2018 Yearly Finds

[Steve W]

Turns out that they just opened a GameXchange store a stone's throw away from where I work, so I walked over on my lunch break and bought a loose Jawbreaker for the Atari 2600 for $14.95. I'm really happy to see a GameXchange store that isn't an hour's drive away from me.

[Niku-Sama]

another town wide yard sale and another bust.

but on the way back I showed a friend a flea market that people run out of a mini storage place (blew his mind) and I got:

Outrun (Gen) $10 Loose - Cart looks brand new
TMNT Tournament Fighters (Gen) Loose $5

I was surprised to find outrun, I was just thinking about rad racer style games

[eskobar]

Didn't had a chance to go to flea markets but I stepped into a "frikiplaza", that should roughly translate to otakusquare. That place has many people playing trading card games, has quite a few arcades and gaming stations for rental, anime, Japanese candy and figures.

Found

Zelda Oracle of Seasons, Cart Only, very nice condition: 18 usd.
Pokemon Emerald, cart only, very nice condition: 15 usd.

Saw a few interesting games that I don't own, like Code of Princess, for 22 usd but only purchased those described above.

Cheers, mates.

[Niku-Sama]

man the other day was controller day

stop one was $8 all loose
N64 controller with OK stick, Smoke Grey
Orange Nintendo zapper
2x Atari 2600 sticks (look like one of the recent tv games sticks, nice shape still)

stop 2 was $4
Grey NES zapper

then I found out I didn't have any 6 button genesis controllers so...

$10 new tomee 6 button genesis controller....not sure how crap it is yet.



oddly enough all my white letter 3 button controllers aren't working but all my red letters are..... go fig

[Cornelius]

So my family and I biked around to Art-a-Whirl in the neighborhood today. Used to be a very art-centric thing with open galleries and such, but has sort of exploded in recent years with live bands at the many breweries and restaurants. So on our way from one of the art buildings to the place we wanted to eat dinner (Anchor Fish n Chips) I spotted a shelf with like 5 PS2 games on it at a yard sale. Pretty random that I even looked, because there are quite a few yard sales during art-a-whirl, and luckily PS2 games are pretty easy to spot, because I only caught them at the last second riding by the cars parked on the street. Even so, it was a toss up whether I'd stop or not, with 2 kids and wife following on bicycles. But I did. I don't particularly collect PS2 games, but thought maybe there'd be something else good. Turned out it was a shelf of DVDs, BluRays (probably should have bought xmen and x2), and the ps2 games. Nothing I cared about particularly, but I must have remembered subconsciously to grab the one game I did. With manual and in nice shape. For a dollar. Just looked it up and I guess I did alright and now have the next game on my to-play list...

[Niku-Sama]

ugh screw those game stop stickers! I hate that crap

[Cornelius]

ugh screw those game stop stickers! I hate that crap

Haha! Fortunately the spine one is just tucked under the plastic, and the others are just on the case, not the paper.

[mkenyon2]

I've found the local Goodwill the past 2 weeks has had an influx of PS2 games, mostly sport related.
I did pick up:

Gran Turismo 4 (PS2) $2
Tony Hawk (PS1) $1.50

A couple other things, which I forget.

I think it depends on who's sorting at those places, if they know what they have or not.