Finders Gamecubers, not losers and keepers
I think it was the first weekend of the year I happened to bump into a local shop and found a pair of higher dollar GC games I used to own and snapped them up and it started the poop rolling down hill. Many weeks later I've had a lot of crazy scoops from around these parts, a few from nice NA people, and even dreaded eBay too. I took my 10 game GC stack and kicked it up to 28 as of today. The fun of it was in being choosy and watching things I nailed most of my higher valued old GC games and things I had to give up in the past and more or less for great prices too. Along the way I stumbled into a find I never thought I'd ever get to play again from overseas and even today a fairly good price on a wicked Nintendo property I never had back then.
The pics will speak for themselves, they're all complete and in awesome shape. I even found some sweet guides and had oddball luck with a Wii game of all things too.
The titles that started it off were Skies of Arcadia and Tales of Symphonia both for $35 which you know is well off where they're at. Right after that due to some old books and dvds of no value, I wrangled a dead mint copy of Cubivore for FREE (would have been $50.) That cemented my desire to keep going, and here's a list of things below, and nearly none of it came out of pocket as it was trades, sales of stuff to get things, or gift money I had. I never broke my $50 original retail rule either.
Cubivore (Free/Trade), Custom Robo ($4), DDR Mario Mix CIB ($25), Doshin the Giant-UK($20), Fire Emblem Path of Radiance ($50-today!), Freeloader(import player-$20), Gameboy Player w/disc ($30), Godzilla ($6), Ikaruga ($26), Mario Golf ($6), Mario Kart DD ($20), Legend of Zelda Four Swords Adventures ($26), Legend of Zelda Ocarina/MQ ($26), Pikmin 2 ($33), Skies of Arcadia ($35), Sonic DX ($10), Star Fox Assault ($10), Star Soldier Hudson Select-JPN ($26), Tales of Symphonia ($35), and Wave Race ($3).
I ended up also with FIre Emblem Radiant Dawn for Wii for $30, actually picked up 4 copies of it, of which 2 helped pay for a good bit of this, and I picked up a 'crappy copy' for Paul at his request which he'll be getting shortly.
And then I ended up with 6 game guides - Zelda Wind Waker ($7), Zelda Four Swords ($10), Zelda Link to the Past GBA ($7), Zelda Ocarina of Time N64 ($10), Brady's Tales of Symphonia Guide ($13), and Prima's unofficial Super Mario RPG guide ($2.)
That's it! I thank those who bought stuff off me so I could get these things or I couldn't have otherwise and to those who sold me an item or two from this list Thanks. This has been a month of Fire Emblem for me that's for sure with the GC, Wii and 3DS games all picked up too within weeks of each other and the GC one today and 3DS 2 days ago.
Pics below are huge if you click them.
The pics will speak for themselves, they're all complete and in awesome shape. I even found some sweet guides and had oddball luck with a Wii game of all things too.
The titles that started it off were Skies of Arcadia and Tales of Symphonia both for $35 which you know is well off where they're at. Right after that due to some old books and dvds of no value, I wrangled a dead mint copy of Cubivore for FREE (would have been $50.) That cemented my desire to keep going, and here's a list of things below, and nearly none of it came out of pocket as it was trades, sales of stuff to get things, or gift money I had. I never broke my $50 original retail rule either.
Cubivore (Free/Trade), Custom Robo ($4), DDR Mario Mix CIB ($25), Doshin the Giant-UK($20), Fire Emblem Path of Radiance ($50-today!), Freeloader(import player-$20), Gameboy Player w/disc ($30), Godzilla ($6), Ikaruga ($26), Mario Golf ($6), Mario Kart DD ($20), Legend of Zelda Four Swords Adventures ($26), Legend of Zelda Ocarina/MQ ($26), Pikmin 2 ($33), Skies of Arcadia ($35), Sonic DX ($10), Star Fox Assault ($10), Star Soldier Hudson Select-JPN ($26), Tales of Symphonia ($35), and Wave Race ($3).
I ended up also with FIre Emblem Radiant Dawn for Wii for $30, actually picked up 4 copies of it, of which 2 helped pay for a good bit of this, and I picked up a 'crappy copy' for Paul at his request which he'll be getting shortly.
And then I ended up with 6 game guides - Zelda Wind Waker ($7), Zelda Four Swords ($10), Zelda Link to the Past GBA ($7), Zelda Ocarina of Time N64 ($10), Brady's Tales of Symphonia Guide ($13), and Prima's unofficial Super Mario RPG guide ($2.)
That's it! I thank those who bought stuff off me so I could get these things or I couldn't have otherwise and to those who sold me an item or two from this list Thanks. This has been a month of Fire Emblem for me that's for sure with the GC, Wii and 3DS games all picked up too within weeks of each other and the GC one today and 3DS 2 days ago.
Pics below are huge if you click them.
Comments
I actually walked right past the Mario DDR in box from a thrift shop. Not sure why I didn't grab it, at the time I guess I wasn't focusing too much on Gamecube stuff (a year ago maybe).
Thanks, and no I'm not going after a complete set, it's not my thing. All that stuff for the most part I once owned. Doshin, Star Soldier, and Fire Emblem (GC and Wii) being the exceptions with the games, and none of the guides but the old Ocarina one which was a NP freebie.
bb: Smart move on both, really good call on going through NOA for the paper.
NT: I was stunned. I had seen the Freeloader for like 2mo half way across town but left it because I didn't think I'd ever have a use and I'm glad no one else did either. I just went out of boredom into Half Price Books just up the street and I saw the spine and my eyes popped out and I verbalized no fucking way swiping it from the shelf. When I saw that it didn't have a mark on the entire case and it was $20 I went right to the counter to find the disc was the same, and then they also threw in a PAL save formatted 251(mid size) 1st party memory card with it too it came in with. It's such an amazing game I never thought I'd get to play again after doing it 5 years earlier on my brothers copy he got from a friend in England. It's fun as it's a do it yourself game on whatever you want, or you can go for monuments to be built, it's just relaxing and awesome being helpful or a complete jerk roasting buildings and stomping people.