Yes, I know. Here I go again. I jumped on another Craigslist seller's post and was smiling all the way through. Admittedly, I didn't know what all games where included when I headed down to buy the lot due to bad cell phone pics. But can you guess the moment that the shaking and excitement started...?
So, listing description:
Older teen in a smaller town south of here posted a CL listing for 45 NES games for $40. I will say that many were in dire need of some 409 and a rag, and I have not tested them all yet, but here is what the lot contained.
Notables:
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest [Oval Seal]
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
Donkey Kong Classics [Oval Seal] - $7 on VGPC
G.I. Joe: The Atlantis Factor - $14 on VGPC GO JOE!
Metal Storm (some label damaged) - $17.50 on VGPC
Metroid [3 Screw w/Oval Seal] (x2) - $7 on VGPC
Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six (minor label peeling) - $7 on VGPC
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project - $10 on VGPC
AND FINALLY............
R.C. Pro-AM II - $35+ on VGPC . Sometimes selling for much more, and in great condition after cleaning. The total asking price was barely more than the single most valuable game!
Remaining games (and many were duplicates therefore trade bait. Check my FS/T list):
10-Yard Fight [3 Screw], Adventures of Dino Riki, The, Astyanax, Base Wars: Cyber Stadium Series, Bases Loaded II: The Second Season, Bigfoot, Blaster Master [Oval Seal], Captain Skyhawk, Casino Kid, City Connection [Round Seal], Golf [3 Screw w/Round Seal], Karate Kid, The [Round Seal], Kung Fu [3 Screw w/Round Seal], Laser Invasion, Legend of Zelda, The [Classic Series] (ripped label), Life Force, Mickey Mousecapade [Round Seal] (x2), Millipede [Round Seal], Pinball [3 Screw w/Round Seal], R.C. Pro-AM, Rad Racer II, RoboCop, Seicross, Short Order/Egg-Splode!, Silent Service, Silkworm, Stealth ATF, Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt [Seal of Quality] (x2), Tecmo World Wrestling, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tetris 2, Tetris [Nintendo], Ultimate Stuntman, The.
Yeah. this was seriously worth it.
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I got lucky on this one. The listing had been up on Craigslist for a few hours before I noticed it, but I was able to act quickly so jumped and ran to the guy's apartment to pick it up. Well, okay I drove there. But my feet didn't stop moving the whole time!
So here it is, a Virtual Boy lot. Everything is CIB, including having all the original plastic bags that the parts were wrapped in. The lot includes the Virtual Boy console with Mario's Tennis (some super glue needed to fix a usual problem with the stand's hinge, hence the rubber bands in the pic), AC Adapter Set, and the five boxed games are:
Red Alarm
Teleroboxer
Panic Bomber
Wario Land
Vertical Force!
Total price for the great lot, $50
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Monitoring Craigslist has almost become an addiction for some, and I may be part of that group, but every once in a while a deal comes along that is so amazing - so difficult to fathom, that it just reaffirms your love for the site. Like when I find "defective" laptops for cheap that only needed something as simple as a new RAM chip or power adapter, or just to default the BIOS. And I enjoy being able to build a PC for someone that doesn't have one. Okay, I'm getting away from myself here.
So, when I opened up the page yesterday and found this lot, I was ecstatic. If you read my Sweet 16 favorite games on my profile (most are from years gone by), you will notice Kenseiden from the Sega Master System is on the list. A friend of mine had the only SMS in the neighborhood back then, and that game alone sparked my Sega bug. And since I had decided to get back into game collecting a few months ago, and toss my sports card collection aside for more... playable pastures, I still had quite a few Sega products to re-acquire. Through the years I had owned the Genesis console three different times, and this makes a fourth.
So here it is. A Genesis 2 console (cables not shown), SMS Power Base converter, two controllers, 6 Button Arcade Stick, Game Genie, 9 SMS games (2 loose), 14 Mega Drive games (all loose), 8 Genesis games (3 loose), and rare Phantasy Star IV Strategy Guide. In one fell swoop I found all 4 Phantasy Star games, 4 Wonder Boy's, and Kenseiden. And the price for everything you see (except my cordless phone) - $15.00. Long live Craigslist.
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