What Amazing games have you gotten for FREE?

[FxMercenary]

The title says it all, and I know I cant be the only one. What are some of the greatest games you have gotten for free? From Neighbors, Friends, Garage Sales, the dumpster? shoplif... erm ( No, you cant include Christmas or B-day presents! )

Neighbor
-SNES-
Lufia II
E.V.O.
Earthbound
Breath of Fire
Final Fantasy II
Final Fantasy III
Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest

-NES-
Zelda
ZeldaII

Friends
-NES-
Crystalis ( CIB )

[mobiusclimber]

Outside of presents I can't think of too many times I've gotten free games, and I frankly think ANY free game is cause for celebration, "amazing" or not.

Recently I've had two separate FeePay sellers give me free games. One sent me Cosmic Fantasy 4-1, another sent me the PS1 Cowboy Bebop. I sadly owned both games already, but I still felt that was pretty damn sweet to get those freebies. I've also partaken of a few games from the freebie forum on gtz, but since I paid for shipping, I can't totally say they were "free."

[Therealqtip]

In a Game Crazy free bin I found Blitz for n64, good shit right there

[Game Freak]

Friends:
Old PS1
PSOne w/ LCD (broken though)
Atari 5200, like new
SNES - Monopoly, Street Fighter, Stunt Race FX
N64 - Castlevania, Star Wars Episode I Racer, Blast Corps, Banjo Kazooie
Sega CD (all my SCD games thus far, check out my room of doom for a pic)
Genesis/PS1 - a TON of games, including Tomba. Not necessarily "Free" but i got a Genesis, 18 Genny games, and about 30-40 PS1 games/demo discs for two dollars. Pretty good deal, considering Sonic 3 alone is worth more than that (and it has quite a bit of sentimental value to me for it's soundtrack)
Genesis - got a Genny and a bunch of games from a friend of my fathers
NES - Got an NES for free. Was in the closet at my dad's first job since we moved up to New England.
NES/Genny - Got a bunch of games from my uncle, as well as an NES and Sega Laseractive PAC. Some titles include Punchout, Ghosts n Goblins, and Tengen Ms Pac Man.

[vivaeljason]

Years ago, my cousin was getting rid of his NES stuff. I picked up Metroid, Gyromite, Gyruss, Mike Tyson's Punch Out, and a few other classics.

[Kiddo]

Only ones I can really recall getting for "free" are Mega Man Zero, F-Zero GP Legend, Forza 2 and Fusion Frenzy 2.

I've been relatively freebie-deprived.
(I also still have spares of the latter two.)

[MissingNo_1231]

when I was in Middle School (man, lemme think, maybe 6 or 7 years ago), a friend of mine, one of the biggest so-called gangsters in school actually, gave me his copy of Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts for SNES. A great, but unbelievably difficult game. For me at least.

And recently a friend of mine gave me some old PS1 games he had lying around that he got tired of, cause he knows I collect games. Centipede, Grand Tourismo 2, Frogger 2, and Namco Museum Vol. 3. Come to think of it, I still need to test those.

[Cloud121]

Got a Sega CDX for free a couple years ago. It's pretty beat up cosmetically, and only reads Mega CD games half the time, but that doesn't change the fact I got a free CDX. Also got my second Nomad free about a year and half ago.

[ScourDX]

My friend gave me his N64 for free. He was about to give me Golden Eye & Zelda 64 with it, but can't find it. Oh well. I manage to track it down afterward.

[bb_hood]

Once I drove to the ghetto in providence to buy an awesome lot of genesis and mega drive stuff. When the guy brought the lot out, there was a copy of Dragon Warrior 4 for NES with both maps and manual that the guy threw in for free. It was the only nintendo piece in the lot.

[Nebagram]

ChuChu Rocket.

[klausien]

A buddy gave me complete, truly mint copies of Super Castlevania IV & Zelda LTTP for free with a group of other stuff. (Without prompting, I gave him my Zelda LTTP cart. He's a fan and should have it.) He also gave me his copy of God of War to keep when he was done with it. Good friend.

[Ed Oscuro]

Guxt and Spelunky.

[Daria]

Elevator Action (in the 5th grade the girl in front of me pulled it out of her desk, turned around and gave it to me)
Crystalis (in middle school I was over at this kid's house playing NES, when I said how cool the game was she gave it to me)
Breath of Fire (a friend went buddhist)
Breath of Fire II (a friend went buddhist)
Lufia (a friend went buddhist)
Lufia II (a friend went buddhist)
Paladin's Quest (a friend went buddhist)
Secret of Evermore (a friend went buddhist)
Super Mario RPG (A co worker at Gamestop gave it to me when it came in on trade-in)
Arc the Lad Collection (another co worker at gamestop)
Secret of Mana (A friend Lost my Zelda collection disk so I took his Mana)
Lunar Legend (A friend said it sucked so he gave it to me)
Snake Rattler & Roll (DP Contest)
Elevator Action (DP Contest)
Ghosts & Goblins (DP Contest)
Commando (DP Contest)
Battle Toads (Trade Freebie)
Timelord (Trade Freebie)
World Cup Soccer (Trade Freebie)

[Soviet Conscript]

Elevator Action (in the 5th grade the girl in front of me pulled it out of her desk, turned around and gave it to me)
Crystalis (in middle school I was over at this kid's house playing NES, when I said how cool the game was she gave it to me)
Breath of Fire (a friend went buddhist)
Breath of Fire II (a friend went buddhist)
Lufia (a friend went buddhist)
Lufia II (a friend went buddhist)
Paladin's Quest (a friend went buddhist)
Secret of Evermore (a friend went buddhist)
Super Mario RPG (A co worker at Gamestop gave it to me when it came in on trade-in)
Arc the Lad Collection (another co worker at gamestop)
Secret of Mana (A friend Lost my Zelda collection disk so I took his Mana)
Lunar Legend (A friend said it sucked so he gave it to me)
Snake Rattler & Roll (DP Contest)
Elevator Action (DP Contest)
Ghosts & Goblins (DP Contest)
Commando (DP Contest)
Battle Toads (Trade Freebie)
Timelord (Trade Freebie)
World Cup Soccer (Trade Freebie)

note to self *convice more friends to follow the path of Buddhism*

though i did have a friend that got married and felt he needed to get rid of all his "child things". i got a free super mario RPG in the box (no manual) out of it as well as a load of anime vhs stuff.

[Gameguy]

There hasn't been all too much, just a few things.

Someone gave me a loose copy of Sonic 2 for the Genesis at a yard sale, it was nearly over and they said I could just have it.

Someone else I met at a thrift store gave me some Game Gear stuff, he bought it all just for the carrying case but couldn't fit in what he wanted to use it for so he offered to give it all to me.

Some stuff from the free table at swap meets, mostly Genesis sports games and some PC games.

I can't really remember too much else that weren't really gifts from friends or thrown in with other stuff I was buying. A co-worker was into older games too and offered to give me a copy of Bubble Bobble Part 2 for the NES(I even told him it was rare and offered to pay him for it), but it was apparently in storage with a bunch of other gaming stuff and I went to work somewhere else before he could get it.

[Diatribal Deity]

From an old co-worker who was moving to California about 7 years ago. Saw him about 6 years ago very briefly and reminded him I still had them. He said he was moving again and I could keep it all for $100 and he would send me his new address and contact info to send. Never heard from him again. Dave if your out there, I have $100 with interest for ya...

TurboDuo System (worked perfectly with all hookups)
Duo controller
Turbo controller
TurboTap
Turbografx CD with dock and turbografx system (no hookups)
Alien Crush
Altered Beast
Blazing Lazers
Bloody Wolf
Cosmic Fantasy 2
Davis Cup Tennis
Devil’s Crush
Download 2
Dungeon Explorer
Dungeon Master
Exile
Exile:Wicked Phenomenon
Fantasy Zone
Fighting Street
Forgotten Worlds
Gate of Thunder/Bonk Compilation
Golden Axe
It Came from the Desert
JB Harold Murder Club
JJ & Jeff
Keth Courage in Alpha Zones (3 copies)
The Legendary Axe
Loom
Moto Roader
System Card 3.0
System Card 1.0
Prince of Persia
R-type
Riot Zone
Shadow of the Beast
Sherlock Holmes: CD
Sidearms
Silent Debuggers
Splatterhouse
Toilet Kids
TV Sports Football
Valis II
Victory Run
Vigilante
World Court Tennis
Yo Bro
Ys Book I & II (2 copies)
Ys Book III (2 copies)

Most games came complete without sleeves (a few were just the hu-cards).
Sadly I have sold most of it, if not all of it off.

[Baloo]

For Free I've Gotten:

Marvel Vs. Capcom (DC) - Really I borrowed this one, and forgot to return it, and now the person I borrowed it from went off to college and they don't really play video games anymore so I'm not really sure what to do with it.

Sega Nomad - Same person who I borrowed the MvC from, he said it sucked so he gave it to me.

A bunch of Sega Genesis games - The brother of said person (who has also gone off to college) gave me a bunch of Sega Genesis games since he doesn't play his anymore, and the next time I go to his house I'm able to pick up the rest of them along with a Model II Genesis that he has.

Crazy Taxi (GCN) - Got it from a friend who ended up with two copies, so he gave his extra one to me.

Super Smash Bros. Melee - Friend who gave me Crazy Taxi hated this game so much he was ready to break it, so I asked if I could have it, and he gave it to me.

Rayman 2 (N64) - Again, same friend. Not sure why he gave this to me, might've had a double of it.

Sold Crazy Taxi and Melee, but the other stuff I still have.

[Fuyukaze]

at a gamecrazy, one of the previous managers gave me a complete copy of Dragon Ball GT import. Next manager gave me a copy of some BMX game for the GBA CIB for free. Normaly I'm the one giving the gifts away to friends and others.

[kedawa]

Does Cave Story count?

I've been given lots of hardware, but no games.