My Sweet, Sweet, Cheap Booty
Plus a console, Interact V3 steering wheel, 3 controllers (2 gray, 1 ice purple, or whatever it's called), 2 Madden games (which make excellent doorstops), Jet Force Gemini and SF Rush Extreme Racing (along with some random Xbox 360 cable and a suitcase in which to carry everything).
Total price - $40.
I was pretty stoked. It's about the best N64 find I've ever come across.
I also grabbed Super Mario Advance 4 and Spiritual Warfare for the Genesis a couple days ago for $2.99, which wasn't the worst thing in the world either...
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Originally posted by: coffeewithmrsaturn
so there ARE video games down in Alabama! I was just wondering about this the other day (I have a cousin there).
I'm in Washington. It defaults to AL, I think, and I never bothered to change it.
I would love a find like this. Half those titles would be gone within 24 hours here at 20 dollar bills each.
Originally posted by: th0rpe
You waaay over paid...
lol.
Originally posted by: coffeewithmrsaturn
Aha! I knew there was nothing in Alabama!!
I would love a find like this. Half those titles would be gone within 24 hours here at 20 dollar bills each.
If I posted any of the zelda or mario games (except mario 64 or ocarina) at $20, they'd be gone in 24 minutes, not hours.
Super Smash sells for $55 in the stores around here, and they have trouble keeping it in stock.
Originally posted by: Ray Bot
Anyone saying you overpaid is dumb. You can flip just one title and make your money back. Hell, you could bundle the console with the crap you don't want and make more than your money back. The N64 is the up-and-coming system for nostalgic people, as they are finally graduating from college, have a bit of money, and want to relive their youth. The local playntrade sells N64 with one controller for 50 bucks and he can't keep them in stock. He's been bugging me to sell him my stock.
x2
there's an EASY 150$ there,
Our local gamestore can't keep n64s in either.
Originally posted by: Ray Bot
Anyone saying you overpaid is dumb. You can flip just one title and make your money back. Hell, you could bundle the console with the crap you don't want and make more than your money back. The N64 is the up-and-coming system for nostalgic people, as they are finally graduating from college, have a bit of money, and want to relive their youth. The local playntrade sells N64 with one controller for 50 bucks and he can't keep them in stock. He's been bugging me to sell him my stock.
The consoles are a dime a dozen around here, but the controllers, AV cables, etc (especially the Jump Pack and Expansion Pack) sell for quite a bit. It's funny, you can get a console with a jump pack and one controller for ~$30 - $35 retail around here (I refuse to pay more than $5, personally), but a jump pack costs $15 and OEM controllers go from $15 - $25 ($30 for the Pokemon and special color ones). So, for 2 of the parts of the console, it's more expensive than the whole console.
(also strange, Pokemon Snap sells for ~$7, and Pokemon Stadium sells for ~$8, but together they sell for $25, and neither are terribly hard to find...weird)
The console wasn't the important part of that lot, anyway. It was the games.
I already got $200, and that was from someone who is going to resell all of it (though, that was including more stuff, so $150 is probably more correct for that part of what I just unloaded).
Here's my two nice finds for today...
If anyone knows anything about the Emerson Arcadia (which is what the Leisure=Vision was, just rebranded for the Canadian market), shout it out. Space Vultures was a Galaxian clone (notice the nice Millenium Falcon rip off on the cover of the box as well....), but I can't find any info on price for it (though, a lot of these games are redunkulous, pricewise).
My cost for these two beauties - $.76 (yes, that's cents). I may have overpaid again...
(*ED: never mind...I found an Emerson Price Guide for my Canadia Arcadia game - ~$42...not Earth shattering, but not horrible either...)
Not too bad, if I do say so myself...
Faria - $20 (Label and cart are cherry...)
and, the creme de la creme...
Earthbound - $50 (listed at $220 at a thrift store and talked the guy down to $50, and then ended up getting Faria for $25, Shadow Dancer for $3 and a couple other common Genesis and Master System carts along with it all).
My buddy who I was with hadn't found anything all day (I already had a sweet Yamaha turntable and Harmon Kardon Pre-Amp and a lesser Denon turntable, along with some Blurays and a few other things), and he really wanted the Earthbound, so I just let him have it.
I'll get another one tomorrow or something. No big.
And, he's not selling Earthbound, so while I feel your pain, it ain't happenin'.
Then, right at the end of the day, like a ray of pure TNT, dyn-o-mite, it shone through all the clutter at me - Banjo-Kazooie...for $.15 (that's 15 CENTS), and not two minutes later - Animal Crossing:City Folk (NFR, but that's just a Wii Speak Bundle version...not worth anyone's time to care about it) for $2.18.
Now, those are some sweet, sweet pieces of boo-tay.
Originally posted by: ColdStatic
I have no idea wtf those 2 posters are smoking saying you overpaid or that was "about what it's worth". People need to check their facts before posting.
I'm not 100% on this, but I believe this is what the kids today refer to as "sarcasm"...I think.
$32 for everything you see.
I don't know what a complete Power Glove outside the box is worth, because there haven't been any for sale recently except in massive lots.
I sold it all to a buddy 5 minutes after I got it home for $65, so he's happy, I'm happy, and balance has been restored to the universe, or something.
The big score today was the Sega Master System I got - Golden Axe Warriors, Wonder Boy in Monster Land and a couple others not worth mentioning for $10 plus Bubble Bobble. I'm buying a Master System tomorrow for $30 for myself and I'm gonna play the fuck out of those games (or quickly get bored and then sell them...I'm hoping for the former, but betting on the latter).
I've been wanting a Master System for quite some time.
Altered Beast on the master system
Altered Beast on the NES.
Technilogically, it was a far superior system.
Obviously, the NES had a lot of games, and a lot of awesome games, but I'm looking forward to a little Quartet and Gain Ground on my new Master System (I've vowed not to sell it until I play those games, as well as Wonder Boy, to see if, like The Superfriends, it doesn't live up to my fond memories of it, or if like StarBlazers, it does...we'll see)
Originally posted by: Entity
Who would sell a game for 000.15 cents? I thought change that low had been removed from circulation a decade ago. A single stick of gum costs more than what you got that game for.
We have thrift store outlet stores (Macelmore, anyone? Popping tags? The video was shot in one of these places) that sell by the pound.
They get their merchandise from the regular thrift stores after it's been there a certain amount of time without selling. This includes stuff that they've significantly overpriced and never reduced in price before the time limit for sending it to the outlet expires.
I've found the most valuable stuff I've ever found at these outlet stores, including 50 of the 1st 75 Nintendo Power Magazines (including numbers 1 - 15, complete and near mint) in the special Club Nintendo holding cases (which were worth more than any of the magazines except #1). Luckily, they were on the top of the bins I saw them in, and no one else there, because they only know to look for what they're bar code scanner tells them to look for, went for them, so I got each and every one that was available to get.
For magazines, it's not pay by the pound...they're $.19 a piece, so those fifty issues of Nintendo Power cost me $10...which is a lot at those joints for a bunch of magazines (I don't think I've ever bought more than one at a time at any other time I've been there)
Anyway, that's who.
Originally posted by: MalcolmXY
Originally posted by: ColdStatic
I have no idea wtf those 2 posters are smoking saying you overpaid or that was "about what it's worth". People need to check their facts before posting.
I'm not 100% on this, but I believe this is what the kids today refer to as "sarcasm"...I think.
Haha yea I couldn't believe anyone took those posts seriously. Especially on this forum. Glad someone picked up on it. Great score man!
Bible Adventures CIB
Exodus (bible game, not Ultima) CIB
Super Contra X2
Super Mario 2
Double Dragon
Double Dragon 3
Mechanized Warrior
Egg Splatter, etc
Yo Noid
Eliminator (Elominator) Boat Challenge
Kings of the Beach
10 more carts of similar quality
Grand total - $20
plus a gameboy, gameboy color, 2 snes controllers, a full NES (no rf cable, but had one in the car) and some weird, generic cartridge based portable gaming system for the sum total of...
$40.
Not bad.
Originally posted by: MalcolmXY
$40.
Not bad.
Not bad....
That's it! Tomorrow I'm driving the 60 miles round trip plus 5 dollar bridge fare to vist one of these legendary outlet stores.
Did you pick all this up in a single trip or was this an amalgamation of multiple trips since your last post?
Originally posted by: Entity
Originally posted by: MalcolmXY
$40.
Not bad.
Not bad....
That's it! Tomorrow I'm driving the 60 miles round trip plus 5 dollar bridge fare to vist one of these legendary outlet stores.
Did you pick all this up in a single trip or was this an amalgamation of multiple trips since your last post?
I do a bunch of weird Craigslist searches that you might not think are related to video games, but that I have found can lead to some sweet-ass video game booty. In this instance, I scoped a yard sale that didn't list Nintendo in the description, but one of the pictures (a power tool, I think) had that big ol' stack of NES games in the background, all blurred...I still recognized a couple titles, and I knew there were more because of what I could see, and also figured there was a bunch I couldn't see.
I picked up Super Punchout and Mario Kart 64 as well as Back to the Future and Rambo on my way back home, but the rest were all at the one spot.
The box could be better (though, that's nothing that an iron and a towel won't fix), and no original plastic, but DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN!!! The map/poster ain't look like it's been touched. The seal is broken on the "Top Secret" mini-hint booklet, though. Still...