May 2009 finds

[darkslime]

I had some great finds today at the swap meet:

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I see gold cart OoT and Castlevania on his table. Ask for a price and he says $4 each, and I can't get him to go any lower than $7 for both. So, because I don't either of those and it's a pretty good price, I bit. He then goes behind the stand and pulls out boxes for OoT and Castlevania: Legacy of darkness (which I think is different than just castlevania for N64, correct me if I'm wrong.)
I think cool, and ask if he has any more games back there. He says no, but I have just the boxes for some, you can have them for 25 cents each. I figure they will just be average N64 game boxes, but the first one he pulls out is Secret of Evermore, then secret of mana, and I shit bricks. I get him down to a dollar for all of the boxes. After that, I see the Brain Lord box, and remember it was on his table, and it's an Enix RPG, so I go grab it. He gives it to me for $3.

So, for $11, I got:
Zelda: OoT Collector's Edition CIB
Castlevania cart only
Brain Lord CIB
Super Mario 64 box + manual
Zelda: Majora's Mask box + manual
Castlevania Legacy of Darkness box + manual
N64 system manual
Super Metroid box
Secret of Evermore box + manual + poster
Secret of Mana box + manual + poster
Donkey Kong promo VHS

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These come from a guy who runs a store with just a bunch of crap, he occasionally gets games in and saves them all for me because no one else buys them. He prices all games at $2 each.

So, for $4 I got:
Bio Hazard Battle CIB
Shadowrun CIB

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The lady wouldn't go any cheaper than $15 for these three.

For $15, I got:
Super Mario Bros. 3
Kirby's Adventure
Pokemon Yellow

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Golden Sun actually has no game in it, someone stole it, but the guy just threw in the box and manual when I bought Guilty Gear.

For $3, I got:
Guilty Gear X Advance Edition CIB
Golden Sun box + manual

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Sorry for the bad pic, but that's Pokemon Emerald. It was originally $10, I offered $5 and he said 8, so I bought it for 8.

[c0ldb33r]

This week I picked up a few things:

1) Dead or Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball (Xbox) - $5.00, complete - I only wanted this because I compiled a burned version which I downloaded years ago that has the nude hack applied. I've never actually owned the game itself, so I've never played it. I just wanted to burn it before the patch and files disappeared from the net.

2) Peggle Dual Shot (DS) - $24.99 - the price tag said $34.99, but it was actually $24.99. This isn't really much of a "find" since I paid full-price, but I just wanted it

3) Game & Watch Collection from Club Nintendo (DS) - price tag was $14.99, but I got 10% off with my
Edge card. For comparison purposes, I paid about $12 USD.



I saw the Game & Watch collection on the used shelf and was surprised to see it there. When I went to buy it, the clerk was surprised too. He said "I wonder how that made it out of the hold shelf". I asked what he meant and he explained that employees can hold games that come in and buy them themselves instead of putting them on the shelf. He also told me that if he had seen it, he would have bought it himself

What is supposed to be in the game & watch collection case by the way? Mine came with the game card, instruction manual and health and safety precautions booklet. I was expecting to see something special from Nintendo inside, maybe a letter or some stickers or something.

[namzep]

What is supposed to be in the game & watch collection case by the way? Mine came with the game card, instruction manual and health and safety precautions booklet. I was expecting to see something special from Nintendo inside, maybe a letter or some stickers or something.

I'm pretty sure that that's it as I seem to remember that that was all that came with my copy. Not as neat of packaging as I would have hoped.

Only one gaming thing lately:

Baten Kaitos Origins (GCN, sealed) - $12/shipped

[Porksta]

Just a Wavebird at Gamestop for me - $17

[FOnewearl]

Spyro: Ripto's Rage - $1
Game Genie (Genesis) - $1
Game Boy Color (Strawberry) (Missing Battery Cover) - $2

Ninja Gaiden
Punch-Out!!

$1

Another slow day at the flea market but the best day out this year as I did pick up a few nice parting gifts cheap and passed on some other decent stuff. The 2 NES games I offered a buck for and the other 3 items were from another seller and were IAP.

[yoshi64]

Sega Genesis Arcade Power Stick II - $5 at thrift

[garagesaleking!!]

i was minutes late at the flea market today, i traveled a distance away from me where there are 2 flea markets close to each other. I spent about 30 minutes at the 1 and found nothing, then i went to the other and after i just started to walk around a guy passed me carrying a sega saturn system in the original box. It turns out he a regular game vendor inside the flea market, it would of hurt less if a kid or something bought it, but a vendor there, that sucks. I also missed out on a bear kodiak compound bow, i looked at it and set it down, and then came back 5 minutes later and it was sold. They were asking 25 for it.

[Streetball 21]

Went to the Flea Market Saturday and Sunday...

On Sat:

-4 issues of Gamepro magazines and 2 issues of Nintendo Power (the Gamepro issues all have Nintendo themed covers) -50 cents each
-Turok Evolution strategy guide-good condition-$1.00

I also stopped at a pawn shop on the way back home and found:
-Turok-N64-loose $6.00

Then today went back to Flea Market and found the following, complete and in good condition, all for Gamecube

-Tales of Symphonia-$2.00
-The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker-$2.00
-Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles-$2.00
-Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean-$2.00

The Wind Waker game still has the receipt in it from 2003, I thought that was pretty cool.

[Tupin]

Today was a good day for finds. A 64k Tandy Color Computer, a bunch of carts, a Multipak Interface, Disk Controller/RS-232 expansion carts, floppy drive and disks, which are mostly blank. There's printer ribbons for a DMP-200 printer too, not pictured.

All work great, tested the entire thing with the Diagnostics cart, except for the drive. I get an "?IO Error" when it tries to load a disk. I don't know what's wrong with it, but it doesn't really matter because not much came out on disk anyway.

Oh, and three sealed copies of Color Math.

The cost? $65.

[DigitalSpace]

Today was a Sony day.

PlayStation:
Road Rash (complete, non-GH) - $2.49

PS2:
Cool Boarders 2001 (complete) - $1
Onimusha (complete, non-GH) - $1
NBA Street V3 (complete) - $1
Twisted Metal Head-On: Extra Twisted Edition (complete) - $9.95

[c0ldb33r]

I checked my mailbox today and received instructions and warranty card for my Sega CDX. The eBay vendor found these months after shipping me the CDX I bought from him, so he sent me them for the cost of shipping. There's also a notice about Sherlocke Holmes - apparently you have to fire up the Sega CD occasionally or it'll lose your save files (I've never had that happen) and also an ad for Sega Vision.

It was really nice of the guy to send me the Sega CDX docs, but man... they stink of cigarette smoke like something awful

[animesuperj]

Went into goodwill yesterday cause I was really bored. Only thing I found was this Dragon's Lair board game for $1.99. Not too bad for the price. Had everything it was suppose to, and condition was pretty good.

[chrissylas]

No Pics but I did get some crazy stuff today

Craigslist Ad - $30
Wayne Gretzky 3D 98
NBA Live 2000
Dr Mario 64
Ocarina of Time Gold
Madden 99
Nascar 99
NFL Quarterback Club 98
Starfox 64
3 PSX Memory Cards (one Sony)
NBA Showdown
NBA Live 95
Buster Busts Loose
Home Alone
Uncharted Waters: New Horizons
Hole in One Golf
Jurassic Park
Donkey Kong Country 2
Donkey Kong Country
Super Mario Allstars
Wheel of Fortune
Ken Griffey Jrs Winning Run
Super Bases Loaded
F-Zero
River City Ransom
Ring King
Bayou Billy
Journey to Silius
NES Play Action Football
Willow
Gauntlet II
Mag Max

Swap Meet - $12
Boxed Rescue (NES)
Mario's Fun with Numbers (SNES)
Playstation 3 AV
2 PSX Asciiware fighting sticks

Local Game Store -$1
Wrecking Crew (cart only)

Craigslist Ad - $50
Cocktail Arcade Machine

The cocktail is a little confusing though. It was advertised as a Galaga but a quick look at the ad showed that it wasn't any Galaga I've ever seen. It doesn't have a title screen when it boots up so I'm trying to figure out what it is. The glass on the top of the machine is broken so I'm going to have to replace it. Going to post in the Arcade section to see if anyone can help me figure it out. Game is pretty fun though!

*Edit*
It looks a little like http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=13082

[Kuros]

Busy weekend.

TMNT Tournament Fighters - $2

NFL QB Club, Pokemon Stadium and N64 system with 2 controllers and hookups (not pictured) - $5

Simpsons Game - $5

RE Archives book - $5

Zelda OOT, Yoshi's Story and Diddy Kong Racing - $15

SF Alpha 2 - $3

Point Blank 2 (sealed) and Point Blank 3 (complete) - $10

Crystals Pony Tale - $2

20 SNES games and 2 PS2 guncons - $25
Games included are: Rock n roll racing, Maui Mallard, super pinball, SM all stars, aladdin, cool spot, SMW, pilotwings, mickey mania, bassin's black bass, Speedy Gonzales, star fox, pitfall, big sky tropper, final fight, tin star, kirby superstar, college slam, jurassic park and kirby avalanche

[Kyle15]

3) Game & Watch Collection from Club Nintendo (DS) - price tag was $14.99, but I got 10% off with my
Edge card. For comparison purposes, I paid about $12 USD.



I saw the Game & Watch collection on the used shelf and was surprised to see it there. When I went to buy it, the clerk was surprised too. He said "I wonder how that made it out of the hold shelf". I asked what he meant and he explained that employees can hold games that come in and buy them themselves instead of putting them on the shelf. He also told me that if he had seen it, he would have bought it himself

What is supposed to be in the game & watch collection case by the way? Mine came with the game card, instruction manual and health and safety precautions booklet. I was expecting to see something special from Nintendo inside, maybe a letter or some stickers or something.

I just found one of those at GS too, except it was the Japanese version.
Also, I had no idea GS employees could hold stuff. I should have figured they did, though. :/

[Letiumtide]

I just found one of those at GS too, except it was the Japanese version.
Also, I had no idea GS employees could hold stuff. I should have figured they did, though. :/

Being able to instantly hold a game that comes in is one of the only reason that makes working at a place like GS/EB worthwhile. Back when I worked at EB it helped me expand my collection by a fair margin.

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

Nothing spectactular but I picked up

Midnight Raiders Sega cd(one game closer to the complete library)

[Videogamerdaryll]

Special Memorial Day Flea Market..

nothing in games ...except playstation systems,,I ran into a stack of like 10 of them(trashed) that was gone 5 minutes later.
I don't think I'd even buy them at $1.00 each



$1.00 items


Saw this Stuff,took a Pic

[Kyle15]

Being able to instantly hold a game that comes in is one of the only reason that makes working at a place like GS/EB worthwhile. Back when I worked at EB it helped me expand my collection by a fair margin.

Don't they have a 20% discount card, or something? One of the guys at the local GS says he uses one with the Edge card to get 30% off. If that's true, I wouldn't mind working there. Their ridiculous business practices are still off-putting, though.

[ncman071]

stopped by a playntrade store in raleigh,nc and picked up zelda for the NES and a few retro gamefan mags for 1.50 each..