August 2008 Finds

[Kitsune Sniper]

Here's my finds from the final two days of July. I figured I'd wait until now to post these. :P

Wednesday: Fresh off the bus, I went to the flea market and found these things:


Warcraft III Battle Chest is complete and it ran me $5.
Star Wars Rebellion (PC), Warcraft II Expansion (DOS), Diablo II expansion, Dr. Demento's 20th Anniversary Disc Two (Disc 1 wasn't there) and Dead or Alive - Nude were $1 a pop and Jamiroquai: Emergency on Planet Earth was $3.

Sadly, this one seller had a boxful of comics at five for a buck, and I told him I'd come back later. When I came back someone had already bought the box.

Thursday:
Half asleep, I wandered to the flea market and found most of these CDs for $6 total! The two CDs at the bottom rang me $3 for both.




The CDs are:
Weird Al Yankovic: Greatest Hits Volume 1
Air: Pocket Symphony
MSDN Library, Visual Studio 6 Edition
Warcraft II
Starcraft: Brood War
Guy Spy in something or other
Windows 98 SE Upgrade CD key (no CD, for trade)
Windows ME Install CD key (no CD, for trade)
Office 2000 Pro (Not OEM / no license CDs, but are legit, for trade)
Afterlife (Sealed)
Barbie Detective 1 and 2 (What?)

The two CDs at the bottom of the second picture are magazine CDs. One includes a full version of Hidden and Dangerous Deluxe, and the other includes full versions of Descent, Star Control II, Red Baron, Zork 1-3, Battlecruiser 3000 AD and Betrayal at Krondor.

... And those Barbie games? I got them for MobyGames. My thirteen year old niece looked at the games I bought today and asked me what was wrong with me. I told her "Don't judge me." She looked at me funny for a while. :P

[garagesaleking!!]

i bought strangers wrath about a month ago at a garage sale, but never sat down andplayed it, i need to pull it out and try. It sucks it does not play on a 360, so ive been to lazy to hook my xbox up. is there a way to make it work on a 360?

[natinh0]

Hey guys, got some gaming goods over the week:
The most part comes from Yards and Flea since it is where the best prices and sometimes rare finds can be found(shame on you MERCADO LIVRE!)

Bought this sms stuff from someone who doesn´t know even for what system works!SCORE!

A pretty good Light Gun pack but the point of the haul is without question, Vigilante,heard about all over my childhood and just now, after a decade i own mine although very common here in Brazil.
Paid 15R$ for the loot, just keep in mind that the averange price by sms cart goes around 5- 7,50 R$.
Got this 2 PS2 games for 9,5R$, well, pretty shitty games though.


Back on Fleas again!

Being a huge fan of the arcade hit of this classic, i couldn´t hold myself and paid full price on this one, been hunting down for a long time.Didn´t play it yet but seems a very downgraded version.

5R$

Finally some SS finds!


10R$ each, loose until i hit zonesega and printed the covers, look great!

Neo-Geo controller for some Samurai 2 slice and kill

Really a STEAL, 20R$, and even works completelly great, no clean needed!
Snes stuff


And finally, the best loot:

Megaman 3 just kick ass!

See ya!

[carlcarlson]

Well I broke down and got a Wii. Actually I got two of them but one of them was more of a "find" then the other. I got:

system
2 remote/nunchuck combos
2 steering wheels
2 guns (one official, one Nyko pistol)
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles
Mario Galaxy
Mario Kart
No More Heroes
Smash Brothers Brawl
CSI something or other
TopSpin3
NCAA football 09
wii sports
Link's Crossbow training

Everything is complete and was bought new less than three months ago. $475 and it was mine. I don't know how long I'll keep it, but the half hour I've spent so far with it has been pretty fun.

[natinh0]

Hey Carl, cant figure out the reason of 2 wiis!Okay, got 2 SS here but is an old system and very prone to fail but Wii? What is the matter?Very good price or collector oddness?

[carlcarlson]

Hey Carl, cant figure out the reason of 2 wiis!Okay, got 2 SS here but is an old system and very prone to fail but Wii? What is the matter?Very good price or collector oddness?

Actually, I have three now. I just won another one on ebay about 5 minutes ago. See the way I collect is I buy low and sell high until I make enough to pay for the stuff I keep. So I just bought three Wii bundles at a low price and after I sell some of the stuff I should end up with a system and about six games for about $150. I'll just keep doing that until I even out. This method is a LOT easier with older systems, but it works fine with new stuff too, it just takes longer. That's how I got my 360 and DS collections, both of which now a pretty decent size.

[Ryaan1234]

Friday garage sales have brought a nice triple score on some DVD sets:

Items are:
Gamecube Wavebird Controller & Receiver
Gamecube Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
CSI Season 5
DS9 Season 5
Futurama Vol. 3

I got all of it for $45. I think that's pretty good

[Tommy]

NES with SMB1,2,3 and zelda and zelda 2 with all hookups and controllers for 45.00 dollars.

[Atari 5200]

Found one of the coolest things yet...Donkey Kong POG. I used to love POG!



Also found my first GBA bootlegs. Licensedn by Nintendo.



Pkmn quartz I think was made by a spanish speaking guy, so it has some funny spanish lines in there. Also funny is that instead of game boy at the top of the sticker it says "GAME MEN". I little weird, but funny.

And Finally...

[namzep]

I picked up Phoenix Wright: Trials & Tribulations (DS) new from Walmart for $20. For some reason, lately all I've seen in the line of games is Apollo Justice. So, I now have all three Phoenix Wright games.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Pkmn quartz I think was made by a spanish speaking guy, so it has some funny spanish lines in there. Also funny is that instead of game boy at the top of the sticker it says "GAME MEN". I little weird, but funny.

A lot of the bootleg carts are actually fan-made hacks which the pirates steal and burn onto carts. Sucks, but what can ya do.

Anyway, yesterday's finds:



The PS Elements is going to eBay; the other thing? I bought it because you can never have too few PC fans in a city that routinely reaches 110 degrees by noon.



All of that? $5! I misunderstood the guy selling the stuff, he'd told me that everything was fifty cents but then told me everything was $2 a pop. I hadn't seen the little sign in the box with CDs... after some discussing he took $5 for everything. Awesome. It's almost as if the heat makes everyone unwilling to argue with me.

Edit:
Oh yeah, I forgot! I got Half-Life for the PS2, near mint, for three bucks!

[MarkMan]

[evil_genius]

Very cool

[NES_Rules]

My treasures from this weekend.


Volkswagen First Act guitar - $10


All complete and nearly all mint - $20


Star voyager is missing manual, Decap Attack is complete - $4


All complete - $5


$5

Also got Sesame Street Counting Cafe (GEN) for $0.25
Whomp 'em (NES) for $1
11 Gameboy/Color game cases for $0.50

[titanzguard]

NES_Rules,

Everytime I look at this thread you are posting a ton of find. Do you work at a Goodwill or something? Thats a lot of finds and you find them so often. I would love to live where you live!

Congrads!

[VACRMH]

Used the EB DS coupon one last time before it ended and bought...

The World Ends with You
Mystery Dungeon

Used the PS2 one today and bought...

Soul Nomad
World Heroes Collection
Guilty Gear Isuka

$37 for the PS2 games.

[NayusDante]

From the library bookstore today...



Only game-related finds were Spaceship Warlock (MAC) and The Manhole (PC). SW was $3, Manhole was $1.

The other finds are all comics.
7 various issues at $.25 each, had to use my own bags+boards
Afterlife vol 1 - $1
Import Naruto Sourcebook (?) - $1, I'm not a Naruto fan, so I'm not really sure about this one
Import Dragon Ball vol 1 - $1, this was the one I was particularly excited to find, think it says 1996 printing
3 Battle Angel Alita graphic novels, $1, $2, and $2


I really haven't seen much game-related stuff recently, maybe my area is getting dry.

[Atari 5200]

Found final fantasy VII black label for $8 at flea...yawn...
Sega CD backup memory cart- free thanks to my good friends at star video.

[darkhades]

Good day at Goodwill today. $2.99 each for the CD games, $1.99 each for the cartridge games. I had to be quick to get the PS1 games. A women who works there was just putting them out as I was looking at the CD rack. I quickly grabbed what I could but another guy saw what was happening and rushed over. I got most of the good stuff, the only games that I didn't grab quick enough, and that I would have picked up was Metal Gear Solid and Grand Turismo 1&2.

[BIGMIKE]

figured i would make a small purchase once i spotted this puppy. funny thing is i was checking this thing over once i spotted it and out of my eye i catch a group of kids gawking over it. i decided that i would do my good deed and see if they could get their mom to bite on it. they tried and tried to no avail. kinda felt bad for them. so, it comes home with me.

can't go wrong for $5, now i need a cheap rock band cd......
N64 hockey game. different store, but somehow i only got charged a dime for it