Best Video Game find in the "Wild"

[Tynstar]

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.

[captain_nintendo]

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.

[m3talst0rm]

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
and
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

[Speedy_NES]

Congrats on the 100th post  

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..

[Izret101]

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.

[den68]

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.

[Sauza12]

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.

[wrldstrman]

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

[Pop Culture Portal]

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.

[Tynstar]

All I ever found in the wild was crazy climber,rubics cube and quadrun

Oh is that all

[Rejinx]

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.

[wrldstrman]

Oh is that all

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.

[Tynstar]

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.  

[Necrosaro420]

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.

[phoenix1967]

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.