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Just picked up Kaboom, Defender, Joust 2600, Mrs. Pac-Man 7800, and a 7800 controller for $14.00 at an indoor flea market today. There were also a bunch of other commons that I already have.

 

Finding Mrs. Pac-Man (the only 7800 game there) is convenient because I needed it for the multi-console Mrs. Pac-Man competition next month. :)

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Grabbed up a StarFire Light Blaster for $8. Then I got to thinking...it's got to have come into the store with a game. I went back into Game X Change and sure enough, House of the Dead 2 was on the rack for $10. I picked it up as well. I half expected the StarFire had come in with Death Crimson OX, but I was wrong.

 

Now I've got two DC light guns (the other is a Stinger) and two games: House of the Dead 2 and Death Crimson OX.

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I drove up to everett(1 hour 30minutes minimum each way) to pick up a broken Apple Multiple Scan 17 monitor(I'm going to be taking it in to get it serviced as it's cheaper than shipping one in....not to mention the others I found for sale online were crazy high prices before shipping even got factored in.).

 

I ended up also taking two Macs, a bag full of SCSI drives... An unused portable CD/Mp3 CD player(which I gave to my girlfriend), an original Mac keyboard(1984, no keypad), and an Apple quicktake 100 camera in it too....and a working Apple 14" multiple Scan monitor.

 

I also took a bunch of floppies full of Mac software.

 

On the way back I stopped into a local used computer store and ended up picking up a NEC versa 486DX/50Mhz laptop. I found myself playing tankwars for several hours today..that and staring at the plaswarp.exe application that was on the harddrive... funky.

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Weekend Goodwill score:

 

Vader 2600 in the box with one controller

Atari 400 in the box with power supply

 

Not bad for $22! and they work!

 

There was one let-down, though. I saw a 2600 Jr. box with tape on it and got excited. I slowly peeled the tape back, peeked inside and it was just two joysticks inside. Tease!

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I grabbed 3 factory sealed Rule of Rose PS2 games today for $11 each

They still go for around $30 or so on ebay, so I figured I'd grab them.

 

I'll have to check the price on a few other games. I can grab stuff like Metal Slug Anthology PS2 and Harvest Moon Gamecube for $10 each... still factory sealed. Not sure what the prices are going for those games... but I'll have to check when I get home

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Grabbed the following N64 stuff

 

$2.99 each:

Pilotwings64 (Cart only)

WaveRace64 (Cart only)

Shadows of the Empire (Cart only)

Pokemon Stadium (Box, some papers, don't think it's complete)

Turok (Complete, box crushed)

Mischief Makers (Complete. Never heard of it before, but picked it up because it was complete).

 

N64 Expansion Pack. Free.

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yesterday at target i picked up the following:

 

Super Smash Bros. Brawl $49.99

2 atari joystick keychains $6.48 each

 

I was very suprised to find the atari key chains because i have never seen them there before. They are both cenepede and yar's revenge, so i only opened one. There were only two left that I saw, so i grabbed them right away.

 

EDIT:

I went to target again today, and i got another atari joystick for the same price, i asked if they had any more and they said no. I know that a lot of people dont like these keychain things, but they make the cutest 2600 joysticks!

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Got Wheel of Fortune, Family Feud, Jeopardy and World Series Baseball for the Genesis. Those along with Super Caesars Palace for the SNES for $5 total and I'd say I had another good day.

 

On a side note, I found a travel pack for my VG Pocket Tablet at Circuit City for $5, so now I can play both my Tablet and Caplet on T.V. and get a nice carrying case to boot!!

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Had a decent night for finds.

 

The Flintstones, Rescue of Dino and Hoppy NES 4.00

Casino Kid NES 4.00

Two R.O.B. Posters Free

Kung Fu Instruction Manual Free

Kabuki Quantum Fighter Manual Free

NES Soft Carrying Case 1.49

Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings Gen 3.00

Outlander Gen 3.00

Marvel Land w/box Gen 3.00

Twisted Edge N64 1.00

Burnout Paradise NIB 360 5.00

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Had a decent night for finds.

 

The Flintstones, Rescue of Dino and Hoppy NES 4.00

Casino Kid NES 4.00

Two R.O.B. Posters Free

Kung Fu Instruction Manual Free

Kabuki Quantum Fighter Manual Free

NES Soft Carrying Case 1.49

Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings Gen 3.00

Outlander Gen 3.00

Marvel Land w/box Gen 3.00

Twisted Edge N64 1.00

Burnout Paradise NIB 360 5.00

burnout paradise for xb360 for$5.00? dman thats a great find ghost!!

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Hit a Hollywood video closing sale. Everything 70-80% off. Pretty picked over, but I got

 

Star Wars: Jedi Outcast for the Cube, $4.00

 

Silent Hill 4 for PS2, also $4.00

 

Not too bad. Both loose, but I've already printed a cover for Silent Hill 4, and I'm looking for one for Jedi Outcast, seems like a fairly uncommon Cube game I guess....

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Hit a Hollywood closing sale myself, and they were even selling the store equipment!

 

My wife and I grabbed eight or ten movies plus a Jampack 12 for the PS2 and more popcorn that you could imagine. The movies were $2 or $2 each, the Jampack was $1 and change, and the popcorn was 16 cents per bag. Not bad!

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Danger Girl (I liked the cover art....)

Gee, I wonder why..... ;)

 

 

 

I passed over a grubby 6 switcher at Goodwill for $25, no controllers, just power supply. No label either.

They also had a dozen or so 2600 carts in "the case" that were end-lable down so you couldn't see what they were. Eventually someone came to unlock the case and show me, of course they were all commons at $2 each, and when I was done, they put them back in the same way. :roll:

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Danger Girl (I liked the cover art....)

Gee, I wonder why..... ;)

 

 

:rolling: I knew one of you guys would be able to get a scan of it!

Yeah, I'm familier with the comic, so I just knew the game would have boobies on the cover. :lust:

 

McFarlane made action figures of the three main characters. They have a place of prominence in my collection room :)

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