April 2008 Finds

[coreys429]

2X AV Cords for Super Nintendo $2 each.

[DKTheArcadeRat]

Got these the other day at the thrift.

FF8 - Greatest hits, sealed - $5
Dinosaurs for Hire - Genesis, complete(R4) - $2

Not bad.

[joshnickerson]

Picked through the remnats of the Circuit City clearance (I picked up a ton of Cube games earlier in the week)... not much left, but I managed to pick up a few GBA Video paks for $3.33 each

GBA Video: Nicktoons Vol. 1
GBA Video: Fairly Oddparents Vol. 1
GBA Video: Kids Next Door Vol. 1

And I picked up GBA Rayman Hoodlum's Revenge for $2.96. Not bad. Actually surprised it was still there at that price.

[josekortez]

I hit every thrift and yard sale I could find today...and I got nothing. So, I went the retail route.

Gamestop:
Guncon 2 (PS2) - $7.29
PlayStation 2 to GameCube controller adapter - $2.79
PSone AC adapter - $2.79

Gamecrazy:
House of the Dead 2&3 (Wii, new) - $19.99

Gamecrazy also had a new, sealed copy of Metal Slug Anthology for the PSP for $39.99. Since I haven't seen one ever, I may go back tomorrow and trade a few games for it...

[RadiantSvgun]

I got a few things yesterday:

Wartech: Senko no Ronde- $9.99 Circuit City new
Taiko Drum Master- 19.99 new at circuit city
WarioWare Twisted- new as a gift

[ShinobiMan]

I got a bunch of NES games from a Play N Trade store here in Houston. Some good finds, including Double Dragon 3 and Adventures Of LO LO 3.



Short Order/Eggsplode - $2.39
Double Dragon 3 - $4.79
Rock' N' Ball - $2.39
Yoshi - $4.79
ZEN Intergalactic Ninja - $2.39
NARC - $2.39
P.O.W. - $2.39
Adventures Of LO LO 3 - $9.99

Yeah, the LO LO game was a pricey one, but I've been looking for a good price on that one for years. (Oh, I spell it out LO LO because if I spell it out O, well, you get the idea.) I think I did all right considering they are all pretty good games, minus the Short Order/Eggslode, which I've never played and probably never will until I get a power pad.

[Dreadstar]

$25.00 Fetched me:

Sega Saturn (cable & Controller in bag)
Panzer Dragoon
Street Fighter Alpha
Night Warriors Darkstalkers Revenge
Nights into Dreams
Clockwork Knight
Astal
Earth Worm Jim 2

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.

I picked up an N64, power pack, 2 AV cables and 5 controllers (3 nintendo-purple, red, and green and two 3rd party ones) for 24 bucks at goodwill this morning.

[nintendan]

Here are my finds for today:

Unreal Tournament $7 (complete)
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories $10 (complete, even with map)
Devil May Cry $10 (complete)
Devil May Cry 3 $10 (complete)
MVP Baseball 2004 $5 (complete)

All from 2 neighbouring pawn stores.

[jcalder8]

A few pick ups yesterday:

Sega CD: Bram Stoker's Dracula
Saturn: Wing Arms
Need For Speed
Warcraft II
Sonic Jam
Shining the Holy Arc
Dragon Force
All for $15.

[snes_collector]

Wow, sure is alot of Saturn stuff showing up lately, and alot of it is import stuff, pretty wierd.

Anyway today I found:

San Francisco Rush 2049(DC com. $2)
Seaman(DC com. $2)
After Burner(SMS boxed $2)
Majors Pro Baseball(GG loose .95)
Evander Holyfield Boxing(GG loose .95)

Passed on a Pico and a bunch of games, if anyone is looking for one let me know.

[Goodwill Hunter]

Took advantage of the 25% off used PSP games at Gamestop plus Edge card to drop a few titles down to 12 and 13 bucks each plus change.



Also found a few Xbox titles I haven’t seen in the wild before…the Volvo Dealer exclusive and Stubbs the Zombie. Nothing great, but rummage sale season in Wisconsin is right around the corner!

Rich

[InsaneDavid]

It finally arrived - one of my grails...

Sharp Twin Famicom AN-505 (black and green version). As I said last week over in this thread after many years I finally bit the bullet and went after one of these full force. I got it off eBay and all said and done I ended up paying around $100.00 shipped for the system, original power adapter, AV cables and six loose cartridges. The Famicom Disk System drive was untested and that coupled with the auction ending on a Thursday morning at 6:35 PDT is what I believe kept the price down. Sure enough, the FDS drive belt was shot and will require replacement - which I'm going to order on Monday. It had the usual signs of breaking apart and gumming itself up all over the FDS drive. After about three hours of cleaning I got it all removed (and have the blackened hands to prove it), aside from the belt the system is very clean inside and out.



The included games are...

Abadox
Getsufuu Maden (or Getsu Fuma Den, or Getsu Fuu Ma Den)
Majou Densetsu II: Daimashikyou Galious
Mouryou Senki Madara
Quarth
Tetris

All are authentic originals, no bootlegs. Aside from the said FDS belt the system works beautifully, nice clear composite video and excellent sound. Turbo switches and controller 2 microphone work fine as well. I'm psyched to finally have one of these and have been going back through my Famicom archive since it arrived. Also the games that came with it, while not super valuable, are all great titles and games I enjoy (except for the craptastic Famicom version of Tetris).

Also from Frankie_Says_Relax, a copy of Famicom Grand Prix F-1 Race on a Famicom Grand Prix II 3D Hot Rally disk so I can test out the FDS drive once I refurbish the drive with a new belt.



Guess I can sell the last few Famicom to NES adapter cartridges I built now.

[Daria]

I don't normally post here. But I thought this was a good steal. Not my exact figure either, borrowed the image from ebay. :P



Went to a local tent sale and found here in a box of assorted toys. In the store she sells for $25, but I got her for $3 and some change. She was already opened, probably why she was in the tent to begin with, but I don't care since I was planning on displaying her with my Dragon Quest Play Arts figures anyway. (:

[thetoxicone]

Picked up some Donkey Kong LP for .50

[coreys429]

I picked up at garage sales: Super Smash Brothers Melee $5, Lego Star Wars for Xbox $3, and asteroids for a nickel.

[namzep]

My newest stuff. I just can't seem to keep away from cheap guides (even for games I don't own):





The Quickshot and the DS cases were throw in freebies.

[walrusmonger]

I got ass creed, lair and genji for ps3- $53 shipped.

[Koleman-GameOn]

Japanese Mega Drive Ghost Busters. $1.10

[Blitzwing256]

It finally arrived - one of my grails...

Sharp Twin Famicom AN-505 (black and green version). As I said last week over in this thread after many years I finally bit the bullet and went after one of these full force. I got it off eBay and all said and done I ended up paying around $100.00 shipped for the system, original power adapter, AV cables and six loose cartridges. The Famicom Disk System drive was untested and that coupled with the auction ending on a Thursday morning at 6:35 PDT is what I believe kept the price down. Sure enough, the FDS drive belt was shot and will require replacement - which I'm going to order on Monday. It had the usual signs of breaking apart and gumming itself up all over the FDS drive. After about three hours of cleaning I got it all removed (and have the blackened hands to prove it), aside from the belt the system is very clean inside and out.



The included games are...

Abadox
Getsufuu Maden (or Getsu Fuma Den, or Getsu Fuu Ma Den)
Majou Densetsu II: Daimashikyou Galious
Mouryou Senki Madara
Quarth
Tetris

All are authentic originals, no bootlegs. Aside from the said FDS belt the system works beautifully, nice clear composite video and excellent sound. Turbo switches and controller 2 microphone work fine as well. I'm psyched to finally have one of these and have been going back through my Famicom archive since it arrived. Also the games that came with it, while not super valuable, are all great titles and games I enjoy (except for the craptastic Famicom version of Tetris).

Also from Frankie_Says_Relax, a copy of Famicom Grand Prix F-1 Race on a Famicom Grand Prix II 3D Hot Rally disk so I can test out the FDS drive once I refurbish the drive with a new belt.



Guess I can sell the last few Famicom to NES adapter cartridges I built now.

Congrats on the upgrade, and on a side note galious is probably one of my favorate famicom exclusive adventure games ever, very simmilar to goonies2/sotn if you ever get a chance give the msx version a try its excellent.

[Kyle15]

I ended up at a Salvation Army by the mall that has only been open a few months.
Here's everything I bought:

-Jurassic Park (Game Gear, loose) $1.99
-Sonic & Knuckles (loose, missing hatch) $1.99
-Super GameBoy (loose) $1.99
-Dreamcast Web Browser (MINT, complete) $1.99

They also had a very nice PSX original with the box. The condition was spectacular for an original from 1996. It was marked $29.99, and the manager would not go any lower....
I passed on this for now, but I have a feeling I should go back and get it sometime before it's gone.