The luck of Entity.
I wasn't going to post anything but I really want to bitch about this:
My first thought, "Wow they had really dull boxes in those days," followed by, "figures I would run into this." The way my luck works is I find something of value (look at the top right of the second picture of the manuals), which I trade, then soon after I find something related to what I traded (third to last post in the same thread).
So it makes sense I would find the console after trading all the games I found.
If you are wondering about the box and the reciept I think I figured it out. When I was putting everything away after taking pictures I noticed a warranty (which I did not take a picture of, sorry). It says that if you send it in after the warranty expires then it costs $47 to have it repaired so that explains why there is a reciept for $47 and a generic Fairchild box. Fortunately it does work and I had one minor piece of luck:
Huzzah, random Fairchild game! The junk dealer apparently wanted to leave early so everything was 50 cents. I grabbed MC GROOVZ dance CRAZE hoping to get 5 for $2 but of course not. Bought it anyways. I can afford to throw away 50 cents.
$1 games! Getting so rare these days...
I almost didn't buy this when the guy asked for $6. On my second round I decided to try and haggle and got this for $3. It wasn't until I was driving home until the obvious occurred to me. It's sealed and it has a microphone. I can finally play Seaman!
Both of these for $8. There is a Space Channel 5 game on PS2? Anyways, while the case for DQVIII is trashed the discs are in good condition and it has the manual. Even though the seal is in rough condition on SC5 I'm still glad I got it since I'll likely open it to play it anyways.
$5. Still buying every PS2 RPG I find. I like that this has the NEW Gamestop sticker and the used Gamestop sticker. I probably have more than 50 PS2 RPGs and I'm still missing a ton of them. The punchline is I know most, if not all, of these games are going to suck. I played RPGs almost exclusively on the SNES and PSX but when the PS2 rolled around the stories started to suck, characters turned into obnoxious Japanese anime tropes, the voice acting was aggravating, and the battle systems stagnated, which is the most egregious reason modern RPGs suck. I'll slog through a terrible story and dull characters if the gameplay is good. The golden age of Square where they experiemented so much they made racing, fighting, SHMUPS, and even a movie, has been followed by the dullest time in the history of RPGs. Even FFXIII adandoned the interesting mechanics of FFXII to return to the mediocrity all modern RPGs share. That being said I know absolutely nothing about this game. Maybe it will be good?
Sorry. Got off topic.
Abused anime and a bad game? It's not my terrible camera that is making everything looked washed out, the cases really are that sunburned (fortunately the discs look good). The Goodwill pricetag on NFL is $7.99. Welcome to the California bay area. I don't recall having strong opinions for or against Outlaw Star so I'm looking forward to watching it. I just finished watching Slayers Next which I found at a weird mom and pop 99 cent store. Who would have thought thrift stores and flea markets would be such good sources of anime?
The GH version of FFVII and FFVIII has silver discs while the black labels have white discs. Why does FFIX switch that around? It's missing disc 2 but the main reason I picked it up is this Goodwill prices all games, ALL OF THEM, at $9.99 so to see one at such a bizzarely low price, I had to get it. Also all the discs are as mint as mint discs get. Kind of strange to be missing disc 2 when the first has no sign of use.
In the realm of things I did not buy I saw Rhapsody at a thrift store in a pile of junk and almost had a heart attack. When I pulled it out it was missing the manual, front art, the case was trashed, all it had was the soundtrack, and even that looked extremely damaged. And it was $5. Gone the next day of course =P
12/31/12 post
The beginning of the month was devoid of games. I even struck out at my favorite flea market for the first time after going a couple times each week for over a year. So this is everything I got this month.
World of Illusion box and cart for $1. The dry spell caused me to travel further and visit thrift stores I expect to have nothing. Surprisingly one of them had this. The manual came from an empty box I already had. One game completed and one step closer bringing the universe to perfection.
After Christmas I found these for $1 each.
Average at best games, hooray! I would have bought only some of the games but I have a selfish reason for buying all of them: this place rarely has games and few people look for them here and I want to keep it that way. Anyone else insane enough to meta game retro hunting? Also, the Gretzky demo is sealed and in good condition. Do people collect those? Would it's condition make it worth anything or is it still worthless?
$5 for cardboard and paper? I am so down for that! This creates my first boxed N64 game.
$1 For an SNES game?! That has to be a world record. AND the back is in good condition AND it comes with a dust sleeve. A true miracle if I've ever encountered one. I can't wait to tear this apart.
Castlevania III for $2? Yes! And Donkey Kong 3 for $2 as well! I now have all three NES Castlevania games. The other's were fodder to bring the cost of each game down to $2 but are not too shabby either. I'm also psyched to get Ghostbusters for the NES as Ghostbusters on the Master System is unfortunately a good game.
The Shinobi case is empty (not even a manual) but Sonic and Knuckles, an empty case, and a psx disc for $5 is not bad. I though about haggling but the sun had not risen yet and it was 40 degrees out so I paid so I could keep moving before I froze. Possibly the sellers genius plan! Use the terrain and weather to get some extra money.
...and 11 games for $300:
Sadly Guardian Heroes is just the case and manual, Blazing Dragons is disc only, and Mystaria's manual has seen better days. The discs vary from mint to minor scratches or slightly dusty.
I actually met the seller a month ago. He had these out one day and being the intelligent rational person I am my immediate though was "HOLY COCK BUDDA JESUS CRACK MONKEY BISCUITS!" and then I started foaming at the mouth while making a sound that was something like a squirrel being stepped on. Somehow, probably through sign language, I signaled my interest and got a price for everything: $300.
Momma didn't raise no fool though! Or at least she tried. There is only so much a parent can do for mental acuity when genes have the final say. I left and got a value of $280 when I looked them up. Since it wasn't an amazing deal and $300 is a lot of money I decided to wait until next week. The next week I arrived with the money but he forgot the games, then the next week it rained, and so on. I could have gone out of my way to buy them but it wasn't worth the cost and it already required me to dip into my rent money. If someone else bought them I would feel no regret. In retrospect, if I saw all this on ebay with a BIN of $300 I would have skipped it without a second though but when retro hunting in person I always feel obliged to buy stuff. Like, its more rare and if I don't some asshole reseller will buy it and will see the place as a good source of games and will come more often making things even harder to find.
... I'm only a little paranoid.
One idea I try and keep to heart is if I keep hunting I will eventually run into this stuff again for a better price. Still I find myself buying everything I can the first time I find it.
On the plus side the Saturn only has something like 7 good games and I have 3 of them so my Saturn collection is almost complete.
That same day I bought those 11 games I also found a complete Dragon Warrior 3. It was completely trashed and the seller would not budge from $30 but if I had not spent $300 that day I might have actually paid that.
I also saw Final Fantasy Chronicles and Crystal Chronicles at a thrift store! Sure FFC was priced at $60 and FFCC at $40 but its still cool to see so many RPGs in the wild this month when I usually never see them.
My only regret is I missed out on Kirby Mass Attack.I found it in a thrift store for $5 but they were having a sale and the line was 45 minutes long. I had work in 20 minutes so I asked them to hold it for me, showed up the next morning, and it was gone. I still don't have Kirby 3 and a couple others so I'm still some ways from having all the Kirby games.
Comments
One thought that crossed my mind about Virtual Hydlide is the naming scheme for Saturn games is Virtua (Cop, Fighter, Racing, etch) so why didn't they name it Virtua Hydlide?
On the subject of the broken system, the plastic thing that holds the disc slid down into the system so I opened it up (noticing it was already missing one screw so this was not the first time someone took it apart) and moved it up so the discs can spin again but for some reason it thinks there is no disk no matter what I do. Does anyone know what system, technology, button, gizmo, tells the system the system has a disc?
In another line of thought, one thing in Shining Force III that really pisses me off is the inventory button and examine/talk/use button are the same button. Seriously? There are 9 buttons on the Saturn controller and they decided to use only one button for everything?
Originally posted by: Entity
One of my Saturn systems broke while checking out the games so I have not tried Virtual Hydlide but I will let you know if I don't want it.
One thought that crossed my mind about Virtual Hydlide is the naming scheme for Saturn games is Virtua (Cop, Fighter, Racing, etch) so why didn't they name it Virtua Hydlide?
It's an T&E game published by Atlus , Not a Sega published title atleast when it was released over here, Sega does the whole Virtua thing for their first party games mostly.
turning up the motor on the disk spinner to make the disk spin faster.