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bust3dstr8! that gray 15-cartridge nes game holder is what i have! i thought i was the only person in the world who had it, as i tried to find it multiple times, but found nothing! i bought mine at a flea market when i was like 9 years old, (along with a nice big 12-inch batman statue...yeah!) well, i always wanted to know if there was any like label, emblems, etc. on it? mine is just blank w/ the little rubber feet on one side......awesome that somebody else has this! I'll buy it from you.....that is if you dont want it ;)

 

I have one of those too. But this one, and apparently yours are missing the door. There is a grey door that goes all the way across the front and swings down to open.

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Found a new used music and game store. Yay! Collecting is fun.

 

All COMPLETE, paid about $75 for all of it. Didn't get an all out awesome deal, but I didn't get ripped IMO either, fair pricing for a bunch of complete stuff.

 

Genesis:

-Truxton

-Ghouls n Ghosts

-Jeopardy

-Desert Strike

-Lost Vikings

-Task Force Harrier EX

 

SMS:

-Rambo III

-Altered Beast

-Space Harrier

-Enduro Racer

-Shinobi

-Double Dragon

-Thunder Blade

-Fantasy Zone

-Monopoly

-F16 Fighting Falcon

-My Hero

-Ghost House

 

SNES:

-Super Nova

-Sim Earth

-American Gladiators (loose)

 

NES:

Rad Racer 2 ($3 complete)

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I stopped into Goodwill before work today... and to say the least, I'm glad I stopped! I found a bunch of NES games!

 

Adventures of Bayou Billy, The

American Gladiators

Bart vs. the World*

Baseball Stars*

Castlevania*

Caveman Games*

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers*

Donkey Kong Classics*

Final Fantasy*

Kings of the Beach

Kirby's Adventure

Jordan vs. Bird One on One*

Major League Baseball*

Metal Gear

Metroid ("Classic Series" re-release)

Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!*

Pinball

Skate or Die*

Super Mario Bros.* (stand-alone)

T&C Surf Designs

Tecmo Bowl

Tecmo Super Bowl*

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Time Lord*

Total Recall

Wario's Woods*

 

(Titles with a star beside them are the ones I didn't already have.)

 

They were marked 99¢ each. Since I was buying ALL of them, they gave me a price of 59¢ each.

Total, with tax = $16.61.

 

BUT... I had a full "Value Card" at my disposal. (Every time you spend $15, you get it stamped. With 10 stamps on the card, you get $15 [plus tax] worth of free stuff.) I don't know if they do that elsewhere in the country -- I'm located in southeast TX.

 

I ended up paying $0.04 for all these games. Some of which are rare.

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Dr. Love:My goodwill has that too, only every time you spend $10 you get it punched, and the 10th time, you get $10 off. My goodwill sells all videogames for $3 a piece, except oddysey2 which they sell for $0.50 a piece, and i found a winnie the pooh sega pico game for $7.50, dont know what they are worth, but i aint payin $7.50 for a winnie the pooh sega pico game unless it is rare.

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Left:

Nine catbox games including Cybermorph (no idea what that's worth)

 

Picked up:

River Raid and Keystone Kapers for the 5200

RealSports Boxing, Q*Bert, and Gangster Alley for the 2600

 

This was from the Game X Change at 240 and Penn, if anyone from OKC on here is interested in the catbox games.

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Went by the Goodwill "Blue Hanger" (aka Salvage) yesterday just because I felt like shopping. Paid cheap for a bunch of stuff, including a Street Fighter II Special Championship Edition for Genesis, with box/instructions (which I didn't have before).

 

But the cool part was that I found an empty CD sleeve for SCUS-94618 "Playstation Demo Disc Version 1.3", then came home and realized that I had a sleeveless disc for it! Kick ass!

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Found a ton of crazy shit today:

 

game pro issue 1 Free(for sale in marketplace)

 

paid 16 for this only mine has a nicer box

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9ibyiE8b_1FaRUA...stroCommand.htm

 

16.00 coleco alien attack

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9ibyiHbb_1FGhUA...AlienAttack.htm

 

10.00 1981 galaxian 2 (entex)

 

snes with 2 controlers no games 5.00

 

Atari 2600 games:

pole postin' error end label 1.00

starwars arcade game 5.00

moosnsweeper 1.00 (blue activision)

racquetball 4.00

 

atari comp choplifter 5.00

 

unsolved mysteries box set (ghosts) 12.00

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Went to a few goodwills in plainfield, Indiana and one in Ohio. Here is the stuff I found.

 

N64 System w/power supply, and expansion pak .99

APF TV Fun System .99

Sega Saturn Eclipse Controller .99

NES Cleaning System CIB Like New .99

Sonic 2 Game Gear .99

Masters of the Universe 2600 1.99

Anticipation NES 1.99

Kid Icarus NES 1.99 <~Awesome Find

Pinball! NES Manual Free

Sanitarium, Ski Resort PC NIB 2.49

Vortex SNES 1.00

Virtua Fighter 32x 1.00

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Ghost Soldier, that's amazing for Goodwill...i haven't found one in Ohio that sells games that cheap in years. Everything around here starts at $3 or $4 and just goes up from there. And don't even get me started on the number of N64 systems i've seen sitting in Goodwills for $30 or $40. :(

 

I need an expansion pack pretty badly for mine, as well as that Masters of the Universe Atari game. PM me if you're interested in unloading either of them for a reasonable price.

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Ghost is always lucky.....especially with the Masters of the Universe find and Kid Icarus (haven't seen that game anywhere)

I wanna go thriftin' with him. :D

I almost broke into a dance when I stumbled across kid icarus. It was with a bunch of nes games I already had. I thought of buying them too but left' em. What I left behind was Dragon Warrior, Black Bass, Jeopardy, and a couple others. I also left behind two 2600 games: Dark Cavern, and Football. I have the wife and kids keeping a watchful lookout in other area's of the stores. My son tends to find controller's in the toy boxes. On occasion my wife finds a few games thrown in with the households. Ne-time you wanna go pres I'll take ya along.

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i'd tag along except i live in ohio :D j/p where in ohio is that goodwiil at? I live in Northern Central Ohio, Marion, OH to be exact, just found out there is a flea market near the city, so i went there, nothing, it was some little small country place, only thing video game related they had was a ps1 w/ I/O port, but lol $35 is a bit much. I heard form a friedn that there is one closer, that is actually in the city, but i havent been able to find it by searching mapquest, maybe tho, it will actually be big and i will get a few good finds, but i doubt it.

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i'd tag along except i live in ohio :D j/p where in ohio is that goodwiil at? I live in Northern Central Ohio, Marion, OH to be exact, just found out there is a flea market near the city, so i went there, nothing, it was some little small country place, only thing video game related they had was a ps1 w/ I/O port, but lol $35 is a bit much. I heard form a friedn that there is one closer, that is actually in the city, but i havent been able to find it by searching mapquest, maybe tho, it will actually be big and i will get a few good finds, but i doubt it.

It was right outside of huber heights. On Levgee Road(or something close to that) at the cedarville exit.

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i'd tag along except i live in ohio :D j/p where in ohio is that goodwiil at? I live in Northern Central Ohio, Marion, OH to be exact, just found out there is a flea market near the city, so i went there, nothing, it was some little small country place, only thing video game related they had was a ps1 w/ I/O port, but lol $35 is a bit much. I heard form a friedn that there is one closer, that is actually in the city, but i havent been able to find it by searching mapquest, maybe tho, it will actually be big and i will get a few good finds, but i doubt it.

It was right outside of huber heights. On Levgee Road(or something close to that) at the cedarville exit.

 

Oh great. So the one non-corrupt Goodwill in Ohio is only like half an hour from my house, but in a town where there's absolutely no other reason to go. :)

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SCORE!!!!

 

 

alright.. not video game related.. nor from a thrift store..

but still teh awesomeness!

 

and old school Dukane Micromatic film strip projector with built in turntable!

 

and the bitch works!

 

I scored this girl when taking a load of crap from one of the properties to the dump

it was sitting in the "too good to waste" pile

 

so the price?

 

FREE!

 

well.. unless you count the $3 fee to dump stuff :ponder:

 

now all I need is some film strips :D

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Great score at the Goodwill Salvage today. A blue GBA with good batteries for $2. It needed the cart slot blown out before it worked with a game, but I got it to work. Also, a late model 1 Genesis (I opened it up and didn't see the port-3 holes on the motherboard) for another $2, and Diablo II Win/Mac (no instructions) for $1.50.

 

I had forgotten how bad the old GBA screen was until I tried to play it. Wow, that's pretty bad. I couldn't see the shots from the bad guys in Galaga at all.

 

Oh, and I forgot to mention last week's find. I went down to New Braunfels to meet with relatives for dinner, and had an extra half hour to kill, so I went down to the Goodwill. They had a bunch of boxed Genesis games for $2 each. I got 688 Attack Sub, Super Battleship, Power Monger, Outlander, and Sword of Vermillion (missing the hint book), and also got a Sega CD Classics/Sherlock Holmes flip-pak (no instructions or sleeve if they came with one) for $2.

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... and also got a Sega CD Classics/Sherlock Holmes flip-pak (no instructions or sleeve if they came with one) for $2.

 

There is a small instruction book/sheet (like 4 pages I think) for Sherlock Holmes, but I don't remember any documentation for the Classics disc. Those flip paks also didn't have any outer sleeve, at least not with my console.

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