What Are Your THREE Greatest Finds in the Wild?

[sisko]

Hmm...I've had lots of great finds ($20-$50 titles for $5)....but if I have to narrow it down...

Box of 30 CV and 2600 games with several R4-R6's, most notable being Mr Do!s Castle - $6

Massive box of 54 SMS, SCD, genesis games (with the systems and power base converter) that included choice titles like 2 Alex Kidd's, and Golden Axe Warrior....$30

3 Looney Tunes 5 laser disc box sets ..... $4 total. I sold one of the sets for $98 on ebay a few weeks ago.. (ok technically not games, but I found them while hunting for games :P)

[Richter]

1. MVS 4-slot board for $60
2. Guardian Heroes for $10
3. $1 on the side of the road

[zemmix]

$15 blue psx dev system at a swap meet.

two zemmix systems (different models) at a thrift store.

I don`t know third is a toss up. $10 CDX? genesis and snes protos? 3 top loaders for $5 a piece? $5 Panzer Dragoon Saga? $2 jvc xeye?

[TNTPLUST]

Turbo Express w/ Bonk 1,2,3 TV Sports Football, Fu Man CHu $40 Garage Sale

33 Odyssey II carts (loose) and Demon Attack (complete) for the Odyssey $20 Garage Sale

Gas Hog (loose) Atari 2600 $5 Garage Sale

[dojosky]

Bath Bubble Babes FREE... helped a friend move and he gave me a lot of video game stuff in trade and got that game back in '96 or so and had no clue about that game played it and then traded it in for a lot of games

Panzer Dragoon saga-$10
shining Force 3-$10
shining force 2-.99
sealed shining force 2 $6
several sealed shining force cd $4 each
tengen tetris all sealed (6) at flea market $25
boxed channel F with several games $2.50
nes top loader-$5
radiant silvergun-$17

many more i can't remember off top of my head !!!

[DigitalSpace]

1 - Earthbound for SNES, cart only for $4 at a CD/Game Exchange in April 2004. Coincedentally, it was my 100th game.

2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters (R6), cart only at a Goodwill for $1.99 in September 2007.

3 - Joshua for Genesis (R7), cart only for .63 at a Software Etc. in May 2004 (The price sticker was mismarked as Cal Ripken Jr. Baseball for .89 before the 30% off discount).

Honorable mentions:

-Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers 2 for NES, cart only for $5 at the same CD/Game Exchange I got Earthbound at in January 2007.
-Herzog Zwei for Genesis, cart only for $2.50 at another CD/Game Exchange in August 2005.
-Zero The Kamikaze Squirrel for SNES (R7), cart only for $5 in April 2004, at the CD/Game Exchange I later got Herzog Zwei at.

[tonyvortex]

1.boxed quadrun and silver label gravitar for $1 each at work(atari 2600)
2.boxed dragon warrior 3 and 4 for $20 at work.
3.radient silvergun for about $30 from a friend.

[Necrosaro420]

Used Condom, 16cents

[DeanoCalver]

$15 blue psx dev system at a swap meet.
?

To be absolutely correct a blue playstation isn't a dev system its a debug station.
Actual dev kits are cards that fit inside a PC, early ones ISA, later ones PCI with the PA boards coming even later.
Blues are pretty standard Playstations with the security removed, so they can run off CD-R. They blow up well... Ever dev in the UK has blown at least one up (US and UK power supplies aren't compatible).

Emeralds (green in colour obviously) are later Debug Stations with extra hardware checking to check for legal HW access.

Off the top of my head 3 good software finds in wild (car boot sales) are

1) Snatcher Pal MegaCD £1
2) Secret of Mana SNES PAL Complete £4
3) Jurasic Park Sealed MegaCD £2

[Algol]

My three greatest finds:

1. Toploader NES, 2 dogbone controllers, 1 NES advantage, whole boxload of games-$20

2. Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Tetris 2 + BomBliss, Jin Sei Geki Joh 2, Peach Boy Legend, unidentified Mahjong game, all for Famicom-.25 each

3. NAM-1975 and Top Player's Golf for Neo Geo AES-$2 each

[Lemmy Kilmister]

Complete mint lunar SSS (sega cd) for 5 bucks. Plus me and my friend picked up multiable sealed nes games from a closing video store. I grabbed castlevania,metal gear and robocop for a buck 1.50. He grabbed kung-fu,Xevious,Tag Team Wrestling and Astyanax. I kept my games sealed, though the casual gamer he is of course open his.

[leorange]

a revision to my earlier list...





still works too! and i didn't previously know that it can be used as a pass-through cart to play games on a terminally blinking nes...

[XJR15]

160 games ~ mostly boxed.. nes , vic-20, 2600
3 consoles.. vic 20, nes toaster, and 2600
that included boxed double enders for the 2600

total 60$


120 games all loose.. 2600, 02, Vic-20 others..

total about 60$


50 snes games and snes.. which included ff2, mario kart, dk 1,2,3 mario rpg and others

total 100$

[underexposed+]

My Three:

1 Sonic Adventure Limited Edition - $10 cdn at a pawn shop

2 My local Microplay reduing all of there Dreamcast games to $5 cdn, I must have picked up close to 30 games some rare back in the day.

3 Perfectly working NES from Value Village for $5 cdn

[Gunstar_Hero UK]

Hmmm.. my three best "wild" finds have to be:

1. Suikoden, PS1, Mint Condition. My Mums friends 8 year old son had it and said it was "crap with crappy graphics." So I "borrowed" it. He'll never notice.. That may make me sound like a bad person, stealing an 8 year olds game but, he's broken several of my PS2 games in the past.. so now were quits..

2. 108 complete Mega Drive games for £50 at a Car Boot Sale.

3. My Playstation Lightbox Display (same as speedys) £5 at a Car Boot Sale.

The majority of my great finds have all been charity shops and car boot sales. I wish i found boxes of NES games outside my "evicted neighbours house"..

[jono]

1. Virtual Boy boxed with 3 games (Mario Tennis, Mario Clash and Galactic Pinball)
£5 . Got it from a car boot sale here in the UK 3 years ago. It was bought in the US by the sellers son . You should have seen me i was like a giggling loonatic. I tossed him a fiver and ran off with it in search of a pack of duracells!

2. Mario Allstars and Street fighter 2 turbo edition, boxed Snes's complete £8 each


I can't really think of any others that stand out. I 've had some much over the last few years and i've mainly bought and sold stuff to get other things. Like a few weeks ago i traded a SMS and a N64 i had for a fiver for a boxed Neo Geo Pocket Colour in gamestation.
I get my best finds at Car Boot sales here in the UK. Today i bagged a Dreamcast with 2 joypads and Sonic Adventure for £8!

[qbertandernie]

good topic...

hmm..

i guess

#1 atari 2600 controller tester, signal tracing cart, 5200 diagnostic cart, field manuals for 2600, 7800, 5200 and atari computer, instructions for controller tester - FREE but the tester didnt have a power cord...
(if anyone knows who else on this board has a 2600 controller tester please PM me. i can copy the manual, though its kinda crappy. i saw another one in the game room pics but forget who it is)

drops quickly in interest from there

#2 huge tails display tied with ps1/screen store display $80 each. thats kind of expensive, but i havent seen anyone else with these items, so theyre pretty cool.

#3 2600 'heavy sixer' in box with one old style controller(missing logo) and one grey power cord - $5

[aaron7]

Back from the dead! lol

#1 6in1 Caltron for $5 at a flea market
#2 NES toploader for $10 from a friend that just bought it for $5, not really knowing what it was, and didn't really want it lol

#3 Me and a friend found this at the local Salvation Army. They were scattered all over the place! All the Battleclashes are sealed, and the 4 scores are as well. The Sattellites are new, but with tape

He also got 3 Neo Geo games there for like $5 complete lol

[Slate]

Prepare to be amazed:

1: 2/15/04: I stopped at dwight's (A junk store) And i found a LOT:

Atari:
Super Mario/Duck Hunt (Loose)
Atari 2600 Darth Vader Model
Atari AC
Atari 2600 Dust Case
Atari 2600 Game Holder (4-Set)
About 40 2600 Games (Instructions included)
Atari 400
Atari 400 AC
Lots of atari Controllers
5 Atari 400 games
Atari 7800 Core System (This one does not work anymore)
NES:
Nintnedo NES
NES RF
NES AC
2 NES Controllers
2 NES Zappers (Grey & Orange- the orange one didn't work)

All for $20. Everything needed to be cleaned, Both the contacts and exterior.. Almost everything worked- The 7800 Did work when i got the AC to use it (It does not work anymore, But i have another 7800) Only a few controllers and one game Didn't work when i tested them.

2: Biggest Goodwill NES Deal Ever- 8/06/04:

Well, i was out at goodwill one day, And , You should have seen this!

I'm glad i was there when i was.. The employees were JUST Bringing the stuff out. I got 68 Unique NES games And 3 Unique SNES Games.. 71 Total! And i only had 6 of the games Out of 71. Incredible! Here are some games that i got:

Yoshi's Cookie (And this one is a Very fun puzzle game- It's rewarding)
Uninvited (Good thriller)
Burgertime
Snake Rattle And Roll
Bubble Bobble
Rare Soccer Game (Not Tengen.. I forget the company's name) R6
Lolo 1, 2, And 3
Megaman 2, 3, And 4
Castlevania 1, 2, and 3
Hogan's Alley
Caveman Games
Maniac Mansion (Unforgettable! i wanted this one- Just to blow up the hamster )
Adventure Island 3
Super mario/Duck hunt
Mario 2 & 3
Deja Vu (Highley reccomended! )

And many more good games.. EVERYTHING WORKS..Everything was loose, But hey.. The price? about $20!!! The one that works the Least is Dr. Mario- it seems to have sat in the sun too long. (It has sunburn- It's 60% yellow instead of grey!) It took me 2 hours to clean & test Every game.

3: Another crazy atari find (I forget the date..)

Tank Brigade (BNEW, Sealed) $2 (This one is a R7 used )
Night Driver (BNEW, Shrinkwrapped) $3

I've got More Insane deals. In fact, August 2004 Was my Best month for collecting so far.

[gepeto]

this is a tough one

ufo x com defense complete and mint $10.00 pawn shop
2 intelligent qubes $5.00 apeice thrift
secret of mana $1.00 thriftshop I couldn't believe these deals I had to keep the serious face. i was just too excited.