What is your best find within a find?

[Cmosfm]

I was talking with VACRMH today and he had the idea for this topic, but was just too lazy too post it, lol. What is your best find within a find?

For example, I remember someone on here buying a Sega Cd and then finding snatcher in the tray. Something like that, or buying something at a flea market and then having something else cool in the box you didn't expect.

I think my BEST would be buying an NES lot and finding an Arkanoid cart in the system itself. Not that great, but still.

I also found a PSone memory card inside of a Sega Saturn game box from a lot a I bought at a flea market.

Found a small bear holding a heart () inside some packaging materials when I got a lot off of eBay once...gave that to my mother, she was happy!

VACRMH found a Lethal Enforcers Sega CD manual he needed in another game case he bought once.

So what kinda finds within a find have you found?

[neuropolitique]

Recently, I bought a boxed Gameboy and found Tail gator ,and Ren and Stimpy Show: Space Cadet Adventures inside the box.

Unless you're buying from eBay there is really no reason to be surprised. You should always thoroughly investigate your finds before you buy. I don't, hence my Gameboy surprise, but I feel a bit dumb when I do get surprised.

[FlufflePuff]

I purchased a boxed copy of Dragon Warrior from a local gamestore when I first started collecting. I paid $10 for the box, game, manual, maps, and charts. When I got home and opened up the game and got to it, I noticed that my maps weren't very accurate. I was puzzled at first until I realized that the charts and maps and manuals that were in the box were actually the stuff for Dragon Warrior 1, 3, and 4. Needless to say, I was very happy.

[tholly]

i bought a box that had a playstation with hook ups and 2 controllers and a boxed nintendo with hook ups and controllers and another nintendo unboxed with controllers for $20 at a car show and when i got it home, the 2 nintendos had a game in each ... tetris and ironsword....two carts that i didnt have until i bought this lot

[richmond]

Bought NiGHTS recently and had an unexpected copy of NiGHTS Xmas also in the case

[scooterb23]

When I bought my 3DO, a copy of Way of the Warrior was still in the system.

I thought about bringing the game back...felt bad getting a game in a system that I didn't pay for.

Then I played the game, realized it stunk, and didn't feel so bad anymore.

[Aussie2B]

Hmmm... I can't recall anything particularly notable. I have gotten a few NES manuals I didn't expect tucked inside other manuals.

One surprise that made me feel really stupid was when I was buying my boyfriend Majora's Mask and a N64 expansion pak so he could play it. I had never owned a game that needed the expansion pak myself, so that was the first time I bought one. We had bought his N64 used about a year before, and I assumed it had no expansion pak. So along came his birthday, I gave him the presents, we get ready to put the expansion pak in, and... lo and behold, it already had one. >_< It didn't go to waste, though, since we put it in his sister's N64. However, it was a dumb mistake, and I wish I had spent that money buying him a gift he could actually get some use out of. :P

[christianscott27]

my gutted free arcade cab still had $1.25 in the token tub :P

[charitycasegreg]

my gutted free arcade cab still had $1.25 in the token tub :P

lol

[Ed Oscuro]

I once got a manual for the European version of Streets of Rage...inside a Master System case...obviously all from England and recently...

I was also pleased to find out that the ancient National Semiconductor 9 volt calculator I dropped all of thirty-nine cents on had a whole bunch of messed up red bubble LCDs (or whatever it is they're called), which pleased me to no end.

I found a DewU point during Spring Break...

[The Insomniac]

I bought a Saturn at a flee market and it had Sonic R in the tray. I was pretty happy.

[youruglyclone]

a copy of pirates gold enclosed with a CDX I picked up here

[PyroPenguin]

Only had 2 that I can remember. Bought a gamegear for $5 and it still had Sonic 2 and working batteries. Other one was when I bought a boxed Playaction Football, cuz I wanted some boxed NES games, and there were 2 unused play reference cards in there. My friend found them and told me those were pretty hard to come by. I don't know, are they really?

[brykasch]

Well I be the lucky sob who found the snatcher in my sega cd. Won a model 1 sega/cd combo (front loading one) anyways the guy throws in (for free) about 8 sega cd games, final fight, lethal enforces, I forget what else. Anyways I finally get it hooked up and once I figured out how to open the cd tray (only had a model 2 myself) it popped out, adn so did my eyes. paid 34 shipped for the sega nd the games, and sold snatcher for 50. I love the game but I beat it and could use the extra money for games. Plus it was loose.

[Raworrare]

I was at the flea market and I found a Saturn for sale. They wanted a little too much so I was going forget it till I decided to open it and I found Super Street turbor Puzzle Fighter II. I bought it for 8 dollars best game I ever played, best played with other people. Also Youruglyclone hoped you enjoyed Pirates gold. I thought it was a great deal with the CDX.

[jgenotte]

I recently bought a big lot of stuff from a guy for $100 shipped. The lot included a genesis, a ps1, a saturn, a power base converter, SMS 3D glasses (the main reason for the purchase) and about 30 games total. Unknown to me was that the games included were: Phantasy Star 1, 2, & 3 as well as Power Strike (an SMS R7). Needless to say, I was extreemly happy with my purchase.

BTW: The SMS 3D glasses rule

[chadtower]

Last summer from yard sales:

Found a complete copy of some common TG game (I forget which). The woman didn't even know what it was so she just gave it to me. When I got it home and opened it there was a hidden Parasol Stars HU card in the case along with the other game.

I saw a guy putting a PS1 Dual Shock bundle (boxed) out onto a table. I was in a real hurry and really only wanted the box so I gave the guy $10 for it and didn't even open it because I was in a hurry (my son had to pee). When I got it home it wasn't a PS1 in the box, it was a Saturn with memory cart and a wallet full of decent games (probably 10 in total).

I bought a Dreamcast from this kid for $15 and he says "hey, I have a couple of games, let me find them and you can buy those too". He comes out with Shenmue (at this point I don't have and have never played a DC) but can't find disk 2 so he just gives it to me. I gladly accept and when I get the DC home I find disk 2 in the console.

A few years ago I traded a guy some TG HU dupes I had for his 2600 jr and about 25 games. "Some Activision games but nothing else of note," he says. One of the games is Q-Bert's Qubes.

[Arqueologia_Digital]

When i bought my SNES, the seller´s son gave me the SNES with an Arcade Joystick boxed and two loose carts for free...i don´t know why...maybe my face was

Matías

[sisko]

I was about to buy an NES package with 20 games at a flea for $40, it had quite a few R4's and R5's in it, worth well over $100. As my girlfriend handed over the cash, I flipped open the lid and saw Pac-mania in it, a 21st game the seller didn't know about). We finished paying and walked off very happily

[downfall]

I bought a Dreamcast from this kid for $15 and he says "hey, I have a couple of games, let me find them and you can buy those too". He comes out with Shenmue (at this point I don't have and have never played a DC) but can't find disk 2 so he just gives it to me. I gladly accept and when I get the DC home I find disk 2 in the console.

That's classic!

This has only happened to me a few times, nothing major though. I bought an Intellivision game, and it had the overlays in it for another game that I already had. Also, I bought Columns for Sega Genesis, but it had Sonic Classics in the box. That was nice. And I bought a Game.com, which had two games still in it that I didn't realize were there when I picked it up.