Qixmaster
08-14-2005, 02:26 PM
well... waiting since the beginning of the year finally paid off last thursday morning.
First, a short story:
It all started back on Dec. 29th, 2004 ( I remember since it was a few days before new years eve) when I was with my parents on a country drive or so it seemed. We were about 20-25 miles from Eugene OR when we passed through Junction City OR and I spotted a rental store across from the goodwill. Needless to say the goodwill had absolutely smack, so I ventured across the street to the video store. The rental store was called Video Junction and had been in business since 1983 (but didn't start renting games it appeared until the late 80s, possibly 1987). Anyways...
I walked in, looked around a bit and noticed that there were TONS of video games. I counted (at the time) 100+ boxed NES games, 40 + boxed n64 games, 40+ SNES games and a slew of Genesis boxed games. The stuff wasn't mint, but i had felt I just walked into a goldmine. I almost shat myself from all the NES games lined up on the shelf.
Needless to say, i wanted them right then. I talked to the guy at the counter and it turns out they were closing because Hollywood just moved in down the street (bastard rental chains). I found out that his wife and him been in business since 1983... they had ove 15,000 Videos in their store and grip of games. He took down my number and said his wife would call me about the games.
Flash forward: Sometime in feb.
I hadn't heard from the lady, but had been watching the newspapers closely; low and behold i check the paper one morning and it reads "Video store closing." I call up, she says that she isn't ready to sell the games yet and won't be doing so for qutie a while. I still can't rest easy, so I make my way out to J-city and check out the sale just to make sure she isn't selling the sctuff. She isn't, just movies.
As it goes, she never calls me after the sale. I get nervious for fear she might ebay the whore. I am constantly checking ebay "distance nearest first," but no dice. So, I start to call her, remind her and discuss it with her every so often... She tells me she has over 1,000 games (which i later found out not to be true... it was closer to 500). and as the story unfolds, weeks go by, months go by... i continue to call, never getting answers at the store (since it is closed down). I begin to erase it from my mind, thinking it will never happen. Sometimes I talk with her and she tells me she still has them "but isn't ready to sell"
SO... last monday rolls around and I am making my weekly call to see if anyone answers. To my suprise, she does! She says that she is having another sale, with all the video games this next thursday. Extatic, yet a little pissed (since I had been talking with her for a long time about getting them), I couldn't wait to go out their thursday morning.
I look in the newspaper at 5:45 AM on thursday morning... BAM there it is, video store final closing sale... starts at 11, ends at 9... THURS-SUN
11 AM! I get there at 9:20. I wait around, being the only one there and end up getting in by 10:30. I go through the games and notice that she hasn't priced them all and seems to be going through them individually, pricing out each and everyone of her games, even the genesis sports titles. Her daughter is at home on the phone with her and they are discussing ebay prices. I think to myself "oh shit, no way am i going to get all these."
I wait around, talk with her for a bit and finally convice her husband that I have 1,000 bucks and will take everything... he is iffy about it, so I tell him he can still keep the ps1, ps2 and xbox games to sell (which were all scratched to shit), and i will take everythin n64 and below, + all of their empty boxes.
He talks it over with his wife and they bite.
Here is what I ended up with.
SNES:
58 boxed games
8 cart onlys
50 Empty boxes
N64:
58 boxed games
4 cart only
a box of instruction manuals that I haven't gone through yet
and 40 boxes only
Genesis:
60 boxed games
2 cart only
and 42 empty boxes
NES
161 boxed games (+3 trashed boxes for 3 other games)
12 cart only
57 empty game boxes
Grand total
366 games
197 empty boxes
Now, it appears that almost every boxed game for NES, SNES and N64 has all of their original inserts (well a few don't). The genesis games unfortunately do not. I got her box of n64 manuals, and she said she had the box of NES and SNES manuals laying around somewhere but couldn't put a finger on them. She took my number down again and said she would call when she stumbled upon them (yeah right... looks like i will be calling her in a few days as a reminder). She said if she fodun them I could just have the box full.
Anyways... here are the pictures of my big score. I might have spent a big chunk, but i definately feel it was well worth it.
Boxed SNES GAMES
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind001.jpg
Boxed N64 Games
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind003.jpg
Boxed Genesis Games
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind005.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind006.jpg
Boxed NES games
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind008.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind009.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind010.jpg
Cart only and other stuff
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind011.jpg
Empty BOXES
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind002.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind004.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind007.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind012.jpg
nothing is really mint, but in good condition? yes. Some boxes have marker on them and that is unfortunate, but I figure I will be able to fill out my NES collection and make my money back :)
First, a short story:
It all started back on Dec. 29th, 2004 ( I remember since it was a few days before new years eve) when I was with my parents on a country drive or so it seemed. We were about 20-25 miles from Eugene OR when we passed through Junction City OR and I spotted a rental store across from the goodwill. Needless to say the goodwill had absolutely smack, so I ventured across the street to the video store. The rental store was called Video Junction and had been in business since 1983 (but didn't start renting games it appeared until the late 80s, possibly 1987). Anyways...
I walked in, looked around a bit and noticed that there were TONS of video games. I counted (at the time) 100+ boxed NES games, 40 + boxed n64 games, 40+ SNES games and a slew of Genesis boxed games. The stuff wasn't mint, but i had felt I just walked into a goldmine. I almost shat myself from all the NES games lined up on the shelf.
Needless to say, i wanted them right then. I talked to the guy at the counter and it turns out they were closing because Hollywood just moved in down the street (bastard rental chains). I found out that his wife and him been in business since 1983... they had ove 15,000 Videos in their store and grip of games. He took down my number and said his wife would call me about the games.
Flash forward: Sometime in feb.
I hadn't heard from the lady, but had been watching the newspapers closely; low and behold i check the paper one morning and it reads "Video store closing." I call up, she says that she isn't ready to sell the games yet and won't be doing so for qutie a while. I still can't rest easy, so I make my way out to J-city and check out the sale just to make sure she isn't selling the sctuff. She isn't, just movies.
As it goes, she never calls me after the sale. I get nervious for fear she might ebay the whore. I am constantly checking ebay "distance nearest first," but no dice. So, I start to call her, remind her and discuss it with her every so often... She tells me she has over 1,000 games (which i later found out not to be true... it was closer to 500). and as the story unfolds, weeks go by, months go by... i continue to call, never getting answers at the store (since it is closed down). I begin to erase it from my mind, thinking it will never happen. Sometimes I talk with her and she tells me she still has them "but isn't ready to sell"
SO... last monday rolls around and I am making my weekly call to see if anyone answers. To my suprise, she does! She says that she is having another sale, with all the video games this next thursday. Extatic, yet a little pissed (since I had been talking with her for a long time about getting them), I couldn't wait to go out their thursday morning.
I look in the newspaper at 5:45 AM on thursday morning... BAM there it is, video store final closing sale... starts at 11, ends at 9... THURS-SUN
11 AM! I get there at 9:20. I wait around, being the only one there and end up getting in by 10:30. I go through the games and notice that she hasn't priced them all and seems to be going through them individually, pricing out each and everyone of her games, even the genesis sports titles. Her daughter is at home on the phone with her and they are discussing ebay prices. I think to myself "oh shit, no way am i going to get all these."
I wait around, talk with her for a bit and finally convice her husband that I have 1,000 bucks and will take everything... he is iffy about it, so I tell him he can still keep the ps1, ps2 and xbox games to sell (which were all scratched to shit), and i will take everythin n64 and below, + all of their empty boxes.
He talks it over with his wife and they bite.
Here is what I ended up with.
SNES:
58 boxed games
8 cart onlys
50 Empty boxes
N64:
58 boxed games
4 cart only
a box of instruction manuals that I haven't gone through yet
and 40 boxes only
Genesis:
60 boxed games
2 cart only
and 42 empty boxes
NES
161 boxed games (+3 trashed boxes for 3 other games)
12 cart only
57 empty game boxes
Grand total
366 games
197 empty boxes
Now, it appears that almost every boxed game for NES, SNES and N64 has all of their original inserts (well a few don't). The genesis games unfortunately do not. I got her box of n64 manuals, and she said she had the box of NES and SNES manuals laying around somewhere but couldn't put a finger on them. She took my number down again and said she would call when she stumbled upon them (yeah right... looks like i will be calling her in a few days as a reminder). She said if she fodun them I could just have the box full.
Anyways... here are the pictures of my big score. I might have spent a big chunk, but i definately feel it was well worth it.
Boxed SNES GAMES
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind001.jpg
Boxed N64 Games
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind003.jpg
Boxed Genesis Games
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind005.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind006.jpg
Boxed NES games
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind008.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind009.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind010.jpg
Cart only and other stuff
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind011.jpg
Empty BOXES
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind002.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind004.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind007.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/qixmaster/Myfind012.jpg
nothing is really mint, but in good condition? yes. Some boxes have marker on them and that is unfortunate, but I figure I will be able to fill out my NES collection and make my money back :)