October 2008 Finds.

[InsaneDavid]

Great Info. I wonder why the adapter is never seems to stay with this system? Reading on the net there seems to be a quite a few in the same boat. I picked it up it had a sega model 2 adapter. Overall the unit looks clean. Could be dusted up for shelf. I was looking around on the net and the cdx adapter had these specs would this work?

Model # MK-4122
Input: 120 V AC 60 Hz 23 Watt
Output: 9.5 V DC 1.5 amp

Yes, the CDX and the JVC X'Eye use the same spec power adapter. What's odd is there seems to be a healthy surplus of CDX adapters out there for less than $10.00.

[bunnybum]

Not many gaming related finds today. I did pick up the following PC games, though



Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (New Edition)
Philip José Farmer’s Riverworld (sealed)
Half-Life Generation

I picked up Philip José Farmer’s Riverworld hoping for a neat adventure game but MobyGames told me otherwise, so I'll probably just keep it sealed for now.

[mills]

INSANE DEAL for 900 usd !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats !!!

I got my Neo Geo AES, 2 original style sticks, samurai spirits 3, garou densestsu special, king of the monsters 2, and samurai spirits for $50 shipped.

[nintendan]

Today's haul:

Gran Turismo Strategy Guide (Prima) .99 cents at Value Village
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Strategy Guide (Brady) .99 cents at Value Village

All-Pro Football 2K8 (Xbox 360, complete) $4.99 at Blockbuster
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (Xbox 360, complete) $4.99 at Blockbuster
Open Season (Xbox 360, missing insturctions) $4.99 at Blockbuster
Winning Eleven Pro Evolution Soccer 2007 (Xbox 360, complete) $4.99 at Blockbuster
UEFA Champions League 2006-2007 (Xbox 360, complete) at Blockbuster

Mario & Luigi - Superstar Saga (GBA, Player's Choice version, missing instructions) $10.00 from pawn.

NOT PICTURED:
Deadwood - The Complete First Season, $20 from pawn
Jurassic Park 2 Collector's Edition DVD, $5 from pawn
Pirates of the Carribean 2 DVD (now i got all 3), $5 from pawn
Casino Royale 2-disc DVD set (newer version), $5 from pawn

STUFF I PASSED ON:
1019 White 1st party Nintendo Gamecube memory card ($10)
SNES system with 2 controllers ($10)
Blue Xbox 360 controller ($30)
and a bunch of other $4.99 Xbox 360 games at Blockbuster Video.



Dan

[The 1 2 P]

Craigs list find


He wanted $25 but yall know how I roll. Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension, Super Castlevania 4 and super adaptor import converter all for $20.



Goodwill games part of two $50 lots, each with a Gameboy and added accessories. I was there as the dude was putting them out. So after he told me the prices I said: "bitch, don't make me pimp slap you with my strong hand. Lower those prices." Fifthteen minutes later, after he stopped laughing at me he finally said he'd lower it to $2 a game. So I took the good stuff and left the other 7 games(3 of which were Tetris). Then when I was paying for them(he wasn't a cashier, just a price dude) I whipped out my 20% discount coupon and he looked at me and said "man, you are cheap". All I could do was laugh and agree So Super Mario Land 1+2, Yoshi, Spider-Man 2 and Wizards and Warriors X for $8.

[Dreadstar]

Found a stack of about 15-20 NES carts at Goodwill. Mostly the usual suspects but I picked these up with sleeves for 1.99 each:

Spy Hunter
Defender II
Vegas Dream
Pipe Dream
Power Punch II

[DigitalSpace]

Here's what I got this afternoon:

Game Boy:
Heiankyo Alien (cart only) - $1.49 at GameStop

Game Boy Color:
Trouballs (cart only) - $1.49 at GameStop

DS:
Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck (new) - free at Target
This was on sale for $11.99, but I paid with a gift card that I got for my birthday last month.

[misfits859]

Gamestop has marked the PC Bioshock LE down to $39.99 so I picked up a copy today.

[Perkar]

snagged some good stuff from Craigslist yesterday

vectrex - star trek w/ overlay
vectrex - solar quest w/ overlay
vectrex - armor attack w/ overlay
vectrex - web wars w/ overlay

overlay only for minestorm

vectrex controller


all for $40. happy to finally have actual games for the vectrex (been living with my sean kelly multi-cart for awhile now), and the overlays and especially the 2nd controller are a huge bonus

[namzep]

All for $65/shipped. Most of the games are completed with both overlays and a few decently hard to find titles (nothing really rare though).

[cyberfluxor]

I got my Neo Geo AES, 2 original style sticks, samurai spirits 3, garou densestsu special, king of the monsters 2, and samurai spirits for $50 shipped.

How did that work? There has to be some story behind it.

[joshnickerson]

Stopped at TRU to pick up Soul Bubbles for the DS, since I'd heard good things about it, and according to the TRU Toy Book, it had dropped to $19.99. I was pleasantly surprised when I got up to the counter and it rung up at $9.98 instead.

[otaku]

I got my Neo Geo AES, 2 original style sticks, samurai spirits 3, garou densestsu special, king of the monsters 2, and samurai spirits for $50 shipped.

yeah man how'd you pull that off?

[darkslime]

Stopped at TRU to pick up Soul Bubbles for the DS, since I'd heard good things about it, and according to the TRU Toy Book, it had dropped to $19.99. I was pleasantly surprised when I got up to the counter and it rung up at $9.98 instead.

I hope they have that at my TRU.

[jeffg]

small road trip down the main strip here in town got me the following:

Pawn Shop $2 each all nes
Zelda nes cart only
Contra nes cart only
3D world runner complete
Rad Racer complete
Star Trek 25th Anniversary complete

Flea Market
Final Fantasy II
Donkey Kong Country 2
Super Metroid
all cart only $15 for all 3

Pawn Shop
Xbox games $4 each all complete
Spy vs Spy
Black & Stone
Oddworld
Demon Stone
Kingdom under Fire
Gunvalkyrie
Godfather Limited Edition

DVD's $2 each
Dune Extended Edition in Metal Tin
Pirates of Caribbean collectors' edition
Pirates of Caribbean 2 collector's edition
Miracle
Final Fantasy VII Advent Children

Star Wars Imperial STar Destroyer 3D Puzzle $1.50

[FOnewearl]

Raining pretty good out this morning but I went out just after 10 anyways to the two yardsales nearby today since yardsale season is practically done and I won't be seeing many more sales till next spring. First sale had some typical stuff Steering Wheel Controller & a GBC system pouch which I've seen the exact same one of before at yardsales, funny thing is it always seems as if I just see the pouch by itself when I see one and not wth a system and a few games in it lol They also had a Cabela's Hunting game for the 360 marked at way too much ($20), seemed like a case of people not really knowing how current gen (or even last gen) games will usually depreciate compared to what it originally retails for new. When I asked about games they mentioned selling off some older Nintendo stuff last year.



GameBoy Brick System with Earphones, System Link Cable, Light Boy, Manual & carrying case

Games (All with case & manual)

Dr Mario
Final Fantasy Adventure (With Map)
Kirby's Dream Land
Metroid II Return of Samus
Super Mario Land
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
Tetris

Empty case & Adventure Island Manual (which I'm guessing would be in the empty case if it wasen't missing)

$20

Second sale was just out of town and I didn't see anything of interest but asked about old Nintendo games to which the lady mentioned having an old GameBoy with 7 games that she wasen't sure about bringing out and mentioned that she was going to sell on eBay and figured she'd get $25ish for at least, I politely said that it might not even be worth that (being honest with her) picturing most of these seven games being fairly common and not in demand. She brought it out and showed it to me and I offered $20 for it mentioning that it would save her the trouble of selling it online which she was a good sport about even if it was abit under what she was hoping to get and was nice about.

Obviously this wasen't a killer yardsale price but when I saw the manuals (mostly with Final Fantasy Adventure & the map) and that every game was good it was worth paying up a bit more to me as long has it was still a good price. Afterwards I was thinking I might have been able to get her to begrudgingly take $15 but it didn't seem worth the risk/hassle to me when I was thinking it over quickly at the sale. I actually over heard (while I was looking at the GameBoy stuff) somebody offer $25 for a chair to one of the other ladies running this sale to which she politely declined and mentioned that she wanted to get $40 at least for it (I didn't take notice to how nice the chair was and what the asking price was on it). I sensed that if I tried opening with $5 or $10 for this that it would have been either flat out shot down (if offended) or countered with a price more in the range of what I paid.

[bunnybum]

Okay, this is what I got today. Nothing uber rare or anything. I just got a good amount of random stuff to fill my collection.


Amiga 600 w/ PSU:

PC games:

11th Hour
SoftKey Vol. 6(?)
Kiyeko
Witchaven II: Blood Vengeance
Blade Runner
Twilight 2000 / Space 1889
The Legend of Kyrandia: Book One
Mulan Mahjong (Danish children's game)
Gremlins / Sink and Swim
Timon & Pumbas Insektregn (Danish children's game)
Midway Presents Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 2
Nightmare Creatures
Vegas Games 2000
Casino Games
Maelstrom / U.S.S. John Young / Suburban Commando / Wolfsbane

More PC games:

Nuclear Strike / Need for Speed II SE demos
Heimdall II / Vinyl Goddess from Mars / Stellar Explorer / Bipbop II / Halloween Harry
MDK
Ignition
Gangsters
Day of the Tentacle
Funpack / Riverboat Poker / Place Your Bets / Jackpot
Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft
Revenge of Arcade

PC games in bigboxes:

Godt Begyndt (Danish DIY thing)
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
7th Legion
Black Dahlia

PC games in DVD cases:

Sim Golf
Alone in the Dark 3
Private Eye
Call of Cthulhu: Prisoner of Ice (x2)
The Settlers

All sorts of random PC programs and stuff


PlayStation bootlegs. These will go right in the trash.


PlayStation demos and magazine discs


A Sharp MZ-700! I have no idea how this works but I'm looking forward to trying it out


Also, some tapes for the MZ-700


More stuff without pics: Some C64 formatted 5.25" floppies, Gangster manual (PC), Vegas Games 2000 manual and bigbox back (PC), books, a VCR (I'm watching Johnny Mnemonic now!) and a Pioneer CDJ-500MKII cd player, a PC and a small tub of random hardware. Maybe I can lift porn off the harddrives^^ A cute little laptop, some minidiscs and a joypad for the PC.

And the price for all this.. FREE!

[joshnickerson]

I hope they have that at my TRU.

I think it was one of those "Friday/Saturday" specials, so it's probably gonna be very YMMV...

[Kitsune Sniper]

Okay, this is what I got today. Nothing uber rare or anything. I just got a good amount of random stuff to fill my collection.

Nothing uber rare? Black Dahlia, Day of the Tentacle, Soul Reaver... each one is worth quite a bit. o_o

*jealous*

[NayusDante]

Yet another new flea market this weekend, I think my family has done every one in the area now.

In other news... I found the right way to smack my $2 TV to get the color fixed!



Metal Gear - $6.99
Star Soldier - $3.00
Little Nemo: The Dream Master - $3.00
Dr. Chaos - $3.00
Vortex - $5.00
Drakkhen - $5.00

All of that stuff from the same shop. Every flea market seems to have at least one specialized game shop, and this was it. Amazingly, there were several "FYE-like" shops with games, music, and movies, but they were priced a bit higher. This guy had a $5 Dreamcast rack (good stuff, too), $5 SNES case, and a huge $3 NES shelf, in addition to reasonably priced stuff behind counters. His business card says he's an FC Twin distributor, and I think he said he's getting the new ones when they come out.

Also, not pictured, a CD cleaner/repairer for $5. It's chinese, but the cleaning disks come in nice plastic cases, includes a bottle of cleaning fluid and repair fluid. No A/C adaptor, but it has a plug and also runs on 4x AAAs.