The oddest place you've found an NES cart in the wild?

[DigitalSpace]

Have you ever found an NES cart somewhere you never thought you'd see one? Share your story here!

[Nesmaster]

i have found nes games at a drug store. i thought that was pretty odd :/

other places i have found them that sort of made me go "wtf?":

boxed games mixed in with vhs tapes at a thrift
a fisher price game for nes in box, in the baby section amongst other baby toys LOL

[Sothy]

Stadium events at the North pole.

We lost 7 men on that expedition....


http://img168.exs.cx/img168/8229/antarcticagame2pb.jpg

[Simply Dave]

I found games at a landfill once. I was there to drop off some household trash and there was a small pile next to the dumpster. Just a bunch of commons ( I clearly remember Tiger Heli and a few other stinkers...no pun intended) but hey there were free to a good home so I took em'.




boxed games mixed in with vhs tapes at a thrift

I found that funny because I always find Genny games mixed in with the VHS tapes whenever I am at my local Goodwill. LOL

[Dr. Morbis]

I found 2 boxed NES games in a Used Bookstore once. This place had nothing but books... thousands and thousands of books. As I'm looking at one of the shelves, the title "Heroes of the Lance" catches my eye. I pull it out and it's not a book at all, it's a boxed NES game. Gauntlet was right beside it. I don't know how on earth they got there, or what kind of retarded employee mistook two boxed videogames for books, but I was able to get two complete games for next to nothing that day.

[PentiumMMX]

I found a NES game (Millepede) in a box of broken crap.

I found "Super Mario Bros. 3" in a box of VHS tapes.

That's all I remember.

[rbudrick]

LOL @ Sothy

You and your Photoshop jokes! LOL

I don't think I've ever found any in any particulalry odd places....standard stuff... thrift/pawn shops, yard/garage sales, flea markets, ebay, Digitpress.com, etc.

-Rob

[FlufflePuff]

I was an RA at college. One summer we decided to clean out the old storage closets that weren't in use anymore. Everything got pitched or donated, but if we wanted something we could take it. I found boxes of anime, a marble chess set, some cool bookshelves, a bunch of fantasy books, and a box of NES games. They were all loose and most sucked, but I found a Mega Man and Baseball Stars in there. Wasn't expecting them at all, but it made the hard day of work worth it.

[vintagegamecrazy]

Didn't someone find an nes game at K Mart a year or two ago for full original list price? That's pretty funny.

[Emily]

Ive found an Nes game in a box of toys.
Its was SMB/DH of course.

[cracked8ball]

I know finding games at flea markets isn't out of the ordinary, but I was passing by a car stereo booth and noticed they had 2 NES games and a genesis game (being Pirates! Gold :D) among the stereo accessories.

I've also seen them in used book stores and Kmart as well.

[Kepone]

I've found NES games in trash cans before.

[Dire 51]

The trunk of some lady's car.

And no, I wasn't rifling through her car trying to steal something. I was putting away her groceries.

[EnemyZero]

I bought a chest from the goodwill and when i started putting stuff in it i found a side compartment with Yo-Noid loose in it ... o.O

[NESaholic]

There's a store here that sells train models and stuff like that a shop you would pass easily.
But sneaky it seems to have a game corner,as well new gen. but also 2nd hands games but you can't see it anywhere only when you walk into the store and go way back.
I saw some nes,snes and psone 2nd games and found nes Asterix and Ten Chu for peanuts.

2 Slothy :D

[imanerd0011]

I haven't really found NES games at any crazy places before, but I do remember someone here saying that they found some SNES games at Kmart last year, and they were charging $50.00 a piece. HAHHAH LOL

[link1110]

In the ice in a pond near my house. It was a NES Wrestlemania rental back in the day. I couldn't get it out though,because I was just a kid.

[drewbrim]

I found a couple of NES games for sale at a convienent store in Canada once while on a weekend trip. Nothing great or anything, just seemed odd next to the magazines and candy.

[SebasC]

I Saw NES games at a furniture store (IKEA) in like 1993 / 1994.

[dojosky]

I've seen nes games at hardware store in jackson california back in 1988 or so yes hardware store LOL ...

[Master Chu]

Didn't someone find an nes game at K Mart a year or two ago for full original list price? That's pretty funny.


Been there....about 3 or 4 months ago they had a lone copy of Carmen San Diego at our Walmart. I picked it up and asked the woman behind the electronics counter how much and she pointed to the remnants of the original green price tag oh so lovingly applied to the back...

$64.95.............:?

[Qixmaster]

i haven't found any nes games in out of the ordinary places before, but i do remember hearing someone find a sealed contra force and some other sealed nes games at an auto part store.

crazy.

-Josh

[drwily008]

Weird situation but not really a super odd place to find games. Like 7 or 8 years ago I had lost my driver's license for being stupid. Then I had to go to a long 10 class to get my license back. After the class my Mom came and picked me up and insisted that we go to this garage sale she saw coming to get me. I was tired and didn't feel like it so I complained and waited in the car. 30 minutes later she comes back with a bag saying "Too bad, there was some stuff you would have liked but now it's mine." Inside of the bag was a superb collection of NES titles including TONS of good titles including all of the Megaman games & Dragon Warrior games and a MINT NES. Luckily she was teasing and sold me the bag for $5 total. Great day because like 2 years before all of my games were stolen and this replaced some of the ones I wanted back badly!

[jetsetradio4ever]

This isn't really wierd but I just don't know what happened... I have a growing collection of SMB/DH carts and one time 1 of them dissappeared. It Turned out that it was under my back when I woke up the day after it went missing. Man, my back hurt after that!

[Cmosfm]

About 6 months ago I bought a sealed Gold Zelda & a Sealed Contra Force for 20.00 each at an Advance Auto.

They were new old stock they guy had on the counter, caked in dust, for about 15 years. LOL

[InsaneDavid]

A few months ago the local KayBee Toys was going out of business and I asked the manager if she had found any old games in the back. (since I had picked up a few sealed Virtual Boy games for next to nothing from there the year before) She returned with a cardboard box filled with sealed NES and Genesis games. It looked to be an entire case of Tetris 2 and a couple copies of StarTropics II and Cobra Triangle. The Genesis games were mainly final rereleases from before Sega let the Genesis 3 die. I picked up all the NES games, about $6 or so each.

[Eldergod]

I once found a copy of Rygar out in the woods near my apartment. It was underneath a car hood ?wtf? just laying out in the middle of the woods. At first I had no idea what game it was because the sticker had been water damaged because it had been in the elements. I took it inside and cleaned it thoroughly with a Qtip and alcohol and plugged it in and it worked perfectly.

[LensIrritant]

It wasn't an NES game, but I got my Power Pad from the mattress section of a thrift store. I guess it looks like an inflatable mattress, or something.

[DigitalSpace]

This post (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1319823&postcount=139) in the recent finds thread inspired me to bring this thread back.

I don't recall spotting any NES games at places where you wouldn't expect to find any, but I've seen a couple misplaced Tengen carts at game stores. Last year, I found a Fantasy Zone cart sitting on a pile of Atari 5200 carts. Last month, I spotted a misplaced R.B.I. Baseball cart in a case of Genesis games (which was not next to the store's NES case). Then I took a look at their NES stuff, and spotted a complete Ms. Pac-Man for Genesis (in the cardboard box) with the boxed NES games. Guess they switched places. LOL

[DefaultGen]

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[Cryomancer]

One time when i worked at goodwill someone donated a monitor box. I opened it up after they left to check it, and it turned out to be full of crumpled newspaper, ROCKS, and a loose cart of a crayon shin-chan game for super famicom. My question about that is, what exactly were they trying to pull? I guess they thought I would somehow write down "awesome monitor still in box!! $9000" on their receipt or something. Problems with that being that goodwill doens't price things on receipts and a mostly light box with rocks and newpaper rattling around in it doens't exactly seem like a new monitor...

[Niku-Sama]

well i didnt find any NES games in werid places but i was diggin a fence post in my back yard and i kept finding copys of ET. talk about odd

[BocoDragon]

well i didnt find any NES games in werid places but i was diggin a fence post in my back yard and i kept finding copys of ET. talk about odd

:D brilliant

[murdoc rose]

I found a nes and like 6 games commons but some ok stuff in a trash bag behind a house we had got back.

[DefaultGen]

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[darkhades]

There is a pet store in my area that sells used games. I bought a few NES games there once.

[dave2236]

I see tons of NES games mixed in with cassettes and 8 tracks at the local thrift stores.

My weirdest find was a Atari Jaguar Alien vs Predator at the Iola car show mixed in with a bunch of auto parts and car emblems in a booth. He had that game for $2 and Cybermorph for $5.

[aaron7]

My friend found a BIG bag of SNES games next to a dumpster once... at least 25 games, system, etc. Boy was he happy!

[Bandicat]

About a year ago a friend of mine found an NES console (no cords, controllers, etc) and about 5 common games in the city dump after an enormous flood hit the area. She also found a SNES, but left it there.:grrr: When I took apart the NES to refurbish it, I found a dead worm inside.

[thetoxicone]

I remember a craft store in my hometown used to carry those religious nes games, wish I had the foresight to pick them up eventually because they probably cleared them out pretty cheaply once the nes lost popularity.

[cyberfluxor]

Stadium events at the North pole.

We lost 7 men on that expedition....


http://img168.exs.cx/img168/8229/antarcticagame2pb.jpg

Epic find there. Pure gold.

The most remote region I've discovered a NES cartridge would be at a pawn shop. Seriously, a couple of common sports on a shelf next to rims, car speakers, and guns. There were no other electronic devices anywhere in the establishment except the monitor displaying the "hidden" cameras.

[Cobra Commander]

Not a strange place, but weird time. The Wal-Mart where I work was remodeling electronics. I went by one day only to find a nice sealed copy of Home Improvement for the SNES. Now I know the game sucks ass, but me being the nerd I am, I had to have it. The sticker said $39.99. I said "Fuck that, how much is it really?" They held firm. I said I refuse to pay full price for a game that isn't even in the system anymore. No one would EVER. They took it to the manager, and told me $2. I happily agreed.
I also got a brand new copy of Final Fantasy IX the same way last year.
A few weeks ago, I saw a copy of Mario Party 3, but they totally refused to back off from the $49.99 price tag. I walked.

[spoon]

One of my used NES games has a sales receipt that shows the game was bought the same time as a brake job.

[Thrillo]

I found a lonely Adventures of Bayou Billy lying in an empty book cabinet close to my desk in Spanish class at school. I had noticed it for a few months but due to my poor viewing angle, I wasn't quite sure if it was a NES cart, especially since it made no sense to find one there. Finally I decided to actually check it and sure enough, my NES collection grew by one game.
That was back in 2001 or so; it's quite possible that it was sitting there for years...

[bones11]

Found a Donkey Kong Classics in a box of clothes in the middle of a parking lot. There were several boxes of random junk and furniture there, looked like someone emptied out an apartment and dumped everything.

[fcw3]

My son found a GBA game in an unpaved parking lot of the local park during an Easter Egg hunt. It had obviously been there all winter and was severly worn. (No label, cracked case, driven over, etc.) We were able to clean it and get it working long enough to find out it was "Frogger".

Wouldn't it be interesting to start a tagged wild cart hunt ? Mark or make a special cart and place it in the wild somewhere (not as weird a place as some of these games were found), like a Goodwill. If you find it, you mark it and are challenged to release back into the wild. Sort of like a turtle my family and I found back in the 70's. When we found it, it had several people's names and dates on its shell. We added ours and released him back where we had found him...

[namzep]

I found a bunch of boxed NES games at a small town in OK. I remember that TMNT 2 and Tetris were in there but I forget what else. I need to go back and see if the owner is willing to cut the price down on them yet as they were still full price last time I was there. I may try a cash offer for the lot of them.

[k8track]

I don't know which is weirder: finding an NES game wedged between the cuspidor and donkey skeleton in my step-grandma's torture/sex closet, or the fact that said game was T&C Surf Designs.

[rbudrick]

Well, these aren't NES, but I told of a very odd find indeed for Channel F games once, a few years ago:

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15722


well i didnt find any NES games in werid places but i was diggin a fence post in my back yard and i kept finding copys of ET. talk about odd

Oh, you must live near Albuquerque.

-Rob

[Frogger49]

Can't give any good examples for NES games, besides the Wal-Mart in East Greenbush, New York trying to sell Super Mario Brothers 3 for the NES (Sealed) in a bargain bin for either $20 or $30 in 1998 (I actually think it was $30). As for other strange things, I remember the Ames in Troy, New York(another department store chain that went bankrupt in 2002) was selling what I believed to be brand-new Game Gears for $25-$30 and copies of games like Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Disney's Aladdin for $19.99 each. This was in 2001.

[jb143]

My dad used to rent out houses and a lot of the time when people moved out they'd leave their crappy furnature. I was helping him move a couch out to the dumpster one time and found several gameboy games inside it. 8-)

[smork]

Not NES, but I bought my Turbo Duo R at a 24 hour porno shop for $25 or $30. (3000 yen, I think)

Works fine, not sticky in the least.

[alexkidd2000]

Back around 1989 my parents bought an empty lot to build a house about 15min outside of town. When we were walking around the lot, beside the telephone pole we noticed something. Went over to look, found a pair of expensive snake skin cowboy boots with 5 NES carts shoved in them! I didn't have a NES but I sold the games to a friend for $30 each, split the money with my sister (who was with me when we found) and used my money for SMS games haha.

[Cinder6]

Never found games in weird places, but I did find an NES in an odd place. My 12th-grade science fiction teacher was also the drama teacher. For some reason that no one understands, the drama students piled a ton of crap (not literally--they raided the store room in the building, piled up desks, chairs, blankets, teaching supplies, etc.) in the room. All the desks were in in, and chairs had been placed in the room for us to use while we watched a movie (yes, it was weird; the damn thing dominated the room).

While watching the movie, a friend noticed an NES sitting somewhere in the pile. Long story short, my teacher let me have it. Good day. Weird, but good.

[debian4life]

At a convenience store and once at an adult store, but the only reason I was in there was for directions:cheers:

Regards,

Brian

[Penguin]

My son found a GBA game in an unpaved parking lot of the local park during an Easter Egg hunt. It had obviously been there all winter and was severly worn. (No label, cracked case, driven over, etc.) We were able to clean it and get it working long enough to find out it was "Frogger".

Wouldn't it be interesting to start a tagged wild cart hunt ? Mark or make a special cart and place it in the wild somewhere (not as weird a place as some of these games were found), like a Goodwill. If you find it, you mark it and are challenged to release back into the wild. Sort of like a turtle my family and I found back in the 70's. When we found it, it had several people's names and dates on its shell. We added ours and released him back where we had found him...

Perfect, we can do geocacheing with NES carts! That would be a lot of fun, anywho I was in my local thrift store last december and came across 6 boxed NES games in the VHS section, a Mint copy of Mario 3 included, for $1 each :)

[Coldguy]

Snakes Revenge was in a record store on main street in a small town of Hatboro.

[Rev. Link]

Found some loose NES and Genesis games in a Half Priced Books once, which seemed odd to me at the time, but I later found out they all carry stuff like that.

[DefaultGen]

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[drdrew1469]

at a yard sale i found 2, yes 2, jammed in a vcr that "didn't work" for a dollar (smb/dh and gyromite. sadly gyro didn't work, but the "adapter" did :D

at another (in the early 90's - you'll remember why this is funny) i found shooting range with an original grey working zapper for ten dollars (the guy was a cop)

and my oddest find of all...the creme de la creme of finds...an smb/dh left in a console for five bucks!!! score!!! like, what retard does that!!! heh, i'm da man...

[spoon]

....Wouldn't it be interesting to start a tagged wild cart hunt ? Mark or make a special cart and place it in the wild somewhere (not as weird a place as some of these games were found), like a Goodwill. If you find it, you mark it and are challenged to release back into the wild. Sort of like a turtle my family and I found back in the 70's. When we found it, it had several people's names and dates on its shell. We added ours and released him back where we had found him...

Sounds like a cool idea. If anyone finds a copy for Pyramid that boots up SMB/DH, that was me. I switched out the boards when I traded it in the gamestop because I would get more for Pyramid than a copy of SMB/DH. Back then I thought it would be funny.

[campbell828793]

I found Bionic Commando being sold by a vendor at a wrestling event nearby in Rochester...It had that, Bayou Billy, and SMB/DH/T&F for 3 bucks. I already had the two others so I just got Bionic Commando.

[SamuraiSmurfette]

My ex worked at a service station and would regularly find gba games in the self-serve auto vacuums.

[Dreamc@sting]

I found a few PSone games at a Mr. Second hardware store - I thought it was wierd to see them next to the rack of wrenches...

[otoko]

My place is not exactly odd but here it goes.

A thrift store in Aurora Illinois regularly puts NES and Sega Genesis games with the VCR tapes. It's kinda odd when one time I purchased a cart they asked me if it was a good movie...

[jb143]

It's not NES but since someone else mentioned PS1...I saw some PS1 games at walmart LAST NIGHT. A big stack of sports games and some Robo-something or other game I've never heard of. I'm guessing they were clearing out storage and ran across them so they decided to put them out.

[Nick Goracke]

I've told this story before, but I found an entire rack of factory sealed NES games in ~2002 at a local grocery store. Ended up snagging Dragon Warrior IV for $10, but left behind everything else (big mistake). The only other title I can distinctly remember seeing is Ghost Lion, just because it was a pretty uncommon game, but there were 25~30 unique carts...

[Nick Goracke]

Not NES, but I bought my Turbo Duo R at a 24 hour porno shop for $25 or $30. (3000 yen, I think)

Works fine, not sticky in the least.

I would've thought this was weird, even for Japan, until I saw you were in Shin-Urayasu. I've never been further than the mall ~3 blocks from the station, but legend has it that it's a dirty, dirty place. And I don't mean dirty. ;)

[Xian042]

I used to go to this used CD/Records shop, they always had the crappiest NES games. I got to the point that I just stopped looking. They had six copies of Mario/Duck Hunt, golf, sports games, crap like that. Then one day they had the Tengen version of Tetris. WFT??

[DigitalSpace]

It's not NES but since someone else mentioned PS1...I saw some PS1 games at walmart LAST NIGHT. A big stack of sports games and some Robo-something or other game I've never heard of. I'm guessing they were clearing out storage and ran across them so they decided to put them out.

You've inspired me to bump a thread I made just over a year ago...
Is there a place near you that still has new PlayStation games? (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=96250)

[sisko]

NES Golf at my grandmother's house. Complete in Box.

My grandmother can barely work a VCR.

[norkusa]

Right after moving into a 2 unit apartment house, I found a loose Excitebike just sitting next to the washer & dryer in the basement. There was tons of crap down in there left over from previous tenants (including a Commodore 1702 monitor), so I took it. I had around 400 NES games at the time and Excitebike wasn't one of them, so it was a great find for me.

[98redM6]

NES Golf at my grandmother's house. Complete in Box.

My grandmother can barely work a VCR.

Sounds like you came up on a game from a relative or someone that may have left it there. I can just imagine them posting in a thread titled "Games you Lost Over the Years".

[FrakAttack]

In a ditch beside the highway. Had no label with red and black Sharpie scribbles all over it, but it worked. Turned out to be Jackal, one of my favorites. :D

[strassy]

when i was cleaning out my old car before selling it, i found a copy of Super C in the trunk. i don't remember buying it, but I doubt it was there when I bought it (it was a used car, but it came from a dealer, they always clean everything out) also strangely, i never remember seeing the cart again after that day (this was about 7 years ago)