June 2009 Finds

[NayusDante]

I got UT3 for the 2nd time this year since I sold my first one and then wanted to play it.

Register the CD key on Steam.

...unless you're playing it on a console. That's... just wrong.

[8-bitNesMan]

Got a great deal from a friend yesterday:



3 foot tall Master Chief statue - my personal find of the year

I definitely want to keep it, but does anyone have an idea of its value?



Game Boy Advance NES Classic Series sign with sound FX
Sega Nomad in great shape with charger
Top Loader in excellent condition with dogbone and hookups
3 N64 controllers, all the sticks are nice and tight
Castlevania Bloodlines - Genesis - Everything except the book
Prince of Persia The Two Thrones - Xbox - Complete
Sonic Gems Collection - Gamecube - Complete
The Legend of Zelda Collector's Edition - Gamecube - Sealed
Panzer Dragoon and Virtua Cop 2 - Saturn - Disc only
Super Mario Bros. - GBA - Everything but the game
Resident Evil 2 - Nintendo 64 - Sealed ( I gave it to him a few years ago so he threw it in)
Mario Party - Nintendo 64 - Box only (I have the game so it works out )
Yoshi Touch & Go - DS - Complete
Super Mario Bros. 2 - NES - Complete, Good shape
Tengen Pac-Man - NES - Complete
Metroid Classic Series - NES- SEALED
Tetrisphere - Nintendo 64 - Everything but the book
He also hooked me up with a Saturn light gun that I forgot to put in the pics. Best haul for me in quite a while

[Therealqtip]

Register the CD key on Steam.

...unless you're playing it on a console. That's... just wrong.

Eh it's not bad what's so wrong about it? and I don't really have a good gaming computer anyways.

[Kuros]

Expensive week.

Mint CIB Turboexpress with a mint cib car adapter and AC adapter - $150

Works good, but I'm getting no sound. I have a friend who can fix it.

N64 with power cable and random power cable - $5

There was a quarter loose inside this, had to take it out.

Dreamcast RF cord - $1
Goldeneye 007, Smash 64, FZero X, Mario Party, Diddy Kong Racing - $25
Zelda Twilight Princess - $7 (no manual)
Final Fantasy 3 - $5

Power Squid - $5

Not pictured: Resident Evil 4 Chainsaw controller (GCN) - $10 (it's cib)

[NayusDante]

Eh it's not bad what's so wrong about it? and I don't really have a good gaming computer anyways.

UT is a fast-paced shooter, not like the slow and tactical stuff we see on consoles today. You really need to use a mouse and keyboard to play it properly, but even then, I believe that they actually slowed the console ports down a bit.

There's real shooters (Quake, UT, etc) which require accuracy and reflexes, and then there's console shooters (Halo, Resistance, etc) where things are slower and not as frantic. You just can't get that visceral, crazy-fast experience with a gamepad.

[8-bitNesMan]

UT is a fast-paced shooter, not like the slow and tactical stuff we see on consoles today. You really need to use a mouse and keyboard to play it properly, but even then, I believe that they actually slowed the console ports down a bit.

There's real shooters (Quake, UT, etc) which require accuracy and reflexes, and then there's console shooters (Halo, Resistance, etc) where things are slower and not as frantic. You just can't get that visceral, crazy-fast experience with a gamepad.

Saying that console shooters don't require accuracy and reflexes is absurd.

[Porksta]

Saying that console shooters don't require accuracy and reflexes is absurd.

Auto aim FTW!

[Baloo]

Poor finds at the flea market this weekend:

Loose Sega Saturn, no cables or controllers with a copy of Sonic Jam inside
Power Cord for Saturn
Sunset Riders for Genesis - $6
Random A/V Cables I bought for the Saturn that turned out to not be Saturn cables - $5. I'll have to take a picture to see if anyone can identify them.

Sonic Jam pretty much is a pointless game with horrible music, and Sunset Riders is a super half-assed port.

[Flashback2012]

Got a late start and it didn't help that stores were on Sunday hours. Hit up a few places around town but didn't find any diamonds in the rough. Since it was my b-day today I decided to pick up a few games at Best Buy, notably Monkey King on Wii and Rainbow Islands Revolution on PSP.

On Saturday I picked up a Taito Legends 2 from work for PC. It's slightly different from the PS2 version I have as each has 4 games that are not on the other. I wasn't sure if I was going to get anything different from the PC version but a quick check on Wikipedia fixed that.

[Lostdwarf]

Busy weekend for garage sales

PS2 Castlevania Curse of Darkness $5.00 complete
PS2 Darkwatch $5.00 complete

PS1 Original System with av cable and power cable $5.00
N64 with all cables, 2 pokemon controllers, 1 grey controller $5.00

NES games $1.00 each (amazing find!!)
Chip & Dales Rescue Rangers 2 (this was a steal!!)
Nobugana's Ambition 2
The Three Stooges
Super Mario/Duck Hunt
Attack of The Killer Tomatos
Faxanadu
Popeye
Rolling Thunder
Mega Man 2
Metroid (silver label)
Tecmo Super Bowl
The Adventures Of Bayou Billy

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Pokemon Blue Gameboy
Sega Genesis with 1 controller and all wires
Sega Gamegear
Nintendo 64 with all wires
NHL Hockey Gamegear
Spiderman Genesis
Gamegear Case
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All of those for $10.00

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Atari 2600 with all cables, (1 set of paddles, 2 joysticks, 1 pad)
Star Wars Jedi Arena Atari 2600
Krull Atari 2600
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All for $8.00


One of the better garagesale hunts ive been on in awhile! and to think I was gonna goto the flea market!

-Dwarf

[TheDomesticInstitution]

Found This today:

Virtual Boy with power Supply and Controller for $6.16 at a Value Village. I have no idea if it works properly, because I have no games for it. Looks like it's time to do some reading up on the VB...

The Genesis games are:

Alisia Dragoon
Shinobi III

Both are R4's and they cost me $2 each at Goodwill Computer Works.

[JanLazer]

Slow garage sales this weekend...

Got:

CIB Gameboy Advance w/ rechargeable batteries, GameCube link cables, a BUNCH of misc. accessories - $3
15 Music Cassette Tapes (2x Whitesnake, 2x Foreigner, 2x Genesis, Slaughter, Motley Crue, White Lion, Judas Priest, etc, etc) - $7

Passed on:

Loose Genesis w/ cords and crappy sports games - $30, firm. ...Shya, okay. lol.

[Steve W]

Did some local thrift store hunting today, warming up in preparation of going out of state next week and doing some Louisiana thrift store shopping.

I ended up with a bare Atari Jaguar console for $6.56, a Cybermorph that was in the cart slot for $1.91, a little Radio Shack LCD/mechanical handheld thingie called 'Dino 2 N 1' for $2.25, and the following Playstation games: Intelligent Qube (no instruction manual), Tecmo's Deception (instruction manual but without the rest of the jewel case), Bubble Bobble also featuring Rainbow Islands, and Extreme Pinball (also without instructions). Tecmo's Deception was $5.25 at Goodwill, the rest were $3.93 each.

I looked all over the place for anything else Atari Jaguar related. It makes me think that someone might have bought all of it including the cables (it's the kind of store that sells them separate) but didn't want another console or another copy of Cybermorph. In the past I've found a couple games here and there and a controller, but never a console, so I'm happy about having a replacement for my original launch console.

[jeffg]

I have had a few decent finds the last couple days:

1/2 price books
Shenmue II PAL DC complete $5.98 (was $24.98 sitting on the shelf forever, guy just marked it down today)


Pawn Shop finds $4 each
Sunset Riders snes cart only
Contra III snes cart only
Demon's Crest snes cart only

American McGee's Alice EA Sports version with manual
Final Fantasy VII Black Label version complete
Silent Hill Black Label Version complete
Vandal Hearts complete
Shadow Madness ps1 complete
Kartia PS1 complete

Then 48 complete SNES/Genesis games (35 SNES/13 Genesis), most were sports games but had following non-sports: Genesis Prince of Persia, Comix Zone, Generation Lost, Pitfall, SNES Pagemaster, Jeopardy, Jeopardy Sports, Best of the Best, Tuff Enuff.
I figured for $.80 each I would take them all, in all I got 40 games I didn't have before

Movie Trading Company
Traded GBA Player for GC, MK vs DC xbox 360, and a couple DVD's for:

Complete Virtual Boy system with Mario Tennis, Wario Land, and Galactic Pinball. System is in great shape, small crack on the plastic part of the stand, but it works perfect.

So not a bad few days, I just need to sell some crap to pay for everything I got.

[c0ldb33r]

wow lots of virtual boy stuff lately!

I've been trying to find one for a decent price for awhile. If one of you guys want to sell yours, let me know

I bought a ps2 slim lot with a couple of games for $40.00. I wanted an extra one for the camp.

[TheDomesticInstitution]

wow lots of virtual boy stuff lately!

I've been trying to find one for a decent price for awhile. If one of you guys want to sell yours, let me know

I bought a ps2 slim lot with a couple of games for $40.00. I wanted an extra one for the camp.

I don't even have a clue if this one works, without having a game. It's also missing the eye piece, and the legs are a little loose. Anyway I'll be hunting for a (hopefully) cheap game, as I'm anxious to play it.

[hellfire]

I don't even have a clue if this one works, without having a game. It's also missing the eye piece, and the legs are a little loose. Anyway I'll be hunting for a (hopefully) cheap game, as I'm anxious to play it.

If I were you I would pick up any reasonably priced game that you can find

[Steve W]

Movie Trading Company
Traded GBA Player for GC, MK vs DC xbox 360, and a couple DVD's for:

Complete Virtual Boy system with Mario Tennis, Wario Land, and Galactic Pinball. System is in great shape, small crack on the plastic part of the stand, but it works perfect.

Which Movie Trading Company was that? I like to hit as many of their locations as I can when I happen to be anywhere near one, and I don't recall seeing a Virtual Boy in one (let alone games for the system other than Mario Tennis or Red Alarm).

On a related note, I f*cking love the Movie Trading Company. That place has helped me expand my Atari collection by leaps and bounds. Thankfully, they only seem to have NES era and newer in their computer system, so I can find Atari stuff and sometimes goofy things like Emerson Arcadia games for a buck or two each. Dammit, I love that place!

[jeffg]

Hulen Street Store, that is about the only one I go to, I hit it about 3 times a week on my lunch break, it has been great recently. In the past 6 weeks or so I got:
Turbo grafx 16 system and CD-Add on for $60 (store credit too)
Y's I & II $4.99
4 other TG16 games for $4.99 including Military Madness, Bonk's Adventure, Dragon Spirit and another one

Virtual Boy with store credit

Complete Robotrek $5.99, Ultima Runes of Virtue II Complete $9.99, Breath of Fire complete $14.99, Breath of Fire II complete $19.99, PSO I & II GC complete 2 copies $4.99 each

so this store has been good to me, i usually trade new stuff for the old stuff, I find it for cheap at pawn and flip it for the old stuff

[plaidbrad3141]

Picked up a couple games today at a used music store:
-Chavez (SNES)
-Math Blaster Episode One (SNES)
both loose $4 ea.

recent garage sales:
-Gunship (PS1) cib $1
-Warhawk (PS1) cib $3
-Super Mario Kart (SNES) loose $.50
-Sonic Mega Plus (GC) cib $3
-Resident Evil 4 (GC) cib $4
-Rogue Leader (GC) cib $3
-NES toaster w/ Super Mario 3 cib
-Legend of Zelda cib
-Adventures of Link cib
-Robo Cop cib
-Platoon loose
-Dr Mario
-Double Dragon
-orange zapper all the hookups controllers etc (there were 13 games I forget the others, just commons) $10

-Incredible Hulk (Genesis) cib $3
-Revenge of Shinobi (Genesis) cib $3
-Splatterhouse 3 (Genesis) cib $29 on Ebay (I know, but I've been wanting this one)

-Virtual Chess loose (N64) $2 (from thrift store)

thats some of the recent finds