This weeks finds 02/02-02/06

[Kevin Listwan]

Well I shall start this since I have ended my month plus dry streak.

all 1.99

NES
Wizards and Warriors
Gauntlet

GEN

Toe Jam and Earl II
Winter Games
Test Drive II
Mystical Fighter
TNN Bass Tournament of Champions

Good luck all

[Bratwurst]

I was just handed a very dusty TG-16 console with hookups and loose Tricky Kick. Free! Whee!

[Goodwill Hunter]

Having to take my daughter to a girl scout meeting on a snowy, Wisconsin night, the least I can do is reward myself with a trip to a Goodwill that's almost on the way home. Waiting for me in one of the glass cases, all by its lonesome:

http://members.aol.com/a54br9/test/dkh.jpg

I'd never seen a Game and Watch like Donkey Kong Hockey before...when I opened up the back, 2 controllers came out! Popped in 2 fresh cells when I got home, and it works like a charm. Very clean, and very close to like-new condition. Not sure how rare it is (only the 6th or 7th GW I've found in the wild), but I imagine it's a safe bet it's worth more than the $3.99 I shelled out for it.

Rich

[Jaker]

Nice find with the game and watch. Are those even in the DP guide?

[Jaker]

Nice find with the game and watch. Are those even in the DP guide?

[Packerfan66]

How the hell do you guys find such good things at thrift stores? I've gone to mine and all i see are records from the 70's, crappy love novel books from 1970 and clothes somebody used to wipe their ass with. Oh wait today I saw a playstation 1 card for $10! What a rip off. Are the thrift stores you go to in large cities?

[norkusa]

Nice find, GH. I always wanted one of those Game & Watches that had the puck controllers.

I had a decent start to the week:

Goodwill:
Boxed NES Challenge Set with a boxed SMB3 $5.99
CDi Zelda Wand Of Gamelon $1.99 (anyone want it?)
King's Quest III for Mac $1.99
Original '78 Milton Bradley Simon (complete) $3.99

Also picked up a loose Final Fantasy III cartridge at a pawn for $4.

[dreamcaster]

Mortal Kombat II (Mega Drive) - cart. only, $3.00 AU
Mighty Bomb Jack (NES) - cart. only, $3.00 AU
Mischief Makers (N64) - complete, exc. condition, $19.95 AU

[AB Positive]

I nabbed KoF 96 and 97 MVS and I'm getting 99, 2000, SamSho 2, 3, and a mint complete NGPC Metal Slug 1st Mission.

I went Neo crazy this week

-AG

[esquire]

Went to a couple of pawn shops. At the first one I got a black Sega Sports Dreamcast with two controllers (one black, one clear blue) and Soul Calibur for $32.00. At the second one I picked up Crimson Sea for the Xbox for $5.00. I've been wanting this game for a while and its been hard to find around here.

I also went to a couple Salvation Army stores and picked up Adventure Island and Gradius: Interstellar Assault for the Gameboy for $5 a piece. Also picked up an asciiware fighting stick for the SNES for $3.

Finally, went to a Gamestop and picked up Skies of Arcadia Legends for the GCN at $35. Also picked up some DC games at 30% off: Crazy Taxi $2 and
Crazy Taxi 2 $9.

[NintendoMan]

In the past week I got:
From a pawn shop Soul Caliber, and ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3074690513&category=4303&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3074016629&category=3603&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3074189268&category=27229&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3073800737&category=3592&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3074311886&category=3644&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3074396358&category=3603&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3074499246&category=27229&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1

I have been pawn shopping it up lately, so theres snow around here so decided to catch up on my ebay!!! :D

[orrimarrko]

Not necessarily great titles, but for the money, I couldn't pass them up:

All NEW at Target:

Chaos Legion $9.98
Clock Tower 3 $4.98
Evil Dead: Fistfull... $4.98
Madden 2003 $7.98

Picked up during the 30% Dreamcast sale at Gamestop (ended Saturday):
[All mint, complete, like new]

18 Wheeler
Alien Front Online NEW
Caesars Palace 2000
D2
Evolution: Worlds NEW
House of the Dead NEW
Illbleed
KISS: Psycho Circus
Midway Arcade Classics: Vol. 2
NCAA College Football 2K2
Plasma Sword
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
Sonic Adventure (2 disc "Not for Sale" pack w/"The Trial", Sonic 2 demo)
Soul Reaver: Legacy of Kain
Space Channel 5
Stupid Invaders
Suzuki Alstare Extreme Racing
Vanishing Point
Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram

All for under $90.

Party on...

[QBert]

WOW! Some very good finds guys! Nice job everyone.
I myself, just got back from meeting a buddy who basically gave me an xbox!
The dvd rom doesnt work(bad laser) and my buddy took the HDD. WHich is fine cause I want a 120Giger.
I gave him $15 for his troubles....and my luck.



Good luck to all yall on finds this week and the future.


QBert

[GamecubeFreek]

not really a great find, but I got Castlevania Lament of Innocence for 30 from Target

[Goodwill Hunter]

Sorry to clutter up the thread with photos, but I had to share this. Stopped in at GameStop tonight, checking to see if there was any surge of people trading in older stuff before the upcoming deadline. Didn't see much new in the bins, but saw a pile of stuff at the bottom of the Gamecube section. Went over and saw this on top:

http://members.aol.com/a54br9/test/sc2.jpg

It was marked as a generic Gamecube arcade stick, so I got it for $13.50 with the discount. It's made by Nuby, and apparently works on all 3 next-gen systems. Very sturdy with a nice arcade-feel to the stick and buttons, and the Soul Caliber II graphic has an air brushed look that is just too cool. Didn't see one on Ebay, so I don't know what it's worth...but that really doesn't matter since it's destined for a shelf in my game room.

Now I just have to pick up a copy of Soul Caliber II :D

Rich

[eze]

had a great start to the week so far...just today picked up

Nes toploader complete w/ box & manual $29.99
Godzilla 2 nes $3
Werewolf nes $3
Rampage nes $3
Volleyball nes $1

Might and Magic (1986) IBM complete w/ box, manual maps, all paperwork 4.99
Might abd Magic II (1988) IBM complete w/box, manual, maps, paperwork 4.99

Ghostbusters genesis complete $4
A Dinosaur's tale genesis boxed $4
Slime World genesis boxed $4

[MarkMan]

From a local game store today I got:

Herc's Adventures(SAT) - $4.99
Virtua Fighter 2(SAT) - $2.99
Sega CD console in mint condition - $39.99

At GameStop earlier this week:

Castlevania(N64), complete - $6.99
Broken Sword II(PS1) - $4.99

[maxlords]

This week I picked up a couple things online so far:

Burning Rangers (US, mint complete) $32 shipped
Metal Slug 3 MVS art pack w/mini-marquee $10.90 + shipping

Being as I'm basically broke, that should be about it for me this week. Oh...and I got my Metal Slug 3 kit in the mail today :D Yay!

[Classicgamesdepot]

eze Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 12:41 am Post subject:

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had a great start to the week so far...just today picked up

Nes toploader complete w/ box & manual $29.99



Excellent find on the Toploader, still hopin' to come across a boxed one someday...

[NintendoMan]

Sorry to clutter up the thread with photos, but I had to share this. Stopped in at GameStop tonight, checking to see if there was any surge of people trading in older stuff before the upcoming deadline. Didn't see much new in the bins, but saw a pile of stuff at the bottom of the Gamecube section. Went over and saw this on top:

http://members.aol.com/a54br9/test/sc2.jpg

It was marked as a generic Gamecube arcade stick, so I got it for $13.50 with the discount. It's made by Nuby, and apparently works on all 3 next-gen systems. Very sturdy with a nice arcade-feel to the stick and buttons, and the Soul Caliber II graphic has an air brushed look that is just too cool. Didn't see one on Ebay, so I don't know what it's worth...but that really doesn't matter since it's destined for a shelf in my game room.

Now I just have to pick up a copy of Soul Caliber II :D

Rich

Definately a GREAT item! I have seen these on ebay before. One brand new only went for about $20 I think. Still cool find though.

HEY, what are you whating for. Go out and get Soul Caliber 2 today, AWESOME game! (Get it on gamecube!!!!!) :D

[Perkar]

nothing spectacular, but some decent finds...

from salvation army :

Sonic Classics for Genesis $2

from EB:

Pinbot for NES $3.59
Abadox for NES $3.59

Virtual On for Dreamcast $11.69

[tynstar]

I just picked up the following Atari 2600 games and controller for $15 off a coworker:

Human Cannonball
Star Ship
Wizard of Wor
Zaxxon

Sesame Street games w/KIDS CONTROLLER:

Alpha Beam with Ernie
Big Bird's Egg Catch
Cookie Monster Munch
Oscar's Trash Race

Good way to start a month off!

[youruglyclone]

used but complete castlevania sotn,non-gh for 20

would've gotten the lethal enforcers collection if they could've found the disk...ah well

[sisko]

I was pretty down yesterday after having my only find taken away from me, telling me that I'm not allowed to buy it. I also lost my gloves :(

But today was better! I found my gloves and went out looking. The downside is that I got lost. The good side is that while I was lost, I found a TRU that I had never been to before! They had marked all their DC and N64 games down to $2.90. Sweet deal! So I picked up:

Sega Smash Pack Vol 1
Soul Edge
and the 3 sport game set ($4.90 for this one)

I left pretty happy and decided to hit up another TRU to see if they had done the same. They hadn't, and I asked the cashier if they would price match. She said no, so I went to put the game back and when I was about to leave she was talking to the store manager. He asked about the deals and I showed him my reciept and the games I bought at the TRU and he said he would go ahead and match the prices so I also picked up these for also $2.90 each.

Giga Wing
Kiss Psycho Circus
Bomberman Online

I tried to do it a third time, but that store wouldn't let me =(

Passed up a new Super PLay Action Football for $5 at a thrift and Alien Front Online for $10 at CC.

For those of you around the area, the store that was discounting the games was in Novi, MI next to 12 Oaks Crossing (?) right off the 96. They had a bunch of sports games, 1 chuchu rocket, and 1 Soul Edge. N64 games were Perfect Dark and a WCW game.

Also grabbed Tall for PSX new for $8 at a closing KB, and got 1st dibs on all of the video game signage :)

[poe]

From a local thrift store:

Wing Commander: The Kilrathi Saga for $3.50 :rocker:

[Goodwill Hunter]

Picked up a TRU 3-pack of Dreamcast 2K1 sports titles for $2.90 today(there were about 20 of them). Also got a few copies of DC Virtua Tennis 2K2 for .90 each.

Found one of those 2600 controllers with 10 games built-in, new (probably from Target) at Goodwill for $4.99

Also picked up an SNES Donkey Kong Country Competition Cartridge at GameStop yesterday for $11...I thought that was worth a separate thread :D

Rich

[SegaAges]

I got a great find, and I actually had to FIND it.

well for a back story so you understand, my brother is super poor and moved into my parents house (where i stay as well). he moved everything there. Now tonight, for some reason, it completely hit me that he had am atari 2600. i asked him how much he wanted for it, and he basically said that if i went though about 40 or 50 boxes of his stuff, that the 2600 would be in 1. well i just got done searching through the boxes about 5 minutes ago, and lucky for me, i got myself an atari 2600 for free. Plus to sweeten the deal, my bro told me that there is a game shop (that for some reason I rarely go to), that sells 2600 games for the ranges of about $0.10-0.25. So I am going tomorrow to basically buy as many cheap atari games as i can. (Are there any I should look out for that might be rare?)

Here is everything that i got (i know its not much, but i got everything for free, and hey, its not a bad find for finding out that this has all been in my OWN house, well my parents, for arounf 4 or 5 months)

atari 2600 system with all the hookups
2 joysticks

Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
Lock 'N' Chase
Combat
Space Invaders
Yars' Revenge
Asteroids
Warlords
Donkey Kong Jr.
Centipede
Pole Position 2
Laser Blast
Raider of the Lost Ark
Pitfall
Defender
Pac Man (x2)
Ms. Pac Man
Jr. Pac Man

[BIGMIKE]

2600
wizard wor
midnight magic

NES
wrestlemania
fester's quest
milon's secret catle (boxed,inst)

genny
3 in 1 hang on,soccer,columns
$7 total

also saw a nice dragon warrior 3 with istr for $34, but i thought that may be a little steep

[eze]

Another good day today...

Boxed Toe jam and Earl genesis
Boxed Starflight genesis
Shining Force cart genesis
Gunstar Heroes cart genesis
Lost Vikings cart genesis
Sword of Vermillion cart genesis

Total damage = $35 :)

[AB Positive]

Japanese (white round button) Saturn

2 white controllers
2 arcade sticks
4 MEG Ram cart
Memory card

17 games, including :

http://dynamic5.gamespy.com/~japangaming/information.cgi?system=saturn&base=nekketsuoyako

and

http://dynamic5.gamespy.com/~japangaming/information.cgi?system=saturn&base=tenchiwokurauii

and

http://dynamic5.gamespy.com/~japangaming/information.cgi?system=saturn&base=literaryfragment

and:

Nights
Sonic Jam
Virtua Fighter Remix
XMen: Children of the Atom
Marvel Super Heroes
X-men v. Street Fighter
Street Fighter Zero 2
Digital Dance Mix: Namie Amuro
Race Queen F
Gals Panic SS
Samurai Spirits
Golden Axe: The Duel
Macross

and some disc that says "Flash" and then the Sega Saturn logo... any help?


-AG

[dreamcaster]

Destruction Derby (Saturn) - complete, $12.00 AU
Sega Game Pack 4-in-1 (Game Gear) - cart. only, $5.00 AU

and my eBay win arrived today:
Gun Griffon (Saturn) - complete, $19.30 AU

[MarkMan]

Goodwill hunting yesterday...

I got...

Complete boxed Genesis Model II Console - $5.00
Excellent condition Dreamcast Console, missing power cable - $10.00

Not bad. :)

[josekortez]

I went overboard, but in a good way:

Circuit City

Bombastic (PS2) - $19.99

Target

Kya: Dark Lineage (PS2) - $7.48
Star Wars Bounty Hunter (PS2) - $7.48
Blinx the Time Sweeper (XB) - $9.99
Super Monkey Ball 2 (GC) - $14.98

And this morning, I went into the privately owned store a block from where I work and bought a complete copy of Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec (PS2, non-GH) for $5.

Plus, my copy of Otogi (XB) from a trade came in the mail!

[ubersaurus]

3 words.

R-Type Final.

[MarkMan]

I was a happy man today...

A friend of mine gave me his Genesis Model 1 and Sega CD Model 1! :)

Also at Fry's I picked up 4 non GH copies of Final Fantasy Chronicles for a mere $14.99 each! 8-)

[Evil E]

I just won a Dreamcast on Ebay for $6.50 from a local pawn shop. There was a $3.00 pick up charge ( I chose to go pick it up to avoid the ridiculous shipping rates) so after tax it came to a grand total of $10.10 !!! Ten bucks for a DC with all hook ups, a controller, and a memory card!! I already have 2 DC's, but I couldn't pass up this deal!!

[Packerfan66]

WHy can't my TRU have the same sale? Everything is still $10 a game.