October 2010 Finds

[Kitsune Sniper]

Hello there, backlog! Copied and pasted from Atari Age (with some updates):

Wednesday, September 22:

$9 total.

Friday, September 24:

OSX 10.4 was $25, the other games were $10 total.

Saturday, September 25:

Free from the guy I bought the PC games from the day before. He asked me for help with something, and when I picked those out he gave 'em to me for free.

Monday, September 27:

Diablo + Hellfire were $1 each. The PC capture device was $5. Kilrathi Saga is not complete, it's just two manuals and three of the five CDs. But it was $2, I figured someone may want the CDs and manuals to complete their copy. The Game Shark was $3, and it was stuck in a Saturn without any cables.

Tuesday, September 28:

$3 total, the Spider-Man CD is sealed. (Or was!) The Gold Finger is up for trade.

Wednesday, September 29:

$4 total.


Office:Mac v.X was $3, Office:Mac 2004 was $1
The Morcheeba two-CD set was $2, I'd been looking for the "Who Can You Trust?" CD for over a year and I ended up finding this two CD set with a bunch of B-Sides. Squirrel Nut Zippers: Perennial Favorites is... well, I was missing this CD, I bought a bunch of their CDs a while back but this one was missing. It's the cardboard release, and the case is stained, but it'll hold me out until I can get the jewel case version.

Diablo II, Expansion, Warcraft III Expansion - $5 for these and they'll be on eBay soon enough.

Thursday September 30:

CDs were $1 each. Not pictured: Nascar Racing 2003 Season, which has already been sold. I got that along with Little Mermaid 2 (shut up!) for $3. Super Mario World was $3 and that's from Friday.

Yes, I FINALLY found an Information Society album in the wild! Not only that, but Cause and Effect's second album, and Camouflage's first album. Those guys performed "The Great Commandment" which some DJ in my hometown always played in the early mornings when my alarm went off during my highschool years.

October 4:

Blood II: The Chosen (new) - $3
Connectix Virtual PC 5 (complete) - $3
The Royal Tenenbaums Criterion two disc (reshrinked, used but in good shape) - $1
The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino and Hoppy - $3

I'm curious, is Royal Tenenbaums supposed to have a booklet? The discs are in good shape, but there's nothing inside the case other than the DVDs.

[Porksta]

All I got was Mario DDR + Pad today. Thanks Joe!

[frogofdeath]

I'm curious, is Royal Tenenbaums supposed to have a booklet? The discs are in good shape, but there's nothing inside the case other than the DVDs.

Tenenbaums actually has TWO inserts; both are more fold-out than bookish. One insert is sketches of the sets and the other is notes from the movie, special thanks, et cetera.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Tenenbaums actually has TWO inserts; both are more fold-out than bookish. One insert is sketches of the sets and the other is notes from the movie, special thanks, et cetera.

Well, crap. I suppose a dollar for the discs isn't too bad, but still. :\

[orangest]

Highlights from the last couple of weeks of thrifts...



PS2-
Shadow Hearts-$4.99
Bully-$6.99
Madden 08 En Español-$5.99

Sealed VCD of The Twisted Tales of Felix The Cat: Gross Ghost and Other Stories-$2.00

Bootleg Donald Duck VCD, the cartoon is "Trick or Treat", fittingly enough. Chinese(?) subtitles and dubbing-$1.00

Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru 2 CD-$3.99

Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer CD-$3.99

Mario Teaches Typing 2 CD-ROM-$2.00

American McGee's Alice soundtrack CD, promo copy-$1.00

[Gameguy]

OSX 10.4 was $25, the other games were $10 total.

I'm a bit jealous, nice Infocom collections you've got there.

[Kitsune Sniper]

I'm a bit jealous, nice Infocom collections you've got there.

You realize they're for sale, right?

I also have Lost Treasures of Infocom around, but that's way too heavy to ship to Canada.

[Gameguy]

You realize they're for sale, right?

I also have Lost Treasures of Infocom around, but that's way too heavy to ship to Canada.

Ah, I see you have them on ebay. Still a good price, but I'm really cheap with PC games. $10 total for both would have been my limit, the shipping costs alone would probably be more than that.

Wait, out of all those games you're keeping the Terror Trax?

[Kitsune Sniper]

Wait, out of all those games you're keeping the Terror Trax?

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell no. They don't have a product listing though, so they'd charge me loads of money instead of five cents to list it. I have to wait for them to approve the listing I submitted! Amazon doesn't even HAVE this!

[understatement]

I only got one thing worth noting over the down time this tub…



Full of games!!

3x Sega Genesis (all hook-ups and 2 controllers for each)
2x Nintendos (all hook-ups, 1 light gun, and 2 controllers for each)
1x PS2 (no hook-ups)
1x N64 (no hook-ups)
1x 32x (no hook-ups)
1x Wii (all hook-ups but no controller)
2x plug N’ plays
and other random things (NES Mario, power cords, etc., etc.)

All of it was declared as “broken” so I gave $35 for it.
When testing, all the Genesises (?) worked. The NESs blinked, bent the pins back and they worked. The Wii had a game stuck in it and somehow the person got it out but the Wii was left thinking it had a game in it, all I had to do was take the top off to get a disc in above the stoppers and push the eject button now it works fine.

[frogofdeath]

Working on building a small, but solid Genesis collection. Added these two today; total was $3 and some change.

Picked these up at the same store that I saw a loose copy of Castlevania: Bloodlines last month. Slightly kicking myself for passing up that one, but the cart and sticker were in real poor physical condition.

[frogofdeath]

Picked up for $2.95 at local bookstore that sells standard NES controllers for $3.95. Cleaned up well, but the Start and Select buttons look as though they came from a different batch of plastic.

Also picked up a loose copy of Double Dragon 2 (NES) and Sonic and Knuckles (Genesis).