belles Quest
Buck Rodgers Countdown to doomsday
Bulls Vs Lakers and the NBA Playoffs
Cadash
Captain America & The Avengers
Catlevania Bloodlines
Championship Pro AM
Contra Hard Corps
Desert Demolition Starring Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
Devilish
Dragons Fury
Dynamite Headdy
Earnest Evans
Earthworm Jim 2
Fatal Fury
Gaiares
Galahad
Galaxy Force
General Chaos
Golden Axe 2
Gunstar Heroes
Hellfire
Immortal
Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
James Pond Underwater Agent
Jerry Glanvilles Pigskin Footbrawl
Krusty’s Super Fun House
Light Crusader
Lost Vikings
Marble Madness
Mega Turrican
Menacer
Micro Machines
Midnight Resistance
Ms. Pac Man
Out of the World
Outlander
Pink Goes To Hollywood
Priates! Gold
Pit Fighter
Ranger X
Ristar
Shadow Dancer
Shadow Of The Beast
Shining Force
Splatterhouse 2
Splatterhouse 3
Spot Goes To Hollywood
Steel Empire
Strider
Strider Returns
Sub Terrania
Sunset Riders
Super Battletank
Tecmo World Cup
Toe Jam & Earl
Toe Jam & Earl Panic On Funkotron
Toughman Contest
Urban Strike Sequal to Jungle syrike
Virtual Pinball
Winter Challenge
Wiz N Liz
World Of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck
Zero The Kamikaze Squirrel

[xelement5x]

That is a hell of a find. Color me jelly.

[DK1105]

Oh that is my dream find right there. Sell off what would be double and it pays for itself.

[Cornelius]

Some nice finds already this year! Keep it up!

My minor find was two Playstation Move Navigation controllers bagged with a PSP Go AC adapter block (no cords) for $15. Nothing special, but I never had a navi controller. Both charged on the computer fine, but I haven't had my move camera setup for years, so haven't tested them yet.

[camarotuner]

nice, gamecube compatable wii with component, you'll like it even more

Ironically due to my TV setup I have 3 options for connections, HDMI, Coaxial, or Composite. The composite cables run to the switch boxes and take up the only component spot on the set. But it looks fine with just the composite cables. Plus if it's a wii game I can always just play it on the Wiiu which is using HDMI to get the crisper looking graphics. I think. Hell half the time I'm just happy to figure a way to keep everything wired correctly lol

[Gameguy]

That Genesis bundle is pretty amazing. I wish games turned up like that in my area. It's really been awhile since I've found any good Genesis games like that.

[8-Bit Archeology]

Great finds, just wow.

I did have a cool find. It's not retro or anything, but I got 11 of the first amiibo's all but the princess. and I traded Marth for a Pachislo Slot Machine. I am keeping Villager since I am a huge Animal Crossing fan. I got all of those for $60 from a guy at my warehouse. Then a buddy of mine showed up with a Pit Amiibo for my late birthday present. Pretty awesome to me. Oh wait no I did get one game I mentioned it in a thread already. I got a complete Jurassic Park Genesis Operation for Xbox for $60 on ebay. It was to replace my damaged and unplayable copy. My same friend told me I might be able to sell just the case and manual from my old copy and make most of it back. I love that game, I have spent at least 15 hours on it so far.

[PutUrQuarterUp]

@DK1105: That was the plan all along. I already had complete copies of a few of the higher end titles like Castlevania: Bloodlines and Gunstar Heroes, and I was also able to upgrade titles such as Splatterhouse 2 & 3 and Contra: Hard Corps to complete copies. I was fortunate enough to actually turn a nice profit on this lot while adding a major portion of the Genesis library to my collection for free.

@Gameguy: I can definitely relate to the lack of quality Genesis titles in the wild. Prior to this group the only Genesis game I have added to my collection in the past year was Soldier of Fortune. I was home for the holidays when I found this lot and luckily I had decided to stay in town for New Years for the first time in three years.

[Niku-Sama]

Oddly enough that missing copy of taiko drum master from my above post showed up at a different good will than the one I found the controller box and everything else at. So with the game and case I have an o.k.condition complete taiko drum master for ps2, game was 4 bucks, the box, controller, ect was 3. Hours clan it up a bit

[SparTonberry]

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I missed just one card in the Game Boy trading card set. I remember those. They came in a Game Boy-shaped pack of gum in like 1993.
(I remember because I have them right next to my incomplete Nintendo Power trading card set.)
I imagine the Game Gear was another of the same.
I remember the game tips on those cards were pretty stupid. Like for Metroid II "try to save with full health and missiles so you'll be ready for the next attempt." :P

Looking the Game Gear cards "... 14 cards... representing 4 different games..." I see 5 games right there. :D

[Flashback2012]

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Ushered in the new year with an amazing find. 68 complete in box Sega Genesis games in mint condition. Paid $3 a piece at Goodwill.

Lot includes the following titles:

Alisia Dragoon
Atomic Runner
Batman Returns
Beast Wrestler
Beauty & The Beast Belles Quest
Buck Rodgers Countdown to doomsday
Bulls Vs Lakers and the NBA Playoffs
Cadash
Captain America & The Avengers
Catlevania Bloodlines
Championship Pro AM
Contra Hard Corps
Desert Demolition Starring Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
Devilish
Dragons Fury
Dynamite Headdy
Earnest Evans
Earthworm Jim 2
Fatal Fury
Gaiares
Galahad
Galaxy Force
General Chaos
Golden Axe 2
Gunstar Heroes
Hellfire
Immortal
Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
James Pond Underwater Agent
Jerry Glanvilles Pigskin Footbrawl
Krusty’s Super Fun House
Light Crusader
Lost Vikings
Marble Madness
Mega Turrican
Menacer
Micro Machines
Midnight Resistance
Ms. Pac Man
Out of the World
Outlander
Pink Goes To Hollywood
Priates! Gold
Pit Fighter
Ranger X
Ristar
Shadow Dancer
Shadow Of The Beast
Shining Force
Splatterhouse 2
Splatterhouse 3
Spot Goes To Hollywood
Steel Empire
Strider
Strider Returns
Sub Terrania
Sunset Riders
Super Battletank
Tecmo World Cup
Toe Jam & Earl
Toe Jam & Earl Panic On Funkotron
Toughman Contest
Urban Strike Sequal to Jungle syrike
Virtual Pinball
Winter Challenge
Wiz N Liz
World Of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck
Zero The Kamikaze Squirrel


That is an AMAZING find! :yipes:

Whoever owned that collection previously, they had good taste in games. :)

The best I've been able to come up with so far this month is a copy of One Piece Ulimited World Red Day One Edition for PS Vita that was priced at $17.99.

[Enmity]

I missed just one card in the Game Boy trading card set. I remember those. They came in a Game Boy-shaped pack of gum in like 1993.
(I remember because I have them right next to my incomplete Nintendo Power trading card set.)
I imagine the Game Gear was another of the same.
I remember the game tips on those cards were pretty stupid. Like for Metroid II "try to save with full health and missiles so you'll be ready for the next attempt." :P

Looking the Game Gear cards "... 14 cards... representing 4 different games..." I see 5 games right there. :D

There are actually 4 sets 2 sets for each system. Their numbering system is weird. I don't have them all pictured here, but I have a pretty big stack of them.

[PutUrQuarterUp]

That is an AMAZING find! :yipes:

Whoever owned that collection previously, they had good taste in games. :)



Believe it or not that wasn't the entire group that was donated. There was actually over 30 more games in the lot, the majority of them being great titles also, but they were all doubles for me that weren't worth the trouble of trying to flip. Based on their pristine condition I would say that they were most likely adult owned. I'm still amazed that these didn't end up on the Goodwill auction site instead of the children's VHS section where I found them.

[Sailorneorune]

Maybe the sort person that day thought brightly-colored cardboard boxes = kids' videos?

Stranger things have happened.

I picked up Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (Dreamcast CIB US version) for $20 over the weekend. This will replace the disc-only copy I got at a yard sale several years ago. :)

[Niku-Sama]

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate for $19 shipped off of amazon for Wii U
seems to me that its no longer in print so I grabbed it

[kai123]

It has been a long time since I have got a good deal on Ebay. The seller listed it as broken not working but I only wanted one thing from the auction...that broadband adapter. Well I got all of it in today and this is everything else the seller had. The discs are in good shape with light scratches and it turns out that everything works. The system is a little loud but what DC isn't? It is a VA0 as well so I have the metal heatsink. This is a nice addtion to my aleady decent DC collection. The price? $81. So happy with this.

[calgon]

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Ushered in the new year with an amazing find. 68 complete in box Sega Genesis games in mint condition. Paid $3 a piece at Goodwill.

Lot includes the following titles:

Alisia Dragoon
Atomic Runner
Batman Returns
Beast Wrestler
Beauty & The Beast Belles Quest
Buck Rodgers Countdown to doomsday
Bulls Vs Lakers and the NBA Playoffs
Cadash
Captain America & The Avengers
Catlevania Bloodlines
Championship Pro AM
Contra Hard Corps
Desert Demolition Starring Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
Devilish
Dragons Fury
Dynamite Headdy
Earnest Evans
Earthworm Jim 2
Fatal Fury
Gaiares
Galahad
Galaxy Force
General Chaos
Golden Axe 2
Gunstar Heroes
Hellfire
Immortal
Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
James Pond Underwater Agent
Jerry Glanvilles Pigskin Footbrawl
Krusty’s Super Fun House
Light Crusader
Lost Vikings
Marble Madness
Mega Turrican
Menacer
Micro Machines
Midnight Resistance
Ms. Pac Man
Out of the World
Outlander
Pink Goes To Hollywood
Priates! Gold
Pit Fighter
Ranger X
Ristar
Shadow Dancer
Shadow Of The Beast
Shining Force
Splatterhouse 2
Splatterhouse 3
Spot Goes To Hollywood
Steel Empire
Strider
Strider Returns
Sub Terrania
Sunset Riders
Super Battletank
Tecmo World Cup
Toe Jam & Earl
Toe Jam & Earl Panic On Funkotron
Toughman Contest
Urban Strike Sequal to Jungle syrike
Virtual Pinball
Winter Challenge
Wiz N Liz
World Of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck
Zero The Kamikaze Squirrel

Holy shit...........let me know if you ever want to part with any of these. Jealous!

[Niku-Sama]

It has been a long time since I have got a good deal on Ebay. The seller listed it as broken not working but I only wanted one thing from the auction...that broadband adapter. Well I got all of it in today and this is everything else the seller had. The discs are in good shape with light scratches and it turns out that everything works. The system is a little loud but what DC isn't? It is a VA0 as well so I have the metal heatsink. This is a nice addtion to my aleady decent DC collection. The price? $81. So happy with this.

slap in that copy of UT I se in the top right and pop it on. see if you can connect to a game!

[kai123]

slap in that copy of UT I se in the top right and pop it on. see if you can connect to a game!

I just put in a random IP to see if it would kick the light on my router and seems to work fine. Now to find some servers that are still active. I know PSO has some still going....or used to.

[xelement5x]

Holy shit...........let me know if you ever want to part with any of these. Jealous!

From above posts it sounds like the poster already sold off a lot of them to make his funds back.

[Tanooki]

That is still sold or not an impressive goodwill of all places pick up. Genesis stuff in that shape I rarely see and that was here or in CA where I found so much stuff a few years back. Sega stuff just doesn't seem to turn up in quantity or quality complete.

I had a small find of a few games this weekend I'm pleased with. $9 got me Classic NES Donkey Kong and Dr Mario/Puzzle League GBA yesterday, and this afternoon $5(plus a little credit) got me a CIB Metroid Fusion too.

I don't find much anymore, and definitely not during the cold parts of the year so it was nice to see. I was more surprised by the cheap duo of games because usually Half Price Books likes to highest price ebay BIN the damn games so I rarely go there anymore (used to go a few times a week, same with another place too in town.)

[PutUrQuarterUp]

From above posts it sounds like the poster already sold off a lot of them to make his funds back.

I actually only sold 6 of the games shown in the photo and three loose games that I upgraded to CIB thanks to this find. Everything else went towards my personal collection.

[xelement5x]

I actually only sold 6 of the games shown in the photo and three loose games that I upgraded to CIB thanks to this find. Everything else went towards my personal collection.

Nice! That's a hell of a collection bump then!

[recorderdude]

Hoo boy, been a while since I posted finds. I suppose I'll just limit 'em to this month, then.

Broken SEGA CD2+OK Genesis 2 - Free? - Technically paid $60 for this - it was described as working perfectly, but when I got it, no games or CDs would read in it. Got a full refund and seller insisted I keep it for all the trouble I'd gone through to get it, so *technically* free?

Flintstones (Genesis) - $15 - Cart only in good condition, this one was a bitch to find but I'm glad I finally got it.
Outrunners (Genesis) - $6 - Cart only, practically new. I've gotten more into the Outrun series recently and this one was a decent price.
Caliber 50 (Genesis) - $7 - Cart only, perfect condition after a little cleaning. I already had a CiB wardner and figured I'd try to get the other Mentrix games too - Championship Bowling is the only one left to get, now.
Junction (Genesis) - $3 - Cart only, yet to receive. Always had a little interest in perhaps Konami's strangest licensing choice, and $3 sounded about right for it. The music is pretty.
Desert Demolition (Genesis) - CiB - $5 - Absolutely love this game, but it's so damn common I decided a while back I'd only get if if I found it CiB. I did, and essentially paid the loose price for it.

Gamegear weird variety lot - $27
Quite possibly the strangest combination lot I've acquired.
GG (Broken, like 99% of GGs)
GG Case
2 AC Adapters with 3 power tips for GG, GB, or GBP/GBC
11 GG Games -
Mappy (Import)
Tails Adventure (Import)
Lemmings
Ms Pac Man
Sonic 1
Sonic 2
Streets of Rage 2
5 in 1 Fun Pak
World Series Baseball
Columns
US Olympic Winter Games
A Clear GBC (Works perfectly!)
Gameboy Camera
Gameboy Printer
Legend of River King (Black Cart, not listed but was in the GBC when I got it)
SEGA Nomad Powerback (Broken, will probably resell it to someone who wants to make a functional pack out of it with new batteries and use the cash to get one that takes AAs)

Gamegear Import Lot - $27 - Lots of surprisingly good JP-exclusive but English-Speaker friendly licensed GG games in it, most of which are a bitch to find cheap.

Doraemon (platformer)
Yaiba (variety/platformer)
Magical Taruruto Kun (cute em up)
Ninku Gaiden (From what I've seen, essentially Pengo)
Yu Yu Hakusho (Streets of Rage style beatemup/Punchout-y fighter)
Yu Yu Hakusho 2 (Charge-Power fighter-y game?)
From TV Animation Slam Dunk (Basketball, probably won't play)
Dodge Danpei (Soccer, Meh)
Magic Knight Rayearth (RPG, no way I can understand it)
Gambler something (Gambling game, meh)

I also got some SEGA CD games when I'd assumed my SCD was going to work, but I sill intend to play them after I get it working.

SEGA CD Game lot (just discs) - $9
Sewer Shark
Lethal Enforcers
Stellar-Fire
WWF Rage in the Cage
Ground Zero Texas Both Discs
Sherlock Holmes Vol II Both Discs
Fifa Soccer
NHL 94

SEGA CD Game lot 2 (just discs)- $5
Batman Returns
Chuck Rock
AH-3 Thunder Strike
SEGA Classics Yellow
SEGA Classics Blue
Sewer Shark
Sherlock Holmes Vol II disc 1

Well, that's enough catching up and cataloguing for now. I've got games to play!

[Deadman]

Been FOREVER since I posted any finds, so here are mine for the month of January:

Craigslist find - SNES lot $45
- SNES console - very yellowed (will use for my first custom console paintjob!) with all connections
- Controller - works but very worn/yellowed as well
- 3 games - Porky Pig, Lion King, Super Mario World

Transformers Beast Wars Transmetals for N64 - loose $25
Freedom Wars (Vita) - free (with credit from Best Buy for them missing a delivery before Xmas)

[SEGA_Queen]

Unfortunately for me, I was laid off from my job on Friday. :( So the following purchases are probably going to be my last for a while:


Alcatel Pop Icon Smart Phone (New) - $79.99

I picked this up during Future Shop's Black Friday sale and got it unlocked. It doesn't have the same specs as a higher end phone. But I only really use it for texting, calls, and a handful of apps, so it works great for my needs.


Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation (Used, Complete) - $9.99

Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (Used, Complete) - $14.99

Infinite Space (Used, Complete) - $14.99

Rayman 3D (Used, Complete) - $8.99

The first three games I bought at my local EB Games, and Rayman 3D was found at Value Village. However, after playing Infinite Space for bit, I realized it wasn't my type of game. So I resold it on Craigslist.


Eden of the East Complete Series BR/DVD Set (Used, Complete) - $19.99

I almost bought the EotE set directly from Funimation during their Black Friday sale. But the shipping costs were too high. Luckily, I later found the same set at game/dvd store while I was visiting friends over the holidays. Now I just need to find a good deal on the two sequel films.


The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Extended Cut DVD Set (New) - $24.99

Sonic Boom Sticks Figure (New) - $7.99

[Tokimemofan]

Yesterday I found a Turboexpress with an ac adapter and 7 games at a yard sale:
Bonk's revenge
Keith courage card only
Victory run
Vigilante
Jack Nicklaus turbo golf complete
TV Sports Football complete
Falcon complete

[Niku-Sama]

what'd you pay for the turbo express?

some times its not about what you find but how much you paid for it

[Tokimemofan]

what'd you pay for the turbo express?

some times its not about what you find but how much you paid for it

$100 for the lot.

[kai123]

$100 for the lot.

Wow, I would love to get a lot at that price. Anyways, I got a few Wii games on clearance for $5 new each.

Donkey Kong Country Returns
Super Mario Galaxy
Kirby's Epic Yarn

Pretty sweet deal.

[Steve W]

I've only come across a TurboExpress twice in the wild, back in the '90s, and I didn't have the $45 to $50 each time to buy it. I've kept up hope I'd find another one, but I haven't. Your find makes me feel a bit hopeful again.

[Tokimemofan]

I've only come across a TurboExpress twice in the wild, back in the '90s, and I didn't have the $45 to $50 each time to buy it. I've kept up hope I'd find another one, but I haven't. Your find makes me feel a bit hopeful again.

Just a few months ago another collector found one a few cities away.

[ProjectCamaro]

FINALLY found the console I've been searching for, for quite some time.

An NTSC Commadore Amiga CD32, actually found it complete in the box with the rare modem attachment, extra controller, and games.

YEAH!! :ass: