April 2010 Finds

[Baloo]

Yeah, even Wal-Mart has them. Standard RCA composite w/ mono audio or a y-adapter for dual-mono.

Yep, . Looks like shit on my HDTV, and the cables are colored wrong (They decided to color the video cable white, why?) but it serves its purpose much better than RF.

[orangest]

Picked these up at an indoor swap meet; the seller ended up asking $10 for both.

[Icarus Moonsight]

"Hey, we have Kizuna Encounter."
"How much do you want for the games?"
"$20k"
"..."

I would laugh so hard.

Yeah, more than likely the JPN version too, or MVS.

Going tomorrow, needed to sleep. Plus, been playing with the newest toy all morning long.



Pardon the low-quality snap. My cell phones camera is complete trash.

[DuckTalesNES]

Conker Live & Reloaded XBox - $5.99 at the Goodwill. Pretty pumped about this.

[Balloon Fight]

Had an amazing craigslist find today:















Apologize for the shitload of photos, but I figured this was worth it.

Some random notes = The Chubby Cherub is REALLY nice. There is a VERY small tear on the top right of the back. The hangtab is punched in but its perfect aside from that. Shame its punched but oh well. The Dragon warrior is sealed and very nice, just some minor flaws. The Dragon Warrior 2 map is pretty awesome as I've never seen the envelope thing with it. All of the black boxes are in VERY good shape. Easy 8.5s or 9s. Also really excited to finally getting a NP #1 WITH THE POSTER ATTACHED.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Wow... What black box releases were missing from that haul? Kung Fu?

That is one yellow NES... Must have been kept to close to a Super in storage, and contracted leprosy from it.
High five on the Chubby Cherub Bitch to find in any condition, nm as nice as the one you got there.

[pseudonym]

Wow, a steal and a half on that lot. A number of rarer black box titles and frickin' Chubby Cherub.

[portnoyd]

Beefer, I hate you so much.

P.s. sell me that BF and DK box I command it. D:

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Wow, it's been an awesome month for quite a few people here so far. It makes me wonder if Icarus really will pull Kizuna Encounter or another NG rarity from his deal...
In a side note, I checked CL because of everyone else's finds and nothing's been posted for a week that's worth a damn. The only thing I saw was in the Fort Myers area (BetaWolf, your territory) with an NES Toploader + games for $45. It had Mega Man 5 with it, but that's almost 160 miles away for me.

[BetaWolf47]

Wow, it's been an awesome month for quite a few people here so far. It makes me wonder if Icarus really will pull Kizuna Encounter or another NG rarity from his deal...
In a side note, I checked CL because of everyone else's finds and nothing's been posted for a week that's worth a damn. The only thing I saw was in the Fort Myers area (BetaWolf, your territory) with an NES Toploader + games for $45. It had Mega Man 5 with it, but that's almost 160 miles away for me.

It's still far from me. I don't live on the west coast FL anymore. Sounds like a great deal though. Be a gentleman and inform sixwayshot of that ad. I've got my eyes on a good model 2 Genesis lot. Has 11 CIB games.

[Dreadstar]

That is the ugliest NES deck I've ever seen.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

That is the ugliest NES deck I've ever seen.

I've got one that looks like it with the deck door broken and random dark brown spots on it, and yet the deck itself works perfectly. I've seen other ones sold with sections of the NES actually broken and still work as well.

Sent a PM to sixwayshot for you Beta. I forgot you moved back down to South FL and weren't in Naples anymore.

[robotriot]

Good news for me, the first real retro game store opened in my town recently, went there for the first time today. They have games for a lot of different systems, starting from Atari 2600. They even had a bunch of C64 carts, I went ahead and got me Wizard of Wor for a reasonable prize. My first original C64 game, yay!

[JanLazer]

Not a huge find, but it isn't coming up as available within 100km of me at EB Games/Gamestop, despite being released today/yesterday:

Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love Premium Pack (PS2)

[Streetball 21]

Not worth taking a pic of it, but I did pick up a New Super Mario Bros. Wii strategy guide (new/sealed) for $9.99 at Blockbuster Video. It rang up at $19.99, but since it had it a $9.99 sticker on it, they honored the price for me.

[Smashed Brother]

Picked up a loose Final Fight 3 (SNES) for $13 at one of the local gaming shops a little bit ago...

[BetaWolf47]

I got a super find today.



Unfortunately, the Cube game is missing the memory card. I think it also came in a large cardboard box. But still, the rarest Gamecube game is now mine! $24 for that lot.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Yeah, it had a box, hence Pokemon Box
Very nice find nonetheless.

[Icarus Moonsight]

No, not a Kizuna in sight. Far from it. But I'm still satisfied with what I did get. They only had a single AES game, loose... Dun dun dun... Art of Fighting. Also, they said it had garbled, clippy sound. Easy and quick fix - on the CHA board, two adjacent pins had a short on the PCM chip. Got it for near nothing and some other stuff that wasn't Neo Geo. The rest of the "AES" stuff was a Phantom-1 converter and MVS games... I know, neat, but... They wanted $300 for the Phantom and $100 each for the MVS carts. Samurai Shodown 1 and 2 were the standouts (by game quality, not value) and the rest were games that easily go for less than $80 CIB on AES.

They left the Phantom door open to offers though, since I'm the only AES owner that has approached them at all. How much is fair for these now? I was planning to get a Super Converter 2 after reading about it, I completely forgot about Phantom-1 until I saw it today. The highest I'd even consider is $150... I laughed when he said $300. It would be an easy buy for me at $100. Is that fair, or would I be selling one of us short? I know these are kinda out of favor now. Don't want to leave money on the table.

[sixwayshot]

It's still far from me. I don't live on the west coast FL anymore. Sounds like a great deal though. Be a gentleman and inform sixwayshot of that ad. I've got my eyes on a good model 2 Genesis lot. Has 11 CIB games.

I appreciate the forwarding. I'm not able to get the NES lot right now, but I'll take a look this weekend.