Weekend Finds 7/23 to 7/25

[portnoyd]

Well, today was the Pompton Lakes town-wide garage sale. DP was going to come, but he had to wait at home for something. So I went by myself.

And I killed P. Lakes. I went over half the town(at most) and SCORED SO MUCH. It's sick. If I didn't want to go see a movie with my dad today, well, if the first half was any indication of the second half...

Not to mention, the best thing you can EVER, EVER do at garage sales is ask if they have games. Not only did I miss stuff, not only did people bring stuff out for me, but one guy I'm going to call midweek to get his brother's stuff (and he's supposed to have a lot of stuff).

To the haul.... the first 6 things were literally 100 feet from my house in our townhous complex....

Chrono Trigger Boxed with One Map 50 cents
Super Metroid Complete 50 cents
Secret of Evermore Loose 50 cents
Illusion of Gaia Complete 50 cents
N64 Expansion Pack (Has jumper instead of pack and tool boxed) 50 cents
Zelda LttP Loose 50 cents
GameCube with 1 Controller, all hookups, works like a charm: $26
2 259 GC Mem Cards $1 each
Chronicles of Narnia Box Set (7 books) $1
Starfox 64 Loose $3
NES Control Deck Complete Boxed (Perfect Condition) $10
NES System Completewith Zapper And SMB/DH inside $10
Luigi's Mansion GC Complete $8
Crazy Taxi GC Complete $10
Tony Hawk 4 Complete $5
AH3 Thunderstrike Sega CD Sealed $2
Harvest Moon PSX Complete $2
Lunar EB PSX With Case, All CDs, and Hardcover Manual $4
12 Assorted Comics for $5
Bloom County Penguin Dreams (Needed a new one) $1
Wario Land 3 GBC Loose $2
Tetris DX GBC Loose $2
Megaman Exteme 2 GBC $5

And all the following for 50 cents, all for the NES, loose as otherwise noted:
Jeopardy
Baby Boomer
Tetris (NOA) Boxed
Bionic Commando Boxed
1943 Boxed
QBert Boxed
Castlevania III
Platoon
Excitebike
Contra
3 copies of Gold Zelda 1
Gauntlet (Unlicensed)
Super Sprint
RC Pro Am
Dr. Mario
Mission Impossible
Defender II
Frankenstein
Top Gun
Tecmo Super Bowl
A Nightmare on Elm STreet
Batman
Mad Max
Hook
Iron Tank
Zanac

The GC was flabbergasting. Yes, I said flabbergasting. The kid got a PS2, and wanted to ditch his GC. $20 for the system, $6 for the controller. @_@

With talking with people, out of the 50-60 sales I hit up, 4-5 said I missed their game stuff.. I overslept a bit (damn you Mario 64!!)... ah well. One guy said he had 60 2600 games with system he sold. Yeargh.

I am a touch upset I missed the rest of the day and the rest of the town, but I'd rather spend time with my dad when I can.

dave

[undead455]

I got

John Elway’s Quaterback
Pro Wrestling
Kid Icarus
Racket Attack
Godzilla
10-Yard Fight

all for the NES at Value Village $20 pretty slow weekend so far. Maybe tomorrow will be better :)

Keep on Gaming 8-)

[Sniderman]

I had a good run too. NOthing like the folks above. But pretty good. Take a look:
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38487

Pics too!

[sniperCCJVQ]

100% complete NES Action 52 including warranty card. warning card and Cheetahmen comics !

for only 20$ CND. :D

[Crush Crawfish]

Well, I missed garage sales today....but I managed to get all this stuff free from my cousins:

Genesis
Castle of Illusion
Jurassic Park w/box
Power Rangers the Movie (Complete, though box is flat as a pancake)
Asterix and the Great Rescue w/box
Ren & Stimpy: Stimpy's Invention w/ box
Aladdin w/ box

NES
Major league Baseball
Top Gun
Blades of Steel
Sesame Street ABC
Spy Hunter
3D Worldrunner
Operation Wolf
Bart Vs. the Space Mutants

Today's Moral: It never hurts to ask.

[gamergary]

I got 5 megaman figures at $6 each and a Cel Damage Gamepro Figure for $6 as well.

[-hellvin-]

genesis pirate's gold (loose) - 1
nes tiles of fate - 1
genesis fun n games (boxes) - 3
genesis pit fighter (boxed) - 3

[Nesmaster]

today at a flea market i picked up:
gradius
silent assault
galactic crusader
p'radikus conflict

$1.50 a piece

[Vroomfunkel]

Well, I didn't have great hopes for today .. I signed myself up for the afternoon to voluntarily cover a freind's shift in a Fairtrade Cafe near where I live. Finished up there about quarter to five, and wandered out to see if the Salvation Army shop up the road was still open ... most thrift stores I know tend to close early on Saturdays for some reason. Well, thank goodness, it was still open. I like to pop in because despite the unpromising exterior it is piled high with all sorts of junk. (Found a loose Mega CD 1 a while back ... left it because it looked so grimy & beat up)

Today they have a couple of new PC joysticks, but I'm not too bothered about them. No new board games, so I sidle up to the shelf at the back where they sling most of the video games.

A few bits and pieces, a Dungeon Keeper that has been there for weeks. It's all just thrown in a pile, so I sift through. Not much to speak of ... there's a copy of Corruption by Magnetic Scrolls, but I've no idea if it's worth the standard £3.00 they charge for any video game. Elite for PC, Wonderland .. but what is this thing in a big black box at the bottom of the pile?

After much restacking I manage to extract it ... a Warcraft III Collector's Edition Box Set! My knowledge of PC games is minimal, but something tells me I'll get my £3.00 back at least! The thing weighs a ton, due to containing a large art book, several prints, a soundtrack CD, a DVD and the game.

A quick browse back at home tells me I'll probably get £30 or more for it. Which is nice .. it might go some small way to offsetting the stupid amount of money I have spent recently on various Japanese Sega items ... Twinsticks, sealed Saturn & Megadrive games etc. etc.

And if anyone knows if Magnetic Scrolls' Corruption is worth anything at all, I'd be pleased to know cause I could hopefully go back and pick it up!

Vroomfunkel

[Policenaut]

Just CIMA:The Adventure GBA (I've been searching for this game a lot)
Breath of Fire II GBA (Still sealed)
Spec Ops Omega Squad DC

[Pop Culture Portal]

Well, my finds usually come in sporatic spurts, followed by months and months of nothing (not even a damn 2600 Combat cart)...today wasn't a bad day...picked up alot of commons I didn't have...

From the Goodwill:

Dungeon Explorer (TGX16)
TV Sports Football (TGX16)
Takin' it to the Hoop (TGX16)
Keith Courage (TGX16)

All loose (in jewel cases only) for $1 each

Also an Odyssey 2 system, loose, no connections (just the joysticks) - $2...no way of testing it, but I couldn't pass it up for $2...also KC Munchkin for 0.50.

From the fleas:

Backstage Assault (N64) - complete, $5
Pro Quarterback (Gen) - complete, $1
Vectorman (Gen) - complete, $1
Aladdin (Gen) - complete, $1
Armorines (PSX) - complete, $1
WWF Attitude (Dreamcast) - complete, $1
Maximum Pool (Dreamcast) - complete, $5
102 Dalmations (Dreamcast) - complete, $5
Magical Racing Tour (Dreamcast) - complete, $10
Tony Hawk Pro Skater (Dreamcast) - complete, $3
Hidden & Dangerous (Dreamcast) - complete, $4

And finally from the Salvation Army store, these loose 2600 games, $2 each:

Astroblast
Lock 'n' Chase
Space Attack
Trick Shot
Home Run
Combat (WooT!!)
Chase
Spider Fighter
Frogger
Pole Position (says "Pole Positn" on sticker)
RealSports Football
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Asteroids
Space War
Maze Craze
Adventure
Football
Mountain King
Racquetball
Target Fun
Math
Blackjack
Video Chess
Space Invaders
Speedway 2
Blueprint
Moon Patrol
Crystal Castles
Donkey Kong
Combat (Telegames)
Warlords
Pac-Man
Defender
Surround

So....now with this haul I came back with today, I won't see so much as an E.T. cart until, oh, Easter of next year, knowing my luck.

[GrayFox]

The weekend is not done yet, but

Loose Intellivision - $5
Sealed NBA Jam Extreme for SS - $1
Sonic R for SS - $12.50
Two random Gen games I needed in order to get Sonic R for half off - $3

[cbroddy]

I just found Rez for $20

[DigitalSpace]

Game Boy:

Tetris (loose) - $4.99

[sisko]

Not much, we are really cutting back on the hunting in preparation for CGE..... haven't even gone to a yard sale in two weeks, thrifts in 3.

But, we walked through media play today and saw Ikaruga for GCN new, $20. Just HAD to finally pick it up :)

[Kai]

I could only go one day this week, but I got:

Sonic "not for resale" cart - 50 cents
Lion King for SNES cart - $2.00
Myst board game new - $1.50
Two N64 plastic game cases - 20 cents

And a box full of old 3.5 & 5.25 disks, couple games, a few sets of Windows 3.1, DOS, Lotus etc - FREE

[Cauterize]

Good day for me i think... pourin down with rain thou x_x

Final Fantasy 7 (PC)
Zero Wing (Genesis/MD)
Flintstones (SMS)
Vagrant Story (PSX)
Crash Warped (PSX)
Sol Feace (mega-Cd)
Cobra Comand (mega-Cd)

Snes Finds:
StarWing
Micro Machines
Mega Man X
Top Racer (JAP)
Goof Troop
Crazy Chase
Mortal Kombat
Fifa 97
Califonia Games 2 (USA)


GOt 2 copies of FF7 for pc now, gonna give one to my girlfriend :P

[Arcturius]

XBox Phantasy Star Online Episodes 1 & 2 (PAL) - £4.97
XBox Otogi (PAL New) - £10.99
Saturn Crypt Killer (PAL Skull Cover) - £4.97
Saturn Blast Chamber (PAL) - £1.97

[thegreatescape]

Complete Zombies (Mega Drive)- $10 AU
No One lives forever (PC) $4.95 AU- Kick ass game!
Sin (PC) $3.95 AU

Nice find on that Warcraft 3 set btw.

[MarioAllStar2600]

Yesterday I got
- Bust A Move 3000 ($40)
- Dead To Rights ($5)
came in the mail. Both bought from boardmembers.

Friday I went to goodwill, and a thrift store
- Mace Griffen Bounty Hunter (PS2) ($10)
- Kid Klown (NES $6.99)

I passed up a whole bunch of common NES games for like 8.99 a piece and a sega genises with all hookups a gun, and 2 controllers for 30.00

[showstoppa]

Out rummage saleing....

SNES Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past $4
SNES Illusion of Gaia $4

Gameboy Tetris $0.25

NES Zapper boxed and looks like it's never been used. The plastic baggie is still over the cord and it's wrapped up neatly and twisty tied up like it was new.
$1.50

Also a bunch of Nintendo Power magazines from the early Super Nintendo era

[Nez]

Virtua Fighter 3tb (DC) 4.99
Shadow Man (DC) 4.99
Prince Of Persia: Arabian Nights (DC) 9.99

Nes deck only $4

[tholly]

at a flea market:

NES games

10-Yard Fight -- $3
1943 -- $2
Dance Aerobics w/ Instructions -- $3
Jack Nicklaus' Golf -- $1
Pro Wrestling -- $1
Tecmo NBA Basketball -- $1

SNES game

Samurai Showdown -- $5

[Aussie2B]

Holy crap, portnoyd, excellent finds. Now I'm even more excited about the city-wide garage sale that's happening in a nearby town here soon.

After going to the coast for 4 days and finding absolutely nothing at the thrift stores I checked out there (unless you count a single loose SMB/DH cart :P ), I managed to get my first garage sale find here. It's pretty funny because it was INSANELY hot here that day (and people around here have no air conditioning :/ ), so I didn't leave the house that day and notice that a couple houses down there was a sale. I was lucky that my mom spotted it while driving home from work. I had always joked with my boyfriend that if there was ever a yard sale in this neighborhood, there would likely be games since there are so many kids here. I was right, hehe. :) I walked down, and I don't know how I missed the stack while browsing, but when I asked about games, the little boy directed me to a pile of 6 SNES games. Nothing special, but they were just a buck each (and I didn't have any of them yet). The boy was also really nice, a good little businessman, and he offered us sodas (for free). Since they're such nice neighbors, I bought 'em all. So I got:

The Addams Family
Paperboy 2
Bubsy
Road Runner's Death Valley Rally
Home Alone
Super Ninja Boy

Mostly crap, I know, but for non-sports SNES games, a dollar each isn't bad at all. I almost have to wonder if someone picked them clean of good games earlier that day (it was already around 6 PM when I walked down), but considering the heat, I doubt they got many people.

Oh, and I had a huge disappointment today. I was going up to my local Gamer's Edge, which was once my favorite store for buying NES games years ago but in recent years didn't have much to offer. I was worried that I wouldn't find anything to buy, but never did I think that I wouldn't find the store itself! We get there and there's NOTHING. The sign out on the street is still there, but the store was completely empty. There were no notices about remodelling or moving or anything, so who knows what's going on. I'll have to go to the other one in this area and see if it's gone too. It would be very sad if the big-ass(hole) chains like GameStop and EB put good old Gamer's Edge out of business. :( The employees were sometimes jerks, but it was still an excellent little local chain for getting games ranging from new to old to imported.

[little arms]

Street Fighter Collection 1 and samurai showdown 3 and Hoshigami all on ps1

[Nesmaster]

this doesnt count for this weekend, but i might as well say it now, since i am very happy. im getting teenage mutant ninja turtles: tournament fighters(nes) for $20 CDN next week. YAY! :evil:

[Kejoriv]

Kid Icarus and a few other nes games. 50 cents each