The Best Video Game Finds In The Trash!

[fdurso224]

Hi guys,

 

 

What was the best video game finds in the trash? I found a 4ft Nintendo sign back in 1988. It was in front of my local toy store and now its worth about $200-300 for it retail.

 

 

Anthony.....

[jhd]

I once found a (2600) Donkey Kong Jr. cart and a joystick.

 

Not quite game related, but on another occasion, I found a big pile of printer cables, etc. -- I passed on the Zip drive.

 

One evening, I left an old computer desk out by the same bin and it was gone within a few hours.

[HatefulGravey]

I found 4 arcade machines at a dump once. I'm not normally the kind to bring things home from the dump, but I had to.

 

One was a 4 slot Neo Geo machine. When I opened it there was a shelf built into the front door. The 4 slot machine still worked, there were 4 games in it, and another 10 or so on the shelf in the door. The monitor was out and I guess the original owners thought the unit was completely screwed. I sold the guts for more then enough to make a MAME machine from the cab. When I look back I kind of wish I had restored the machine, but I love my MAME machine to so who knows.

 

The other 3 machines were only good for the cabs themselves. I gutted them and I'm building some friends MAME machines too when they decide to get to it.

 

I was happy with my dumpster find.

[Pong]

Super Mario Galaxy, still sealed, after it came out. Wow.

 

But, nothing retro, still hoping for a NES. Or a job.

[4Ks]

My brother once found a Nintendo Power in the trash. It wasn't in the best condition, but it was pretty cool.

[Reinhardt]

I found 4 arcade machines at a dump once. I'm not normally the kind to bring things home from the dump, but I had to.

 

One was a 4 slot Neo Geo machine. When I opened it there was a shelf built into the front door. The 4 slot machine still worked, there were 4 games in it, and another 10 or so on the shelf in the door. The monitor was out and I guess the original owners thought the unit was completely screwed. I sold the guts for more then enough to make a MAME machine from the cab. When I look back I kind of wish I had restored the machine, but I love my MAME machine to so who knows.

 

The other 3 machines were only good for the cabs themselves. I gutted them and I'm building some friends MAME machines too when they decide to get to it.

 

I was happy with my dumpster find.

 

Lucky man...lucky.

[A2600]

A really good monitor I used with my Atari 800 and the XE

 

I think it was made by SEARS or JCPenny I think SEARS

[Seob]

4 Videopac (Odyssey2) Prototypes, we'll my dad found them on the dumpyard, sold them for more then enough money to buy me a ps3 when it first came out.

A Laser 2001 boxed, that i sold for more then 150 dollar, 2 comx35 that i sold for 100 dollar, that where the big ones i recall.

[TheGameCollector]

I found my cousin's Zelda: Majora's Mask Player's Guide in the recycling at my own place and took it back inside to my bookshelf. I guess my uncle did it because he was selling most of his Nintendo 64 stuff for Gamecube stuff back then.

[Arkhan]

I found a Virtual Boy, in working condition!

 

Talk about bringin' the trash home.

 

 

My favorite find in the trash was an Atari 2600 w/ a crate of games. I had most of the games so I traded them for ones I didn't have, but man was that funny. I drove by as the person was dumping them on the lawn so I slammed on my breaks, got out and went "hi ill take those" and threw them in my car and drove off, lol.

 

I made sure to ask "got anything else?" before I left. They said "no. were keepin the colecovision".

 

Man if they'd tossed out a Colecovision... oh man.