MagnaFarce
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It's been a while, but landed myself a thrift find I'm pretty happy about!
Found this guy hanging out in the wild at my local thrift store.
$2.99 sealed!!!
Gex for 3DO!!!
Heh. That's the game which was inside my FZ-1 when I bought it at the flea market. Pretty decent game. It's no Space Pirates, though.
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It's been a while since I've posted anything since I've been so busy and haven't been buying much. I've been hitting the flea market pretty regularly recently, though, since I've started selling on eBay instead of doing back breaking manual labour.
The other day I found an old Osborne OSS2 portable computer for only $20. I also bought a TRS-80 Color Computer 2 and a Timex Sinclair 1000 computer, along with a boxed copy of SNAFU (one of my favourite Intellivision games) for the Aquarius computer for $20 from a fairly new vendor at the market who I've sort of become buddies with. He's got my number now and is going to call me whenever he comes across older computers in the storage containers he buys. Also picked up a Macintosh SE with keyboard, two mice, external 3.5" floppy drive and external HDD for $50. I don't have pictures for it, though, since it's still in the trunk of my car.
I love the flea market lifestyle.
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I have about a dozen loose spare coleco games I could all let go in a group priced good.
Let me know!
I am interested for sure. Send me a PM. I only have four games for the console right now.
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I am helping my friend with a convention by bringing ~30 consoles, but I don't have very many games for several of them (I only buy games I find in the wild). I'm looking to do a mass purchase of cheaper games for the following consoles:
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Sega Master Systembuying flashcart -
Turbografx-16buying flashcart Sega Pico- TI-99/4a
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Sega Genesisflashcart available to me - Colecovision
- Atari Jaguar
These are listed in the importance of the consoles. The consoles at the top of the list are more important than the consoles at the bottom. I am also looking for the following:
SNES AV cable (x2)Genesis 1 AC adapter (x3)- Pico AC adapter (I think Genesis 2 AC adapters can be used, but I don't remember)
- Master System controller
- Turbografx-16 controller
Panasonic 3DO controller- 3DO mouse controller
I would like to get as much of this in one go as I can. I'm not concerned about getting a lot of classics or great games since I'm paying for this out of pocket and am lending the consoles for free. Pretty much any games that aren't sports games are cool. I'm just trying to provide variety for people who are trying out non-Nintendo/Sega consoles for the first time.
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Can't say no to that selection and those prices!
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Unfortunately there are no voice modules. All I bought was twelve extremely dirty consoles with whatever controllers were attached to them. No peripherals, no games, no power supplies.
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What have I gotten myself into? I got a bit drunk the other day and bought twelve untested Odyssey2 consoles on eBay shipped for $150. I'll be happy if I can piece together three or four working consoles out of this and miraculously sell the rest of them for parts.
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Bought a Commodore plus/4 and some ColecoVision games. I'm absolutely happy with my purchase. Everything arrived safely and quickly. Looking forward to playing around with the Commodore a bit more!
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LOL! a little off topic, but has anyone seen the somewhat x-rated Flash Gordon spoof "FLESH GORDON"? Funny as heck!!!!! It's sort of like "The Toxic Avenger" that style of raunchy comedy.
I've heard of it (even downloaded both of 'em), but I still haven't seen it. I assume they're kind of similar to the old Russ Meyer skin flicks and Barbarella?
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It's pretty cool the stuff you can get when doing handyman jobs. I've gotten a new dishwasher, a Sony surround sound system (still in the box), and a dozen bottles of wine, all for free, from people I've worked for doing odd jobs.
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Have you tested the Coleco ? Hard to find one with a working power supply or with controllers that work .
Not yet. I don't actually have a television set up right now. I probably won't get around to it until next week since I'm going out of town on Wednesday. I've got my fingers crossed, though.
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I had a very unexpected deal yesterday.
Recently I bought a box of 100+ PC games on eBay for $95. I've been thinning through them, grabbing the ones I think I'd like, putting other ones on eBay. I had a small stack of games that weren't worth enough to bother trying to sell on eBay, as well as a couple big box PC games I bought in the past but decided I didn't want anymore. All in all maybe $40 worth of games at eBay prices.
I'm buddies with the guys at a game shop downtown who I met at a local convention I was helping run. I hadn't seen them for a while, so I dropped in with my small box of games with the intention to trade them in for a pittance (I really just wanted to get rid of them to clear up space and didn't care what I got for them) and hang out for a bit. After hanging out for 20 minutes or so one of the employees, Carl, asked me if I was interested in a ColecoVision. When I had first met these guys six months ago he had offered it to me for $100, so I expected the same price and declined, telling him that I really like finding things in the wild. Carl then told me that he just needed to get rid of the thing because it was taking up so much space and no one other than me seemed to want it. He offered it to me for $20. No way in hell I was going to say no to that. In the end I ended up trading the box of games for the ColecoVision.
Pretty excited. I've been looking for one of these for three years. Of course, now I have a console which takes up even more space than the games I had gotten rid of to clear out space!
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I guess I'll enter. I've been meaning to get a copy of Shark! Shark! for a while now.
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Picked up a couple nice finds from Craigslist over the past couple days.
Yesterday I was looking around for my usual searches, not finding much of anything. When I searched for 'Intellivision', though, I hit the juicy stuff.
Six Intellivision consoles, two of them in box, and a boxed Intellivoice module. Haven't tested them yet, but I'll be happy if even half of them work without any trouble.
Also came with all these boxed games. I looked through several of them and they had their overlays, so I'm thinking most, if not all, of the games have at least the overlays. I guess the guy who was selling them has been cleaning out his 80 year old father's garage for him and neither of them wanted them anymore. They had an Intellivision when he was growing up, and his dad just bought every Intellivision he ever came across at garage sales for replacement parts and backups. Got all of it for $100.
I just got back today from picking up some Commodore 64 stuff.The Commodore itself has a couple broken keys, but I've already got a nice working one, so I'm not really worried. I mainly wanted the peripherals. I've been wanting to get my hands on a Commodore floppy drive for a while now since I've got a bunch of 5.25" floppies I bought a while ago, and I just don't want to have to deal with cassette tapes anymore. The Koala pad doesn't have the stylus, but that's a pretty quick fix. I'm interested to see what the Power Pad has to offer. Also nice to have a couple more joysticks.
There was a box of software as well. Most of them are educational games for kids, but I'm still gonna check 'em out. A couple of them have some nifty keyboard overlays. Got everything for $40.
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How much did you get it for?
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Heh! I had some really good finds yesterday at the flea market.
I came across a complete in box Mavica printer as well as a few other boxed Mavica items (excited to try out the Mavica video camera). Got everything for $25.
I also picked up a Minidisc deck for $6. I've wanted one of these for a while but didn't want to pay more than ten dollars for one. I can't wait to try it out.
All in all a very good day at the flea market. Other recent finds include a Dreamcast fishing controller for $3, two six-switch 2600's with a bunch of controllers for $30, and twelve CD computer games for a dollar. Oh, and a free typewriter.-
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I've tested the Wii and the 7800 so far. The 7800 works fine, but it did not come with a power supply. The Wii came with it's sensor bar and other cables; it works, but it won't play disks - anyone know a fix for that?
Wii's are getting to be cheap enough that it might not be worth fixing it up to use the drive. Personally I would softmod it and use it as a dedicated emulator box.
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I've ordered from him a few times. The first couple orders were really smooth. This last order took several months before I finally received half the order. I don't really blame him for the delay, though, since I told him I was in no hurry and he was swamped with orders and he wanted to fully test the TI-99/4a and the Odyssey2 I ordered.
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This site is really coming together. These are some great improvements.
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Picked up a Commodore CDTV from the flea market for $15. Didn't come with the remote, so I had to order one from AmigaKit because I'm impatient and don't want to wait around on eBay for several months to find one at a cheaper price. Cost me $27 total just to get the goddamn remote shipped from the UK, but it's very nice. I think they're selling new old stock remotes because mine is pristine.
I didn't have any CD caddies when I bought the system, so I had to go out and look for one. I was almost going to drive thirty miles to check out a store I was told would have them (because there was no way in hell I was going to spend $11 on eBay for one), but as luck would have it I came across a disc drive at Savers which had a caddy in it, so I bought that instead. Cost $6 and I even got a bonus disc drive out of it.
There's no copy protection so I torrented a huge ISO pack of games and programs. The game shown on the screen in the picture is Xenon 2 just because it was the most readily available ISO when I took the picture (downloaded it from theisozone.com while waiting for the massive torrent to complete). The game actually has some
, though (anything that samples John Carpenter music is badass in my book). I'll probably play it one of these weekends.
Total costs to get this console up and running: $48 (with bonus CD drive for my old computer).
One of these babies just sold recently on eBay for $314, so I consider $48 a great deal even though it's more than I've ever spent on a system before.
Proprietary keyboard and mouse, though. I'll probably never get to use this thing like a computer with prices the way they are.
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Yeah, I figured the saving on shipping alone might make it worth it. I'm buddies with the guys at the store, so I can definitely bring it back if it doesn't work and not have to worry about anything. I'm still on the fence, though. I'll have to go back and look at all the Atari carts they have to see if it's really worth it.
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Since there's a thread already, I guess I'll ask in here.
At one of my local game shops there's a ColecoVision for sale with the power supply, the Atari expansion module, and ten games for $100 (they only have one ColecoVision game in stock, but the other nine I can pick from an entire shelf of Atari 2600 games).
Is that an okay deal? I don't really know what they go for. I usually only buy consoles at the flea market, but I've been looking for for a ColecoVision for 2½ years with no luck and I really want one. I just don't want to pay more than I need to.
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Sold some Amiga 500 software to user mattsoft. Good communication and fast payment. Super smooth transaction from start to finish.