What Are Your THREE Greatest Finds in the Wild?

[Vroomfunkel]

Hmm .... my "in the wild" finds are not especially impressive. I got Night Trap and Corpse Killer for the PAL CD 32X for £3 each in Gamestation, worth £50 and £25 respectively. I nearly choked when I saw them, because I couldn't believe they didn't know how much they were worth!

Picked up mint complete Illusion of Time and Legend of Mana for £2 each in a charity shop.

After that I don't really know what my next best is, cause there's not much else that's much good. Just a mass of 'fairly good' deals, but nothing astounding.

Vroomfunkel

[TRM]

#1 ) I found a loose copy of Tooth Protectors for the 2600 in a lot of 12 Atari games that I bought from a friend for $10. Not too bad. I later traded this to a member of this board, since I don't collect Atari.

#2 ) A loose copy of Tengen Tetris for $7 at Babbages. Not too impressive, though I was a bit surprised when I saw it lying in the bin.

#3 ) Complete copies of Mermaids of Atlantis, Krazy Kreatures, and Venice Beach Volleyball for around $15 at Babbages. Once again, not too impressive, but very nice indeed.

[Sanriostar]

2 Sw'ed Gameline Modems: $20 each
loose Boing! $1
loose CV Q*Bert's Qubes $5

[orrimarrko]

These are some great (and enviable) responses!

I love hearing about what others find out there - it gives me hope (and the opportunity to live vicariously through some of you) [scary!]

Still, VideoGameDaryll and Portnoyd - you both never cease to amaze me with your luck. I've spoken with both of you several times, and the finds continue to impress!

[Kejoriv]

1) I bought 2 atari 2600 systems, colecovision, and intellevision and a little over 100 games for $50 at a flea market

2) I bought a nes toploader for $10 at a yard sale

3) 34 Nes games. Many uncommons for $20 at a yard sale

I couldnt believe all of those finds. I havent had a good find in a while though

[Duncan]

1) Just last week: loose Crash 'n the Boys Street Challenge for NES (an R5!) for $4. Very good game, by the way, if you haven't played it.

2) Quite some time ago: John Madden '92 Championship Edition (the limited rental-only edition), thrown in free with a couple other Genesis games because it counts as an "old sports game". I sold it a while back, though...sorry.

3) Last summer: Working Lynx 2 in decent shape, with California Games, for $3 at the flea market. (And that price includes a loose Genesis copy of Mortal Kombat 3 as well!)

And I'm still waiting on a friend at work to give me a figure on her husband's 2600 with (she says) around 30 games. If it's reasonable (say, under or around $100) I'll probably jump.

[Duncan]

2) Playstation display with light (dunno how you guys name it, see link -> *click* ) Got that one for free to from a gameshop, real cool. Also transported this 1.20 meter item by train (i must be crazy :P )

I used to know a guy who had one of those. Very cool. I personally would call it a "light-box" display, since that's what it sorta looks like.

And yes, you are crazy. But aren't we all?

[Achika]

Ack! Reading all these responses reminded me of the other things I have in my room that I didn't list (at school you see)

1. Mickey Mouse G&W complete (circus juggling one) $15
2. Playstation Neon sign (free)
3. Game Boy Advanced and Game Boy E Reader counter top displays (free)

[Oobgarm]

1. My awesome storage shelves - $25

2. Lunar, Lunar II and Vay for Sega CD - $10 (Later sold for $100)

3. Radiant Silvergun(mint), Dragon Force, and X-men/Street Fighter for Saturn - $75

[NintendoMan]

I have found some AWESOME finds on ebay really cheap BIN, I mean sometimes if the seller would have listed it right could have made about $200-400 more, but since this is only for the wild I am saying:
Brand new sealed SNES super mario RPG - $5

Dreamcast Demo setup stand at a local Babbage's - $25

New + Sealed Original Rob w/new SMB 1-2
The whole lot cost me $35

[nesman85]

i never seem to have any luck in the wild. i've only got one noteworthy find that comes to mind, but its for a bunch of games. i found out that a friend of mine was the son of a famous video game journalist, of course i asked about prototypes because i was really into collecting them at the time. after a couple of months he dug out some boxes of games and told me that he had 2 nes protos. i finally talked him into selling them to me after many months. i go over to his house to pick up the protos and he tells me "they're somewhere in that box" and it's a huge box of production nes games but i wasn't at all interested in them because i was so excited about the protos. i start digging through it and about 10 minutes later i've got 16 nes prototypes in a pile next to me. i can't remember the last time i was this excited as i kept pulling them out of the box. then he goes and gets some more boxes of snes, genesis, and gameboy games. i dug through those boxes and found a few protos for each of those systems. i left with every proto that i found there. it costed me a lot, but i got to meet this video game journalist and i thought that was almost as cool as the find itself.

[YoshiM]

Hmmm....about the best finds I had found:

1. Bubble Bath Babes, Hot Slots, and Peek a Boo Poker all complete: $15 total (video store-3 for $15)
2. Myriad 5 in 1 (or was it 6 in 1) and Action 52 with some other cart with boxes: $15 total (video store 3 for $15)
3. Tengen Tetris cart only: $3 (Goodwill)

[Reverend JagDiesel]

I feel so inadequate reading some of those posts! But here's my top 3 in no particular order:
1. Swordquest Waterworld & Tank Command $.49 each (new Goodwill store grand opening)
2. Game Gear w/ TV tuner $5 (yard sale)
3. a large box of Intv games, all boxed w/ instructions & overlays.. and a boxed Intv music keyboard for: free (did some cleanup/moving work at a game shop)

[atariboy]

1. Swordquest: WaterWorld At flea market for $2 (Mint Condition) :P

2. NES Top loader for $5. Didn't work so sent it in to nintendo with $10 and they fixed it. (Savers Thrift Store)

3. Shenmue 2 for dreamcast (European Release) for $5. (Salvation Army)

I thought those were pretty good finds.

[Ruffie]

1. RCA Studio II w/3 near mint cartriges (game, box, instructions, even one catalog) - $5

2. A second Vectrex hidden under a table at a flea market with some old TVs - $45

3. 4 Fairchild Channel F games in a bin of 8-trak tapes (they are roughly the same size and shape) - $8

There are more, of course, but these 3 stand out.

Ruffie

[TonK]

Nightmare in the Dark AES Conversion - $80

Chrono Trigger Complete - $.10, yes .10

Sonic Adventure LE - FREE

[Balloon Fight]

Well since ive really only started to actually collect games in the past year, i only have a few:

Dragon Warrior 3- $2
Various NES rares including many Color Dreams carts, AVE carts, and Race America- $2 apiece

Tie- SMS with hookups, gun, Double Dragon, and Hang-on/Safari Hunt- $1 / Telegames Atari VSC- $3

[ApolloBoy]

1. Atari Lynx I with 3 games. 2 Atari 810 disk drives, an Atari 410 tape drive, an Atari 1030 modem, an Atari light pen, and various Atari 8-bit computer carts (for FREE!)
2. Golden Axe Warrior for $4 (complete, mint condition)
3. Atari 2600 Jr with 22 games for $5

[hu6800]

1. 60 arcade machines, jukeboxes, and pinball machies (plus 50+ boxes of parts, arts, and PCBs) $550.00

2. Sega Nomad (working, loose) $3.00

3. Snatcher (mint complete Sega CD) FREE

I have more I'm sure, but those are the best I can think of at 3am!

Dude ,, common you know that controller was nice...

The most fucked up thing ive ever seen,,,
was when maxlords covered my entire living room floor with shrinkwrapped
SCD's , Neo Carts, Saturn imports, PCFX cd's and much more.
i wish i had taken a picture of that,,AND HE HAD DOUBLES! christ that was alot.

[josekortez]

It was hard to narrow it down to 3 things...

1) Gauntlet Legends (DC) new for .99 at K-Mart
2) Phantasy Star Online new (DC) for .99 at Sears
3) small SNES and NES toaster with controllers and AVs sans AC adapters for $6.00 total - "parasited" at Gamestop

3 best freebies I acquired at my retail jobs:

1) Broken kiosk Dreamcast system
2) PlayStation light-up marquis
3) N64 light-up marquis with GameCube slide

I should have never let that Halo stand-up go into the trash. Stupid immature fanboyism! <josekortez slaps self> Never again!