/vr/ - Retro Games

Picked this up on the way home from work.

$20

Tried going to some new thrift stores today.


Who the FUCK closes shop at 3pm?

Found nothing for the past few days. I can't fucking wait for tomorrow so I can actually go to yardsales.

What sucks about that though, is people close up yardsales at around fucking 12...

>>637372
If the feel I feel isn't jealousy I should probably go see a doctor.

>>637426
Yeah. It is the same here, but in Utah, all shops close on sunday, no yard sales sunday, so it is a fucking ghost town. Some auctions are on sunday, but that is maybe once a month.

>>637372
>Bible Adventures
Why? It's not even a licensed game...

>>637460
Thats why it is fucking great.
>Christian organization tries to get a game published
>Nintendo denies it because it sucks
>Said Christian organization does all the dirty tricks
>Piracy
>Reverse engineering
>Unlicensed publishing
>all just to brainwash kids

>>637470
But is it even worth $6 or so? I see that being worthless like those black cart Tetris' which I believe also aren't official.

>>637487
I'd GLADLY pay 6 bucks for bible adventures

>>637451
>utah
>found bible adventures
Oh god, were they from mormons?
>>637470
Nope, more like
>christians try to publish game
>nintendo denies it because they don't allow religious games

>>637487
It is worth about $10-15 depending. Not much demand, it is just hard to find. I snatched it up just for a chance to have it.

>>637494
>nintendo denies it because they don't allow religious games
Isn't that what I said?

I just picked up Chrono Trigger for $4 in town today.

I've never played the game. Is it worth a try even though I'm not a JRPG fan?

>>637797
Any game is worth a try.

>>637797
I got a copy for free recently as well, never went past the save screen.

>>637808
Just test to see it wasn't a board swap?
I have a massive backlog, but I don't get distracted. I mostly just test them to see if they start up a new game, then they get to the back of the line.

FOR YOU NORTH OF SEATTLE MOTHERFUCKERS!

This is happening up in Bham this weekend. Do you waste $25 to get in and buy games.... or do you go hunt with that same $25.

>>637827
God I am dumb....

http://www.pacificnerdwest.com/

>>637829
It is funner to hunt in the wild, but I am in utah with 0 conventions for gaming, well no big ones, so I would say go hunt.

>>637487
Tengen Tetris is best Tetris

>>640039
Tengen anything is the most badass of anything. 100% Unofficial 4 lyfe

>>637426
Early bird gets the worm

>>640309
Second mouse gets the cheese.

>>640346
Third.... something... it's all cheap cuz it's late in the day.

Why isn't there a third part to that saying?

>>637827
I'll bet good money most of the games at that will be overpriced. I know the cons down here in Tennessee like to do awful markup. Have you ever seen a copy of Paper Mario for $60? I have. I laughed at the asshole and left.

I was considering picking up Twilight Princess and Animal Crossing for the Wii considering I don't own any games for it, but she was asking like $20 for it and it's 30 minutes away.

>>637829

Seattlebro here, not trekking up to Bellingham for this, but I'm interested

Hit a ton of yard sales today, but only found some Gamecube games.

$10

>>642357

Now THAT'S a deal

>>642357
Damn, I've been scouring my area for Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing games, but everyone wants a gold bar for them. Good job

>>642357
>LoTR Third Age
this game is so damn good and so much fun, good deal with the others aswell

Someone is advertising a 3DS XL in box (Mario Kart version) + Pokemon White + White 2 for $150
Seems sketchy, will I get mugged?

>>642382
>Animal Crossing
You can buy this for like 20 bucks

>>642979
Yea, I meant like buying from flea markets and garage sales everyone over prices those games.

>>642357
Damn that's good. Manuals as well?

>>643019
He only bought the cases

>>642964
Bring pepper spray or meet in public place

>>643037
If it's stolen, is there any negative consequences for me, other than turning it over?

>>643019
All of them have manuals except for Animal Crossing which isn't a big deal since I already own a complete copy of. I'll probably use this one for trading or something. All the discs are in near perfect condition too. Kind of surprising considering how cheap the guy was selling them for.

>>643059
If it's stolen, don't worry about it. Enjoy your deal

It's not like a corporate leaders trackable macbook - it's a gameboy and some games

>>643063
Forgot pic.

>>643027
heh

Found this GBC and Wario Land- SML 3 with it.
Both for 2 euros and 50 cents.

I'm hoping to come across more games for it, since I never really owned one of these.

Went to a few different stores. Got perfect dark in box for $6, Galaga 3/4 combo disk for $3, galaga 5 for $12, and Megaman 3, Balloon Fight, Kirby's Adventure, and Life Force for $40. Not a great deal on that last lot, but not bad either, and I got to help my struggling local.

Good deals today!

Gen1 Pokemon board game for 50 cents, heck yeah.

Games were five bucks each. Breath of Fire and The 7th Saga for SNES, and Strider for Genesis. Strider came with the manual, and Genesis mini-catalog, and even had the original receipt from 1993!

Grey brick GameBoy for $2. Powers on, but needs a good cleaning. Everything had a healthy coat of pollen on it.

Genesis with Sega CD was $20, but I got 'em down to $15 since the CD portion was missing the power cable. Got a bitchin' Light Phaser though. They had a Mk. 1 Genesis too for $10, but no cables, so I passed.

Snagged Shining Force II and Contra III today.

The place selling them was selling Earthbound for 250 which I laughed at.

>>643401
why is it timestamped for 2010?

>>643418
This thread is really old

>>643096
where was this yard sale, btw?

I know CRTs are the master race around here for retro gaming, but I always liked the idea of gaming on a wall projector. Got this for $5! Get up early on Friday kids.

Only has a/v hookups though.

>>643418
I never set the date/time on my Vivishit.

Just picked these up from my local shop. They do a thing with all their retro games there, it's a buy two get one free. This cost me $6. I think that's a decent deal.

I can never find anything good at garage sales, and if I do, it's marked up to the point I might as well order it on Amazon since I'm not going to save that much money.

Ok, I am back from my yardsaling for Friday. I had an ok day, not much of a jaw dropper, but I did get SOME stuff, and a mystery game!

I only spent $19 today, so my haul was a great deal, but nothing amazing or extra ordinary.

pic 1/?
This was my first haul, all for $9
>Playstation +spyro yotd (disc only)
>Warhammer Shadow of the Honored Rat
>PO'ed
>GBASP(no charger)+Hotwheels+mysterygame???

>>643476
This SP has seen some greusome shit. Bought it from a Juggalo

>>643476
To my surprise, Spyro was in the system when I got home.

>>643476

WHAT IS THE MYSTERY GAME

>>643476
And who could withstand the allure of the MYSTERY GAME? Haven't tested it yet to see what it is. I am assuming it is shovelware.

>>643476
Shovelware? Or gaming masterpiece? Only time will tell. It has an interesting enough cover art, I am going to play it tonight.

>>643490
We should make a game of this.

>>643490
Mother 3.
Sticker was removed to ward off thieves.

>>643501
No silly, it's clearly hotwheels

But the hotwheels game is actually mother 3, they moved the sticker to the other cartridge as a decoy

>>643476
>Gamecrazy sticker
these are strange feels.

>>643486
>>643498
Wonder what it is!?

>>643442
$5! christ that exact thing is $60 at Roses (third rate Wal-Mart)

>>643512
>third rate Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart is a second rate Target.
Is Roses a sixth rate Target?

>>643519
No you don't multiply them, it's additive. Like: Target' second rate equivalent is Walmart, 3rd rate is Ross, fourth rate is Roses.

>>643486
>>643498
>>643501
>>643509
Here we go

>>643531
But Anon said Roses was three rates below Walmart.
So Roses is fifth rate.

>>643532
Star Wars: Flight of the Falcon
Calling it now

>>643532
>>643540
It was Secret Agent Barbie.

And here is my second haul. All factory sealed PC games.

>$10
Ok.

>>643539
No, he said it's a third rate Walmart. A first rate Walmart would be walmart wouldn't it? So then there is something that is second rate, and then Roses is a third rate walmart.

>>643519
>Target not being an upscale Wal-Mart
I sure hope you gals don't do this

>>643553
K Mart.

>>643557
I think Ross would be a second rate Walmart. Well the hierarchy of stores is probably long, we should write this down.

>>643548
Damn man, you got lucky. I would kill for Secret Agent Barbie.

>>643553
Anybody else got a Magic Mart?

>>643551
All of these were factory sealed except for Icewind Dale, which I am going to install and play the shit out of.

>>643551
Oh, so this bitch that sold these to me, I asked if she had any other games, and she said... And I quote

>"I used to own an antique store. I had a whole truck load of nintendos and atari tapes from the 70's I think, but I didn't think anyone would want them. I sent them to the dump. Wouldn't be anything you would want, they were all still sealed, so I figured nobody wanted them"

a red blanket of fury covered my eyes and I almost slapped her.

>Throwing out possibly thousands of dollars of sealed games
>I wonder why her store went under

>>643902

Why would you tell this to anyone? Why do you want to hurt us?

>>643909
I just wanted to get it off my chest. She first told me someone already came, and took 2 bins full of sealed games, but she was talking about board games. When I clarified, about retro VIDEO games, she dropped the bomb. Fuck that cunt.

Nothing retro today hopefully i have some luck tomorrow at the swap meet

>>646026
well good luck with that, man. I am at work the rest of the weekend, hopefully my gf can dig up some vidya for me.

As always garage sales in Ottawa suck.

>Cloudy and rainy for the past few days
>Want to hit up a few yard sales since last weekend was a huge bust
>It's been raining on and off this morning
>The yard sales I saw advertised online around my area are probably cancelled
>Can't go to the flea market tomorrow because it's Mother's Day

I'm going to barter with the gods and give up masturbating for a week in hopes that they spare me for next week/weekend. I just want to find some fucking games man.

Went to over 30 yard sales today. Half were canceled due to weather (it hasn't rained here at all), the only sale I found games at was one I drove far out of the way for because it was labeled "video game yard sale"

Dozens and dozens on mint nes games, all $5 and under value games... Got Star Tropics, Gradius, Excite Bike, Tetris, and Decap Attack for Genesis for $10 total, so not bad, but when you calc in all the gas I spent today driving to and from busts, I pretty much payed ebay prices.

Added bonus though, found teen titans season 2, 3, and 4 for a buck each at one sale (and I already have 1)

weather cancelled all my plans today.

>>646624
http://www.emuparadise.org/

>>646864
Oh, they also through in a free power pad. Woohoo

My gf called me at work, and said she found a shit ton of GCN games, but nothing retro. Sounded windy. I hope nobody cancels the mother lode retro yardsale I always assume is going to be there.

Went to the only two garage sales happening today. Only found PS2 controllers which I don't need.

Got a nice teapot for $2 though

>>647213
My gf found an altered beast arcade cab, but they wanted $500 and were pretty firm on the price. I am pinching some pennies so I can have money for SDCC. its pretty fucking gay, then I remember it is for games there.

Finally found something decent at Goodwill but it's missing the power adapter. Tetris SMB/DH and Adventure Island plus two controllers for $30

One of the controllers is in pristine shape and the other has bite marks.

>>647293
>bite marks
Why does every NES controller have bite marks in it? I have like 5 I have found with bite marks. Why. Why is this.

Just got back. Went to two dozen yard sales and the only vidya I found was Diablo and HeXen for PC. Gave up on those and then went to the flea market, absolutely nothing other than one reseller. His prices are like eBay *1.5 so I didn't get anything. I then stopped by a Play n Trade and their prices were similar to his. On the way home I saw a sign for more sales, but by this point it was around 12:00 so I figured they would be cleaning up. By chance the yard sale was hosted by someone I knew from highschool and she guilted me into buying a cupcake. It was good, but it wasn't as good as video games. Stopped by Walmart just to see what kind of prices they're selling at and then went home. Left at 6:30, got back at 1:00. Bought nothing but a cupcake, hope you guys were more lucky.

>>647541
you are the epitome of why I REFUSE to go retro game hunting anymore.
>YARD SALES
gamble
>GOODWILL
risk, if not outright inflation.
>OTHER THRIFT SHOPS/FLEA MARKETS
Have to time it right, gamble, and hope you don't run into those 1.5 resellers
>Retro game stores
about to go some today, might buy something ,but eh,
>ebay x2.0
The amount you waste on gas these days (especially in my area) makes the point futile

>OH SWEET A PS1 GAME WORTH $20
>get it for $5
>spend $20 on gas doing a complete circle around the city
>BARGAIN!1!!!

>tfw you're not sure if you should bother hitting up goodwill and the retro game store because you know goodwill will already be rung of everything good since it's saturday and the retro game store will probably be overpriced.
they didn't used to be, i got a complete mint copy of a link to the past for $25, but that was like 4 or 5 years ago. With the huge price spike over the last year I'm sure they'd want like $100 for it now.

>>647541
>Good, but not as good as video games
I know the feel.

>>647585
They put new stuff out all the time though.

It's all about persistence. I find stuff about every tenth visit to the same store that I go to every week because it's by the grocery.

Someone should make an RPG about grinding for rare old game drops and reseller battles and shit.

only non-retro shit

>>647572
>spend $20 on gas doing a complete circle around the city
You're only going to burn $20 in gas driving around the city if you live in LA or something, and if you do, you deserve to suffer. I don't even burn that much driving across Ohio.

>>647945
I for one live in Utah, and I drive about 50 miles on country roads doing yard sales. But I go in a gas efficient sedan, and usually make more than my gas money back.

$5 for all this. It's a bit dirty so I'll need to spend some time cleaning it up, but it all works. There's a third GB original underneath the magnifiying lens on the bottom right, but's one of the worst GB conditions I have ever seen.

Was desperate so I went to another flea market. Had a reseller with a whole wall of vidya. Stacks of ps1s, n64s, Saturns, genesis, an Atari 400, you name it. They all had an inch of dust on them and he was asking too much. Going to a different one tomorrow.

>>647945
>>647991
I used 3 gallons today and that was in a Prius C.

>>648415
That is a fucking steal

>>648415

Best GBC color right there

69 cents at a pawn shop. I was floored when I saw it in the pile of sports games.

>>648450
Anything Tengen is worth 69 cents and MORE in my opinion.

>>648438

I know. I finally got a replacement for my Kiwi GBC that was stolen over a decade ago

Just sniped it
with 7 seconds to go

Fuck yes

My gf just texted me and said she got me a shit ton of stuff today that she didn't tell me about. I have to wait to get off work to see what her yardsale scores were today...

Feels like Christmas.

>>648450

In addition to this I got:

Gameboy Advance SP
Link's Awakening DX
Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3
Star Fox
Mega Man X
Pokemon Stadium + Transfer Pak
Ken Griffey Jr Presents Major League Baseball

All of that ran about $60, but the real prize was Tengen Tetris for less than a dollar.

>>648561
pics of the SP
I know the rules

Got FF7, Jade Cocoon, SOTN, Legend Of DRAGOON, and MGS from a co-worker for $20.

>>648595
Needs to be cleaned up a little, but it works great.

>>648624

Score! Good condition? I've never found a nice copy of Jade Cocoon

>>648635
Nice. Is it the backlit revision?
Looks front lit.
Back to retro.

>>648648
>>648648
My PS2 was being a nigger about all the games so I traded FF7 to the pawn shop for a PSX and Mega-Maine 8 and they all play perfect on it. Jade doesn't have manual and I had to do some case swaping to make it pretty.

>>648661
>>648595
Honestly man no one cares if you talk about SPs, especially in a pickup thread.

>>648661
It's a front lit one. I wasn't even aware a backlit version existed. For another day I suppose. Regardless, now I don't need a lamp or something nearby to play my Gameboy games.

>>647572
Need to get a smaller car man i rarely need to fill my 4 cylinder

Went to a flea market and got:

Sega Saturn - $10
Sega Dreamcast - $10
Spot goes to Hollywood (PS1) - $5
Monkey Magic (PS1) - Free
Worms Armageddon (DC) - $5
Sonic Adventure (DC) - $10 (Doesn't work)

>>648772
individually, not good deals, but all together, that is great.

went to the flea market today. only resellers, basically. one store had stacks of nes carts but i knew it was useless looking through them when the price for zelda II with a disheveled cover was $25.

no retro gold, but i did get FFXII brand new for $9

I feel extremely lucky today.

Picked up a BRAND NEW copy of freelancer for 3 dollars, Grandia (beautiful condition) for 30 bucks, a rare Atlus Ps2 game for 10 and Driver PC for 4.

Today was a good day.

Nothing to special just a few megadrive games complete in box

>>649350
Oh sweet deals, I've been looking for a copy of Tsugunai for a whille, congrats.

>>649883
I got my copy at Hastings a few years ago for four bucks. Never heard of the game, but saw the company logo so I picked it up.

Good game?

I bought Banjo Kazooie for £7 from the largest flea market in the area I live...which isn't much but still. It was quite sad really, the stall was the only one that sold old games in the entire place- Even still, they didn't sell much and my purchase wasn't exactly a steal.

God fucking damn it. You people make me envious. How come you come back with all these amazing stories and all I get is fucking this?

Ok, so my gf went out yard saling for me today, and shit. She hit the retro mother lode.

All of this for $10

>>651115

>>651115
Come on.

>>651126
Goldeneye, 1080, and Rush have no games, but boxes and manuals. So now I have a complete golden eye, and am looking for 1080 and sfrush.

>>651115
this came for me in the mail today as well. Paid $12 iirc

>>651137
it is complete

>>651115
MY TIME WILL COME
;_;
Going to hit thrift stores and some flea markets today.

>>652557
Good luck man.

£2.50 from a charity shop

>>652712
I feel like the charity shops near me would not know how to stock these and would throw them in with the toys because they're not disks.

>>652738
Anything that looks like a video game is immediately thrown into the glass cases in mine.

>>652738

They were just stacked together with CD's and VHS's.

>>652742
>>652746
You guys are lucky because I only see ps2 Fifa games, they should just burn millions of those games to save us time.

I did find Mario Kart Double Dash once, some GTAs and Bully, all £2. Never find anything really retro though.

>>652771
Not really. Anything in the glass cases are over priced, like eBay or more.

>>652784
Same at the D.I.s in Utah
I talked to the manager at my local DI once, and he said that they put all the "rare" games in the glass cases, and get prices off a quick ebay search.

When I asked what he meant by rare, he said "Marios, Zeldas, and stuff like that."

It is like DI is run by ebay sellers or something.

>>652942
I cringed. Did you say anything after that?

>>652956
I think I jsut said Oh ok, and I took my new copy of Skins Game and left.

I saw a Super Mario/Duck Hunt there for about $50 I think.

Also, depending on the location (DI is everywhur here) they price their Xboxes and PS3s between $25 and $60 its fucking hell.

But to their credit, the one in American Fork has a stack of $15 gamecubes every time I go.

They don't know their ass hole from their elbow as far as games are concerned, and you can get actual rare games (if they ever come in) for their generic cartridge price of $3

>>652965
*PS2s

>tfw haven't seen a retro video game in the wild in 2013

>>652965
Damn. I've only been to my Goodwills/Salvantion Army a few times. Absolutely no vidya except a few sports, all in glass cases. Don't even want to bother with that shit anymore.

Ok guys, someone is selling an Atari 800 with a disc drive and printer, along with a couple of other things I can't identify. He wants $50 for it, I don't think I can do that much but what would you say it's worth?

>>652994
That's honestly worth $60.

>>652978
>>652979
I don't know where you guys are from, but here in Utah we have a lot of very wealthy mormon hipster teenagers that reign chaos in the market.

A year or so ago, they just wrecked everything, and started buying up every retro game in town, no collectors could get anything anymore because these little shits used their parents' money to purchase everything good.

I also know of a growing market for butchering games here. People repurposing carts as wallets, and cellphone cases. Making consoles into lunchboxes and purses and shit. It is pretty popular here. So they buy up all these games and then they take the board out, throw it away, and use the plastic quite literally as an accessory.

Then there is the oil worker.
>(please pull out your maps of Utah now)
He is an aspie that works the oil fields out here, and he is notorious around the valley. He does 5 weeks on, 3 weeks off. On his 3 weeks off, he has a paid lackey that drives him from North Salt Lake
to St. George one day, and then from St. George back up to North Salt Lake the next. For three weeks straight this guy buys every game from every pawn shop, thrift store and yard sale EARLY in the morning. He pays his way to get into thrift stores before opening to buy every game.

I have only seen him once, he is a skinny, pale man with long balding hair. He will sit in a shop, look over every game regardless of system for about an hour, then he buys everything in the shop with his money from working the oil fields. He has no friends or family from what I hear, only games.

Essentially, here in Utah there is a massive dry spell for about 3 weeks every 5 weeks.

Sounds like an urban myth, but this guy is a fucking nightmare.

>>653012
After I posted I tried to look up eBay prices and couldn't find anyone selling them. I guess they're worth more than I thought. But the weird part is, he's had it on craigslist for months. He lives like an hour away, so if I can talk him to even $45 I'll get it.

Crash Bandicoot 3, complete
Metal Gear Solid, complete with Silent Hill demo

£1 each. Already own both, but good for reselling/trading.

>>653019
I live in NC. It's pretty much a wasteland here for old video games, we've got so many fucking resellers and collectors.

>>652994
>>653012
>>653020
They commonly go for $20-30 on eBay.

> Everyone complaining about resellers and collectors

I can't even pretend to understand. Here in the top end of the Welsh Valleys there's no interest in old games. I was in a pawn shop the other day, the guy told me he just had a bunch of PS1 games in, I looked through them and found the usual Spyros, Crash Bandicoots, MGS, and Resident Evils, plenty of games for 50 pence each, that sell for 5 - 20 on eBay.

I went back 6 days later, everyone of them were still there, aside from Spyro.

>>653049
Rescue those video games! You don't know how much it pains me to see video games rotting away, like at that Mexican reseller I was at yesterday. He had a wall stacked of old stuff I wanted, but it has probably sat there for years because his prices were so high. Or at flea markets where games are exposed to the rain and sun and become damaged because some fuck doesn't want to lower the price.

>>653049
Well in murrica, our teens have taken to retro gaming like a moth to a flame... Well, not retro gaming as much as retro accessories. They carry gameboys to pose with in pictures.

>>653049
Oh don't get me wrong if I collected PS1 i'd have close to a complete set by now, I always run into them for $1 a pop. Anything nintendo gets the mark up around these parts.

>>653124
It is because people are nostalgic for SNES and Genny right now.. Mostly SNES. In about 3-4 years, N64 and PS1 will inherit the earth.

>>653031
I guess it doesn't help that a Stadium Events CIB was found at a Goodwill over in Charlotte. Goldrush mentality nver goes away...

>>653196
That is a strange mind set to have about vidya. Its not like they are just naturally occurring.

Though I find video game traps to be a very interesting subject.

Go out to a remote city in the middle of nowhere, there are a few here in Utah, St. George is one. It is FULL of vidya because they get left behind, and it isn't connected to any major cities, so there are no games moving out. Games have stagnated there.

In one retro shop there, they have a whole aisle of 2600 carts, and separate aisles for n64 and SNES. A wall of in box games, and a whole big case of NES games.

Their prices are pretty ok, but I didn't buy much there.

Look for that in your area... Look for cities, or large towns that are about 100 miles out from the nearest big town or city. Vidya trap.

>>653227
I don't think there are any like that where I am. Urban sprawl conquered most of the middle of my state. I don't think there is much vidya in the mountains or in the outer banks either.

Called the Atari 800 guy, he didn't pick up ;_;

>>653268
I don't think it is much of a loss. As I said, they are worth about $30 so you know... Offer him $25. If he hangs up on you, no big loss. Go get a 5200 and enjoy it for the same price.

>those joysticks
They feel good dammit!

>>647306
In this case, some kid must have tried to beat Adventure Island.

Today I picked up for five bucks
-Taz Mania Genesis Cart Only
-NBA Jam Genesis Box no manual
-Pebble Beach Golf Links Cart Only
-Fantavision PS2 Complete

that was one yardsale's pick up, went to 9 more and a flea market and got nothing else... it was a bad day for me

>>652979
What it is 2013 son

Well, I went out yesterday to a few yard sales and church sales. Found absolutely no video games for the second straight week. I have no idea if someone milks the yard sales dry or just nobody has games period. I live in West Virginia so I don't know if that would make a big difference on anything or not. Always next weekend I guess.

Though I did find a CIB Nook for $15. That was a decent find I guess as far as electronics and stuff go.

Hopefully some of these are pretty fun.

>>654703
I go out at 7:30 and always find.. at least ONE thing. How early are you going out?

>>654743
the Horde looks pretty dope from the cover art

>>654739
Yesterday I was out at 6:30 and found nothing, sometimes it just doesn't happen no matter how early you go or how many you go to.

>>654760
I have a thing I like to do where I buy one Genesis controller every week yard saling. I have been able to keep it up for about 4 weeks now. So maybe it isn't much, but it's something lol.

Doesn't make much sense, but it helps me keep focused on something if I'm not finding anything good

>>654739
I went out around 10:00 AM. It was raining all morning and it had stopped around that time. So I figured people would get their stuff out later.

Next Friday/Saturday I'll going to leave before 8:00 so maybe then I'll be able to find something.

>>654743
Yeah, that's what made me get it. That and the "mouth-watering 3D texture-mapped characters" and "35 minutes of hilarious video" that the back cover promises. Also shows that GamePro gave the 3DO version a perfect score.

She's asking $120 for this, might make the jump if she can be talked down.

>>655439
Try to get it down to $100

>>659280
I offered $90 last night, never responded to me. I hate craigslist. I wonder if those particular Game and Watches were worth anything.

>>652712

Wow. Fantastic deal! I never see n64 games in my local charity shops, mostly megadrive/ps1 and tons of ps2 games.

Spider-Man (PS1), Sonic Adventure (DC) and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 (GC) arrived today. Paid £2.05, £3.30, and £3.29 for each - including postage, so not too bad I guess.

>>659307
fuckin craigslist

Thrift store near me has a Sega Saturn for $30 (comes with one controller). It's below FMV, but I feel so jewish.

>>659409
Don't feel bad, I probably wouldn't pick it up either.

Went to a "video game garage sale"
Large amount of games but so damn many doubles and all budget titles
Ended up getting Tetris, Excite Bike, StarTropics, and Graius for nes and Decap Attack for Genesis for $10 total. They also threw in a nes powerpad and one of their 20 broken genesis that they couldn't get rid of.

Pretty cool overall. The other guy there was buying vectorman and jet force gemini, good taste

Just got my Rocket: Robot on Wheels cart straight from the mysterious land of Canada.

It is bretty gud I guess.

Is gamecube allowed on this board? Or should I keep GC posts to /v/?

>>663992
I don't think it is, but I doubt anyone would mind. People (me included) have posted about PS2 from yard sales.

>>664003
Alright,
I picked up a Gamecube with Skies of Arcadia legends and Tales oh Symphonia for £8
Both games are about £50 each according to ebay and Amazon

>>664020
Nice. I wish I could find a GameCube in the wild that wasn't $35+.

>They pull out a smartphone to look up eBay prices

This has happened to me far too many times.

>>664020
Thats pretty good man. Arent the Skies of Arcadia games pretty hard to find?

>>664027
I got one for free the other day.

>>665374
>That feel when this has never happened to me.

>>665374
>tfw I pull out a smart phone and go to "sold items" and then slap them as they give me money to take things.

You guys checked out the magisterrex.com closing down sale? It's got some really nice prices for an online retro gaming site. They've even got a 1976 Unitrex Video Pro pong console for $15. You guys should check it out.

(and no I don't work for magisterrex or anything, I just thought it was kinda cool because where I am doesn't really have any retro gaming stores like a lot of you guys do, and the closing down sale ends in a couple of weeks).

>>652712
Which charity shop was that? I'm in the UK too and the charity shops here (Preston) just sell furniture and boring shit like that.

>>665374
>guy wants 80 for pocky and rocky
>pulls out smart phone
>shows me a mint condition complete in box listed at 120 that hasn't sold and has been relisted many times
>"see it's a good deal"
>show him how to properly use ebay and offer him 45
>"you're not scamming me out of 40 bucks kid (I'm 22), my boss is on the phone right now and says he wants 90"
>all the while there is a huge price tag on pocky and rocky showing he paid $4.99 for it, covering half the label

>>665616
>magisterrex.com
>tfw USA

Good god the shipping. I might as well not be getting any discounts at all.

Picked up a master system and (broken) nes today for $20 and he threw in these games. I don't know where he come upon renovation genesis games or why he included them with my master system, but im NOT complaining

never give up, /vr/. All disk only.
>Shining Force III
>Sonic Jam
>Panzer Dragoon
>Panzer Dragoon II
>Panzer Dragoon Saga (Discs 2, 3, and 4.)
>Burning Rangers

$30 total at a pawn shop. They had more saturn games that might have been rare but idk wasn't sure about all of them and didn't wanna just pull out my phone and look at which ones are rare. Very disappointed there was no PDS disk 1...

>>670443
Think of it this way: it'll be easier to get disc one on the cheap from somebody than the whole set.

>>637498
That's pretty clever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02FMUU_Jjok

>>647226
>SDCC
When and where?

Local retro store has a buy 2 get 1 free sale this month, so I scoured the discount bin (Xbox and PS2) for anything good. Found Splinter Cell, Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow, Dead to Rights, Fable, Hot Shots Fore (yeah I know, I like golf games) and Medal of Honor Frontline. They were all 99 cents, but with buy 2 get one free, my total was like $4.25 for all 6 games.

>>648492
Bretty gud

>>648772
>Saturn AND DC for $10 each
Christ, man. You scored

Okay, /vr/, I'm a little nervous. On impulse, I just bought a box with 30-odd dusty carts, a Colecovision and an expansion module from a flea market for $50 and I'm reaaally hoping I didn't just blow it on a bunch of useless, dead rust. Pictures of the damage to follow when I make it home. Stay tuned.

>>659482
>Decap Attack
You did good, Anon.

>>651115
>>651120
>>651126
marry her

>only one pawn shop in my town ever has retro games
>all 150% of ebay price
>the same SNES for £40 they've had for at least 2 years
Although yesterday the BHF charity shop had 2 PS1 consoles for £5 each and a bunch of games for a pound. I was going to get one today until I saw somebody had already snatched up Croc

>>665683
>magisterrex.com
ROFL, that shipping cost. Added about 5 items to my cart. Shipping cost is $45... lol.

>>651115
tfw no QT(3.14) GF 2 retro

QQ

I fucking envy you murrikans, here in my country collecting snes is "cool" now, and the games are fucking expensive, and there aren't too many genesis games to buy ;_;

I have a question it's only half /vr/ related.
I'm trading my CDI + amiga cd32 for the limited edition LoZ WW edition, complete in box...
Would this be a good trade, or should I be able to get more for it?

Do you think it's possible that Goodwill could have a deal with pawn shops to sell all their games there? I haven't found a game there in years, and I used to find them all the time.

Maybe one of the employees is snatching them up? Or they're putting all games on their online auction site?

>>670835
Platinum GameCubes are relatively common. What else is included in the package?

>>670847
Purple GC is more common here, never had a friend with a platinum one, I'm dutch by the way.
What else is included, uhm well, that complete box... with all its contents.
LoZ WW game, Platinum GC, Platinum controller... wires and yeah, the booklets...

>>670516
oh i just knew the names and that they were rare as fuck so I snatched em up. can't go wrong at $5 a pop. i dont really care for sega. hoping to get some good snes games for em.

Mostly goodwill / retro game store finds from last / 2 months ago: dmg gameboy with tetris for $5, friend gave me a white gba, grape gbc with faded label pokemon red and lion king, genesis model 2 for $3, light blue gba sp (backlit) with some discoloration for $30, front lit sp for $30, dreamcast for $10, origional xbox modded with xunleashed, gray ps1 with 4 controlers for $20, origional ps1 (with the jacks so you can use your own cables) for $20, fat ps2 for $20, platinum gamecube with gameboy player and disc, and controller for $15, a black gamecube for $6,

>>670921
dr maio for nes for $5 in box, super mario land 2 for $2, that's all I remember, it was a good past 2 months for me. I love living by 3 retro stores and 4 goodwills.

>>670921
Almost for got 6 button arcade stick for genesis for $10.

>>670840
Anyone running a pawn shop or secondhand store within 20 miles of a Goodwill is there every day before lunch snatching up the good stuff. Easy money.

>>670840
I actually work at Goodwill, we don't have any pawnshops around... Once got a NES + n64 with games in.
Co-worker told me they always threw away "those old pieces of junk"
My nostalgic heart was pierced by a knife for that split second ;_;

Ever since I've been taking stuff for free from Goodwill, what I've got so far;

CD-I with 2 controllers
NES with 9 games, 2 controllers
N64 with 6 games, 2 controllers
Gamecube, no controllers, 1 game
a bunch of PC games
FAT ps2
Slim ps2 with a bunch of ps2 games
GBA sp with about 15 games
2 supervisions, one has a broken screen though...

I still have an atari 2600 laying around and a NES complete inbox at Goodwill.

I also never get questions from customers about any old video games etc. I just get old folks giving there outdated consoles away from their children who are now like half their twenties maybe 30

>>670857
You can get all that for relatively cheap. How much is that box worth to you?

On vacation this week in Midway Utah, and I picked up Tony Hawk 1, 2, Frogger 2, and Dragon Quest VIII

>>672302
for $12

>>670989
Thats fucked up. All thrift stores in my area know that old games less like hot cakes. They over price.

I picked up Dark Saviour, Marvel Super Heroes and Bug Too! for my Saturn as well as Kings Field for my PS1 collection.

Not finding much /vr/ related stuff but i am see original xbox games everywhere

Hey guys, I'm really new to this kind of stuff, but I'm extremely interested in giving it a try. I live in Southern New Jersey, and I wanted to know, since you guys seem pretty knowledgeable, how to start out retro game hunting and all that?

Where do you find the yardsales? As in what websites and all that? Any general tips for someone just starting out?

hey, guys.

there's a guy on craigslist selling...

1. Tiger Heli (Near mint condition)
2. Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt (some marker on the cartridge (not the sticker), excellent condition otherwise)
3. Xenophobe (Near mint condition)
4. Time Lord (Near mint condition)
5. Dr. Mario (Near mint condition)
6. Dragon Warrior (Near mint condition)
7. Operation Wolf (Near mint condition)
8. Super Mario Bros/ Duck Hunt/ World Class Track Meet (Near mint condition)
9. Iron Tank (Near Mint condition)
10. Legacy of the Wizard (Near mint condition)
11. Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf w/ manual (Excellent condition)

for $35.

i already know it's a good deal, but are any of these games worth actually owning/playing?

i don't typically waste time with sub par games, so i assume a good chunk won't be worth it, but are there enough good ones in there to make it a worthwhile purchase?

>>675271
bump for knowledge!

My area is having a huge flea market event this weekend so I'm gonna be checking that out. I'm expecting any vidya to be overpriced, but I'll kick myself if I don't check it out.

>>674687

I go on plenty of walks, so I often see garage sale signs pop up in my area. Then I just follow them and see what there is. Usually it's just junk without a game in sight, but I have retrieved a few treasures

>>674687
Craigslist is a good place to find yard sales. I try to find a few that sounds like they might have video games or electronics and head to those. Most of the time along the way I'll find signs for other garage sales so I'll end up going to twice as many as I planned to.

Pawn shops can be hit or miss, but I've gotten lucky with some. They usually know to overprice the popular stuff like Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy, but sometimes they don't know what they have and under price it. This seems to happen more in my area with alternate versions of games or some obscure games.

Just got back from the swap meet.

I wanted to go on Sunday but I decided to sleep in instead. Went today with more money than I had on Sunday. Came back with all this for $42.

Yes, that is a GRAND COMBAT Dendy cart at the top left. One seller had a few bootlegs mixed into his stash.

(The labelless game is NBA Showdown)

>>675320
Cash converters in Dudley UK had Mario Kart 64 for £5, Fucking fainted right there and then.

>>675443
Nice grab. After I got the Atari 800, had a little bug scare when I spotted a bug and realized the old boxes had been in storage for a while. So I took the Atari 800, diskette reader, and printer out of their boxes and put those in the garage. Going to take Saturday off from yard sales and do a complete cleaning and poisoning of my room and along the outside of the house. Front now on I'll be preforming full cleanings in my garage of new items.

But it isn't all that bad. Trading my duplicate copy of Space Raiders for the Atari 800 for Sonic 2 + Jammit, both for the Genesis. When I go to ship it tomorrow I'm also going to hit Ed McKay's Used Books. Then next week is the convention.

>>675443
>shadowman
>oracle of ages
>MGS ghost babel

you did good

>>675443
>game in a ziplock
gully

After going through a 3 week dry spell, I went to a local Goodwill after my lunch.

I'm very happy with the PS1 lot I found.

>>675902
Hmph. All of the Goodwill stores in my REGION (I mean in a one hundred and forty mile radius from my house) all have employees who jack all of the interesting donations for personal sale on ebay and craigslist.

I really only buy games and such for possible gifts.

I bought this bundle of Super Famicom games last night while pretty stoned

1. Yu-Yu Hakusho 2 (Kakuto no sho).
2. Super Valice (Ataki Tsuki no Otome).
3. Ge-Ge-Ge no Kitaro (Fukkatsu! Tenma Daio)
4. Kishin Doshi-Zenki
5. Makeruna Makendo
6. Bishojo Senshi (Sailor Moon R 14)
7. Super Momotaro Dentetsu
8. Doraemon 2 (Nobita no Toys Land Daiboken)
9. Super Real Mahjong (Paradise All Star Yonin Uchi)
10. Jiko chushinha (Mahjong Oisen)
11. Bishojo Senshi (Sailor Moon)
12. Super Waganland
13. Shinseiki GPX (Cyber Formula)
14. Jaleco Rally Big Run: the Supreme 4WD Challenge
15. Space Invaders
16. Suzuka 8 Hours
17. Ski Paradise
18. Ranma 1/2
19. Human Gran Prix 3

I don't know why I done it cause I don't even own a Famicom...
It cost me £60.00 or £71.00 all in for P+P.

Have I got myself a good deal here? I feel like a bit of an idiot for paying so much for something I know nothing about. Is it worth buying a super famicom to check them out or should I try to sell them on?

>>676020
Also, the seller says all games come with boxes trays and instruction and describes the majority as being in great condition.

>>670443
So as a follow up:
Went back to the pawn shop today to look for disk 1 to Panzer Dragoon Saga. Found it in a case behind another Saturn disk. The dude at the counter remembered I bought the other disks yesterday and just gave it to me for free.
>mfw
Don't give up hope /vr/. Panzer Dragoon Saga for $5 is out there somewhere for everyone...

>>675965

It was dumb luck on my part, usually when there's any retro game at my Goodwill it's put in the glass cage and marked up stupidly high (ie: $10 for mario/duck hunt)

But when I was looking over dvds/cds today I saw that stockpile for $0.99/game and nearly shat myself.

So I went ahead and picked this up. I traded in a couple games I hadn't played in forever, ended up getting a lot more credit than I expected. Got this along with MH3U for 30 bucks out of pocket. They had two copies there, the other was 10 bucks more, but I couldn't see any discernible difference between the two. This cart is in pretty damn good condition.

>>675519
Raised my eyebrow when I noticed the price on them, MGS especially. Dude said he was practically giving his games away, and he was not lying.

>>675965
well shit, if you can't beat em....maybe I could apply to Goodwill....

picked up Tetris Attack today, cart only. $10. from local retro vidya store.

goddamn I forgot how much I love this game. best tenner I've ever spent

Posted this in another thread, but I got these from a friend of mine; most of it was just sitting in a big black garbage bag. The boxes on the left have games, the ones on the right do not.

>>677647
I'm pretty sure they only hire disabled people (unless you've got an inside contact) cause that's the whole point of the store. to put people who probably couldn't get any other job to work.

Guess what came in the mail today...

>>678247
This too. Oh god it is glorious.

>>678306
I'm pretty sure christian book stores still sell that

>>678315
It is wonderful. It is so wonderful. It is a terrorist training program for young christian teens. It is about shooting heathens and planting bombs as part of God's plan. It is so fucking awful I love it.

Anyone here try Freecycle? Just got denied from the county right next to me. My county doesn't have one, but the town I'm in does and it only has like 5 posts a year in it. Just going to a wait a few days and try again with a different account. Really pisses me off though.

>>678337

Added to my amazon wishlist. Thanks!

>>678306
Nice, I have a copy of that one too. Wisdom Tree shit is weird.

>>676157
>>670989
This is exactly why I don't go to goodwill. I envy you lucky bros, but either
A)Employees take the rare shit
B)Some bastard gets super lucky long before you do
C)You're relying on idiocy or ignorance (Gee I have a shitload of ps1 games, lol GOODWILL)
Its pure timing, I mean shit
>FFVII/RE2 black label
That alone I paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $60 for both, I doubt you paid as much for the ENTIRE pile. Its pure luck. I envy you bros though.

>>678353
Huh. Thats neat, but alas, no vidya groups in utah.

Bought all this at various garage sales today for $30 (except the gamecube and 64 which I already owned).

>NES
>6 NES controller
>Gun for duck hunt
>Duck Hunt/Mario bros
>Pyramid with box and instruction manual
>GBA with 5 games (Defender, Iridion, Dark arena, namco museum, and Gear GT)
>Pokemon yellow
>Link cable for GBA and other accessories
> 2 playstation controller
>Memory card for playstation

This was my first time out scouring garage sales for this stuff. I paid $3 for the NES stuff and $20 for the GBA and games. I paid a dollar for the pokemon yellow cart and six for the two controllers and memory card.

I felt like I was ripping the lady off paying only a dollar for pokemon yellow but she went on and on how here son obsessed over that game and was glad she could get rid off the stupid thing fine by me bitch

>Went to Flea Market Two Weeks Ago
>Nothing older than PS2 era
>Went to Local Retro Shop
>Worse prices on retro games than Ebay

Whelp... going to garage/rummage sales on Saturday. I hope it isn't as fucking awful.

>go to garage sales today
>GUITAR HERO GUITAR HERO GUITAR HERO
>Founda GC for $10 with a MadCatz controller, no AV cord

Tomorrow... Tomorrow..

>>664027
>gamecube above 30 bucks
>ever

>>678778
>$10 GC
if it had power at least, you shoulda snagged that shit

i'd be lucky to find even the console alone with no cables for under $20

>>675902

Sweet Jesus

This has given me motivation to check thrift shops again.

>>675902

Was the Starcraft code usable?

>>678784
>gamecube above $10
it's an amazing system but it aint worth shit

>>678565
>she went on and on how here son obsessed over that game and was glad she could get rid off the stupid thing
>mfw my parents tried to do the same thing to me for the same reason with Yellow, Gold and Mario DX
I stole the games back from the yardsale in time but I was too late and I saw some kid walking away with my GBC ;_;

>>678365

I ended paying $20 for the batch. I had a coupon and I bought some books as well.

I've gotten lucky at my Goodwill every month or so (CIB NES, Gameboy for $30/15 respectively) but this was probably the biggest clutch I've had so far. I honestly feel like I have some of the stupidest luck when it comes to going to Goodwill. I've gotten acquainted with one of the employees there and he's very surprised at how much retro vidya I've collected compared to him.

>>678879

I was able to activate the code on my Battle.net code.

>>678365

I ended paying $20 for the batch. I had a coupon and I bought some books as well.

I've gotten lucky at my Goodwill every month or so (CIB NES, Gameboy for $30/15 respectively) but this was probably the biggest clutch I've had so far. I have some of the stupidest luck when it comes to going to Goodwill. I've gotten acquainted with one of the employees there and he's very surprised at how much retro vidya I've collected compared to him.

>>678879

I was able to activate the code on my Battle.net account

Meh, the Goodwills near me have nothing but hot garbage. I'm guessing there's already a steady stream of collectors and resellers checking them out on a regular basis that can get to them easier than me.

I haven't been to the one in Long Beach since Sandy, though.

>>678940

Usually when I go to a Goodwill I see 3-4 people scurrying everything with their barcode scanner phones.

It makes me sad.

>>678956
I might go to one tomorrow that's close to the beach. It's in a.. less than desirable area. Which means it could be potentially great.

I bought a Panasonic 3DO at Value Village for $7 once, with no controllers and Twisted the Game Show inside the disc tray. This was pretty much the only time I've ever gotten "lucky" at a thrift store though...

>>679094
got mine for $10 at goodwill without the controller. then i found out the controller was going for $30 on ebay.

>>679094
Thats pretty good. I am about to go out to the yard sales. No vidya advertised this week, but we will see. I have always wanted to find an obscure system like the 3DO or CDI

16€ today

5$ at a Goodwill. They just stocked them.

Metroid was 2 bucks, Final Fantasy was .50, and 2.50 for LttP.

>>678247
God dammit man you're making me want to buy this again. I sold mine off ebay when I needed money and I am saving up for games like Animal Crossing. ANIMAL CROSSING!

>>680871
Wait you can buy shit at Goodwill?

>>680871

God damn I jelly

>>678904
oh my fucking god that's devastating. and no i'm not joking, i would absolutely hate that.

Finally found a good sale today, /vr/.

Got all this for $20. The Game Gear case was $15 and GB case was $5, so I asked the guy if he would throw in the Zeppelin poster ($2), which he did. Then I brought him the other stuff for $2, which he bagged up but forgot to ask me for money. I didn't think "hey, I didn't give him that $2" until I had already left.

The Stella chalices are bigger than the free engraved ones that 4chan gave me last year. Now I have five! I also grabbed an S-video cable.

This is what you guys really want to see though...

You didn't think I would just buy cases, did you?

This sale also had a big plastic Game Boy case, similar to the GG one, with a bunch of stuff inside including a gray GB, for $15, that an older man had bought just as I was arriving.

>>680997
Rarely. Most of the Gen 5 and earlier stuff goes straight to Goodwill's auction site (shopgoodwill).

>>681185
SHIT. Thought my Trinitron had an S-video port.

>>681214
Seeing all of these recent GB Pocket finds makes me want one. They're a lot more stylish looking than I remember.

>>681185

>led zeppelin

you dun goofed

Sega genesis model 1 (Model# 1601) "High definition graphics" NBA Jam, mtv's beavis and butt-head and maximum carnage for $35, how did I do? I'm now debating on if I should keep my model 2 or sell it.

>>681392

You were mildly jewed, that shits worth $20 really but in this day and age what option do you have

>>681368
Found one at a retro store, didn't get it because I get paid the next day, it was gone. :(
Not retro, but if I find a Glacier blue gba, I will be happy. Damn the guy who stole it.

>>681404
I thought is was ok, at least I didn't buy the model 2 for $30 at a retro store. That's full on jew.

>>681412
Same store had another model 2 with sega cd for $120. I will most likely never find a sega cd for a decent price.

God damnit. I've been out yard selling for the past 3-4 weeks and I haven't found a single thing. What gives? I just want to find some video games. Even after asking people it just seems like nobody has anything in general.

It is kinda early in the year, so maybe withing the next few months I'll be able to find some good stuff.

>>681698

Yard sales always pick up the weekend after mother's day. I'm actually goint to be a bit overwhelmed, there are two towns near me having town-wide yard sales tomorrow.

>>681392
Damn. I got Beavis and Butthead and NBA Jam CiB two weeks ago for a dollar each.

I just picked up a GBA ($3, translucent) and a N64 ($25, no Exp. Pak) from Goodwill. But I also bought a bunch of non-/vr/ stuff too and got some discounts, so I only really paid for the N64.

Did I do good, /vr/?

>>681817
good deal as long as you got the cables

THink I did pretty well here....got this two days ago off Craigslist.

>>681962
fiddy dola

>>681953
Yep. Came with power and RF. The bitch is finding an Expansion Pak. Fuckers are $25 on eJew.

Where the fuck is that buy/sell/trade thread when you need it?

>>681962
$75

>>682008
Good guess.

It was a great day for me.

First haul for the day right here. Paid $20.
About to go out again to a BSA fund raiser. Gonna buy dem boys' Gaemboz.

>>682137
Nice haul. I really want to go out tomorrow but that 32x/Nomad guy is going to get back to me soon, I'm running out of money ;-;

>>682137
tfw there are literally no flea markets or the like in my area this weekend

>>682167
That is when you make the choice. Do you resell, or do you succumb to hoarding.

>>682210
I can't stand my local resellers. I don't mind trading but I would never go around for the purpose of reselling.

>>682254
Yeah. There is a plaid pants devil that resells in my area. I mean, I am a reseller, and I am probably just as bad, but I am a collector first. He doesn't seem the type. He just goes to yard sales, asks for video games and buys every item at the sale without question. I saw him carrying a huge tub of PS1 stuff from the first sale I went to today. Made me very upset. But I don't know if I am the same way or not.

I can't judge. I keep everything I don't have already, but I do sell an awful lot of the common games and systems. We are all monsters in somebody's eyes.

>>681698
Check Craigslist and your local paper's classifieds. On Craigslist, search things like "*your city name*," "video games," "nintendo," "atari," etc.

>>654773
One day, you shall have the entire world supply of genesis controllers, and you will rule with them. YOU WILL RULE!

>>682281

All resellers are trash in my eyes. I don't know why they have to lie and shit. I had some old Game Boys that I frankly didn't care much for anymore since they were admittedly in poor condition so I put them up on a local listings site for very cheap ($10 for a GB, GBP and GBC). I got a million replies, I answered all of them but people took anywhere from days to a week to respond. One guy mails me, he says "he wants to buy this for his kids so they have something to play with since they're sorta poor and the price is right". His email is "greatestgaragesaleintheworld" or something like that, so obviously he's a fucking lying reseller.

He asked me if it comes with any games, I said no, he asked if I could part with any cause his kids need something to play, so I say $40 for Pokemon Blue if he wants it, knowing full well he's a reseller (I didn't want to sell that game anyway). His response is "I can only get maybe $15 for it, 20 at most so I can give you like $10 for it otherwise it's not worth it for me to buy from you". I asked him "I thought this was for your kids" and his answer was "Well I meant that I can get it for $20 so I don't want to pay $40 for it, my kids are poor come on man" I promptly stopped responding to him and found a nice guy who actually wanted to play those things for himself or take them apart, whatever.

Like I really fucking hate resellers. Everything has got to be a straight up lie with them. This has happened several times with different ones. I don't sell to them anymore after the fucking hoops they try to make you jump through so you can give them good shit for next to nothing

>>675271
I'd go for it and save ones you don't like for trades and shit.

>>681375
Woah there.

Has anyone picked up vidya from an Edward McKay's Used Books?

>>682387
One bad experience doesn't make us all scumbags, holmes.

>>682634
Yeah man. I use a local one all the time and they always take the Amazon price and half it. I bought Silent Hill 1 original case for 9 bucks. And they had a bundle of Minish Cap and the official strategy guide with the poster for 12.

>>682776
Ok, will go tomorrow or sunday then.

>>682387
I don't lie about anything. I give my offer, and if you don't take it, well, that's your business. I full on tell people I am a collector and a refurbisher/reseller. They don't care.

>>682659

I said several times, learn to read. Also, I've seen you lying on the BST thread. If I recall correctly, you're the guy who was advertising his ebay auctions but said he wasn't

>>683150
This is exactly why I don't advertise shit to 4Chan.

>tfw on your craiglist there's about 2000 WTB OLD VIDEO GAMES, HARDCORE COLLECTOR CASH IN HAND PAID TODAY MONEY FOR UNWATED GAMES I PAY BEST PRICE then there's a guy selling Overpriced games that he has had since 2011 and not a single one has left his ad.

>>683430
yeah pretty much

just search shit like 'nintendo' in the bar on the left, cause the dumb people who don't know what they have often list it under electronics or kids toys and games.

>>683436
(if you're looking for shit on craigslist)

>>683430
In the Utah craigs list it is just 500 posts of I MOD ECKSBOCKS TO PLAY ALL THE CLASSICS I MOD WEES TOO

Went to a huge community sale, too bad it was a bunch of old pensioners. Then I went to a few yard sales, only video game sighting was some PS2 and Wii games. The guy wanted $18 for Okami for Wii and two PS2 games, I passed. Absolutely nothing ;_;

Neighborhood yard sale didn't have practically anything. Did find a PSOne with a few games and two controllers for $10, though. Disc tray is fairly sticky but that can be fixed.

Oh, and whoever said these models can output component was either misinformed or lying. I get the same garbled mess of a screen I do with the original PSX. How disappointing.

i found all this for 20 bucks. not sure if it was a good deal or not though, not on the up and up with atari stuff.
he also said he had an intellivision 2 and a voice synthesis module, an nes and a bunch of games, etc etc. i'm gonna pay him a visit during the week and get what i can.

>>686442
Pretty good. It is a revised atari, but still, $20 is pretty damn good.

>go to yard sale, takes less time to get there than I thought
>there at 7:25, starts at 8
>Be a normal polite person and wait in my car and don't bug them until they're ready at 8
>7:50 some fag drives up, gets out, buys all their old nintendo games ($100 worth, apparently) and drives off
Yeah I was fucking mad. dickbag. That's what I get for being a polite, caring person I guess.

>>686905
Reminds me of a few weeks ago

>craigslist post says tons of vidya
>the phrase NO EARLY BIRDS repeated about 10 times
>get there 10 minutes early and see people walking off with video games

>>686929
I mean I would've been outbid cause I only brought $40 and he still was there before 8, but god forbid EarthBound was in there or something... it's just the principle really. I would have liked to know what was there.

Figured I'd post it here since I don't see a battle station thread. I just picked the bottom one up today for 10 dollars at a yard sale. Much better than what I had before as you can see. Don't mind all the weird lines you see, that's something only the camera seems to pick up.

Went to a few garage sales. One of them I pretty much hit the jackpot
>No vidya on the yard
>Ask guy if he has any old vidya
>Says yeah sure, goes to car brings out a big tub and a bag
>Pick out Viewtiful Joe, LoZ OoT, MM, and Golden Eye, ask if $12 is okay
>Says I can take all of it for $15
So that's
>Gamecube, all wires, one fucked up controller that I can probably fix up
>Nintendo 64, all wires, one controller in great condition, and expansion pak
>Viewtiful Joe, Luigi's Mansion, Crazy Taxi, Tom Clancy something, Sonic Adventure 2
>Donkey Kong 64, Banjo Kazooie, Tooie, Goldeneye, Majora's Mask, Ocarina of Time, a couple other irrelevant sports games
>Some chinese bootleg "2000 game in one!" console with a bunch of NES games in it.

Another one I went to had a NES and a stack of good games for $20
>NES, all wires, 2 controllers, red blinking light/pin connector issue, easily fixable
>Kid Icarus, Super Mario Bros 1 - 3, some other obscure Nintendo titles, Elevator Adventure(?), California games
Also picked up a CRT for free but it doesn't work.

>>686905
Hard lesson learned. People are fucking vultures. Learn to not give a fuck and go early because someone will beat you to them.

>$100 worth
He probably overpaid.

>>687062
I did get really excited though, since I was actually looking for Donkey Kong and Viewtiful Joe in particular. Everyone's inner jew comes out when it comes to Donkey Kong 64 and the expansion pack. Could never find them as a bundle for less than $50, and buying them seperate was even more expensive.

>>686905
That's... Pretty stupid on your part. Why wait? I'm sure the guy was eager to get money for shit he wanted to throw out.

>>686996
Do CRTs really work better than normal ones for N64?

>>687062
>>Some chinese bootleg "2000 game in one!" console with a bunch of NES games in it.
Oh and to humor you guys, it actually says "SUPER VIDEO GAME" on the console and looks like a fucking PS1 for some reason.

>>686905
Did you really camp out for some random sale? Or did he put out an ad that said he had video games?

>>687083

I doubt it. I just have 2 "stations" and figured I'd put the 64 over with the SNES. Pic related is my 2 stations. It's more out of laziness and wanting to avoid tangled mess of wires. I think it also just looks cool to have multiple televisions in my cave.

Also I have a question. For some reason there is a small black "dip" where it's supposed to be pciture but it gets warped down or something. It doesn't look bad, but the peculiar thing is it only happens on SSB. Harvest Moon doesn't do it, neither does Paper Mario, and a few other games. Anyone heard of something like this?

It's funny because the TV I picked up today is clearly larger than my "main" television now.

>>687108
well i was only there so early cause I thought it would take me longer to get there. didn't want to be rude so I waited for 8 o clock. 'old Nintendo systems and games!' was in the ad.
that guy who took them all was the only other person there by 8.

>>686442
just counted up the games i got, 94 unique titles and about 8 dupes.

Got all this stuff for my Famicom, they just came in the mail today.

I need more stuff, I've been eyeing a japanese copy of Clash at Demonhead and a few other games.

>>686929
>>686905
By no early birds, they mean don't come the day before the sale and demand to get in their house. 15-20 minutes early isnt early. Hell, I was 4 hours early to a sale yesterday, and I cleaned house. Got an N64 with expansion and 6 games, 5 controllers and a rumble pack for $20

>>687221
what n64 games? remember to visit BST

>>687242
They were all games I didn't have yet.
Kirby 64
Duke Nukem Zero Hour
Diddy Kong Racing
SuMari 64
Extreme G
and a few others

Didn't find that many /vr/-related games today, but I managed to find Super Smash Bros. for 50 cents and Contra: The Alien Wars (GB) for $1.

The same yard sale that had Contra also had Golden Sun, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, ALttP with Four Swords, Sword of Mana, and Tetris Worlds (complete with boxes and manuals), as well as Fire Emblem and Gunstar Super Heroes (cart only), all for $1 each. The loose cartridges were all in this case, but I'm not sure what it was originally used for (it has the Nintendo logo stamped on it, that's all I know about it). They also threw in a couple GBA magnifying glasses and input adapter for free.

Dont got any pics yet, but tommorow i am gonna pick up a nice CiB copy of Ufouria on NES.
Have i done well?

This was last week at a retro gaming con so i don't really remember the amount but it was definitely under 60 dollars.

Actually this is shit. Why am i posting it?

No pics yet, but I just picked up Mega Man 3 for $2 today. Thought it was a pretty good deal...Until I noticed it's missing 3 connectors on the cart. Don't have access to my NES right now, but I'm guessing I'm fucked?

>>687665
it should still work but youll have a difficult time getting it to start up

>>687690
Is it really possible? Will my 72-pin connector in the NES have to be sparkling clean for it to start up? I'm very curious if I can get it working at all.

>>687662

I-is... Is that Haunting Ground cellophane sealed, or is that just the lighting?

>>687662
What SFC game is that one under Torneko?

My first "good" retro pick up in the past few weeks. Got it all for $3 at a thrift store.

>>687710
Yes, it's sealed. They had like 4 sealed copies but i only got one. Maybe i'm stupid.

>>687726
That's not a SFC game. It's Another World for SNES.

>>687784
Oh, it PAL then, I guess? The shape is a bit different.

>>687784

I would've gotten all 4 if I were you. Especially Haunting Ground.
Wonderful, wonderful Haunting Ground...

>>687221
>4 hours early
I would have shot you

>see all the great retro vidya buys people make on /vr/ at flea markets
>hoping for some good dealz or, at the very least, some new games for my collection
>go to flea market expecting a goldmine of vidya
>only found 4 fucking shitty sports games for the N64 and two worn-ass controllers

Feels bad, man.

>>687912
That's more vidya than I find sometimes.

>>687813

>that code to make her boobs bigger than her head. Oh Fiona, you're too hot to be in such a mediocre game

>>687912
Don't give up. You almost never find anything good on your first run.
Also you shoulda bought the sports games. They're probably cheap and will offer, at the very least, some spare parts.

>>687562

That's the case that Nintendo ships back repaired Game Boys in, I think. I got one in a trade and it had the shipping information still on the package; came directly from Nintendo repair parts center

>>687734
Nigga shut your mouth. Good job!

>>687932
It just so happens that there's a vendor there who has a game store...and apparently it's closed because he's ill. Just my luck. I'm not sure if it sells retro games, though, and I'm sure that, given the fact that he's a dedicated vendor, he probably knows what they're worth. Also, yeah, I honestly should have bought the stuff, but I kept walking expecting to find a goldmine. I don't even have an N64 yet , but you're right, the controllers probably would have worked well with a thorough cleaning and I should have bought the stuff anyway. I'm sure the guy would have only wanted like 2 bucks for everything.

>>687912
You gotta get a rhythm going. To know what to look for and when to get there, you gotta go and keep trying new things. Go early one morning, as early as you can, and see who is taking all the games.

>>687978

I did this once, turns out some neckbeard was getting up real early and buying EVERYTHING vidya related at the bazaar. I swear he must sleep there.

>>687989
Same with me. It was a handsome as fuck teen with plaid short shorts. Looks like Zac Effron jesus christ.

Anywhom, I got wise and started going earlier than him.

Hey guys, how was your day?

>>688029
Oh what do you know, we were just talking about resellers sniping all the yard sales.

>>688029

We'll find out later when you're selling all that shit in the BST thread for lodes eh moneh

>>688069
>>688075
I'm actually keeping 98% of it. The only things I picked up for the BST was the Pokémon games. Also, I got these games at around 2 PM, so there was ample opportunity for someone else to find and scoop it up.

>>688029
the real question is, how much did you pay.
sure you got good games, but if you didn't get it under 10 bucks, go fuck off.

>>688089

Whatever helps you sleep at night

>>688124
Got most of it at 2 dollars each; while others were 3. I also picked up a platinum SP and white Game Boy Advance that are not pictured, as well as a complete copy of Turrican for the Genesis. At the end of the day I spent close to 110 dollars.

>>687978
Yeah, that was probably my greatest mistake...I went like, two hours before closing. Everything good was probably already scooped up.

Also, fuck, I really should have bought those controllers. They would have worked great cleaned up.

Mainly just saw the same shovelware ps2 titles but i did pick up kirby's pinball land

Hey, picked up a few NES carts with names written right on the labels, any way to get rid of those reliably without damaging the label?

Overall it was $35

>>688415
On the label? Try rubbing alcohol, NES labels tend to be pretty sturdy even in the presence of chemicals.Try first on a game that's not too valuable before you move on.

>>688434
Fuckin' nice,

>>688029
What are those SNES games and why are the CV 64 games so common when they're so shit?

Man. Nobody ever sells any games around here.. they just donate them to the salvation army and be done with it..

No garage sales or flea markets..

>>688451
SNES games are Knights of the Round, Final Fight 2 and 3, the 7th Saga, and Breath of Fire. Also, the second Castlevania game for the 64 is actually on the uncommon side.

>>688434
Holy fucking shit.

Got pic related for 10 at a local game store. The guy doesn't get many boxes games so he gave the price for just cartridge (even has the styrofoam block in it)

Also got a dreamcast with 2'controllers and 10 games for 20$ from a Craigslist ad. Probably gonna throw all the games except street fighter on bst later

>>688459
>>688438
Yeah, the guy was actually getting desperate to get rid of his old video games (this is the guy where I got the N64 and GC + games). Picked out a few games, asked if $12 was okay, then told me to take all of it for $15.
The NES and the stack of games was $20. NES doesn't work properly though, has the pin connector issue with the blinking red light, so I have to fix that.

>>688434
http://banjothreeie.com

>>670835
Big Zelda fan? If so get play enjoy. Wanting for the sake of saying you own it? Not the best piece to grab.

Cross posting
>wake up 8 AM
>eat a huge ass omlette and coffee
>leave house with my wallet
>ride bike around neighborhood, no signs
>suddenly see this one spammed 4 times
>yes
>Roll in
>2 houses having one
>ask the 1st lady if she has any playstation, nintendo or sega game
>no srry :(
>Go into 2nd looking by myself
>Some arab and a neckbeard are in the garage
>They are selling music equipment, a CRT, and an xbox
>buy xbox for 25
>Go out on my journey, lugging huge ass xbox with all the cables and 2 controllers that arent S
>See another sign
>Nice spanish lady
>Eying a GBA, GBC, and a Pokemon board game
>lady offers it for 5
>buy it
>She smiles saying come again next time
>probably will
>I'm lugging so much shit now
>See last tag sale
>Its an old man
>he says hey you looken for nintendo shit?
>Yeah man
>i dont know what the hell this shit is, but you can buy it for 1
>its a big black NES carrying case with a power adapter, RF adapter, and cleaning kit
>Buy it
>I'm now lugging a garbage bag of this, xbox, GBC, GBA, and pokemon board game
>I cant even ride my bike home
>end up walking
>see another tag sale
>lady selling a ton of shit
>eye immediately catches NEO GEO AES
>Ask her how mutch
>Well my fucking husband is CHEATING ON ME! I'm selling all of his shit, you can have this for 50!
>tell her its worth probably 1000 dollars, with this many games
>she laughs her ass of
>I'll tell him that
>pay
>end up lugging this shit
>arrive at 1:00
>almost pass out
>now have bad headache
Was totally fucking worth it. Playing JSR:F now on the xbox.

Also does anyone know what value this NES black box has?

>>688529
Is it the box with the cover you can put on the top that holds, like, 8 or 10 games in specific slots? I can't imagine those going for much, I see them all the time.

>>688434
I fucking hate this shit so much. You have no idea how much i envy this shit. Fucking hate this small town i live in with pawn shops that have nothing good and overpriced shit.

>tfw you are about to go into the military, and you can't spend money on games because you're about to move everything into storage.

Ok,today I got my biggest haul of the year, though not the cheapest. Ever wonder what 50 lbs of video games looks like?

Its this.

$140

>>688529

Cool stuff man, The sign spamming reminded me of something else that happened to me.

This guy posted signs on every single telephone pole, one even had an S pattern to denote you had to make a few bends to get there.

I finally get there and he literally has 6 pairs of shoes, 5 records, and a table of Christmas stuff. It wasn't that he got cleared out either, I went early, it's just that all he had was absolute junk.