Your Best Pawn/Thrift Shop Finds

[rjohnson]

Suikoden 2 complete for $3.00...pawn
2600 Boing for $0.75 G_sale (yes...75 cents)
Bubble Bobble part two... $1.00 G_sale
Chrono Trigger $0.75 G_sale
Bubble bobble PSx complete and new for $ 1.00 G_sale

complete CDX in perfect unplayed (but open) condition $30.00 VAlue Village

Toploader nes perfect and complete $70.00 gamecrazy
Street fighter two New Challengers CPS2 cabinet $40.00 (online craig's list).

Aliens Vs Predators and Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo CPS2 boards $20 each at a G_sale

Complete PS grey one with ~ 70 game sonline at craig's list for $100. with Almost all of the square/enix rpgs 9xenogears,FF,wild arms,Battle ogre...etc... all complete and perfect condition...

okay... i have been doing this for a while now.... so i'll stop.


but you get the idea...

[XianXi]

Goodwill:

Sega CD
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Lunar 1 & 2
Shining Force
Snatcher

All mint and complete for $3.99 each

Pawn Shop
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Suikoden II - Sealed for $10(Originally wanted $15 for it but brought it down because he thought it was too high for an old game)

[dcescott]

Big Nose Freaks Out loose 2.99
Contra NES loose 2.99 same place same day
Balloon Fight CIB, mint!! 3.99

[Son of Bael]

Vampire Savior for the Saturn for £5, and Megaman X3 and Dragonforce for £8 each (all PAL) a couple of years back were my best finds I reckon.

[Sailorneorune]

Let's see here... good stuff from pawns and the like...

Phantasy Star IV (cart/manual)
Earthbound (cart only)
both $7 at a local pawn about 4-5 years ago

and from the infamous Book Broker (not quite a pawn, but a neat little everything shop so to speak):

Metroid Fusion (complete): $10
Legend of Mana (complete, minty): $10
XCom UFO Defense (complete, slight damage to booklet, disc in very good+ condition): $7
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (disc only, non-GH): $3
.hack//SIGN anime volumes 3-5: $25 (good deal as they were the ones I was missing! )
The Legend of Zelda Ocarina/Master Quest bonus disc (complete, minty): $10
Lunar Silver Star Story Complete AND Lunar 2 Eternal Blue Complete: $40 for both, gave them to a friend that Christmas as a combo birthday/Christmas present (I'm sure some of you have that one friend who is a late December baby and has slightly more potential to be spoiled than everyone else). Boy, was I stupid.
Dreamcast VMUs: $2/ea.
Gamecube Memory Card 1019: $10!
1st party Xbox Memory Card (which neither my boyfriend nor I still have a damn clue how to use... please help): $10
Final Fantasy VII strategy guide: $4
Super Mario All-Stars strategy guide: $3
Pokemon Sapphire (cart only, minty label): $7
Gunstar Heroes (complete! but a former rental w/ labels on cart and manual... ): $10
Magic Knight Rayearth manga boxset: $15
The Slayers season 1 anime boxset: $35 (this was when they were still $120 a pop, not too great of a deal now)

Well, that's all I remember!
-sailorneorune

[OdSquad64]

i've never really had too much luck at the thrift stores as they rarely have videogame stuff but i've bought;

Virtual Boy(no stand, visor, or battery pack) + Warioland $2
NES Power Pad $2
Snes + 2controllers + all hook ups(everything mint) $8

still hoping for a big find though, maybe next time

[cyberfluxor]

Thank god Cash Converters are indepently owned. I visit 3 of their stores weekly, and go to 2 privately owned game resale shops. I also swing by 5 different GameStop and 2 EB Games locations from time to time. There are 2 thrift stores I rarely drop into, and a place called Consignment City. I love the Cash Converters because they generally sell you amazing games for $1-5. To find the good stuff I venture to the game resale shops, like this Replay store that hooks me up with Saturn games. Usually I can pick up some cheap games at the CC's (Cash Converters) and sell them to the resale shops for good $$$.

[cyberfluxor]

i've never really had too much luck at the thrift stores as they rarely have videogame stuff but i've bought;

Virtual Boy(no stand, visor, or battery pack) + Warioland $2
NES Power Pad $2
Snes + 2controllers + all hook ups(everything mint) $8

still hoping for a big find though, maybe next time

Ya, I don't usually find things at thrift stores either. I usually go into there for costume outfits for Cons and what have you. The last thing I bought from a thrift store was a few months back, for $5 I got 2 tower 15" 3-way speakers that are 200watts.

[geekcomputing]

i got 30 atari lynx games new in box complete for 40 bucks shipped.

sold em all for 250.

and picked up some Bose 161 speakers at a garage sale for 15 bucks.. sold on ebay a month later for 118

[S_W_Prof]

nes joystick
Quickshot Maverick 2 - 99cents
Hells ya

[Toandirte]

Nothing great Mega Man X3 for $5 at a pawn

[almostgotthemall]

Nintendo World Championships 1990

My find of a lifetime for 4.99 at Value Village, plus I used a coupon.

[ncman071]

the best pawn shop find(s) i can remember are a complete copy of Snatcher on SegaCD back around 2006 for $5...more recently couple years back found complete copy of Haunting Grounds on PS2 for $2...which is sold for $100....lets see..other notable titles include several gamecube games...ssbm, all the RE games...there are others just cant remember

[Natty Bumppo]

By far my best find was a Pioneer A-100 laserdisc player - the laseractive base unit - it even had the rare cover for the Pac port. The thrift store wanted $100 for it and I gambled that nobody would know what it was and got it for $50 when the tag color cycled to half off.

I also have a strange dual joy stick controller unit (thing is huge) with cables for genesis, snes and a third unit I am not sure what it is supposed to be - found that in a thrift store for under $15.

[gbpxl]

By far my best find was a Pioneer A-100 laserdisc player - the laseractive base unit - it even had the rare cover for the Pac port. The thrift store wanted $100 for it and I gambled that nobody would know what it was and got it for $50 when the tag color cycled to half off.

nice. do you collect laserdisc?

[Natty Bumppo]

Yeah - been collecting those since 1982.

[gbpxl]

Yeah - been collecting those since 1982.

Does aspect ratio affect what you buy/how much you're willing to spend? For me, I can't bring myself to pay money for anything that is pan and scan or full screen.

Follow-up question to that- anamorphic or non-anamorphic? or don't care?

[Natty Bumppo]

Does aspect ratio affect what you buy/how much you're willing to spend? For me, I can't bring myself to pay money for anything that is pan and scan or full screen.

Follow-up question to that- anamorphic or non-anamorphic? or don't care?

I don't have any firm rules there - it just varies on what it is. If I have/had a choice I generally will go with the original theater presentation ratio if on laser. And I have no problem with picking up a dvd widescreen of something I have as pan and scan on laser - I keep the laser since one of the big attractions for me is the artwork. And sometimes there is something about both versions I find attractive - the two versions of Tom Jones on laser are different - the pan and scan is six minutes longer than the widescreen. Go figure.

[Gameguy]

Does aspect ratio affect what you buy/how much you're willing to spend? For me, I can't bring myself to pay money for anything that is pan and scan or full screen.

Follow-up question to that- anamorphic or non-anamorphic? or don't care?

Laserdiscs aren't anamorphic, they're letterboxed to widescreen. Meaning a widescreen movie is still output at fullscreen, just with solid black bars on the top and bottom of the screen. Some movies took advantage of this by having the subtitles shown on the bottom black bar instead of on the actual movie. They look fine on a regular TV but anything widescreen will just have the picture centred like any other fullscreen video.

Plus lots of films or videos were originally produced in fullscreen, some current DVDs just cropped the tops and bottoms of the film to make them widescreen. They did this to the re-release of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as one example, and the anniversary release of Ninja Scroll from awhile back. I don't care about widescreen vs fullscreen, I want the Original Aspect Ratio.

I've been getting into laserdiscs over the last few years, pretty much buying just what's not available on DVD or if films have been altered in some way. I know Balto on laserdisc is widescreen but the Region 1 DVD was cropped to fullscreen. Also I pick up Hong Kong films, with these the official DVDs can be hard to find or expensive so I'm less rigid with rules on buying them(plus these imports just look neat). It's only whatever I can find local and cheap, I don't pay much for them. Also similar rules to VHS tapes.

[gbpxl]

I don't have any firm rules there - it just varies on what it is. If I have/had a choice I generally will go with the original theater presentation ratio if on laser. And I have no problem with picking up a dvd widescreen of something I have as pan and scan on laser - I keep the laser since one of the big attractions for me is the artwork. And sometimes there is something about both versions I find attractive - the two versions of Tom Jones on laser are different - the pan and scan is six minutes longer than the widescreen. Go figure.

Nice. It is very rare that I find LD anywhere. I saw them at a flea market once. And I bought some off of Craigslist one time. beyond that, nothing. sometimes you see em mixed in with vinyl.