August 2009 Finds

[ScourDX]

Happy August. Stuff I picked up today

Monster hunter Freedom United - $25
Kirby Superstar - $4
Captain Commando $2.50

[Kevin H]

Picked up
PS3:
Lair 5 bucks
Timeshift 5 bucks
PS2
Trivia Pursuit 5 bucks

PS1 for 2, but its got something funky with the cd spinner.

[hellfire]

already posted this in july 2009 finds but whatever

I went to a garage sale, right off the bat I saw a boxed vectrex for 100$, then I saw 2 crates of all boxed atari games mostly sealed (all commons) THEN I SAW A FUCKING CRATE FILLED WITH BOXED NES GAMES! 5$ each. I asked the guy about everything, he was a collecter and he sells arcade boards for a living. He brought out a box with boxed snes games, (final fantasy 2 and 3, mario all stars, zelda)boxed master system games (phantasy star 1 2 and 3), boxed 3do games (some sealed). He had tons of phantasy star games, tons of good nes games (nothing super rare, boxed mega man but couldent get it.) He had a boxed sega master system glasses for 100$. I did get his email, he is saving a bunch of games for me including about 50 32x games he couldent find.

for 30$ I got
street fighter 2 turbo (3do) still in the shrink wrap
guardian war sealed perfect condition (3do)
contra super c cib
mega man x2 cib
pieces (atlus snes game) sealed perfect condition (motherfucking r7, theirs a cib one on amazon for 130$!)
super metroid cib
ps2 network adapter

I also got his email



sorry for huge post

[InsaneDavid]

Craigslist pickup to start off the month for me. Enhanced Apple IIe, pair of 5.25" Unidisk drives, joystick, and a box of diskettes for $40.00. I've been on a wild Apple chase for quite some time so it's nice to finally have another one - been about 10 years actually. It's in really nice shape over all and works 100%. Also has a Mockingboard sound card inside.



The box of diskettes is what made me pull the trigger on the package. Lots of good stuff here including many retail releases. Bunch of Ultima, early Electronic Arts stuff, Prince of Persia, boxed copy of Flight Simulator II, hardcover manual for Star Trek Kobayashi Alternative, lots of applications, bunch of MECC titles (Munchers series, Odell Lake, etc.). I haven't went through all the disks as I sort them yet but as of being a little more than half way through I've only come across one bad disk.



Also my girlfriend painted a new ceramic quarter bowl for the cocktail table...



Of course, based upon the theme of one of our favorite pinball machines...

[Sonicwolf]

Craigslist pickup to start off the month for me. Enhanced Apple IIe, pair of 5.25" Unidisk drives, joystick, and a box of diskettes for $40.00. I've been on a wild Apple chase for quite some time so it's nice to finally have another one - been about 10 years actually. It's in really nice shape over all and works 100%. Also has a Mockingboard sound card inside.

The box of diskettes is what made me pull the trigger on the package. Lots of good stuff here including many retail releases. Bunch of Ultima, early Electronic Arts stuff, Prince of Persia, boxed copy of Flight Simulator II, hardcover manual for Star Trek Kobayashi Alternative, lots of applications, bunch of MECC titles (Munchers series, Odell Lake, etc.). I haven't went through all the disks as I sort them yet but as of being a little more than half way through I've only come across one bad disk.

I am insanely jealous. I love old computers and they are very hard to come by around here. I have yet to find even a Commodore 64 around. Great purchase.

Although, if I could choose any Apple II series computer, I would buy the Apple IIc. I love that one. So clean and stylish looking yet portable and compaptable wi... Im starting to sound like an Apple pitchman from the 80s.

[InsaneDavid]

Although, if I could choose any Apple II series computer, I would buy the Apple IIc. I love that one. So clean and stylish looking yet portable and compaptable wi... Im starting to sound like an Apple pitchman from the 80s.

I've been after a IIc myself, but I always come across them without the power supply and NEVER find the power supplies anywhere. While the Enhanced IIe is what I have history with, my modern practicality (and limited space) leans toward a IIc since it's easier to store. Funny thing is there's a IIgs that was up for sale locally a couple weeks ago, just the main computer and nothing else, for $15.00. Now that I have a couple Unidisk drives I'm thinking about contacting that guy and picking up the IIgs since I can get a keyboard and mouse for it free.

[cyberfluxor]

Oh snap Dave, awesome starting haul for the month.

[Ryaan1234]

well, Saturday wasn't quite as bad as Friday:

Top Gun joystick, PS1 longbox game (empty... eh), and Spyro plush were $0.50 each. XCar (brand new & sealed) was $2.00

The lady brought me 6 SNES games: Rival Turf!, Jurassic Park, Wing Commander, Street Fighter II, Plok, and Claymates $5 for all 6.

The PS1 games were $1 each ( I don't know how I ended up with Mary Kate and Ashley >_>)

On the tech side of things, the digital photo frame keychain in the box was $1 and the flash drives were $2 for all three. One flash drive is 2GB and the other 2 are 1GB so not bad. I also got a 64kb SIM card with the flash drives (found them all in a box of junk) and I don't know what to do with it.

The photo frame has a 1 inch TFT lcd screen and 8MB of memory. Maybe I can mod/hack it somehow. It's definitely going to be recased in something else.

[GOLDEN KEYS]

hit up this indoor swap meet in phoenix for the first time today. admission was a dollar so i wanted to get my moneys worth...

all garbage. i expected a gigantic garage sale and nearly everything for sale was new. it was just a bunch of generic and off brand junk that a normal store wouldn't carry. ridiculous prices, too.

next i hit up a local game/book exchange store. they introduced a clearance section a few weeks back. there wasn't much when i first checked it out, though i did get a couple fifty cent sms games, a couple ten cent atari games, a one dollar saturn game, and a fifty cent intellivision game.

fast forward to today, two weeks later, and i see they've added a lot more... and about a hundred nes games(lots of doubles in there) for a buck each. i picked out fifteen nes games i didn't have(no sports titles), grabbed six atari games(fifty cents) and donkey kong for intellivision which was also fifty cents. i paid twenty bucks and change total.

[Deadman]

.....a one dollar saturn game...

I always pick up cheapo Saturn/Sega CD stuff, if for no other reason to get the case. Even a cracked case might have a decent back piece, insert, or whatever. What was this one and condition?

[Sonicwolf]

I wish Sega had used standard cd cases in North America. Those Sega CD style cases are death.

[aaron7]

Brother found these today for a total of $70 at the local game store:

Mega Man X2 cart only
Chrono Trigger CIB

I also found about 30 Atari games that I didn't have yet... some R1/R2, many R3, and a few R4's! All were 50c each!

[aaron7]

Paid $75 shipped for these NES games on ebay:

Destiny of an Emperor R4
Dragon's Lair R4
Times of Lore R5
Color a Dinosaur R6
AD&D Heroes of the Lance R3
Widget R5
Nobunga's Ambition R2
Defenders of Dynatron City R4
G.I. Joe The Atlantis Factor R3
Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom R5