I once traded a baby blue 1977 Ford Torino for a Genesis, one joypad, and one 12" MTX speaker!
I once traded a baby blue 1977 Ford Torino for a Genesis, one joypad, and one 12" MTX speaker!
I once traded a big box of Legos for A Boy and his Blob on NES. Worked out pretty good since I outgrew Legos and really wanted that game at the time.
A 12 pack of beer for an XBOX system with a dirty disc error. Came with cables and 2 controllers and a DVD playback kit.
I recently traded a whole bunch of bad VHS movies from the early 1990's (starring the likes of Pauly Shore and Patrick Dempsey) for duplicate copies of NFL 2K and 2K1 for the Dreamcast (I ended up with doubles of each game).
I did a friend's dishes to obtain Zelda Collector's Edition.
I bought a new gas BBQ Grill from a friend and gave him $200 + and Atari 2600.
Wasn't a trade so much - but when I was a freshman in college I had my friend who was still in high school sell my N64 to try to get some extra cash to live on. He instead traded it for some coke, which he (unsuccessfully) used to get some chicks high so they would sleep with him. He only told me the full story two years later - at which point he paid me the money he owed me....
Has nothing to do with video games, but one of my old roomates was in a Yahoo! chat room once, and some underage kid yelled that he would trade $150 worth of pot if someone would buy him beer. Dude lived about an hour away, so my friend went and picked up a case of Natty ($8?) and drove out there. When the kid offered him the pot, he told him he didn't do drugs, and asked the kid if he had anythng else to trade...
So I had no idea any of this is going on, and about an hour later, my roomate walks in with a VERY NICE ($1000+), well finished, six-string bass guitar. He was unemployed at the time.
Honestly, I was afraid to even ask for two weeks.
When I was a young teen, I traded two long boxes of comics for:
TG-16 w/ hookups and two controllers
TG-16 CDROM unit + storage case
TurboTap
A huge slew of TG-16 games (20-25, all complete) including games like Ys 1+2, Cosmic Fantasy 2, etc.
I foolishly sold my TG-16 collection to a mom n pop videogame store to buy the Sega Genesis/Streets of Rage 2 bundle.
I say foolishly, because I could have easily just held on the TG-16 system and saved money for the Genesis. I would later come to find out that the mom n pop videogame store had been burglarized and all the TG-16 stuff I traded in was stolen.
Because of these poor choices I made as a young collector, I vowed to NEVER sell off my videogame collection again.
Last edited by Damaramu; 12-10-2006 at 01:31 AM.
Originally Posted by RJ
I sent someone 20 or so miscelleneous gameing mags in a Millwaukee's best 12 pack carton for a few Emaculate Dreamcast and PS 2 games.
I traded a bunch of Ralph Snart comics for some Pong stuff. That's about as strange a trade that I've been through.
I'm still waiting for someone to say "I gave blood to earn $$ toward buying Game X"
THAT'LL BE THE DAY xD
I traded some coke for an N64 to some stupid highschool kid hahahaha.
I don't have any strange stories, but I do have one good trade I pulled off a few months ago. I've been on the look out for a snes copy of ChronoTrigger for a while but never found one. There was this guy on the CAG trading forums who had a cart only copy. I traded disc only copy of FFVII for the PC for a cart only ChronoTrigger. The best part was that I only paid a quarter for that copy of FFVII when I stopped by a church rummage sale a year ago. I was glad the deal went through since it is really hard to find any good snes stuff out here. I still haven't gotten to play it. My backlog is huge.
That wasnt me, but you sent me some mags in a Milwaukee's Best beer box too!
"The big things that...nerds like to argue about might not actually matter that much."
Nothing too uncommon. I traded Final Fantasy Tactics and a Saturn 4MB cart for some herbs once. It worked out well because I was looking to buy some and sell those, my friend was looking to sell some and buy those. Other than that, I've only parted with video games for money or other games.
Well actually I traded some MVS games to a friend who got me some free shipping on a cabinet. It was very cool, I can't wait for these cabs to come.
Damn, I wanted to be the first one to say "My virginity"
At least you got to go with a girl, though!
...good to know that nobody's stranger than me, anyway.
I once traded a porno mag and a couple of bags of candy to a Japanese guy for some Famicom games.
4 9 bit 30 pin 4MB SIMMS for an FM Towns Marty complete in box with 5 games (this was about 7 years ago)
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