Weekday Finds: 6/7 - 6/11

[Jibbajaba]

Hit the thrift stores this morning.

Sealed Dreamcast Web Browser
Phantasmagoria (PC)

One place had a freakin' ton of PC games. I guess a guy cleaned out his desk drawers. Some newer stuff, too, like Dungeon Seige. Passed on all of it because $3.50 a piece to me isnt a thrift store price. Should have been $1 each.

[Saabmeister]

Went Thrift Stolre Shopping Today:

At Unique:
SMB/Duck Hunt no Nintendo Seal of Approval: 2.80
Barker Bill's Trick Shooting: 1.80
Nascar Racing (PC, 3.5" floppies): 1.60
Mig 29 Fulcrum (PC, 3.5" floppies): .80

At GoodWill:
Spaceward Ho! IV: 3.99
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (like new, no scratches): 2.99 :D

Final Fantasy was a bit pointless to get sinced I dont have a GC....Yet...

[robotriot]

I just bought a NeoGeo AES without games - no idea why :D

[ewrann]

Sonic 3 w/case and manual (Genesis) - 3$ at a thrift

[sporkster]

at a pawn shop

Super Baseball Simulator 1,000 (SNES)

That pawn shop had a crap load of games but almost all of them were for x-box :angry:

[Half Cab Leroy]

Got World Series Baseball 2K1 for dreamcast today for $1.70 at a thrift store.

[Duncan]

Not my own luck, but another person's to report.

My buddy who runs the game store downtown picked up a TurboExpress (yes, working - I tested it with JJ and Jeff :) ) for a measly 10 bucks.

Oh wait - not just an Express, but an Express with the TV Tuner, all the cables, and about eight or nine HuCards (including Devil's Crush) - for a measly 10 bucks.

:angry: :P LOL

If I can get my $23 Intellivision bundle working, I'll be just as happy. But until then... @_@

[Pantechnicon]

The thrifts had jack, so I took advantage of Gamestop's latest 1-free-for-2 thingie and picked up some long standing PS2 goodies: Soul Calibur II and Spider-Man, both for $30. For the freebie I got Bionicle for GBA. My son's a bog Bionicle fan so he'll eat that one up.

[Cmosfm]

This morning....

GameBoy "Booster" from Radio Shack, Game Boy (missing screen cover) Tiny Toons 2 & The Rugrats Movie games - 1.00

Blitz Special Edition - N64 - 4.00

Plok - SNES - 4.00

[Nez]

Sonic Adventure Limited Eddition 4$.

Crazy Taxi 2$

Crazy Taxi2 4$

Not too much but its only tuesday.

[Quintracker]

Picked up an almost 4 foot tall Luigi doll for 2 bucks. It looks like the kind you tried to win at the fair by tossing rings or something.

[-hellvin-]

I found:

Atari 2600 VCS w/ a few controllers, space invaders, mousetrap - 50$

Now note that I said found. Yes....value village my ass.

They also had a channel f there but considering I have one of those turds rotting in my closet I decided to not even ask after walking out.

Think it's time to take a little break from hunting and start playing some more, been doing too much of it in the last month, it's really wearing on me.

[josekortez]

I found the following games yesterday:

EB Games

Activision Classic Games Plug-n-Play (new) - $5.39

Gamestop

Gran Turismo (PS1, complete) - $3
Jet Moto (PS1, complete) - $3
Sled Storm (PS1, complete) - free

Thrift

(all SNES, all loose)

Aladdin - $2
Pilotwings - $2
Starfox - $2
TMNT: Tournament Fighters - $2

Now I'm going to pick up a used copy of Smallville: Season 1 on DVD from Gamestop...

[NintendoMan]

Well some of this was gotten sunday night, but most of it so far this week.
Babbages:
NES Classic GBA SP
Classic Series games-
2 Zelda's
Ice Climber
Excitebike
Donkey Kong
Super Mario Bros.
(I plan of getting the rest of the series in the next week or so!)

Circuit City
Earthworm Jim (GBA)
Street Fighter 2 Trubo Revival (GBA)

Ebay:
DK64 Set - Brand New
Battletoads in Battlemaniacs SNES - Brand New

[NintendoMan]

I don't know why this was a double post. It went through fine on the first try, and for some reason a double post showed up. Sorry!

[Avenger]

That pawn shop had a crap load of games but almost all of them were for x-box :angry:

Xbox games at a pawn shop? no way....mine only ever has Sports games for Genesis :P

this weekend i went to a sort of Fair/Garage Sale and picked up this stuff

NES
Controller 25 cents
Super Mario 3 box and instructions 25 cents
Tetris in a bright pink case 25 cents
Little League Baseball Championship Series 25 cents
Adventures in the Magic Kingdom 25 cents
Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt 25 cents
Gyromite 25cents
Hogan's Alley 25 cents

these are canadian prices too so its practically nothin! ;)

[DigitalSpace]

Playstation:

Atari Anniversary Edition Redux (complete) - $5

PS2:

Midnight Club II (complete) - $5

[Cmosfm]

More FINDS! YAY!

PSone...

Dragon Warrior VII - 5.00
Valkyrie Profile - 10.00
Crash: Warped - 5.00
Creatures - 1.50

PS2

Guilty Gear X2 - 10.00

[Icarus Moonsight]

Bought Bubble Bobble NES for $2 from a closing Mom and Pop video rental shop.
Lotsa Ma and Pa's closing up these days. It's a shame. Damn you Blockbuster! :rockets:
Otherwise the thrifts and pawn shops have been rather barren lately.
Oh well, maybe next week.

[halbert]

Dragon Warrior VII - 5.00

Argh! I've been looking for that game forever. I only see it at GameStops for $30. Yagh. Nice find. ;)

I have spent way way too much on thrifts and pawns in the past couple weeks so I'm going to start slowing down. However, this week I got:

Mac Plus working w/ keyboard - $10
Mac PowerBook Duo 230 working w/ lots of accessories - $35
And various NES and other carts not really worth listing. Gonna have some fun with Macs! :P

[Crush Crawfish]

Got this stuff in the mail yesterday:

NES Iron Tank boxed
NES Karnov Boxed
NES Vindicators complete
Genesis Battletoads boxed
SNES Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Game Gear Streets of Rage 2
Game Gear Lucky Dime Caper

Karnov rocks. 'nuff said.

[josekortez]

Yesterday, I traded in promo copies of NFL Street, Scooby-Doo Mystery Mayhem and UEFA EURO 2004 at Gamestop and got Smallville: Season 1 on DVD, Metal Slug X and Persona 2: Eternal Punishment for PS1 all mint and complete.

Then, I went to Circuit City and got Atari Anniversary Edition for PS1 for $5.

[MarioAllStar2600]

I just picked up RoadKill for the GC (5 bucks!) If anyone wants ont here the link-
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008XL0J/cheapassgam08-20/102-4351926-1334512

[wufners]

I found:

Atari 2600 VCS w/ a few controllers, space invaders, mousetrap - 50$

Now note that I said found. Yes....value village my ass.

They also had a channel f there but considering I have one of those turds rotting in my closet I decided to not even ask after walking out.

Think it's time to take a little break from hunting and start playing some more, been doing too much of it in the last month, it's really wearing on me.

Vallue Village is pathetic. First off, they have a lousy selection. Usually all I ever see there are a couple of Genesis and an occasion N64 or NES. And that's on a GOOD day. The only 3 good things I've ever seen there (and no, not a that same time) were a Saturn, a SNES 2, and a 2600. Which leads into my second reason for their suckitude---price. They are waaay to expensive for a second hand store. Remember that afore mentioned Atari? They wanted $80 for it. $80! True, it came in its box, but it had no games (and wasn't a heavy sixer.) That's about $60 too expensive in my book. I mean come on! Most of the stuff they get for free!

However, it's cool you saw a Channel F. I've been looking for one and have never seen it in the wild (I can't bring myself to pay the $30+ it goes for on ebay. Besides, half the fun is in the hunt, so ebay feels like cheating.) I'd be curious to know how much they were selling it for. Certainly not as much as that Atari, but I'd still wager it was $20-$30. A good find, sure (at least I think so) but undoubtedly an awful price (I assume.)

So to sum up--Value Village blows.

And I guess I should try and stay on topic while I'm at it.

This week I have found precisely squat. The thriftstores up in the Pudget Sound area seem to be very picked over lately. I had a small find at the flea market this weekend (SNES2) but nothing during the week (or last week, or the previous.) Oh well, it's kind of refreshing to watch my savings account grow rather than my checking account shrink.

[robotriot]

Only Amiga - Atomino today ... I'm trying to collect all Psygnosis games for Amiga ^^

[NintendoMan]

Bought Bubble Bobble NES for $2 from a closing Mom and Pop video rental shop.
Lotsa Ma and Pa's closing up these days. It's a shame. Damn you Blockbuster! :rockets:
Otherwise the thrifts and pawn shops have been rather barren lately.
Oh well, maybe next week.

Oh yeah, DAMN them all to hell!! (The big guys that close down the little guys)
I always support the little man whenever I can. From everything from food to games.
I never go to blockbuster or wal-mart just to name a few.

[-hellvin-]

Agreed wufner, even for games they charge way too fucking much. 4.95 for an astrosmash cart with a smashed (no pun intended) side? Hmmm....how about a middle finger?

The channel f didn't have the cover to the box, just the bottom part it sat in. It's different than the one I have....it was much bigger, and it had one of the games, not sure which, I have no games. I found mine at a nice thrift where I've gotten some great finds and it had the box but no documentation or anything. I hate that pos. If it wasn't a collectable system I would burn it to death. Oh well. It was only 6 bucks. I doubt they resell for shit.

[MarkMan]

Got a good trade today from a co-worker.

I gave him a copy of Final Fantasy Anthology and Chronicles(didn't need 3 copies of each like I had), in return, I got a Turbo Grafx 16 and about 15 games, and a FZ-1 3DO with about 15 games.

:D

[halbert]

Today I got a Mac SE for $12 and an ADB keyboard/mouse setup for $3... That's the third Mac in a week. Must stop. x_x

[downfall]

I picked up an original model 3D0 in the box with most everything, some things still sealed, along with 6 or so games in varying states of completeness for $20.

Kind of a dry week.

[FlufflePuff]

Decided to expand my thrifting radius this week and found a really cool pawn shop. They had a bunch of NES games, 5 for $10.

I picked up 20 games, mostly cheapy games that would normally be 4.99 at a normal gaming store. But, there were a few good finds among them.

The Blue Marlin
Casino Kid 2
Whomp 'Em (so bad)
Double Dragon 2
Gun Smoke
Vegas Dreams

and...

Blackjack (yay)

I was excited.

[sporkster]

Okay I stopped at a garage sale and I got:

SNES system all hookups one controller

Games:
Super Mario world
Mario Paint/with mouse
Sim City
Lion King
Taz Mania

loose boxes and manuals:
Super Mario World 2 box and manual
DKC box and manual
DKC 2 box
Super Mario Kart box and manual
SNES manual
Mario Allstars manual
Super Mario world manual
Taz-Mania manual
Mario Paint Manual
Lion King Manual
Aladdin Manual
6 consumer information and precautions booklets

misc.:
4 of the little SNES game protector things
a ton of advertisments and posters
a thing to send in for a free DKC strategy Guide
A entry form from the lion king game for a contest to win a free game
A couple hand written notes for the Aladdin game written by whoever owned these last
a gray NES zapper
and an NES rf switch
all for $10

then at a gamestore I got Skate or die for $3.99
and Skulls and crossbones (Tengen) for $2.99

good day.

[spaceFarmer]

Took advantage of the game stop buy 2 get 1 free deal.

Mister Mosquito (17)
Voodoo Vince (14)
Darkstalers 3 (free)

Raystorm (9)
Thunder force V (7)
Mobile light force 2 (free)

Plus I got some Sega Saturn games from Japan today, X-men vs. Street fighter and King of Fighters 96 for $8 each.

[Cmosfm]

Made a quick stop by the ol' Block Buster last night for more good deals!

SSX 3 - PS2
&
Castlevania: Lament Of Innocence - PS2

Total For Both: 22.50

for once BB is pulling through with the deals. now all I need is a SSX 3 PS2 manual. ANYONE HAVE ONE TO SELL?

[downfall]

for once BB is pulling through with the deals. now all I need is a SSX 3 PS2 manual. ANYONE HAVE ONE TO SELL?

Actually I think I might have one.

I'll check this evening. Shoot me a PM.

[Ed Oscuro]

I found, but passed up:

some new Neopets (from Tiger) @ $3 each
A 1995 Sega "by Tiger" handheld sports game; looked alright but was well scuffed
Some interesting, but overpriced, CD-ROM games
An old Compaq PC in a style I'd like to own but only in better shape and for less money :P

[Kejoriv]

Brute Force - Xbox - $3.50
Red Faction - Xbox - $3.50

Both new on clearance at Target

[BIGMIKE]

only found a coleco pac man tabletop at the good for $2 in good shape too.

and i must say I am a big Smallville fan myself josekortez...............lana rocks :embarrassed: and young super too......

[showstoppa]

Hello, I'm new to the Forums. I posted an introduction in the Introduce Yourself post. Here are my finds for the week. nothing great just some random stuff from the thrift stores.

PSX Dual Shock $0.75
NES - Dance Aerobics $1.19
SNES - Madden 97 $0.99
PSX - Bowling $0.99
Dreamcast - Crazy Taxi $1.59
Dreamcast - NFL2K $1.59

Not as good as the week before though

From a Rummage Sale:
Sega Dreamcast w/
Walt Disney World Quest Magical Racing Tour &
TNN Motorsports Hardcore Heat $3

$3 for a Dreamcast.. not bad

NES Games from Thrift $1.19 a piece

Castlequest
Gauntlet
Gauntlet II
Blaster Master
Cool World
Life Force
Skull & Crossbones

$3 bag sale - all you can fit in a paper bag (with a bunch of other junk)

Saturn - Mechwarrior 2 31st Century Combat
Saturn - Daytona USA Championship Circuit Edition
TI 99/4A - Blasto
TI 99/4A - The Attack
TI 99/4A - Munchman
TI 99/4A - Star Trek
TI 99/4A - Blackjack and Poker
TI 99/4A - Hunt the Wumpus
TI 99/4A - Car Wars
TI 99/4A - Jawbreaker II

Had a pretty good week there.

[RockyRaccoon]

I got an Intellvison with las vegas Poken/Blackjack for 20 bucks. was my friends brothers...had simply been sitting around...so bought it off him.

[Castelak]

Haha I'm gonna post my find right under RockyRaccoon. We have VERY similar avatars ya think? ;)

I went on vacation to Hawaii and while I was there I stopped in a gamestop at one of the malls. They had ONE SNES game... I bought it. :D

SNES: Romance of the Kingdoms III COMPLETE $15

Hey I'm on vacation, plus that's decently rare. :D

As I'm coming back from my trip dad says to go look at my bed downstairs. It's covered with goodwill finds! Here's what he paid...

Coleco Telstar Pong System BOXED! $5
Socrates Educational System w/manuals $2
Genesis 2 Deck $2
Dreamcast w/hookups, 2 controllers, and NFL2k $10
Front Mission 4 Demo Disk w/manual $0
5 SMB/DH $1.05 total (I'm making a border above my room with them)


aaaaaaaand the best goodwill find I've ever seen here...

Gamecube LCD Monitor by Intec: THREE DOLLARS! :D :D :D

Thank you daddy. :P

[xenu]

not much but i got this crap today

saturn (3$ each):

rayman
gex
nights into dreams

a genny 3 w/ hookups for 5.99

a NES GBA SP

and mario & luigi.

[Aussie2B]

I went all over this past week and found a bunch of good stuff. First off, I went to the same place I got Mountain Bike Rally and the Sega CD games. I passed on the N64 games before, but this time I picked up:

Dr. Mario
Diddy Kong Racing
Kirby 64
Mario Tennis
Pokemon Stadium 2

For $30 (buy three for 9.99, get two free) with boxes for all and the operation card with Diddy Kong Racing (no manuals however).

Unfortunately, I was an idiot and didn't check the connectors for every game. Mario Tennis had a whole chunk of the connectors broken off (how the hell does someone manage that?), and Pokemon Stadium 2, while looking in great shape, refused to work (looks like the connectors were worn far too thin). I took both back and luckily had no problems with the employee there. All I had to say was "These are broken", and I handed them over. I had remembered that there was a loose Mario Tennis cart the last time, which I did manage to find again, but its connectors were messed up too (deep scratches into the metal). I ended up replacing the two games with:

Excitebike 64
Beetle Adventure Racing

Also with boxes but no manuals.

This week I went to a Goodwill store for the first time ever (at least as far as I can remember). I found:

Genesis 1 with two 3 button controllers, the AC adapter, and NFL Football 94 - $12.99
Genesis 6 button arcade controller - $2.99

The Genesis is good because not only is it in really nice shape and I can sell back later for a tiny profit, but now I can finally play my Genesis games this summer. I brought along a Genesis 3, but we haven't been able to find the RF for it. With the Genesis 1, we can just use an NES RF, of course. Actually, the system is in such clean and nice condition, we might just keep this one and sell the other Genesis 1 back in New York. The arcade controller is also really nice and clean. I opened it up and cleaned it thoroughly, but there was hardly any dirt or grime on it. The stick is great, and the buttons are very springy. :) Too bad the Goodwill had jack shit when it comes to games, though.

I went to some Christian thrift store that had one lone NES cart sitting around in front of some books:

Double Dragon 2 - $.99

I went to get my hair cut on Wednesday (over a foot, and I donated my hair for an organization that makes wigs for kids with cancer :) ), and there was a GameStop RIGHT NEXT to the place. I couldn't resist checking it out, especially since I had time to kill while my mom was getting her hair cut. The place had absolutely no NES, SNES, Genesis, or Dreamcast left. However, they were doing the "buy 2, get 1 free" sale, so I made an impulse buy:

For Game Boy:
Castlevania 2: Belmont's Revenge (completes my original Game Boy Castlevania collection, and one step closer to having every US-released Castlevania game that I want. ^_^ )
Boxxle (thought it was rare, got confused with its sequel :/ )
Battle Arena Toshiden (eh, why not, not a lot to choose from as far as 4.99 Game Boy games go)

I got 'em for 11.98 plus tax, so that's not too shabby I think.

I when I went to return the aforementioned broken N64 games yesterday, my boyfriend picked out a few cool NES and SNES games they got it in (which was a surprise to me, since I figured they wouldn't bring in anything that old):

TMNT 4: Turtles in Time (SNES) - $2.99
Power Instinct (SNES) - $2.99
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts (SNES) - $2.99
TMNT 2: The Arcade Game (NES) - $1.99
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (NES) - $1.99

Since it's still "buy 3, get 2 free", the NES games were free, so the total was $6.97 plus tax. The lady there gave us a free t-shirt too. I frickin' love this store. :) I would've bought some other stuff (Superman and DuckTales on NES just to name a couple), but I'm waiting a few days for the sale to change to "buy 2, get 2 free".