2019 Yearly Finds

[mkenyon2]

Got myself another Nintendo Wii, bought at a Salvation Army store for $9.99. Shockingly it works, I have two others but neither have working disc drives. This one seemed to be owned by an actual adult who didn't drop it on concrete all the time like kids seem to do.

Couldn't find any of the handful of Wii games I own, so went out to a used game/movie store today and bought a dozen titles that looked the least "kiddie". House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return, Rygar, Cruis'n, Heatseeker, Geometry Wars Galaxies, Ghost Squad, The Conduit, Battle Rage, Brunswick Zone Cosmic Bowling, Counter Force, Heavenly Guardian, Dragon Blade; Wrath of Fire, and Ocean Commander. They were between $3.99 and $6.99 except for House of the Dead which was $14.99. Pretty slim pickings as far as non-childish games goes for the Wii.

I also picked up a loose Atari 2600 cartridge, Sea Hunt by Froggo, for $9.99.

I recently found Rygar for PS2 and was surprised by that. Are you telling me there's one for the Wii too?

If you want to try to get the Wii drives working... sometimes it's a simple as replacing a belt. If you have questions, hit me up.

[Steve W]

If you want to try to get the Wii drives working... sometimes it's a simple as replacing a belt. If you have questions, hit me up.

The first used Wii I bought had the disc drive problem, so I found a three-part YouTube video on how to fix it, took the console apart, and couldn't get the next video to load. Turns out near the end of the video my modem took a power spike and died, it was a month before I ended up with a replacement. By the time I got my internet back I had given up on that console. I only spent maybe $8 on that Wii, it's too much frustration to bother with.

[AdamAnt316]

My finds as of late have been a bit slow. However, I did manage a pretty good score last month in the form of an RCA Studio II, with its original box, and three games. The system itself seems to be complete, including the cool molded styrofoam packing material, as well as paperwork. The games are similarly complete, with boxes and manuals. Should make for an excellent addition to the "Hall o' Fail" if/when I ever get my museum up and running:








In addition, I attended a local flea market today, and picked up both an Atari Flashback 2 and an original 'fat' PlayStation 3, both without cables. I haven't taken a picture of the Flashback 2 yet, but the PS3 looks to be in fairly good shape overall, if not likely to be the version with all the backwards compatibility (only has two USB ports on the front). Still think I probably did pretty good for $5:

[YoshiM]

I went to Midwest Gaming Classic last weekend and was able to pick up a few wants:

Vita: Metal Gear Solid Collection (case and card) $25
DS: Metroid Prime Hunters (complete) $15
3DS The Legend of Zelda: OoT T-Shirt $15
Original Xbox controller Type S $5 (bought untested but works!)

That Saturday I stopped at a store in my daughter's home city to find Pac-Man plush for my son. There I found GTA:Liberty City Stories for PSP, which was on my list and I had store credit. So that got snapped up.

[gbpxl]

Bought Gradius 3 last week for $20 mostly out of guilt since I always come in there, talk to the manager and never buy anything

[Genjackson]

I bought Tecmo Baseball and Bases Loaded 2 for the NES the other day. Commons yes, but they were also a milestone as I just hit 300 NES games

[mkenyon2]

Picked up an extra Wii (cables and 2 wii-motes included) for $5, and a SNES Classic CIB for $45 today!!!

[Steve W]

My finds as of late have been a bit slow. However, I did manage a pretty good score last month in the form of an RCA Studio II, with its original box, and three games. The system itself seems to be complete, including the cool molded styrofoam packing material, as well as paperwork. The games are similarly complete, with boxes and manuals. Should make for an excellent addition to the "Hall o' Fail" if/when I ever get my museum up and running:

Wow. It's amazing to think that somebody was still holding on to a boxed RCA Studio II after all this time, and it didn't end up in a trash can. I'm totally jealous. It's one of the few pre-crash consoles I don't have (that and an original Odyssey). It's great that it's going to somebody who will treasure it rather than ending up in a landfill.

Now that I have a working Wii console and the desire to collect for it I've ended up buying around 40 games for it altogether. It's pretty easy to buy for since all the stores with Wii games keep having "buy 2 get 1 free" sales around Easter, and a lot of the games are under $5, and the shelves aren't stripped of any good games like the GameCube sections of game stores lately.