cybercylon Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 (edited) I got nailed by Sumguy before the weekend. There was an ad on Craigs list for an Atari 8 bit lot that included two Atari XE systems, games, floppy drives, and other stuff. Of course Sumguy emailed before I did, went to the sellers house, and bought it all. I was hoping to get one XE system, but now I am glad someone beat me out. Now my thrift finds span over the last 4-5 months... 1. One almost CIB Commodore 128 system with a few older cart C64 games. Originally, I was going to keep this so I could review some games for a site I will be working on, but I have decided to stick with console reviews. By "almost complete" I mean the CPM floppy is missing. If you are in the Pittsburgh area and want it, PM me. I'm not shipping this, and it will be posted in the market place by the end of the holiday weekend. 2. CIB Odyssey 2 system. This one I am keeping, 3. N64 system with 4 meg ram extension and a few games (Pokeman Stadium, SW Rogue Squadron, StarFox 64, Zelda OOT, Super Mario 64). On the fence about keeping this. If I am going to do a review site, I should probably cover some N64 games. I'll decide tomorrow. 4. One two port 5200. Keeping, but may free up a four port. 5. Flea Market: heavy sixer with joysticks, paddle controllers, few games (too lazy to look up). Keeping this, but that frees up a 6 switch Sears unit. 6. Flea Market: NES system with hookups. In pretty good condition. No yellowing. Keeping it. 7. Sega Genesis with hookups and two controllers. Keeping it. 8. Miscellaneous PC games: Elders Scrolls 3, C&C, the first decade, SimCity 3000. a few others. Some of these will show up on the market place. 9. About 20-30 2600 games from various thrifts, game stores, flea marts. Have no idea which titles now. That's my thrift finds update. Too much time has passed for how much I paid for all of this to give an exact figure... probably around $80 give or take $10.00. Some items, along with others will probably appear on the market place. No PM's yet please unless you are local and want the C128. I should add while the total cost wasn't too bad, the gas and aggravation is another matter. I think I have the flea market, thrift bug out of my system, and I'm tired of the chase. Edited May 31, 2010 by cybercylon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famicommander Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 Neo Geo CD toploader, complete Two Neo Geo CD control pads Samurai Shodown II complete, minus spine card Fatal Fury 3 complete, minus spine card For just under 100 dollars including shipping (the games and the console itself came from separate sources, but that's what it ended up being). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STICH666 Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 So this weekend someone unloaded a massive collection to a thrift shop. Among the 40 or so boxed NES and SNES games, these were my choices for $25. Later on the way back home I stopped at a garage sale and after talking to a guy about old games he showed me the most ****ed up NES I have ever seen, 2 NES Max controllers, a Zapper and 10 games and he said $5 for all of it. I got the NES working and almost 90% complete except the missing door. Here's a before and after. and after (didn't bother with the bottom yet) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DickNixonArisen Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 Did the flea market this sunday. Daydreamin' davey NES, gargoyle's quest GB, fatal fury GEN, fatal labyrinth GEN - 3 ea Speedway 2 2600, Berzerk 5200 - 2 ea ASCIIWare SNES arcade stick - 10 bunch of packs of Kamigawa M:TG cards for a buck a pack some d&d PVC figures I was happy to find My friend nabbed an NES dog bone before me! Booo. Looks like a dog had taken the name a little too literally though, so no huge loss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shephda Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 (edited) Hope everyone had a great weekend! I did some shopping this weekend at a local used game\video store. The manager is an awesome guy and gave me a 50% break on a bunch of 2600\7800 games, mostly fillers. Saturday I found a couple of SNES goodies at the Flea, Super Mario World, Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Man 2, and Stunt Racer FX all for $1 each. Also picked up Eye Toy for the PS2, $10 complete in the box. Not great finds, but still fun! Edited June 1, 2010 by Shephda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinball22 Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 Smatchmo, those Kraft controllers are cool, but be careful -- it's easy to break them there at that point where the stick is really narrow. I accidentally set a chair on one once and snapped it right off! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDW Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 I hit a couple of pawn shops in Omaha this Memorial day weekend. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - GCN - $5 Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - GCN - $5 Aladdin - Genesis - $1 The Lion Kind - Genesis - $1 Doom - 32x - $2 Othello - 2600 - $1 Human Cannonball - 2600 - $1 Video Olympics - 2600 - $1 Skiing - 2600 - $1 Seaquest - 2600 - $1 Ice Hockey - 2600 - $1 Banjo Tooie - N64 - $4 I suppose that it wasn't that bad of a weekend, definitely better than others. At least I was able to fill some holes in the 2600 collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangest Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 The Rockman X manual was a nice surprise; not as nice as when the Salvation Army clerk rang the whole thing up for $.99 though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shephda Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 The Rockman X manual was a nice surprise; not as nice as when the Salvation Army clerk rang the whole thing up for $.99 though. WOW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClassicGMR Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 (edited) Hit a CraigsList find today. $20 netted me: PSOne with an LCD screen, 2 PSOne controllers(didn't know they made specifically branded controllers for this system), AC power supply AND DC power supply. Came with 11 games - Rampage World Tour (CIB) NASCAR Thunder 2003 (CIB) Test Drive Offroad (CIB) Test Drive 6 (disc) Jeopardy! 2 (disc) Ace Combat 3 (disc) Madden 99 (disc) Formula 1 98 (disc) Rugrats Search for Reptar (disc) Battle Arena Toshinden (disc) Everything works flawlessly. Only thing it is missing is a memory card but I have a few floating around. Also came with an AV cable but I'll probably never use it! Edit: Sorry about the pics. My camera is dead so my iPhone had to step in! Edited June 4, 2010 by ClassicGMR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRGilbert Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Hit a CraigsList find today. $20 netted me: PSOne with an LCD screen, 2 PSOne controllers(didn't know they made specifically branded controllers for this system), AC power supply AND DC power supply. Came with 11 games - Rampage World Tour (CIB) NASCAR Thunder 2003 (CIB) Test Drive Offroad (CIB) Test Drive 6 (disc) Jeopardy! 2 (disc) Ace Combat 3 (disc) Madden 99 (disc) Formula 1 98 (disc) Rugrats Search for Reptar (disc) Battle Arena Toshinden (disc) Everything works flawlessly. Only thing it is missing is a memory card but I have a few floating around. Also came with an AV cable but I'll probably never use it! Edit: Sorry about the pics. My camera is dead so my iPhone had to step in! Nice, you won't find a better mini-lcd screen anywhere. You can use an older Ipod av cable to connect to that and hook up ANY av source. I once used mine to demo a Gamecube to someone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybercylon Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 (edited) So this weekend someone unloaded a massive collection to a thrift shop. Among the 40 or so boxed NES and SNES games, these were my choices for $25. Later on the way back home I stopped at a garage sale and after talking to a guy about old games he showed me the most ****ed up NES I have ever seen, 2 NES Max controllers, a Zapper and 10 games and he said $5 for all of it. I got the NES working and almost 90% complete except the missing door. Here's a before and after. Does the NES work completely without blinking? Congrats. Everyone out there who has gotten a pristine NES only to have it blink.... raise your hand Cybercylon raises his hand, once... twice... Edited June 4, 2010 by cybercylon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shephda Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Hit a CraigsList find today. $20 netted me: PSOne with an LCD screen, 2 PSOne controllers(didn't know they made specifically branded controllers for this system), AC power supply AND DC power supply. Came with 11 games - Rampage World Tour (CIB) NASCAR Thunder 2003 (CIB) Test Drive Offroad (CIB) Test Drive 6 (disc) Jeopardy! 2 (disc) Ace Combat 3 (disc) Madden 99 (disc) Formula 1 98 (disc) Rugrats Search for Reptar (disc) Battle Arena Toshinden (disc) Everything works flawlessly. Only thing it is missing is a memory card but I have a few floating around. Also came with an AV cable but I'll probably never use it! Edit: Sorry about the pics. My camera is dead so my iPhone had to step in! Great find! I felt lucky to get mine last year for $25 without games. I use it in the camper along with a YOBO NES\SNES. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinball22 Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Went out at lunch... was supposed to be a yard sale in the convention center parking lot today, but there wasn't. So I went to a nearby thrift instead... picked up Beany Bopper for $1.91 and Star Control for the Genesis CIB for $4.94. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDW Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Went to a garage sale today, and I picked up Mario Golf and Wave Race 64 for $5 each. Apparently, sumguy came by first, and picked up Mario Party and Yoshi's Story. The bastard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClassicGMR Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 Nice, you won't find a better mini-lcd screen anywhere. You can use an older Ipod av cable to connect to that and hook up ANY av source. I once used mine to demo a Gamecube to someone! Great find! I felt lucky to get mine last year for $25 without games. I use it in the camper along with a YOBO NES\SNES. Good to know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famicommander Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 I got a Buzztime Trivia system new in the box (came with two controllers and one built in set of trivia questions) with two additional game cartridges and 6 additional controllers for a total of about 7 dollars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 I got new shelves for the gameroom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smatchmo Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 Found nothing at thrift stores, but I stopped off at a garage sale and walked away with 3 loose SNES games (Kirby's Avalanche, Super Off Road & Super Mario World) for 50 cents. Not 50 cents each; 50 cents for all 3 carts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRGilbert Posted June 6, 2010 Share Posted June 6, 2010 (edited) Another long Saturday hitting at least 30 sales. Except for a nice little haul of 18 PS1 games for about $.50 each my big hit didn't happen until we were about to call it quits. Complete and non-yellow SNES system (AV, power, 2 controllers) with 28 games, 7 of them CIB for $50 A few doubles but not the kind I mind! Championship Pool Clay Fighters (CIB) ****Donkey Kong Country 2 Diddys Quest X2**** Final Fight F-ZeroKiller Instinct X2 Madden 94 Madden 97 ****Mario Is Missing (CIB)**** MVP Baseball NBA Hangtime NBA Live (CIB) NCAA Basketball (CIB) Pilot Wings SimCity (CIB) Street Fighter II (CIB) Super Empire Strikes Back Super Empire Strikes Back (CIB) Super Mario All Stars ****Super Mario Kart X3**** Super Mario World X2 Super Return of the Jedi (CIB) Clayfighter (CIB) Total Carnage I also picked up a Virtual Boy from a Craigslist ad for $20, physically in good condition, I'm assuming it doesn't work though! Edited June 6, 2010 by SRGilbert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpendTooMuchOnAtari Posted June 6, 2010 Share Posted June 6, 2010 I hit quite a few sales today and didn't find much in the game department but a couple things. If going by potential profit to be made, I think the size 15 DC shoes will do me well although pretty good deal on the envelopes to package things up. I also stopped in to the local used music/game store and found a few pretty good deals there except I screwed up and paid too much for one because for some reason I thought it was good but I was wrong. USED STORE $7.97 - CD Metallica Garage Days Re-Revisited, Out-Of-Print version although all songs available on their two disc Garage set $4.99 - N64 Diddy Kong Racing $4.99 - N64 Namco Museum 64 $4.99 - N64 Aerofighters Assault (no booklet and the cart label has a rip, I should have asked to see the inside first, this is the one I spent too much and would have passed if I would have asked to open it, oh well) $1.99 - NES Clu Clu Land $1.99 - NES Donkey Kong Classics $1.99 - NES Pac-Man (Licensed Tengen Version) $1.99 - NES Mike Tyson's Punch-Out $1.99 - DREAMCAST Rayman 2: The Great Escape $1.99 - PC CD-ROM's The Ultimate Doom Trilogy Collector's Edition (This one is pretty good on ebay I think) $6.00 - GUIDE Final Fantasy Tactics SALES $15.00 - 6 Nintendo DS Games with Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2 being the highlight, Animated Transformers is cool too! $9.00 - DVD's Nine Random DVD's with Animation, Anime and a couple movies $3.00 - DVD Ken Burns The War on PBS (6-Disc Set) This was a really good deal IMO! $5.00 - SIZE 15 DC Shoes, Never Worn with tag but has some marks on sole from storage without a box. $5.00 - Manilla Envelopes to ship stuff (250 9x12 and 100 6x9) Big Savings! $2.00 - Official Sony PS2 controller (it's no good though, left on the D pad doesn't work and I don't know what else, don't really have a use for this as I don't fix or need parts) .25 - BOOK Win at Nintendo Games #2 ***Let me know if you are interested in anything, I'm always interested 2600 or 7800 carts for trade! I am keeping some things but doesn't hurt to ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted June 6, 2010 Share Posted June 6, 2010 Had a couple nice finds at the Flea Market today: NES, system only - $3 Lot of 2600 stuff - $36 Heavy Sixer Set of Joysticks Paddles Gray AC adapter Surround (boxed) Basketball (boxed) Space Invaders (boxed) x2 Superman (boxed) Breakout (boxed) Combat (gatefold) Miniature Golf (box only) Street Racer (gatefold) Warloards Dig Dug Chopper Command Pac Man Missile Command Asteroids Defender Jungle Hunt Starmaster Centipede Froger Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back All the 2600 stuff seems to work fine, but I could not get the NES to boot. I will have to check that out later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmbe Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Here's a breakdown of my garage sale finds from this weekend. Friday: Garage Sale #1: 3 Nintendo Gamecube games for $3 each. Lego Star Wars II The Original Trilogy (CIB) Luigi's Mansion (CIB) Mario Party 7 (CIB with microphone) Garage Sale #2: N64 Gameshark in box with instructions - $1 N64 Cartridge Storage Drawer - $1 (holds 12 games) Player's Edge N64 Cleaning Kit - Free Saturday: Church Garage Sale: Jak and Daxter The Precursor Legacy - Prima Stategy Guide - 10 cents. I don't have the game of a Playstation 2 but couldn't pass up this deal. 6 TI-99/4A computer cartridges with instructions manuals - 50 cents total. I don't have a TI-99/4A computer but I couldn't let these cartridges end up in the trash. Alligator Mix Minus Mission Addition & Subtraction 1 Beginning Grammar Early Learning Fun Number Magic Not a bad haul for $11.60. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Since Friday, here's what I've picked up: Snes Jr/Mini/2 with all hookups and one genuine controller (yes its real, not a clone) - $27 from a local retrogaming store CIB Genesis - RocketKnight Adventures & Coolspot - $5.99 for both Atari 2600 - Rampage and Eggomania - $2.99 each PS1 - Missile Command & Colony Wars - $2 each NES - Top Gun - $3 Snes - Smartball $3, Tazmania $4, Qbert 3 $4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STICH666 Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 So this weekend someone unloaded a massive collection to a thrift shop. Among the 40 or so boxed NES and SNES games, these were my choices for $25. Later on the way back home I stopped at a garage sale and after talking to a guy about old games he showed me the most ****ed up NES I have ever seen, 2 NES Max controllers, a Zapper and 10 games and he said $5 for all of it. I got the NES working and almost 90% complete except the missing door. Here's a before and after. Does the NES work completely without blinking? Congrats. Everyone out there who has gotten a pristine NES only to have it blink.... raise your hand Cybercylon raises his hand, once... twice... Works 100% perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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