Nice find in the trash

[NES_Rules]

So, I'm on my way to school the other day (the day the site went down) and casually glanced at a pile of trash, notice a goldish-yellow box on top and carry on. A couple seconds later, it pops in my head "holy shit, that was an NES" so I turned around and sped back to make sure. Sure enough, a nasty, dirty golden NES was sitting on top of the pile. Underneath was a basket of random wires and some other junk and next to that was a box of smaller boxes, I thought they were all VHS tapes at first, but realized they were Genesis games. So I put both boxes in my truck and went to school. I got to school and immediately started going through the boxes, but I had to stop because 1) people were staring and 2) I had class to get to. Fearing that someone might steal the stuff I took it out of the bed and put it in the cab despite the dirtiness of it.
All in all it was a mix match of 80's and 90's memorabilia. A few G.I. Joe's, a Star Wars guy, some Wrestlers (The Iron Sheik and a USSR guy) and the complete Highlander series on VHS and off course a ton of Genesis games, some NES games, and a DK64 controller cover. I haven't compiled a list of the games yet, but I did snap a couple pictures of the stuff before I cleaned it.
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And in case you can't tell the stuff is dirty, a close up of the NES
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The back of that NES is a fine golden color that fades into the grey of the front, it's kind of neat looking actually. It's all cleaned up now, inside and out. I rebent the pines, cleaned all contacts, replaced the LED with a really bright blue one and now it works like new. Amazing since it was obviously flooded evidenced by the sediment that was inside.
I had to toss a few manuals and boxes, but the games look mostly salvageable.
Anyone ever see those N64 game cases before? I've seen a ton of the NES ones, but never the N64 style.

[bum-man]

Nice, free stuff rules!!!  Good eye on spotting that.  I picked up my NES Deluxe box that way.  I was driving down the street and saw it out of the corner of my eye.  I had to go back and see if my eyes were playing tricks.  The box was empty but in nice shape.  The next week I went down the same street and saw something white on top.  I figured it couldn't be but I figured it would be worth going back and sure enough it was the packing styro from the deluxe box.

[Izret101]

Yea i've seen those N64 cases.
I think they were only available thru Nintendo Power i could be wrong.

Is that a Genesis 4 controller adapter?
I've only seen a couple of those before(all were made by Electronic Arts for sports games.)

[NES_Rules]

Is that a Genesis 4 controller adapter?
I've only seen a couple of those before(all were made by Electronic Arts for sports games.)

Yep, I never realized such a thing existed. This is an EA one too.

[Izret101]

Guess they are the only people who made it.

[den68]

can't beat a nice trash pick... that's how my record collection got started.

I got a bunch of those N64 boxes at Meijer. I don't recall seeing them anywhere else.

[Ghost Soldier]

The best kind of find is a free one.  Awesome haul, I'm truly envious of your capture from the hunt.

[Tynstar]

Nice trash find!

[shaggy]

Damn!  Nice pickup.  What Sega CD game did you pickup?

[NES_Rules]

OK, finally got around to going through this stuff and here is the list:
Genesis:
Super Street Fighter II (Boxed, manual will probably be thrown away)
NBA Jam (boxed)
Road Rash (boxed)
MK II (boxed)
Jungle Strike (boxed)
Sonic 2 (boxed)
Street Fighter II: Special Champ edition (boxed)
Jurassic Park (boxed)
caesar's palace (CIB)
Marble madness
taz-mania
wheel of fortune (had to toss the box)
World Series baseball '95 (boxed)
Incredible Hulk
Tom and Jerry Frantic Antics
Sonic 3
Shanghai II (boxed, manual and game stuck together)
Terminator 2(boxed, manual and game stuck together)
wrestlemania the arcade game (boxed, manual and game stuck together)
FIFA International Soccer (boxed, manual and game stuck together)
Beavis and Butthead (manual and outside of cardboard box only)
Primal Rage (box is fused to itself, so I don't know what inside)
Game Genie with ruined code book and 2 update booklets
EA 4 player adapter
Controller extension
3 button controller

Sega CD:
Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters (CIB, manual isn't openable)

NES:
SMB3
Tecmo World Wrestling
Pinbot
American Gladiators
Controller

Also:
a couple AC adapters
3.5mm to 3.5mm cord
RCA cord
DK64 controller glove

A pic after its all cleaned up:
[img width=700 height=524]http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j22/Mike_2_0_0_6/Game%20Collection/2008%20Scores/DSCN9317.jpg[/img]
[img width=700 height=524]http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j22/Mike_2_0_0_6/Game%20Collection/2008%20Scores/DSCN9318.jpg[/img]

[Sauza12]

Damn that's awesome!  What did you do with the Highlander set?  That was probably the coolest thing you got to me.

[NES_Rules]

Damn that's awesome!  What did you do with the Highlander set?  That was probably the coolest thing you got to me.

It's in the trash, it was badly water damaged and most of the tapes were full of mud.

[Sauza12]

Bah, oh well.  I figured they would be trashed.

[BadEnoughDude]

I found one of my 2600's in the recycle bin while I was going to school in Morris. It's the only one of the three 2600's I have that work

[Chainclaw]

I was going to suggest you find a copy of General Chaos and Mega Bomberman for the Genesis to make good use of that Genesis multitap, but I checked your profiled first and saw you already had both of them. I hope you have had some wicked good games of General Chaos with it!