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  1. Posted · Edited by SRGilbert

    Couple of nice scores this weekend.

     

    Yard sales on Saturday turned up the following...

     

    Like most weekends, a bunch of cheap CD's, highlight was an Eagles The Best of 2 CD set with bonus DVD for $.20, which blows me away since this is a $20 set.

     

    Coleco Telstar Pong clone. Pretty rough, but has the box, all the paperwork (including the Montgomery Wards receipt for $72.68) and the optional Coleco power supply (also in it's little box!) for $3.00

    Funny thing, the receipt was dated 8/19/1976, 36 years ago to the day!

     

    Nintendo DS Games - Super Mario 64, Warioware Touch, and Brain Age all 100% complete - $3.00 each

     

    Little Luigi Mario Kart toy, $.50

     

    Flea Market on Sunday

     

    Wife and I always split up to cover more ground at the flea markets and a few minutes after we get there, she calls me to ask if I'm interested in a Sega Saturn set. I'm thinking, meh, not really. I have one in my collection, and another I've been trying to sell already. I told her not to worry about.

     

    Well, I should have asked her for more info because I little while later I found what she was talking about. It's a boxed 100% complete Model 1 system, with 3 extra controllers, 6-Player adapter and 12 complete games. Sure, there's a lot of sports titles in there, but waaaaiiiit, what's that? Is that a mint condition copy of Bomberman in there? Oh yeah! Almost all cases are crack free too. I actually didn't see the Bomberman until I got it to the car.

     

    Also in the lot were some random Sega Genesis cames, including a loose copy of Zoom! (exclamation point not mine) and he threw in a loose copy of Entombed for the 2600.

     

    Price on the lot...... $30.00 :-D

     

    Overall, pretty good weekend!

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    Hit the fracking jackpot today!

     

    The jackpot is the complete 40 DVD set of Star Trek the original series. This is the set released in 1999. All DVD;s are mint and with their booklets. $29.99! :-o

     

    I love thrift stores! :thumbsup:

     

    Nice deal, I paid a small fortune for those when they came out, but at least I got $90 for them a few months back to cover the cost of the upgrade to Blu-ray. No complaints though, I love the show too much. :)

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    So far, this year has been really weak. Now, I know that if you search through my posts in this thread, I'll say that over and over, and then I find something cool. That said, it's still been a weak year for game finds. So much so, that I haven't bothered to post. :(

     

    That's not to say I haven't found anything, so here is a wrap up of the past few months.

     

    Quite a few CD's, which I like to grab cheap (for my library, not to resell), as long as they are in good shape, and are complete. Anything decent a dollar or under, and I'll grab it. The highlight was a copy of Jackson Brown's Running on Empty Expanded Edition. It's an OOP 2 disc set, and the second disc is a hi-res multi-channel DVD-Audio disc, which I collect, and it's awesome! It's a $20-50 set all day long, but I got it for a quarter!

     

    Another odd CD I found today was a strange collaboration between Weird Al and composer Wendy Carlos doing a rendition of Peter and the Wolf. Everyone knows Al, but Wendy you might know as the composer of the electronic score for Tron. Wendy (well Walter Carlos at the time) was also an important person in the dawn of electronic music. Well worth looking into!

     

     

    Game wise, the only worthwhile bargains I've picked were a big bag o' 12 SNES games at a thrift for $6.06, and last weekend a nice SNES set with 8 games for only $2! It came with a copy of Uniracers too, which sounds fun so I'll keep it. The rest will get bundled together and off to Craigslist for a tidy profit.

     

    The most unusual find so far was at a Goodwill today. Walking around, I see this big thing on a table, and I recognized it immediately as I use one like it a my job sometimes. It's a massive 40" table top shrink wrapper. It was a little dirty, but it seemed to be in good shape. I look at the tag, it was only $20! A quick search on my phone, and it turns out this exact thing sells new for over $600 bucks. Tossed it in a cart and found an outlet to test it, it works! I even came with a partial roll of 36" wrap, which itself is pretty damn expensive.

     

    Now I just have to figure out what to do with it. I cleaned it up, and it looks like it's brand new. I may offer it to my boss at the print shop since we don't have one nearly that big and see if he will buy it (at a considerable profit to me of course.) I may put it on Craigslist. Or most likely I'll keep it for a while. I'm planning on stepping up my selling (I might do some through a local place on consignment) and it would be handy to use to bundle stuff together.

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    Just playing some randoms games on Stella i note this game (Donald Duck's Speedboat) and i was surprised after note that this game has only prototypes roms, and is in the ATARI AGE database only as a prototype because when i was a kid (22 years ago) i play this game in my atari 2600.

     

    I remember; it was the tyipical 4 in 1 (or 3 or 2 in 1) cardigan (south american), i remember this game and a pirate version of Snoopy and the Red baron in which you never lose... i cannot remeber the other games or if the cardigan have more games... the cartridge was borrowed and I got it for a few weeks

     

    I also cannot remebert to reach the finish in the Donald Ducks game, maybe this was a copy of a different prototype, or i was so bad player when i was a kid...

     

    Sounds like you answered your own question, obviously it was a bootleg, but that would be pretty cool to have! I take it you no longer have them?

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    That is an awesome score, would love to find a Halloween in the wild like that.

     

    You know what though, I never ask unless I see something else game related. I've thought about buying an Atari shirt to wear, hoping they might ask me! I really should start asking though, as this years has been crap. I haven't had time to go out at all, and when I do, I don't find much of anything.

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    Haven't had a find worth posting in a good while, but this seemed to merit a photo - Went to my Goodwill after getting back from vacation, and I don't know if this had been accumulating over the past week, or if this was from a collector's rummage, but all of this was there yesterday:

     

    Dang, you really get the goods man. When you were selling at MGC you always had some of the best stuff....

     

     

    It seems I MISSED some of the best stuff this time...my fears about this find were confirmed by a fellow local collector yesterday, who told me that the motherlode arrived ay my Goodwill (I'm there 3-4 times a week over lunch) while I was on vacation. Speculation is that a collector who died must have had his collection donated to goodwill by his unknowing family, and it came out over 3 days. He got over 100 CIB Gameboy and PS1 games, but even this was leftovers. Someone else picked up a bunch of mint CIB NES games that Included Little Samson, Bonk's Adventure, and Flintstones 2 - which the finder just sold on Ebay for over $2,200!!! What I found were apparently the scraps...that'll teach me to go on vacation! I can't get over a feeling of betrayal that the Goodwill I have been so faithful to over the years allowed a score like this to go the one week of the year I'm not around ;) Just more motivation to keep going, I guess...win some, lose some.

     

    I'm guessing your Goodwill doesn't do the auction thing?

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    That's too bad too. In my opinion, video games are much like other performance art forms, like movies for instance. Sure, they can require a huge team of people create, but in the hands of a strong director, it's still his vision. There needs to be a Joss Whedon of video games, someone who can develop a fanbase. Someone who can shift back and forth between huge releases, and smaller cult classics.

     

    The problem is that gamers can be so fickle. Carmak and Romero may have been rock stars to the FPS crowd back in the day, but they almost became typecast for those games. I guess Will Wright had a good run too, but he was hardly a household name.

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    This is easily the worst summer on record for me as far as yard sales and flea markets (and forget about thrift stores, I can't remember my last score there.)

     

    I think we've only managed to get in three or four Saturdays since April and the picking are weak when we do. Two of the three past monthly flea markets have been rained out too.

     

    I do finds lots of non-game stuff, like CD's and tools and stuff, so it's not a total loss.

     

    The highlight of last weekend was finding a boxed and almost complete Radio Shack/ Tandy Armatron. Guys who grew up in the late 70's early 80's will remember this!

     

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    The guy didn't know if it worked (and the leaking batteries didn't give me much hope) so he told me I could have it for a buck! Even though the bats leaked, the contacts were clean so I took a chance. I figured even if it didn't work, it would still display nice. Took it home, cleaned it up, new bats, and it works great! Always wanted one back in the day too. :)

     

    Interesting note, like a number of RS toys, this was made by Tomy, who made a TON of cool toys back then. I personally collect Tomy robots, so this fits in great!

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    But for this group I have to come back to the 2600. I will admit that I still have a certain fondness for the good ol' VCS. In fact, sitting on my desk about 5 feet away as I write this is a PC with a CAD design 80% complete for a super 2600 cartridge that incorporates the best of my DPC chip design and my $FE bank switch circuitry, among other cool features. One day I hope to finish that circuit design and make a 2600 cartridge that would really kick butt. All I have to do is figure out a way to make that project complement my new, big game project rather than causing a distraction.

     

    I'll work on that.

     

    Sounds great! I can't wait! Thanks for posting. Although I have my complaints about Pitfall! and Pitfall II: Lost Caverns, because they lack Randomness and Replayability, they are still great looking, high-quality games. If you get a chance to make a new Atari 2600 game, please consider using controlled randomness for placing treasure, enemies, and so on. I'd also love some smarter enemies to deal with instead of having us mostly jump over things.

     

    Oh Random, you are just so......what's the word I'm looking for? Oh yeah, predictable! ;) Oh the irony!

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    Spotted at a Salvation Army. Even with a 30% store-wide sale, I had to pass. :)

     

    Wow, even non-working I think I would have nabbed that for only $336. Was there something really nasty about it that we can't see? Where is this?

     

    Also, maybe it's just the lighting, but the joystick looks black in the pic, instead of the transparent blue.

  23. Posted · Edited by SRGilbert

    I've found that the smartphone (iPhone in my case) is great for games like Scrabble. I also admit that's I've played my fair share of the Angry Birds. I like the fact that I can do so much with one device, just about anywhere. If I get bored of a game, I can check my email. When I'm done with that, I can hop on to Craigslist (and even post a listing) or check out Atariage or Facebook. Heck, I can even make a phone call!

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    Alrighty what do you experts think? Can I fit a Sega CD in there? According to the online specs the CD is 16" wide, there's only 15" unless I remove my Atari cart binders (which is fine, I have a Harmony now anyway). And from the videos I've seen the CD lid doesn't open too high so I doubt it will bump against the top shelf. My big concern is the door barely slides shut given the genesis controller cord is right up against it. Does the Sega CD add any depth? If it's even a fraction of an inch I won't be able to close the thing.

     

    How much space do you have between the shelves? I have the same setup with a Model 2, and from the bottom shelf to the top you'll need at least 9" for standard carts, 11" for Sonic and Knuckles with another cart plugged in, or at least 12" for a Game Genie with a standard cart. That's right, with the Genesis, Model 2 CD AND the 32x, you need a shelf with a FULL FOOT of clearance to use the Game Genie! And that's with a standard cart, not even an EA Sports cart!

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