July 2013 Finds

[Enmity]

Very nice official Pop'n controller, Enmity. I'd love to upgrade to a Konami or DJ Dao one day but my Dekstop Arcade ASC is fine for now.

Yeah, I've wanted one for quite a while and I love official equipment for anything. I really need to find where to buy replacement switches for it though one of the buttons is dead.

[johnvosh]

Well just bought the following from a seller in Ontario on eBay. Paid C$740 shipped. The console boxes are all in good shape, but the SNES one is a little rough.

Playstation 1 complete-in-box, silver dual shock box, 2 memory cards, 2 controllers, 5 games
NES Powerset complete-in-box, 19 games (16 w/ boxes), includes the powerpad!
NES game lot, 18 games (7 w/ manuals)
SNES complete-in-box w/ Mario World/All-Stars game
Star Wars Episode 1 Racer N^$ complete-in-box plus 2 other star wars games

[Guyra]

[YoshiM]

Oops, I was actually mixing up the Monster Manual and Deities and Demigods. One of the latter has a revision that makes the earlier version worth more. I know just enough about old D&D stuff to mix things up and make myself look stupid.

The Deities and Demigods first printing had the pantheons from "Call of Cthulhu" and I think Michael Moorecock's Elric books. There was a rights issue and these entries were removed in subsequent printings.

[Shaq-Funaki]

Please check out my newest pick up video

[recorderdude]

You run into deals in the strangest places...

Local Library "Book Sale" - $1 each



RIIIIIIIIIDGE RACERRR CiB (Longbox)

Area 51 CiB (case is a little wonky but the actual inserts/manual/disc are fine so I'l prolly just change the case with another PS1 game I don't care as much about.

So yeah, Pretty good (And surprisingly valuable) finds. I'm mostly happy to finally own a game compatible with my GunCons.

EDIT: Area 51 Doesn't Work with GunCons...bah...least I can play it with a normal controller.

[FOnewearl]

Wii & 360 Games (All Complete) - 8
SNES System With 1 Game & Super Scope Receiver (Not Pictured System With Hookups & 2 1st Party Controllers) - 5
Nintendo 64 With 12 Games & Memory Card (Not Pictured System With Hookups & 2 Controllers, 1 1st Party Other Not) - 20
Pac-Man Handheld - .50

The first two things were brought out when I asked about video games and were asking price, SNES is the first model. The N64 was brought out when I asked about video games and I offered 20. The Pac-Man deal was asking price and out. Also not picture is a WiiMote With A Nunchuk & Motion Plus that I got for $5 which was the only thing I got Saturday.

[GamerTheGreek]

Since I do my weekly pick up videos on youtube I dont post many pictures on this section but this was one game I had to post here and share with the community.

From the personal collection of Dan Oliver, this is a very cool prototype that makes my year. It is playable and has some differences from the final version.

[InsaneDavid]

The morning of CAX I headed out to the electronics flea market to pick up some specific parts from one of the vendors who ended up telling me that she can no longer get in what I was looking for. I didn't see much else I was interested in out there but I did find something decent. These two guys who do the flea market circuit have been there a few times, trying to sell their beat to shit and overpriced video games. This flea market really isn't the place for that kind of business, it's mainly electronics salvage after all. On the table among the junk I saw a copy of Secret of Mana. I asked how much and was told $10. Incredible, I was going to buy something from this guy and it was actually going to be a good deal. There were a couple Game Boy games I was interested in as well and I asked the price. He told me he would have to ask his brother and got out his phone. RED FLAG, RED FLAG! I told him I'd pay for the other cartridge now to get it taken care of, did so, and promptly packed it away. While waiting for his brother to get back to him on his phone I started to get a bad feeling so thanked him and bailed.

On the way out there was a guy with a bunch of TI-99/4A stuff including a box of cartridges, tapes and booklets. No matter how much I tried to get his attention he just continued messing around with his unload and talking to another guy. I had an arcade show to go to that would last until 2AM so I didn't bother wasting my time.



Not many vendors of anything I was after at California Extreme. No one was there unloading their miscellaneous arcade parts and junk at "take it away" prices. My girlfriend did, however, win one of the raffle drawings. Her prize choice was a print of an awesome piece of photographic art from the 2009 show.



Not really a find but this show fills in a CAX six pack for me -

[Flashback2012]

The only thing noteworthy I found this weekend was a copy of Space Channel 5 for Dreamcast for $8. The disc is all minty but I need to replace the CD case.

[FOnewearl]

Scud: The Disposable Assassin (No Manual) - 2
Super Nintendo With Everything Needed 4 Games & Game Genie - 30
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Game of the Year Edition (Disk Only) - 3

Scud & Uncharted 2 were asking price. The SNES stuff was marked 40 total and took 30.

[recorderdude]

Scud: The Disposable Assassin (No Manual) - 2
Super Nintendo With Everything Needed 4 Games & Game Genie - 30
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Game of the Year Edition (Disk Only) - 3

Scud & Uncharted 2 were asking price. The SNES stuff was marked 40 total and took 30.

Nice deal on the super ninty...Especially CiB Yogi!

Funnily enough, Yogi Bear is the first video game I ever owned, and the first one I played on my Super Nintendo the day I unwrapped it Christmas '01...

[SparTonberry]

It might be a collectible, but I tried it in an emulator and it was pretty uncontrollable. I immediately felt the Game Boy game was RELATIVELY better (that ended up getting one Christmas as a kid, thank you Nintendo Power coupon. :P
Further disappointed I got Illusion of Gaia that Christmas because of NP and not DKC.
Of course, after actually playing the game, I realize IoG is not a game to be sad about getting.
And a good thing because IoG is probably a lot pricier than DKC now. Then again, the DKC games are among several very common games to spike in price lately.)

[Guyra]

Got me a new TV for my retro games, and also got a Sega Mega Drive II about a week ago as well. All cables and controller are third party, though.

[FOnewearl]

Nice deal on the super ninty...Especially CiB Yogi!

Thanks, I actually forgot to mentioned that Yogi Bear is boxed (no manual)

[theclaw]

$1 Battletech The Crescent Hawks' Revenge (PC) with box & book. Two 3.5" disks, four 5.25" disks.
Has receipt dated June 20 1991.

$2.50 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (PC) scratches, cracked jewel case

[Atarileaf]

Man, old PC game boxes are damn sexy.

[orangest]

Just another manic Monday...



$2 at an Out of the Closet thrift.



$5.99 each at Goodwill.



My closest Salvation Army has taken to bundling games by system lately. This PS1 bundle was $9.99.



This GameCube bundle including WarioWorld and a Game Boy Player disc on the top (to go along with the player attached to the Cube) was $35.

[Guyra]

Dude, that's an awesome bunch of pick ups!

I mean ... RE2, FFVII, Zelda: Twilight Princess for the Gamecube, two copies of TLoZ, and Super Mario Kart?! Man! Not bad at all!

[Guyra]

Wii:
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers

Nintendo DS:
The March of the Penguins







PS2:
Aeon Flux
Agassi Tennis Generation
Beverly Hills Cop
Boogie
Bratz: The Movie
Brothers In Arms Double Pack
Casino Challenge
Championship Manager 2006
Constantine
Countryside Bears
Crazy Frog Racer
Cy Girls
Dance Fest
Dancing Stage Fusion
Dancing Stage Max
DancingStage Supernova
Endgame
EyeToy: Groove
Fame Academy: Dance Edition
Friends: The One With All the Trivia
Harry Potter og Halvblodsprinsen
Home Alone
Jet Ion GP
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary - Collector's Edition
League Series Baseball 2
Madden 08
MTV Music Generator 2
NBA 08
NBA 2k9
NBA Jam
Rock Band Song Pack 1
Rogue Ops
Splinter Cell Trilogy
The Golden Compass
The Seed: Warzone
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09
Trivial Pursuit
UEFA Euro 2008
World Championship Poker