My incredible weekend finds, including a sealed R10! (pics)

[sisko]

This weekend was a good weekend from the start.

On Saturday we found:

* Four working Coleco table top arcades (Frogger, Ms. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Galaxian) - $8 total
* PTO:II - Saturn, complete - $4
* Zombies Ate My Neighbors - SNES, cart only - $3
* Super Castlevania IV - SNES, cart only - $3
* Centurion Defender of Rome - GEN, missing manual -$3
* Earthworm Jim - GEN, cart only - $3
* Legend of Mana - PSX, complete (excellent condition) - $5
* Arc the Lad Import - PSX, missing spine card - $5

In addition, we also found a lot of controllers/power supplies. Paid $13 and got:

* Atari XE Light Gun
* Three Atari 2600 Joysticks
* One Atari 7800 Joystick
* One Atari 7800 Power Supply
* One Starfighter Ultimate Joystick

Our best find, ironically, was found the latest in the day - at 3PM to be exact!

A huge Turbo Grafx lot was just sitting there in the open. Only $30 for the whole thing. Needless to say, we picked it up immediately. It came with:

* TG16 with rear dust cover
* CD Expansion with base and system card
* Three official controllers
* Turbo Tap
* All required power supplies
* Official hardcase
* Military Madness
* Pac-Land (complete)
* Keith Courage in Alpha Zones
* Neutopia II
* Space Harrier (complete)
* Victory Run (complete)
* Bonk's Adventure (complete)
* Dungeon Explorer (complete)
* Super Volleyball (complete)
* Splatterhouse (complete)
* Final Lap Twin
* Champions Forever Boxing (complete, with poster)
* Hit the Ice
* TV Sports Hockey
* Aero Blasters (complete)
* Silent Debugger (complete)
* Takin' it to the Hoop (complete)
* Addams Family (complete)
* Ys Book I and II (complete with map)
* Ys III: Wanderers from Ys (complete)
* Valis II (complete)
* It Came from the Desert (complete)
* J.B. Harold Murder Club (complete)
* Sherlock Holmes (complete)
* Cosmic Fantasy 2 (complete)
* Loom



We thought that yesterday was our best day ever for hunting. Boy were we wrong!!! Normally we don't even go hunting on Sunday's, but for reasons to discussed later, we made an exception.

As we were hunting today, we found more than we were planning on. We stumbled across an Atari lot for $22. It included:

* Atari 800 Home Computer with official dust cover
* Atari 410 Cassette Recorder
* Atari 1050 Floppy Drive
* Two BASIC Computing cartridges
* One random joystick
* Atari Touch Tablet with Atari Artist
* Frogger and Zaxxon datasettes
* Four random official Atari manuals
* Two PhonicEar Speach Computers (not really sure what these are, but they were free with the Atari lot)



We also took advantage of EBs BOGO sale and for $12 we scored:

* Animaniacs - SNES, cart only
* Battle Toads/ Double Dragon - SNES, cart only (finally!!!)
* Gamecube Freeloader

Along those lines, we also stopped by BB's GameRush. Traded in a copy of Transformers (that we had bought from there for $4.99 during that last promotion), and along with store credit and a random $10 off (don't know how that happened) we snagged, for a measly $2.47:

* Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures (new)

But it just kept getting better. The next find was:

* Official Atari (not the crappy Sears one) Game Center, brand new, factory sealed - $20
* Boxed Coleco, missing controllers (but we have extras anyways) - $10

The box for the Coleco is beat up, but it looks like it is repairable. It's all there at least. Both styro are in excellent shape. Very pretty!



Finally, we picked up our greatest find to date. There's a bit of a story to this though.

We actually found it yesterday, but saw the price tag and realized it was more than we had left to spend and we thought it may be a bit overpriced. Upon getting home, we pulled out our trusty DP7 guide and looked it up. Much to our amazement, the only listing we could find that could possibly be what we saw, was an R10 item. Not believing that we just saw an R10 in the wild, we contacted Joe to confirm that this was indeed the same item. We were dumbfounded when he said it was.

This morning, we rushed back to pick it up, constantly worrying that someone else may have already gotten it. Luckily it was still there. Unluckily, the vendor was not. After standing there for about 20 minutes with the item in hand (we were not about to set it down), we found out that the vendor wasn't going to be in today. We were very tempted to just slide $60 under the door and walk off. At this time, the owner of the complex walked up. On a whim, we asked if we could just pay him for the item and much to our surprise, he not only let us pay him, but he let us get it for $10 less!

So here it is... a brand new, factory sealed, Kid Vid Voice Module Controller.



We haven't decided if we want to keep it or sell it - it's not often you stumble across an R10, let alone owning a sealed one. Definitely, our best weekend finds ever.

[sniperCCJVQ]

Awesome!

Alone the factory sealed Kid Vid worth more than $100.

You got an incredilble weekend, i'm jealous

[Aussie2B]

Wow, that's some awesome stuff. :) Where'd you find it all (besides the BB and EB stuff), just at flea markets? I'm especially jealous of those table tops. ;)

[Balloon Fight]

That's amazing. Congrats on your nice haul.

[Lemmy Kilmister]

Damn. How come i can never find anything good at yards sales or flea markets.

[Half Cab Leroy]

Damn, VERY nice finds!!!

[hydr0x]

wow, what a fantastic weekend

[SoulBlazer]

Where can I get more information on that Kid Vid device?

Great find, by the way!

[Kejoriv]

Nince finds. I havent had a good weekend in a long time

[captain nintendo]

Freaking awesome finds !!!!!

Congrats

[Kid Ice]

I was considering a "the wild is dead" type of post, but this pretty much blew that out of the water. Congrats!

[ubersaurus]

GODDAMN

I need to start game hunting with YOU.

[DigitalSpace]

Nice! Congrats on finding the Kid Vid and that sweet haul overall.

[Pantechnicon]

That's just an increible haul, particularly given that you went out three or four times and struck some gold on each outing. Nice work!

[tholly]

wow.....very nice finds....i wish i could find stuff like that in the wild

[-hellvin-]

Jesus lord mary & Joseph.

What amazing fucking finds. I wish I could pull in a fucking haul like that. Gaming glory right there. GOD I wish I didn't work 6am shifts Friday through Saturday, I can never get garage saleing.

[Richter]

GODDAMN

I need to start game hunting with YOU.

i'll join along. I *never* find anything worthwhile

[Crush Crawfish]

Damn! I've been looking for a TG16 forever! You got some great stuff! But leave some for the rest of us!

[sisko]

Thanks guys

Sadly, the Turbo CD doesn't work, but if anyone knows how to repair it, I would like to direct your attention to my inquiry in the "Technical and Restoration Society).

@aussie2b - Some was at yard sales, some was at flea markets, some was.....elsewhere. I can't reveal the few goldmines I have (or even give hints), there is simply WAY too much competition in this area, I know of at least 20 members in the general vicinity As for the tabletops, I have never seen one of those things in real life before. I bought them to resell, since I knew they had potential, but they are so friggin nice that I can't bear to part with them!

@soulblazer - I don't know! I looked on the web and info was pretty scarce, I can tell you anything on the box though! I know it comes with 3 audio cassettes that work in conjunction with the pack-in Smurfs Save the Day edutainment "Play N' Learn Game Cartridge." The tapes are: Harmony Smurf (teaches music), Handy Smurf (teaches shape, color, and size) , and Greedy Smurf (color mixing)

Manufactured in 1983 by Coleco, item number 2511. The box includes the voice module (cassette recorder), connecting cables, instruction guide, warranty card, ear plug and aforementioned game/cassettes.

The connecting cable appears to connect the audio out to the controller plug on a 2600.

They push the fact that it is "EVEN A PORTABLE TAPE RECORDER!" that works with standard audio cassettes. (exciting, isnt it :P)

@Joe or whomever writes that section, please feel free to throw that in the guide if you wish.

@sniper - MUCH more than that

[Arqueologia_Digital]

Only...WOW!!!!!!