June 2012 Finds

[InsaneDavid]

Other things I saw today..

Damnit, it's that nurse themed pachinko machine that everyone seems to find for next to nothing but I've never come across.

[DigitalSpace]

I stopped at a Movie Trading Company store and bought a clearly pirate copy of Tom & Jerry Frantic Antics! for the Genesis. It always surprises me what games pirate manufacturers make copies of. Did the original game sell so amazingly well that they retooled their factory to make knock-offs of it? Weird.

Oddly enough, the SNES Tom & Jerry game seems to be a popular inclusion on SNES pirate multicarts... or at least on most of the carts I've seen online.

[SparTonberry]

Probably because Tom & Jerry is a 4 megabit game (the lowest common size on SNES games) based on a popular character. Pirates probably deliberately chose the lowest memory games so they can fit the most on a single cart.
(like if any Famicom pirate cart claims to contain more than 10 games, it's probably a ton of first-gen (16-40K) games.)

[Vinnysdad]

Did some wheeling and dealing and traded for a brand new Playstation 3 slim. It came bundled with Gran Turismo XL edition and Sly Cooper collection. They also threw in Sonic Generations and a silver Sony controller

[Videogamerdaryll]

Damnit, it's that nurse themed pachinko machine that everyone seems to find for next to nothing but I've never come across.

This is something I'd had loved to own since it's newer then my older pachinko machines..it had a transformer and plug.
.......I made a promise to myself(and wife) that I will not buy things that I don't need..and only look for things to resell in my hunts..
I know if this was cheap enough into the van it would of went.

I was reluctant to ask price after looking at the other"vintage items the vendor had up for sale..I had never seen the people before..
I would say the way that had it displayed and with what else they had I'd not be surprised they'd want $250.00..

I also ran into a guy with an old Poker stand up arcade machine,he knew I am into Arcade machines..He is to bring the machine for me to look at and price for him ,the last guy that had one of them out there wanted $800.00 and it wasn't worth 50 bucks..

[camarotuner]

Pawn shop is running 50% vintage games and had these thrown into a bin at 5 dollars a piece so after the discount 10 bucks for...



The label on mario is pretty screwed up and the zelda label is a bit faded but for that price I am not going to complain.

[Guyra]

PS2:
King of Fighters: Maximum Impact 2
Samurai Warriors 2
Growlanser: Heritage of War
Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner
Legend of the Dragon

NDS:
Neopets: Puzzle Adventure

Wii:
Tenchu: Shadow Assassins

[Videogamerdaryll]

[orangest]

Nomad w/ battery pack, the very 80s-looking "Game Sak", SFII Champion Edition, Gunstar Heroes & Sonic 2 for $19.99 at Goodwill.



Wind Waker and Pikmin-$5.99 each
Ultima VII Part II Serpent Isle-The Silver Seed (shrinkwrapped)-$5.00

These were at the Salvation Army that has the Tron arcade cabinet, which is still there. I didn't notice before that "No discounts" is written lightly on the price tag, so it is indeed $480. At least for now...

[Kitsune Sniper]

Opened copies of The Silver Seed have sold for $40 on eBay recently. Since that one is new, I'm thinking you might be able to get $100... maybe more from international buyers. Nice find.

[Deadman]

First true wild "find" for me in a while - and I'm LOVING it!



LE Crystal Xbox with 2 crystal controllers and all hookups - Mint condition with just a couple of minor scrapes

Found this at a Half Price Books marked as a "modified Ghost Xbox" for $34.99. The guys that took it out of the locked game cabinet told me that they couldn't figure out how to price a modded console so they just priced it the same as the regular. I love finding LE stuff that wasn't really released anywhere near Texas and lo and behold there it is!

Oh, and the best part is that I had my 15% off coupon so it was just $29.75!

WOO HOO!!

[camarotuner]

First true wild "find" for me in a while - and I'm LOVING it!



LE Crystal Xbox with 2 crystal controllers and all hookups - Mint condition with just a couple of minor scrapes

Found this at a Half Price Books marked as a "modified Ghost Xbox" for $34.99. The guys that took it out of the locked game cabinet told me that they couldn't figure out how to price a modded console so they just priced it the same as the regular. I love finding LE stuff that wasn't really released anywhere near Texas and lo and behold there it is!

Oh, and the best part is that I had my 15% off coupon so it was just $29.75!

WOO HOO!!

That thing is pretty damned cool. I've never seen one before. I've seen the regular, the halo, and the vomit green but not the clear one.

[The 1 2 P]

It looks like somebody ran her over in the middle of the flea market and everyone was too busy buying their Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt carts to stop and notice.

[SEGA_Queen]

I went to pick up Sonic 237 from the comic shop, and on the way back stopped in at few places. I found the following:



The World Ends With You for $15.00 (Used) - The art style and music kind of reminds me of Jet Grind Radio.

Star Wars The Force Unleashed Ultimate Sith Edition for 12.99 (Used) - Since it an ex-rental, the steel book has stickers on the front. The disc has light scratching on it too, but I haven't run into a PS3 game that didn't work yet. But I'll stop by my local game shop to test it, just in case.

I was quite surprised when I looked up the current values of the games. SW is selling for an average of $30.00, and TWENY is going for close to $40.00!

[InsaneDavid]

This is something I'd had loved to own since it's newer then my older pachinko machines..it had a transformer and plug.
.......I made a promise to myself(and wife) that I will not buy things that I don't need..and only look for things to resell in my hunts..
I know if this was cheap enough into the van it would of went.

I was reluctant to ask price after looking at the other"vintage items the vendor had up for sale..I had never seen the people before..
I would say the way that had it displayed and with what else they had I'd not be surprised they'd want $250.00..

I also ran into a guy with an old Poker stand up arcade machine,he knew I am into Arcade machines..He is to bring the machine for me to look at and price for him ,the last guy that had one of them out there wanted $800.00 and it wasn't worth 50 bucks..

I hear that. A month or so ago I was at a yard sale where a guy had a pretty nice vintage pachinko machine that was complete but just needed the usual required tear-down and rebuild vintage machines always require. He had another one that was cleaner that he was holding onto but brought it out for me to look at since he didn't know very much about them and I'm always up for explaining the basic setup and how the mechanisms work on the machines. Although his price was all anyone should ever pay for a vintage machine ($25) I really don't need another vintage pachinko although I'm sure the restoration would go far faster on this one than my last.

I've seen that Y&O nurse machine go for as low as $20 at a few rummage sales. (moments before I get there) While it's not an incredible machine, I like the motif and they tend to show up fairly frequently for less than fifty bucks. For that kind of money it would be impossible to pass up a working modern machine. It's actually a pretty cool machine with nice visuals and sound on the display screen.

These days when it comes to pachinko purchases I'm limiting myself to a single modern machine, CR Bunny Girl, if I'm ever fortunate enough to come across one. For years they were readily available at $225 but they've seem to become pretty scarce in the past couple years.

[The 1 2 P]

I was quite surprised when I looked up the current values of the games. SW is selling for an average of $30.00, and TWENY is going for close to $40.00!

You're about two years late to the party. Not long after SW: TFU Ultimate Sith Edition came out it sold out pretty quickly. So both the 360 and PS3 editions were selling for an average of $50....used. New copies were selling for $90-$110. I know this because I found three new copies of the PS3 version and sold them for $90, $100 and $105 respectively. Used prices have finally come down to a more reasonable price and it looks like new copies have too, although the only sold ones I could find on ebay were from the UK. I don't count amazon since you can't tell whats actually selling there unless it's in your cart. But it's still a nice find, especially for that price and SW: TFU is one of my favorite games of this gen(I made sure to get every achievement and they were not easy).

[real_18aka]

got these off my local kijiji 40 bucks total

[SEGA_Queen]

You're about two years late to the party. Not long after SW: TFU Ultimate Sith Edition came out it sold out pretty quickly. So both the 360 and PS3 editions were selling for an average of $50....used. New copies were selling for $90-$110. I know this because I found three new copies of the PS3 version and sold them for $90, $100 and $105 respectively. Used prices have finally come down to a more reasonable price and it looks like new copies have too, although the only sold ones I could find on ebay were from the UK. I don't count amazon since you can't tell whats actually selling there unless it's in your cart. But it's still a nice find, especially for that price and SW: TFU is one of my favorite games of this gen(I made sure to get every achievement and they were not easy).

Well I bought SW: TFU it to play, not to flip. So I don't care that the resale value has tanked.

I'm actually more surprised that TWEWY is so expensive. Maybe the cameos in Kingdom Hearts 3DS has something to do with it?

[Deadman]

That thing is pretty damned cool. I've never seen one before. I've seen the regular, the halo, and the vomit green but not the clear one.

Yep this has always been one of my favorites, just didn't want to pay $100 + shipping from Canada for a console and black controller so I've always passed on them on ebay.

Forgot to mention that I also found:

Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Quest (Genesis) complete and mint - $3.39 after coupon.

[pseudonym]

Well I bought SW: TFU it to play, not to flip. So I don't care that the resale value has tanked.

I'm actually more surprised that TWEWY is so expensive. Maybe the cameos in Kingdom Hearts 3DS has something to do with it?

I think it's a high in demand game. I've never actually seen one locally, so maybe it's rare?