Outrider's Midwestern Collecting Adventures
Figured I'd start my own vanity scavenging thread. YOU'RE ALL DOING IT. I'll also post funny stories about the characters that I interact with along the way.
Today I hit a flea market .There was a thickly accented romanian? guy today and his beautiful daughter. They had an NES and 3-4 games all of which I had save for Abadox, so I ask the girl what she wants for it. She asks "Papa" and he tells her $7. Knowing full well the game is worth no more than $5 I start to walk away. At which point every immigrant vendor will stop you and go down even more, which they did and offered it to me at $4. I have nothing to lose and not much to gain here so I get hard and offer $3 and hold up 3 fingers. "Papa" then waves me off and tells me to "go look them up, they're worth money". I get home and abadox is worth exactly three dollars, go figure!
Anyway here's what I got from my regular guy:
Got them all for 20. This is why I don't waste my time arguing with people over $3 games at other tables.
I like how the case for Rolo is fatter than normal (because he's an elephant).
Today I hit a flea market .There was a thickly accented romanian? guy today and his beautiful daughter. They had an NES and 3-4 games all of which I had save for Abadox, so I ask the girl what she wants for it. She asks "Papa" and he tells her $7. Knowing full well the game is worth no more than $5 I start to walk away. At which point every immigrant vendor will stop you and go down even more, which they did and offered it to me at $4. I have nothing to lose and not much to gain here so I get hard and offer $3 and hold up 3 fingers. "Papa" then waves me off and tells me to "go look them up, they're worth money". I get home and abadox is worth exactly three dollars, go figure!
Anyway here's what I got from my regular guy:
Got them all for 20. This is why I don't waste my time arguing with people over $3 games at other tables.
I like how the case for Rolo is fatter than normal (because he's an elephant).
Comments
For this EA Game it should just be known that the case is bigger because the main character is an elephant!
Originally posted by: Outrider
It just makes sense that an elephant game would have a fat case doesn't it?
I would think it would be a hippo game that would have it.
Got it all for $20. I wanted the mouse to play Troddlers moreso than Mario Paint. Super Ghouls!
My cat likes to sit in the frame.
Crystalis was a little overpriced but I talked the guy into giving it to me free with the purchase of some of the other games. I'm not totally sure how it all worked out but I saved like 30%. I usually like to do better than that but oh well. I actually want to play most of these. Bo Jackson baseball was recommended in another thread.
"This label is totally void of artwork, should I at least add some color? Eh, why bother."
Needless to say I told the manager that he sexually harassed me and got him fired.
j/k but seriously, is there anyone who DOESN'T collect video games right now? No wonder their game bin is never anything but sports games for genesis.
Also, Trampoline Terror has the saddest-ass label of all time.
Employee doesn't recognize the game = $3
Mario and/or pikachu is on the cover = $6
Though of course sometimes stuff just seems to be priced completely at random. I just drag myself in the goodwill any time i drive by one, check the areas they put game stuff in, and leave.
Originally posted by: Outrider
Not really a video game item but I finally found one of those RCA switchbox things today so I can stop plugging and unplugging wires on my TV when I want to play different consoles. Got it for $2 at a garage sale.
Nice find! I just paid $30 for one of them!
My consolation was SM64 and Goldeneye, plus Kirby 2 and a like-new n64 pad for giveaway prices ($3 each, he even went down a little because I think he felt bad about my semi-wasted trip.)
My collector friend at the flea market also missed Wacky Races by about 30 seconds. Whoever it was only paid five dollars. Lots of broken dreams this weekend.
Oh I finally snagged a cheap expansion pak, ten bucks!. Got another six-button for change too. I already had two but one of them was a little bit off. I made sure this one said "Made In Japan" on the back because the chinese made controllers I've had were almost all problematic.
Anyone ever see the "Power Grip" batman wings for the NES controller before? I think they're pretty cool. Kind of makes it shaped like Model 1 Genesis controller.
(Genesis is a great system and you should collect for it.)