August 2011 Finds

[MarioMania]

I'll start this month..for the Passed couple weeks

Golf Magazine: 36 Great Holes Starring Fred Couples 32X $2.99 Goodwill
Lethal Enforcers w/Manual- Genesis $. 99(Came with a SNES Manual) Goodwill
Star Wars Trilogy $5.99 - Goodwill
2 USB Cables - $1 each Eco Thrift (1 Not Pictured)
Wii Stand $1 - Gamestop (Not Pictured)
Tiffany Greatest Hits $3 - Raspution Music (Not Pictured)
Super Mario Sunshine Case & Manual - Free
PS1 Dual Shock/Freddy Got Fingered $5.49 Goodwill
Daytona USA $5 Planet Mix

[Collector_Gaming]

I had a interesting surprise today

A guy i work with i have shared the fact that i collect old video games and stuff of the sorts. And hes friends with a guy who works at the local dump. At this dump we have a freebie table where people can bring in items and leave them for someone else to take and use instead of just tossing them in thrash never to be seen ever again.

And this guy found these while at work at the dump and brought em in for me thanks to the guy i work with


All this for free

What is in this is a few manuals one of which did not have a game to go with it.. and a map to go with that manual This game being Zelda link to the past for the SNES (sadly i don't own it)

Street Fighter 2 with its manual
Mortal Kombat 2
2 Killer Instinct carts (i now have 3 of them)
Mario Paint (my second one)
Mario All Stars
Super Star Wars (my favorite old star wars game)
Zombies Ate My Neighbors (one of my holy grails. Yea its super common but its one of my all time favorite games!)
And a super boy (my second one)
and a few other titles for the SNES

Bad Dudes! (i loved this game when i was a kid!)
Friday the 13th (shitty game but as a horror movie fan a must have!)
Slalom
a few NES cart sleeves (i wish i could find a huge lot of just these i have so many carts without them)

a NES zapper
NES Controller (with some crappy sticker someone tried peeling off at some point...)
N64 controller
SNES controller

once again....... ALL FOR FREE!

[Kitsune Sniper]

Beavis and Butthead Do America original soundtrack - $1
Office 2000 Standard - $1
Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition (with VB 4.0 Unleashed CD) - $1

And those things at the top?

Sony DGD120P 4GB data cartridges (x3)
Sony SDX1-25C 25 GB (native) / 65 GB (compressed) data cartridges (x19)

I got these from the booth where I got Undying and all that stuff. He asked for $10 ($5 and 60 pesos...) for all of those. I got that weird feeling I get in the back of my head sometimes so I took a chance.

It turns out those 25/60 GB carts sell for $10-$30 on eBay and Amazon. O_o So um, yay.

[Scott84]

Finally got Sonic CD... wish it was the long box version though! But great deal from the fellow that sold it to me.

[Simply Dave]

Went with the wife on a long shopping trip this weekend and stopped at many flea markets, Goodwills, thrifts stores and Gamestops along the way.

NES system + 6 games including Pirates with manual = 20 bucks

N-Gage system + 11 complete games = 20 bucks

Marble Madness CIB Sega Genesis = 3 bucks

Lunar doll in box= 5 bucks

All in all, paid 130 dollars for everything in the picture. A fun day.

[DigitalSpace]

My first find of the month? another original Xbox game.

Half-Life 2 (complete) - $3.50



And since I didn't want to bump the thread, here are my last finds for July:

Game Boy:
Paperboy (cart only) - $1.99

Game Boy Color:
Pong: the Next Level (cart only) - $1.99

Not pictured below:
Original Xbox controller (first-party, blue) - $4.99

[orangest]

GameCube Resident Evil 3 Nemesis, RE Code Veronica X and X-Men Legends II: $5.99 each at Goodwill.

PS1 One Piece Mansion was $2.99 and the blue Game Gear (w/ Lion King cart) was $4.99 at Salvation Army.

[Tupin]

My first find in a while, and it's a big one. An ad was posted on the 20th of July for an Amiga 4000, and when I emailed it was still available. Here's what I got today:

Amiga 4000/040 with MS-DOS compatibility card, Video Toaster
Keyboard (not compatible?)
Mouse
A large amount of floppy disks, mostly dealing with animation, only saw one game
3x CD-ROM drive
1048S Monitor
24.4k modem

The price for it all? $25. I thought it was a typo at first and the guy wanted $250. Nope, $25. I'm still cleaning it up a little, and I think I need a few cables. I need an adapter for the Amiga 1000 keyboard it came with and something to display it on since my monitor doesn't have a DB23 port. With the RGB inputs, I could probably hack up a cable if I can get a hold of the right connectors.

Finding an Amiga around here is so rare. I will post pictures when I get it all cleaned.

[Kitsune Sniper]

So I go to the flea market. I don't find much of anything. I see a bunch of CDs in cases... they look blank. Oh wait, one says "Jet Grind", another says "NFL2K1" and another says "SDA". "Jet Grind?", I think. "Probably CD-Rs."

And then I saw the GD-R.



I picked up the other three CDs and inspected them... they all have the Sega logo embedded in the center area of the ring. Jet Grind and SDA (Samba De Amigo) -appear- to be exactly the same as the retail releases. I haven't tested the NFL 2K1 yet, and that Daytona (Date 214, Disc. no 7) won't boot. I guess it's not self-bootable, and I need to find my bootdisc.

All of that was $5.

WHY DO I KEEP FINDING THIS SHIT

Edit:
Er... my Dreamcast is no longer loading anything. o_O The last game I tried was Jet Grind Radio... and now the drive won't load ANYTHING! The laser motor ... died.

O_o

[allyourblood]

Nice score on the DC GD-Rs, Sniper!

I have a trio of those myself: NBA Hoopz and NFL Blitz 2001, which are both on orange, printed discs, like your Daytona. Interestingly, I have Daytona, but it's on a blank disc, just like your other three. It's been my understanding that those blank, unmarked discs are generally full games that were used as demos in kiosks. That's where my Daytona came from, and it is indeed the full game.

My two orange GD-Rs won't play in my Dreamcast, either. I've been told I need some sort of special disc to get them to boot, but it's certainly not any of the standard "boot discs" commonly available, as those don't work. I read that a particular dev boot disc of some kind is necessary, but I've never taken the time or trouble to locate it online.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Too bad my Dreamcast is dead. IT'S DEAD. I've had that thing since I got it as a gift from a former girlfriend nine years ago.

[Scott84]

These gems came today!

[PentiumMMX]

Well, I've had some decent finds over the past few days, although it's the non-gaming one that trumps all. First off, the gaming related stuff from the past week:

- Xbox 360 power supply (Loose): $1
- Bust-A-Move 4 (PlayStation. Complete, in very good shape): Free
- Kirby's Dream Land 2 (Game Boy. With instructions, in very good shape): $12

The copy of Bust-A-Move was a trade with a friend for the 360 power supply, which he was needing.

As for KDL2, that was on eBay. That game has managed to elude me for the past 5 years, since I foolishly sold my copy, but at last, I finally have a copy again. As exciting as that was, it doesn't beat my best find of the week...

Non-gaming finds:
- Sailor Moon binto bag (New): $15

That was bought as a gift for a friend of mine, who is a Sailor Moon fan and also very otaku. I heard her mention wanting it, but she didn't have the money, so I decided to step in and buy it. She's excited that she got that bag, while I just feel good for having done something like that.

[orangest]

At one of the last remaining Wherehouse stores that hasn't become a FYE...

Electroplankton is sealed and was $29.99. More than I usually like to pay for a game, but understanding that's still a fair price overall. Puyo Pop Fever was $7.99.

[SparTonberry]

I had a interesting surprise today

A guy i work with i have shared the fact that i collect old video games and stuff of the sorts. And hes friends with a guy who works at the local dump. At this dump we have a freebie table where people can bring in items and leave them for someone else to take and use instead of just tossing them in thrash never to be seen ever again.

And this guy found these while at work at the dump and brought em in for me thanks to the guy i work with

Someone was about to throw away Super Mario All-Stars and Zombies Ate My Neighbors?

[Collector_Gaming]

Someone was about to throw away Super Mario All-Stars and Zombies Ate My Neighbors?

i know right?!?!?
i saw that and was like "WTF!?!?!?"

[Sailorneorune]

Too bad my Dreamcast is dead. IT'S DEAD. I've had that thing since I got it as a gift from a former girlfriend nine years ago.

Are you looking to replace your Dreamcast? If so, let me know. I've got a spare console. I can check the manufacture date and verify it still works since it has been sitting in storage.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Thanks, but a friend / Youtube LPer offered to give me his DC since he doesn't use it. I might take him up on the offer.

[Sailorneorune]

No problem. I was upset when my Saturn died and I had to replace it - mainly because the search for more info and games for it led to being introduced to my fiance, and also because it was $5.

But now I have a wonderful guy and a switch-modded model 2 Saturn, so it all worked out. :-)

[PapaStu]

orangest, nice find on that sealed Elektroplankton!