The Official "Thrift finds" Thread

[Dusk2600]

past few days....

 

Ps1:

in the hunt 5.99

gta 2 free from gf

tenka traded for poster

 

C64 plug n play 2.99 clearence at KB

 

400 watt amp 1.00

new car 5X7 speakers 1.00

Ford ranger repair guide 2.00

dvd holder 2.00

crash bandicoot pinball game 2.50

 

DVD's

popye .25

tom and jerry .25

dan quixote .25

woody woodpecker .25

toonfactory 1 and 2 .25 each

our gang .25

westward ho .25

cartoon craze 1&2 .25 each

rob roy .25

 

the death of the incredible hulk 1.00

D1 crash kings .99

godzilla 2000 1.00

swordfish 1.00

godzillas revenge 1.00

 

EB: 1.99 buy 2 get 1

dead man walking

island of the dead

out of season

drifter

got 2 otherones and sold them for 6.00 so i paid 2.00 for all 4 dvd's

[RickHarrisMaine]

Gamestop combination buy 2 get one free, and 75% off Playstation stuff

 

Syphon Filter 3 (complete)

Driver (complete, GH)

The Raiden Project (loose, but in nice shape)

 

Total---$2.55

[EricDeLee]

Had a couple great finds last night.

 

Dragon Warrior II NES 4.00 (I have this CIB now thank's to finding loose game)

Dragon Warrior III NES 4.00

Joe and Mac NES 4.00

Laser Invasion NES 4.00

3 Plastic NES Case's Free

 

 

Great find there Ghost. I'm not sure what the other games are worth, but the DW games are worth a lot more than the $4 you paid them! Plus, as I'm sure you know, they are fun to play.

[shadow460]

Game X Change in Norman, OK:

Jr. Pac-Man

Spacechase (un monogrammed)

Superman (Atari pic, bad end label)

Taz

Gyruss

Skate Boardin'

 

and the cream of the crop...

 

River Raid II

 

All of those were $0.95 each. I also purchased Shinobi for the Game Gear for $3.95.

[edweird13]

My wife found a big lot of 2600 stuff.

2600 Woody works(the RCA jack was cut off)

Sears Super Video Arcade II with one controller

2 sets of Indy 500 driving controllers(one of the controllers is bad though)

3 sets of paddle controllers

2 Spectravideo controllers

2 Video Touch pads

1 set of Remote Controll Controllers

Over 120 games(with some dupes)

all for 45.00 USD

[Bruce Tomlin]

I found a big load of Atari 800 stuff yesterday...

 

Atari Touch Tablet, with pen, box, and packing foam (no instructions or cartridge, but I should have an extra cart for it)

Two Atari 800 computers, one power brick, and a Frogger cart in one of them (and some keys missing from each, but I have spare keys)

Atari 800XL with power brick

Indus GT floppy drive with power brick

Two 6-foot I/O cables

Parallel printer interface

CX-22 trackball

Two CX40 joysticks and one Epyx ergonomic joystick without the knob

(I passed up the one quickshot and two pointmaster joysticks)

 

That and some other stuff cost me $25.

[starwardude]

And now a good weekend. again, not really found at thrift stores. some tag sale.

Gotten free:

Part of a server, \

some motherbaords, \

a power supply, > being thrown away by some people

2 pentium 3's, /

2 ram sticks, /

a radioshack chronomath clock/calculator/stopwatch/calendar thing, \

old glass bottle (it says "H.J. Heinz Co. 13" on the bottom, ketchup?), > from a failed tag sale

a webcam, _______________________________________________/

electronic ignition switch from a grill that was being thrown out (still works).

 

Purchased:

An Adlake "Adams" railroad lantern sans globe, ~ grade C (surface rust, can be restored), marked for New York, New Haven and Hartford RR : $5 (that tag sale was about over I guess they're moving away or something.)

Good weekend.

[Scumdogg]

Small flea market trip this weekend, picked up a couple goodies.

 

Genesis games, complete:

 

Tinhead-$5

Road Rash-$4

Beaty and the Beast: Belle's Quest-$3

 

SNES games, loose:

 

Phalanx-$2.50

Hammerlock Wrestling-$2.50

 

Plus, the most interesting find of the day, a cloth Atari dust cover for a console. It's brown with a white Atari logo, and it's in very good shape. It was in a bin with just a bunch of random stuff, nothing else game related, and it only cost a quarter!

[Ghost Soldier]

Had a few more good finds this weekend.

 

Donkey Kong Country 2 SNES 1.99

Little Nemo NES 4.00

Big Nose the Caveman NES 1.50

Zoda's Revenge Star Tropics II CIB NES 1.50

Instruments of Chao's CIB Gen 4.00

[classicgamer24]

found at salvation army bust a move 2 arcade edition and namco collection for n64

4 bucks each

[Ghost Soldier]

found at salvation army bust a move 2 arcade edition and namco collection for n64

4 bucks each

Bust a move 2 AE is a great find.

[hattg]

Not real exciting, but I picked up The Wizard DVD for a buck at the swap meet. Can't pass it up for that price.

[***astro_boy***]

on sunday picked up a sega master system 2 console and two boxed games for $3au

[classicgamer24]

why thank you ghost soldier i try i try

you also have had great luck yourself homie

 

also today at lunch went to goodwill and found

n64 game shark and

star wars shadow game 2.99 each !!

[orangest]

(everything but wizardry V was found at a goodwill last week. wizardry V was found at the same goodwill today.)

 

all for IBM PC:

 

ultima trilogy and ultima the second trilogy by origin. also, the official book of ultima.

 

wizardry-proving grounds, knight of diamonds, legacy of llylgamyn, heart of the maelstrom and bane of the cosmic forge.

 

all of the games are complete and were kept in great shape. bane of the cosmic forge has 2 copies of the playmaster's guide; one has page numbers on the outside corners of the pages, one has them in the inside corners. there are also 2 sets of the 3.5" and 5.25" disks; one of each set has "new" written on the label (3.5") and the disk sleeve (5.25").

 

the 4 smaller wizardry games were $1.99, the ultima games and bane of the cosmic forge were $2.99. the book was $.49.

Edited May 8, 2007 by orangest

[RickHarrisMaine]

Craigslist find

 

 

$100 bucks for an X-Box display unit.

[RickHarrisMaine]

Craigslist find

 

 

$100 bucks for an X-Box display unit.

[Bruce Tomlin]

Found Zoom for Genesis yesterday, with box and instructions, $5.

 

And I forgot to mention that in with all that Atari 800 stuff this past weekend, I also found a 4-port 5200 RF switchbox.

[DrLove0378]

Not really a game-related find, but I made a huge score nonetheless, today.

 

I hit up the local thrift today, and came upon a huge load of CED (SelectaVision) movies that somebody had taken a disliking to. They wanted $1.00 each, but I asked the manager what kind of deal she could cut me, if I bought them ALL at once.

 

Apparently desperate to get rid of them, she gave them to me for HALF PRICE -- I ended up paying about $60 for all 120+ discs. They were mostly older movies (1920s-1950s), as well as a few "educational" titles, and a few of the rarer cartoon titles such as Tom & Jerry Cartoon Festival were in the lot, as well as a few CED's I already had, which I plan on reselling.

 

One thing's for sure: those suckas are HEAVY. But thank God this wasn't a Goodwill store I found these in -- they wouldn't have budged from sticker price, in which case I would have had to pass on them.

[Wester]

Not really a game-related find, but I made a huge score nonetheless, today.

 

I hit up the local thrift today, and came upon a huge load of CED (SelectaVision) movies that somebody had taken a disliking to. They wanted $1.00 each, but I asked the manager what kind of deal she could cut me, if I bought them ALL at once.

 

Apparently desperate to get rid of them, she gave them to me for HALF PRICE -- I ended up paying about $60 for all 120+ discs. They were mostly older movies (1920s-1950s), as well as a few "educational" titles, and a few of the rarer cartoon titles such as Tom & Jerry Cartoon Festival were in the lot, as well as a few CED's I already had, which I plan on reselling.

 

One thing's for sure: those suckas are HEAVY. But thank God this wasn't a Goodwill store I found these in -- they wouldn't have budged from sticker price, in which case I would have had to pass on them.

 

 

Nice find on those CED's, can't get them much cheaper than that.

 

Found a few things today:

 

Intellivision w/boxed Intellivoice

 

Games all complete:

Beauty and the Beast

Auto Racing

Space Spartans

Frogger

Lock 'N' Chase

Major League Baseball

Word Fun

Kool-Aid Man

Pitfall

Math Fun

Astrosmash

B-17 Bomber

 

NBA Jam TE Officail Player's Guide

Original Mattel Electronic Football

[***astro_boy***]

got an atari 7800 console complete yesterday for $3au

[plaidbrad3141]

I've been finding some good NES stuff lately.

Menace Beach

Attack of the killer Tomatos

Shock Wave

Mutant Virus

King of Kings

Klash Ball

Circus Caper

Jurasic Park

M.U.S.C.L.E.

Exodus, Journey to the Promised Land

 

All $2-$4 range.

 

And a Radar (Zellers) 2600

[PsychedelicShaman]

Finds in the last month:

 

Mini SNES system with 2 controllers $20

super mario all-stars, super mario kart, and 3 others all for $10

 

a few NES games for $1 each (can't remember which ones)

gb color with battery pack, case, ac adaptor $8

 

Goodwill - got a rare(?) sega game called Gaiares for $3 missing instructions, cartridge is mint.

Also got a PSX old-style with 2 controllers memory card, power and a/v cables with a driver disc inside with no scratches for $15.

 

What I have learned from all of this is: go hunting during the week. I never find anything saturday, but I've been able to find nice items during the middle of the week.

[Ghost Soldier]

Didn't find to much last night.

 

Dynamite Headdy CIB Gen 4.00

Game Genie W/Booklet Gen 4.00

[Hoodoo]

Me?

 

Sega CD version of Snatcher sealed=$5

Conker's Bad Fur Day(loose cart)=$1.99

various "classic" strategy guides at $1 a piece, highlights including Majora's Mask, FFVII, Chrono Trigger (SNES Version), and several VERY early issues of Nintendo Power, all in polybags, all mint, 50 in collection

 

A Discwasher branded PointMaster stick for the VCS for 25 cents....I'm sure most aren't familiar with it,but I had one in the long ago that I played into submission and always wanted another, finding it for a quarter was a delight!