WV Wonderful Finds!

Luke00016

I finally have a reason to make a thread like this!  I've had no luck hunting in rural WV, my collection has been built around Ebay/GTZ/NA so far.  Hopefully many more to come!



But, found this on CL for $50, 62 games, 6 manuals, 15 dust covers.  All of the games are in good-->very good condition once I'm done removing some marker on a few of the carts.

Ouendan

Nice find!

K.Thrower

Killer finds!

pipedreams

pretty cool stuff here! living in a rural area..and trying to find stuff like this isnt easy.

Silverspoon

Thats a good amount of games for $50 for sure.

AtariMaxx

Sweet find!

Little Nemo

Very nice Luke! Some good ones in there, and for that price, you can't lose!

ClaytonBigsby

nice score indeed!

Diamante Loco

Damn who knew WV had something like this. Welcome fellow mountaineer (or thundering turd )

Parpunk

Originally posted by: g_block

Damn who knew WV had something like this. Welcome fellow mountaineer (or thundering turd )

hehe both of u guys would crap ur pants if you have seen half the stuff i have found in our great state in the last 10 years. hmm lemme just name a few .............virtual boy kiosk, n64 kiosk, sealed mega man 5 gameboy, final fight guy cib, sealed sega nomad, sealed top loader, nintendo power 100 gold gameboys. 

Don't underestimate the rural guys. Trust me its places like these where you can STILL find deals on old stuff. Cool to see some fellow WV'ers on NA

where you guys located? im in the eastern panhandle.

Luke00016

Parpunk - totally agree, my theory is that the deals appear less frequently but they're out there and there is less competition!



I used to live in Fayetteville, then moved to Beckley, and now I live in Clarksburg. Moving to Morgantown at the end of the month, though.



I work all over the state, so I get out to your neck of the woods pretty frequently.

winroba

A nice lot, some good titles in there

Diamante Loco

I'm from Charleston. We also have another member, wrldstrman, who is from WV. Goes to show that if you're not a nature person, video games is really the only thing to do in WV lol.

Luke00016

I finally get to bump my 'finders keepers' thread, hooray!



I picked up a few games for $10 from someone I'm professionally acquainted with. Just a random 'hey, I know you collect NES games and I think I found a few cleaning my basement; want them?'.



Anyway, she asked $10 for them and I said of course. I got



CIB Football - mint, not sealed and no baggie,but it has clearly never been opened more than once.



Solitaire cart + instructions



SMB 3 + manual



Junior Jeopardy!



Tecmo Bowl



Hudson Hawk



NIB Mermaids of Atlantis - I don't think this was ever opened; can anyone confirm what's in an AVE unlicensed NIB? All it contains is the cart, instructions, and baggie. But idk if AVE included other stuff?



I'm really surprised/happy with the last one. Extremely random to be among the others.



EDIT:  Pics.

Luke00016

Another few cool finds in West Virginia! These were from a local game store. Averaged about $10 each. Not a great deal, but I can't pass up CIB games in the wild.

Luke00016

More bumpage for two awesome finds. Hard to pick up locally, especially in WV. Paid basically Ebay prices for cart only, really happy to find them with manuals. The carts are dead mint and manuals are 8-9/10. Now to find the boxes!

alekx

Wow i'm very jealous about that find. Sometimes you have to pay ebay prices, thats not bad a bad thing. Manuals were thrown in also so thats just awesome.

Michaelm0743

Nice what part of West Virginia are you from?

Luke00016

Originally posted by: Michaelm0743



Nice what part of West Virginia are you from?

Morgantown - most of these finds are somewhere in north central WV so far.

Michaelm0743

sent you a pm luke

Luke00016

Had another nice little local find - this was from a retro store. I think the guy has a ton of old NES games that he brings out slowly. Got these for about 1/4 what they're going for on ebay and always happy to buy locally rather than online.