shadow460 Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 This came up in the "thrift finds" thread, actually. What's you rarest find, and how much did you pay? Did you keep it or trade it off? Also, for those who have some of their original games, which game did you get back in the day that is now the rarest? What's the most valuable one from back then? My rarest "in the wild" finds are some R5 and R6 games. River Raid II in near mint condition for $1 Star Wars: The Arcade Game x2, each was $1, traded one for a Stargunner cart Sears pic labels of Gunslinger ($4), Missile Command ($1), and Night Driver ($1) My rarest game that I still have from the early '80s is Party Mix, purchased by my Dad through mail order. I don't know how much he paid. He also got the Official Frogger, but threw out the retail box. I purchased another box later, and that game is easily the most valuable of the "originals" I still have left. I also have a my original Phaser Patrol and the Supercharger it was packed with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 This came up in the "thrift finds" thread, actually. What's you rarest find, and how much did you pay? Did you keep it or trade it off?Also, for those who have some of their original games, which game did you get back in the day that is now the rarest? What's the most valuable one from back then? My rarest "in the wild" finds are some R5 and R6 games. River Raid II in near mint condition for $1 Star Wars: The Arcade Game x2, each was $1, traded one for a Stargunner cart Sears pic labels of Gunslinger ($4), Missile Command ($1), and Night Driver ($1) My rarest game that I still have from the early '80s is Party Mix, purchased by my Dad through mail order. I don't know how much he paid. He also got the Official Frogger, but threw out the retail box. I purchased another box later, and that game is easily the most valuable of the "originals" I still have left. I also have a my original Phaser Patrol and the Supercharger it was packed with. $1 Vulture Attack T-Handle at the So Cal Swaps about 3 years ago. Sold it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flammingcowz Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 (edited) $2 Ms. Pac-man or $2 Haunted House...sadly Edited June 29, 2008 by flammingcowz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricDeLee Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 Xante Cart (Trick Shot): $2.95 Qbert Qubes (x3) One cost me a PS2 GTA game, another just $3 or so. Waterworld: $2 Tapper: $2 Spy Hunter: $2.50 River Raid 2: $1 Plenty of them. Non Atari: A bag with PS1 console, and the following games: Final Fantasy VII, VIII, Tactics,, Chrono Cross, Parasite Eve: $20 60 or so Lynx games with manuals: About $2 each Dark Tower board game: Got at a Goodwill Auction for $2.50 It had everything, box, pegs, new bulb, etc. And I had a cart full of golf balls, toys, cars, etc. I've had a lot of great deals in the past, most of the time I sold the items though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Wonder007 Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 Atari 2600 Up N' Down Proto in Los Angeles for $1.00 (I got it back around 1990-91) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmi Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 condor attack $3 garage sale - missplaced or stolen (i think stolen is the correct choice) Snatcher - fleamarket - $20 sold for $120 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NixonTech2071 Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 I guess super football Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 I got Tapper for $1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmosiss Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 Enduro for $5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FujiSkunk Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 Pitfall II is about as rare as I've found from thrift stores. However, I did acquire both River Raid II and Kung Fu Master plus a couple of other relatively rare titles from a church donation that the youth paster let me do swapsies on. I made sure they were well compensated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slosu Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 Mr. Do's Castle FREE!! Q-BERT'S QUBE FREE!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tremoloman2006 Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 "What's your rarest find in the wild?" My girlfriend... the cost: my life! On a more serious note, the best I got was a Sears heavy sixer with about 20 Tele-Boxes (almost all gatefolds too!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 This came up in the "thrift finds" thread, actually. What's you rarest find, and how much did you pay? Did you keep it or trade it off?Also, for those who have some of their original games, which game did you get back in the day that is now the rarest? What's the most valuable one from back then? My rarest "in the wild" finds are some R5 and R6 games. River Raid II in near mint condition for $1 Star Wars: The Arcade Game x2, each was $1, traded one for a Stargunner cart Sears pic labels of Gunslinger ($4), Missile Command ($1), and Night Driver ($1) My rarest game that I still have from the early '80s is Party Mix, purchased by my Dad through mail order. I don't know how much he paid. He also got the Official Frogger, but threw out the retail box. I purchased another box later, and that game is easily the most valuable of the "originals" I still have left. I also have a my original Phaser Patrol and the Supercharger it was packed with. Holy shit man you find a way to throw in about your super charger games just as fequent as homer does is atlantis 2. Talk about obsession\fixation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 (edited) Also, my rarest finds in the wild are a T-handle Spider Maze for 25 cents at a pawn shop and a Atari BMX Airmaster for something like 2 dollars I think I bought it for. I once got a copy of Crazy Climber at the Sally for 50 cents a couple years ago also but it's not near as cool a find as the BMX or Spider Maze. Edited June 30, 2008 by Shawn Sr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bones Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 (edited) My rarest find was a year or so ago, ran across a complete in box River Patrol, in great shape to boot. It was part of a large lot of boxed 2600/Colecovision/Vic20 games, paid just over a buck for it. Original (excited!) post is here. kept it, now the centerpiece of my (mostly) unboxed 2600 collection. Edited June 30, 2008 by bones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaxda Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Bounty Bob Strikes Back for the 5200, in 1997 at the Raynham Flea Market ("scratch the itch!") in Raynham, MA. There was a guy who sold 2600 carts for $3 and 5200 carts for $5 "because they're bigger." I used to buy pretty much anything I didn't have, as this was before I really was on r.g.v.c. or the web and had no idea about rarity or anything. I don't think many people did back then. It took at least a year or two before I realized what a deal it was --especially since I talked the guy down to $3 for each cart, regardless of system. I bought a bunch that day--had a copy of Zone Ranger in there as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Weis Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 I once got a copy of Crazy Climber at the Sally for 50 cents a couple years ago Results 1 - 10 of about 8,110,000 for sally canada. Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. - Sally Beauty Supply Canada Sally Canada Storefront In 2004, www.sallybeautyholdings.com/holdings/sallyCanada.asp - 7k - i would have never thought of looking there! Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tremoloman2006 Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 (edited) Bounty Bob Strikes Back for the 5200, in 1997 at the Raynham Flea Market ("scratch the itch!") in Raynham, MA. There was a guy who sold 2600 carts for $3 and 5200 carts for $5 "because they're bigger." I used to buy pretty much anything I didn't have, as this was before I really was on r.g.v.c. or the web and had no idea about rarity or anything. I don't think many people did back then. It took at least a year or two before I realized what a deal it was --especially since I talked the guy down to $3 for each cart, regardless of system. I bought a bunch that day--had a copy of Zone Ranger in there as well.Do you still live in the area? That flea market is still alive and well... I got to it regularly but have yet to score any deals such as yours. One of the best flea markets out there for sure. I've gotten lots of deals on other great stuff there, just not any cool Atari stuff... yet. SCRATCH THE ITCH! http://www.raynhamflea.com/ Edited June 30, 2008 by tremoloman2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.golden.ax Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Stadium Mud Buggies - Intellivision for 49 CENTS.... CIB! Had no clue for three years that it was worth any more than I paid. AX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaManFan Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 I got Tomarc the Barbarian not once but TWICE from the same location on different occasions. $1 each. I kept one, sold the other. I complete a vast majority of my R2 up through 7 at the same location as well. Unfortunately after that the well dried up, but it was a good run while it lasted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kroogur Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 I snagged Chase the Chuckwagon for $.95 at the local Community Thrift store on Babcock Blvd. over in the North Hills area. It's been years since I went there but they usually had cool stuff there in addition to Atari and Intellivision games like Commodore computers and such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianoid Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Lochjaw 40 cents Rabbit Transit proto $1 in a large lot with other rare stuff but no other protos I Want My Mommy complete $2 (had to throw in a more memorable boxed score, since I have so few of those) Intellivision test cartridge (no label) ($1?) NES test cartridge $4 etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari5200 Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Track N Field, $1, Off the Wall $1.99, River Raid II, can't remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 I found Road Runner and Xenophobe for the 2600 at the local flea some months ago. I'm not certain exactly how much they came up to on account that I bought them along with a bunch of other items from the same seller. They couldn't have been more that $2 or $3 though. At that same flea market but from a different vendor I purchased the Xonox Double Ender cart, Artillery Duel/Spike's Peak in a box with a bunch of other carts and a very dirty vader 2600 for $15. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaxda Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 and it still costs only a buck to get in! love it. i have many happy happy memories from there and definitely some great buys, not just video game stuff. my sweet AR speakers came from there! Bounty Bob Strikes Back for the 5200, in 1997 at the Raynham Flea Market ("scratch the itch!") in Raynham, MA. There was a guy who sold 2600 carts for $3 and 5200 carts for $5 "because they're bigger." I used to buy pretty much anything I didn't have, as this was before I really was on r.g.v.c. or the web and had no idea about rarity or anything. I don't think many people did back then. It took at least a year or two before I realized what a deal it was --especially since I talked the guy down to $3 for each cart, regardless of system. I bought a bunch that day--had a copy of Zone Ranger in there as well.Do you still live in the area? That flea market is still alive and well... I got to it regularly but have yet to score any deals such as yours. One of the best flea markets out there for sure. I've gotten lots of deals on other great stuff there, just not any cool Atari stuff... yet. SCRATCH THE ITCH! http://www.raynhamflea.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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