bennybingo Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 I think this one speaks for itself..... ....... ..... ..... Yes, it is complete. Yes, it works. Yes, it was $3.99. Yes, I had a heart attack and fell over as soon as I saw it. $4.27 with tax! Envy and jealousy do not even begin to describe.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebus Capucinis Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 Just played my first solo game of Dark Tower. Damn plague killed all my warriors! BULLSHIT! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangest Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 Yes, it is complete. Yes, it works. Yes, it was $3.99. Yes, I had a heart attack and fell over as soon as I saw it. $4.27 with tax! And I thought the complete one I found years ago for $10 was a good deal...nice! Last couple of days... Max Roach-Max George Russell and His Orchestra-Jazz in the Space Age Roland Kirk-Introducing Roland Kirk Albert Ayler-Live in Greenwich Village x2 Dewey Redman-The Ear of the Behearer Archie Shepp-Four for Trane Benny Carter-Further Definitions Pharoah Sanders-Summun Bukmun Umyun The bottom six are still sealed-$.99 each. THX Not for Resale demonstration laserdisc-$.99. This and the CDs were found at a St. Vincent de Paul thrift. Star Wars Trilogy widescreen box in longbox package, still sealed-$9.99 at Goodwill. Rhino Records Beg, Scream & Shout '60s Soul box-$9.99 at a different Goodwill. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grig Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 I have found two working complete Dark Towers games in my lifetime - both within the last 4 years. I played them (incredible game) and was able to sell them for a nifty profit. If I was more into board games I would have kept one - but alas, bills always play the Spade ... anyway, great find for $4!!!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grig Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 Orangest, get that 'Special Edition' blasphemy out of your house immediately! ... for a nice profit, of course 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 I found a decent little lot of gameboy/gameboy color games at Value Village - package of 6 for $10 Track and Field Loony Tunes Babs something or other Donkey Kong Land Super Mario Land Tony Hawk 2 R-Type DX and last weekend I picked this up for $4. Haven't opened it yet but probably will. Interesting little display piece at best. I think there were half a dozen of these made like Asteroids, Pacman, Missile Command, etc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seob Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Been to a retro fair today and bought the following stuff/traded. Traded 2 working gamegears for the game Mage for the Videopac/odyssey2 Bought the following games Pepper II cart + manual for Colecovision Vectron boxed for intellivision Bogey blaster boxed voor atari 2600 King Kong cart for atari 2600 Miner 2049 cart for atari 2600 Chase Hq boxed for gameboy Robocop vs terminator boxed for game gear Super starwars return of the jedi cart for game gear Zool cart. for game gear And for only 10 euro i bought a boxed Amstrad GX4000 console. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seob Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 (edited) forgot to post the pic. Edited September 30, 2012 by Seob 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fushek Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Went to Savers today.....had a pretty normal thrift day, found some 2600 commons for $4.99 each, passed on those...... Found the Dilbert board game for $3.99. That's pretty damn cool! This game looks pretty basic, but definitely funny for a couple games with friends. ....... ........ ....... I think this one speaks for itself..... ....... ..... ..... Yes, it is complete. Yes, it works. Yes, it was $3.99. Yes, I had a heart attack and fell over as soon as I saw it. $4.27 with tax! Wow ... been hoping to find this in the wild for a while. Had it as a kid (a Christmas gift from my only cool uncle!). What a great find ... I've been wanting to play it again! Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
number six Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Hey Nice Finds guys! Couple of comments -- I see a lot of people pulling stuff out of Vintage Stock. Man you are so lucky to have one of those near you. We visited my wife's family in Tulsa over Christmas and I about flipped out when I saw one. Got some nasty wife looks but tried to visit everyone in/around Tulsa over the trip. (Oh we're in Broken arrow? Hey think we can stop by...) Think I made it to 4 or 5 locations. That store is awesome. Music, Video, Toys and vintage games under one roof? Man.. and Tulsa has like 6 of them! Insanity. Probably good thing I don't live there actually.. I brought a big box of crap home. Glad we rented a mini-van. Score on the Dark Tower. I always wanted one of those.. I remember the commercials from back in the 80s and just thought that was the coolest thing ever. I don't think I ever played it although I think i remember going to a kids house who had it but he refused to set it up. Jerk! Over the years i've found a couple of electronic games but it's mostly endless copies of 'Stop Thief!' or whatever that one is with the handheld device.. nowhere near as cool. Honestly Thrifting for classics here has taken a bit of a slide since the proliferation of eBay. Back in the day (as the kids say) used to score decently.. especially at used video game / rental places. Now everyone is so ebay aware you've got no chance. Plus the thrift stores are getting greedy. There's a huge goodwill near me but for whatever reason about 6 months ago they decided every video game was now $6.06. Doesn't matter if it's Madden 2003 for the Playstation or Barneys Sing-a-long for the PC, it's $6.06. Really sucks as obviously few common/uncommons of any sort are worth that and mostly that's all you are going to find. Still.. here's a find from that same Goodwill a few months ago: Jag w/CD Unit for $10. Shockingly was complete with 2 controllers, power supplies and video cable. Looked like somebody smeared crap into the controllers but otherwise fine.. working perfectly. Was stoked because the JagCD is one of the few consoles I never got. It just seemed insane to spend $200 for something you knew was basically DOA. Unlike the Jag it never really got discounted either.. it just kinda dissapeared, probably because they made so few. What was funny was there were thrift reseller/ebay vulture types sorting through the electronics at the time (another common staple now) guess they didn't know what it was or didn't spot it. Probably the same people that eventually buy the copies of 2600 Missile Command for $6 hoping its worth something. Suckers! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck D. Head Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Here is most of my crap from PRGE: Some boxed Intv commons Didnt really need another RS Electronics Kit, but this one is older - 1967, and had.... 47 year old batteries in perfect condition! random $1 games mostly The last two US N64's I needed to find These three awesome posters for the game room: Not pictured: Also got a boxed Hyperscan with extra controller and games for $12, not sure why, the Road Warriors 2600 homebrew, a cool AA shirt, and more. So far I am getting the most use out of the Master Gear converter. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seob Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Hey Nice Finds guys! Couple of comments -- I see a lot of people pulling stuff out of Vintage Stock. Man you are so lucky to have one of those near you. We visited my wife's family in Tulsa over Christmas and I about flipped out when I saw one. Got some nasty wife looks but tried to visit everyone in/around Tulsa over the trip. (Oh we're in Broken arrow? Hey think we can stop by...) Think I made it to 4 or 5 locations. That store is awesome. Music, Video, Toys and vintage games under one roof? Man.. and Tulsa has like 6 of them! Insanity. Probably good thing I don't live there actually.. I brought a big box of crap home. Glad we rented a mini-van. Score on the Dark Tower. I always wanted one of those.. I remember the commercials from back in the 80s and just thought that was the coolest thing ever. I don't think I ever played it although I think i remember going to a kids house who had it but he refused to set it up. Jerk! Over the years i've found a couple of electronic games but it's mostly endless copies of 'Stop Thief!' or whatever that one is with the handheld device.. nowhere near as cool. Honestly Thrifting for classics here has taken a bit of a slide since the proliferation of eBay. Back in the day (as the kids say) used to score decently.. especially at used video game / rental places. Now everyone is so ebay aware you've got no chance. Plus the thrift stores are getting greedy. There's a huge goodwill near me but for whatever reason about 6 months ago they decided every video game was now $6.06. Doesn't matter if it's Madden 2003 for the Playstation or Barneys Sing-a-long for the PC, it's $6.06. Really sucks as obviously few common/uncommons of any sort are worth that and mostly that's all you are going to find. Still.. here's a find from that same Goodwill a few months ago: Jag w/CD Unit for $10. Shockingly was complete with 2 controllers, power supplies and video cable. Looked like somebody smeared crap into the controllers but otherwise fine.. working perfectly. Was stoked because the JagCD is one of the few consoles I never got. It just seemed insane to spend $200 for something you knew was basically DOA. Unlike the Jag it never really got discounted either.. it just kinda dissapeared, probably because they made so few. What was funny was there were thrift reseller/ebay vulture types sorting through the electronics at the time (another common staple now) guess they didn't know what it was or didn't spot it. Probably the same people that eventually buy the copies of 2600 Missile Command for $6 hoping its worth something. Suckers! nice score on the jagcd. love to get one, for that price. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOMnation Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 (edited) I found this at an Antique Store the other day for $2 I thought it was pretty neat, not sure why it was in an Antique store though. Edited October 3, 2012 by DOMnation 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ussexplorer Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Once joystick and a sealed game. They also had 2 atari joysticks in a original box. But the box was beat to crapola and they wanted 10.00 for that. No, got enough joysticks. TTFN, Josh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asaki Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Haven't been able to thrift much lately, since they put us back on third. I'm "temporarily" on first this week and next though, so maybe I'll run into something nice. A new one for my local goodwill.... printed paper CD case inserts and burned discs for computer games. I see those at thrifts a lot...I like to browse through them and giggle. One time I actually found a CD of a local band I was friends with in high school, couldn't believe it, snagged that straight up. Yes, it is complete. Yes, it works. Yes, it was $3.99. Yes, I had a heart attack and fell over as soon as I saw it. $4.27 with tax! I was pretty stoked when I found HeroQuest at Goodwill one time. Not complete, but most of the pieces are there...just missing 3/4 of the player pieces (we use Clue pieces instead) and some of the furniture. All of the cards are there. Still haven't gotten through the whole thing...my friends always get discouraged when they start goofing off and get killed >_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asaki Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Nope. I found a DVD and that was about it. I thought it was The Pirates of Penzance with a different title (The Pirate Movie), but it's actually something completely different from the previous year. But at least my brief research revealed that the movie I was after finally did get a DVD release two years ago, so it's not a complete loss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangest Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Quake II-Quad Damage & Quake-The Offering, both sealed-$5.99 each at Goodwill. $5.99 at the same Goodwill. From the Salvation Army down the block from the Goodwill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanrunomad Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Not a game, buy a toy. It's a Tomy Crackbot from 1985, still with its original box. I made a video last night when I just got it. http://youtu.be/8FtUNDagE1g 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRGilbert Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Not a game, buy a toy. It's a Tomy Crackbot from 1985, still with its original box. I made a video last night when I just got it. That's sweet, I love the Tomy robots and have quite a few too. I also have Crackbot, but just the bot, not the box. Where did you find him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.golden.ax Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Great day of 50% off Goodwill sales. Did hit a couple flea markets too along the way. Found a dream booth at a flea market with hundreds of games... until I looked at the prices. I was bummed out all day just because they were nuts. Examples: PS1 systems $25, N64 Systems $40, NES Mario/Duck $5, all PS3 titles $35+, PS2 $25+ each, XBOX1 $15 - $30 each, SNES $15+ even Mario World 1, N64 $20+ each.... it was admittedly some good titles, but in all seriousness, they were easily 200% or more above eBay... and NO deals or discounts. (Why even bother to have a booth? No one was buying.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Had a pretty good day at the flea market my fiancée and I like to go to: $40 - Sega Saturn Model 1 w/1 controller + 3 CIB PS1 games (PO'ed, Starwinder, Treasures of the Deep) + SMS R-Type CIB $1 - King's Field PS1 (just loose disc) $2 - six VCS manuals, all in great shape (including Mountain King, Squeeze Box) $20 - two SMS 3D games (Blade Eagle 3D and Poseidon Wars 3D), both CIB, plus a bonus N64 game (1080 Snowboarding) (this came from the same dealer I got my Vectrex from; great guy with great prices on more offbeat stuff) $6 - Stellar-Fire (Sega CD) CIB in a clean case + Genesis Lost Vikings loose (I had an empty case & manual waiting at home) free - Game Gear Joe Montana Football Plus some cheap jazz DVDs ($2 each, all sealed) and classical music CDs (less than 50 cents each, thanks to a very nice lady who cut me a great deal). I probably paid a bit too much for the Saturn package, but I've been wanting one and didn't think I'd be likely to find one in person anytime soon, so it beats paying shipping. I had a scare when I got it home and it wouldn't boot anything at first, but after I cleaned the lens with 91% isopropyl it started working fine, and we played a few rounds of Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo. Unfortunately I think the AV jack may have a bad audio connection, but it could be the RF cable; in the meantime I've ordered a Saturn AV cable to find out for sure. Also PO'ed is in sub-par condition and may have disc damage -- that was probably a mistake to grab it but I'm drawn to those 3DO ports, especially in longbox. OTOH, I was thrilled and grateful to get those two SMS 3D games for only $10 each, they're normally much more than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow460 Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Picked up Arcade's Greatest Hits the Atari Collection 1 for the Saturn thinking I needed that one CIB. The naked one I have is actually the Midway collection, so now I have an extra CIB copy of the Atari collection for the Saturn. The disc needs to be buffed out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 A few things in the past week, not everything but the most interesting: GB/GBC games - $1.50 each Pacman Collection GBA - $4 Quad Desert Fury GBA - $2 Mario Kart DS - $4 Side Pocket Genesis CIB - $2 Entex Baseball 3 - $2 Atari 410 drive and Spider Quake - FREE (Thanks to Coleco Hitman here at AA) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Not a game, buy a toy. It's a Tomy Crackbot from 1985, still with its original box. I made a video last night when I just got it. http://youtu.be/8FtUNDagE1g Considering the way that thing moves, I fully understand why they called it "Crack" bot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaperman Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 $20.50 (shipped) off of ebay. (link). According to the auction, it is working, but the crack is probably what kept the price low. A lot more usable than some pricier ones I was looking at. The crack appears largely superficial to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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