August 2012 Finds

[Cornelius]

It depends on the type of tapes, some are worth a lot and others very little. They pretty much have to be new to be worth anything. The Metal tapes are usually worth a lot, Chrome tapes can sometimes be worth something depending on which ones, and normal ones aren't usually worth that much. I know a guy who's into audio stuff so I've been keeping an eye out for certain blank tapes. I just pick up normal tapes for myself as long as they're a quarter each or less as we still use them.

Looking closely you actually have video tape instead of audio. These I avoid as they're mostly worth very little. I see one like yours that sold on ebay overseas for $15 as a buy it now, and they're about $22 on Amazon. Maybe you could get $10 each, I still wouldn't bother buying them for myself as I don't see too many people being interested in them. More people are into older audio than older video.

I didn't notice they were so hard to see in the picture. They are indeed video. New Sony DV180 ME to be more precise.

[Gameguy]

I didn't notice they were so hard to see in the picture. They are indeed video. New Sony DV180 ME to be more precise.

Yeah, it might be because of my screen resolution. I noticed they said Sony DV and just assumed they were audio, I looked more closely and saw the model number so I did a search and saw they were really for video.

http://www.amazon.com/SONY-DV-180MEM.../dp/B00005TQKB
http://www.ebay.com/itm/180936728439


I did find something today, a Zelda Ocarina of Time BradyGames strategy guide for just under a dollar. I was lately thinking to myself that I rarely found strategy guides anymore and one just turned up today at the thrift store so I'm happy about that, I just wish I could find ones that I was really looking for.

[Kitsune Sniper]

I don't really post much anymore since most of my finds are not video game related anymore, not to mention there's been next to no finds - and profit - for the past few months... this week I splurged a bit, though.


Everything in there was a dollar. This has:

Final Fantasy VII PC, discs only in cardboard slipcover thing
Various Artists / Tropical Tribute to the Beatles
Star Trek - The Astral Symphony
Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country soundtrack
Star Trek TV Soundtrack volume two
Science Fiction - Music from the Movies and TV Volumes 1 and 2
Oscar De La Hoya

... yeah so I couldn't resist buying that last one. It'll be displayed proudly next to my Shaquille O'Neal and Hulk Hogan albums. And by that I mean I'll put it in a box and hide it from everyone. :P

I'm aware of the FFVII PC rerelease, but this doesn't have the crap DRM and it's still worth around twenty five dollars...

[Zama]

Some really nice stuff of both finds at the yard sales and online shopping for this week



and this one came in the mail not too long ago

[wiggyx]

Glad I woke up and checked Craigslist before I got going today. Picked up an Odyssey 2 lot for $50. VERY happy with what I got.



I'll probably end up keeping just a couple of the games and dumping the system and remainder of the games, but I know I did ok on the deal.

WOW, those boxes are CLEAN. I bet there would be some really happy folks over at The Cover Project if you were to make some high-res scans of them.


I didn't know that you guys did this sort of thread. Here's what I grabbed this month so far.




That's 5 GBAs, 3 001, 2 101, and a slim PS2. All the consoles are broken, but good for parts. I grabbed AA at Target for 10 bucks.


About 100 bucks


Roughly 5 bucks, 10 bucks, and 1.50 from left to right.


A friend that moved to Cali found this stash in his storage locker. It had been sitting for about 7 years and he'd forgotten about the whole mess (he and I worked for a used CD/game chain for many years, and stockpiling this sort of stuff was somewhat unavoidable). Anyway, he didn't want to drag it to Cali, so I got it all for free!


He also had this. I don't know what I'm gonna do with it yet, but I'll figure out something.


I grabbed the two 32X games on eBay for about 4 shipped along with some hookups that I needed for that giant mess o' inherited consoles above.

[Porksta]

Paid about $36 for everything. Games are in various stages of completeness.

[fahlim003]

I did find something today, a Zelda Ocarina of Time BradyGames strategy guide for just under a dollar. I was lately thinking to myself that I rarely found strategy guides anymore and one just turned up today at the thrift store so I'm happy about that, I just wish I could find ones that I was really looking for.

If you went to the place I'm thinking of last time I was there around a month ago I saw a bunch of Metroid Fusion and Star Fox Adventure guides at a dollar each. I scooped two Metroid guides, kept one and sold the other. That location somehow seems good for reading material although I cannot really complain overall anyway, if anything it's just slow.

[Gameguy]

If you went to the place I'm thinking of last time I was there around a month ago I saw a bunch of Metroid Fusion and Star Fox Adventure guides at a dollar each. I scooped two Metroid guides, kept one and sold the other. That location somehow seems good for reading material although I cannot really complain overall anyway, if anything it's just slow.

I forgot about those, it is the same place and I bought one of the Metroid Fusion guides in case I pick up the game at some point. They also had a bunch of Lord of the Rings guides for some game, there's a few of these left. It's weird, for awhile they started pricing strategy guides at $3.99 and up but just gave up on it recently, the pricing doesn't stay stable on anything. Still they do seem to get good stuff every so often as I keep finding one or two things every other week or so, still nowhere near what I used to find there years ago. There's currently some crappy sealed CD-i games there for $2.99 each and they've been there awhile, maybe you saw them there too.

[orangest]

PS2 Silent Hill 2 and Dreamcast Giant Gram 2000 were $5.99 each at Goodwill.

Found the ASCII Demo CD inside of a PS1 Arcade's Greatest Hits/The Midway Collection 2 case at a swap for $2.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Two bucks for all this.



That Killer Instinct comic is from Nintendo Power and it has art by Paul Gulacy. It's... well. I was weirded out but I HAD to grab it.

[theclaw]

Rather bad selection all around. Except for grabbing another import, Europe this time.

$1 - FIFA Soccer 95 complete (PAL Megadrive)
$1 - Tiger Woods 2001 & Madden 2001 combo pack (PC)
$3 - Mystic Defender with box (Genesis)

[Jimmy Yakapucci]

I hit up the little, once a month, flea market near me and scored pretty good today. I was walking by a table of Hot Wheels cars and saw a couple stacks of Game Boy Advance games on the table. They were all complete except for two. I dug through the piles and found 2 that I wanted for my 6 year old grandson. He is moving away next week and since most of the games that he plays on his DS are mine, I thought that I would try to find some for him. The two that I picked out were Madagascar and Pixar's Cars. When I asked the price for the two I was told, "$1 each or 3 for $2." I ended up getting all 17 that they had, (15 complete and 2 loose), for $10. The titles are:

Complete:

Madagascar
Cars
Ratatouille
Ultimate Spider-Man
Finding Nemo
Monster House
Hot Wheels - All Out
Shrek 2
March of the Penguins
Hot Wheels Velocity & World Race (2 pack)
Monster Trucks
The Incredibles - Rise of the Underminer
Thunderbirds
Matchbox Air and Sea Rescue & Emergency Response (2 pack)
Board Game Classics

Loose:

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Mayhem
Need For Speed Underground

Obviously some young kid's collection, but my grandson will love them. In fact, he is playing Madagascar right now and the music is already getting on my nerves.

[Sailorneorune]

Finally found a game I've been looking for for a while (not many people seemed to want to part with this one, and I didn't want to deal with ebay).

So, without further ado, and thanks to the Newburgh, IN Gamestop:

Valkyrie Profile: Cheapass Edition, er, Lenneth. PSP, complete and in generally good condition though the manual is a little rough around the edges. $10
Also picked up Bomberman PSP ($6).

Picked up Phoenix Wright DS (yes, another one), Kingdom Hearts (PS2 black label), and Torchwood Season 1 from Book Broker. All $10 each.

Looking forward to finding a home for another Phoenix game.

[real_18aka]

picked these up today


Atari Home Computers
Frogger-CIB

NES
Sesame Street ABC-c

SNES
Power Moves-c
Super Metroid-c

N64
Asteroids-c
Jeremy McGrath Super Cross 2000-CIB
wcw backstage assault-CIB
Command and Conquer-c
Transformers Beast Wars-Transmetals-c
Golden Nugget-c
Mia Hamm Soccer 64-c
V-Rally Edition 99-c
Fox Sports College Hoops 99-

Genesis
Zoop-CIB

[JSoup]

This isn't gaming related and is probably of interest to only me and a few users around here, but I'm working a convention this weekend and got an autographed photo of Robert Axelrod.

[Zama]

This isn't gaming related and is probably of interest to only me and a few users around here, but I'm working a convention this weekend and got an autographed photo of Robert Axelrod.

^_____^ You have won the thread!

[Flashback2012]

I stopped into a Big Lots type store called Ollie's and found The Sega Genesis Classic Collection: Gold Edition on PC for $4.99. I had been eying the game at Half Price Books for a while now but held off on buying for whatever reason. HPB wanted $10 for theirs which isn't a bad price at all but I guess my procrastination paid off.

Last week I was in a Gamestop well out of my way and picked up the game Dawn of Heroes on DS. When I got home, I realized the guy put the game Dawn of Discovery in the case. I wasn't able to get back up there till today and had to return a copy of My Chinese Coach which I accidentally ended up with a 2nd copy of. Luckily for me, that location had a used copy of My French Coach in stock which was the same price so I was able to swap the two games at no extra cost.

[Enmity]

This isn't gaming related and is probably of interest to only me and a few users around here, but I'm working a convention this weekend and got an autographed photo of Robert Axelrod.

That guy is awesome I got his signature here last year at our convention I work for Anime Festival Orlando.

We also had
Jason David Frank (Which we have every year for the past 5 years.)
Johnny Yong Bosch
and this year we had Jason Narvy

All very cool people to talk to.

[Steve W]

I'm shocked that you didn't even mention the DVD of Jeckyll and Hyde starring David Hasselhoff. I really wish, for our sakes, that you would create a movie review thread for these kinds of finds. Just thinking about sitting down and watching that flick sets off some kind of primal fear reaction in me, but maybe you're made of sterner stuff. Your brain can, in essence, take the hit for the rest of us. Mix in some music reviews, too, since your CD purchasing taste is so much broader than most of us.

[Collector_Gaming]

I'm shocked that you didn't even mention the DVD of Jeckyll and Hyde starring David Hasselhoff. I really wish, for our sakes, that you would create a movie review thread for these kinds of finds. Just thinking about sitting down and watching that flick sets off some kind of primal fear reaction in me, but maybe you're made of sterner stuff. Your brain can, in essence, take the hit for the rest of us. Mix in some music reviews, too, since your CD purchasing taste is so much broader than most of us.

Perhaps make a "It came from the darkside of the fleamarket" review section for kitsune