August 2008 Finds

[Cornelius]

Amazing there were no sports games, weird but anywho i'm happy

Wow! Yeah, that may be the only Genesis lot over 5 games in the history of the world not to have sports games.

[darkhades]

Lostdwarf......Wanna sell me Rock N Roll Racing?


Here's what I got this morning at a few Garage sales

N64 stuff: ($25 for all)

System with all hookups 1 controller
Zelda OOT
Mario Party
Super Smash Bros x2
Pokemon Stadium x2
Goldeneye
WCW/NWO Revenge
WWF Warzone
Madden 99

Gameboy stuff: ($3 for all)

Gameboy colour system
Super Mario Deluxe
Game & Watch Gallery 3
Tetris (missing label)

SNES games: ($1 each)
X-Kalibur 2097
Paperboy 2

[cyberfluxor]

I'll be digging around today, as for yesterday:
VCS:
Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom
Fantastic Voyage
TAc-Scan

All 3 loose and 50¢ each, wear on the edges of the lables but otherwise look great.

At Best Buy I picked up two games:
Painkiller: Triple Dose ($20)
Quake Wars: Enemy Territory Limited Collector's Edition ($30)

First time seeing the Painkiller tripple pack, cool deal since I own and beat the first one and been wanting to check out the expansions. I'll see if the first one will run downstairs on the laptop. Then it was the last copy of Quake Wars they had, been holding out to see if the limited edition would hit lower but oh well, still a good price.

[misfits859]

Painkiller kicks ass. I must've went through the game and the first expansion ten times.

[Lostdwarf]

Lostdwarf......Wanna sell me Rock N Roll Racing?

Sorry it's for my personal collection.

[willowmoon93]

Garage sale finds this morning:
..
Game Boy/Game Boy Color-
Pokemon Gold $1
Pokemon Silver $1
Pokemon Yellow Pikachu Edition $1
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Game Boy Advance-
Tony Hawk's Underground 2 $1
Spongebob Squarepants Movie $1
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PlayStation (PSX)-
Family Card Games Fun Pack $1
Nuclear Strike $0.25
..
Nothing too terribly rare, but decent value overall, considering what I paid.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Painkiller kicks ass. I must've went through the game and the first expansion ten times.

I actually have that game in my sights, but I haven't had a chance to hit Gamestop and buy it. Hooray for a $25 gift card I can't spend.

Anyway, I bought Mega Man 1 and Castlevania II for $5, and I also bought a compilation CD called "ALL" which claims to have over $500 worth of DOS games. It's about sixteen years old, but it seems to have some cool games included.

[jeffg]

2 copies of Metal Gear Saga Volume 1 complete for $9.99 each at pawn shop

Tomba! for PS1 disc only $2

[Nate Nanjo]

2 copies of Metal Gear Saga Volume 1 complete for $9.99 each at pawn shop

Want to sell me one of those.

I haven't been out in a while so no new finds.

Well, Dynasty Warriors 2 $3.

[FOnewearl]

Black GameBoy - $2

Asked about video games at this sale brought out 3 PS2 games not worth mentioning at $5 and this Black GameBoy. Asking $3 offered $2 pointing out some corrosion with the battery ports.

Conker: Live And Reloaded (Disc Only In Blockbuster Case) - $3

This sale had a box with an Xbox with about 10 games. Top game had a piece of masking tape on it that said $3 per and $25 for all, not sure what it meant (as in everything or $25 for all of the games). As I looked at it a guy said that the xbox was $20 and I'm not sure if he meant for just the system or everything lol Wasen't a bad price but I just grabbed Conker and figured I'll have more chances to pick up a cheap backup Xbox in the future. I though it was kind of funny that I brought the game up to the one younger guy to pay (in his 20s) and he didn't know how much the games were to which I showed him $3. He said ok then said he didn't put that on it as if he was cool with selling me the game for $3 since that's how it was marked but Thought it was to low and didn't want to sell them for that afterwards as he peeled off the piece of tape that was on the top game.

Silver Brick DS With Charger - $15
Platinum GameBoy Advance SP With Box And Charger - $15
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 (With Box And Manual) - $7
Mario Vs Donkey Kong Cart (GBA) - $5

Nintendo DS Game
Diddy Kong Racing DS (Complete) - $10
WarioWare Touched! (Complete) - $10
Yoshi's Island DS (Missing Manual) - $10

GameCube Games
Mario Gold Toadstool Tour (Missing Manual) - $5
Mario Kart Double Dash!! (Missing Manual) - $5
Mario Party 4 (Missing Manual) - $5
Mario Party 5 (Disc Only) - $5
Mario Party 6 (Missing Manual) - $5
Mario Party 7 (Complete) - $5
Mario Power Tennis (Missing Manual) - $7
Super Mario Strikers (Missing Manual) - $5
Sonic Adventure DX Director's Cut (Complete) - $5

First sale I went to in the next town over as it advertised "Lots of Video Games" everything was IAP so I listed the prices seperately again. I got to this sale about 15 minutes before starting time and remembered buying a few 7800 games from this guy about 2 years ago late in the day (about 12-1). Mostly last gen stuff with mostly GameCube games (I'd guess about 40-50 GameCube games total). They also had a bunch of other stuff including a PS1 with some games, Genesis with some games. Some PS2, Xbox, GBA, DS games along with some other misc video game stuff, even had another GBA SP system at $15. Prices were firm and while they weren't mega yardsale low still good to very good for 1st party Nintendo games. Seeing Mario Tennis for more was kind of strange as if the guy knew it was worth more but still sold it rather cheap.

Spent a ton for a yardsale but this is actually the first time I've ever seen anything 1st party for the GameCube in the wild besides a lone copy of Mario Superstar Baseball ($20) last year at the more expensive flea market I only go to a few times a year. I can't even remember if I've ever seen any first party GameCube games at the one pawn shop nearby over the last few years but it wouldn't matter as far as getting cheap as they use eBay/GameStop to figure out prices for games and sell on eBay if they get something worth an insane amount compared to most games on a system, Final Fantasy VII being an easy example as I saw them eBaying that about a week or two ago.

Non Find BS

Last sale I went to started at about 9 and I got to it right around 9 probably shortly after. This was also the sale I got the Black GameBoy at. An old lady on the other side of the picnic table I'm walking by and looking at reaches across to my side real quick and grabs a small item right by me that I didn't really take notice to that was on top of a book. I noticed this and it looked like a GBA game in a generic case, which it was. I go up to ask about video games after looking around and she went up to pay right before me. This sale had two ladies running it a middle aged lady and an old lady. The old lady was at the pay table and the lady with the GameBoy game showed it to her and was told something like oh I don't know how about .50 as she had no idea what it was. I was thinking it was probably just some garbage game but then saw that the game I missed was Donkey Kong Country 3 that I just got beat to by an old lady I jokenly said something to her about how she was quick and beat me to it when I missed it to which she mentioned that I just beat her to video games at the sale earlier and asked me how much I paid for the Nintendo DS then mentioned that she always seems to miss the video games and picks them up for her grandchildren and made it sound as if they may even ask her to get GameBoy (or just games for any system they have) if she sees them while out yardsaling. She even mentioned how she ended up picking up the other GameBoy Advance SP at the first sale probably as an extra for another younger family member. The funny part about this is how I missed this and this old lady that knows nothing about video games (except maybe Mario games good) grabbed it probably just buying any old game that's cheap if they have the system, I'm sure if it was some shovelware game this lady would have grabbed it just as quick and been just as happy to pay .50 for it.


I will now have to be a little more careful when looking though yardsales and watch out for Quick Draw McGranny if I see her The guy that beat me to an N64 bundle about a month ago kind of looks like Hulk Hogan (blonde hair, Bandana on head & handlebar mustashe). So now I'm thinking my main competition for video games at yardsales is Quick Draw McGranny & a Hulk Hogan look a like

It's funny thinking back to 10+ years ago when I went to a church sale and got a 2600 with 30 some games for $15 late, in the afternoon maybe late in the morning as if it was just waiting for me or someone like me (the video game guy) and now I'm always thinking that I have to worry about beating some old lady early in the morning that very well could be grabbing any cheap video games along with her longaberger baskets lol

[Simply Dave]

Today's finds from the flea market.

First find was a Colecovision package that I may have paid way too much for, but everything is in great condition and you hardly ever find this stuff in the wild anymore.

It was $120 for the entire lot. There is an R7 in there...Word Feud.




Also found these items today:

Pitfall 50 cents
Freeway 50 cents
Boggle Plus 50 cents
Tetris 50 cents
Vertical Force $2.00
Arcade's Greatest Hits $1.00
Capcom Classics Collection $5.00
NASCAR 07 $5.00
Metal Gear Sniper Wolf $3.00
GTA:SA Guide $2.00
Star Wars books $3.00



And finally, a package came in the mail. I've been on the hunt for this one for a long time and had to use ebay to get it.

[DigitalSpace]

Got one game today:

Game Gear:
Sonic Spinball (cart only) - $2.50

[joshnickerson]

And finally, a package came in the mail. I've been on the hunt for this one for a long time and had to use ebay to get it.

[NayusDante]

I've got that Return of the Jedi storybook. What do you think it's worth?

[Dreadstar]

Is there such a thing as a reverse find? I traded in a Saturn with cables and one controller at my local used movie/game place and got $40 credit...

Saw a bunch of odd stuff at my local Goodwill today too. 4 NES controllers for 3.99 each, a stack of NES commons for .99 each, but two copies of Mario 3 for 9.99 each, a GCN power pack and AV cable with no price, and a bunch of INTV commons, I think 10 of them rubberbanded together with at least a few inlays for 4.99. Left it all there, but thinking about going back tomorrow for the INTV carts and maybe the GCN parts if they're still there. It would be nice if they had some systems to match the games.

[Blitzwing256]

I've got that Return of the Jedi storybook. What do you think it's worth?

the paperback verison is uber common and worth about 5$, the hardback slighly harder to find and harder still to find in good shape is worth about 10-15$ in good shape.

[otoko]

What I have obtained over the last three days..

DS:

Bubble Bobble Double Shot (CIB) 0.00$

Master System:

After Burner (CIB) 1.21$
Missle Defense 3-D (CIB) 1.21$
Out Run (CIB) 1.21$ (missing back of cover)
Double Dragon (CIB) 1.21$
Enduro Racer (CIB) 1.21$ (missing back of cover)

Wii:

Zack & Wiki (CIB) 19.95$
SoulCalibur Legends (CIB) 19.95$



I'm pretty happy because these games brought me up to exactly 600 non repeated titles~

[Streetball 21]

Picked up SNK Arcade Classics-$29.99-Wii (New/Sealed)

Also bought Madden 09-$59.99-XBOX 360-(New/Sealed)-I didn't preorder the game, so I ended going to Toys R Us, since they were giving that Brett Favre action figure and a $10.00 gift card. Not a bad deal.

Also bought Double Dragon on XBOX Live Arcade, along with the newest Halo multiplayer maps.

And finally, bought a new Wii remote since my original remote went out.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Picked up SNK Arcade Classics-$29.99-Wii (New/Sealed)

Oy. Please play it and tell me if the emulation sucks as much ass as the PS2 port.

[jcalder8]

Not much of a find but I am pretty excited about a purchase that I made and just "found" in the mail.

I got my first and probably only Prototype, Dragon Warrior III for the GBC. I have started to play it a bit and found a few changes between it and the retail release so I'm happy about that. I bought it from Simon_Belmont. I still want to find a proto of one of the original NES games but I figure this is a pretty close second and probably cost less than I would be able to get one of the NES ones for.

I know she's not much to look at but she's mine and she's beautiful



I'd love to dump this on to my computer but I have no idea how to do that. If anyone could help me out with info that would be great, thanks.