What Are Your THREE Greatest Finds in the Wild?

[nesman85]

i never seem to have any luck in the wild. i've only got one noteworthy find that comes to mind, but its for a bunch of games. i found out that a friend of mine was the son of a famous video game journalist, of course i asked about prototypes because i was really into collecting them at the time. after a couple of months he dug out some boxes of games and told me that he had 2 nes protos. i finally talked him into selling them to me after many months. i go over to his house to pick up the protos and he tells me "they're somewhere in that box" and it's a huge box of production nes games but i wasn't at all interested in them because i was so excited about the protos. i start digging through it and about 10 minutes later i've got 16 nes prototypes in a pile next to me. i can't remember the last time i was this excited as i kept pulling them out of the box. then he goes and gets some more boxes of snes, genesis, and gameboy games. i dug through those boxes and found a few protos for each of those systems. i left with every proto that i found there. it costed me a lot, but i got to meet this video game journalist and i thought that was almost as cool as the find itself.

[YoshiM]

Hmmm....about the best finds I had found:

1. Bubble Bath Babes, Hot Slots, and Peek a Boo Poker all complete: $15 total (video store-3 for $15)
2. Myriad 5 in 1 (or was it 6 in 1) and Action 52 with some other cart with boxes: $15 total (video store 3 for $15)
3. Tengen Tetris cart only: $3 (Goodwill)

[Reverend JagDiesel]

I feel so inadequate reading some of those posts! But here's my top 3 in no particular order:
1. Swordquest Waterworld & Tank Command $.49 each (new Goodwill store grand opening)
2. Game Gear w/ TV tuner $5 (yard sale)
3. a large box of Intv games, all boxed w/ instructions & overlays.. and a boxed Intv music keyboard for: free (did some cleanup/moving work at a game shop)

[atariboy]

1. Swordquest: WaterWorld At flea market for $2 (Mint Condition) :P

2. NES Top loader for $5. Didn't work so sent it in to nintendo with $10 and they fixed it. (Savers Thrift Store)

3. Shenmue 2 for dreamcast (European Release) for $5. (Salvation Army)

I thought those were pretty good finds.

[Ruffie]

1. RCA Studio II w/3 near mint cartriges (game, box, instructions, even one catalog) - $5

2. A second Vectrex hidden under a table at a flea market with some old TVs - $45

3. 4 Fairchild Channel F games in a bin of 8-trak tapes (they are roughly the same size and shape) - $8

There are more, of course, but these 3 stand out.

Ruffie

[TonK]

Nightmare in the Dark AES Conversion - $80

Chrono Trigger Complete - $.10, yes .10

Sonic Adventure LE - FREE

[Balloon Fight]

Well since ive really only started to actually collect games in the past year, i only have a few:

Dragon Warrior 3- $2
Various NES rares including many Color Dreams carts, AVE carts, and Race America- $2 apiece

Tie- SMS with hookups, gun, Double Dragon, and Hang-on/Safari Hunt- $1 / Telegames Atari VSC- $3

[ApolloBoy]

1. Atari Lynx I with 3 games. 2 Atari 810 disk drives, an Atari 410 tape drive, an Atari 1030 modem, an Atari light pen, and various Atari 8-bit computer carts (for FREE!)
2. Golden Axe Warrior for $4 (complete, mint condition)
3. Atari 2600 Jr with 22 games for $5

[hu6800]

1. 60 arcade machines, jukeboxes, and pinball machies (plus 50+ boxes of parts, arts, and PCBs) $550.00

2. Sega Nomad (working, loose) $3.00

3. Snatcher (mint complete Sega CD) FREE

I have more I'm sure, but those are the best I can think of at 3am!

Dude ,, common you know that controller was nice...

The most fucked up thing ive ever seen,,,
was when maxlords covered my entire living room floor with shrinkwrapped
SCD's , Neo Carts, Saturn imports, PCFX cd's and much more.
i wish i had taken a picture of that,,AND HE HAD DOUBLES! christ that was alot.

[josekortez]

It was hard to narrow it down to 3 things...

1) Gauntlet Legends (DC) new for .99 at K-Mart
2) Phantasy Star Online new (DC) for .99 at Sears
3) small SNES and NES toaster with controllers and AVs sans AC adapters for $6.00 total - "parasited" at Gamestop

3 best freebies I acquired at my retail jobs:

1) Broken kiosk Dreamcast system
2) PlayStation light-up marquis
3) N64 light-up marquis with GameCube slide

I should have never let that Halo stand-up go into the trash. Stupid immature fanboyism! <josekortez slaps self> Never again!

[anagrama]

Nothing truly otherworldly, but I've stumbled across a couple of nice bundles in the past:

1) 'Limited Edition' Gamegear/TV Tuner/Columns package, mint & boxed with powerpack, battery pack, screen magnifier and 16 boxed & complete games - £3

2) Woody six-switch VCS with 4 sticks, 2 paddles & 20 loose carts - £2

3) 7 3rd Party Dreamcast fishing rods for £1 each at Poundland. I put them all on eBay with a BIN of £10 and sold them all in 48 hours I also got 2 3rd Party N64 rumble packs, 4 3rd Party Saturn pads and a 6-button Megadrive pad at the same time, all for £1 each.

[Damon Plus]

- Mega Drive Six Pack PAL which was only available in germany as pack-in in a very limited amount for 3.00 (lose as there is no boxed version)

- Anticipation NES PAL mint for 0.67 (the pal version usually goes for 40+ bucks)

- a whole bunch of Dreamcast games for 5.00 each, Saturn/32X for 1.00 each incl. Shenmue 2 and a lot other rares all in perfect shape

not the best finds but it's very very hard to find ANYTHING in the wild in germany

And Spain!!

[Bighab]

1. 3 factory sealed Shining Force CD's for $35
2. FF2 and Secret of Mana carts at a bi-way store for $7 each
3.Complete Pirates Gold and warsong for $8 each.

[The Collector]

#3-My Top-Loader for $20 at local music store
#2-Chrono Trigger(snes) & Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 (DC) $10 for both at local pawn shop
#1- My grandaddy find.....Color Bar Generator mint with original instructions and original plain cardboard box at my local Goodwill store.......$0.50. But I weighed out my options and decided that it wasn't much of a "game" (which it isnt) But since it came up as a 10 on the scale, off to the auction block it went...for $348 .
That cash financed my minty Duo and new DC. It was worth it to me.

[l_lamb]

1. Final Fantasy Tactics (non-GH) sealed - $2.99 at Goodwill in Austin last year on my birthday. Mixed with the audio CD's.

2. Mythicon Star Fox for 2600 - free at Salvation Army. The guy at the counter saw the stains on the label and told me not to worry about paying. Works fine.

3. Sega Master System with 3D glasses/adapter, 12 complete games, 2 controllers, and all cables - $9.99 at Savers. It was in perfect shape for not being boxed; still had the protective plastic cover on the shiny part of the console and controllers. It's in better shape than the one that I've owned since 1986.

[bobdrywalls]

newest best find in the wild would be my phillips CD-I 910 system, 23 games including link, hotel mario, and cartoon carnival, light gun, wireless controller, hookups, and system has the expansion in the back. $100 through the local newspaper.

[NintendoMan]

off the top of my head...

-a box filled with 17 caltron 6 in 1s: 15 shrinkwrapped, 1 complete, 1 loose. $30 at a thrift.

ORANGEST! I, too, got my sealed Caltron from you. I actually think you supplied a majority of the Caltron out in circulation, if not all the sealed ones... hehe.

My top 5:

- Sealed 2600 Glib for $2 at a thrift

- loose Game Action Replay for $5


I'm drooling just looking at that stack! (Except for the gyrusses and magmaxes) Did you sell these on ebay? I saw the same seller selling alot of these 2 games, I did bid on some but lost all I think 3-4 times.

- and the big load of about 100 sealed games + from my local Funco. 4 sealed original Zelda 2s, one sealed Skate or Die, about 30-50 sealed contras, 20 sealed QBerts, 5 sealed Friday the 13ths, 5 sealed Athletic Worlds, 10 Xeviouses, 20 Magmaxes, and 20 Gyrusses. Cost me $700, but quite the amount of theoritcal pants shitting when I walked into the store that day.



dave

[vision89]

1) A box with the complete Atari 2600 Avalon Hill collection all unopened, along with about 25 other unopened Atari 2600 games for $100
2)Dracula X for the snes $20
3)Atari video game brain unopen $5, Atari trackball unopen $5, got them both at the same time

[Dire 51]

Hmmm...

1) Loose 2600 Q*Bert's Qubes with a bunch of commons, all of which I bought for $8 in '98
2) CIB Tengen Tetris from a video store that was closing down for $6 in '98.
3) Gradius II (box, no manual), Holy Diver (CIB) and a Honeybee converter for $20 from a local game store in '94
4) Alien Soldier (Japanese CIB) for $40 from a visitor to the OPCFG in '00.
5) Megapanel (Mega Drive - CIB) free in '99.

The first two I no longer have - Q'sQs went to a good home (to a RR member, actually), and Tetris I traded in for about $80 in store credit at a local game store.

[Crush Crawfish]

Let's See.. My 3 greatest finds would be

3. Mega Man X2 $30 (Very dirty too... I know it's not that rare but I wanted this so bad and when I found it I was practically bursting with joy!)

2. Tengen Tetris $6

1. NES Qix Sealed $9

I know it's nothing spectacular, but these were great finds for me!

[ClubNinja]

I'm sure I'll forget a few things here, but...

TurboExpress + TV Tuner for $40 at the flea market (tuner has since been traded for a box of games.)

Complete NES Game Action Replay for $4 at the same flea (was traded for my MVS motherboard.)

Kiwi Kraze NES prototype for free at EB (hurray to buy one get one free sales and dumb luck.)

[ianoid]

Off the head of my top:

1)One of a kind Rabbit Transit Atari Lab Loaner CARTRIDGE (Marco, I still want it back!)

2)Almost complete Colecovision collection including undiscovered unreleased title Number Bumper and Motocross/Tomarc, with all 5 Coleco Tabletops and a load of other goodies (including a bunch of rare TI titles and much more): $650

3)Here it gets tough. $7 Turbo Express? Complete in box Telstar Arcade ($9)? Boxed Vectrex with complete light pen and a couple complete titles ($40)? 22 complete in box Vectrex games (all commons, with repeats) ($3 apiece)? There are so many that make my month or year...

ian, hunter/collector

[orrimarrko]

Off the head of my top:

1)One of a kind Rabbit Transit Atari Lab Loaner CARTRIDGE (Marco, I still want it back!)

2)Almost complete Colecovision collection including undiscovered unreleased title Number Bumper and Motocross/Tomarc, with all 5 Coleco Tabletops and a load of other goodies (including a bunch of rare TI titles and much more): $650

3)Here it gets tough. $7 Turbo Express? Complete in box Telstar Arcade ($9)? Boxed Vectrex with complete light pen and a couple complete titles ($40)? 22 complete in box Vectrex games (all commons, with repeats) ($3 apiece)? There are so many that make my month or year...

ian, hunter/collector

Oh yes Ian, you are indeed evil...

[Qixmaster]

3. 147 boxed, complete, mint NES games for 160 bucks, some tough to find complete games (widget, wacky races, magician,just to name a few)

2. Mario Bros. Arcade Cabinet that "didn't work" but actually needed the color adjusted - $75 bucks (lady has a looping cabinet for 200 bucks, but i didn't pick it up... yet)

1. Huge Box of Mint BOXES, some good finds in the box; Chrono Trigger SNES box, Dragon Warrior 4 Box, Mega Man 4 Box, Super Buster Brothers SNES box, Super Turrican 2 SNES Box, John Maddan Rental Exclusive Genesis Box, Mighty Final Fight Box... gawd i can't even remember, but there were well over 75 good boxes - $5.00

I know i have others and probably better ones, these just popped in my head while here at school

[armezj]

jeez...y'all got some great stuff...i can't even compair, but here's mine:

1. Sealed Michael Jackson's Moonwalker for 5 bucks at a swap meet.

2. 40 Nes games with 3 sealed games were left in a box outside of an evicted neighbor's home...sealed games were Gyruss, Yoshi Cookie, and Mike Tyson's Punchout.

3. Unopened Genesis 3 system at Value Village for 25 bucks. I didn't even know they had made one of these at the time...I was trippin.