What Are Your THREE Greatest Finds in the Wild?

[manuel]

1) A PC Engine Duo RX with all hookups, controller and Arcade card for 14$.

2) A black Twin Famicom for free from a friend.

3) A Sega Mark III for 7.50$.

[EricRyan34]

Not really amazing, but they are still good!


1. Super Smash Bros Complete $4.99

2. Ehrgeiz $3.99

3. Resident Evil 2 for 'cCube (when it was Rare) $8.99


nothing compared to most of ya!

[sleepycal]

Nice topic.

1. PC engine CDrom 2 boxed w/ PC engine, 2 CD games, and 2-3 hu cards. Free from a friend. I bought him a dinner the week before

2. SMS Mah-jong complete. Free from a friend.

3. Buster Douglas KO boxing complete. For SMS. $10 Cdn at a comic/game store.

[Biff_McFresh]

I haven't had really any mindblowing finds just yet, but here goes:

1) Suikoden II (Sealed)- $ 9.99 at Virgin Megastore. Back in like 2002 or 2003 I believe.

2) Suikoden I (Sealed)- $ 9.99 at Sears. Around the same time I got the above mentioned gem.

3) Hmmm, i dunno, I guess this decent Genesis bundle I got off my friend for like 20 bucks. Genesis system (first model), 2 controllers, and like 10 or so games.

[cyberfluxor]

Although I don't have anything really special like Prototypes or Turnament carts, finding great classics I enjoy are my best finds.

#1: Galactic Attack (Saturn)
An awesome shooter I had been hyped to get for a long time. It ended up costing me $8 to buy at a local used game store and loved it as much as the screen shots I drooled over. Instant classic and supurb game in my collection.

#2: Paper Mario (Nintendo64)
Got it for $8 at a pawn shop and was SO happy to see it. I had always wanted to get it and check it out since I saw people playing the second one for the Gamecube. Although I only played a few hours worth I'm sure one day I'll dedicate time to go all the way.

#3: Prince of Persia 2 (Super Nintendo)
For a special price of $2, this decently rare game got baught and placed in my collection. I love the Prince of Persia games because of the puzzles and time limits. Finding this made me so happy because I already had the first for the SNES.

There's plenty of other games in my collection but these 3 games were the first to hit my mind as great finds personally. I guess it's also great they aren't SUPER amazing finds compaired to others on the forum so I have plenty of room to still shoot for the moon and find something nice.

[Rockman Neo]

1. Crazy Climber for $2.50 along with the system and 5 other games.

2. Suikoden II for $16 at a Toys R' Us.

3. Cubivore for $40 at a GameStop.

[BrokenFlight]

1) A PS1 with 14 games and a boxed analogue joystick for £7. It turned out two of the games were worth a £9 trade in each at Gamestation. I don't really collect PS1 games, so I traded in the console and 8 games for £35.

2) A Megadrive 1 with 9 games for £10. It turned out the console didn't work but I opened it up and wiggled some stuff, not knowing what I was doing. I managed to make it work enough to trade it in for £9. Then I sold two of the games for £2 each. So I got 7 games and £3.

3) I haven't had many great finds so my 3rd one is a bit so-so. I got a boxed clear blue GBA with a light, battery pack and charger for £8. I was pleased with it, especially considering Gamestation is selling the same style, boxed, for £35.

[Damaramu]

1. Bought a fully functional Sega Nomad for $50 from one of our customers (I'm the web/ebay guy at a comic book store). It's in primo condition too!

2. Found a Half Price Books with a HUGE stock of Sega CD games. Nothing super rare (no Snatchers, Keios, or anything like that), but what they had was super clean with unbroken cases. Yes, I bought them all.

3.Randomly walked into an EB and found Secret of Mana and Final Fantasy III, carts only. They were averagely priced. I couldn't pass them up of course.

Runner up:
We're selling a pachinko machine for $100. I really want this badboy. It's in superb condition; everything works great to boot. Hmmm....

[handheldchick]

1.Odyssey 1 -complete in box for free when a flea market was closing in my town about a month ago.

2. My local eb always has tons of old gb games and i found panel action bingo there with instructions.

3. gameboy printer in box at a gamezone( i know its only worth 5 bucks but ive never seen it in the box in years!)

all my other stuff comes off ebay.

[dj_spryte]

1. A factory sealed Super Turrican 2 for the SNES at a local video store fro $15.

2. A complete Fun 'n Games for the SNES at a flea market for $20

3. A factory sealed Ogre Battle for the SNES for free from my cousin who got it as a gift but never opened it.

[Simply Dave]

I've had tons of great finds in the wild and it's hard to keep track of them all.

However, this year, my best finds have been:

1. Top loading NES at flea market $5.00 ( I also scored one at an estate auction last year for $6.00)

2. Dragon Warrior 2 for NES for $1.00 (Goodwill)

3. Super Mario RPG for SNES for $1.00 (Goodwill)

Runner-up- Burning Rangers for Sega Saturn for $5.00 during their last 5 for $15 sale. I believe that was last fall. September, maybe?

[BrokenFlight]

I've had my best weekend of finds now.

17 PS1 games for £14.

Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel for 70p (R7)

2 working N64s for £3

[50TBRD]

2 copies of Metal Warriors(SNES) for 10.
1 copy of Metal Marines(SNES) for 10.
New Horizons(SNES) for 10.
Ardy Lightfoot(SNES) and Spike McFang(SNES) for 5 each.
One Piece Mansion(PSX) for 2.99.

I saw One Piece for $30 at SWAPUSA and talked to the sales man about it. He really wanted it and I told him that I had gotten a copy for $3. He was wowed but I just pick up cheap PSX games all the time to see if they're ny good. At 3 bucks you can't go wrong.

[Vinnysdad]

Intellivision complete in box with a complete in box Intellivoice at the Salvation Army for $3.50

Yellow Gameboy Camera at Kmart priced at $19.99 but when they rang it up it came up as $0.99

Miracle Piano cart for NES at flea market for $5.00

[Steven]

#3: Prince of Persia 2 (Super Nintendo)
For a special price of $2, this decently rare game got baught and placed in my collection. I love the Prince of Persia games because of the puzzles and time limits. Finding this made me so happy because I already had the first for the SNES.

Yup, I got this game for a trade at the flea market, and it was the only time I ever spotted POP2... never saw it on eBay. Couple weeks later I traded the same vendor to get POP1.

As for my top 3 finds in the wild....

1. Aero Fighters
Traded a vendor 4 crappy fighting game VHS movies I couldn't paid to get anyone to buy online. Oh my God I couldn't believe the steal I got.

2. Metal Warriors
Trade for crappy doubles

3. Gem Fire
ditto!

[pickingupchange]

1. LaserActive w/ sega , turbografx and karaoke modules, 10 laserdiscs, 2 tg16 controllers, Pioneer mic, 1 sega controller, 25 sega cd games (snatcher included in there), 20 turbo grafx games, a dozen turbo grafx cd games, 3 laseractive games, bunch of xtra manuals for $40

[fergojisan]

Hmmm...

1. Boxed Meteorites for Atari 5200, $1. I got the instructions years later off ebay.

2. Atari 2600 with about 50 games, including Rubik's Cube and a few complete Sears games - $50. Thanks to TheSmirk for the heads up on this one.

3. Original Odyssey, in the carrying case, complete. $10.

I was very lucky to find a lot of good stuff before I even had a PC. Those days are over, unfortunately.

[NESVIDIOT]

Star Fox Super Weekend
complete Congo Bongo for INTV
all the Zonox double ender carts for Colecovision


all together they cost me less than 5$
all in the wild

[Damaniel]

1) Caltron 6-in-1 (cart, $20)
2) Little Samson (cart, $3)
3) D&D Order of the Griffon (complete, $4)

[Jackattack]

I don't have to many wild finds that are amazing and probably nothing compared to you guys but here it goes.

1) Panzer Dragoon 1,2, and Saga
2) Shenmue 2 (Pal)
3) Earthbound