Friday finally arrived and....she forgot to bring all her games/systems in. That doesn't mean I left empty handed though.
I still walked out of there with a working Gameboy Advance SP, Pokemon Blue, Pokemon Gold, Jackal, a couple Genesis games (Top Gear 2 and Outlander), a gamecube game disc binder, and two NES controllers for $35.
We also talked about the Intellevision she had in the store for $70 with a bunch of games and assorted manuals/papers. I told her I'd do my homework on the system and get back to her on it. She also promised that next Friday she would have all her game stuff in.
Other than that I stumbled upon a bunch of NES games at various places today- In all I picked up:
Castlevania 3
Megaman 3
Super c
Shinobi
Castlequest
Captain America and the Avengers
Knight Rider
Faxanadu
Dragon Spirit
Gradius
Plus Crystal's Pony Tales and Sonic 2 for the Genesis.
I also picked up about 32 issues of Nintendo Power and three strategy guides (Mario 3 Advanced, Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones, and Final Fantasy 12) at a thrift store for .25 cents each. A friend of mine also gave me the Final Fantasy 11 online Atlas. I'll try to post some pics later.
I may have spent somewhere around $250 today but I think I did rather well between my three stops today. Anyway here are the pictures!
A few PS2 games (and one GC game) I picked up. Most of these are complete. The Code Veronica is like my sixth copy currently.
More common games but the pokedex is in great condition.
This is my first gamegear. The FF8 is nearly perfect other than a crack on the case. It was sealed and the person I bought it from insisted it was brand new (they didn't know since it was a pawn shop) but it was missing some key elements like the PS label on the top. I opened it to make sure it had everything.
I paid $200 at another shop for a wide variety of items, which included some of the items seen above. I got a very sorry looking NES, two very clean Zappers, a very nice NES controller, a filthy NES Advantage controller, an X-Box 360 battery charger, a third party SNES controller and the power cords to an NES, SNES, N64, and Gamecube.
Here are 23 NES that were part of the lot. Nearly all the games I got had dust covers. It's a bad pic but most of these games are common: SMB/Duck Hunt x2, Willow, Star Wars, Dirty Harry, Amagon, Double Dribble, The Rocketter, Narc, Digger T. Rock, and others.
These are the gems of the NES games I got: Pirates, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest, Megaman, Double Dragon, Final Fantasy, Uncharted Waters, and Destiney of an Emperor.
This was included too. Seems to be pretty rare and the most valuable thing I picked up.
I also got a massive amount of manuals, posters, and maps.
Here are some of the best ones in the piles. Star Tropics even has it's letter still.
I spent too much today so let me know if you guys want anything.
I took a couple weeks off from searching for games so that some places could replenish their stock before I wasted too much time traveling for nothing but I spent a good five hours hunting today and here are the results:
Lots of power cords! I purchased my first gamecube recently and had no cords for it and ended up trading for some on NA but since then I have found three gamecube power cords when I had found none in the last year. I also picked up power cords for the SNES, Sega Genesis, Gameboy color, Gameboy Advance SP, and a RF adapter for the SNES/NES.
Some cheap old video game magazines and a CIB copy of Uncharted Waters for the PC.
All the games were cheap but Pokemon Red was a steal at $5 and it looks amazing.
The Playstation Magazine Demo disk is the all RPG/Final Fantasy demo disc from the August 2001 issue of Playstation magazine.
This was my best find of the day. A PS One with the LCD screen. It came with the carrying case, a memory card, the AC adapter, a car adapter, and a Spyro game. It's very clean and works. The pawn shop I was at was getting ready to close so the guy told me I could have it for $15. I spent $25 total there and got God of War and all those cords too.
Thanks, that was a find from a couple weeks ago. That place loads up stuff me every couple of weeks to check out. I went in there today and we are trying to set up something next weekend. It's nice to have a hook up from some one that buys lots of storage units.
Nice Bangai-O several posts up. A store here has had a copy forever at a bit over $20 which isn't too bad but I keep finding things I'd rather get instead. Also I see that DnD book you picked up, I have one very similar to that, DnD Unearthed Arcana from 1985 if you're interested in it. Dunno if you picked that up for yourself or to resell, figured I might as well ask though since I've had it sitting around forever.
Thanks, that was a find from a couple weeks ago. That place loads up stuff me every couple of weeks to check out. I went in there today and we are trying to set up something next weekend. It's nice to have a hook up from some one that buys lots of storage units.
Hell yeah! I have hook ups with some of the local thrift stores, but nothing with any storage buyers. You have a killer contact there. Hope they give you some good deals as well! Contacts are such a great thing to have when hunting in the wild
I hadn't hit up Everett in awhile so I spent most of my day checking out some of the shops. I came home with lots of stuff but after counting my cash I suprised myself by spending far less than I though for all this. I spent around $70 for the following items.
I found four more consoles. Three were at a Value Village and were $6.99 each. I passed up two Segas for the same price. The other Gamecube was at a Goodwill across town and I picked it up for $3.50 because it was half off. It made me sad but I passed on a cordless NES at $14.99
Here are some games. Nothing great except for Godzilla, which is among the rarer X-Box games. I picked up the NBA GC game at .99 centsjust so I can use the case for something else.
Here is the better stuff. I picked up Command and Conquer and Medabots at $2 each, the SP at $6 (it's in rough shape but I had just sold a sivler SP to a friend the day before so it was a nice find). The SNES game is Super Widget and I got it for $1. What's really cool is the brand new DS case holder that I bought for $2.99 at the Goodwill in Marysville.
And finally some cords and controllers. I paid $1 for the PS controllers, $1.50 for the X-Box controller, and $3 for each of the NES RF adapters. Plus $1 for the gameboy transfer cord.
Another good day but I would have liked to have found more nintendo games for any system. Also a heads up to my fellow collecters in my area- Cash America Advance on Broadway in Everett, WA has a Fire Emblem Path of Radiance for $39.99 right now. Also there are dozens more of those DS case holders (not all have Peach though) at the Goodwill in Marysville for $2.99 brandnew so make sure to pick some up if you need them.
Another trip out and a few more finds. Most places I hit up were pretty dry though.
Assorted cords and controllers. Great prices on there though. I got the Atari GemStik for $0.29, the zapper was packaged with the Nyoko gamecube controler and nunchuck for $4. The SP charger was $2 at a pawnshop but since I come in so often lately and buy stuff he gave the $2 I gave him to my 3 year old daughter for being cute.
I bought another DS cartridge case for $2.99, the Yoshi case for $0.99, and NBA Jam was a buck. I picked up the Pokemon cards for my older daughter whom I take to Pokemon League at the local gaming shop (some great rares in that pile too).
Luigi's Mansion CIB at an amazing price and in great condition. That Steel Battalion: Line of Contact is sealed.
I think I over paid for this ($14.99) at the thrift store but how could I resist.
Next week may bring some great stuff as my storage unit buying hook up will have at least a another box of stuff for me to go through. I'm probaly going to need some money so I will be updating my for sale list today.
I had some more quality finds today. A total of five stops and $50 spent.
I picked up a complete and working Gamecube (my fifth one this year), a few cheap games, and a filthy N64 missing cords and a jumper pak. The games are Crash Bandicoot, Nascar 2000, F-22 Interceptor, and LHX Attack Chopper. Nothing special.
It was half off on pink tags at the Goodwill finally so I picked up four more Peach Ds cases at $1.50 per. The Princess Peach game was CIB and only $5 at one of the pawn shops I hit up all the time.
I saved the best for last. A factory sealed M.C Kids in amazing condition. No bends, tears, creases, or markings of any kind. Hang tab is still on and it has the H seam. I bundled it with the filthy N64 and the cheap games for $25 from one of my hook ups.
I can't imagine how $15 for that is overpaying, that's freakin' sweet!
It is very sweet but I noticed there were all sorts of things like this on Ebay for $25-30 and the one I bought had some scratches on it and was untested at the time.
Long as it works alright I'd be happy to have paid that for it I think! Also I noticed you're getting original Gamecube controllers out the wazoo, I'm languishing with a MadCatz controller over here if you wanna set up a trade for one or something
I found 30 NES manuals for $6 at a new place I found today. There are some really nice manuals including The Lone Ranger, Rockin' Kats, Power Punch 2, and Power Blade. There is a problem with all of them though in that they all came from a video rental place and all the covers were protected with wax paper. This has preserved them nicely though.
A few odds I found. A sealed Ecco the Dolphin game and a sealed Dreamcast VMU (both of which I am unsure of the authenticity). The Fix-A-Pad has been used but it seemed really cool for 0.99 cents.
Some games. The Pinobee is sealed. The Captain Silver is interesting in that it came with it's manual, an Alex Kidd manual, and an Afterburner poster.
More games and a couple manuals!
Here is some good stuff. CIB NES games. The Golf is in great shape and is of the 5-screw type. No waxy manuals either. $7 for both of them. I paid $5 for the NES controllers.
Another awesome N64 find. All cords, a green controller, and an Atomic green deck for $15. I also happend to pick up another atomic controller the previous day. My daughter was stealing the GC controller as I took the picture. Not pictured is a GC memory card.
Most of my finds this weekend where all at thrift stores and pawnshops that I hit frequently.
The N64 storage case was $5 but it needed some love. The controller was $4 at Goodwill and the games were $1 each except for Mario Golf which was ten cents. Mario Golf was ten cents because I was at an elderly thrift store and the cashier said she didn't know what it was but it looked like a cassette. Cassettes were ten for a dollar there.
Clock Tower 3 and Evergrace are in great condition and only ran me $3 each. Tekken 2 was $1.
This is the start of a great pawn shop pickup. I frequent it often so there is rarely anything good since I grabbed it all but after grabbing Clock Tower 3 and Evergrace I stumbled upon a box of Nintendo stuff. I grabbed a pile of stuff and the guy behind the counter told the cashier to make me a good deal since I come in and buy stuff often. Everything was $3 each for me. The next three pictures show that pile I bought.
These games were resealed but the boxes are amazing and they all had every insert. The only flaw is that the carts have a rental store sticker partially affixed to the labels. These are my first CIB SNES finds.
My second black box Golf this month. The Tetris and Mario 2 boxes were free since they had no games in the box for them. They are pretty beat up but still good for $3 per.
A couple things I found but did not buy: A boxed Sega Genesis for $25 and a watermelon N64 for $50. I realize that the Genesis was a great deal but I just could not get excited about it since i'm not a Sega guy.
I made a few stops at my usual places. Picked up the SNES for $8 no cords or controllers. The GBA SP is in great shape and contained Dr. Mario for $5. Puzzinc is sealed and was picked up for $3 along with Monster Rancher Battle Card Episode 2 for $3. For $9 I picked up a Sponge Bob game, Zoocube, and Zelda: Ocarina of Time/Master Quest for the GC. I was stoked about the Zelda GC game but it doesn't work past the start up screen. The Dogbone was $8.
This amount of paper cost near $4.30. Most of these are Intellevision manuals and overlays. There is a Pokemon Emerald manual as well.
This was a garage sale score for $10. I think I well to get some more SNES controllers for the extra deck I bought the previous day.
These are some finds 4-16.
I picked up some N64 controller extensions for .99 cents each, a sealed Tetris Worlds for $5, and everything else was a dollar. I picked up some Warcraft cards (.99 cents) and a manga (.50 cents) also. I have been finding alot of manga lately especially Naruto (about 10 volumes in the last week at multiple places). Pokemon Puzzle Adventure won't work past the start screen so I assume the the battery is nearly dead.
There were alot of NES games at a thrift store I frequent. I saw Legend of Zelda and asked the price and the lady said someone told her it was $45 dollars and would sell it for $25. At that point I did not think I would be buying any NES games but I wound up getting all of these for $2 each except TMNT which was $4. The Gamecube games (Naruto Clash of Ninja 2, Batman Vengeance, Sonic Heroes, and Sonic Adventure Battle 2) were trashed so talked her into .75 cents per on the gamble that some may work. After cleaning them only Naruto and Batman Vengeance would work.
I also stopped by an elderly thrift store today that a bunch of great N64 controllers and games but were asking ebay prices for them so I sadly passed on a black, blue, and clear controllers and Zelda: OOT, Mario Kart 64, and Goldeneye.
Over the last week I stopped by a couple yard sales, thrift stores, and the opening day of a local swap meet. I had some nice luck especially since there were so many people at the swap meet looking for games today (which is where I had my best find).
I paid $5.99 for Super Mario Sunshine and $1.00 each for everything else.
I picked up Adventure Island for $3 and it's a bit beat up. The gameboy was $2 and I have yet to test it. The Mario and Zelda gameboy games were $3.99 each. Final Fantasy 4 for the GBA was $2 with manual. The 64 games were $1 each.
These Nintendo Power magazines were found at a Goodwill for $0.49 each. Most are missing the posters but all have the other inserts.
A couple guides. FF7 was $1.
The prize of my week. This Ogre Battle looks amazing front and back. I paid $10 for it.
Not pictured are a PS2 with out cords/controllers for $5, a complete Sega with 2 controllers for $10, a Zhu Zhu DS game for $1, and Metal Gear Solid for $2.
That Ogre Battle is a very cool find but the games in the first picture for 1$ each are amazing as well. Also I wish I could get my hands on a FF7 for only 1 buck lol
Did my usual run today and found some nice things.
Up first is this Nintendo Super Power 92 banner. I paid $2.05 for this and got a stack of computer games free with it.
An assortment of my finds from various places. The PS3 games suck but they were sealed and only cost $1 each. The GC games are all complete. The PC games are the ones I got free with the banner.
The better parts of my finds. $5 for the wavebird and GBA SP charger. Sadly the wavebird has no receiver. Castlevania is just an empty case but I really needed it and it was free. The Gameboy and Gamegear games were .49 cents each. Silent hill was .50 cents. The Gameboy player was ten bucks.
The best part of day. A very nice Saturn and Earthworm Jim 2, Die Hard Arcade, and Night Stalkers for $34.
Made a quick stop the other day. Picked all this up for $19. The Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness came with an official memory card and was $3. Silent Hill was disc only and also $3. I picked up 22 gameboy/GBA manuals for .50 cents each. There were a lot of them and I cherry picked most of the good ones.
A better view of the manuals. All are for on my For Sale thread except for the Metroids. Lunar Legend is in nice shape except that it lost it's staples and the pages were glued together (still readable though).
That is a lot of amazing hauls in a row. And such variety! How often do you hunt?
Love the free PC games. For some strange reason about a month or two ago all the Goodwills and many other thrift stores around the bay area suddenly had piles of PC games, many of them good games. Unfortunately every single one was not only opened but often missing something and in bad condition. The average price of one of these games? $29.99. Strangely they've all disappeared. No idea if they sold them, tossed them, or sent them back (I assume some Goodwill donation center got some insane amount of the games and divided up and sent them out to all their stores to try and get rid of them).
Grats on Ogre Battle! And a Saturn with EWJ2, and a Gameboy SP for less than $50, and God of War (I just bought a copy from a thrift store for $7 and that was on sale!), and Contra (did you really get it for $2? Madness!), and Kirby, and really so many other cool things.
Two guides, one Nintendo Power, a Pokemon Snap kids book, three Scoot Pilgrim comic, and three Japanese Star Ocean: Till the End of Time mangas.
Donkey Konga Bongos for $2.50, the FC Twin controller was $3, the N64 controller was $6, and the Wavebird receiver was $4. The wavebird receiver is something I have been looking for since I found a controller two weeks ago.
The best find of the day- A Gameboy Micro with Super Mario World 2 for $10. Works great.
Paid $10 for the teal Gameboy color (sound doesn't work), $8 for Harvest Moon 2 (found a manual for this during my last hunt), and $5 for Super Mario Land 2. I forgot to include a pic of Pokemon Silver was in the teal gameboy (paid $5 for it but it doesn't save.)
The rest of my games. $5 for Mario Sunshine, $6 for Mario 3, $10 for Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom, and the rest of the games were $3 per. Those games include two Playstation Street Fighter games that were complete, and a Kingdom Hearts 2 which had a suprise Persona 3: FES disc in addition to Kingdom Hearts 2.
Items I passed on included an NES Advantage controller, a broken DSi, and a Super Mario 64 toy camera. Also passed on a some very scrathed Gamecube games.
That is a lot of amazing hauls in a row. And such variety! How often do you hunt?
Love the free PC games. For some strange reason about a month or two ago all the Goodwills and many other thrift stores around the bay area suddenly had piles of PC games, many of them good games. Unfortunately every single one was not only opened but often missing something and in bad condition. The average price of one of these games? $29.99. Strangely they've all disappeared. No idea if they sold them, tossed them, or sent them back (I assume some Goodwill donation center got some insane amount of the games and divided up and sent them out to all their stores to try and get rid of them).
Grats on Ogre Battle! And a Saturn with EWJ2, and a Gameboy SP for less than $50, and God of War (I just bought a copy from a thrift store for $7 and that was on sale!), and Contra (did you really get it for $2? Madness!), and Kirby, and really so many other cool things.
Thanks for the kind words. I try to hunt once per week but I have a couple stops by my work that I check in with 1-3 times per week. I see these people often enough and spend enough that they give me great deals and save things for me.
These are the finds from my last two trips going out for video games. All are from thrift stores and pawn shops.
Each of these guides and the single Nintendo Power were .49 cents. The Silent Hill 3 guide is in good shape too.
I picked up a Gamecube with two controllers, all cords, no missing parts/covers, and a memory card for $10. The N64 controller was $4, the PS2 controllers were $1.50 each, the GBA SP charger cord was $1.50 and the Sega Game Gear bag was $1.50
I paid $5 for the Sega Compilation game, .99 cents each for Rock Band 2 and Medal of Honor, $3 for Mario Golf, .98 cents for Double Dribble, and $3 for Karate Champ. The PS 1 games were $1.50 each.
I picked up more manuals from the place where I got all the other ones but this time they were on sale for .25 cents each.
I paid $2 for Zone of the Enders and the Medal of Honor game. Double Dragon 2, Pokemon Pinball, Yoshi's Island, and Resident Evil Gaiden were $5 each. The Resident Evil Gaiden was my best find and helps me with one the harder parts of my growing Resident Evil collection.
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I still walked out of there with a working Gameboy Advance SP, Pokemon Blue, Pokemon Gold, Jackal, a couple Genesis games (Top Gear 2 and Outlander), a gamecube game disc binder, and two NES controllers for $35.
We also talked about the Intellevision she had in the store for $70 with a bunch of games and assorted manuals/papers. I told her I'd do my homework on the system and get back to her on it. She also promised that next Friday she would have all her game stuff in.
Other than that I stumbled upon a bunch of NES games at various places today- In all I picked up:
Castlevania 3
Megaman 3
Super c
Shinobi
Castlequest
Captain America and the Avengers
Knight Rider
Faxanadu
Dragon Spirit
Gradius
Plus Crystal's Pony Tales and Sonic 2 for the Genesis.
I also picked up about 32 issues of Nintendo Power and three strategy guides (Mario 3 Advanced, Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones, and Final Fantasy 12) at a thrift store for .25 cents each. A friend of mine also gave me the Final Fantasy 11 online Atlas. I'll try to post some pics later.
A few PS2 games (and one GC game) I picked up. Most of these are complete. The Code Veronica is like my sixth copy currently.
More common games but the pokedex is in great condition.
This is my first gamegear. The FF8 is nearly perfect other than a crack on the case. It was sealed and the person I bought it from insisted it was brand new (they didn't know since it was a pawn shop) but it was missing some key elements like the PS label on the top. I opened it to make sure it had everything.
I paid $200 at another shop for a wide variety of items, which included some of the items seen above. I got a very sorry looking NES, two very clean Zappers, a very nice NES controller, a filthy NES Advantage controller, an X-Box 360 battery charger, a third party SNES controller and the power cords to an NES, SNES, N64, and Gamecube.
Here are 23 NES that were part of the lot. Nearly all the games I got had dust covers. It's a bad pic but most of these games are common: SMB/Duck Hunt x2, Willow, Star Wars, Dirty Harry, Amagon, Double Dribble, The Rocketter, Narc, Digger T. Rock, and others.
These are the gems of the NES games I got: Pirates, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest, Megaman, Double Dragon, Final Fantasy, Uncharted Waters, and Destiney of an Emperor.
This was included too. Seems to be pretty rare and the most valuable thing I picked up.
I also got a massive amount of manuals, posters, and maps.
Here are some of the best ones in the piles. Star Tropics even has it's letter still.
I spent too much today so let me know if you guys want anything.
Lots of power cords! I purchased my first gamecube recently and had no cords for it and ended up trading for some on NA but since then I have found three gamecube power cords when I had found none in the last year. I also picked up power cords for the SNES, Sega Genesis, Gameboy color, Gameboy Advance SP, and a RF adapter for the SNES/NES.
Some cheap old video game magazines and a CIB copy of Uncharted Waters for the PC.
All the games were cheap but Pokemon Red was a steal at $5 and it looks amazing.
The Playstation Magazine Demo disk is the all RPG/Final Fantasy demo disc from the August 2001 issue of Playstation magazine.
This was my best find of the day. A PS One with the LCD screen. It came with the carrying case, a memory card, the AC adapter, a car adapter, and a Spyro game. It's very clean and works. The pawn shop I was at was getting ready to close so the guy told me I could have it for $15. I spent $25 total there and got God of War and all those cords too.
lots of great manuals as well!
Originally posted by: K3VBOT
Dang, That Game Action Replay is SWEET!!
lots of great manuals as well!
Thanks, that was a find from a couple weeks ago. That place loads up stuff me every couple of weeks to check out. I went in there today and we are trying to set up something next weekend. It's nice to have a hook up from some one that buys lots of storage units.
Originally posted by: Aestivalis
Originally posted by: K3VBOT
Dang, That Game Action Replay is SWEET!!
lots of great manuals as well!
Thanks, that was a find from a couple weeks ago. That place loads up stuff me every couple of weeks to check out. I went in there today and we are trying to set up something next weekend. It's nice to have a hook up from some one that buys lots of storage units.
Hell yeah! I have hook ups with some of the local thrift stores, but nothing with any storage buyers. You have a killer contact there. Hope they give you some good deals as well! Contacts are such a great thing to have when hunting in the wild
I found four more consoles. Three were at a Value Village and were $6.99 each. I passed up two Segas for the same price. The other Gamecube was at a Goodwill across town and I picked it up for $3.50 because it was half off. It made me sad but I passed on a cordless NES at $14.99
Here are some games. Nothing great except for Godzilla, which is among the rarer X-Box games. I picked up the NBA GC game at .99 centsjust so I can use the case for something else.
Here is the better stuff. I picked up Command and Conquer and Medabots at $2 each, the SP at $6 (it's in rough shape but I had just sold a sivler SP to a friend the day before so it was a nice find). The SNES game is Super Widget and I got it for $1. What's really cool is the brand new DS case holder that I bought for $2.99 at the Goodwill in Marysville.
And finally some cords and controllers. I paid $1 for the PS controllers, $1.50 for the X-Box controller, and $3 for each of the NES RF adapters. Plus $1 for the gameboy transfer cord.
Another good day but I would have liked to have found more nintendo games for any system. Also a heads up to my fellow collecters in my area- Cash America Advance on Broadway in Everett, WA has a Fire Emblem Path of Radiance for $39.99 right now. Also there are dozens more of those DS case holders (not all have Peach though) at the Goodwill in Marysville for $2.99 brandnew so make sure to pick some up if you need them.
Assorted cords and controllers. Great prices on there though. I got the Atari GemStik for $0.29, the zapper was packaged with the Nyoko gamecube controler and nunchuck for $4. The SP charger was $2 at a pawnshop but since I come in so often lately and buy stuff he gave the $2 I gave him to my 3 year old daughter for being cute.
I bought another DS cartridge case for $2.99, the Yoshi case for $0.99, and NBA Jam was a buck. I picked up the Pokemon cards for my older daughter whom I take to Pokemon League at the local gaming shop (some great rares in that pile too).
Luigi's Mansion CIB at an amazing price and in great condition. That Steel Battalion: Line of Contact is sealed.
I think I over paid for this ($14.99) at the thrift store but how could I resist.
Next week may bring some great stuff as my storage unit buying hook up will have at least a another box of stuff for me to go through. I'm probaly going to need some money so I will be updating my for sale list today.
I picked up a complete and working Gamecube (my fifth one this year), a few cheap games, and a filthy N64 missing cords and a jumper pak. The games are Crash Bandicoot, Nascar 2000, F-22 Interceptor, and LHX Attack Chopper. Nothing special.
It was half off on pink tags at the Goodwill finally so I picked up four more Peach Ds cases at $1.50 per. The Princess Peach game was CIB and only $5 at one of the pawn shops I hit up all the time.
I saved the best for last. A factory sealed M.C Kids in amazing condition. No bends, tears, creases, or markings of any kind. Hang tab is still on and it has the H seam. I bundled it with the filthy N64 and the cheap games for $25 from one of my hook ups.
Originally posted by: ColdStatic
I can't imagine how $15 for that is overpaying, that's freakin' sweet!
It is very sweet but I noticed there were all sorts of things like this on Ebay for $25-30 and the one I bought had some scratches on it and was untested at the time.
I found 30 NES manuals for $6 at a new place I found today. There are some really nice manuals including The Lone Ranger, Rockin' Kats, Power Punch 2, and Power Blade. There is a problem with all of them though in that they all came from a video rental place and all the covers were protected with wax paper. This has preserved them nicely though.
A few odds I found. A sealed Ecco the Dolphin game and a sealed Dreamcast VMU (both of which I am unsure of the authenticity). The Fix-A-Pad has been used but it seemed really cool for 0.99 cents.
Some games. The Pinobee is sealed. The Captain Silver is interesting in that it came with it's manual, an Alex Kidd manual, and an Afterburner poster.
More games and a couple manuals!
Here is some good stuff. CIB NES games. The Golf is in great shape and is of the 5-screw type. No waxy manuals either. $7 for both of them. I paid $5 for the NES controllers.
Another awesome N64 find. All cords, a green controller, and an Atomic green deck for $15. I also happend to pick up another atomic controller the previous day. My daughter was stealing the GC controller as I took the picture. Not pictured is a GC memory card.
Originally posted by: Shinju
Nice vectrex lot! Still have them?
Thanks. I no longer have any of these. Benihana grabbed most of them from me.
Most of my finds this weekend where all at thrift stores and pawnshops that I hit frequently.
The N64 storage case was $5 but it needed some love. The controller was $4 at Goodwill and the games were $1 each except for Mario Golf which was ten cents. Mario Golf was ten cents because I was at an elderly thrift store and the cashier said she didn't know what it was but it looked like a cassette. Cassettes were ten for a dollar there.
Clock Tower 3 and Evergrace are in great condition and only ran me $3 each. Tekken 2 was $1.
This is the start of a great pawn shop pickup. I frequent it often so there is rarely anything good since I grabbed it all but after grabbing Clock Tower 3 and Evergrace I stumbled upon a box of Nintendo stuff. I grabbed a pile of stuff and the guy behind the counter told the cashier to make me a good deal since I come in and buy stuff often. Everything was $3 each for me. The next three pictures show that pile I bought.
These games were resealed but the boxes are amazing and they all had every insert. The only flaw is that the carts have a rental store sticker partially affixed to the labels. These are my first CIB SNES finds.
My second black box Golf this month. The Tetris and Mario 2 boxes were free since they had no games in the box for them. They are pretty beat up but still good for $3 per.
A couple things I found but did not buy: A boxed Sega Genesis for $25 and a watermelon N64 for $50. I realize that the Genesis was a great deal but I just could not get excited about it since i'm not a Sega guy.
There are three atari games, a Streets of Rage with case and manual, Final Fantasy 12 and X-2 guides, a boxed star wars toy, and a super scope.
The super scope lacks the game, any papers, or the censor but I won't complain at the price I paid for it all.
I made a few stops at my usual places. Picked up the SNES for $8 no cords or controllers. The GBA SP is in great shape and contained Dr. Mario for $5. Puzzinc is sealed and was picked up for $3 along with Monster Rancher Battle Card Episode 2 for $3. For $9 I picked up a Sponge Bob game, Zoocube, and Zelda: Ocarina of Time/Master Quest for the GC. I was stoked about the Zelda GC game but it doesn't work past the start up screen. The Dogbone was $8.
This amount of paper cost near $4.30. Most of these are Intellevision manuals and overlays. There is a Pokemon Emerald manual as well.
This was a garage sale score for $10. I think I well to get some more SNES controllers for the extra deck I bought the previous day.
These are some finds 4-16.
I picked up some N64 controller extensions for .99 cents each, a sealed Tetris Worlds for $5, and everything else was a dollar. I picked up some Warcraft cards (.99 cents) and a manga (.50 cents) also. I have been finding alot of manga lately especially Naruto (about 10 volumes in the last week at multiple places). Pokemon Puzzle Adventure won't work past the start screen so I assume the the battery is nearly dead.
There were alot of NES games at a thrift store I frequent. I saw Legend of Zelda and asked the price and the lady said someone told her it was $45 dollars and would sell it for $25. At that point I did not think I would be buying any NES games but I wound up getting all of these for $2 each except TMNT which was $4. The Gamecube games (Naruto Clash of Ninja 2, Batman Vengeance, Sonic Heroes, and Sonic Adventure Battle 2) were trashed so talked her into .75 cents per on the gamble that some may work. After cleaning them only Naruto and Batman Vengeance would work.
I also stopped by an elderly thrift store today that a bunch of great N64 controllers and games but were asking ebay prices for them so I sadly passed on a black, blue, and clear controllers and Zelda: OOT, Mario Kart 64, and Goldeneye.
I paid $5.99 for Super Mario Sunshine and $1.00 each for everything else.
I picked up Adventure Island for $3 and it's a bit beat up. The gameboy was $2 and I have yet to test it. The Mario and Zelda gameboy games were $3.99 each. Final Fantasy 4 for the GBA was $2 with manual. The 64 games were $1 each.
These Nintendo Power magazines were found at a Goodwill for $0.49 each. Most are missing the posters but all have the other inserts.
A couple guides. FF7 was $1.
The prize of my week. This Ogre Battle looks amazing front and back. I paid $10 for it.
Not pictured are a PS2 with out cords/controllers for $5, a complete Sega with 2 controllers for $10, a Zhu Zhu DS game for $1, and Metal Gear Solid for $2.
Up first is this Nintendo Super Power 92 banner. I paid $2.05 for this and got a stack of computer games free with it.
An assortment of my finds from various places. The PS3 games suck but they were sealed and only cost $1 each. The GC games are all complete. The PC games are the ones I got free with the banner.
The better parts of my finds. $5 for the wavebird and GBA SP charger. Sadly the wavebird has no receiver. Castlevania is just an empty case but I really needed it and it was free. The Gameboy and Gamegear games were .49 cents each. Silent hill was .50 cents. The Gameboy player was ten bucks.
The best part of day. A very nice Saturn and Earthworm Jim 2, Die Hard Arcade, and Night Stalkers for $34.
A better view of the manuals. All are for on my For Sale thread except for the Metroids. Lunar Legend is in nice shape except that it lost it's staples and the pages were glued together (still readable though).
Love the free PC games. For some strange reason about a month or two ago all the Goodwills and many other thrift stores around the bay area suddenly had piles of PC games, many of them good games. Unfortunately every single one was not only opened but often missing something and in bad condition. The average price of one of these games? $29.99. Strangely they've all disappeared. No idea if they sold them, tossed them, or sent them back (I assume some Goodwill donation center got some insane amount of the games and divided up and sent them out to all their stores to try and get rid of them).
Grats on Ogre Battle! And a Saturn with EWJ2, and a Gameboy SP for less than $50, and God of War (I just bought a copy from a thrift store for $7 and that was on sale!), and Contra (did you really get it for $2? Madness!), and Kirby, and really so many other cool things.
These are the items I found today.
Two guides, one Nintendo Power, a Pokemon Snap kids book, three Scoot Pilgrim comic, and three Japanese Star Ocean: Till the End of Time mangas.
Donkey Konga Bongos for $2.50, the FC Twin controller was $3, the N64 controller was $6, and the Wavebird receiver was $4. The wavebird receiver is something I have been looking for since I found a controller two weeks ago.
The best find of the day- A Gameboy Micro with Super Mario World 2 for $10. Works great.
Paid $10 for the teal Gameboy color (sound doesn't work), $8 for Harvest Moon 2 (found a manual for this during my last hunt), and $5 for Super Mario Land 2. I forgot to include a pic of Pokemon Silver was in the teal gameboy (paid $5 for it but it doesn't save.)
The rest of my games. $5 for Mario Sunshine, $6 for Mario 3, $10 for Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom, and the rest of the games were $3 per. Those games include two Playstation Street Fighter games that were complete, and a Kingdom Hearts 2 which had a suprise Persona 3: FES disc in addition to Kingdom Hearts 2.
Items I passed on included an NES Advantage controller, a broken DSi, and a Super Mario 64 toy camera. Also passed on a some very scrathed Gamecube games.
Originally posted by: Entity
That is a lot of amazing hauls in a row. And such variety! How often do you hunt?
Love the free PC games. For some strange reason about a month or two ago all the Goodwills and many other thrift stores around the bay area suddenly had piles of PC games, many of them good games. Unfortunately every single one was not only opened but often missing something and in bad condition. The average price of one of these games? $29.99. Strangely they've all disappeared. No idea if they sold them, tossed them, or sent them back (I assume some Goodwill donation center got some insane amount of the games and divided up and sent them out to all their stores to try and get rid of them).
Grats on Ogre Battle! And a Saturn with EWJ2, and a Gameboy SP for less than $50, and God of War (I just bought a copy from a thrift store for $7 and that was on sale!), and Contra (did you really get it for $2? Madness!), and Kirby, and really so many other cool things.
Thanks for the kind words. I try to hunt once per week but I have a couple stops by my work that I check in with 1-3 times per week. I see these people often enough and spend enough that they give me great deals and save things for me.
Each of these guides and the single Nintendo Power were .49 cents. The Silent Hill 3 guide is in good shape too.
I picked up a Gamecube with two controllers, all cords, no missing parts/covers, and a memory card for $10. The N64 controller was $4, the PS2 controllers were $1.50 each, the GBA SP charger cord was $1.50 and the Sega Game Gear bag was $1.50
I paid $5 for the Sega Compilation game, .99 cents each for Rock Band 2 and Medal of Honor, $3 for Mario Golf, .98 cents for Double Dribble, and $3 for Karate Champ. The PS 1 games were $1.50 each.
I picked up more manuals from the place where I got all the other ones but this time they were on sale for .25 cents each.
I paid $2 for Zone of the Enders and the Medal of Honor game. Double Dragon 2, Pokemon Pinball, Yoshi's Island, and Resident Evil Gaiden were $5 each. The Resident Evil Gaiden was my best find and helps me with one the harder parts of my growing Resident Evil collection.