What Are Your THREE Greatest Finds in the Wild?

[Qixmaster]

2. 40 Nes games with 3 sealed games were left in a box outside of an evicted neighbor's home...sealed games were Gyruss, Yoshi Cookie, and Mike Tyson's Punchout.
.

man i wish i could just "find" some nes games... i've bought all mine

[FlufflePuff]

1. 2x Flintstones: Surprise at Dino Peak 2.99 each.

2. 1 sealed, 1 mint Suikoden 2 7.99 each.

3. Boxed Intellivision (mint condition), 17 games all with instructions and overlays, 2x Slickstick Joysticks, AND a Tengen Tetris all for $20 bucks at a St. Vincent De Paul.

[sporkster]

Man I just started collecting so I don't have to many good finds in the wild, but these stories give me hope!

1. Super Star Fox Weekend Cart- $10 game store

2. Earthbound $5 flea market

yep that's about it. I'm still kicking myself for not buying that Tengen Tetris at gamestop(I didn't collect for the NES at the time. :frustrated:

[jwl]

1. Starfox Super Weekend Cart from a garage sale for $2
2. 1 Sealed Alex Kid In Shinobi World and 11 sealed E-Swat's for $10 at a flea market.
3. An Exertainment Mountain Bike Rally at a used game store for $1

All Canadian dollars :D

[blissfulnoise]

NES Myriad 6 in 1 - $1.00
Steel Battalion New - $80.00
Large Boxed Earthbound Complete (w/ Strategy Guide) - $7.00

[sisko]

Hmm...I've had lots of great finds ($20-$50 titles for $5)....but if I have to narrow it down...

Box of 30 CV and 2600 games with several R4-R6's, most notable being Mr Do!s Castle - $6

Massive box of 54 SMS, SCD, genesis games (with the systems and power base converter) that included choice titles like 2 Alex Kidd's, and Golden Axe Warrior....$30

3 Looney Tunes 5 laser disc box sets ..... $4 total. I sold one of the sets for $98 on ebay a few weeks ago.. (ok technically not games, but I found them while hunting for games :P)

[Richter]

1. MVS 4-slot board for $60
2. Guardian Heroes for $10
3. $1 on the side of the road

[zemmix]

$15 blue psx dev system at a swap meet.

two zemmix systems (different models) at a thrift store.

I don`t know third is a toss up. $10 CDX? genesis and snes protos? 3 top loaders for $5 a piece? $5 Panzer Dragoon Saga? $2 jvc xeye?

[TNTPLUST]

Turbo Express w/ Bonk 1,2,3 TV Sports Football, Fu Man CHu $40 Garage Sale

33 Odyssey II carts (loose) and Demon Attack (complete) for the Odyssey $20 Garage Sale

Gas Hog (loose) Atari 2600 $5 Garage Sale

[dojosky]

Bath Bubble Babes FREE... helped a friend move and he gave me a lot of video game stuff in trade and got that game back in '96 or so and had no clue about that game played it and then traded it in for a lot of games

Panzer Dragoon saga-$10
shining Force 3-$10
shining force 2-.99
sealed shining force 2 $6
several sealed shining force cd $4 each
tengen tetris all sealed (6) at flea market $25
boxed channel F with several games $2.50
nes top loader-$5
radiant silvergun-$17

many more i can't remember off top of my head !!!

[DigitalSpace]

1 - Earthbound for SNES, cart only for $4 at a CD/Game Exchange in April 2004. Coincedentally, it was my 100th game.

2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters (R6), cart only at a Goodwill for $1.99 in September 2007.

3 - Joshua for Genesis (R7), cart only for .63 at a Software Etc. in May 2004 (The price sticker was mismarked as Cal Ripken Jr. Baseball for .89 before the 30% off discount).

Honorable mentions:

-Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers 2 for NES, cart only for $5 at the same CD/Game Exchange I got Earthbound at in January 2007.
-Herzog Zwei for Genesis, cart only for $2.50 at another CD/Game Exchange in August 2005.
-Zero The Kamikaze Squirrel for SNES (R7), cart only for $5 in April 2004, at the CD/Game Exchange I later got Herzog Zwei at.

[tonyvortex]

1.boxed quadrun and silver label gravitar for $1 each at work(atari 2600)
2.boxed dragon warrior 3 and 4 for $20 at work.
3.radient silvergun for about $30 from a friend.

[Necrosaro420]

Used Condom, 16cents

[DeanoCalver]

$15 blue psx dev system at a swap meet.
?

To be absolutely correct a blue playstation isn't a dev system its a debug station.
Actual dev kits are cards that fit inside a PC, early ones ISA, later ones PCI with the PA boards coming even later.
Blues are pretty standard Playstations with the security removed, so they can run off CD-R. They blow up well... Ever dev in the UK has blown at least one up (US and UK power supplies aren't compatible).

Emeralds (green in colour obviously) are later Debug Stations with extra hardware checking to check for legal HW access.

Off the top of my head 3 good software finds in wild (car boot sales) are

1) Snatcher Pal MegaCD £1
2) Secret of Mana SNES PAL Complete £4
3) Jurasic Park Sealed MegaCD £2

[Algol]

My three greatest finds:

1. Toploader NES, 2 dogbone controllers, 1 NES advantage, whole boxload of games-$20

2. Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Tetris 2 + BomBliss, Jin Sei Geki Joh 2, Peach Boy Legend, unidentified Mahjong game, all for Famicom-.25 each

3. NAM-1975 and Top Player's Golf for Neo Geo AES-$2 each

[Lemmy Kilmister]

Complete mint lunar SSS (sega cd) for 5 bucks. Plus me and my friend picked up multiable sealed nes games from a closing video store. I grabbed castlevania,metal gear and robocop for a buck 1.50. He grabbed kung-fu,Xevious,Tag Team Wrestling and Astyanax. I kept my games sealed, though the casual gamer he is of course open his. :hmm:

[leorange]

a revision to my earlier list...

http://img67.photobucket.com/albums/v203/orangest/gar.jpg

http://img67.photobucket.com/albums/v203/orangest/gar2.jpg

still works too! and i didn't previously know that it can be used as a pass-through cart to play games on a terminally blinking nes...

[XJR15]

160 games ~ mostly boxed.. nes , vic-20, 2600
3 consoles.. vic 20, nes toaster, and 2600
that included boxed double enders for the 2600

total 60$


120 games all loose.. 2600, 02, Vic-20 others..

total about 60$


50 snes games and snes.. which included ff2, mario kart, dk 1,2,3 mario rpg and others

total 100$

[underexposed+]

My Three:

1 Sonic Adventure Limited Edition - $10 cdn at a pawn shop

2 My local Microplay reduing all of there Dreamcast games to $5 cdn, I must have picked up close to 30 games some rare back in the day.

3 Perfectly working NES from Value Village for $5 cdn

[Gunstar_Hero UK]

Hmmm.. my three best "wild" finds have to be:

1. Suikoden, PS1, Mint Condition. My Mums friends 8 year old son had it and said it was "crap with crappy graphics." So I "borrowed" it. He'll never notice.. That may make me sound like a bad person, stealing an 8 year olds game but, he's broken several of my PS2 games in the past.. so now were quits..

2. 108 complete Mega Drive games for £50 at a Car Boot Sale.

3. My Playstation Lightbox Display (same as speedys) £5 at a Car Boot Sale.

The majority of my great finds have all been charity shops and car boot sales. I wish i found boxes of NES games outside my "evicted neighbours house"..

[jono]

1. Virtual Boy boxed with 3 games (Mario Tennis, Mario Clash and Galactic Pinball)
£5 :D . Got it from a car boot sale here in the UK 3 years ago. It was bought in the US by the sellers son . You should have seen me i was like a giggling loonatic. I tossed him a fiver and ran off with it in search of a pack of duracells!

2. Mario Allstars and Street fighter 2 turbo edition, boxed Snes's complete £8 each


I can't really think of any others that stand out. I 've had some much over the last few years and i've mainly bought and sold stuff to get other things. Like a few weeks ago i traded a SMS and a N64 i had for a fiver for a boxed Neo Geo Pocket Colour in gamestation.
I get my best finds at Car Boot sales here in the UK. Today i bagged a Dreamcast with 2 joypads and Sonic Adventure for £8!

[qbertandernie]

good topic...

hmm..

i guess

#1 atari 2600 controller tester, signal tracing cart, 5200 diagnostic cart, field manuals for 2600, 7800, 5200 and atari computer, instructions for controller tester - FREE but the tester didnt have a power cord...
(if anyone knows who else on this board has a 2600 controller tester please PM me. i can copy the manual, though its kinda crappy. i saw another one in the game room pics but forget who it is)

drops quickly in interest from there

#2 huge tails display tied with ps1/screen store display $80 each. thats kind of expensive, but i havent seen anyone else with these items, so theyre pretty cool.

#3 2600 'heavy sixer' in box with one old style controller(missing logo) and one grey power cord - $5

[aaron7]

Back from the dead! lol

#1 6in1 Caltron for $5 at a flea market
#2 NES toploader for $10 from a friend that just bought it for $5, not really knowing what it was, and didn't really want it lol

#3 Me and a friend found this at the local Salvation Army. They were scattered all over the place! All the Battleclashes are sealed, and the 4 scores are as well. The Sattellites are new, but with tape :angry:

He also got 3 Neo Geo games there for like $5 complete lol

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/aaron7/29c33658.jpg

[Slate]

Prepare to be amazed:

1: 2/15/04: I stopped at dwight's (A junk store) And i found a LOT:

Atari:
Super Mario/Duck Hunt (Loose)
Atari 2600 Darth Vader Model
Atari AC
Atari 2600 Dust Case
Atari 2600 Game Holder (4-Set)
About 40 2600 Games (Instructions included)
Atari 400
Atari 400 AC
Lots of atari Controllers
5 Atari 400 games
Atari 7800 Core System (This one does not work anymore)
NES:
Nintnedo NES
NES RF
NES AC
2 NES Controllers
2 NES Zappers (Grey & Orange- the orange one didn't work)

All for $20. :cheers: Everything needed to be cleaned, Both the contacts and exterior.. Almost everything worked- The 7800 Did work when i got the AC to use it (It does not work anymore, But i have another 7800) Only a few controllers and one game Didn't work when i tested them.

2: Biggest Goodwill NES Deal Ever- 8/06/04:

Well, i was out at goodwill one day, And @_@ , You should have seen this!

I'm glad i was there when i was.. The employees were JUST Bringing the stuff out. I got 68 Unique NES games And 3 Unique SNES Games.. 71 Total! And i only had 6 of the games Out of 71. Incredible! Here are some games that i got:

Yoshi's Cookie (And this one is a Very fun puzzle game- It's rewarding)
Uninvited (Good thriller)
Burgertime
Snake Rattle And Roll
Bubble Bobble
Rare Soccer Game (Not Tengen.. I forget the company's name) R6
Lolo 1, 2, And 3
Megaman 2, 3, And 4
Castlevania 1, 2, and 3
Hogan's Alley
Caveman Games
Maniac Mansion (Unforgettable! i wanted this one- Just to blow up the hamster LOL )
Adventure Island 3
Super mario/Duck hunt
Mario 2 & 3
Deja Vu (Highley reccomended! :) )

And many more good games.. EVERYTHING WORKS..Everything was loose, But hey.. The price? about $20!!! :cheers: The one that works the Least is Dr. Mario- it seems to have sat in the sun too long. (It has sunburn- It's 60% yellow instead of grey!) It took me 2 hours to clean & test Every game.

3: Another crazy atari find (I forget the date..)

Tank Brigade (BNEW, Sealed) $2 (This one is a R7 used @_@ )
Night Driver (BNEW, Shrinkwrapped) $3

:D I've got More Insane deals. In fact, August 2004 Was my Best month for collecting so far.

[gepeto]

this is a tough one

ufo x com defense complete and mint $10.00 pawn shop
2 intelligent qubes $5.00 apeice thrift
secret of mana $1.00 thriftshop I couldn't believe these deals I had to keep the serious face. i was just too excited.

[AdamAnt316]

My three best finds:

1. Huge Commodore collection (C-64C/C-128/Amiga 1000) along with tons of peripherals, games, magazines, and other stuff from a friend for free

2. Boxed Atari 7800 with 30+ games from my brother's friend for free

3. Boxed Intellivision console with a few games from a neighbor for free

-Adam

[drummy]

Here's mine, although they're not good, since most of my purchases have been online.

1. Dreamcast w/ about 10 complete games, with two controllers and three VMUS - $7

2. Taiko Drums Master (sealed) - Free from a friend for Christmas

3. Two complete Suikoden IIs - $82 total from two friends.

[Famidrive-16]

- Atari 2600 JR in a box with 65 games, plus a 32X with two games and some weird coin.
- Secret of Mana in mint-perfect condition in a box with instructions and everything (the fanboy find)
- .....can't really think of a third one.

[Dimitri]

While mine are hardly "spectacular" by any means (I don't get out shopping nearly as much as I'd like to) I've had a few nice finds:

Bebe's Kids (R7) and Robotrek (R4) for SNES, CIB (Robotrek has the item chart) for $5 each.

Team Buddies (R8) for PSX, complete...$12 from Gamestop.

Crusader of Centy (R6) for Genesis, CIB...$8.

The amazing thing is that the three not found at Gamestop were found in game stores that seemed to be priced rather competently. ;)

[Jibbajaba]

I dunno....this is a toughy.

I got Intellignt Qube for $5 preplayed at Blockbuster....

I got a CIB Tengen Tetris for $3 at a mom and pop type store...

I just recently found that Genny Toy Story Proto thing....

I found a crapload of CIB NES games for $2 each last year...

Found NES QIX for $2...

I found a VB with all hookups and a JAP copy of vertical force for $1 last month...

My favorite find, although nothing spectacular, is the day I got a completely mint, but loose Atari 6 switch for $2 and a white atari joystick for $2. Not a great find, but I play the crap out of that system, and it looks great.

I don't think I have ever had a REALLY AMAZING find (like the assload of sealed 6 in 1s) but I almost never come home from the thrifts and fleas empty handed, and that makes me happy.

Chris

[grimbal]

1. SMS Store Demo Unit. $50.00

2. Starfox Super Weekend Edition (R9) - Free have since sold it on Ebay.

3. Chavez II (R8) $6.95

Number 1 and 3 have come within a couple of weeks of each other and at the same store. Swung by there again today and saw two R7 SNES games, but didn't have any cash :(

[atariboy]

My finds in the wild include:

1. Swordquest - Water World for atari 2600 in mint cond. from flea market for $2.00

2. Sonic adventure - Limited Edition for dreamcast from local yard sale for $0.50 missing cover

3. Sega Nomad from Deseret Industries Thrift store for $5

[silver_surfer]

1 Nintendo Playchoice 10 Tabletop Arcade Machine (R10)
2 Spider Maze (R9) for the 2600
3 Bearinstien Bears (R9)

[dreamcaster]

1. NES system, mint condition, seemingly unused, $5.00AU
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/chriscubed/nescomplete.jpg

2. Sega Saturn, again, mint condition, seemingly unused, $26.00AU
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/chriscubed/saturnboxed.jpg

3. Space Channel 5 - Part 2 (PS2) - excellent condtion, $26.95 from EB.

[MegaManFan]

1. Tomarc the Barbarian for 2600 for $1 - twice at the same store. Kept one, sold the other.

2. A Vectrex with 20 games, all the overlays and instructions, and four controllers for $160. A big cash outlay to be sure, but worth three times that in what I got or more.

3. Mega Man X3 in a mint box for $50. Again not a cheap find but cheap compared to what it goes for on eBay, so I was very happy about it. (Still need a manual though.)

[Nesmaster]

Flintstones 2 $3 shipped ebay

Action 52 Complete with comic FREE Salvation Army

Maxi 15 with complete NES $10 Garage Sale

OR

Intelligent Qube complee $3 Goodwill

[Yamazaki]

1. Darius Alpha - 400$
2. Diver 2000 Dreamcast CX-1 400$
3. Kishin Doujin Zenki - 20$(!)

[Jed]

1. NES Miracle Piano Teaching System keyboard - free.

2. NES Power Set box (NEs, power pad, 2 controllers, gun, 10+ eBay expensive games like Bubble Bobble and Contra) - $1

3. Complete Shining Force 3 - $25 (later eBayed for over $100)

[swlovinist]

1. Sealed Snatcher for Sega CD....$1

2. Boxed and mint Spiderman Web of Fire....$1

3. Colecovision Prototype for Mr. Do's Castle....free :D


I dont know if getting a question mark at CGE that turned out to be Magicard for $100 counts, but I have to say that was probably my biggest "shock!"

[RJ]

These arent incredibly rare by ANY means, but my priority isnt in finding rarites, although if I see one that I know about, I'll most likely pick it up if it's at a reasonable price. Usually I'll buy a game if it's around $3-5 no matter what it is as long as I dont already have it. ON TO THE FINDS:

1. Time Crisis 3/Guncon2 CIB- $10.50 This was when it was still going for at least 3x that in stores. (They had another one w/out the game, gun only- still wish I'd picked it up! :( )

2. SNES (console only) $4. All that's wrong is the adapter plug-in's a bit loose inside the case- I just push the back against the wall- works great. I bought cables at GameStop- they were more than the console itself!

3. Sega Dreamcast, VMU, 4 controllers, 3 controller extensions, 16 games- $30. (Actually my mother-in-law gets credit for this one from a garage sale.) I sold back around half the games that I wasnt interested in/got low reviews & got better ones w/ the $.

[poloplayr]

My top eBay find was:

- SNES Dev system, Geni Dev system, two more Geni's (regular), Saturn, PSX and SNES along with a bunch of controllers and Chrono Trigger for the SNES, mint... $50.00 shipped

8-)

I love the thrill of the hunt!

PLEASE post a photo of that SNES dev system!!!

[snes_collector]

Mine aren't too good, but I've only been collecting for a year and a half

1. NES, Toploader NES, dog bone controller, NES advantage, more controlling, hookups, and a few games-20$ was 30, but we knocked in down :D

As for second and thirt I dunno, I guess you can decide, heres some of the better ones:

Herzong Zwei,complete 5$
Hurricanes(R7) 3$
A few SNES games-45 cents a piece
old Nintendo Powers-FREE


thats all I can think of for now

[tubeway]

My best three finds in the wild, were:

1. A storage locker of stuff that belonged to American Technos after they died in the USA. A friend of mine owned a thrift store, and he stumbled upon this during one of the seized storage locker auctions he would go to. For about $400, I bought most of the contents from him, including:

PSX1 Development Kit
PSy-Q Dev kit from Psygnosis
20 complete famicom cartridges
complete famicom in the box
complete white Japanese Saturn in the box
American Technos' framed business license (hahaha)
a binder of all their US copyright certificates
stacks of prototype discs for PSX and 3DO (pretty much all released stuff)
a handful of Sega Genesis EPROM carts, including a PAL Battletoads Vs. Double Dragon
An NES prototype cart of some horror game that was later lost in the mail to someone
A box of Kunio and double dragon related mangas and videos (kunio's the character from River City Ransom)
About a dozen Super Famicom titles released by Technos Japan, including River City Ransom 2
Four award plaques, including two for Wrestlefest from the AMAA awards or something like that.
A Gameboy two system demo unit
Various gameboy eprom carts

2. Started working at a company, the 3DO had died like a year previous, and I was allowed to take two boxes of about 40 discs of titles that were cancelled or rejected when they submitted them to us for publishing. Ended up with most of the "big" titles that went unreleased, including BIOS Fear, Theo the Dinosaur, Varuna's Forces, Icebreaker 2 and so on.

3. Working at another game company, our engineering department was throwing away a bunch of equipment and EPROM carts. I ended up getting three EPROM burners (later sold on ebay for about $300 each), and around 30 Genesis prototype carts (of two released titles). Ended up selling the carts on ebay for around $15-$40 each.

And I'm going to violate the three item rule, and go further...

4. A used computer store in my area bought a bunch of server hardware from an online division of Sega when they shut down an office. Oddly enough, they ended up with stacks of "Mega CD" CD-Rs used for burning test copies of games, and were selling them as cheapo CD-Rs in their aisle. I picked up three packages of four for a couple bucks each. Ended up staggering their sale on ebay over the next few months, getting like $30 each. Went back, but they'd sold the rest of the discs to people who probably later put family photos or work files on 'em.

5. Working on Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare, I was given a statue of Edward Carnby.

6. Was also given a leather Unreal Tournament jacket for working on that.

7. A game company I worked for went out of business, and I took home their entire magazine archive (probably about 500+ video game magazines).

8. I stumbled upon a coworker at another place using Japanese Sega Saturn discs to burn work files to. I ran to the local electronic's store, grabbed his Saturn discs, and replaced them with some memorex discs.

9. I came across prototype discs of "Radical Racer," "Pac Man World 1 (E3 demo)," and "Judge Dredd" for PSX at someone's flea market spot. Got em for like $3 each.

10. Nabbed a red "Game Factory" cartridge at the same flea market for a dollar.

11. A seller at that flea market that specialized in games sold me stacks of sealed Lynx titles for like $2 each, and I also got Jag and Jag CD systems for pretty cheap, although I don't remember how much.

12. Put an ad in the local circular, saying I was looking to buy classic games cheap. Ended up buying a collection of Nintendo Power, EGM and Game Pro from a local gamer, mostly NM condition, for like $30.

I stopped collecting for quite some time, though. I had to sell most of my items when I was having financial problems, which killed my desire to collect any more. Going to the CGExpo revived that bug in me.

[dj898]

not sure of three but the bext fin in the wild for me would be Sega pre-production prototype Saturn console...
it's one of hand built saturn shown around the trade shows before saturn was officially launched...

[Bender_rules]

1)I got a Atari 2600 in box with instr and 26 games(nothing to rare)all in there box's with intr.. for free from a free table at a yard sale..

2)Got a turbo Grafx 16 and 18 games for free from a friend.

3) 57 nintendo games from a flee market for $20

[Lord Contaminous]

Snatcher for Sega CD and Shining Force CD - both complete for 2 bucks a piece.

Lunar Silver Star and Vay for Sega CD for 7 each

20 NES games for 15 in total.

Breath of Fire II (SNES) for 5 bucks

[20eyes]

1) APF MP 1000 boxed (mint) system for $4 at goodwill

2) Coleco telstar boxed system with 2 games for $3 at a thrift

3) Atari 2600 Sears Video Arcade II system for $1 at a thrift

- none of which I currently own anymore

[The_Kodiak65]

1. Wizardry trilogy for apple 2 b, $0.50

2.DK jr game and watch, $0.10

3. Earthbound, $3.00

yeah, they were preatty good... :D

[infamous lunchbox]

These are all from a long time ago, around the time the Sega Saturn was dying but here goes:
AD&D Collection (SS) $13
Panzer Dragoon Saga, mint complete: $8. Yes eight.
Saturn Bomberman (complete) $5
In fact I own over 150 and the average price I have paid is about $20 apiece. Not bad considering my library of SS titles (about 95 US titles, rest imports)
Pirates! Gold mint complete $5
Bubble Bobble 2 $4.50 cart only
As for bundles of stuff:
TurboDuo system with 25 games, including neutopia 1/2, Blazing Lazers, Super Star Soldier, Soldier Blade, too many other greats too list for $200
Panasonic Gamecube boxed mint with powerswitch mod $200
JVC X'Eye with 45 complete games, including Snatcher, all 4 Working Design games, Shining Force CD, list goes on... $150!
And last but not least, A top loader nes and 100 games for $150. I sold a few of the games and ended up making about $100 for a total cost of $50!

Alas I also once unknowingly passed on a unopened copy of Keio Flying Squadron for the SCD for $5 because a friend talked me out of it, saying he had played it and it sucked. I bought Earthworm Jim SE instead. I could kill him to this day although this was probably 5 years ago.

[manuel]

1) A PC Engine Duo RX with all hookups, controller and Arcade card for 14$.

2) A black Twin Famicom for free from a friend.

3) A Sega Mark III for 7.50$.

:D

[EricRyan34]

Not really amazing, but they are still good!


1. Super Smash Bros Complete $4.99

2. Ehrgeiz $3.99

3. Resident Evil 2 for 'cCube (when it was Rare) $8.99


nothing compared to most of ya!

[sleepycal]

Nice topic.

1. PC engine CDrom 2 boxed w/ PC engine, 2 CD games, and 2-3 hu cards. Free from a friend. I bought him a dinner the week before

2. SMS Mah-jong complete. Free from a friend.

3. Buster Douglas KO boxing complete. For SMS. $10 Cdn at a comic/game store.

[Biff_McFresh]

I haven't had really any mindblowing finds just yet, but here goes:

1) Suikoden II (Sealed)- $ 9.99 at Virgin Megastore. Back in like 2002 or 2003 I believe.

2) Suikoden I (Sealed)- $ 9.99 at Sears. Around the same time I got the above mentioned gem.

3) Hmmm, i dunno, I guess this decent Genesis bundle I got off my friend for like 20 bucks. Genesis system (first model), 2 controllers, and like 10 or so games.

[cyberfluxor]

Although I don't have anything really special like Prototypes or Turnament carts, finding great classics I enjoy are my best finds. :)

#1: Galactic Attack (Saturn)
An awesome shooter I had been hyped to get for a long time. It ended up costing me $8 to buy at a local used game store and loved it as much as the screen shots I drooled over. Instant classic and supurb game in my collection.

#2: Paper Mario (Nintendo64)
Got it for $8 at a pawn shop and was SO happy to see it. I had always wanted to get it and check it out since I saw people playing the second one for the Gamecube. Although I only played a few hours worth I'm sure one day I'll dedicate time to go all the way.

#3: Prince of Persia 2 (Super Nintendo)
For a special price of $2, this decently rare game got baught and placed in my collection. I love the Prince of Persia games because of the puzzles and time limits. Finding this made me so happy because I already had the first for the SNES.

There's plenty of other games in my collection but these 3 games were the first to hit my mind as great finds personally. I guess it's also great they aren't SUPER amazing finds compaired to others on the forum so I have plenty of room to still shoot for the moon and find something nice. :)

[Rockman Neo]

1. Crazy Climber for $2.50 along with the system and 5 other games.

2. Suikoden II for $16 at a Toys R' Us.

3. Cubivore for $40 at a GameStop.

[BrokenFlight]

1) A PS1 with 14 games and a boxed analogue joystick for £7. It turned out two of the games were worth a £9 trade in each at Gamestation. I don't really collect PS1 games, so I traded in the console and 8 games for £35.

2) A Megadrive 1 with 9 games for £10. It turned out the console didn't work but I opened it up and wiggled some stuff, not knowing what I was doing. I managed to make it work enough to trade it in for £9. Then I sold two of the games for £2 each. So I got 7 games and £3.:)

3) I haven't had many great finds so my 3rd one is a bit so-so. I got a boxed clear blue GBA with a light, battery pack and charger for £8. I was pleased with it, especially considering Gamestation is selling the same style, boxed, for £35. :eek 2:

[Damaramu]

1. Bought a fully functional Sega Nomad for $50 from one of our customers (I'm the web/ebay guy at a comic book store). It's in primo condition too!

2. Found a Half Price Books with a HUGE stock of Sega CD games. Nothing super rare (no Snatchers, Keios, or anything like that), but what they had was super clean with unbroken cases. Yes, I bought them all.

3.Randomly walked into an EB and found Secret of Mana and Final Fantasy III, carts only. They were averagely priced. I couldn't pass them up of course.

Runner up:
We're selling a pachinko machine for $100. I really want this badboy. It's in superb condition; everything works great to boot. Hmmm....

[handheldchick]

1.Odyssey 1 -complete in box for free when a flea market was closing in my town about a month ago.

2. My local eb always has tons of old gb games and i found panel action bingo there with instructions.

3. gameboy printer in box at a gamezone( i know its only worth 5 bucks but ive never seen it in the box in years!)

all my other stuff comes off ebay.

[dj_spryte]

1. A factory sealed Super Turrican 2 for the SNES at a local video store fro $15.

2. A complete Fun 'n Games for the SNES at a flea market for $20

3. A factory sealed Ogre Battle for the SNES for free from my cousin who got it as a gift but never opened it.

[Simply Dave]

I've had tons of great finds in the wild and it's hard to keep track of them all.

However, this year, my best finds have been:

1. Top loading NES at flea market $5.00 ( I also scored one at an estate auction last year for $6.00)

2. Dragon Warrior 2 for NES for $1.00 (Goodwill)

3. Super Mario RPG for SNES for $1.00 (Goodwill)

Runner-up- Burning Rangers for Sega Saturn for $5.00 during their last 5 for $15 sale. I believe that was last fall. September, maybe?

[BrokenFlight]

I've had my best weekend of finds now.

17 PS1 games for £14.

Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel for 70p (R7)

2 working N64s for £3

[50TBRD]

2 copies of Metal Warriors(SNES) for 10.
1 copy of Metal Marines(SNES) for 10.
New Horizons(SNES) for 10.
Ardy Lightfoot(SNES) and Spike McFang(SNES) for 5 each.
One Piece Mansion(PSX) for 2.99.

I saw One Piece for $30 at SWAPUSA and talked to the sales man about it. He really wanted it and I told him that I had gotten a copy for $3. He was wowed but I just pick up cheap PSX games all the time to see if they're ny good. At 3 bucks you can't go wrong.

[Vinnysdad]

Intellivision complete in box with a complete in box Intellivoice at the Salvation Army for $3.50

Yellow Gameboy Camera at Kmart priced at $19.99 but when they rang it up it came up as $0.99

Miracle Piano cart for NES at flea market for $5.00

[Steven]

#3: Prince of Persia 2 (Super Nintendo)
For a special price of $2, this decently rare game got baught and placed in my collection. I love the Prince of Persia games because of the puzzles and time limits. Finding this made me so happy because I already had the first for the SNES.

Yup, I got this game for a trade at the flea market, and it was the only time I ever spotted POP2... never saw it on eBay. Couple weeks later I traded the same vendor to get POP1.

As for my top 3 finds in the wild....

1. Aero Fighters
Traded a vendor 4 crappy fighting game VHS movies I couldn't paid to get anyone to buy online. Oh my God I couldn't believe the steal I got.

2. Metal Warriors
Trade for crappy doubles

3. Gem Fire
ditto!

[pickingupchange]

1. LaserActive w/ sega , turbografx and karaoke modules, 10 laserdiscs, 2 tg16 controllers, Pioneer mic, 1 sega controller, 25 sega cd games (snatcher included in there), 20 turbo grafx games, a dozen turbo grafx cd games, 3 laseractive games, bunch of xtra manuals for $40

[fergojisan]

Hmmm...

1. Boxed Meteorites for Atari 5200, $1. I got the instructions years later off ebay.

2. Atari 2600 with about 50 games, including Rubik's Cube and a few complete Sears games - $50. Thanks to TheSmirk for the heads up on this one. :D

3. Original Odyssey, in the carrying case, complete. $10.

I was very lucky to find a lot of good stuff before I even had a PC. Those days are over, unfortunately. :(

[NESVIDIOT]

Star Fox Super Weekend
complete Congo Bongo for INTV
all the Zonox double ender carts for Colecovision


all together they cost me less than 5$
all in the wild

[Damaniel]

1) Caltron 6-in-1 (cart, $20)
2) Little Samson (cart, $3)
3) D&D Order of the Griffon (complete, $4)

[Jackattack]

I don't have to many wild finds that are amazing and probably nothing compared to you guys but here it goes.

1) Panzer Dragoon 1,2, and Saga
2) Shenmue 2 (Pal)
3) Earthbound

[shawnbo42]

This is a tough one for me. So many finds....

Ok, best three in the wild.

1. Best so far was my second arcade lot I picked up. 20 or so PCB's (3 pac-mans in there), about 40 marquees/artwork, A Soul Edge cab (dedicated Simpsons, restoring now),Enduro Racer, Blitz 2000, Upright Turbo Out Run, a Capcom Bowling, 720, and Total Carnage (Rampage conversion). All this was free. Probably a couple more cabs thrown in there, but I can't think of them right now.

2. NES games at the Goodwill. Usually my local Goodwill has next to nothing. This time was different. picked up 75 or so boxed/complete NES games for $2 apiece. Among the gems are 2 Crystal Mines, all 3 Ultimas, 2 Final Fantasies, all 4 Dragon Warriors, Panic Restaurant, etc. No Stadium Events, but definitely some stuff well worth $2. I bought just about all of it. (I passed on the stuff with the really trashed boxes i.e SMB, John Elway QB, etc.). These boxed games have the original plastic wrap on them still, but all have been opened. Carts are in mint cond.

3. Picked up (about 7 years ago) an Intelivision with 12 games all boxed/complete for $25. INTV has to be the cleanest one I have ever seen other than new. Control Discs aren't even worn yet, they're still gold. No real rares for the games, though. Still, the system in that shape alone is worth it.

Close 2nd and third were Bubble Bobble 2 for $35, and almost a literal ton of Amiga stuff from a friend who moved out of state for free. Don't ask what's there, I haven't even had time to look yet (but it's a lot).

[BetaWolf]

NES Game Action Replay (loose, has battery though): $3

I know that that's pretty rare... other things I'm pretty ignorant to rarity or value.

[Alucard79]

My best finds were at going out of business sale about 5 years ago. Psychic Detective, Discworld 1 & 2, Braindead 13, and Silverload, and about 15 other random PS games all sealed. A whopping 25 bucks!!

[Jasoco]

My boxed copy of Super Mario Bros.

My boxed copy of Super Mario Bros. 2.

My boxed copy of Super Mario Bros. 3.

When lined up on the shelf they look awesome. It's great to have the trilogy. :D

Surprisingly that is my greatest find in the wild. By which I mean not on eBay.

[Jimmy Yakapucci]

My best 3 would have to be:

1. Big cardboard box with a Gen model 1, 10 misc boxed and loose games and Genghis Khan 2 boxed in great shape, and Sorcerer's Kingdom boxed in great shape for $10.00 from a thrift store.

2. A great condition complete copy of Pirates! Gold for the Gen for $5.00 from a co-worker.

3. A Sega Game Gear with the Caesar's Palace cart and AC adapter for 50 cents at a yard sale.

[Steve W]

A Myriad 6-in-1 cart for the NES for $3. It has since left my hands and into the loving embrace of Jumpman Jr. :)

A Vectrex for $5. Ironically, I had given in and ordered a Veccy from a forum member on Atari Age, but he had some family problems and wasn't able to refurb it and get it to me for a couple months. And while waiting, I found my own!

A Milton Bradley Expansion System, otherwise known as an MBX, for the TI Home Computer for $30. Some reports I've read online state that as few as 300 were manufactured. It's a cool little voice synthesizer/voice recognition system. I'd always wanted one throughout the years, and I finally came across one complete in box at a booth at my local flea market last year.