+Darrin9999 Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Not a thrift find but a flea market find. $22 for the lot. all games have manuels and 2 overlays.. I was wincing (worried that you'd overpaid) until I saw the Tron: Solar Sailer, which makes that a nice score! Meanwhile I went to what may be the season's last yard sale this morning, and paid $7 total for Super Mario Sunshine CIB (GameCube), Blue Stinger CIB (Dreamcast), and a loose NES Lolo 1. Not a steal, but I'm glad to be able to upgrade my manual-less Super Mario Sunshine, and I'm curious about Blue Stinger since I used to have the (J) version but was never able to get it to work on my US DC. I've heard it's lousy, but I like certain kinds of lousy. The TV was included for the $22 plus the games.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 The TV was included for the $22 plus the games.. Well, then that's a great deal indeed! Tron Solar Sailer is a $15 game CIB, so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmbe Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 With garage sale season coming to an end for 2011, I thought I would post my finds for this year. Church Garage Sale: N64 controller (Nintendo Brand) - 50 cents N64 controller (3rd party) - 50 cents Gamecube controller (3rd party) - 50 cents Playstation Putter Golf (cd only) - 25 cents Neighborhood Garage Sale: N64 Games - 50 cents each Pokemon Puzzle League Diddy Kong Racing Turok 2 Donkey Kong 64 Neighborhood Garage Sale: Strategy Guides - $2 each 007 Nightfire Medal of Honor Super Smash Brothers Melee Perfect Dark Playstation Intelligent Cube (cd with back display) - $2 Church Garage Sale: Warcraft III Strategy Guide - 5 cents Playstation Teken 3 (complete) - 5 cents Neighborhood Garage Sale: PSOne System w/LCD screen and 2 memory cards - $3 Playstation 2 Lord of the Rings The Return of the King (complete) - $2 Here are some pictures: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blur2040 Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 Ah, Craigslist. Jamma PCBS: Soul Edge ver. II Soul Calibur $20 Total I already own the DC Soul Calibur and was more excited about Soul Edge as I have nostalgia for it---remember playing it with my brother in the arcade. Long story short, Soul Edge is a little bit dull (ungh, no pun intended), but Soul Calibur is like butter. It might not look as good as the DC, but I think it plays better on PCB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.golden.ax Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 Ah, Craigslist. Jamma PCBS: Soul Edge ver. II Soul Calibur $20 Total I already own the DC Soul Calibur and was more excited about Soul Edge as I have nostalgia for it---remember playing it with my brother in the arcade. Long story short, Soul Edge is a little bit dull (ungh, no pun intended), but Soul Calibur is like butter. It might not look as good as the DC, but I think it plays better on PCB Lost my Soul Edge cab to the flood, it took on the most water (other than my Peekaboo). It hurt to see them pick it up with a crane and drop it in the disaster clean up truck. Nice little scores there. How random to have those PCBs. I'd find out why and ask him to contact you if he gets any others. Great prices. AX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pce_collector Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 With garage sale season coming to an end for 2011, I thought I would post my finds for this year. Church Garage Sale: N64 controller (Nintendo Brand) - 50 cents N64 controller (3rd party) - 50 cents Gamecube controller (3rd party) - 50 cents Playstation Putter Golf (cd only) - 25 cents Neighborhood Garage Sale: N64 Games - 50 cents each Pokemon Puzzle League Diddy Kong Racing Turok 2 Donkey Kong 64 Neighborhood Garage Sale: Strategy Guides - $2 each 007 Nightfire Medal of Honor Super Smash Brothers Melee Perfect Dark Playstation Intelligent Cube (cd with back display) - $2 Church Garage Sale: Warcraft III Strategy Guide - 5 cents Playstation Teken 3 (complete) - 5 cents Neighborhood Garage Sale: PSOne System w/LCD screen and 2 memory cards - $3 Playstation 2 Lord of the Rings The Return of the King (complete) - $2 Here are some pictures: Nice score on that Intelligent Qube. That's a fun game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Stopped at a local pawn shop and picked up a few things. Nothing special. PS1 games were $5 and the NES game was $3 so $18 total. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbee99 Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 I frequent a local pawn here as well. They got in a box of cords. I dug out 2x PS1 6ft controller extensions and 1x 6ft SNES extension for $3 each. B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacpix Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Picked up a few games at my local game shop. NES: Millipede CIB- $4 Jaws CIB- $5 Snes: Pitfall the Mayan Adventure- $5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lendorien Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 Goodwill Find on Friday: Gameboy Games: Pokemon Red Pokemon Yellow Pokemon Blue Total: $3.00 Huzzah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lendorien Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 (edited) This was gifted to me by a fellow collector in my city who knew I liked Tandy Coco stuff so picked this up for me. Not coco related but a really cool little portable computer nonetheless. Works great. Oh man. I've wanted a TRS-100 or 102 for years. I used a WP-2 (A scaled back Word Processing version) in college for notes for a while. This was in 1999 before laptops were ubiquitous. I had a old HP printer with a parallel port, so I'd dump the notes to the printer when I got home and put them in a binder. It was always fun seeing people's faces when they asked to borrow my notes. I didn't spend much on it either. Only about 20 dollars or so. I eventually sold it when I didn't have use for it any more. Edited November 7, 2011 by Lendorien Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangest Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Found these last night at Goodwill-sealed PS2 Silent Hill 2 and Simpsons Road Rage for $5.99 each. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itchy Koala Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Leaving 'em sealed or opening them orangest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpendTooMuchOnAtari Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Leaving 'em sealed or opening them orangest? I'm thinking that keeping them sealed would be that answer to that one. Nice find, you don't see sealed games at thrifts very often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangest Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Leaving 'em sealed or opening them orangest? I'm thinking that keeping them sealed would be that answer to that one. Definitely SH2, since I've now listed it on Ebay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnapCraft Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Finds: GameCube - Super Mario Sunshine $5 Kenner LED hand-held - "Redline" (2 of them) $1 total Sega Saturn - Memory Card Plus $2 (terrible reviews on Amazon, never knew this knock-off was so bad) Sega Dreamcast - MadCatz Wheel $12 Sega Dreamcast - Sega Smashpack $5 Atari Key-chain (Yars/Centipede) $4 Xbox - TrickStick (arcade joystick) $5 (sealed) ...and the best for last GameCube - Promotional Zelda SEALED $5! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jferio Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Sega Saturn - Memory Card Plus $2 (terrible reviews on Amazon, never knew this knock-off was so bad) It does have a use, despite the problems. As a region lockout override. It's why I'll use mine until it stops working. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 I picked up a Flashback 2 for $10 at a value village a couple days ago BUT it didn't work so I had to return it and since its store credit only I ended up getting a Taito Legends for the original Xbox and a Final Fantasy Legend for the gameboy for $5 each. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.golden.ax Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Sega Saturn - Memory Card Plus $2 (terrible reviews on Amazon, never knew this knock-off was so bad) It does have a use, despite the problems. As a region lockout override. It's why I'll use mine until it stops working. And, it's mostly that the cart slot on Saturn sucks/fails as bad as a Jaguar cart slot. AX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlvinKarpis Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 Had an awesome Garage Sale find today I was driving to the store when I saw a garage sale going on at a house right down the street from me I drove by slow and I saw a bunch of old looking books and what I thought were boxes of records, being a collector of both I decided to stop The books were not what I am into reading, and while they were old I didnt see anything that could have been of value All of the Vinyl was really old, stuff from the 50s, I saw one Elvis X-mas album that was in horrible shape, all the rest of the stuff was in super bad condition, saw some Miles Davis, saw a James Brown, some Dean Martin and Tony Bennet. I was thinking about asking how much if I buy a bunch but the covers were crumbling in my hands So as im walking away the lady says didnt see anything you like? And I said well the real reason I stopped was to see if you had any old Atari or Nintendo games. She says well you know what my sister cleaned out her garage and she brought over some bags of her kids stuff and I think I saw some video games in there. So she went inside to check I could tell that she was at least 50 years old, so if her sister was in her 50s as well there was a good chance that her kids where 25-30 years old. I wasnt expecting anything but then she walked out with a brown bag and said here you go, I looked in and saw a bunch of NES games Right off the bat I saw some Tengen games, Rolling Thunder, Klak, Pacman and Super Sprint I saw The Simpsons Bartman meets Radioactive Man and I knew that it was the least common of the NES Simpson games Some of the games I wasnt sure of the rarity like Star Force and Cyberball (turned out to be common) but the cool thing was that I needed most of these games for my collection Also in the bottom was an NES Max controller So I asked how much do you want for all of them? She said I have no idea I hadnt thought about it, she said give me a number So I said well there are about 25 games here so how about $25 bucks? She said no I wouldnt sell them for that cheap, so I said what were you thinking? She said I was thinking $60 I said no way thats too much, I said look Im not trying to rip you off I promise, I dont see any super rare expensive games here but there are some that I dont have, I will do $30 but thats it Then she said no thanks, $40 is the lowest I will go. So I said ok sorry, have a nice day When I got to my car she said wait, how about $35, I said sorry I only have $30 on me (I lied I had $100 and I knew I had a $10 on me lol) So she ok fine $30, I laughed and said deal and opened my wallet and busted out the $30. I was happy with the games, they were filthy and it took me hours to clean them all but every single one I got working. So far the best garage sale by since I moved back home to Redding Sorry for the crappy picture, the game right below Golgo 13 is Spy vs Spy, right below that is Mega Man 4, right below Kung Fu is Rad Racer. The next stack on the very top is Silent Service, right below Star Force is Cyberball (a really weird game, I tried playing for like 10 mins and threw my hands up in disgust at this robotic football game, I have been playing Tecmo Bowl all week long so I guess Cyberball alreasy had a strike against it lol) the game on the bottom is Mission Impossible My favorites have to be the Tengen games, I know that they are not rare, but most Tengen games are awesome I love Super Sprint (in fact it was in my NES during the picture lol) and I used to rent the Super Sprint Tengen cart from Video Superstation back when I was a kid and I have many fond memories of playing against my younger brothers and kicking their butts then playing the computer all night after they passed out Klax is an awesome Tetris like game Rolling Thunder was a good arcade game, I only played this version for 30 seconds or so to make sure it worked I did not have Ghosts and Goblins and was pumped up to get my hands on this game that I had as a kid and drove me insane from being so hard I used to own Pro Wrestling as a kid and that was the ONLY wrestling game that my friends and I played, we all hated LJNs WWF Wrestlemania with a passion, we played Pro Wrestling all the time! I was ging to buy a copy off Ebay sooner or later and I know its not rare or expensive, but to me its worth more then any game in my collection that is rare and expensive that I dont care to play or didnt grow up with. Thats the key for me with a pickup like this, it was only $30 bucks and I feel like I got my money back just in Pro Wrestling and Super Sprint alone because they will be played alot and they will be cherished parts of my collection Wrecking Crew is another game that I played as a kid and didnt own, I remember borrowing it from my neighbor Jessie. I never got into it, but I remember it for sure So all the rest of the games to me is just gravy on the top of Pro Wrestling and Super Sprint Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpendTooMuchOnAtari Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Nice find, glad you got the lot for $30. I've found the key is to not show too much interest, act like you could take it or leave it when dealing with price haggling. You did the right thing by walking back to your car....that's where you got her, LOL! If the Mega Man 4 is in nice condition, you could probably flip that one on ebay for around half of what you spent on all of it. Just thought I'd let you know, thanks for sharing man! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlvinKarpis Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Nice find, glad you got the lot for $30. I've found the key is to not show too much interest, act like you could take it or leave it when dealing with price haggling. You did the right thing by walking back to your car....that's where you got her, LOL! If the Mega Man 4 is in nice condition, you could probably flip that one on ebay for around half of what you spent on all of it. Just thought I'd let you know, thanks for sharing man! Thanks for the heads up! I never got into Mega Man, so this is the only one that I own, and it is in great shape I have alot of Nintendo games, and I use Nintendo Age to see how rare the games are, I know all about rare Atari and Intellivision games and if I spot any of those games in the wild I know right away iftere are any rare games in the bunch But with Nintendo im never that sure, I mean I know some of the real rare games, but the way Nintendo Age goes about ranking the games for rarity is kind of odd to me Like the games that I thought were rare back in the late 90s (before the internet had lots of places to look) like Super Dodge Ball and Tengen Tetris are rated 5 (average) for rarity which kind of blows my mind that these games are average when I never see them out in the wild Anyways I am happy with the pick up just because I love playing games, even if they suck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangest Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Swap meet finds from yesterday- Sealed GH PS1 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee-$1 LOZ Ocarina of Time Soundtrack CD-$1 JP PS1 Asuka 120% Special Burning Fest.-$.50 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpendTooMuchOnAtari Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Damn Orangest, you find the most amazing stuff. Another great find above, congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbee99 Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Not a video game find but awesome non the less. Especially for those of who who like to make our own cords or dabble in a little bit of other soldering work. Meet Crom! I found him at an "upscale" thrift around here. I rarely go in there because there are no deals to be found. I mean, 3ft stereo RCA cords fetch $3 in there, just to give you an idea of how over priced the place can be. Anyway, Crom was laying there with the Allen screws a little loose so he could not stand up. Labeled as a "novelty lamp" (which he may be), for $6 I got to take him home and tighten him up. He might get a little solder on his feet but I like the light better than the magnifying glass that you usually find on 3rd arms. AND he's more flexible than a horny gymnast! He creeps my wife out for some reason though lol B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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