/vr/ - Retro Games

>>597845
Hello! The phone is ringing so I say Hello!
Goodbye! When I'm talking then I say Bye Bye!

Anyone who has kids/siblings with that little play table in the pic knows this song.

mmm no not really.

Craigslist has been shit for this kind of thing in my opinion. I keep looking though.

You get a guy with 5 shitty genesis or SNES games saying "$30 each, or all for $100" and then backs it up by saying that he checked eBay and these are "current going prices" or some bullshit.

Then you have to wade through all the people trying to sell their 360 for far more than it's worth.

Yep, I got around a dozen planned so far. Last weekend was my first time doing this, and I made the mistake of sticking near where I live. I'm going straight to the middle class neighborhoods this time.

I'm going out in the morning to look for yard sales.

Right now I'm on the lookout for a Sega Saturn, but I doubt anyone would have one. Still though I just love the thrill of finding any old games. So I'm excited.

going to the retro game store that's always at my flea market tomorrow, sega CD, 2600, N64, NES,SNES and Genesis games usually 5 bucks and under, also has a ton of consoles.

Hoping for good things from this one.

>>599647

>>597845
that is the worst yardsale I have ever seen.

>>599647
I would get there at 5am if i were you.

Just wait in your car out the front until they start setting up.

>>599783
90% of Long Island's yardsales consist of this.
Though there was one where I got Crash 2 and Medievil

>>600319

Fucking Jesus. How many Long Islanders are on /vr/?

Bellport reporting in

>>600335
Long Beach here. We don't even have fucking lawns anymore, just god damn sand and rubble from the storm.

>>600335
Didn't I see you/another Bellport-bro a few days prior?
Still, you know of any good retro vidya places?
Even before it closed, Play N Trade was shit because of their values

>>597978
OH DAMN!!!
dude, a guy on my local craigslist was selling a saturn and 3 games for 20 bucks.
i passed it because i didn't need another saturn.

>>600349

Might have been some other people. I haven't been on in a week or two.

A place called "Finders Keepers" is cheap as balls and often gets CIB games. There are in Selden.

A thrift store in mastic has a ton of vidya too. I think it's called "then and now." Got myself CIB splatterhouse 2, 3, and Vectorman for 4 bucks each.

>>599743

Thank you, I can't believe that guy actually blacked out the location and time so no other ma/vr/icks in the area could try to find something

>>600378
Holy shit.
Anything Saturn or PSX related?

>>599647
sorry bro I'm heading out to bellmore at 4am. Meet for there we can talk over breakfast. =D

i got a decent sale today:
1 360 controller
1 ps3 controller
1 gba sp cobalt blue (no charger)
1 issue of sega visions april/may 1993

all for 15, i sold controllers to gamestump though for 30 in cash.

Too much Long Island, go away, I need more games

I go video game hunting quite a lot and I love to share my finds. Sometimes I can find awesome shit, other times nothing at all. There seem to be a ton of sales going on in my area tomorrow morning and I'm going to hit a few.

I'd love to start a blog. But I don't know if anyone would follow it. And I'd feel like a hack if I advertised it on /vr/. But, if I were to make one would you guys like to check it out?

What do you guys do when you run into another dude looking for games. It's fine to read these threads because you anons live far away from me, but I feel intensely territorial in my area. If you're in my area then fuck right off. I'm the retro collector here. Anybody else get those feels?

>>600452
Speaking of LI, there's supposedly going to be a flea market in East Meadow. Is anybody else going to checking that out?

>hear about rummage sale
>aww yeah
>go to it
>its a church
>oh well, heard stories about a guy getting earthbound
>looking around, not much other than some decent CRT's
>ask them if they have any old video games
>they look at me like im crazy
>VIDEO GAMES ARE THE DEVIL!
>wut
>tell them I just buy them as antiques
>Lady refuses me
Fuck her so much.
Oh well, made up for it by picketing the full story of what happened. they just cancelled next weeks sale

>>600390


Well, I found a Saturn+two controllers at Savers in Medford, but I never seen any place selling actual Saturn except for that one Play-n-Trade by the mall.

There is also a retro game store in Babylon village.

>>600671

In East Meadow? If it just the same vendors as the one that closed up on Sunrise HW recently? Or will it actually be worth going to?


That one that closed up, only good vendor they had was the pokemon card vendor.

>>600671
this is news to me, i doubt ill be heading out there though

>>597845

Was going to go garage sale hunting but it's been raini9ng on and off all friday. Saturday doesn't look much better, but at least it's looking clear for the weekly flea market trip sunday.

That's the thing about game hunting. You're always at the mercy of the weather.

>mfw city wide garage sales
I'm beyond excited

Anyone ever go to the flea market in Valley Stream. I went a few times and I always see this one guy selling games that were beyond sun faded and what I could only describe as fecal matter on the games.

>>600620

I made my own small site about a similar topic, if you do decide to make a blog send me a mail. I wouldn't mind giving your site a link

>>600807
I'm not really sure about anything to be honest. All I know is that my friend told me about a flea market in East Meadow. Frankly, I'm having trouble acquiring any information concerning the vendors and if the East Meadow flea market actually exists.

>>600836
there was some flash flooding shit going on up here in Wisconsin last night bro, was Illinois getting any of that?

>>600696
Went to a recent flea market being held by a church. Got a similar response. What is it about churches and thinking a program is Satan? Why was it okay to have a shit ton of pornographic words (read: Romance Novels) and violent movies, along with a ton of history books by a violent god with a lot of sex in it (read: bibles) yet a simple game of sports is all of a sudden inspired by Satan and should be condemned to hell?

just got all this for 20, how'd i do?

-Crash Bandicoot
-Crash Bandicoot 2
-Crash Bandicoot 3:warped
-Crash Bandicoot: Crash Team Racing
-Spyro The Dragon
-ESPN Extreme Games
-ESPN 2 Extreme
-Tony Hawk Pro Skater (1st one)
-PGA Tour '97
-Tekken 2
-Army Men 3d
-Destruction Derby 2 (AWESOME)
-Tomb Raider 2
-Street Sk8er
-Jet Moto 2
-Cool Boarders 2, Cool Boarders 3, Cool Boarders 4, and Cool Boarders 2001
-NBA Jam EXTREME
-Formula 1 (Racing Game)
-WWF War Zone
-NCAA Game Breaker '98
-NHL '97
-Madden '97
-PaRappa The Rapper

>>600914
Very nice.

>>600914
sports games

0/10 you got ripped off

>>600914
That's a pretty awesome haul for what you paid.

>>600936
don't worry, the sports games have a meeting with dr. hammer at 10am tomorrow.

>>600964
>not selling games you don't care for
>not cleaning those discs and using themm to make a cheap wall mirror.
Seriously Anon? Seriously?

>>601107
Dr. Hammer is obviously the name of the cartridge cleaning specialist.

I plan on going to some huge flea market tomorrow morning at my towns main concert venue. Hopefully it is good. I am going to go when the doors open. It is my first day gaming hunting ever so... wish me lucky /vr/

I am only going to take like $60

>tfw see shitty, cheap game that I don't have for my collection
>"Hey there. Interested? $40 for it!"
>Call the guy a rip-off.
>"Well then, no games for you cheap-ass!"

>>601107
you can't sell sports games, its impossible!

only reason i have these is because it was in a lot with much better games.

>>600671
I did go to the one in Bald Hill a few years ago, scored a black label RE2 complete.

>Get to yard sale 10 minutes before they are supposed to start
>ask if they have any vidya
>"Sorry some guy already bought all that stuff"

repeat for the next 10 yard sales i go to.

All i got today was a $1 game gear game at a thrift shop.

>That feel when there's tons of garage sales but they're not listed on Craigslist and you end up running around in circles

>>601182
Just say no thanks, fuck

>>602424
Forgot to ask, how do you guys organize you trips?

I hit the sales today...
nothing. Nothing but ceramic nic-knacks and baby clothes. Fuck this town

>>602465
I have a general rule

Anything pink and they most likely don't have video games

>Live in Chicagoan suburbs
>Go to yard sales for /vr/ and /co/ stuff
>Always come back empty-handed
They don't even have any good /lit/. God fucking damn.

>>602429
"No thanks" means "No, I wasn't interested in the game" when you are. If something is priced too high, you should let them know and try to haggle. Just don't be a total dick about it.

Say something like, "Oh, I thought it'd be price more around three bucks." I've done that and managed to talk people from $50 to $5. "Do a lot of people ask about this item?" is another line that works, because it really has no good answer: if not, it's really not an item that's flying off the shelf and maybe you should reconsider the price tag. If yes, why hasn't it sold? Again, reconsider that price tag. "Well, you can really take five bucks or nothing" has also made some sales for me.

It probably helps that I'm never that attached to anything I'm looking at and will gladly walk away if the person doesn't want to make a sale. I never go to garage sales or the such with the thought that I'm going to pick up things, I always say "Let's go and see what they have."

And if you piss someone off, so what? Trying to sell some old game for $50 is a dickass move unless it's rare (it isn't).

>>602492
>And if you piss someone off, so what?

Its called making connections

>>602492
In terns of being a good Samaritan: You should just say that it's overpriced. "Rip off" has implicit negative connotations. He may not realize that he priced it too high.

But I understand you're just trying to get decently priced games so I understand.

How sucessful are you guys at flea markets?

Like say I go to a huge community flea market? Is there usually tables with older games? Or does it depend.

>>597941

My craigslist is literally all Xbox 360's and various copies of Call of Duty games.

>>602517
Get their early and ask EVERY vendor if they have any video games.

That's how I found a NES with a few games, controllers, a zapper for $35

>>602504
"No thanks" doesn't make connections. It ends the conversation and ends the sell. Talking with people and haggling will. Yeah, maybe you'll piss some people off, but, again, so what? I've had people who wound up selling me the game the very next day when they realized I was right when I said $50 was asking a bit too much for Super Mario Bros.

>>602510
Yeah, I wouldn't use the phrase rip-off or imply that they are somehow trying to cheat you.

>>602520

I plan on going there tomorrow as the doors open.

My first time retro hunting

>>602525
Good luck and be fast.

>>602523
I use that line if they're being a dick about it

>>602473
Really? Because some of the better deals came from pink yard sales where it was a bunch of ladies who didn't know what they were selling but were willing to work with me.

My rule is, if they don't have games out in the open, ask. I've had people haul out old games that they'd forgotten to put out and made deals that way.

>>602545

Not vidya related, but about 3 years ago or so I had someone bring me out a large collectors box of old Magic the Gathering cards from Alpha, Beta and Unlimited when I told her I was looking for them

That was the biggest score I ever had at a garage sale, it had some pretty rare cards.

>>602545
Its a general rule that most of the time they don't have anything

That said, I always ask like you said

Today I picked up a PS2 slim, a 3rd party Genesis controller, and a Colecovision with 10 CV games and about 15 At2600 games all for $10. It was a good day.

>>602569
what the hell do the reaction images you have been posting even mean?

>>602636
I just like posting stuff

>>600696
>>600897
I take it you guys live on the bible belt?
I remember hitting a church a few years back and it having like a bunch of NES and SNES games... half of them were those religious unlicensed ones... but still

Hey /vr/ I have amazing luck every single weekend at the yard sales. The best advice I can give everyone is to ask the seller at every single sale. it's crazy how much stuff people will run in a grab.

Look at these snes stuff we got right away last week only because we asked the people hosting the sell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPlQomYZwjk

>>600897
>>600696

So I guess the automobiles and cell phones they carry are evil too?

>>602653
>half of them were those religious unlicensed ones

Did you pick them up? If so, which ones did you get?

So here's a question. For Garage and Yard Sales how early is too early?

I went driving around looking for some and though I found them nobody seem to be out to sell me stuff. I didn't want to knock on the door or ring the bell and wake them up. It was 10 A.M.

Is 12 better? I'm just afraid I'll go too late and miss stuff, or too early and get shouted at like I'm a looney for sale hunting.

>>602713
In my opinion, you should go around 11 or so, when people are hungry and just want to make the sale and get it over with if you're the sort who asks people to lower prices.

>>602713
They usually start at about 7-8am where i live.

>>602682
trust me, i've seen your shit and you get LUCKY.
99% of the time, its all baby clothes and toys OR if they do have games hidden away, its all junk like sports games or generic titles that they want a stupid price for.

also doesnt help that i don't in your kind of area. mine is all spread out developments and going between each is like 10 mins.

>>602725

I only ask for lower if their price is high for me. I feel really bad if I rip people off too badly. People I find want peanuts for stuff worth at least 10 bucks or more. That doesn't happen often mind you, usually I can't find diddly squat.

>>602653
nope, live in boston. we're jesusland now?

>>602743
You can't feel bad in this "business". In any field where you collect stuff, you should always aim for the lowest price and you shouldn't feel bad because if the seller lowered the price that means he's comfortable with it so don't lose money because of your morals

>>600914
A lot of people would pay that much just for PaRappa

>>602753
>boston
>full of homophobic, misogynistic, assbackwards catholics

Yes, I'd say you Jesusland now.

>>600696
>mfw i bought persona 4 at a church garage sale
sage for my post being not retro though

Went to 10 garage sales, all were a bust, Went to 3 goodwills, 2 had nothing, third had battle toads for $6.

>>602758

I can see your point but I just feel dirty if it's totally unfair. Like paying 25 cents for a 20 dollar game. I unerstand that's how people make a living but this isn't a business it's a hobby and more about getting stuff I want or things for friends I want. I'm not saying the way you do it is the wrong way and you should feel bad but it's just not the way I like to go about it.

>>602792

>thing for friends I want

Shit it might be time to go to bed. Supposed to be "stuff that my friends want".

>>602792
>Like paying 25 cents for a 20 dollar game.

Who set the price? Who says "this game is worth exactly 20 dollars?" Is there a committee?

It's bullshit to see these games as "worth" some fixed price when they're worth whatever the buyer and seller agree they are worth. That seller isn't going to sell you the game for 25 cents unless that's what they believe it is worth. In some cases, if they didn't sell it for 25 cents, they either donated it to a charity or trashed it, because a 25 cent price sticker says "I no longer want this in my home because it's clutter to me, please take this thing I no longer wish to own off my hands for a modest price."

I say this as someone who has been thanked for buying things for what I believed was cheap and taking them off the former owner's hands.

>>602834

Well I guess they're worth more to me. I've taken a CRT some guy was throwing away and he was glad for me to have it.

You make a good point and I understand not all prices are set in stone. Maybe I just have some psychological disorder that makes me feel bad for no good reason. I just feel bad when I benefit greatly from someone and they don't know it. Even if they don't care I feel like I've done them wrong somehow.

How do you guys pick sales to go to? I know craigslist, but how do you pick which ones look worth checking out?

>>602863

The more stuff that you can see for sale the better. I prefer seeing their garage open since it basically says they are literally getting rid of their shit, rather than opening up a store for a few days and trying to get premium prices or something.

>>602879
Most of the listings I see don't have pictures of anything. Do your listings show pictures?

>>602881

Oh I didn't know you meant Craigslist, I thought you meant just driving about looking for them.

>>602890
Does that work for you? I'd be driving all over town...

>>602896
Maybe write down the places first. I know they post sales here on a telephone poll a few days before so you can plan ahead

>>602896

I find lots of sales but 90% of the time it's literally just junk rather than video games and video game accessories. I think the odds of finding a really good gem is higher though since those unlisted sales are less likely to be picked over.

Went to about 10 sales in the area today. Didn't find a thing. Okay, well, that's not true, I did find a demo disk for syphon filter 2, but I didn't pick it up because it's SF.

There's a few I'm going to tomorrow (5/4), one even had on their ad that they will have video games, so I'm excited for that. After striking out today though I went to my local used game store and picked up castlevania 2, and DBZ UB22 for $10 out the door.

>tfw a huge-ass community sale in a few days
I'm giddy as fuck

>>602858
Are you me?

Holy shit li bros everywhere
Massapeqa reporting in fuck sandy got everything

so today, every year, there's a multi-neighborhood garage sale that my parent's neighborhood is part of.
but it's fucking raining and 35 degrees, so there are like a total of 20 shitty garage sales.

usually this thing is fucking huge, like state fair huge.
usually there are garage sales everywhere and the streets are packed with people.

i've been looking forward to this for a long time, and i'm kinda pissed.

>>604558
further, i didn't see a single video game related item at any of them. ugh.

>Town wide garage sale thing
>Absolutely jack shit
New York wins the award for the worst state to find vidya in.

With hopes of repeating my 3DS pick up last week, I set out again. My first sale today had a 2600, a 64, a PS1, and another console I can't remember. Considering my poor luck at the beginning last Saturday, I thought I had finally got lucky. So then I asked for the prices, $25 for a PS1 with no games and no controllers, $25 for an N64 with a shit game and no controller (and no expansion pak), and finally $75 for a dirty 2600 with a nice amount of games and controllers. I already owned a 2600 but I have a low number of games so I was considering buying it but I knew it isn't worth that. This is what she said to me, "that price is firm, I found some on eBay for that price and shipping isn't a big deal".

So I left that and began on a string of fruitless garage sales. I picked up the three Genesis cases for free from some guy. That was about the halfway point and I'd be dammed if I wasn't getting something. The Home Alone case has a manual. If anyone here needs one of these, shoot me an email.

Next I found Battlefront II for $1, not CiB but I had to pick something up. Finally it had been about 4.5 hours since I started and I was ready to go home with my meager deal. The last neighborhood made it worth it. I got those five at the bottom for $1 each and they're all CiB (poor MGS2 got attacked by a dog though). The guy also said he had a NES and a Genesis somewhere in the attic but he didn't want to go up there right now. Like an idiot I forgot to give him my phone number because I want a Genesis.

The last place I found the PS2. The games are mostly sports but I felt I could drop $25 for it. It had been mostly a waste of a day and I wanted at least one big item.

Overall not as good as last weekend's $53 3DS+SP, but it was worth it. It looks like it's going to rain, so I don't think I'll go to the flea market tomorrow.

>Community called Guyan Estates is having a massive yard sale for people who want to participate
>Tons of people go there every year
>Decide to go
>Walk around for an hour on different streets and whatnot
>No video games in sight, not even new shit
>Decide to leave and decide to hit up other small yard sales around the area
>Come home with some cologne I bought for a quarter

Fuck this. I usually have luck finding games but this time around I didn't.

Guess there's always next weekend.

>Hit local spring flea market
>See many games
>Guy selling games I'm interested in
>Check price online
>Guy is overselling by $50
>Mention to guy
>"Nope. I saw it on ebay for the price listed. It's staying as-is."
>Ask him nicely to lower the price.
>"No. You're not trying to rip me off!"
>Tell him that he's attempting to rip other people off and show him the current price.
>"That's not going to work on me sir. Move along if you're not buying."
>See same game three tables down.
>"Hey man, I saw you arguing over with that fucker over there. Yeah, he's a big rip off. I know I'm asking for a little more than what it's currently worth, but are you willing to take the offer I'm about to give you?"
>Give him the money for it and say to him that at least he knows how to do business.
>Ask guy if he regularly sells stuff.
>Get his number.
>He says to call him if I'm interested in any more games, and he'll update me on his current list of titles that he has.
>Go home.
>Cleaned up the cartiridge
>Now playing it.
I hate fucking rip-offs. "Because that was the price on ebay" doesn't mean shit. It reminds me of that fucker on Storage Wars who committed suicide who thought a model 1 NES was worth $10,000 because "I saw it on an ebay auction."

Tomorrow is sunday AKA car boot sale day

Are you ready fellow britfags?

>Drove half an hour to a neighborhood sale
>Every other house has a sale, awesome
>decide to walk
>pick up some nerf stuff
>get lost
>find my car
>drive after that
>still nothing.

Nothing. There were literally 30 sales, and I saw one PS2 controller. Just too young a neighborhood.

Flea Market tomorrow

>>604748
Should have went back to the first guy and called him out on his shit in front of everyone. "See this game? I bought it for way cheaper from somebody else here. In fact, he cut me a deal because he heard you being an asshole to me!"

See how many people walk away from his table.

>>604750

Northern Ireland here. It's hit and miss when it comes to car boot sales here. Usually shit but you get the odd bit here or there.
Did get a shoebox filled with GB/GBC games for a fiver once, though.

We don't really have yard sales in the UK, but we have something better - car boot sales. Going to one tomorrow, hopefully. They reckon there'll be 35 sellers there, so I'm bound to find some vidya. Fingers crossed for mega drive games

>>604682
Forgot to mention that one of the PS2 games had a memory card in it, nice extra.

>>597845

Well just got back from my first huge flea market.

Literally nothing NES/SNES or older related.

All DS and Xbox games.

I did get a Dreamcast with cords/controller in box w/ the bass fishing rod and 4 games

NFL Blitz 2000, Sega GT, Sega Bass Fishing, and Crazy Taxi.

$40 for everything so not that great or anything but I wanted one anyway.

Found a few games yesterday. Bought the N64 game for 25 cents at one yard sale and the NES games w/ box for $25 at another. Originally, the lady selling the NES games had them priced at $10 each. I acted slightly interested but told her they were priced too high for me. She admitted that she didn't know what to price them at, and I talked her down to $25 for all of them or basically $2.50 a piece plus the box which she let me have.

>>602545
Not vidya, but about 5 years ago I was out with my grandparents at their weekend yard sale scrounge and I saw they had some mineral samples. I ask them about it and they just up and hauled five huge boxes of mineral/gem/geological samples from the back of their garage and practically gave them to me for free.
I'm huge into geology and the samples were fantastic and would have cost around $700 from an actual store, got em all for $50.

As far as videogames go though, flea markets have been getting worse and worse for deals. Almost everyone tries to retail or over price them, even the old people who clearly know nothing about games but want you to pay $30 for a common GB game.
Yard sales are where it's at especially if you see a middle aged woman selling a bunch of old toys with other boxes. Chances are she's getting rid of her child's playthings.

>>602713
7am or 2pm is the golden time. People are just setting up at 7am and you will beat other scroungers. At 2pm most of them pack up and just want to get rid of stuff.

>mfw getting up at 7 to go to a local multi-family garage sale I saw on Craigslist
>mfw literally every one of the 5 houses participating sell nothing but babby clothes
Fucking WHY. Does anyone actually BUY baby clothes at garage sales? Why the fuck do people even bother trying to sell it? What the dicks man.

>tfw the area you live in and all the surrounding areas are too wealthy and people dont have garage sales

>>604868

People have babies and babies grow up creating the supply.

:)

>>602682

holy fuck, so jealous of that CIB Super Nintendo. I didnt think something like that even existed anymore.

>>604869

How wealthy? I know doctors around here that still do garage sales.

If you are talking like investment bankers or filthy rich.. I can understand that.

>>604913
my little sides

>>604915
Well yeah pretty much everyone commutes to the city and works on wall street or the likes, including myself and my parents.

>Get out of work early
>9am cruising about, looking for yard sales.
>3 in total
>1st is all clothing, nothing but clothes.
>2nd had a few games, but they were all Xbox360 sports titles and COD
>3rd I passed once, saw a bunch of young kids fucking around, but notice a few storage boxes under a table
>Pull over, approach the desk
>They start pulling children's books, stuffed animals out, forcing them at me like starving mexican children.
>Feel bad so I buy a dinosaur toy off one of them for 2 bucks.
>Kid's face lights up, he taunts his sisters.
>Walk back to my car.

No dice today. But next weekend my neighbors are having some "giant" yard sale. They have professional looking signs up around their yard, so I'm hoping I can get there a few minutes before they open and MAYBE catch some nice deals.

>>604821

You actually bought Top Gun for the NES? What's wrong with you?

>>604967
Do you have any pictures of the dinosaur toy?

Went to two. First had nothing but woman said "next sale i haev som" then the next was awesome. Guy had a ton of Dreamcast, PS2, PS1, and Xbox games. I got a lot of PS1 games. one of them is pretty rare, its this Square FF7 boxing game

>>605023
Top Gun is a pretty decent game. Only bad thing I can think about it is that it's short. What's your problem with it?

>>605038
> Square FF7 boxing game
Ehrgeiz God Bless the Ring?

>>602492
I tried this the other day with FF Tactics. The guy was selling it for $40. I told him it's worth $15 at most and he proceeded to tell me about how it goes for $100 on the internet. What a shit salesman, at least make up something remotely believable.

>>605063
That's when you take out your smart phone and look it up on eBay or another site. First eBay listing I see is $5.50, second is $12.99.

If I had been you, I would have shown him that and said, "You're right, $15 is a terrible price for Final Fantasy Tactics."

>>604913
Not SNES, but I found a boxed M2 Genesis at a pawn shop the other day. They're around.

>>605057

I'd be so stoked if I found that game cheap. It's so good, I remember going nuts that FF7 characters were in it

>>605101
I don't have none of them darn space phones Anon. Having VGPC with me whenever i'm looking for stuff would be really cool though.

>tfw no one has yard sales in your city because the city expects a cut of the money earned

>>605165
I think having FF7 characters in it was the only way Square knew they were going to make any money on the game.

>>605178

What commie shithole is this?

>>605195
barberton ohio

>>605205

Good god. Citizens there just put up with that shit?

>>605178

That's illegal bro, at least where I am. That'd be taxing you twice AKA double dipping, which the government can't do since it already taxed the income that was necessary to buy any of those goods.

>>605208
you should see what you got to do to open a business

South Bay Los Angeles guy here.
I didn't find shit. I'm through looking for good stuff in garage sales. It's highly unlikely I'll find anything I'm looking.
I only find garbage shit like DDR dance floors or Guitar Hero guitars.

Went to 3 sales. 1 had nothing, the other I got a Medion Joypad and Joystick for a dollar. At another I found an awesome Super Mario Bros. 2 & Zelda 2 thermos for 25 cents. I asked if they knew where the lunchbox might be but they had no idea.

Overall pretty good. I may post pics later but I was pretty stoked about finding that thermos. It was literally under a pile of junk. It's now sitting alongside my NP Magazines.

>>597845

My flea market experience today only netted me a cheapish Dreamcast and virtually no NES/SNES or otherwise games in the entire gigantic flea market. I was disappointed.

I went to a few thrift shops... apparently they have gotten wise to the whole retro game as their shelves are either empty. We also have one retro game store in town and it is overpriced.

The only thing I have yet to try is garage/rummage sales. I truly hope those become more lucrative as it is my last option.

I was going to go today, but I sleept in until 2pm
All the good ones would have already been hit

>>605250

The next dawn brings a new day. Do not lose heart, anon.

I just got back from going to four different garage sales this morning within 2 miles of my house. Bought four PS2 games (Chessmaster, GTA Vice City, Activision Anthology and Goldeneye Rogue Agent) for $2 each - all with case and manual in excellent condition.

Also found three unopened cases (each case has 10 boxes) of new and shrink wrapped Maxell 5.25" DSDD floppy disks...$30 for all three cases. 300 new 5.25" disks to be used in my C64, A800, etc.

And then there was a guy that wanted $200 for an Atari 5200 with only one controller and four games. He also had about 40 PS1 and PS2 games for $10 to $15 each; at least half of them were sports games and all were extremely common titles. He immediately got offended when I questioned his price, I take it someone had already given him shit about it this morning.

>>605239
Why does it seem like everyone is buying Dreamcasts lately?

>>605296

Yeah. I don't even tell people if there shit is too high. I simply ask them if they are willing to negotiate the price

If no I simply leave

If yes I just low ball them into submission

It doesn't really matter to me if they get pissy about it or not.

>>605303

I only bought it because it was cheap and came with games and I was so disappointed by my lack of finds I just had to buy something retroish.

>>605250
I'm about in the same boat. I was up until 6:30, and I have to go to work at 4:00. Beh

>>605314
I'm not criticizing your purchase or anything btw, I just bought one too. I've seen people buying them all over /vr/ though.

>>605323
people on /vr/ buy all systems.

Well lucky me found a box of 15 snes games which happened to have earthbound, ff2 and 3, and super metroid all for a whopping 20 dollars! California is good.

>>605330
Fuck you, I ain't found shit.

What part you from?

>>605323

Probably because it is one of the few systems that people aren't trying to bankrupt you on. That and yeah I buy anything gaming related.

>>605329
Am I the only person who wants to collect only what they actually like? I could care less about building even close to a complete game collection.

Any other 757 /vr/ bros in here?

I hit up some yard sales early this morning. Got 10 genesis games for 75 cents, a ds lite and 2 shovelware titles for 6 dollars, and a ps2 with 3 controllers and 2 memory cards for 3 bucks, and 2 original gameboys for 5 dollars.

Got a gamecube from goodwill earlier this week with all the wires, a controller, and a memory card for 9 bucks with tax. It works too, amazingly. It was just sitting open on the shelf.

Most of my finds have been non-retro, but I'm feeling my luck turn around. Some couple at a yard sale said I had just missed a super nintendo.

>>605352

You're not but it's good to expand your horizons. After all you don't know what you like until you put your dollar down and try it. Of course I'm talking about reasonable prices; if I never played Earthbound I'm not gonna shell out a couple hundys just to give it a try

>>605352
I just sold literally every old game. So, no, you're not the only one.

30+ garage sales and this is all I could find at 6 AM.

>>605363

This is why it doesn't pay. I go to garage sales when I see them around and if it's a nice enough day. I don't feel like it's ever worth putting forth this kind of effort. I live in Chicago though. Maybe for people who live in Utah or something

>>605359
I believe it's 'hundos'

>>605352
My brother and i are more than a hundo games into the n64 collection. It's worth it if you take the time to play every game and appreciate them for what it is.

>>605330
Post pics

>>605382

I call them hundys, not hundies, hundys

>>604543
>fuck sandy
Agreed.

>>605359
I have "expanded my horizons." I try games before I buy them via emulators. If I like it, I'll buy them. I'm not going to waste money on a game that I don't like it.

I walked for 2 and a half hours to yard sales in my area

went to 15+

not a single video game

>>605405
also there was a 40 year old arab fuck going up to the yard sales asking if they have any veedeo gaem

i was very butthurt

>>604543
I managed to find >>605363
in North Bellmore.

Sorry friend, as good as cardio gets, you're not going to get what you want by walking. Le Happy Merchant travels in car and gets what you want very fast.

Any Suffolk/Port Jeff bros here?

>>605404

I'm different then. I don't even care about emulators much anymore, though I used to use them all the time when I was underage. To me now, the money is part of the process. It feels kind of empty just downloading a rom and getting a good or bad game. If I find a game in the wild I have never heard of or never tried and I get it for a good price and it turns out to be a fantastic game, it makes everything more sweet. For me the risk of getting something bad or overpaying matched with the reward of getting something great for cheap is part of the thrill of the hunt and part of the reason why I do this.

That's just my opinion though.

>>605461

I still collect games and systems, but I use emulators when I actually wanna play them.

In my place yard sales consist of old people selling shitty vinyls and a whole bunch of rusty shit. The only place to buy old games are buy & sale stores that usually have like 90% of shitty football games. It sucks.

>>605496

Did you try asking if they have anything they didn't set out like older game stuff? You'd be surprised what older people don't set out because they think nobody will want it. Many seem to think people only want the latest and greatest video game stuff.

Also, make sure to check CD collections that looks like all music, you might find a couple games in there by luck.

I do know the feeling though. You really have to dig in those garages, but usually when you find something of value it's a nice score for dirt cheap.

>yard sales doesn't existe in the country i live

>>605643

Well if people are too poor to own yards then sure

Where do people even find yard sales advertised? I've never heard of such a thing before. In my experience it's just you driving along and then 'oh hey a yard sale let's check it out'

Besides I don't have any money left for weekend hunting, I bought too much retro stuff this week already.

>>605165
i missed out when my movie theater sold our Ehgeiz cabinet for like 350, i totally would have bought it.

BUT. on to what i found today:
Crystalis for 5
Mickey Speedway USA 5 (Rare made it)
Yakuza 2 2
GTA Episodes from Liberty City TWO DOLLAH

I could have gotten some snes games and 2 boxed nes games for 20, but it was all trash in my eye.

>>605235
ha...hahahaahaha
i found that lunchbox last weekend at my flea market, but i didn't buy it cuz the guy wanted like 20 bucks for it.

>>605353
i don't believe anyone would sell that stuff THAT cheap, sounds fishy...

I went to a flea market, pawn shop and Goodwill today and got all this for about $90. The Xbox cost the most ($30 at Goodwill). The best deal was the Suikoden II strategy guide for $1. I just about shit myself when I saw it. I went to a retro game shop after that, but I didn't get any awesome deals there.

>>605931
>spending $30 on an xbox

what are you doing

>>605856

i got NES games for fifty cents each at a flea market the other day

yeah, people really do sell this stuff for cheap. they just want to get rid of it

>>605856
Most loose NES games aren't worth more than 50cents, regardless of what old women and resellers try to tell you.

>>606181
I got all this for a whopping $5 at a yard sale last summer. Everything worked perfect.

When I got home I found out it was modchipped and had games already pre-installed. Boy was I happy.

>>605931
sheeeeets

>>605378
I haven't been doing this for long, but even if I don't find anything I still strangely have fun hunting for stuff.

>>606181
I didn't have one and a I've been looking for one at a decent price. I thought it was fair. It came with all the hookups, two controllers, and it even had a copy of COWADUTY in the drive.

>>600696
Tell them, "so are hypocritic old women who judge others"

>>606181
>friend gets a 360 for his birthday when they came out
>offer to buy his original one for $30
>he says no because he thinks it's going to be worth a fortune in the future

Fucking GameCubes are worth more now

>>605931
I was going to buy MP2 at a flea market today but the guy stayed firm on 8 bucks.

>>606389
I also saw an Xmen vs Street Fighter cabinet and one of those tabletop cabs with Space Invaders in it, i've never seen anything like that at a pawn shop.

>>605824

>Yakuza 2

Man, I've wanted to find this for awhile. Lucky you.

>>606313
I would have sold you win for 10 shipped. I only used it as a halo box back in the day. 4 controllers and the works.

got 2 sega genesis, a ps2, and a ps1 for $25. and about 10 disney gamecube games for about $5. Not a bad day

Bought one of these for $25.

Works. No sound. No battery cover.

I assume no sound is fixable. But I'm afraid to open it. I've heard stories of bugs living inside. I'm legitimately scared, /vr/. I dislike bugs.

Should I just send it to somebody to fix it and give it a good cleanup?

>>606434
>being afraid of something smaller than you.
Just open it up and clean it. No sound should be a real simple fix.

>>606468
You know who is smaller than you?

Hitler.

>>606484
Hitler did nothing wrong

Just picked up this fucker for 4€. sound is fucked, I bought it for pieces to fix a gb i broke last week :P

>>606434
at lest make a believable even if stupid story, like youre afraid of being electrocuted or something...

>>606434
Make sure you keep it in a sealed container if you want to be safe. Those little bugs can crawl out and start breeding in your house. They're probably in your bed right now, waiting to burrow in your ears and nostrils while you sleep. Better have the place fumigated.

Which one of you guys posted this?

Here's the link for your viewing pleasure
http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/yrk/vgm/3731680280.html

Anyone know the scene for garage sales and such in Montreal and the surrounding areas?

>>601381

Find someone making repros or flash carts. They have uses for the shells and PCBs.

>>606576
>>606584
>>606468

I fell into a pile of fireants when I was little and I can't take being near any type of bugs

I'm sorry

>>606612

s-s-should I /vr/?

>>605856
All the genesis games worked. Havent tested the ds lite and ps2 yet because I dont have an ac adapter for the ds lite and i dont feel like testing the ps2 right now. The shovelware titles for the ds worked fine though, tested them on my 3ds then sold them to my local shop.

I asked the guy and one of the girls working the yard sale how much the ds lite was, because it wasnt priced, and they responded "10" and "6" at the same time, so i got it for 6.

The gamecube worked too, by the way, despite the b and x buttons sticking like hell on the controller.

>>606635
..mm well that does explain the fear for bugs, thats fine if you want, but it does not explain the paranoia about bugs in a gameboy... i mean, watch out! there might be killer ants in your keyboard!

>>606646
Go for it, but see if you can talk them down a little first.

>>606646
>those tabs
>that google search bar.

I like you.

>>606612
>Which one of you guys posted this?
It was anon, I think.

>>606657
Let's hope he doesn't learn about the new species of ant that likes to live inside computer mice.

>>600620
Maybe as long as you aren't one of these

>>600620
I really enjoy following these types of things, so yeah, I would.

>>606659
o-oh no my tabs

im so embarrassed

>>600620
just go on leddit/l/gamecollecting, they love it when you share

606576

got that same fucking pocket today...

>>605352
Usually i will trade the stuff for other games i am interested in with other collectors near me

8 dollars. Sure is a slow day.

>>605496
Flip that vinyl and buy video games son

>>605352
But I actually like everything!

HELP

>>605165
>>605057
Yes it is! Its missing the front cover but it still has a perfect disc and back, holy shit is it really worth much?

All right, so here's my summary picture for the weekend so far; paid about 60 for everything, I lost quite a bit on the boxed NES games; paid 25 for the 3, which I think is a bit much. The GBA is missing a battery and cover, which I ordered for 10, so about 70 altogether this week. Also, it's hard to see, but the GB games are Tetris Attack and Perfect Dark.

Overall, pretty disappointing considering how many sales I've been to today. Hoping for better luck tomorrow at a local flea market.

Found an Original Gameboy that's in goodish condition, just a bit dirty for $5 today. And then Tetris and Nesopen for a dollar each.

Asking every person selling today if they had any old games and getting the same responses. I finally started asking what the people who were buying all the games looked like, and I got descriptions of the same three people from the 20ish yard sales I went to. These guys were walking up and asking if they had any nintendo stuff, and then without even seeing it, saying that they would buy it.

Didn't get anything yesterday, not going to bother going out tomorrow.

I went to Good Will and a few yard sales and didn't see anything. I ended up going to the flea market hoping to find any deals. Only two stands sell games in my flea market and most game cases are broken or scratched to hell. Reluctantly end up buying tetris and super mario land for the gameboy so I didn't feel like I wasted my time. Regret it almost immediately.

Popped in and compared the prices of the games at my local game shop along the way home and see the prices are a little cheaper but not much. Come home and check them on ebay and find them even cheaper. I've been looking for a few months in my area for games I want but no one has a fair price, so I think this is the last time I'll go running around over here. I should of just stayed home and ordered my shit on ebay.

>>605352
I usually just buy bundles of games and consoles, keep the best ones and sell off the rest.

I only got one game today from a garage sale, but it was a very unexpected one: Romancing SaGa. I never thought I would get an import game at a garage sale.

Long Island bro here.

Picked these up at a yard sale a few hours ago. 5 bucks each. How'd I do?

>>607091
I'm this guy: >>606746
I wish I got as lucky as you.

>>605809
Craig's list.

You can also use Yard Sale apps. I have one for my iPhone.

>>607091
>How'd I do?

>>>leddit

>>607114

That doesn't even make sense.

>>>/v/

We don't act like that here.

>>607125
>we don't act like that here

oh shut the fuck up this isn't some super secret club that is shielded from shitposting. Asking how you did for attention is typical leddit

>>606842
This anon again.

I did remember something else. I was at my last sale of the day, and I asked if they had any old games. One of the ladies there says she thinks she has something, but it's "old". I tell her that's what I'm looking for, and she goes to get it.

She brings out a NES, no cables, no controllers, no games. She says this was what she was talking about, but she doesn't want to sell it because it's a NES-001 and "it's worth a few hundred dollars; I saw it on TV a while ago." I politely tell her that it's okay if she doesn't want to sell it, but that it isn't worth several hundred. She got really upset and accused me of trying to rip her off. I said I wasn't even interested in it, but even a NES-001 is only worth $5-10 in the condition her's was in. She was really mad at that point, and I ended up just getting back in my car before she decided to flip out.

I figured you guys would enjoy this little tale.

>>607145
Calm down friend. 'How'd I do?" is a proto-meme on /vr/.

>>607150
i swear on me mums lyfe i'll wreck u

Went to my first flea market 2 weekends ago, saw nothing younger than PS1 (and those were all demo discs) that were primarily sports/Guitar Hero games. Some guy tried selling me an original XBox with no cords and a grungy PS1 controller, but I politely declined.

This week at the goodwill, all I saw was Backyard Baseball for the Gamecube.

Can't go flea market this week due to rain/unusual cold. Hoping next week's goodwill or thrift store is better. Living in the bible belt is the ultimate suffering for this hobby.

>>607223

I don't live in the bible belt, but basically the same thing here at our flea market and thrift shops.

Nothing earlier than PS1.

I plan on doing some garage/rummage sales for the first time in years to see if I can find some retro games. I hope I have better luck.

>>607223
Same here, where in it are you?

Bikes around 10 miles or so today, only saw 4 garage sales.

Either that rain friday screwed things up or it's still a week too early.

>>607278

It's still "cold" here in MN, but it will be in the 60's all next week so hopefully that springs (pun intended) up some sales next week.

>>607278
You might have also milked the area dry.

>>607245
rural Oklahoma. I don't think this area was big on video games in the 80s and 90s, or so my parents tell me. Actually, now that I think about it, only like 1/4th of the kids I grew up with had a console or handheld.

>>607292

Me buying up games has no impact on how many garage sales pop up this time of year, only how many games I find at them.

>yard sale week 2012
>go to every one on my street
>360 sports games everywhere
>get discouraged and go home
I'm not even gonna bother this year

>>597845

Next Saturday there is a small town (about 100-120 elderly people in the entire town) that does a town wide garage sale.

Now chances of finding retro games is probably low, but it is one of those types of things where you might find some super rare shit and there is no people my age competing for anything.

>>607145
Showing off what you got is the entire point of the thread moron.

>>607298
Sucks man, I've resorted to trying to buy my west coast friend's stuff. I guess that isn't 'in the wild' though.

>>607363
Oddly enough, my girlfriend is from California and she has hundreds of stories of getting great deals from game shops and retro stores. All I have is "I got Metroid Prime for $3 from a Gamestop mass offloading its old stock in Oklahoma City"

I'm not a picky guy - I'm mainly after Genesis/GB/GBC/GBA/PS1/Cube titles. But right now it seems impossible to find those.

ITT lots of quitters. You guys go to 1 or 2 sales and cry when you don't find anything? Have you lost your incentive to search and earn the big finds? You think you're just gonna walk right in and get handed the world? Pathetic.

What happened to that drive and stubbornness that kept you going when you were playing those brutal games in the day? You all act like modern gamers seeking immediate reward and when you don't get it you complain. But hey, that's less competition for me so whatever. I'm still disappointed in how many of you give up so easily.

>>607308
I'm this anon here
>>605353
It's literally been a month of searching thrift stores/yard sales and finding nothing until this week, even at community yard sales

Never give up~

>>607396
Gas is $4.30 and it's not worth it

>>607396

You're generalizing. Only some people here said they have given up. The rest of us are just bitching about our lack of finds, doesn't stop me from looking.

>>607346
yeah posting what you got is a part of the thread not "How'd I do?"

Faggot knows he did good because Legends 2 goes for 60+

>>607404
FINALLY, someone who has common sense.

>>607382
Me too, I've come across random Genesis sports games and I got those cases for free today, but not an actual console. Really kicking myself for not getting that guy's number who said he had one in his attic.

>>607404

Whatever helps you sleep at night. You could just as easily ride a bike around or walk to find garage sales. I've done it. Though I do understand if you have to drive 20 miles or something then yeah you may as well just buy stuff online.

>>607405

I'm not generalizing, my comment was directed to everyone who gets discouraged after 1 or 2 tries. I have read the thread and there are some people going to many different ones and will continue to do so. I'm just tired of hearing people complain when they go to 1 or 2 sales and come up short. Odds are the sale wont have something you want, but it's perseverance that usually pays off and that chance to score something big.

>>607435
Some of those are good, like NFL Football '94 and NHL '94. I wouldn't be disappointed at finding NHL at all.

>>607438
Not all of us live in populated areas or areas that do yard sales. I have to drive 40 minutes to my first ones, half a gallon.

>>607428

Well...

1. Gas isn't even near $4.30 where I live, not that being relevant for you.

2. It isn't that bad if you simply use a combination of the newspaper/craigslist, etc and just plan out the spots you are going to hit

If you simply drive around looking for sales like a buffoon.

>>607438

Indeed. That and I go to garage sales for deals in general. It must be hell if you are doing it purely to find retro games, that is disappointment in the making.

I look for all sorts of stuff... from retro games t physics books to things for my niece.

>>607450

Well then in your case I understand if you don't want to go often. Still, that doesn't mean you have to give up. Just say you tried and will try again at the next chance you get.

I do understand that when you have to drive that far you would be much better off just buying a factory sealed retro game instead. That makes perfect sense to me.

>>604775
Go back to /v/, kid. Adults don't act like that

>>607460

Yeah I mean I was looking for games and decided to look at toys instead. I ended up finding a cool Super Mario Bros. 2 & Zelda 2 thermos for 25 cents. Once I was just looking at magazines and found a few Nintendo Power mags for 2 bucks each.

So yeah it pays to look all over and you never know what you're gonna find if you dig a little.

Is 40 bucks for Cobalt DS Lite with charger worth it?

>>607451
>Gas isn't even near $4.30 where I live

That's cool. I live in Chicago. It's pretty much not worth it either way. Shit gets raped around here and most people know their worth. The flea markets around here are the really ghetto mexican kind where they sell giant t-shirts and knives at every other booth. I'm not even in the ghetto.

You'd think biking would be a good idea then but honestly not really. Garage sales are few and far apart around me. Usually you'd drive a town between garage sales. In the early 2000's I'd go to alot but they're just not as common anymore. It's pretty much just a waiting game until the block sales or church garage sales.

I'm sure though there's someone in Chicago with better experiences though.

>>607481
>is a current gen system for $40 worth it?

You tell me

>>607468
I have no intention of giving up, just saying that it isn't as easy and riding around randomly.

>>607484

That really sucks. Here in MN/ND border area there is a massive amount of garage/rummage sales in the spring.

Mainly due to the weather and everyone hibernating until late April and doing spring cleaning.

At least you guys don't live on Long Island like I do. A lot of potentially good stuff probably get wrecked by Hurricane Sandy; ontop of that, people probably didn't check to see if it any of it still worked, just threw it out.

>>607410

We're all mature adults here. Stop acting like a brat.

>>607508
>tfw north shore didn't have any games to begin with and south shore with all the games got #rekt by Sandy

>>607508

Long Island here, I love it.

since Sandy, I found both Earthbound and Megaman Legends 2 for 5 bucks each at yardsales/thrift stores, AND a fully working Sega Saturn for 30 bucks.


I find a LOT of stuff on a weekly basis, I actually make threads about it every friday.

>>607575

>Dat Wavebird

Sexy

Found pretty much fuck all today. Got SMB3 and Talespin on NES for $7 total, and a slightly broken wiimote.

Got wind of a thrift store opening today and went around time they opened. They had a dedicated vidya section surprisingly; none of the stuff was really great but they were trying. Guy running it was a bro too, asked him how much SMB3 was to which he replied "Well it goes for like 15 on ebay so I'll say 5". Finally someone with sense. Was disappointed to hear though that about a week before the store opened he unloaded a boxed SNES lot online. Would've been cool if he had saved some of those for the grand opening.

Hit a flea market after that, which completely sucked. Though to be fair I missed what was probably the only decent deal there, a Gameboy Pocket (or color, didn't see which) and 3 games for $5. Some Mexican grabbed them just as I got up to that particular table. Doesn't bug me since I'm not into that, but eh. There was a yard sale on the way out of there too, didn't have anything though.

Honestly, I don't think this stuff is for me. I don't mind the thrift stores and goodwills that much though of course they're always a crapshoot. But the flea markets and yard sales are so fucking out of the way and time consuming for me and they're even worse luck-wise than thrifts (in fact, the flea markets I've been to so far have been outright disgusting). Feels like a waste of time, only reason for me to go right now is because at least I'm spending time with my gf while doing it. It also doesn't help that I have OCD so these kinds of places make me deathly uncomfortable unless I'm on drugs, which I also don't like

>>607575
Where the fuck do you go? If it's Suffolk county, it's too far for me.