The Small Scores Thread: Part 3!

[shaggy]

Picked up Finding Nemo, cart only for GBA for $1 from Half Price Books.  It's so awesome it doesn't need a picture.

[Fokakis79]

Picked this JCPenney Pong Console up for 7.99 at the Local Goodwill. I can't seem to find info on it though. Also it does not seem to be in the database, at least I could not find it. It says JCPenney on the middle controls. On the back it says it was manufactured by Phoenix.  If anyone can find info about it, please let me know.

My find felt a little bitter sweet because I missed out on a CIB Donkey Kong Game & Watch for 5.00, that somebody had put on hold only a few minutes before I got to the thrift store.   My only hope is it went to someone who actually cares about it.

Still though very happy about my find, since these Pong Consoles are rare finds in the wild.

@nick: Awesome finds, Always liked the look of the Original Sega CD Model

[russlyman]

Just finally picked this up
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Excited to play it. I never finished the gamecube version so


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[Beardcore84]

Hope everything is ok with you guys, Shadow & Nick.

BTW Nick, play Last Gladiators, it was one of the first Saturn games I ever got and it's a super fun game!!

[krunch]

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Got Midnight Resistance and Space Harrier 2 complete at one of my local shops. So happy to find complete stuff.
Bonus: I looked through the shop's lot of manuals and picked out Shadow Dancer to complete my manuelless copy and the shopkeep just gave it to me.

[Fokakis79]

@russlyman: Awesome pickup only played the Gamecube version, but it is within my Top 5 favorites in the LoZ games.

@krunch: Awesome games, some of the best action titles are on the Genesis, and you got two good ones

[wildbil52]

Wind waker is one of the first games I'll be playing when I get a wii u, Russ. 

Shadow of mordor was a Christmas gift and the other 2 are from a trip to the ms store.  I took advantage of the trade in promo. [img width=700 height=525]http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/01/03/5a0a726f83a831f2385c1c79b4a03672.jpg[/img]


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[Zagnorch]

Picked up Finding Nemo, cart only for GBA for $1 from Half Price Books.  It's so awesome it doesn't need a picture.

Hey now, you know the main rule on this thread: pics or it didn't happen.

ANYway, I made a blog out of my New Year's Day thrift scores. Check it out at...

http://www.rfgeneration.c...hrifting-Odyssey-2952.php

Thank you for your attention.

[GamerNick]

Thanks Cody I am doing okay at this point still have to have some tests ran.  Also last gladiators is pretty sweet!  This is my second copy I tested this one to make sure it works before posting it on my sales thread.  It's a super fun pinball game.  I need to sit down and play more through all the saturn titles maybe that can be a thing to do for 2015.

[Duke.Togo]

Like Bil, I took advantage of the Microsoft Store deal to get three games:
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I went with a bunch of friends to the MS store, and the sales person was nice enough to give us some free goodies for being Xbox fans:
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Lastly, I decided to pick up a Samus Amiibo. I'm not going for the all, but I would still like to get a Pit Amiibo at some point:
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[Zagnorch]

Hello again,

If you thought my New Year's pickups were mind-blowing, wait 'til you see what I found at my fave Goodwill yesterday after work:


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Not bad for $75, right?

Oh whoops, the camera's zoomed in a little too close; let's pull it a back a bit to reveal...


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...a quartet of Wavebirds. Zoom out a little more, and...


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Nine CIB GameCube titles, including Metroid Prime 1 & 2, LoZ Twilight Princess & Ocarina of Time/Master Quest, Star Wars Rogue Squadron II & III, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Super Monkey Ball 2, and Mario Kart Double Dash with bonus disc. Now I can upgrade several of my off-condition GameCube games!

Now it's time to pull back a wee bit more:


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A component video cable! Man, this GameCube bundle has just about everything, including...


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...a broadband internet adapter along with the obligatory memory card.

And now, I'll recount the most incredible part of this not-so-small score that I swear I'm not making up (no really, I'm not). The gentleman who rung me up admitted that he was bummed about me getting the Twilight Princess game in this bundle, since he was looking for a copy of it as well. I told him that I'd be more than happy to keep an eye out for him in the somewhat unlikely event I came across another one. I asked him if he preferred it complete, and he said he'd be happy with just the disc.

Fast-forward a few hours at home. After laying out my latest acquisition to take pictures for small scores, I hit the console's "open" button to see if there was anything in there. Sure enough, there was...


[img width=623 height=543]http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y409/Zagnorch/Score1-3-2015f_zps68579975.jpg[/img]


...a second copy of Twilight Princess, disk only, in excellent condition. Needless to say, a certain Goodwill employee's gonna get a really cool belated Christmas present in the next day or so.

Anyway, that's the story of my biggest score of 2015 so far. But now I'm curious to know who the previous owner of this bundle was. Dude was definitely serious-business hardcore when it came to gamin' the 'Cube-- hey, what's this? One of the wavebirds has some sorta sticker on the back of it--


[img width=700 height=514]http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y409/Zagnorch/wavebirdtag_zps6c8ad08a.jpg[/img]


SWEET JESUS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Duke.Togo]

How do you keep finding these things!?!

[mumboking]

How do you keep finding these things!?!

It's good karma for being the NSSS.

EDIT: Did you forget to put them in your collection list?

[techwizard]

hitting it out of the park less than 1 week into 2015, way to go zagnorch.

[bombatomba]

What a start for 2015, Zag.  I doff my hat to you, sir.