The wonders of classic gaming at flea markets.

[Therealqtip]

I don't think this is the "april 2010 finds" forum

[Gatucaman]

One quick Question guys?

what's the difference beetween a Flea market and a Swap Meet?.

at leats when it comes to videogames

[buzz_n64]

One quick Question guys?

what's the difference beetween a Flea market and a Swap Meet?.

at leats when it comes to videogames

Same thing, different name.

Thrift store/Second hand store
Laptop/Notebook

[Steve W]

When I come across the occasional bootleg, and it's fairly inexpensive, I'll end up buying it. I don't know why, but I'm fascinated by them. Not more modern system games, for example GBA bootleg multicarts were plentiful for a while at my local flea market, but for older systems. I've got a Power Rangers: The Movie cart for the SNES that looks like it was constructed by trained chimpanzees, a Game Gear multicart that is labeled to have a crazy amount of games on it but only has seven (only four of which are really playable, the other three are Sega Mark III titles that look too terrible to play because of emulation problems or something), and a few Atari 2600 bootlegs. It just astounds me that someone would go through the effort of creating their own copies of games that are usually sucky games. Was there really a need for pirate copies of Power Rangers: The Movie? Really?

Same thing, different name.

Thrift store/Second hand store
Laptop/Notebook

It's like the way different regions have assorted names for 'submarine' sandwiches. Grinders, Hoagies, Subs, Po-Boys... Flea market and swap meet are regional parlance for the same type of event. In England they're called Car Boot Sales, because everbody's selling stuff out of the boots ("car trunks" here in the US) of their cars.

[Xtincthed]

i've found so many retro games in flea markets that it would be insane to start a list

i'd recon i've found atleast 50 NES consoles with atleast 500+ games.. 20+ atari 2600's, hundreds of playstation games

[airswish99]

I'll take the game for three bucks.. seeing that I've never played it, I'd really like to give it a try.

[hellraiser]

Im a Sj local but mostly go to the capital fleamarket. It seams theres more people selling stuff from there house then regulars, so your chances of finding a diamond in the ruff is a bit better. Ive had more luck with ebay though, its seems like both local flea markets have been picked over and over not leaving much behind.

Im always reminded of the guy who was selling a sun faded /taged on snes super mario kart and was asking 20 bucks for because "they dont make thoes anymore" !!!!

[KingYoshi]

It seems to me (around here anyway) that the annual flea markets (or the ones that only occur a few times a year) have great deals on vintage games. While the every weekend flea markets (or the weekly ones), always have the prices jacked up. Seriously, who is going to pay $40 for a loose copy of Mario 64? The best place prices in the world for games/game related merchandise is Goodwill. Too bad they rarely have anything in stock, but when they do . I recently got a PS1 for 2.95, several complete boxed genesis games for .95 a piece including the original Double Dragon, and a fat PS2 for 9.95