Yard Sales, Garage Sales, Flea Markets, Craigslist/Kijiji whatever the fuck you found

[Anonymous No.827784]

It's the weekend and that means scroungin'

>what did you find?
>what did you buy?
>can you top pic related?

holy fuck this game is basically disneys mega man, so much fun!

[Anonymous No.827791]

but i thought darkwing duck was disney's megaman.

[Anonymous No.828432]

>>827784
I got this at a swap meet for $80

[Anonymous No.828439]

>>828432
0/10
nice try

[Anonymous No.828445]

>>828439
>nice try
not even kidding, it needed a little work but we agreed on $80 and he even drove it to my house for lunch.

[Anonymous No.828453]

>>828432
>>828445
>Different amount of wear between the two sticks where the black stripe is

Nigga is you even trying?

[Anonymous No.828459]

Flea market finds...
Boxed Genesis MK2 with booklet, $2.
Loose copy of Turok 2, $1
Dreamcast with two controllers, one mem card, and five games (minus graphics cable), $10.
Def Jam Rapstar, $6 (C.R.E.A.M., get the money)

Thrift store finds...
Perfect Dark, Resident Evil 2 (N64), Turok (w/ plastic case and booklet) and WWF No Mercy, $20.

Already had Turok 1 and Perfect Dark, but these are in better shape, so the others are now for trades. I need to snag Banjo Kazooie.

[Anonymous No.828467]

>>828453
>Nigga is you even trying?
you know what, have fun scrounging for shit games on someone elses lawn faggot.

[Anonymous No.828480]

>>828467
>have fun scrounging for shit games on someone elses lawn faggot.
>>>/v/

[Anonymous No.828503]

>>827784
the coolest thing i ever found at a yard sale was a boxed colecovision with about 20 games. but that was years ago. don't do too much yard sale hunting anymore.

[Anonymous No.828525]

I found two copies of digimon world. I found the first at a dav and it was half price day so I only paid $1.74 for it. Not 15 minutes later I found another copy at a yard sale for $1. I took one copy to a resell store and they offered me $25.i took it then used the credit to buy the last of us for a whopping $38 brand new.

[Saran !ZCaj98Nk5I No.828531]

I picked up an NES Top loader (hold your applause, it's RF out ;_;) with a bundle of games (Shitty sports, and Mario trilogy, TMNT, Ducktales and Contra) all for $100

[Anonymous No.828538]

My acquisitions for the day:
Pokemon Stadium 2
Blast Corps
Wipeout 64

And non retro...
House of the Dead Overkill
Resident Evil Darkside Chronicles
Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles
Zack and Wiki

[Anonymous No.828552]

>>828531
>all for $100
I have no applause to hold
you might as well have gone on ebay

[Anonymous No.828554]

>>828467
so are you just some kind of jerk? why are you all hostile about your arcade we've already seen before in other threads?

[Saran !ZCaj98Nk5I No.828556]

>>828552
I thought the top loaders ran about 60-70 by themselves. 8 sports game and the rest mentioned made me feel like it was fair. But who knows, I guess it wasn't a deal unless I scored it for 20 dollars.

[Anonymous No.828557]

I got a cheap SNES, but there is no power cord. When I used my other SNES' power cord on it, for some reason it dispalys only in black and white. I tried to clean the oxidization off of the RF port but it doesn't seem to be working. Any clues?

[Anonymous No.828561]

>>828554
becuase he's probably one of those people that think that /v/ and /vr/ "have the same culture"
I've been seeing this being insisted a lot recently

[Anonymous No.828564]

>>828557
Mine did the same, I thought it might have been from using an N64 video cable.

[Anonymous No.828565]

>>828556
I dunno, for some reason I thought they went for cheaper than that, I might just be being an idiot...

[Saran !ZCaj98Nk5I No.828570]

>>828565
The RF Outputs ones are less than the AV Outs. I can't even find one of those that aren't pricey as sin.

Also, it's yellow as fuck. Time for Retr0bright?

[Anonymous No.828571]

Price: Free

Friend was cleaning out his room before he moved to campus and found it, gave it to me knowing I like video games. The analog stick on the controller is shot, but everything else works. I hear repairing them is relatively simple and cheap? Anyway, I'm really fucking happy. There's no A/V cords but that's no issue.

[Anonymous No.828573]

>>828557
system is the same region as your TV right?

[Saran !ZCaj98Nk5I No.828575]

>>828571
Cyan looks so aesthetically pleasing to the eyes. I hope you don't sell it, has value if a friend gifted it to you.

[Anonymous No.828579]

>>828575
Na, I don't plan on it. I don't own an N64 anymore so I wanted one regardless. The fact it's worth a decent bit is just icing on the cake; it's also my favorite N64 color. I just don't like mismatching controllers so I wanted to repair the analog.

[Anonymous No.828587]

>>828573

Yes, same region. When I look online it said oxidization can cause it to only display in black and white, but I've cleaned it to the best of my ability with no improvement.

[Anonymous No.828591]

>>828571
>>828579

He also gave me one of these. It's one of those knockoff N64 controllers you'd find plug in to the TV. The analog stick is broken, but I just thought it was kind of funny.

[Anonymous No.828596]

>>828591
it is funny.

[Anonymous No.828605]

>>828591
I had one of those.
analog stick is just piece of plastic, its just there for some reason.

[Anonymous No.828612]

I bought Transformers Beast Wars Transmetals loose at Big Kids for under $10. BK is going out of business at the end of this month and everything minus new games and 'non trade' games are 25% off. Sucks because they're the only retro shop near where I live, but then again, they're charging $10 for SMB/Duck Hunt. Some good, some bad.

[Screwy !BDcKesnEik No.828746]

Diablo 2
I went to a garage sale where I asked about a Diablo 1 manual + guide. The woman said she didn't have the game.
I was looking around, and saw Diablo II under a bunch of music CDs.
I decided to point this out in case she was looking for it. She said "Oh, ok. You can have that and the books all for $2"
And that's how you turn a shit day into an amazing one.
The CD key worked

[Anonymous No.828781]

$35 at a flea market.

[Anonymous No.828789]

Bought Shining Wisdom and Blast Wind for my Saturn collection, and I have Galactic Attack lined up to get relativley soon.

[Anonymous No.828792]

>>828781
Just noticed my pic is kinda blurry, the top row of games is Perfect Dark, Goldeneye, Wave Race 64, Mortal Kombat 4, and Mortal Kombat Mythologies Sub Zero. The rest are mostly WWF games, Toy Story 2, and some others that I got for free with the system that I will probably sell.

[Anonymous No.828795]

NES - Shadowgate, Goonies II, Startropics, TMNT2

SNES - Sim City, F-Zero

GB - Final Fantasy Legends III

and a GBA-SP black w/ AC adapter.

all games except FFL3 were $5 a pop. The GBA SP was $35 and I shamefully admit I paid $25 for FFL3.

I really wanted it but I didn't think to play it through to try and save. Sadly when I got home I found out the save battery was dead so I gotta replace that now.

All in all I'm happy with what I found and the prices were reasonable given what I've seen around town (that and driving 2+hrs to get them).

[Anonymous No.829074]

Got rained out this week
non retro been picking up ds/3ds games cheap though

[Anonymous No.829109]

Finally found this baby after quite a few years of searching. The price was $45 at a used game shop, and that seemed fair to me.

Gawd I'm just so satisfied that I finally found it.

[Anonymous No.829115]

>>829074
I love picking up DS games cheap off Amazon, any good finds lately?

[Anonymous No.829131]

>>829115
Pretty good

[Anonymous No.829134]

>>829131
What's the bottom game? There's a glare and a sticker.

[Anonymous No.829139]

>>829134
lost magic

[Anonymous No.829186]

>>829131
59.90$ for animal crossing?!
Yous must live in Australia.

[Gray Blob !1fuckupmdM No.829189]

It's been a slow week. The swapmeets were almost completely devoid of games.

All I got this week was an SCPH-1001 (with power, no video/controllers) and two copies of MGS, both Greatest Hits. $19 total. I didn't even give a fuck, I just wanted to justify the drive down there.

I did happen upon a Sega Saturn with a few decent games (Nights into Dreams was one) and an analog pad, but some fucking vulture reseller was already poring over the system with smartphone in hand, checking eBay prices on the games by the time I got there. He took the whole set for $15. It was the first time I'd ever seen a Saturn in the wild.

I'm going again tomorrow morning. Sundays tend to net goldmines.

[Anonymous No.829194]

>>829189
My brother had a sega saturn.
He said i could have it if i could find where ever he stored it away in his attic.
I need to go over there sometime.

[Anonymous No.829210]

bah, deleted my other post so I can just post here.

New retro game shop opened here recently, went there today and got these. Everything is complete (MGS1 manual still has the mail in thing in it) The shop has a lot of cool stuff with good prices for the most part.

[Anonymous No.829217]

Sega genesis model 2 (full motherboard) and a sega cd model 2 for $30 at goodwill. What are some must have games? Only game they had there was sonic cd.

[Anonymous No.829374]

I havent seen a good deal since I got Super Mario World for the SNES for a quarter or something at some thrift store, like 10 years ago. There were a few other SNES games but I didn't get them for some reason.

i lost and it my SNES quit working anyway.

[Anonymous No.829416]

Sonic 2 $15
F-16 Fighter $10
Sega Chess $5

All in Australian dollars

[Anonymous No.829418]

>>829416
Fellow Aussie here, and even i think you overpaid.

[Anonymous No.829421]

>>829416
Really paying that much for master system games in Australia you overpaided man

[Anonymous No.829419]

>>829416
also you have the same carpet as me.

[Anonymous No.829423]

>>829217
Snatcher, ecco the dolphin.

[Anonymous No.829443]

>>829416
desperate/10

[Anonymous No.829580]

>>829109
its a nice game right?

[Gray Blob !1fuckupmdM No.830415]

Glad I went back today. Here's what I got:

An NES-001 with a broken 72-pin (one pin is bent in such a manner that it cannot be bent back-- didn't notice it until after I paid) - $10

A Dreamcast (yeah, yeah...) that is white as new, no yellowing whatsoever, with two controllers (one is fucking Madcatz...), two VMUs, two standard third-party memory cards, and the following games (all disc only):

>Crazy Taxi
>Crazy Taxi 2
>Evolution 2: Far Off Promise
>Generator Vol. 2
>Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
>Record of Lodoss War
>Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles
>Star Wars Episode I Racer
>Starlancer
>Street Fighter Alpha 3
>Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage
>Tokyo Xtreme Racer
>Web Browser
and a bunch of burned games

all for $12.

Dude wanted $20, but I only had $22 on me total and I had spent $10 on the NES, so I tried to work out a partial deal-- he agreed, but then he threw in everything else in the end. I guess he figured, how else was he going to get rid of all the third-party accessories and the games.

Still gutted about missing that Saturn lot, but there will always be a next time.

[Anonymous No.830447]

Only one person at the flea market I want to was selling games (all non retro though), and an obvious reseller was tearing through the box as I found her. Managed to nab pokemon platinum, fire emblem dragon shadow, and advance wars days of ruin for ds and zelda 2 and advance wars for gba for $10 total.

The second I visited I was pretty late but did find an n64 with mario 64, golden eye, a few sports games, 2 controllers for $15, and some $4 wii games (mario party 8, rhythm heaven fever, and pokemon battle revolution)

[Anonymous No.830452]

Found a good copy of Eternal Darkness CIB at a garage sale for $25

[Anonymous No.830460]

>>830452
>garage sale
>$25 for a gamecube game
FUCK that guy

[Anonymous No.830464]

>>829109
Very nice. DQ4 is actually my favorite of the series.

[Anonymous No.830508]

>>830460
Yea, dude was a damn reseller and sold video games out of a van.

Only reason I bought it was I couldn't find it cheaper anywhere else...and it was in damn good condition

Had to bargain down, too. The buzzard wanted $40

[Anonymous No.830510]

>>830464
Oh man, lucky, i use to have DQ8 but never got to play it much and it was sold. Wish i could find a copy

[Anonymous No.830513]

I found Michael Jackson's Moonwalker for 5 bucks.

[Anonymous No.830528]

-Legend of Zelda gold cart for $15
-NES Gameboy SP with car charger and regular charger for $65
- Haunting Starring Polterguy (Nostalgia goggle buy) $9

Not to shabby I think, I always wanted a NES Gameboy but it seems I paid at about market price for MOST of these items.

[Anonymous No.832605]

bump

[Anonymous No.832638]

Went to a friends for dinner and to play some nintendo 64. He left the room and came back with Madden 2001, Midway Greatest Arcade Hits and Mario Party 2. He gave them to me for free. Pretty excited, especially about MP2. RIP analog sticks.

[Anonymous No.832645]

>>830528
>-NES Gameboy SP with car charger and regular charger for $65
Actually not bad. If i remember these had a rather limited run, and prices for SP's are about 50 now (for a normal one). Seems good to me.

[Anonymous No.832669]

No pictures, but

>Mario 3
>WWF No Mercy
>Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal

Grand total: $25

Not bad, though I think I could have done a little better (No Mercy cost me $15), but the $5 Mario 3 really made my day.

[Anonymous No.832689]

Got this lot for $28 at a garage sale. The game at the bottom is a CiB Yoshi's Island. Got all of this stuff at 11:30 and somehow no one bought it after 5 hours of sitting out at the sale.

[Anonymous No.832703]

>>832689
>spanky's quest

[Anonymous No.832709]

>>829580
I never realized there was a second Gunstar Heroes game, is it as good as the first?

[Anonymous No.832725]

This, for a buck.
Slightly less relevant: PS2 controller and memory card for a buck each
Even more less relevant: a whole pile of pogs.

[Anonymous No.832742]

>>830513
sweet, the model with good audio.

[Anonymous No.832743]

>>832725
do you live in japan?

[Anonymous No.832771]

Didn't find anything at the yard sales, but Thursday at goodwill I got Sonic 1 for genesis, Medal of Honor 99, Duke Nukem: Time to Kill, Gun and Samurai Warriors 2. Last two aren't retro, but everything was CIB. Total $16.25.

[Anonymous No.832776]

Picked up a copy of Oregon Trail for $2, only really because its the same one I had when I was a kid.

In pretty nice condition to boot, dont feel like taking a pic tho.

[Anonymous No.832807]

>>832645
I always wanted one in middle school, was also thinking of the Famicom one but those were hard to find at the time or not in my price range.

I don't have patience for auctions as 9 times out of 10 they skyrocket out of my budget 10 mins before closing.

[Anonymous No.832818]

>>832743
nope

[Anonymous No.832826]

>>832818
You live in Hawaii.

[Anonymous No.832830]

>>828570
I didn't even know there were AV out toploaders.

[Anonymous No.832840]

>>828531

Dude, I got my front loader for 56.

[Gray Blob !1fuckupmdM No.832842]

>>832830
AFAIK they were only available through Nintendo of America, wherein you could send in your normal toploader and ask for it to be upgraded to multi AV out.

My memory is lazy though so don't quote me on that

[Anonymous No.832945]

>>832709
its pretty much the same game, just on gba.
not bad, but no 2 player obviously. i got most of those gba games from k-marts.

[Anonymous No.832978]

I managed to pick up two NESs, SNES, N64, Game Cube, two PS1s (one with the screen) and a few games for each for $80

[Anonymous No.832979]

>>829416
Never knew that they made sonic 2 for the master

[Anonymous No.832982]

>>828571
Replacing the stick from another controller is pretty simple

Don't get those game cube replacement sticks, or any replacement sticks. They tend to be off.

[Anonymous No.832994]

Got a Mega cd 2 and a megadrive for 5bucks with a controler and an arcade power stick
Also got a gamecube controler and a Tetris NES cartridge

[Anonymous No.833092]

Got Perfect Dark, 007 The World is Not Enough, Wave Race 64 and Extreme-G for $20 alltogether

[Anonymous No.834708]

>>833092
>The World Is Not Enough

I rented that game every weekend from Blockbuster when I was about 10-11 I practically had that first level memorized. I never bought a copy of it as I kept getting a mission fail in the Villa mission. I should buy a cart eventually.

[Anonymous No.835679]

Found this on ebay, figured it best not to go for it

[Anonymous No.835691]

>>830452
Got it at a collectible shop complete for $12

[Anonymous No.836315]

I found this for $2.50 at a fucking Hastings of all places.

[Anonymous No.836585]

The Elder Scrolls Travels Shadowkey for 5$ complete, nice shape, not much else, in wyoming with my grandad, didn't hit the usual NC flea markets

[Anonymous No.837697]

yay or nay?

http://victoriatx.craigslist.org/vgm/3886765393.html

[Anonymous No.837735]

15 bucks for everything
How'd I do?

[Anonymous No.837745]

>>837697
>http://victoriatx.craigslist.org/vgm/3886765393.html

I'd probably say nay. None of the games are worth that much and I don't think the console itself should fetch 65.

[Self Sufficient Broski !yPTrIPcODE No.837785]

>Get up at 5 am
>Drive for two hours to a huge county-wide car boot sale
>Arrive
>There's just a sign that says "cancelled" with no explanation

I am platinum mad

[Anonymous No.837806]

>>837735
Atomic Purple GB Color? Aces. Aladdin for Genesis? Similar aces. Harry Potter? No opinion. Overall? Great deal.

[Anonymous No.837814]

>>837735
not bad anon, not bad.

[Anonymous !!vPRlrndO9G8 No.837827]

>>837785
Hey sometimes in life we travel the seven the seven seas just looking for a sign. at least you got yours! ha ha heh

[Anonymous !!vPRlrndO9G8 No.837836]

>>837806
i found an atomic purple gb and didn't even have to pay for it because i was the only one who asked about it. I was pretty darn lucky huh?

[Anonymous No.838082]

I was given for free ~50ish games for SEGA Megadrive(Ausfag)/Genesis about 3/4 boxed with manuals, a SEGA Megadrive Console w/ no cables thus untested and a controller.

Also, thriftstore = Castlevania ($80 last time I checked on ebay), Shinobi III, Smash TV and Sonic 2 all for $1 each

[Anonymous No.838121]

>>838082

Also, back in 1998 I got X10 SNES games (DKC, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter II, Super Ghouls and Ghosts, Darius Twin, Jurassic Park, Final Fight, World Class Rugby, Lemmings, Sim City), Action Replay MkII w/ 2 booklets and some old magazines for $100...still have them all

[Anonymous No.838163]

Traded up with a guy from craigslist. I primarily collect PS1 and PS2 games and he had a huge lot of them, 90% of which I didn't already have in my collection. Traded up an N64 (console only), GBC and a GBA (original) for about 90 PS2 games and 10 PS1 games. Most of the PS2 games were CiB and all the PS1 games were CiB. Total FMV from PriceCharting was ~$400

[Anonymous No.838187]

Megaman was $10 and Final Fight was $5. Th guides not retro but I'm a big DK fan and it was a dollar.


Question, where do you find out about flea markets? I just check out pawn shops and garage saws moslty

[Anonymous No.838209]

>>838187
Wow sorry I posted the blurry picture, I'm not actually that retarded

[Anonymous No.838230]

>>838187
Craigslist, usually ads for flea markets are in the same sections as garage sales for your area.

[Anonymous No.838245]

>>838230

I love how on CL and at garage sales people seem to think NES/SNES games are made of solid gold and are worth tons of money.

[Anonymous No.838274]

Genisis 6 Pak no box - $2
Zelda Guide books - $1 Total
Morrowind - $3
Pikmin - $7
2 Wavebirds no adapters - free
Enter the Matrix - free
How did I do?

[Anonymous No.838308]

Street Fighter II Turbo - $8
Illusion of Gaia - $17
ActRaiser II - $17
SimCity - $3.50

Not the greatest deals but I'm happy with them.

[Anonymous No.838310]

>>838245
fuck man I jokingly asked how much a thomas the tank engine VHS was at a local garage sale and the bitch wanted three fucking dollars

[Anonymous No.838316]

>>838310

>Not charging 25cents per VHS
>going anywhere over 50cents

Some people just think anything old is worth millions

[Anonymous No.838374]

Not vidya, but I picked up OK Computer for 5 recently.

[Anonymous No.838390]

>>838374
CD or vinyl?

[Anonymous No.838396]

>>838390
CD. If I ever see a vinyl I'm snapping that shit up, though.

[Anonymous No.838456]

>>838316
This
about a month ago I got a bag of over 20 VHS tapes for $2 at a thrift store. That's how it should be done

[Anonymous No.838554]

>>835679
Why would you even consider that? It's too expensive even if the cart was in good condition.