The Official "Thrift finds" Thread

[Scumdogg]

Man, it's always the people who already OWN Chrono Trigger that keep finding cheap copies of it. I haven't seen a loose copy of it out in the wild for under $40, ever...i suspect i shall never play this game.

[Ghost Soldier]

Great find hoodoo

[classicgamer24]

found today x-men 2 clone wars for the genesis 2.99

[Tara]

Found a 2600 Heavy Sixer in a thift store a few days ago for $7 in pretty decent working condition.. It needed a good cleaning (lots of dust on it), but that's about it. Before that the only Atari console I found in a thrift store was a light sixer, (complete with box that matches the serial number) and some common carts, for $5. That was a few years back.. Also found a like-new never used Reconditioned ColecoVision in box around that time, probably around the same price.

 

I had pretty much given up on finding a Heavy Sixer in anything but an "antique" store (where they'd want $30 and up for it), then this one showed up at my local Savers, and according to the tag, it had only been out since the day before. There were a bunch of loose common carts that hit the shelves at the same time (someone must've been spring cleaning). I grabbed four I didn't have. Today I went in and all the other carts were gone, but this time the joysticks were for sale, so I got a few that were in pretty good shape.

 

-Tara

[Night Driver]

Activision's Atari 2600 Classics- 30 Classic Games on one PC disc! $3

 

NES Super Sprint $2

 

VHS- 'White' $2

 

(Ithaca SalVal)

[edweird13]

2600 games

Crystal Castles

Mega Force

Donkey Kong Jr

Wizard of Wor

Flash Gordon

[Scumdogg]

I got a Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Tiger handheld today in a church rummage sale. I paid $4 total for a big box of stuff including that, some records, and the following books, which i feel are pretty cool for collectors of odd books such as myself:

 

 

"Left Behind" by Tim LaHaye: I bought the book and two VHS tapes about this in one week, all based on a Simpsons reference. I hope it's worth it.

"Satan" by R.I. Humberd

"How to Prepare for Armageddon"

"The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil" by Paul Carus. Features over 350 illustrations of the Devil from around the world. Effing sweet.

"Possession and Exorcism" by Traugott K. Oesterreich

"The Story of Christianity in Japan" by Otis Cary: This copy of the book, dating from 1909, has been in the Library at Yale University, a couple of Theological Seminaries, and a local Baptist Church.

 

I passed on a multivolume set of "The History of the Christian Church" books dating from the mid 1800's, because they were in pretty bad disrepair and i try to limit the amount of fifty pound purchases i make in one day. Church sales always have the best books...

Edited May 19, 2007 by Scumdogg

[rustblackend]

Awesome Book finds Scumdogg!!

 

Flea Market Today:

GBC Super Mario Deluxe CIB like new, does not appear to have been opened

GBC Pokemon Special Pikachu Edition

PSX Frogger

PSX Marble Master

PSX Sim City 2000

PSX Looney Tunes Racing

SNES Yoshi's Island

SNES Contra III

SNES Super Mario World

SNES Zombies Ate my Neighbor

 

Pile of Nintendo Power Magazines

 

Various books and toys and fun things.

Edited May 19, 2007 by rustblackend

[Swingtown]

Today at a local high school garage sale I picked up a Commodore 1802 Color Monitor for $5.

Edited May 21, 2007 by Swingtown

[Atariman]

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

 

Ah! Your Game X Change has better prices than the one in the Lafayette area here! Last time I went, their 2600 games (along with just about all other stuff that is pre-NES) were 3 for $5. Oddly enough, Game X Change is where I picked up my River Raid II as well.

 

Anyway, did my best to wheel and deal at my local used game shop when they called me to let me know that they got a Sega CDX and Power Base Converter - I had a couple extra SegaCD add-ons that I had recently repaired, so I brought those in. For 2 SegaCDs, a barebones Genesis, two power supplies, and about $47, I got them both. It was a fair deal, especially considering that I probably only spent about $12 total on the hardware I traded in. It wouldn't have come with the case if I hadn't been sitting behind the counter and noticed that the official CDX carrying case was in the trash! The manager didn't realize that it wasn't just some generic case or else he wouldn't have thrown it out.

 

So my Genesis family grows... all I need is the model 3 genesis, and my Genesis hardware should be complete...

Edited May 20, 2007 by atariman

[classicgamer24]

nice atariman!!!!!

yesturday goodwill and salvation army

castle of illusions sega genesis

wolverines adamantium

dr robotnik mean machine cib

altered beast cib

 

snes games mario world, tetris 2, and Donkey kong country 3 all for 10 bucks

and on top of the the sega 32x box the mgr of salvation army gave me because i asked her if i can have the box

[Scumdogg]

Yay!! Found two more brick n' mortar game stores in my neck of the woods today, not yet crushed under the bootheel of Gamestop.

 

Here's the haul:

 

2600

Gopher (standard case): $4

 

NES

Legend of the Ghost Lion (complete): $10

 

SNES

Super Baseball Simulator 1.000: $3

The Pagemaster: $3

Yoshi's Cookie: $10

 

Genesis

Tecmo Super Bowl (complete): $3

Hardball III (complete): $3

Superman (complete): $4

Taz in Escape from Mars (complete): $5

McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure (complete): $8

 

 

The only thing i feel we may have overpaid for is Yoshi's Cookie, but my wife wanted that so it's all good. Everything else felt like a pretty sweet deal...it's always awesome to find new sources.

[Fighter17]

Gave away my loose US copy of Gunstar Heroes and got myself this:

 

 

$46 shipped from Hong Kong (no it's not a boot).

 

Packaging is so much better.

[Ghost Soldier]

Had another great find this weekend. All this for $28

 

Intellivision

Boxing Overlay x2

Football Overlay x2

Bowling Overlay x2

Baseball Overlay x2

 

Atari 2600 Light Sixer w/hookup's

Atari Joystick

Spectravideo Joystick

4 Holder Storage Units x4

Sliding Case Holder

 

2600 Games

Moonsweeper

Night Driver

Decathlon

Pitfall!

Adventure

Human Cannonball

Berzerk

Phoenix

Freeway

Indy 500

Spiderman

Kangaroo

Circus Atari

Seaquest

Pole Position

Donkey Kong x2

Vanguard

Haunted House

Encounter at L-5

Asteroids x2

Q-bert x2

Gunslinger

Yars' Revenge x2

Bowling

Football x3

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Laster Blast

Dark Cavern

Midnight Magic

Slot Racers x2

Moon Patrol x2

Space Jockey

Jungle Hunt

Ms. Pac-man x3

Skate Boardin

River Raid

Missle Command x6

Breakout

Volleyball

Empire Strikes Back

Zaxxon

Demon Attack

Pac-man

E.T.

Gyruss

Othello

Joust

Home Run

Target Fun x2

Combat x3

Star Raiders x2

Video Olympics

Black Jack

Chopper Command

Defender x2

Space War

Venture

Beany Bopper <~Long time search over for this one

Baseball x2

Breakaway IV

Lock'n Chase

Super Breakout

Space Invaders

No Label Mystery Carts x3 <~Might get lucky and find something good

 

Frogger Gameboy

Rayman Gameboy Color

Legend of Zelda, Link's Awakening DX GameBoy Color

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 21, 2007 by Ghost Soldier

[Scumdogg]

Had another great find this weekend. All this for $28

 

 

I have NO idea how you keep managing finds like this, but it's certainly impressive.

[Ghost Soldier]

Had another great find this weekend. All this for $28

 

 

I have NO idea how you keep managing finds like this, but it's certainly impressive.

 

I get a head's up on someone wanting to part with atari stuff. The local stores don't take atari or anything before NES. So they give me a call and I arrange to meet the person with the goods. Sometimes I get lucky on big lots at yardsale's too.

[***astro_boy***]

very sad last week only found one game that was mega man II for the game boy for $1au

[Atari5200]

got a box of misc-nintendo stuff, it was in a good condition NES Action pack system box so that was worth the $5 i paid for it alone since, but got 2 controllers, gun, and 4 games, plus a bunch of manuals posters and stuff.

 

Also got a Sega Nomad in box for $5 with rechargable battery pack. All in all, i guess it was a decent weekend.

[Bruce Tomlin]

Today I found Chess 64 and Mario Kart 64 for $4 each. I already had a Mario Kart 64, so that goes onto the "sell when I have the time to ship crap" pile.

 

I also found a bunch of DB-9/DB-25 adapters in Radio Shack packaging for 50 cents each (half off 99 cents each). These presumably came from the RS store closings from a few months ago.

 

...and two Genesis 3-button controllers in apparently good condition for $2 each.

[DrLove0378]

Not really a thrift find, but I recently scored three SUV-loads of Apple IIe/Macintosh, Commodore 64, Tandy, TRS-80, TI99/4A, and other stuff. I ran into a guy who was leaving the hobby, and just wanted to unload all his computer stuff -- I got a king's ransom.

 

Here's some of the stuff I got...

 

Two original iMac's, and one iMac DV.

At least eight slimline Mac LC/Performas.

Two IIe Platinums.

Four IIe Enhanced.

Two Apple IIc's.

Two Apple IIGS'es, including one boxed Woz Edition.

Two VTech Laser 128's.

Three BOXED TI99/4A's, and one loose.

At least two Commodore 64's (one boxed). And two boxed 1541 disk drives.

Many Tandy's.

IBM PS/1 console, complete with monitor.

Three TRS-80 consoles w/built-in monitor and dual 5.25" drives -- one Model III and two Model 4.

Many common Mac Performas/Centrises.

At least six Mac Classics, including one Color Classic.

 

 

Soem pretty rare stuff, too...

A whole crapload of ultra-rare Exatron Stringy Floppy drives and disks, for the TRS-80.

Two BOXED C64 Datasette attachments.

TI99/4A Peripheral Expansion System. (That thing is HEAVY!)

Also worth noting, were two BOXED Commodore 64 "Incredible Musical Keyboard" attachment/software kits. Haven't had time to go through it all.

 

I got all this for $300. This guy must have been desperate to unload it all, because he and his wife delivered it all to me for that price.

 

 

EDIT: Almost forgot to mention the Win'95 Monorail computer, and the Mac 128 (model M0001) in original canvas carrying case.

Edited May 22, 2007 by DrLove0378

[Atariman]

Not really a thrift find, but I recently scored three SUV-loads of Apple IIe/Macintosh, Commodore 64, Tandy, TRS-80, TI99/4A, and other stuff. I ran into a guy who was leaving the hobby, and just wanted to unload all his computer stuff -- I got a king's ransom.

 

Here's some of the stuff I got...

 

Two original iMac's, and one iMac DV.

At least eight slimline Mac LC/Performas.

Two IIe Platinums.

Four IIe Enhanced.

Two Apple IIc's.

Two Apple IIGS'es, including one boxed Woz Edition.

Two VTech Laser 128's.

Three BOXED TI99/4A's, and one loose.

At least two Commodore 64's (one boxed). And two boxed 1541 disk drives.

Many Tandy's.

IBM PS/1 console, complete with monitor.

Three TRS-80 consoles w/built-in monitor and dual 5.25" drives -- one Model III and two Model 4.

Many common Mac Performas/Centrises.

At least six Mac Classics, including one Color Classic.

 

 

Soem pretty rare stuff, too...

A whole crapload of ultra-rare Exatron Stringy Floppy drives and disks, for the TRS-80.

Two BOXED C64 Datasette attachments.

TI99/4A Peripheral Expansion System. (That thing is HEAVY!)

Also worth noting, were two BOXED Commodore 64 "Incredible Musical Keyboard" attachment/software kits. Haven't had time to go through it all.

 

I got all this for $300. This guy must have been desperate to unload it all, because he and his wife delivered it all to me for that price.

 

Wow! What a nice haul - if I had been drinking/eating something, I would have choked on it. *looks around for something to drink and choke on* Sounds like there's a lot of cool stuff in there!

[SRGilbert]

I hate this thread, I could drive all over town, 7 days a week and not find ANYTHING like some of the stuff I read in here.

[BeerGnome]

I hate this thread, I could drive all over town, 7 days a week and not find ANYTHING like some of the stuff I read in here.

now, now, little trooper. keep in mind that these are only the finds worth mentioning.

 

I haven't found crap game related myself in quite sometime.

[jboypacman]

Lets see this past week for $6 i got the following Sega Genesis games......

 

Sword of Vermillion w/box and manual (No hint book however )

 

RoadBlasters with a little worst from wear box and manual

 

Dragon's Fury-loose

 

Outlander-missing lable-loose

 

Nothing too rare or anything but i was looking for a copy of RoadBlasters so for $6 bucks i get a copy with a few extras.

[classicgamer24]

got some pretty good Nes games today at goodwill

 

legend of zelda 1.99

megaman3 1.99

smb2 1.99

spyhunter 1.99

dragon warrior 1.99

metroid 1.99

battletoads 1.99

total 13.93