Your best find of the year

[XJR15]

Please limit this to 1 item. Your BEST

I found a boxed popeye game and watch tabletop. How cool is that?

[skoldpadda]

Neo geo CD system and 5 games with extra joystick all complete in box at my local thrift store for 35 bucks... promptly sold on ebay and have continued to parlay that 35 bucks into about 60 colecovision games including some nice rare ones and some opcode games. :D

[Nesmaster]

Action 52 complete for free

[sisko]

Factory sealed Kid Vid Module for the A2600. $60.

[scooterb23]

Quiet year for me...probably the box I get early in the year with Tax Avoiders. I'd only been wanting it for 17 years :)

[shai hulud]

Gitaroo Man sealed for $25

[starchildskiss78]

Hey everyone...

I say my best find this year was a Super Game Boy at EB Games for only $7.99! I had been wanting to get one for a while so I could start collecting Game Boy games and play them on the big screen!

[sirgeoph]

Rainbow Islands on the NES factory sealed

[lurpak]

shining the holy ark, saturn £2

[Vroomfunkel]

Hmm, tricky. But almost certainly 2 sealed Ninja Warriors for the Mega CD for $10 each.

Vroomfunkel

[thegreatescape]

Hmm, tricky. But almost certainly 2 sealed Ninja Warriors for the Mega CD for $10 each.

Vroomfunkel

Does the Mega CD version have the To-ma-to song ? LOL

My best find: Complete Daze Before Christmas for just under $15 Au. Not the greatest find, but good finds are hard to come by in my area..

[NESaholic]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v626/The_Nes_a_holic/Rodland.jpg

[-hellvin-]

stadium events loose - 5

[tonyvortex]

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ive had so many good finds this year but i always think about my mint boxed quadrun i bought for $1 so many months ago.

[sniperCCJVQ]

Got so much stuff this year, it's hard to tell.

I think Bumper Bash, Master Builder and Tapeworm for the 2600 it's the greatest one for me.

[Cobra Commander]

I think Secret of Mana for $1.50 at the Goodwill was my best. Not great, but not too bad either.

[jeffg]

My best find was a snag off ebay

Japanese Saturn with 2 controllers, 5 memory cards, Action 4 in 1
and following Games

Radiant Silvergun
Capcom Generations 1
Thunderforce Gold Pack 2
Konami Antiques
Fire Pro Wrestling 6 man scramble
Gladiator Pinball


All for $80.00

[max 330 mega]

Flinstones 2 NES boxed at ECGX, that was definitely my best find of the year.

[kainemaxwell]

Getting Zoop for PSX.

[dreamcaster]

I still think this is my winner for this year:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/chriscubed/nescomplete.jpg

Literally, mint condition NES for $5.00 AU

Honourable mentions:

Guilty Gear (PSX) - complete, $12.00 AU
Guilty Gear X (PS2) - complete, $30.00 AU
Master System Converter - loose, $8.00 AU
Space Channel 5 - Part 2 (PS2) - complete, $26.95 AU
GBA e-Reader Set - new, $10.00 AU

[DDCecil]

$12 sealed Rez OR everything at that $5 CC sale :D

[Tatsu]

A Sega Saturn with one controller, power cable and Sega Ralley for about 12$. I always wanted a Saturn...

[Satac]

http://i22.ebayimg.com/02/i/02/c3/a3/2b_1_b.JPG

Everything for 30 Euro :)

[AB Positive]

It would probably have to be the World Series Baseball w/ Deion Sanders for the 32x, CIB for 6 bucks at the local music shop. Not bad for a R6.

-AG

[Barbarianoutkast85]

My cube with 3 games a memory card and an extension cord for 25 bucks I think...didnt find anything to special this year i guess.

[YoshiM]

I'd have to say the best for me was a loose Tengen Tetris I got from Goodwill for $3.

[GameNinja]

My best find is: (all for dreamcast)
Dreamcast with one controller, VMU and cords
disc-only Sega Smashpack vol 1
disc-only Incoming
disc-only Hidden & Dangerous
Both discs of Resident Evil: Code Veronica
disc-only Web Browser 2.0
cd case
all for 14$

[Flack]

http://www.robohara.com/videogames/cabs/qbert.jpg

Garage sale, $100. Looks and works great!

[MikeBoh8]

Gran Turismo 3 and a gt force wheel for it free. My grandmother got it for me :)
i think that counts

[s1lence]

Dr. Who Pinball for 1200 bucks so maybe not the cheapest find, but by far my best find.

[eightbitonline]

probably a mint complete US guardian heroes for $0.99.

[DigitalSpace]

A loose Earthbound for SNES for $4.

[ChronoTriggaFoo]

Panzer Dragoon Saga for the Sega Saturn - $5.99 at a used computer store

[thehistorian]

Not one but two Tengen Tetris carts. One loose $5.00, one CIB $8.00 (talked them down from $12 haha!)

Gamecube loose, $15.00. It was just the cube, no controllers, no cables nothing.. and it worked for about 3 months.. lol

Strawberry Shortcake 2600 loose $1.00

VB Jack Bros. CIB $9.00

PSOne w/ Sony Screen complete $45.00

Someone mentioned Super GameBoys, I have about 4 or 5 of them. This one store here locally sells them for $2.99 loose, so I grab them whenever they have them in stock.

[Classicgamesdepot]

About $3000 in sealed games (nes/genesis/snes) costing anywhere from 1.75 - 3.00 , use your imagination :-)

[youruglyclone]

PSOne w/ Sony Screen complete $45.00

DAMN YOU! I got mine for 50...feels ripped off

2nd CDX for 50

[josekortez]

Toss up between the new GameCube Freeloader disc for a penny from EB or the Dreamcast with NHL 2K I nabbed from a yard sale for $5.

[importaku]

Hmm hard to say i think it would have to be my final fantasy crystal chronicles crystal white edition gamecube.

Due to them been made in extremely low numbers (150) they normally don't sell for less than £600. I managed to get mine fr £150. :D

[ubersaurus]

Definitely the boxed O2 with about 25 boxed games from work, including 2 of the board game sets @_@

The runner up would probably be that free boxed NES challenge set, or that 12 dollar Pico w/games from that garage sale.

[Crush Crawfish]

Hands down, my boxed Turbografx-16 system with keith courage and a boxed turbobooster, all for $4. :D

[Pantechnicon]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/pzcortez/IMG_0007.jpg
$20 at Goodwill. All it needed was a refurbed power supply and a new back door. Hella fun game besides being "omg teh r@r3".

[ScottK]

Man...it's hard to list just one thing as I've had many great finds this year. These are just a few of the things off the top of my head.

-Turbografx 16 system (no back cover, but works great) with 12 games for $12.

- A Top Loading NES System with 122 games for $45

- Great Working Asteroids Arcade Machine for $100 (just sold recently for $500)

- Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (SNES) for $10

- Dragon Warrior 1-4 (NES...all complete) $20

[Blendo75]

A NES, a NES Advantage, a game genie and about 50 games. Nothing rare but everything was free.

[Blendo75]

delete me please :puppydogeyes:

[Biohazard]

My best find were probably Resident Evil for Sega Saturn for 1 GBP, and Burning Rangers for 15 euro's (all PAL titles).

[Rogmeister]

Probably a complete version of Miner 2049er for Atari 5200. I had a copy already but it was just a loose cart.

[jasonlotp]

I got a NES Racermate Challenge II w/ some accessories and the controller connector for the NES plus a toploading NES all for $1 off EBAY!
(Well plus $15 shipping)

-Jason

[Cauterize]

Im not sure if it was this year, or the year before, but as i always mention;

£1 - NeoGeo AES Boxed
(no power Supply thou...)

and i did find 2 USA SMS Castle Of Illusions this year somehow, which both were traded for glorious packages!

[NEONEO]

i found a columbia house atari 2600 and a coke wins atari cart.

james

[EndlessChris]

Tie between Suikoden 2 (Disc only) for $5 and Congo Bongo (Loose-INTV) for $5

[mr_jiggles_13]

i traded a genesis 1 for a playdia

thats it i think. lots of good buys, but above was the best trade ever.

[Dr. Morbis]

Complete Bubble Bobble Part 2 for NES from Value Village. Price: $3.99. The cart and manual are mint, the box has a couple of creases.

[XxMe2NiKxX]

Complete Miracle Piano Teaching System for $8 (Genesis).

[swlovinist]

Boxed Colecovision(with mag), Roller Controller(boxed), Super Action Controllers(boxed), Steering Wheel(boxed) with 35+boxed minty fresh games. Many of the games were, Wing Wars, War Room 2000, BC Quest for Tires, Pitstop, Squishem Eatem Sam. BUT THE BEST ONES WERE ALL FIVE SPECTRAVISION GAMES, MINT AND BOXED......I got all of this for $80.00!

[SamuraiSmurfette]

Complete and Minty Snatcher for SCD >$3

[Dimitri]

Team Buddies (PSX, R8) for $12.

I picked it up soley because it said 1-4 players, had no idea it was so scarce. :D

[izret101]

Nothing that great compared to some of what i read so far.

1 sealed 49 CIB and 2 boxed NES games 5 bucks a piece
10(or less) bucks with above order
2 different Genesis boxes, 1 2nd model NES box, DKC model SNES box, CIB NES Advantage, 14+ year old Nintendo Power Magazine rack display thing, MK DA & RE: OutBreak stands, Chaos Legion & RE Out Break counter stands, PS demo disc.
It helps to be a steady and devout coustomer. :D
Support your local game store and they will support you collection. :)

[AFGiant]

Hmm...toughie. This is my first year collecting...
I'd go with the Sonic Boom! music cd that has the music from some Sonic Games (including Sonic Spinball) on it. Why? Two reasons. 1. No one seems to have it or even have heard of it, and 2. I found it in a stack of soundtracks that came home from the videostore, so I got it for FREE :D

Runner up: This didn't make best find because I'm most likely gonna have to sell this. Sitting on the For Sale rack at my dad's videostore was Fox Hunt (PSX, R8) boxed (no manual) for $7.99
Man, I would have liked to have kept that, but I'm gonna try to sell it to make some bucks for the store :|

[ianoid]

i found a columbia house atari 2600 and a coke wins atari cart.

A coke wins? Does it have a label? Are you keeping it?

For me, offhand it was an NES test cart for $5. Keeping it.

[doomedpeasant]

Well the other day i got Return Fire (PSX, R7) thats the best i got this year, but i havent really been hunting that much

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

Tie between MC kids boxed and Lunar eternal blue sega cd complete

[vintagegamecrazy]

Super Air Zonk (Turbo Duo) Mint and Complete at Goodwill, $1.99

[Grim_Reaper_Bostock]

Traded my complete Final Fantasy III for a complete NES Uncharted Waters in almost-mint shape, other than a crease and some wear on the box. BTW, my FFIII was in, at best, good condition. :D

I also scored my sealed Titus SOS for all of 12.50 Canadian :D

[Aussie2B]

Tough call. I had several finds that I would consider really good, but nothing jaw-dropping to the collectors around here. :P I'd say my best find was Dracula X: Rondo of Blood for $70 total from some guy at an online marketplace.

[VinnyT]

It's a tie between finding an Odyssey 3000 for $5 and a Virtual Boy with Tennis for $3.

[stuffedmonkey]

Super Air Zonk (Turbo Duo) Mint and Complete at Goodwill, $1.99

Wow.. that's a great find

[sleepycal]

Probably either
Mah - Jong (Mak-Jong) complete for SMS - free

or

Space Quest collection boxed for PC - $7 Cdn

[kainemaxwell]

Lots of great additions to my collections this year, but maybe best finds being Zoop and V-Tennis at Gamestop.

[Sauza12]

My best find would either have to be a complete and mint boxed Odyssey 2 with 12 complete and mint games for $50, or a CIB copy of MUSHA for the Genesis for 2.99.

[Kamino]

that'd be today, where among other things i found an r7 fire dogs and r8 fun n games for snes.

[dj898]

that would be Saturn Dragon's Dream - multiuse online RPG that never officially released. Funy thing is I was told about this and searched high and low with no success... then one day I got the rest of my stuff left behind in Japan and guess what I found! I did get this one back in those days but completely forgot about it till I rediscovered it... :D It's one of my prized collection now...

[klausien]

Klonoa and Motor Toon GP for PSOne complete for $15 each.

Not the greatest prices, but by far my favorite finds of the year in the wild.

I was also able to get the entire Namco Museum collection for PSOne, complete, first printing for around $10 each on average.

[Keir]

Now that the search function is working again, I was able to dig up this thread.

My best video game find of 2004 was a brand new Gamecube Game Boy Player for $8 at a Salvation Army. Who would give something like that to a thrift store?

In the realm of not-quite-gaming finds, I got 2 Atari Video Music systems for $25 each.

I don't consider eBay purchases to be "finds" but I did get some great Supercharger deals last year. I now have a nearly complete collection; just missing Survival Island, the box for Rabbit Transit, and a couple manuals.

[8bitnes]

From ebay a Nintendo and 12 games for $322. No I'm not joking. After selling the system and 3 of games, that auction paid for last year's Roth IRA contribution.

[FooFighter]

Chase the Chuckwagon at a pawnshop here in Wyoming for $5.00.

Very lucky as I had somehow overlooked it the week before.