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What is your best find while out hunting? Was it a really rare game? Was it a huge lot of games? Or just a game you had been searching for but just couldn't find?

Lets here the story. Or a couple stories.

Well, my best finds have always been with you "tynstar" around.
Star Fox Super Weekend cart at a local EB Games. 12.99

Caltron 6 in 1, 5 dollars from a local person.
CIB, PAL stadium events for 10 dollars for same local person.

Those are a few of my favorites. Some of my favorite stories involve myself,tynstar and jagdiesel digging through piles of boxes in the back of Games plus (a local store). We organized the back store room and pulled out what we wanted to buy. I got many of my boxes and manuals this way, along with many NES games.

I don't have a lot of games in my collection....which lends itself to having even fewer "rarities."  However, I have a few favorite finds in the wild...
FinalFantasy3 Loose (SNES) for $5
Tengen Tetris Loose $1.50
A top loading NES 101 for $2
Castlevania: SOTN CIB (PS1) $4
World Series Baseball CIB (32x) $1
Virtual Boy w/ Red Alarm and Mario Tennis $12
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Once, I had a really great weekend where I found several in box NES games and found Metal Storm (which I really, trully, in all honesty LOVE)

I love finding cheap gaming goodness....


edit:  YAY...100th post ::)

Congrats on the 100th post  :P

I don't find a lot of NES stuff in the wild, but some of the better things I've come across:

500+ NTSC NES manuals, hardly any dupes and with lots of rare titles - $5 US
Super Mario IV and Super Mario Family pirates for NES - Free
6 or 7 rare Videopac+ games + G7400 console for 12,50 euro
CIB Videopac console with a bunch of cib games for 5 euro
CDi player w/video cartridge, a dozen or so games, and a cib Peacekeeper gun for 3 euro

Those should be my best deals, might be a few I am forgetting though..

In the "wild" my best find was 5$ CIB NES games.
I picked up 200+$s worth of them in 2 weeks.
I left way more behind and since then the prices have gone up dramatically i am sure.

I don't know if i have had too many really great finds outside of that one store who has changed their prices alot recently.

I think the rarest game I've found in the wild is Swordquest Waterworld for the 2600. I got it for 50 cents at a thrift.

Since about 80% of my collection has been aquired in the wild I've had many good finds. And most of it real cheap.

I found a CIB Colecovision for $5. When I got it home and opened it up it was brand new. The outer box was pretty scuffed up and a flap was missing but the system inside was still sealed in baggies.

I got a Sega Master System with 3D glasses and a 3D game built in for around $15.

My Panasonic and Goldstar 3DO's were both had for around $10.

I got a CIB Milton Bradley Microvision for $2. About a year later I found 4 CIB games and 2 loose for like a buck apiece.

a few other good game finds are Final Fantasy for NES loose for 50 cents. SMS Phantasy Star CIB for $2, Hotel Mario (the only good CD-i game) CIB for $2 and MUSHA for Genesis and VAy for Sega CD for $3 each.

I love the wild. I've had to invest a LOT of time searching but it's been well worth it.

I haven't had any truly "great" finds in the wild, but my best so far in my opinion was a boxed Odyssey 2 with 12 complete games for $50.  

I've had a few other really good finds like a complete MUSHA for $3 and sealed Family Dog and Math Blasters for the SNES for $5 a piece, but my collection is mostly common games that I've picked up peice by peice.

All I ever found in the wild was crazy climber,rubics cube and quadrun ..my favorite find was a mint in the box top loading nes for 2.00

I found Woody Woodpecker Vols. I, II, and III for the 3DO in, of all places, a craft store that sold all those, um, crafty things people make, like quilts and wooden fat women bent over mooning you...don't ask.

They were at one time the rarest games for the 3DO.  Picked all 3 up for about $5 total, I think.  Other than that, I rarely EVER find anything in the wild worth commenting on.  In fact, I don't find much in the wild and have pretty much given up...I do, however, pop into a Goodwill every now and then to see what I find, which usually ain't much.

Oh is that all
;) :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

hmm... Never found anything better then a R5 in the wild.  On ebay I found a VIS listed badly and was able to pick it up for $4 plus $10 shipping.

well I do have coke wins but Im not sure if its the real deal Ive tried opening it but the case started cracking so I left it alone...I just like shooting the letters...If it is the real deal I guess it would be my best find.

Why that would be an amazing find the others arnt junk.  ;)

Sadly, I havent been able to find that many great one's in the wild.  Ive had some good luck with eBay though, complete Stack-Up boxed for $25.00 with the BIN option.

My best find thus far has been picking up a copy of Disgaea at a local flea market for $10. The guy originally had it marked at $12 but I talked him down.

I haven't seen it anywhere else since then.

I got Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel for the Megadrive for 70p at a car boot sale a few weeks ago. It's one of the hardest Megadrive games to find.

nearly 200 dreamcast games for £217 all boxed with manuels

Have had loads of what i consider good finds link from boot sales and that,
got a brand new CIB orignal Gameboy (minus battries) £5 0r £10 ( cant remember) from Cash Converters

Yoshies island for about £4 about a week after i got another one in with some CIB SNES and some more games like Kirby (again cant remember) cash converters for the game SNES some people at my wifes work

A CIB Multimega for £70 at Gamastation then she girl offerd me all the games that had come in with it about 20 i think for about £30 and that had in it Snatcher ,Sonic CD ,Shining Force CD and some others.

Loose Intellivision with about 5 games £2 car boot again

Lynx 2 and a games £5 at some Pawn shop ,Same shop an Atari 400XE and about 6 games £4

Another Gamestation Lynx games CIB for £2

About 30 Game Gear games CIB for about £50 back when they were at least 10 quid each

a free PSP with my mobile phone contract

and loads more i forgot!!

AeroFighter~ 20$
Team Buddies~ 7$
Toploader NES, toaster NES, and a few games~ 20 or 25$ can't remember now

Bounty Bob - Atari 5200 - 10 bucks
Meteorites - Atari 5200 - 1 dollar
Swordquest Waterworld CIB - Atari 2600 -  3 bucks

I also found a HUGE lot of stuff when on vacation on Oregon. Bought it all for 240 bucks. Had over 200 games, plus 4-5 systems and tons of controllers.

NES Advantage CIB for 1$
Top loader box, styor, manuals 1$

Thats pretty much all i can think of now that really impressed me at the time.

If my whole collection was visible other things miught pop into my head.

I got those the same place i was getting my 5$ CIB nes games i mentioned earlier.

Buddy of mine landed a CIB, near mint copy of Pro Sport Hockey for $9.99 CDN.  Best I did that day was my Dusty Diamond All Star Softball with poster, missing the manual, for the same price.  But my best personal score has to be my CIB Ren & Stimpy: Fire Dogs that I scored at a pawn shop for $10.  It's in near mint shape, only noticable flaw is some damage from where I removed the sticker on the box, and a little ding in one corner.  Other than that it's pretty damn nice...even smells minty :P

Holly cow! Bounty bob is an excellent game. Nice grab on all 3 of those.

Thanks, I still haven't played it. For a long time I had the game and no 5200.  :-/

For $26 I got these games for the Sega CD, complete:

Dark Wizard
Heart of the Alien:  Out of the World Parts I and II
Sonic CD
Ecco the Dolphin
Andriod Assault

best i found in the wild were 2 loose copies of Super solitaire for the snes. 1 complete copy of street fighter collection 2 for ps1 and a complete copy of warsong for the genesis

scratch that, i also found a loose copy of miracle piano loose for the snes

Here are some of mine.

Vectrex with about 15 games or so ------$9.00

Odyssey complete in box---------$20.00

There are others that were good but not this good.

Welcome to the boards Donkeykong1! I'm jealous of your vectrex find.

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The sad part is I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.  

If you do have a legit Pepsi Invaders, that thing is worth a boatload.

I'd take a real Pepsi Invaders over a CIB US Stadium Events any day.

Me too! I would love to get my mits on one some day.  :)

Probably Pirates! Gold and Rolo To The Rescue...

I made a big score just last week actually at a garage sale.  Bought a bag of SNES stuff for $15 and this is what was included:

- SNES system with 2 controllers and power adapter and instructions
- Mario Kart (Player's Choice, w/manual)
- Mario All-Stars
- Mortal Kombat 3 (w/man)
- Mario's Time Machine (w/man)
- Super Gameboy
- Lost Vikings II (w/man)
- Super Street Fighter II
- Killer Instinct (w/man)
- Madden 98 (w/man)
- NCAA Football (w/man)
- Earth Defense Force (w/man)
- Battletoads Double Dragon
- Super Mario World
- Disney's Aladdin

My best find was on the Fourth of July.  Dropped by the Goodwill Store, found two Game Boy Pocket units (with games in 'em - Legend of Zelda: LA and Star Wars), both work, one of 'em the Ice Blue "Limited Edition" unit.

Total cost was roughly four bucks.  ;D

Box and Cart Herzog Zwei for $3.

I need the manual for it. I've gotten some decent saturn games complete for $3 each, Resident Evil, Legend of Oasis, Steep Slope Sliders, Mr bones, and a few others.

Sega Nomad at the local Goodwill for $5. I bought it right on the spot...but was in a pinch for some money a few months later and had to sell it on Ebay.

I also found a complete 3DO system for $30 with 5 games at another Goodwill as well as a top loading NES with the hookups and a dog bone controller for $7.

had a good find today about 40 boxed n64 games,system and boxed controller,memory card,runble pack for 25.00  a ggod find

Nice indeed. How many of those boxed games did you need? Did they all come with manuals? or just boxed?

I can ad Zero the Kamikazee Squirel for SNES to my sweet finds list.

2$s at a tag sale :)

Also i got my O^2 and my original 4 CIB games at a tagsale last year for 2$s too.
I <3 tagsaling :D

all of them had manuals I actually needed over half of them  got the extras listed in the buying/selling forum

3 different Atari 2600 systems, 74 different games (some were label variations)
$10 at a garage sale

Atari 2600 Glib
$5 at a clueless used game store

Very very nice!

I never seem to have much luck in the wild with my collection really! I did pick up a brand new GC Pokemon Box Ruby & Sapphire with memory card at a bootfair for £4 though, which was pretty special :)