Any Finds this weekend?

[snakeeyesdd]

No Atari I have went dry. But I did pick up a Gameboy Advantage and X games skatboarding for $25.00 not to bad.

[Lemmi]

Just a

3DO mouse $12 (complete in box)

Ren & Stimpy: Stimpy's Invention $5(genesis complete)

Sega Genesis Mega Mouse $5(complete in box)

 

Thats it for this weekend

[MattyXB]

I get today a complete Dragon Treasure. First I have think I need only the box and manual. But then I have seen this:

 

 

So its diffrent and I need both for my:

 

Dragonfire Variants

 

were I own now 10 diffrents.

 

has someone know this, that 2 Dragon Treasure's exist? Or is this new? I have not know this before.

 

And other game I get today was Enduro from:

 

Pet Boat / Fantastic Game

 

Now I own 6 diffrent Pet Boat games.

 

PS: And 8 diffrent Enduro games, if I count names like Super-Ferrari.

 

Get some other games, but these are the importents for me.

 

Ground Zero (diffrent case),

See-Monster,

Space Robot.

[BatmiteReturns]

My girlfriend and I hit 4 Goodwill stores on a road trip yesterday and I found the following:

 

Asteroids

Basketball

Donkey Kong

Planet Patrol

Super Challenge Baseball

Pac-Man

Warlords

Night Driver

 

Nothing rare mind you but they were only $.63 apiece so I couldn't pass them up.

 

I also found a nice leather briefcase which was new for $3.88!

[iguana]

I found 12 games for $10

for 7800 I got One on One , Joust

and for the 2600 I had nice finds

turmoil

skatebordin

battlezone

winter games

california games

task force

planet patrol

springer

cruise missile

strategy x

 

all nice finds especially for the price! I am most excited over battlezone, that was one of my favs as a kid. well off to play it.

 

[ 05-26-2002: Message edited by: Iguana ]

[chrisr]

Not too much, found:

No Escape!

Strawberry Shorcake musical Match-ups

Sky Skipper

Gi Joe Cobra strike

Atrillary Duel - chuck norris xonox

$4 each... Too expensive for the wild, but I didn't have any of them.

And a marlboro 12v power pack

for 15....

I also met a guy who picks up donations for Purple Heart He promised he'd get me atari stuff! I hope it pans out

[Pitfall Harry]

quote:

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Originally posted by Iguana:

for the 2600 I had nice finds

turmoil

skatebordin

battlezone

winter games

california games

task force

planet patrol

springer

cruise missile

strategy x

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I'll say you scored. Springer is one of the few Atari 2600 games I'm still looking for. Nice find!

 

My weekend finds:

 

- A Super Joy III handheld Famicom console. It claims to have 76,000 games built in, but it really has only 76 games with 1,000 trivial variations each. Still, not a bad pick up for $2.95.

 

- Two boxed Power Pad controllers by Chalk Board, Inc. for $1 each. The writing on the box claims that it works with the Vic 20, Commodore and Atari home computers. But I can't use either digitizer tablet because both controllers are missing the specialized cable which connects it to the computer. Anybody got a spare cable or know the specs to build one?

 

- Two common games, which I did not have, for the Sega Master System. CIB, $3 each.

 

Ben

[Pitfall Harry]

quote:

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Originally posted by chrisr:

I also met a guy who picks up donations for Purple Heart He promised he'd get me atari stuff! I hope it pans out

---

 

Sounds like that might turn out to be your Find of the Year to me. Good luck!

 

Ben

[black dog]

The only thing I found was frustration, there is no atari stuff where I am. Nothing at the thrifts or flea markets. So I ended up going to Funcoland and bought some nes games so my weekend wouldn't be a total loss.

[marillion]

I got a couple responses to the ad I placed in the newspaper. Haven't checked on them yet, nor have I filtered thru all the loose games at the pawn shop a block down from me. I'm been spending most of my time on eBay, because I do know that there are no boxed 2600 anythings around here. ONce I get my eBay selling going full-tilt, I'll have more money to advertise in the surrounding areas...

 

So, Ben, what games for the 2600 *are* you missing? There can't be but a handful, eh?

 

Peace,

 

Chip

[Pitfall Harry]

quote:

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Originally posted by marillion:

So, Ben, what games for the 2600 *are* you missing? There can't be but a handful, eh?

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Well, since you ask...

 

I don't really count on ever finding any more 9's and 10's, because that's what dreams are for. The only games I'm really looking for are those which I don't have, were released in the U.S., and are not homebrews, prototypes or pirates. And I don't really care if I never find a single-ender cartridge if I already have the game on double-ender. That leaves the following 26 games for me to "complete" my collection:

 

Checkers (Sears, 3)

Demons to Diamonds (Sears,3)

BMX Airmaster (TNT Games, 4)

Othello (Sears, 4)

Off the Wall (Atari, 5)

I Want My Mommy (Zimag, 5)

Beat Em & Eat Em (PlayAround, 5)

Jungle Fever / Knight on the Town (PlayAround, 5)

Philly Flasher / Cathouse Blues (PlayAround, 5)

Cannon Man (Sears, 6)

Dice Puzzle (Panda, 6)

Excocet (Panda, 6)

Scuba Diver (Panda, 6)

Stunt Man (Panda, 6)

Frogger the Official (Starpath, 6)

Rabbit Transit (Starpath, 6)

Espial (Tigervision, 6)

Cosmic Corridor (Zimag, 6)

Ikari Warriors (PAL) (Atari, 7)

Motocross Racer (Xonox, 7)

Tomarc the Barbarian (Xonox, 7)

Springer (Tigervision, 7)

Ram It (Telesys, 7)

Survival Island (Starpath,

Sword of Saros (Starpath,

Smurfs Save the Day (Coleco,

 

Anybody got one of these to trade?

 

Ben

[marillion]

So, is your list complete then, meaning you haven't included the 9's and 10's you need? Since I got back into Atari collecting in the past week and a half or so, I've seen several "10's" on eBay. Are you not buying stuff from eBay to complete your collection? Have you found everything you have in the 'wild?'

 

I'm very interested in the collecting habits and anecdotes of some of you 'supercollectors' or 'oldies' of the hobby, which is why I'm wondering if there's a chatroom somewhere that y'all shoot the breeze about this stuff...

 

Peace,

 

Chip

 

[ 05-26-2002: Message edited by: marillion ]

[marillion]

Holy crapola! I got a star!

 

Sorry...it's Saturday night and I'm home, so there's nothing else to get excited about...

 

 

 

Peace,

 

Chip

[Pitfall Harry]

I didn't turn to eBay for games until I had accumulated about 350 different carts from searching in the wild. But I live in a thrift store wonderland and I searched A LOT harder than most!

 

I've only purchased a tiny handful of rare games from eBay. Most of the rare games I have I either found myself or traded other rare games that I found to get them.

 

When it comes to so-called "Super Collectors," I am but a teeny little footnote at the bottom of page 257. There are plenty of other collectors on this board whose collections dwarf mine.

 

I only have a few 9's and 10's. Finding such extreme rarities in the wild is nearly impossible, and I cannot afford to buy them at fair market value. But I don't need to have them, as my goal is realistically set at obtaining all domestic releases of rarity 8 or less. If I find 9's and 10's...cool! But I can live without them. For now.

 

If you would like to see the games I have, my list is posted on my website at

 

http://members.tripod.com/~PitfallHarry/2600List.html

 

Carts I have for trade are annotated with an "X" in the Duplicates column. If you see anything you need and have one of my 26 Wants, please let me know!

 

Ben

[hedgehog]

I didn't find anything good, well I did find an old nes cart under my bed, but I don't think that counts!

[iguana]

Ben, Not only did i get that springer this week for $1.00, I got a smurf saves the day last week for .50 I think there is alot of atari stuff to be found around me. I know of about 5 places where I can go and get commons any day for 1.00 and 2 of them hold the new stuff they get in for me first. that is where i got my pickups the last 2 weeks.

[bassmanzoo]

I had a nice score I think

 

I picked up

 

Star Wars The Arcade Game

Tapeworm

Stargunner

Fast Food (Both by Telesys)

TWO Copies of Threshold (Tigervision...that makes three in the collection)

Robin Hood/Sir Lancelot Double Ender by Xonox

Commando in the box

Chopped Command in the box

 

And 15 other commons. The Price? $30 Aus.

 

I was very happy

 

Oh and I scored 6 NES carts that I didnt have for $2 last week..happy happy happy

 

Best of luck all...and Thank you Bira Bira

 

Marko the EXTREMELY lucky of late

[King Asmo]

I've got an extra copy of Espial kicking around. I've even got extra instructions as well.

 

The game is actually brand new in the box (but not shrinkwrapped.. Tigervision games didn't come shrinkwrapped, tho, as far as I can tell). the problem is, the box is in really, really rough shape. It looks like someone was using it as a puck in a floor hockey game. The instructions, game and plastic game insert are all nice, tho.

 

I'm sure we can work out a trade.. you always have a pile of stuff I can use.

 

Cheers,

 

KA

[Joe Glynn]

New to the group... I make weekly trips flea markets. I have been

going to 5 large ones Just about every week for the past 9 years.

 

This weeks finds ( a slow week for me )

2600 system with 45 games, 4 complete with boxes. 15.00

Colecovision with 12 games, 6 games complete with boxes . 10.00

MINT in box Nintendo Nes system 7.00

35 Atari games - including Crazy Climber - 12.50

 

I have about 15 flea market dealers who look for

Atari 2600 items and other Classic items for me.

Some weeks I come home with 4 Atari systems and

over 150 games along with other classic systems.

[ARCZero]

Las Vegas is a tough place to find stuff in the wild because a ton of people move here and they tend to sell their stuff before they get here

 

Whenever I find anything I'm prone to pay a lot for it. Over the past couple of days I picked up an Atari 2600 with 8 common games for $8. Today I got a 5200 console (just the console) for $20. The old one I have had a broken sound chip so it was an OK deal. Anyways, the money went to Goodwill so hopefully a needy person in benefiting.

 

I also went to the swap meet and they have eBay prices. $35 for a Colecovision console by itself, and $15 for 10 ultra common 2600 games. I passed on both.

[Elektro33]

dusty pumpkin.... im jealous.... where do u go around here? (im not too far from you)

 

Oh and i got a heavy sixer and 6 or so commons, I'll be getting in this week from a friend of mine; for just 3 or 4 PSX games ^_^

 

[ 05-27-2002: Message edited by: Elektro33 ]

[Tempest]

I picked up ROB for the NES with all the attachments (so he's actually useful) for $8. I picked up some decent NES games, but no Atari stuff. I didn't even see a Combat cart this weeekend.

 

Tempest