What Are Your THREE Greatest Finds in the Wild?

[AdamAnt316]

My three best finds:

1. Huge Commodore collection (C-64C/C-128/Amiga 1000) along with tons of peripherals, games, magazines, and other stuff from a friend for free

2. Boxed Atari 7800 with 30+ games from my brother's friend for free

3. Boxed Intellivision console with a few games from a neighbor for free

-Adam

[drummy]

Here's mine, although they're not good, since most of my purchases have been online.

1. Dreamcast w/ about 10 complete games, with two controllers and three VMUS - $7

2. Taiko Drums Master (sealed) - Free from a friend for Christmas

3. Two complete Suikoden IIs - $82 total from two friends.

[Famidrive-16]

- Atari 2600 JR in a box with 65 games, plus a 32X with two games and some weird coin.
- Secret of Mana in mint-perfect condition in a box with instructions and everything (the fanboy find)
- .....can't really think of a third one.

[Dimitri]

While mine are hardly "spectacular" by any means (I don't get out shopping nearly as much as I'd like to) I've had a few nice finds:

Bebe's Kids (R7) and Robotrek (R4) for SNES, CIB (Robotrek has the item chart) for $5 each.

Team Buddies (R8) for PSX, complete...$12 from Gamestop.

Crusader of Centy (R6) for Genesis, CIB...$8.

The amazing thing is that the three not found at Gamestop were found in game stores that seemed to be priced rather competently.

[Jibbajaba]

I dunno....this is a toughy.

I got Intellignt Qube for $5 preplayed at Blockbuster....

I got a CIB Tengen Tetris for $3 at a mom and pop type store...

I just recently found that Genny Toy Story Proto thing....

I found a crapload of CIB NES games for $2 each last year...

Found NES QIX for $2...

I found a VB with all hookups and a JAP copy of vertical force for $1 last month...

My favorite find, although nothing spectacular, is the day I got a completely mint, but loose Atari 6 switch for $2 and a white atari joystick for $2. Not a great find, but I play the crap out of that system, and it looks great.

I don't think I have ever had a REALLY AMAZING find (like the assload of sealed 6 in 1s) but I almost never come home from the thrifts and fleas empty handed, and that makes me happy.

Chris

[grimbal]

1. SMS Store Demo Unit. $50.00

2. Starfox Super Weekend Edition (R9) - Free have since sold it on Ebay.

3. Chavez II (R8) $6.95

Number 1 and 3 have come within a couple of weeks of each other and at the same store. Swung by there again today and saw two R7 SNES games, but didn't have any cash

[atariboy]

My finds in the wild include:

1. Swordquest - Water World for atari 2600 in mint cond. from flea market for $2.00

2. Sonic adventure - Limited Edition for dreamcast from local yard sale for $0.50 missing cover

3. Sega Nomad from Deseret Industries Thrift store for $5

[silver_surfer]

1 Nintendo Playchoice 10 Tabletop Arcade Machine (R10)
2 Spider Maze (R9) for the 2600
3 Bearinstien Bears (R9)

[dreamcaster]

1. NES system, mint condition, seemingly unused, $5.00AU


2. Sega Saturn, again, mint condition, seemingly unused, $26.00AU


3. Space Channel 5 - Part 2 (PS2) - excellent condtion, $26.95 from EB.

[MegaManFan]

1. Tomarc the Barbarian for 2600 for $1 - twice at the same store. Kept one, sold the other.

2. A Vectrex with 20 games, all the overlays and instructions, and four controllers for $160. A big cash outlay to be sure, but worth three times that in what I got or more.

3. Mega Man X3 in a mint box for $50. Again not a cheap find but cheap compared to what it goes for on eBay, so I was very happy about it. (Still need a manual though.)

[Nesmaster]

Flintstones 2 $3 shipped ebay

Action 52 Complete with comic FREE Salvation Army

Maxi 15 with complete NES $10 Garage Sale

OR

Intelligent Qube complee $3 Goodwill

[Yamazaki]

1. Darius Alpha - 400$
2. Diver 2000 Dreamcast CX-1 400$
3. Kishin Doujin Zenki - 20$(!)

[Jed]

1. NES Miracle Piano Teaching System keyboard - free.

2. NES Power Set box (NEs, power pad, 2 controllers, gun, 10+ eBay expensive games like Bubble Bobble and Contra) - $1

3. Complete Shining Force 3 - $25 (later eBayed for over $100)

[swlovinist]

1. Sealed Snatcher for Sega CD....$1

2. Boxed and mint Spiderman Web of Fire....$1

3. Colecovision Prototype for Mr. Do's Castle....free


I dont know if getting a question mark at CGE that turned out to be Magicard for $100 counts, but I have to say that was probably my biggest "shock!"

[RJ]

These arent incredibly rare by ANY means, but my priority isnt in finding rarites, although if I see one that I know about, I'll most likely pick it up if it's at a reasonable price. Usually I'll buy a game if it's around $3-5 no matter what it is as long as I dont already have it. ON TO THE FINDS:

1. Time Crisis 3/Guncon2 CIB- $10.50 This was when it was still going for at least 3x that in stores. (They had another one w/out the game, gun only- still wish I'd picked it up! )

2. SNES (console only) $4. All that's wrong is the adapter plug-in's a bit loose inside the case- I just push the back against the wall- works great. I bought cables at GameStop- they were more than the console itself!

3. Sega Dreamcast, VMU, 4 controllers, 3 controller extensions, 16 games- $30. (Actually my mother-in-law gets credit for this one from a garage sale.) I sold back around half the games that I wasnt interested in/got low reviews & got better ones w/ the $.

[poloplayr]

My top eBay find was:

- SNES Dev system, Geni Dev system, two more Geni's (regular), Saturn, PSX and SNES along with a bunch of controllers and Chrono Trigger for the SNES, mint... $50.00 shipped



I love the thrill of the hunt!

PLEASE post a photo of that SNES dev system!!!

[snes_collector]

Mine aren't too good, but I've only been collecting for a year and a half

1. NES, Toploader NES, dog bone controller, NES advantage, more controlling, hookups, and a few games-20$ was 30, but we knocked in down

As for second and thirt I dunno, I guess you can decide, heres some of the better ones:

Herzong Zwei,complete 5$
Hurricanes(R7) 3$
A few SNES games-45 cents a piece
old Nintendo Powers-FREE


thats all I can think of for now

[tubeway]

My best three finds in the wild, were:

1. A storage locker of stuff that belonged to American Technos after they died in the USA. A friend of mine owned a thrift store, and he stumbled upon this during one of the seized storage locker auctions he would go to. For about $400, I bought most of the contents from him, including:

PSX1 Development Kit
PSy-Q Dev kit from Psygnosis
20 complete famicom cartridges
complete famicom in the box
complete white Japanese Saturn in the box
American Technos' framed business license (hahaha)
a binder of all their US copyright certificates
stacks of prototype discs for PSX and 3DO (pretty much all released stuff)
a handful of Sega Genesis EPROM carts, including a PAL Battletoads Vs. Double Dragon
An NES prototype cart of some horror game that was later lost in the mail to someone
A box of Kunio and double dragon related mangas and videos (kunio's the character from River City Ransom)
About a dozen Super Famicom titles released by Technos Japan, including River City Ransom 2
Four award plaques, including two for Wrestlefest from the AMAA awards or something like that.
A Gameboy two system demo unit
Various gameboy eprom carts

2. Started working at a company, the 3DO had died like a year previous, and I was allowed to take two boxes of about 40 discs of titles that were cancelled or rejected when they submitted them to us for publishing. Ended up with most of the "big" titles that went unreleased, including BIOS Fear, Theo the Dinosaur, Varuna's Forces, Icebreaker 2 and so on.

3. Working at another game company, our engineering department was throwing away a bunch of equipment and EPROM carts. I ended up getting three EPROM burners (later sold on ebay for about $300 each), and around 30 Genesis prototype carts (of two released titles). Ended up selling the carts on ebay for around $15-$40 each.

And I'm going to violate the three item rule, and go further...

4. A used computer store in my area bought a bunch of server hardware from an online division of Sega when they shut down an office. Oddly enough, they ended up with stacks of "Mega CD" CD-Rs used for burning test copies of games, and were selling them as cheapo CD-Rs in their aisle. I picked up three packages of four for a couple bucks each. Ended up staggering their sale on ebay over the next few months, getting like $30 each. Went back, but they'd sold the rest of the discs to people who probably later put family photos or work files on 'em.

5. Working on Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare, I was given a statue of Edward Carnby.

6. Was also given a leather Unreal Tournament jacket for working on that.

7. A game company I worked for went out of business, and I took home their entire magazine archive (probably about 500+ video game magazines).

8. I stumbled upon a coworker at another place using Japanese Sega Saturn discs to burn work files to. I ran to the local electronic's store, grabbed his Saturn discs, and replaced them with some memorex discs.

9. I came across prototype discs of "Radical Racer," "Pac Man World 1 (E3 demo)," and "Judge Dredd" for PSX at someone's flea market spot. Got em for like $3 each.

10. Nabbed a red "Game Factory" cartridge at the same flea market for a dollar.

11. A seller at that flea market that specialized in games sold me stacks of sealed Lynx titles for like $2 each, and I also got Jag and Jag CD systems for pretty cheap, although I don't remember how much.

12. Put an ad in the local circular, saying I was looking to buy classic games cheap. Ended up buying a collection of Nintendo Power, EGM and Game Pro from a local gamer, mostly NM condition, for like $30.

I stopped collecting for quite some time, though. I had to sell most of my items when I was having financial problems, which killed my desire to collect any more. Going to the CGExpo revived that bug in me.

[dj898]

not sure of three but the bext fin in the wild for me would be Sega pre-production prototype Saturn console...
it's one of hand built saturn shown around the trade shows before saturn was officially launched...

[Bender_rules]

1)I got a Atari 2600 in box with instr and 26 games(nothing to rare)all in there box's with intr.. for free from a free table at a yard sale..

2)Got a turbo Grafx 16 and 18 games for free from a friend.

3) 57 nintendo games from a flee market for $20