Speaking of comic shops, I found one I had never visited before on a road trip last weekend and ended up finding Gravitar and Crossbow both in the box with instructions for $3 and $4 apiece.
I almost flipped
There were Lynx commercials?
Geeesh!
I never saw any form of on-air advertising for the Lynx. The only reason I bought one was for S.T.U.N. Runner (and it was a pretty good conversion)
I was the one who posted asking about Lady Bug for the 2600. A lady I met at the Goodwill store read me a list of her 2600 games and Lady Bug was one of them.
She lived 45 miles away and wanted too much for the system ($30) and after reading that Lady Bug never came out I figured it wasn't worth the drive considering it was probably the Coleco version.
I would have to say either Pitfall or H.E.R.O.
Man, I loved H.E.R.O. back in the day. It had the same addicting quality as Bruce Lee for the Commodore 64.
I picked up an Atari 2600 console with all hookups and 2 controllers plus 14 games (including Krull, Sorcerer's Apprentice, Bermuda Triangle, and Laser Blast) for $18.50 + $10 shipping.
I don't know how I got it so cheap but I did.
I was on a road trip this afternoon and made a wrong turn and happened across a comic shop that I had never been to before. I found Crossbow and Gravitar both in mint boxes with instructions for $4 apiece.
Not too bad and completely a surprise.
The 3 Goodwill stores I went to today didn't have anything.
You always run across something when you aren't looking for it.
Ok, the reason I asked about Ladybug is that I am going to look at an Atari 2600 system with 14 games tomorrow.
One of the games is Ladybug.
I guess we'll see when I get over there.
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!
BTW, its BATMITERETURNS, not BITEMAN, but anyway, no, you didn't spoil my day but this brings back all the bad memories of when I used to collect toys and the damn toy horders would pay off the stock boys to keep complete cases in the back for them.
Friends in low places take the fun out of collecting.
Half the fun is walking into a store and seeing that certain rare cart you have been looking for and making your way to it as quickly, and calmly as possible before someone snatches it up.
Having people at your "classified" location who work on the "inside" ruins it for the rest of us.
Well I hit our bi-annual flea market on Saturday and went through 50 or 60 booths and came across a complete SNES for $5 (including two controllers) and passed on a Sega Genesis 3 for $20.
I also passed on a table top Coleco Donkey Kong electronic game for $5 because it was missing the battery cover.
Not a single Atari, Coleco, or even NES game.
Anyone else find anything worth while?
I would have to say Zaxxon because it didn't even resemble the arcade game. The point of view was changed completely.
As far as Donkey Kong, Pac-man, Q-bert, etc, at least they resembled those games.