Weekday Finds 4/5 - 4/8

[esquire]

Seeing there's no topic on this yet, here we go:

Wipeout Fusion (PS2) $6.97
Midway's Arcade Greatest Hits (GBA) $9.99

both at Circuit City

Megaman & Bass (GBA) $19.99
Golden Sun: The Lost Age (GBA) $19.99

both new at Gamestop. Also picked up Sword of Mana strategy guide for a penny. Thanks for the heads up Achika! :D

just to let you GBA collectors know, Gamestop has lowere a lot of their $29.99 games to $19.99. Usually this means they won't be getting anymore in stock and are clearing shelf space. In addition to the above games, they also marked down Double Dragon, R-Type III, Megaman Zero 2 and Megaman Zero.

[robotriot]

SNES console/w 2 controllers
Starwing (loose)
F-Zero (boxed)
Axelay (boxed)
World Cup USA '94 (boxed)

My first SNES, hooray :) I mainly bought it because I'm a shmup fan and I liked Axelay on the emulator.

[PapaStu]

Yet another Sealed copy of Romance Of The Three Kingdoms IV (longboxed). This makes 3 copies that ive now bought of this game that have been sealed. :D

[richmond]

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happy birthday to me.. :D

[MarioAllStar2600]

That fun anyone sign is awsome. Would you be willing to trade those Mario VHS tapes?

[richmond]

cheers, and all the guy wanted was few quid (dollars) for his charity box :)

i would like to hang on to the tapes, but i'm open to offers :)

[Funk Buddy]

Thrift/Flea/Antique/Pawn

Intellivision games, all have really tatty boxes and decent instructions. Baseball is boxed only.

$.78 each
Boxing
Baseball
NASL Soccer overlay
NBA Basketball
NHL Hockey overlay
Skiing overlay

$.99 each CIB VG - NM
NBA Jam Sega CD
Daytona CCE Saturn
Madden 97 Saturn
NBA Jam Extreme Saturn

Super Scope 6 CIB $12.50 (a little dirty and some minor yellowing) SNES

F-1 Race w/ four player adapter New, but opened box and missing the game GB $1

PC games, all complete and most are in VG shape box wise

Police Quest: Open Season $2
Space Station Oblivion (Commodore/Amiga) $1
Falcon 3.0 $2
Remember when air combat games came with a HUGE book along with the manual?!? My favorite thing about it are the requirements:

12 MHz 80286 minimum
20 MHz 80386 recommended
(80486 Really hot!)

Might & Magic II w/ guide book $3
Leisure Suit Larry III $.99
(2) Leisure Suit Larry: In The Land Of The Lounge Lizards $.99
Each package looks the same, but they have different contents?!? One must have been a later release or something... any ideas?

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance boxed with inserts, but no instructions $9.99 GBA
Midnight Club Street Racing CIB $4.50 GBA

Castlevania The Adventure loose w/ plastic case $4.50 GB

SMS games, all CIB and VG - NM

$2.50 each
Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars
After Burner
Aztec Adventure


Game Stop buy 2 get 1 deal (came out to about $4.50 each)

Ultima: Exodus loose NES
Super SF II loose Genesis
Samurai Showdown loose SNES

EB Games buy 1 get 1 deal (came out to about $6 each)

Wizardry: Knight of Diamonds loose NES
DK Country 2 loose SNES

Trade

Super Street Fighter II CIB NM - M SNES

[neuropolitique]

Decided to check out blockbuster after reading the thread about it.

NES
Ghoul School - ci - $2.99
Dragon Warrior II - c - $2.99
Rad Racer II - c - free
Zen Intergalactic Ninja - ci - $2.99
Battle of Olympus - ci - $2.99
The Immortal - ci - free
job offer - free!

I was very impressed with the condition of the games offered at Blockbuster. I have some blockbuster PVTs with horrible blockbuster stickers all over them. Most of the games today had two, easily removable stickers on them.

Battle of Olympus put me over 100 NES games. Whoohoo

[Perkar]

stopped a local thrift and picked up these for a total of $23 after tax

n64 system with 3rd party rf, ac, one controller

n64 - mission impossible (loose)
n64 - rainbow 6 (complete)

and the namco ps1 arcade stick... which is beautiful, i might add.

[Jibbajaba]

Stopped by the thrft stores today.

Playstation:
Syphon Filter 2 complete and in great condition - $4
Silent Bomber complete and in awsome condition - $3 <-- R5+ !!

I got these a few days ago at the salvation army:

PC:
Lesiure Suit Larry 5 complete - $0.50
Heart of China complete - $0.50

The funny thing is that at the same time that I bought the PC games I also bought a complete retail copy of MacOS 9.0 for $5.00. The cashier was suprised at how cheap Lesiure Suit Larry was but didnt realize that the copy of MacOS was the real deal there. I put it up on eBay for $75.00 BIN and someone snatched it up within a few hours. I also found an alladin thermos there with Super Mario Bros. 2 and Zelda 2 on it for $1.

[dreamcaster]

Sonic the Hedgehog (SMS) - boxed, $2.00 AU
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (SMS) - boxed, $1.50 AU

[WiseSalesman]

At Gamestop, picked up...

SaGa Frontier 2 (PS1)
Threads of Fate (PS1)
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile (PS1)

for $35 total. I have no idea if that was a good price or if I got taken. Can anyone fill me in?

[-hellvin-]

decided to check out a few places today:

SNES Console (Yellowed)-$5

NES
Bible Adventures
King Of Kings
Bart Vs. The Space Mutants
All w/ boxes, $3 each

Atari 2600
Swordquest: Fireworld $1

Genesis
Aero The Acrobat complete $4
Golden Axe complete $10
Thunderforce II $8

SNES
Soulblazer boxed $10

[DigitalSpace]

N64 console w/hookups (Black)
2 controllers (1 grey first-party, 1 blue third-party with broken control stick, which I'm probably going to replace)
2 Controller Paks
Transfer Pak
Game Shark (boxed)

with the following N64 games:
Goldeneye 007 (Player's Choice, boxed)
Knockout Kings 2000 (boxed)
Pokemon Stadium (boxed)
WCW/NWO Revenge (complete)
WWF Attitude (boxed)
WWF No Mercy (complete)
WWF War Zone (loose)
WWF Wrestlemania 2000 (boxed)

^ all for $35 from a friend of mine. He's a big wrestling fan which explains why so many wrestling games were included.

Also went to a couple game stores and found some SNES games. All loose.

Kirby's Dream Land 3 - $12
Izzy's Quest For The Olympic Rings - $2.99
Killer Instinct - $1.99
Zero The Kamikaze Squirrel - $5

Non-gaming stuff:
Beavis & Butt-head "Feel Our Pain" VHS - $3.00
The Critic: The Complete Series DVD set - $24.95

[coleco_chris]

I grabbed what I thought was a very well-conditioned complete Sky Skipper 2600, but it contained about 13 different manuals, incl Sky Skipper, DK, and Q*Bert. Not bad for a couple of dollars. Now to the real find...

Goodwill hunting-$4.99 NES Top-Loader, in new-looking box no less, with the styrofoam, power supply, rf mod, and 1 regular controller :( This is my second, the first one pd $35 at Funcoland, but still not too bad. The loose one is going up for trade-bait.

Also found 2 dark brown Atari 2600 Cases & 1 "orange" or "rust" case. Pd $2/ea, but did so because I got a ton of instruction manuals tossed in for free, along w/ Wizard of Wor box/inst/no cart.

[Daria]

I found this at a garage sale for a quarter.

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Worthless I'm sure but I thought it was cute. :P
________
Vapir no2 (http://no2vaporizers.com)

[PapaStu]

At Gamestop, picked up...

SaGa Frontier 2 (PS1)
Threads of Fate (PS1)
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile (PS1)

for $35 total. I have no idea if that was a good price or if I got taken. Can anyone fill me in?

SaGa inst all that, but its not a bad find, Threads of fate is the same thing.. The Klonoa is the good pickup. Thats worth most of the 35 (if not 35 right there) , though eBay may say even more.

[Querjek]

That fun anyone sign is awsome. Would you be willing to trade those Mario VHS tapes?
Just be make sure that you can play PAL encoded VHS tapes somehow...

[charitycasegreg]

I saw that zelda book at goodwill once. DIdnt feel like spending a buck on it though.

[xenu]

at the goodwill today found for 1.99 each:

tmnt: tournament fighters - genesis (complete)
quackshot startting donald duck - genesis (box, no instructions)
toe jam & earl: panic on funkotron - genesis (complete)

ebgames - 2.99 each

blue stinger - dreamcast (complete)
chu chu rocket - dreamcast (complete)

then i got 'rtx - red rock' from target for 9.99

and then from recent ebay wins,

.hack part (ps2) - 10$ shipped
coaster works (dc) - 4.49$ shipped
mad maestro (ps2) - 6.85$ shipped
drakan 2 (ps2) - 8.99$ shipped
wild arms 3 (ps2) - 10.64$ shipped


not a bad week :)

[WiseSalesman]

Ah ha! My friend the gamecrazy manager strikes again! He called me up and told me to meet him at the store. Waiting for me he had (after his manager's discount :D) ....

SoulBlazer (SNES, Loose) - $12
Y's III: Wanderers From Y's (SNES, Loose) - $4
Big Wario Ware Mega Micro Games Poster - free

...so I went ahead and picked those up for the collection. Also, I recently managed to break said friend of the idea that "2D graphics = crap" (give him a break, his first major console was a PSX), so he's starting his own SNES collection now. I had him pick up (for his collection)....

Illusion of Gaia (SNES, Loose) - $8
Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest (SNES, Loose) - $8
Breath of Fire (SNES, Loose) - $12

...that should give him a good start on his new SNES collection.

[robotriot]

CD32 - Akira (boxed)

Akira is quite rare boxed, although it doesn't include the t-shirt :/

[AB Positive]

128 MB memory stick for my new sony digital camera - FREE!

somehow one got left at a Gamestop months ago and since I used to work there and no one claimed it, it's mine now! mwa ha ha ha!


-AG

[Kroogah]

Game Crazy
Legends of Wrestling PS2 $9
Rygar PS2 $13.50
Power Move Pro Wrestling PSX $4.50

[Kejoriv]

I bought 2 Nes toaster style systems with all hookups and 2 controllers each at Salvation Army for $12.00!!

[Simply Dave]

Goodwill hunting-$4.99 NES Top-Loader, in new-looking box no less, with the styrofoam, power supply, rf mod, and 1 regular controller :( This is my second, the first one pd $35 at Funcoland, but still not too bad. The loose one is going up for trade-bait.




You lucky dog. :)

[The Collector]

Goodwill finds:

Complete near mint 7800 - $9.99
Complete DC w/2controllers/2vmu's/2jump packs/1microphone- $19.99
Porkys, Mash, M.A.D. for 2600- $.99 each
Mint boxed 1050 Atari Disc Drive with DOS3- $5.99 (anybody interested in this, let me know)

[BIGMIKE]

been gettin the neighbors into my habit as of late. now they go out and buy stuff and ask me about em. the went out yardin and found a genny1 with 11 games $10. went down to see what they got, and they had mostly commons, and then they pull out this big ol genny holder thing. i had never seen one b4. holds games and the console in it. that thing is cool. they were like we can't put it nowhere cause of its size, u want it. give me a hell yeah.... and they even threw in madden 93 and super off road. genny 10 bucks......neighbors that give u stuff priceless......... :-P

[Richter]

2-for-1 deals at GC & Babbages

Babbages
Panzer Dragoon Orta XB - $17.99
Lost Kingdoms II GC - $17.99
Lost Kingdoms GC - free ($12.99)

GS
Skygunner PS2 - $12.99
Space Channel 5: Special Edition PS2 - $12.99
Blinx the Time Sweeper XB -free ($12.99)

none of the prices include the 10% discount card

none of the folks that work there seem to know when the 2-for-1 is over. time to clean them out >:D

[josekortez]

According to cheapassgamer.com, the buy 2, get 1 at Gamestop ends on the 10th.

[AlanD]

Not game related but I found a Diamond Rio 500 with 2 USB cables and belt case for $1.50 Fairly decent little mp3 player. Worked like a champ after downloading the drivers for XP :)

[arcade4ever]

SNES Super Scope (great condition) complete with 6in1 cartridge
$4.79

6 - VS. Pac Man for Gamecube
Free!!

[esquire]

According to cheapassgamer.com, the buy 2, get 1 at Gamestop ends on the 10th.

I was told today at Gamestop that the sale ends Sunday, April 11th.

While I was there, I picked up some used and new but out of print strategy guides using the buy 2 get 1 free deal:

Paper Mario (Bradygames OSG) - new
Lunar Silver Star Story Complete (Prima's USG) - new
Castlevania Legacy of Darkness (Prima's OSG) - new
Castlevania 64 (Prima's USG) - new
Castlevania SOTN (Prima's USG) - new
Castlevania 64 (Millenium OSG) - used

all for $7.59 with the 10% discount and sale

[Perkar]

bought a few new games today, because i struck out at the thrifts.

gc - blowout $10
gc - bomberman jetters $15

gba - virtua tennis $10

[DigitalSpace]

Stopped by a couple more game stores today.

Super NES (all loose):

On The Ball - $5
Super Alfred Chicken - $2.50
Super R-Type - $5
(^ 50'th SNES game in my collection!)
SNES controller (first party) - $5

N64 (all loose):

Super Mario 64 - $15
Pokemon Snap - $2.50
N64 controller (first party, green) - $8

Mario Kart 64 manual - .50
Goldeneye 007 manual - .50 (now my Goldeneye 007 is complete!)

Playstation

Gex (complete) - $5

[Arcturius]

Sega Saturn (PAL)

Arcades Greatest Hits - The Atari Collection 1 (Complete £3.99)
Bug! (Complete £2.99)
Formula Karts (Complete £2.99)
House of the Dead, The & Virtua Gun (Complete £32.99)
Sega Touring Car (Complete £2.99)
Spot Goes To Hollywood (Complete £2.99)
Worms (Complete £2.99)

[josekortez]

Today, I got the following complete PS1 games for $17 total at Gamestop:

A-Train (longbox)
Loaded (longbox) (non-GH)
Pandemonium
Shooter Starfighter Sanvein
Star Gladiator
Syphon Filter (non-GH)

Also, during my hunt, I found copies of Batman Forever: The Arcade Game and Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo that I didn't pick up. I had someone hold Puzzle Fighter, but I'm not sure that it's worth the $40 bucks they want for it used. I think I'll sleep on it...

[chadtower]

At a Salvation Army store:

Gen: Ecco Jr loose, Math Blaster boxed

Also a cool VHS Majora's Mask promo in perfect condition... I will have some fun watching it when I get home.

[Crush Crawfish]

Took advantage of Gamestop's Buy 2 get one free sale and the sudden 30% discount on Gen/Snes/Nes games and got these:

Genesis
Shadow of the Beast 2- Free
Super Street fighter 2- $4.27
Primal Rage- $2.80
King of the Monsters (Complete)- $3.50
Dinosaurs for Hire (complete)- Free

Nes
Ikari Warriors- $5.60
Rad Racer 2- $3.50
Legend of Kage- Free
Heavy Barrel- $2.80
Guerilla War- Free

Snes
Sunset Riders- $7
Fatal fury- $3.50

PS1
Omega Boost (Disc only)- $3.50

Did quite good today!!!!!! :)

[Speedy]

SOCOM II incl headset, new, for € 49,99

[Vroomfunkel]

Hmm .. I woulda passed up on the House of the Dead box set, even at £32 ... Gamestation, right?

Anyway, today I am celebrating a small victory ... finding a bargain at CEX!!!

Corpse Killer 32X CD (PAL) - £5 (and yes, it is a lot rarer than the NTSC version!!!)
Virtua Fighter Remix (PAL Saturn, complete with big outer cardboard box) - £4

I always like it when I can score something at CEX because they are generally so ludicrously overpriced. I mean, they are trying to sell boxed Mega Jet consoles for £150 x_x

Buffoons.

And they offered me £8 cash / £12 trade in for Metal Slug on the Saturn. I laughed in their face, went home, and sold it on ebay for £55.

Vroomfunkel

[PapaStu]

Being a good customer and since my local indy store is closing in the next couple of weeks, I was told that they were going to be putting out the last of the store demo games soon. (They use to keep copies of all the games that they got in, for the owner or whatever). Well the Last box of stuff was held off until i was abel to go through it and pull stuff that i wanted.

I dropped 200 in cash and walked out with 34 titles. Thats 5.88 a game. Some of the games included were... (these were all complete)

Confidental Mission (DC)
Marvel Vs. Capcom 1 and 2 (DC)
Bangai-o (DC)
Record Of Lodos War (DC)
Grandia II (DC)
Power Rangers Zeo Pinball (PSOne)
Thousand Arms (complete W/ Memory card stickers) (PSOne)

There was more, but this was some of the better stuff.

[-hellvin-]

more stuff:

sega master system
great volleyball
vigilante
marksman shooting/trap shooting
rocky
all complete, 4$ each

atari xe
flight simulator ii - free

genesis
might & magic - gate to another world complete 20$

snes
zombies ate my neighbors
super bonk
all complete, 10$ each

Overpayed on quite a bit, but all fun games and really wanted em.

[cbroddy]

Todays finds

NES (all loose)

Fist of the North Star-$9.95
Panic Restaurant-$9.95
Popoye-$7.95
Time Lord-$4.95
Last Action Hero-$4.95
Werewolf-$4.95

He had a small selection of Super Famicom games that had been there for a while. I picked a few out. One was a strategy game that showed a warlord on the cover for $14.95 with the booklet. The other one showed three guys, it may have been a fighting or an action game for $19.95. I decided not to purchase them.

[MarkMan]

Decent finds today.

Got Brave Fencer Musashi and Grandia for the PS1.

Got a Namco joystick NEW in box(PS1) for 7 bucks!

:D

[neuropolitique]

made out good at the thrifts this week.

Saturn - all complete, $2 each
Bug!
Clockwork Knight
Daytona USA
Mystaria
Pebble Beach Golf Links
Virtua Fighter Remix

NES Powerpad - $6

128MB USB Flashdrive - $2.52

Apple Scribe Pritner - complete - $5

A bunch more NES games from Gamerush. They are about out of $2.99 NES games with manuals.

[Ed Oscuro]

A couple things from my trip:

A Sega Shinobi (PS2) car (Hot Wheels)
Some booklets (Nintendo's Winter 2003 booklet, two books from earlier, a FFXI booklet)
An unused card for the N64 version of the LodgeNet hotel entertainment system (the only thing I could take without stealing!)
A bunch of rocks and some other random stuff that's not VG-related

Overall I don't suppose I did too bad :0

[Nils]

Church Rummage sale
Genesis system with hook ups and 2 controllers - $5

Game Stop/EB Games
2 NES controllers - $3.99 each
1 Grey NES Zapper - $1.99
Super Mario Bros 3 (NES) - Forget what I payed
Ninja Gaiden (NES - $7.99
Mickey's Adventure in Numberland (NES - $7.99
L O L O 3 (NES - $9.99
Blaster Master (NES) - $5.99
Captain Planet (NES) - $2.99
Fighting Golf *complete* (NES) - $3.99
TMNT Arcade Game with box (NES) - $9.99
These were the buy 2 get 1 free deal... or the buy 5 or more and get 25% off i forget which one

Flea Market
Quattro Adventure (NES) - $5

Game Store - 99 cents each
Alpha Mission (NES
Slalom (NES)
Bases Loaded (NES)
10-Yard Fight (NES)

Yard Sale
Adventure Island (NES) - $2

[orrimarrko]

NES:

ALL MINTY w/manual (also minty):

Wall Street Kid - $2.99
Loopz - $1.99
Hunt for Red October - $2.99
Shadowgate - $4.99
Ultima - $4.99

NEW GAMES:

XBOX:

Shenmue II - $9.99

GC:

Skies of Arcadia Legends - $19.99

PS2:

Ico - $9.99
Rygar - $9.99
Culdcept - $39.99
Disgaea - $49.99

Haven't seen much older stuff lately.

[Cmosfm]

Ahhh, yet more good finds yesterday!

Mario Is Missing! (NES) - 5.00
Mega Man 6 (NES) - 5.00
Zen Intergalactic Ninja (NES) - 3.99

Pitfall 2 (A2600) - 1.00
Target Fun (A2600) - 1.00

Blockade Runner (Intv) - 1.45
Beamrider (Intv) - 1.45
AD&D - Tarmin (Intv) - 1.45

Dance Dance Revolution Konamix (PSone - Sealed) - 9.99
Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22 (PSone) - 5.00
Wing Commander 3 (PSone) - 5.00

Other Assortedness...

NES Quickshot Box - .25

Malcom In The Middle - First Season DVD - 9.85
The Muppet Movie DVD - 3.00
Hello Kitty DVD - 3.00 (don't ask)

12 records - 1 Foreigner (4), 1 Journey (Evolution) and 10 different Barry Manilow records (can you tell I'm a big fan?) - 10.00

The Smurfs - Smurfing Sing Along Record - .50

Kirby - Wendy's Board Game - .50

Yoshi Beanie - .75

Sesame Street Treasury collection of books with holder - 5.00

[Crush Crawfish]

Made another gamestop run today:

Nes
ghosts 'n goblins- $5.60
Jungle Book- $4.90
Snake's Revenge- $3.50

Genesis
King of the Monsters 2- Free
Truxton w/box- Free

DC
Slave Zero (Complete)- $4.20

I also stopped at target, where I was very surprised (and happy) to find 2 sealed copies of klonoa for GBA at $15 a piece. Of course I bought both, one to keep, and one for eventual ebay sales.

[Ed Oscuro]

Hmm, guess it's still the week. (Got another day to go before we can put up a weekend finds thread!)

I found a boxed Jurassic Park (Genesis, no manual, hanger intact and not even bent, everything that comes with it is in great shape) and a boxed (???) Street Fighter II Special Champion Edition, the wierdest boxed game I've EVER found as it comes in the case, no manual, but the clear plastic window has been torn off and the insert's gone. I can tell it's the original case due to the "Capcom" molded into the inside. Strange though.

I also found one of these:

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Fortress/6223/ptfllhh.jpg

I also forgot to mention that on my trip I picked up a (crappy) G.I. Joe comic book (wanted to see what it's like now...err) and a Maximo comic. Rather neat, I think that was for the second game but I'm not sure.

[AB Positive]

Went to the indy game store looking for some hidden gems. Here's what I got:

Sealed Persona (PSX) - $25 (oops...)

Strat guides, near mint to mint all $5 a piece


Street Fighter 2 Turbo w/ Super official guide
(Gamepro guide, I loved this thing as a kid)

Street Fighter Alpha 2 Versus guide w/ Poster!
(Gonna eat this thing up, Sotenga I WILL beat your Akuma someday!)

Chocobo Dungeon 2 mint guide (admittedly this was tradebait. I figure any RPG guide is worth at least $5)


-AG