Chuck D. Head Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 Don't you just love when they put the price sticker right on the label. I hope they peel off nice for ya. Nice find at a buck each! I have about four Goodwills that I frequesnt regularly and after telling them enough times, a couple of the stores have actually started putting the sticker on the back on plastic only. One store even has started pricing sports games cheaper than non-sport as I have suggested - loose sports games from older systems at .99 or 1.99 while the non sport are 1.99 - 3.99. They still think that Xbox and PS2 are current systems and price stuff at 7.99 - 9.99. Morgan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thanatos Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 The Goodwills around me never have good stuff, so I was surprised today to score a C64 Direct-to-TV for $3! Just saw a random joystick on the shelf, picked it up and noticed the C64 logo. Had one corroded battery in it, cleaned it out, and it works perfectly. Ironically, the common 2600 carts at that store are all priced at 4 or 5 bucks. Even Pac Man and E.T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Ragan Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 Got a Coleco Galaxian tabletop for a dollar! Yay! The stupid thing won't work! Not yay! The battery terminals are all screwed up, but I've been able to coax these systems to work with a power jack, so all may not be lost. I may have to crack it open to see if there's any damage on the circuit board first, however. What really sucks is that the people responsible for the yard sale told me they had three or four of these tabletops an hour before I got there. Aw, crap! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.golden.ax Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 Scored tons of random stuff today! SNS Aladdin $2.99 SNS Mario All Stars $4.59 TI-84 Plus Calculator w/USB $2.59!!! PSX Grinch $1.99 Fun2Learn Fisher Price $4.50 (half price) Speak & Music $1.50 (half price) N64 A/V Cable $1.99 --- Not pictured a bunch of leapster games $1.60 half price, lego case $1.99, Sonic 360 strat $1.50, SNS Mario World 1 x 2 $6, all in all highly productive run at an almost ALWAYS dead thrift. AX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tomlin Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 I picked up 8 loose Genesis games at $1 each at my local GW. 1 of which will house the Everdrive. I've decided that $1 is a good price for a game that you will salvage for the plastic shell, but only if it's a Sega shell. A few games will even have an EEPROM that I can potentially re-use. Now if I can ever get a game finished enough for it to matter. I just got a Real Job suddenly last week, so now I have an excuse. Heat them. 2 words: hair dryer. Also Goo Gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
27ace27 Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 Don't you just love when they put the price sticker right on the label. I hope they peel off nice for ya. Nice find at a buck each! I have about four Goodwills that I frequesnt regularly and after telling them enough times, a couple of the stores have actually started putting the sticker on the back on plastic only. One store even has started pricing sports games cheaper than non-sport as I have suggested - loose sports games from older systems at .99 or 1.99 while the non sport are 1.99 - 3.99. They still think that Xbox and PS2 are current systems and price stuff at 7.99 - 9.99. Morgan That bugs the hell out of me too, I've had several good games and boxes that would be in perfect condition if the store didn't slap a label on it or tape them all together. They also sell games for outrageous prices, I do think Morgan is on to something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaxda Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 Hit a yard sale this morning and snagged a bunch of PS1 and PS2 stuff, plus a Gameboy Advance for $30 total. A great deal! Phaxda's Blog -- So I was running this morning and... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickHarrisMaine Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 Picked up a minty Final Fantasy VII black label, complete, and it looks like there are no scratches on the discs.... $5 also picked up D-2 Japanese import on e-bay for $8, which is also complete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayWI Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 Today I was sumguy. Picked up a gameboy color with frogger and 3 nes games with nes storage rack. The 3 nes games were nothing special, top gun, kung fu heroes and hoops none of which I had. As I was picking them up a young kid (middle school aged?) came around the corner and let out a big "oh man" and a sigh. Welcome to my world kid, it sucks when sumguy swipes the goodies just seconds before you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpendTooMuchOnAtari Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 I picked a few things up at the record store and got some deals right here in the AA Marketplace. AA MARKETPLACE $10 shipped - DS Phoenix Wright (complete) $23 shipped for these - GC The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest (complete) NES Rampage N64 Turok Dinosaur Hunter with manual N64 Vigilante 8 GBA Need for Speed Porsche Unleashed USED STORE $8.99 - PS2 Fatal Frame (complete) $2.99 - GG Taz in Escape from Mars $2.99 - GC Enter the Matrix (complete) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Wallet Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 I had a good weekend. Found all this at the swap meet. Super Mario All-Stars $5 each Fatal Frame 2 (complete) $5 Banjo-Kazooie $1 Worm War 1, Planet Patrol, Squeeze Box $2 for all 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.golden.ax Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 Scored lots of goodies today at the same thrift as before AGAIN. Today most of the store was 50% off. Will post some pics as soon as the minions bring them up. AX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 Somebody brought in 2 atari systems and about 150 games into the local game store today and I got to cherry pick. Luckily I had $50 in store credit so I made a deal to use it for these 4 that I didn't have. They also had loose Bumper Bash (which I already have), Smurf Save the Day and 2 loose copies of Mr. Do's Castle (although one had a ripped label) as well as some other middling rarities and commons that I already had. The funny thing is there was a Kijiji ad for Atari systems with about 150 games for $300. The ad was there for a while and I had responded but couldn't get a list of games. The ad is now gone and I'm betting this is where it ended up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaxda Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 Wow, great buy on the 2049er II. I still have not seen one of these in the wild; its a big hole in my collection. I had a similar thing happen when I lived in Boston. Guy had an ad up, and was in my neighborhood, but was asking $200. Big collection, I even went to check it out, but not worth it and the gentleman would not budge on price. Then I went to the used record store near my place a couple of days later and ran into Atari-seller guy coming out with a stack of vinyl under his arm--he had traded the Atari collection for store credit. I chatted up the owner of the store and walked out with a silver label Asteroids and a few other goodies for about the price of a CD! Fate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 Wow, great buy on the 2049er II. I still have not seen one of these in the wild; its a big hole in my collection. I had a similar thing happen when I lived in Boston. Guy had an ad up, and was in my neighborhood, but was asking $200. Big collection, I even went to check it out, but not worth it and the gentleman would not budge on price. Then I went to the used record store near my place a couple of days later and ran into Atari-seller guy coming out with a stack of vinyl under his arm--he had traded the Atari collection for store credit. I chatted up the owner of the store and walked out with a silver label Asteroids and a few other goodies for about the price of a CD! Fate. I know this game store too. Anything before the crash they only give pennies on the dollar no matter what it is. He probably got a fraction of what he could have had he properly taken pictures (there were none) and/or listed the games in his Kijiji ad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STICH666 Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 (edited) Picked up a loose Atari 800XL from craigslist for $12. The poor guy has had it up there for over a year. I though I might as well pick it up. While I don't really have an interest in 8-bit stuff, I might as well just pick it up for a measly $12. It's in beautiful shape BTW. No yellowing to be seen. Edited September 14, 2010 by STICH666 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almost Rice Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Picked up a loose Atari 800XL from craigslist for $12. The poor guy has had it up there for over a year. I though I might as well pick it up. While I don't really have an interest in 8-bit stuff, I might as well just pick it up for a measly $12. It's in beautiful shape BTW. No yellowing to be seen. Nice. It looks like the standard keyboard. Looks very clean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STICH666 Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Picked up a loose Atari 800XL from craigslist for $12. The poor guy has had it up there for over a year. I though I might as well pick it up. While I don't really have an interest in 8-bit stuff, I might as well just pick it up for a measly $12. It's in beautiful shape BTW. No yellowing to be seen. Nice. It looks like the standard keyboard. Looks very clean. Other than the usual dust and dirt inside the keyboard, it was freaking spotless. No bugs, no food, no spilled drinks just dust from sitting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STICH666 Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Went to a thrift that's pretty decent for finding hardware and spotted this sitting on the table for $25. It didn't come with an AC adapter so if anybody has one, please let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumbojohnny Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 (edited) A couple weeks ago I picked up and Atari 400 computer, well yesterday I took some time to clean it, I opened it up and found this game inside the slot. I found it as it is shown here, I know nothing about it other than what you see is what I got. the little labels say Shamus & Star Raid (star raiders maybe?) Edited September 15, 2010 by jumbojohnny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnight Synergy Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Went to a thrift that's pretty decent for finding hardware and spotted this sitting on the table for $25. It didn't come with an AC adapter so if anybody has one, please let me know. Stitch, that's very cool! I got a virtual boy at the beginning of the year, it's definitely an interesting piece of hardware to have. Also, double-check this though, but I think a standard SNES AC will work with the virtual boy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDW Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Went to a thrift that's pretty decent for finding hardware and spotted this sitting on the table for $25. It didn't come with an AC adapter so if anybody has one, please let me know. Stitch, that's very cool! I got a virtual boy at the beginning of the year, it's definitely an interesting piece of hardware to have. Also, double-check this though, but I think a standard SNES AC will work with the virtual boy? AFAIK, yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 A couple weeks ago I picked up and Atari 400 computer, well yesterday I took some time to clean it, I opened it up and found this game inside the slot. I found it as it is shown here, I know nothing about it other than what you see is what I got. the little labels say Shamus & Star Raid (star raiders maybe?) Weird. Have you tried plugging it in and seeing what comes up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGQuarterly Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 It will, but you have to have the little adapter unit to plug the AC adapter in to. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigO Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Went to a thrift that's pretty decent for finding hardware and spotted this sitting on the table for $25. It didn't come with an AC adapter so if anybody has one, please let me know. Stitch, that's very cool! I got a virtual boy at the beginning of the year, it's definitely an interesting piece of hardware to have. Also, double-check this though, but I think a standard SNES AC will work with the virtual boy? It works on my Virtual Boy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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