July 2009 Finds

[jeffg]

Defender 2000 and Missile Command 3D for the Jaguar both boxed $40 for the pair.

beats trying to win them on ebay

[Fuzzball24]

I ordered Far Cry 2 from eBay. Well, I won on it last second.

Anyways, that's it for now.

Trying to save money to build a small home studio and then I can spend more on games.

[Kyle15]

Not much, but it'll do.

-PS1 Multitap (loose, $2.99 from Salvation Army)
-Nyko Saturn/PS1 lightgun (loose, $5 from the Bessemer Flea Market)

[darkslime]

swap meet finds:

TI-81 graphing calculator - $3

Zelda Collector's Edition disc only
Pikmin 2 disc only

$10 for both

Sealed Final Fantasy XII PS2 memory card made by HORI, comes with a carrying case also. Its in Japanese, I've never seen one before - $1

[Flashback2012]

My cousin tipped me off to Gamestop selling the Dark Spire on DS brand new for $10.

[smork]

A little cross-post from Import Gaming:

Last Monday was a holiday and I decided to drive up north a bit. I was poking through the Fukushima/Ibaraki coastal are and came across one of the "We buy and sell everything stores" - Mito Kanteidan. (In Mito city, of course)

I've had very little luck in these sorts of stores lately as some of them have started to carry less and less retro gaming and others haven't changed their prices in 10 years. Still others are rat's nests and impossible to negotiate (though I like that sort of shop). Mito Kanteidan was different. Clean and well-organized, they had all kinds of interesting gaming goodness at reasonable prices. I didn't have my camera with me so I can't share pictures, but believe me when I say they had an amazing selection. There was aisles of just about every every system imaginable, and tons of rare stuff (PC Engine LT, several 64DD games, even some Pippin soft). I found several items I had been looking for for some time, like these WonderSwan items:



That's the very-hard-to-find Handy Sonar and the just-about-as-hard-to-find Chocobo Fushigi na Dungeon pack. I also snagged some NeoGeo Pocket stuff I wanted and a used copy of Shoot the Bullet:



I'm pretty sure the Party Mail is brand new, too - it certainly looks like the sticker has never been removed. Not so rare but still interesting, I picked up some PS2 games as well:



Haven't had a chance to play either yet.

For those who might theoretically be interested in visiting this shop, don't consider it. It's really in the middle of nowhere and only accessible by car. Probably why they had such nice stuff.

[NCN]

Picked up the Guitar Hero III PS2 bundle at Sears for $14.97. Score!

[Kitsune Sniper]

Well, a sort of retrogaming score today. My sisters took us to a flea market in Louisville, Tennessee, and it was raining so a lot of the outside vendors had soaked stuff... there was one booth that had tons of PC stuff, but some weird looking lady beat me to most of the stuff there.

The owner there was really nice, though - she said everything inside was a dollar. Old monitors, dot-matrix printers, PCs from the 1980's... I managed to fish out a bunch of floppy and CD games:

A Street Fighter / Cabal / some other game I don't remember three pack
A flight simulator three pack that also had a copy of Wolfenstein 3D 1.14 Shareware inside (I didn't notice it!)
A disaster game flight simulator thing (New)
Cyborgirl (a pinball game by Epic games, brand new)
And... Adobe Creative Suite Premium for Mac. Educational, but still. I may be able to sell it on eBay for a mint if I don't get caught.

They also had TONS of 5.25" floppy disk games and software, but I don't -have- a 5.25" drive. I'll buy one of their old setups and see if I can nab one if we go back there next week.

[FOnewearl]

Not much for video games for such a big week, 75+ sales. I did find some good computer stuff & metal CDs also which I'm mentioning while I usually only post my video games finds.

Blog for anyone interested in the non-diet version - http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/blog.php?b=9715



Populous With Dust Cover (SNES) - .50
Little Mirmaid, The (PC, GameBoy) - $1
Devil May Cry 3 (Complete, Cover Insert With Some Damage) - $3

Fighting Vipers
StarFighter
Tomb Raider

$2

[Dreadstar]

Playstation Mouse, in the original box with the mousepad for 1.99 at one of my Goodwills today.

[Kyle15]

A little cross-post from Import Gaming:

Last Monday was a holiday and I decided to drive up north a bit. I was poking through the Fukushima/Ibaraki coastal are and came across one of the "We buy and sell everything stores" - Mito Kanteidan. (In Mito city, of course)

I've had very little luck in these sorts of stores lately as some of them have started to carry less and less retro gaming and others haven't changed their prices in 10 years. Still others are rat's nests and impossible to negotiate (though I like that sort of shop). Mito Kanteidan was different. Clean and well-organized, they had all kinds of interesting gaming goodness at reasonable prices. I didn't have my camera with me so I can't share pictures, but believe me when I say they had an amazing selection. There was aisles of just about every every system imaginable, and tons of rare stuff (PC Engine LT, several 64DD games, even some Pippin soft). I found several items I had been looking for for some time, like these WonderSwan items:



That's the very-hard-to-find Handy Sonar and the just-about-as-hard-to-find Chocobo Fushigi na Dungeon pack. I also snagged some NeoGeo Pocket stuff I wanted and a used copy of Shoot the Bullet:



I'm pretty sure the Party Mail is brand new, too - it certainly looks like the sticker has never been removed. Not so rare but still interesting, I picked up some PS2 games as well:



Haven't had a chance to play either yet.

For those who might theoretically be interested in visiting this shop, don't consider it. It's really in the middle of nowhere and only accessible by car. Probably why they had such nice stuff.

Juicy as always.
Keep those awesome import pictures coming!

[darkslime]

I wish you would post prices smork. I'm always interested in seeing how much stuff is in Japan.

Anyway, I got this stuff off of gametz:

Home Movies season 1
Home Movies season 4
Blue Neo Geo Pocket Color
NEo Turfmasters
Pacman
Sonic Pocket Adventure
Metal Slug 1st mission
Dark Arms
Faselei

All for $58.35 shipped.

[Sparkster]

Just picked up:

Herzog Zwei
Metroid
Adventure Island 2
Bubble Bobble
and 3 throw-ins for $20 total (throw-ins were Mickey Mousecapade, Ducktales, and TMNT)

[Deadman]

Odd find at a remote small-town Goodwill yesterday:

Sonic and Knuckles (Gen) - 50 cents
sitting right next to a loose Ecco the Dolphin (Gen) - $7.00???

Aye, chihuahua, I sometimes wonder who prices this stuff and why there is such a spread of pricing in the same store, and these were the only two games in the whole store!

[ErmangelnSeelen]

I MIGHT BE THE STUPIDEST MOTHERFUCKER ON THE PLANET.

I passed on a fucking Stadium Events for like $2. I thought it was the other one.

Excuse me a moment: BFDASDFASDFSDFDSFSDFADSFSDDS

Before you ask, I think it was fucking ntsc.

This is an epic facepalm.

Edit: Now that I've calmed down, here's what I did get:

$1 Game Gear (Broken ish)/Ninja Crystal
$15 SNES Console with A/V and Controller
$3 Super Mario All Stars
$3 Donkey Kong Country 2
$3 FFVII Disc 1 (GH) - is this still worth anything?
$6 Faxanadu complete, Dragon Warrior Complete, Gradius

Edit 2: Since I really can't remember now if it was written on 2 lines or 1, I'm going to just assume pal based on statistics (also to preserve my sanity). Serves me right for forgetting which was the rare version.

[garagesaleking!!]

Where did you see it at?

[ErmangelnSeelen]

Where did you see it at?

It was at a booth at a flea. I'm sure it was PAL, statistically speaking, but for $2 or whatever there was absolutely no reason for me not to grab it and be absolutely sure >_< It's sort of a lesson learned though...I'm not really all that into NES, but I need to brush up on the list.. I could get a JPN saturn and all the games I need with that cart :drools:

[Kitsune Sniper]

I have been picking up a bunch of the DVD sets from Big Lots. I got the Flintstones sets as well as most of the other Hanna Barbara sets, (Wacky Races, Josie and the Pussycats, etc). I missed out on a couple Tales From the Crypt sets, but I did pick up volume 2 of Pinky and the Brain.

JY

If you want me to pick a set up for you and send it, I can do that for the cost of postage and the item (if they have it!). It's no problem. Lemme know.

[Porksta]

I ordered Far Cry 2 from eBay. Well, I won on it last second.

Anyways, that's it for now.

Trying to save money to build a small home studio and then I can spend more on games.

Some Far Cry 2 DLC is on sale this week for XBL Gold members.

[98PaceCar]

Found 2 complete copies of Jurassic Park Operation Genesis for the Xbox in the past 3 days. Been looking for that one locally for about a year and a half now. $20 a pop.