What's Your Best Find Ever?

[Dolt]

After a weekend of searching for games and coming up empty (and the guy who I posted about yesterday 'changed his mind'--grrrr), I need some hope. What's the best find you ever made and how'd you come across it?

[JB]

Not sure what all's in my collection(need to catalog it sometime) but I can take a shot...

 

Dark Chambers. Was a gift, acquired when Sears was closing their surplus centers.

It's also a semi-decent game, in good shape(still have the manual, but I chunked the box for some reason. Collectors may proceed to kill me), and rarity 4.

[vb_master]

Spy Hunter

[Brad2600]

This question has no doubt been asked millions of times here but the best find ever was when I found a dumpster full of working 2600 stuff...systems, games and even a holder for it all.

[JB]

This question has no doubt been asked millions of times here but the best find ever was when I found a dumpster full of  working 2600 stuff...systems, games and even a holder for it all.

VICTOLY!

 

I found a Vader on the curb once. Served me well for a while, but then it died.

[Xot]

Easy. CtCW for $2.00 from a used game dealer. Also Harbor Escape, Tapper, 2x Atari Video Cube and 2x Mr. Do's Castle for $1.00 each. Plus about 40 other semi-rares.

 

Another really good find was a Genny 2 with Sega CD, about a dozen games including Snatcher for $5.00 from a thrift.

 

Alas, I sold most of the good stuff and will no doubt pay much much more to get it all back someday.

[robsbucs]

Definitely the Tooth protectors i got at a garage sale for 25 cents. Very nice and very mint!! I doubt if i find another buy like that...

[Lemmi]

Condor Attack $3 at a garage sale, just about a month after joining AA

[Godzilla]

my best is still my 14 cent quadrun.

[CPUWIZ]

Hmm, found a bunch of good stuff over the years but I would say a loose River Patrol was probably the best, that and 2 CommaVid protos.

[Dolt]

I once found Waterworld in the box with the comic (but no manual-sooo close!) for $2--that was part of the same stash that had the Fireworld championship photos that I found. Sadly, the store I got 'em from, Edlies, doesn't exist anymore.

 

As I noted elsewhere, I got the 5 Avalon Hill games with the manuals for $2 a different time. The Avalon Hill stuff was part of 19 games I found in that one store that day--a stash that also included my all-time top rarity, Glib. That was at Microplay in Suffolk county, which I don't think is there anymore, but I rarely get that far out on Long Island anymore.

 

So if anyone wants to sell me a Waterworld manual... :wink:

[CPUWIZ]

So if anyone wants to sell me a Waterworld manual... :wink:

 

Landsmarra is selling one right now.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...egory=3528&rd=1

[+-^CrossBow^-]

For me it was my .99 cent Track N Field cart. Besides that one, I would say my other best finds...which were Yahoo auction aquisitions...were my two Parker Bros Protos which ran me about $10 bucks total for the two when said and done with. hehehe...

 

However, on the Genesis I have better luck there...as I just found a Space Invaders '91 cart loose in mint shape for $3 at a flea market, and also my Pirates! Gold lose cart in good shape for $3.99 here locally.

 

On the 7800 side I picked up Commando loose for $3 buck at the flea market once. But my best deals...were my recently aquired CIB Planet Smashers and Xenophobe for $2.50 each!!!...hehe...that won't happen again...I am sure.

 

I have had some others for different systems, but they weren't quite a noteworthy.

 

[minorleagueguy]

An Intellevision 2 boxed, with a boxed Intellivoice, and 36 boxed, mint games for $10 at a Goodwill.

 

 

 

minorleagueguy

[EricDeLee]

My best finds:

 

Q*Bert Qubes (I recently sold it). I got it, plus Strawberry Shortcake, and someother game, PLUS a working woody atari (no hookups or controllers though) for $10!!!!!

 

Other finds: I'm always getting great deals on games at a local video store. They sell atari games for $1 each.

 

I've found a few rarity 6 and 5 carts over the past few months.

 

Frogger II Threeedeep

Star Wars The Arcade game (that actualy was $1.50 )

River Raid II --- With Manual

 

Plus I got about 20 different games with manuals one day. all were $1 each.

 

I get a good title at least every week from these stores!

 

 

 

 

Eric DeLee

[+DamonicFury]

My very best was running across an ENORMOUS close out of old games back around 1995. Imagine a huge room filled with classic-era games - 2600, 5200, Coleco - many loose, many new in box... all dirt cheap. Figures that I was unemployed at the time, but even so I was able to afford dozens of games, including a few rarities. The best of the lot was a boxed Guardian. Man, if the owner of that lot had waited five years and then sold it all on Ebay, he'd have been able to retire. The store still exists and still sells games, but now it's only NES and newer, and the prices are up a bit.

 

Next best was Chase the Chuckwagon at a yard sale for 2 bucks. :-)

[Turn2]

I was just out looking at thrift and used furniture stores and on top of an old gun case I saw a box with a burgertime cart I pulled the box down and it was full of them. I asked the guy what he wanted, he said $15.00, I paid the guy and left.

 

That's 40+ MISB Burgertime for 2600 and One MISB Mission XX for intelivision the rarer label version all for Fifteen bucks.

 

Here is a pic if you would like to see. Look on the top shelf and click the pic for larger image. I still have most of them, probably 30 or so

[DeV0]

My best find has changed from master builder, xenophobe, roadrunner and stargunner to a multicart. Im not sure if multis are frowned upon and dont really care. This cart has some rares on it, the list is below and its taken me months to work out this much,, 64 in all

 

Z-tack

Assault

Spider fighter

room of doom

flash gordon

Aufruhr im zoo

Gas Hog

Threshhold

condor attack

 

And a few NTSC onlys, Its hard to figure out what the rest are as of now.

 

Cost me $1

[Marco]

My best find still is a big lot of Videopac EPROMs, containing five previously unknown titles. I don't think I ever had a real amazing Atari 2600 find, now I think of it...

 

Cheers,

Marco

[Mayhem]

Two Romox carts for C64, $8 each from 4Jays in California. EPROMs, rewritable, handwritten labels on them... amazed they survived 20 years. Not seen or found anyone or anywhere else that has a sniff of these...

[Sanriostar]

Two Romox carts for C64, $8 each from 4Jays in California. EPROMs, rewritable, handwritten labels on them... amazed they survived 20 years. Not seen or found anyone or anywhere else that has a sniff of these...

 

I have one: Looks like a C64 Gateway to Apshai Case with the Romox label on it. The game that's on it is Jawbreaker, and I've since gotten ahold of a 'real' JB cart.

 

...so what can I do with this thing? Put Archon on it?

[Sanriostar]

But as for my best find, that'd be an entire game STORE. It'd had been closed down for a few years and the owners were clearing it out. Ever had the privilege of seeing a stack of Gameline modems? Snagged them for $10 each. Also got Comma-Vid games in unopened shipping boxes (Cosmic Swarm and Room of Doom) and a CIB Joyboard, a few SX-64s, sealed Intys, and a few SW'ed Black box NES games. This was over 6 years ago, and it's all been traded for good stuff. The owners got several of my paychecks while I was getting stuff from it.

 

 

...and I found Boing! at a game store a year ago.

[Cassidy Nolen]

Best Atari find was not for a system, but....

 

Star Wars cockpit (the one at the PC3 show two years ago) was in some guy's front yard. It was under a tarp. Guy said if we wanted it, we could have it, and he said it was dead. I plugged it in, and it has been flawless ever since!

 

Best 2600 finds for me have been quality and quantity (tons of boxed stuff over the years; minty goodness), never a rarity. Rarest ever was Subterranea (which I then had too much of Osmeroid's Guinnes and traded to Joe Grand for a box of bubble gum and stickers ).

 

Cassidy

[Room 34]

What's the best find you ever made...?

 

My wife! She puts up with all of my video game crap!

 

[Mayhem]

I have one: Looks like a C64 Gateway to Apshai Case with the Romox label on it. The game that's on it is Jawbreaker, and I've since gotten ahold of a 'real' JB cart.

 

...so what can I do with this thing? Put Archon on it?

 

Interesting... strange that it would have a non-Romox game burned onto it as well

 

My two actually have Romox titles on them, and I have not come across anyone else with them at all. Romox programmable carts are a bit easier to find in general, and someone was selling shrinked boxes of 10 recently on eBay...