tz101 Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Hit the Goodwill tonight: Five screw SMB / Duck Hunt - $1.99 Playstation NBA Live '96 - $2.50 (just cause it was complete and very nice condition and I don't have or ever see any longboxes) Simpsons Operation game - $2.99 - pretty cool, when you screw up, instead of the buzzer, Homer screams or says different things. Can someone explain again why the number of screws in the back makes a cart more desirable? I don't get it. It's because supposedly (as I understand) they have import adapters in them. I've kissed a ton of frogs so to say... 5 screw NES games, and Atlantis 2600 night scene tests... and I've never won. AX I picked up a 5 screw pinball cart that had the famicom adapter inside. The only one I've ever found. They say you can tell by balancing the cart on your finger. The one's with famicom adapter inside have a different center of gravity. Supposedly, they are slightly heavier as if anyone could tell by picking them up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian O Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 I got both of these for $1 a piece today from a thrift store. What can anybody tell me about the Kraft Joystick. Like is it worth anything? The Gemstiks are great, but I have heard that Kraft sticks are quite cheesy....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagitekAngel Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 My friend told me that there was a boxed Final Fantasy III for 25 dollars at Value Village today, so I booked it over there to check it out, but it was gone. On the flip side, I found A stack of NES games, Kirby Super Star, Super Mario All-Stars, Donkey Kong 64, and the crown jewel... Ikaruga on Gamecube for ten dollars. That last one was a way better steal than FF3, box or no box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desfeek Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 (edited) I took an oddjob, doing promotional advertising (postering) for a family friend's solo art performance in the month of Feburary. This job forced me to travel streets I don't usually travel , and to my amazement I stumbled across a small antique/pawn shop called "Really Good Stuff". How couldn't I go in? I was working, but that can't prevent a curious eye to go searching for game stuff. The shop was packed to the ceiling with bins, radio transistors, electro-mechanical amusement machines (a little out of my price range, but very cool), an oscilloscope...Very much along the lines of what I was looking for, but nothing really caught my eye. Until I spotted this, propping up a collection of books, and a small shrine to Elvis Presley: I almost fell over backwards. You just don't find Odyssey ANYWHERE in Portland, let alone BOXED. I carefully lifted it down, and took the whole thing to the counter. I could feel by the weight of the box there was no system inside, which made me sad, but it didn't really matter. At the counter, I flipped it open to reveal: Atari stuff. Okay, that's cool too. Atari stuff in an OD2 box...hmmm. Anyway, I asked they guy how much he wanted for all this, and he said $20. I told him, "Sold", paid, and walked out. Finishing the rest of my postering job hauling on Odyssey 2 Box around was quite the task, but I managed to not do too much damage. I got it home, and the lot was very much worth my trouble: 19 2600 games, including Pitfall 2, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, and a Sears Tele-games Outer Space. A power adaptor, a broken RCA adaptor, 2 joysticks and a set of paddles. In an Odyssey 2 box. What a weird find... Edited January 15, 2011 by Desfeek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightwheel Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 (edited) Well not necessarily a gaming related find.... I was doing a scrap job today over at a family friends house. (We got TONS of scrap.) And we went down into the workshop to get the scrap/trash pieces of metal left over from projects to haul off. When I saw a Panasonic 5-Disk DVD Surround Sound system on a shelf. Covered in grinder shaving and welding dust/residue. Set up just to play music CD's on. I asked about it, and ended up getting it. And in return, I'm to provide him with another (smaller) CD player to play his CD's on. I don't have it hooked up yet, but I definitely got it cleaned up though. (It didn't come with the phono-jack adapter, I added that.) Edited January 16, 2011 by nightwheel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Harry Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 (edited) I hav e found a few things: Last week, a grey NES zapper $3.99 Today, an original playstation 1 controller, with another aftermarket controller and a memory card and hookups (both not pictured) all in a baggy for $4.99 the original controller is is near mint with the bumps still in the d-pad, will go nicely with my SCPH 1001 model playstation 1. Also I can't believe how thick the wires are on it. Edited January 21, 2011 by Dirty Harry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangest Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 The paddles were $4.99 and the SNES Super Mario World and Kart were $5.99 each at Goodwill. $19.99 at a different Goodwill. Can't find info regarding the Toon Disney branding, whether it was a promo/prize item or something different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightwheel Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 $19.99 at a different Goodwill. Can't find info regarding the Toon Disney branding, whether it was a promo/prize item or something different. Have you tried contacting Disney or Nintendo about this to see if they know anything? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoshilime Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Hi, i remember how awesome this forum was, so i returned, yay! SO i got some recent finds i think are pretty good Commodore 64 with disk drive, joystick, and some random modern computer junk in the box - 8 Extreme Green Gameboy pocket - 20 25 or so genesis games, pretty good ones like the strider series - around 26 i think Dirty master system in box, looks liek someone spilled coffee of the box :L - 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangest Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Have you tried contacting Disney or Nintendo about this to see if they know anything? http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/nintendo-game-boy-advance-sp-toon-disney-jetix-rare Finally found this. Seems like it may indeed be a contest prize. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Soldier Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 (edited) Been awhile since I've posted a find. Pretty happy with what I found at a pawn today. Spy Hunter 2600 R6 1.50 Thunderground 2600 R4 1.50 Entombed 2600 R4 1.50 Picked these up from Disc Replay Perfect Dark Zero L.E. CIB 360 3.19 Q-Ball Billards Master CIB PS2 1.50 Silent Scope CIB PS2 1.50 True Lies Gen .72 Art of Fighting Gen .72 World Championship Soccer II Gen Free Edited January 22, 2011 by Ghost Soldier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Ragan Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Have you tried contacting Disney or Nintendo about this to see if they know anything? http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/nintendo-game-boy-advance-sp-toon-disney-jetix-rare Finally found this. Seems like it may indeed be a contest prize. Funny thing is, the channel that GameBoy was designed to promote no longer exists! It's Disney XD now, a channel which should have been called Disney >:[ judging from the quality of its shows. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lendorien Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Have you tried contacting Disney or Nintendo about this to see if they know anything? http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/nintendo-game-boy-advance-sp-toon-disney-jetix-rare Finally found this. Seems like it may indeed be a contest prize. Funny thing is, the channel that GameBoy was designed to promote no longer exists! It's Disney XD now, a channel which should have been called Disney >:[ judging from the quality of its shows. Ok, you made me spit up my Mountain Dew with that comment. XD indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRGilbert Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Geeze, been FOREVER since I posted on the Thrift Finds forum, yard sale season can't come fast enough for me. Today actually surprised me though. Hit up a newer used game place in town and found a bunch of TG16 games mixed in with the Dreamcast and 3DO games. They have a "buy 5, get 1 free" deal too, so I got: Bonk's Adventure $ 9.99 Pac-Land $5.99 Parasol Stars (Bubble Bobble 3) $19.99 Tale Spin $9.99 Tricky Kick $6.99 Sidearms FREE All complete with cases and manuals too. So, $53 for the lot. I don't usually splurge like that, but TG16 stuff is almost impossible to find in the wild around here. Anyway, not cheap, but not overpriced either. I also picked up a complete boxed copy of Seaman for the Dreamcast for $5.99 a couple of weeks ago. Been looking for the for a while, so I was happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.golden.ax Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Geeze, been FOREVER since I posted on the Thrift Finds forum, yard sale season can't come fast enough for me. Today actually surprised me though. Hit up a newer used game place in town and found a bunch of TG16 games mixed in with the Dreamcast and 3DO games. They have a "buy 5, get 1 free" deal too, so I got: Bonk's Adventure $ 9.99 Pac-Land $5.99 Parasol Stars (Bubble Bobble 3) $19.99 Tale Spin $9.99 Tricky Kick $6.99 Sidearms FREE All complete with cases and manuals too. So, $53 for the lot. I don't usually splurge like that, but TG16 stuff is almost impossible to find in the wild around here. Anyway, not cheap, but not overpriced either. I also picked up a complete boxed copy of Seaman for the Dreamcast for $5.99 a couple of weeks ago. Been looking for the for a while, so I was happy. Impressive, Parsol Stars alone is worth just about that much. Four of those are my favorites on the system (and I have em) What do you think of Tale Spin? AX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRGilbert Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Geeze, been FOREVER since I posted on the Thrift Finds forum, yard sale season can't come fast enough for me. Today actually surprised me though. Hit up a newer used game place in town and found a bunch of TG16 games mixed in with the Dreamcast and 3DO games. They have a "buy 5, get 1 free" deal too, so I got: Bonk's Adventure $ 9.99 Pac-Land $5.99 Parasol Stars (Bubble Bobble 3) $19.99 Tale Spin $9.99 Tricky Kick $6.99 Sidearms FREE All complete with cases and manuals too. So, $53 for the lot. I don't usually splurge like that, but TG16 stuff is almost impossible to find in the wild around here. Anyway, not cheap, but not overpriced either. I also picked up a complete boxed copy of Seaman for the Dreamcast for $5.99 a couple of weeks ago. Been looking for the for a while, so I was happy. Impressive, Parsol Stars alone is worth just about that much. Four of those are my favorites on the system (and I have em) What do you think of Tale Spin? AX Thanks! Haven't had a chance to try any of them yet, but I understand it's a platformer. I thought the cover art was intriguing, very un-Disney like for a game based on a cartooon show! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toptenmaterial Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 I made a trip to the Salvation Army in Providence. Bought 4 N64 games at $3 apiece: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Turok, 1080 Snowboarding and Star Wars Episode One Racer. Now all I need is an N64 system to play them on!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armonigann Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Geeze, been FOREVER since I posted on the Thrift Finds forum, yard sale season can't come fast enough for me. Today actually surprised me though. Hit up a newer used game place in town and found a bunch of TG16 games mixed in with the Dreamcast and 3DO games. They have a "buy 5, get 1 free" deal too, so I got: Bonk's Adventure $ 9.99 Pac-Land $5.99 Parasol Stars (Bubble Bobble 3) $19.99 Tale Spin $9.99 Tricky Kick $6.99 Sidearms FREE All complete with cases and manuals too. So, $53 for the lot. I don't usually splurge like that, but TG16 stuff is almost impossible to find in the wild around here. Anyway, not cheap, but not overpriced either. I also picked up a complete boxed copy of Seaman for the Dreamcast for $5.99 a couple of weeks ago. Been looking for the for a while, so I was happy. I've never found anything tg16 in the wild. Nice find! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRGilbert Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Guess my luck has held out for the weekend. A buddy of mine runs a classic game shop over in Grand Rapids and I try to stop in every couple of months or so. Usually he doesn't have much I need, but today I found a few gems for the 2600. All were cart only: Star Wars: Jedi Arena Racquetball Stargunner (BW Standard version, label a little scuffed) Spitfire Attack (missing end label) Got all four for $15.00 not bad considering Stargunner is an R6. Maybe I should buy him lunch...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Wallet Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I found these at the local goodwill. All the games were $1.99 except Final Fantasy Legend. It was $3.99. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rik Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Anyone know what happened to Digitpress's Online Rarity Guide?, it's disappeared from the site Today i found: 20th Century Fox 1-Mega Force 2-Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes 3-SpaceMaster X-7 Parker Bothers 1-Return of the Jedi, Death Star Battle XonoX 1-Spikes Peak/Ghost Manor, Double-Ender InterPhase for ColecoVision 1-Sewer Sam 2-Squish'Em Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornelius Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Took the family for a drive, seeing as it was nice weather and we were going a little stir crazy. There's a place outside of town that everyone simply refers to as "The Barn". Its a family business that buys estates and collections, pretty much anything. Its like American Pickers combined with Hoarders without the dead cats and feces. Anyway, they always have loads of games from Atari up to current systems. They had a half price sale so I walked away with everything in the picture for $40. The PS1 SpiceWorld was $2 from a separate thrift store. Nice! Snow Brothers for $40 is a good deal on its own, plus you got some nice bonus stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atariUCLA24 Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 My finds from last couple weeks: From Goodwill: NES: Super Off-Road and Tetris 2- $2.50 each From a Pawn Shop: Atari 2600: Centipede, Gravitar, Moon Patrol, Pigs in Space, Realsports Boxing, Riddle of the Spinx, and Sprintmaster- $1.00 each From a Peddlers Mall- Spectravideo Quickshot, with box and instructions- $5.00 Overall I think this is pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian O Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Man, I'm shopping at the wrong Goodwill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atariUCLA24 Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 (edited) "Man, I'm shopping at the wrong Goodwill" Why do you say that? Edited January 26, 2011 by atariUCLA24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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