Blur2040 Posted May 21, 2005 Share Posted May 21, 2005 The laptop should turn on without the hard drive and battery. The bios info should display, and it should probably ask for a bootable disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmjennifer Posted May 21, 2005 Share Posted May 21, 2005 Not from a thrift but I got a NES top loader with 1 dogbone and about 40 games for $46 shipped from someone on a non-gaming forum. 859076[/snapback] What an awesome deal! Wish I could find one like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickHarrisMaine Posted May 21, 2005 Share Posted May 21, 2005 Did some yard saling today Colecovision complete set, 4 games, $6.00 Tomy Mini Arcade Cosmic Clash $1.00 Game Boy rechargeable battery pack, never opened, $2.00 Not too bad Games were Donkey Kong, QBert, Popeye, Zaxxon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuppicide Posted May 21, 2005 Share Posted May 21, 2005 (edited) Everytime I go past a garage sale I get a nervous feeling in my stomach. Any one of them could have good stuff. I want to stop at all of them. I was on my way to my old neighborhood today. They have a new Salvation Army store.. atleast new to me. So, I hit up some garage sales on the way. Why don't I stop at them all?! I'm stupid. Anyway, the one I did stop at I picked up a boxed Microvision with Blockbuster for $1. They might have had other games, because there was a large cardboard box marked games $2, but that was the only thing left in it. Edited May 21, 2005 by yuppicide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tomlin Posted May 22, 2005 Share Posted May 22, 2005 Here's my haul yesterday on my way out of Dallas... now it looks like I'm very close to reaching the 50% level with my NES cartridge collection. Friday - Game Informer 118 - B52's music video VHS (I can tell by the weight that it's in SP) - Powerbook 500 power supply $15 (been needing one for a PB 520 I got for $5 a couple of months ago -- and the PB 520's floppy drive actually works!) I got this at Tran Computers, a wierd place Matt Pritchard introduced me to years ago with shelves piled high of computer parts, and which smells of the incense of burned out VGA monitors At Garland Road thrift: - Gen Arcade's Greatest Hits $4 - NES Best of the Best Championship Karate $4 - NES Cyberball half off of $4 - Gen Rocket Knight Adventures w/box w/instrs (bad condition) $4 - Gen Granada w/box $4 At Thrift Town: - NES Kings of the Beach complete $2 - NES Roger Clemens MVP Baseball complete $2 - NES Play Action Football complete $2 - NES Ice Hockey w/box $2 - two SNES controller extension cables, $1 each - Dual Shock controller, clear red, "PSone" logo, $4 3 for $15 at a Game Crazy: - PS1 Risk w/instr - PS1 FF8 (GH), CDs only - PS1 Final Fantasy Chronicles, CDs only - PS1 Final Fantasy Anthology FF6 disc only (and they wanted $30 for it?) - PS1 Chrono Cross (non-GH, missing instructions) - PS1 Mega Man Legends, CD only Been wanting to play FF6 so as to get familiar with the cultural references. Who says you can't find anything in Dallas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wester Posted May 22, 2005 Share Posted May 22, 2005 Garage saling yesterday. SNES system w/ one controller, no other cords, Jurassic Park w/ manual $1.00 NES games Clash at Demonhead, Zoda's Revenge, Genny game Two Crude Dudes, and N64 game Ridge Racer 64 w/ N64 Power supply- $11.60. Genny with 5 boxed sports games and two loose. $5.00 Passed up a boxed NES action set w/ 4 games for $40. The box was rough and they gave me the " I could get this much for it on ebay" line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20eyes Posted May 22, 2005 Share Posted May 22, 2005 At a local video game shop for $5.99 each- Sega master system: Power Strike (blue and white) Kenseiden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atariboy2600 Posted May 22, 2005 Share Posted May 22, 2005 WOW! Hey Albert I think you should make a Thrift Store Fine Forums section cuase its getting way larger then even some of the already made Forums section Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuppicide Posted May 22, 2005 Share Posted May 22, 2005 Fleamarket today: Sega Game Gear with 2 games - Aliens (I think.. it's out in the car) and some Vegas game new unopened in the box for $7 Epoch tabletop video game in box for $6 Arcadia game system for $6 - it projects the game on the wall and you shoot things with a gun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegamezmaster Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 Went to townwide garage sales, I hope this qualifies but found: Sega Saturn with one controller,AC cord, RF adapter,one game Mario Andretti Racing for $5. It works to! Gameboy Pocket Green with Cosmo Tank $5 Genesis 2 for a dollar. Original Gameboy mint condition with Pokemon Pinball $5 Snes Kirby's Avalanche and The Pagemaster $5 6 Playstation games loose for $1. Some are original Metal Gear two discs, Parasite Eve two discs, Clock Tower, Need for Speed 2, and a few others. Two snes controllers and power supply,two nes controllers, Light Zapper for $1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gulag picture radio Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 Whoa Gamezmaster, those are some outstanding deals! The Saturn is a score as those are pretty hard to find. A much maligned system if you asked me... I think that Pokemon pinball is a lot of fun. You've got the one that takes a battery, right? It's powers a little rumble motor so that the GB can rattle a little while you play. It's a GB color game, but plays in the old systems too IIRC. Well done! I gotta get around to photographing my latest finds. I can't believe that I actually found 2600 carts in the wild - and rare-ish (for me, anyway) too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tomlin Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 WOW! Hey Albert I think you should make a Thrift Store Fine Forums section cuase its getting way larger then even some of the already made Forums section No way... every web BB has to have one "eternal" thread. And this one is only a mere 84 pages. I know of one on a different BB that's gone over 200 pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FujiSkunk Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 (edited) ...every web BB has to have one "eternal" thread. And this one is only a mere 84 pages. I know of one on a different BB that's gone over 200 pages. 860221[/snapback] Why look at a different BB? Just check out the WWE thread. Edit: Okay, so I can't count. The WWE thread is only at 127 pages. That's still more than this one, though! Edited May 23, 2005 by skunkworx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegamezmaster Posted May 24, 2005 Share Posted May 24, 2005 Yeah it's the Pokemon Pinball that takes the battery and has rumble. I really like the Saturn find. Now I gottat get some games to add to the collection. Thanks for the props! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberneticimplant Posted May 24, 2005 Share Posted May 24, 2005 I payed $20 Canadian for a Genesis w/ controller, powersupply, and switchbox. I think I would be a lot happier owning that $20. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RecycledGamer Posted May 24, 2005 Share Posted May 24, 2005 WOW! Hey Albert I think you should make a Thrift Store Fine Forums section cuase its getting way larger then even some of the already made Forums section 859787[/snapback] Seconded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberneticimplant Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 I almost found Virtua Racing but then I realized somebody broke the package, jacked the cartridge, and left the box. What kind of person steals from a Thrift store? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegamezmaster Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 A real live waste of space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveW Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 I almost found Virtua Racing but then I realized somebody broke the package, jacked the cartridge, and left the box. What kind of person steals from a Thrift store? 861902[/snapback] I've seen that loads of times. Sega plastic boxed games that aren't kept behind the counter almost always get emptied, in my observation. Even sports games. Which is one good way of getting rid of them, I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberneticimplant Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 The sports games didn't get emptied at this store. People just took the arcade games. That's inconvenient because I hate sports games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wester Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 Hit three garage sales today. Good haul. Boxed SNES missing A/V and Power adapter. 3 NES toasters w/ 2 controllers, 1 AC Adapter, 2 RF adapters, 2 SMB/DH carts, and 1 Jack Nicklaus cart. NES Advantage NES Satellite reciever Working Sega Gamegear, w/Six games and instructions All for $33.00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveW Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 Found next to nothing today. I bought Vigilante 8 for the PS1 for $5.99. I also found something pretty nice - an Atari 10-in-1 joystick from Jakks Pacific, $2.99. They must have thought it was a regular joystick, like the Spectravideo joystick next to it. I've already got one, but I couldn't pass it up for $3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TuzenTCA Posted May 29, 2005 Share Posted May 29, 2005 Today I got a perty good lot at my local flea market. It contained 67 total games. It had eight in their original boxes. All but three of them had their manuals. It also came with three extra manuals for games that were not present. 28 of them were 7800 games, and the rest were 2800 games. I considered this a pretty descent find because it only cost me twenty bones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FujiSkunk Posted May 29, 2005 Share Posted May 29, 2005 There wasn't much to be had today, especially since some thrift stores were closed for the Memorial Day weekend. However, I did find a Commodre +4 for five bucks. I have no way of testing it, since just about every port on the back is proprietary. Still, anybody looking for the +4 and the 16 can take heart; they are out there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegamezmaster Posted May 29, 2005 Share Posted May 29, 2005 Found an Atari Jr with the RCA cable for $5 at a Goodwill store. I almost fainted. At a Salvation Army store I found Ren and Stimpy and The Lion King for $3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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