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Hey, look at that, two weeks in a row! But there almost wasn't a Treasure Hunt this week, but at the last moment, I got a sweet deal that enabled me to have a worthwhile post. I got a few small deals on Friday and Saturday garage sales, but the weather wasn't cooperating on Sunday, so I wasn't going to the flea market. It looked like it was about to start storming all day, but actually didn't even rain until 10:00 PM that night. Anyway, I didn't go to the flea market, but my dad did, but it was late (around 10:00 AM) when he left, and with the pending rain, I figured he wouldn't be successful. Turns out, I was wrong, way wrong. The flea market is apparently a whole lot better when I don't go. This was actually from last week, but it got left behind in the back of my truck and I didn't rediscover it until this week. I didn't really need another of these joysticks, but I did need the box, it's still a thrill finding a box that's nearly 30 years old in decent shape. It was $0.25.
I normally avoid Greatest Hits games, but these were only $1 each, and they're in great shape, CIB, and I needed them all, so I couldn't really just pass them up. It was also with this purchase that I decided I'm going to add a PS2 checklist to the lists I carry with me. With so many cross platform games in that era, I see a game that I know I have, but I don't know what system I have it for, so I keep passing up PS2 games because I think I have them but I actually have the Xbox version or vice versa. Also with this sale, I got small digital alarm clock thrown in for nothing. I have an NES case that has a clock in it, but the clock died a while back so I was looking for one to replace it. I installed it almost immediately getting home and everything fit in the case nearly perfectly. But at noon, I figured out why they only had it priced at $0.50. The alarm goes off, whether its set to or not! So today I unplugged it at noon, so its flashing, but its the right time and it shouldn't have the alarm go off.
Grabbed these for $6 for both. The N64 was marked $2, and COD was $5, and I tired getting both for $5, but she couldn't go lower on the COD because she was just selling it for a friend and apparently didn't want to give me the N64. Still, $6 for both is a pretty darn good price.
This is "part one" of the Sunday flea market treasures. My dad called me from the flea market to ask if I wanted these, but he knows next to nothing about games, so it took quite a while to figure out what he was looking at. He was saying there were CD Sega games and others CDs and at one point, he said there was a "Prisoner of Zelda" game, which got me rather excited because I had never heard of that one, so I was thinking it was some kind of unreleased prototype or something crazy awesome. So I asked him about this CD a bit more, then he tells me its Legend of Zelda and its a cartridge not a CD. Eventually, I got it out of him that there were more than 5 games and it was $5 for everything, so I told him to go ahead and grab them.
Now this, is the deal that I thought made the weekend. This also resulted in a call from the flea market, I was less worried about the games this time and just got the pertinent information: how many games/systems and the price. My dad said there was the N64 and SNES and about 30 games for $30, so I didn't ask anymore questions and told him to buy them. When he got home, I opened the trunk and was nearly knocked down by the smell. The boxes they were in, were rotting and musty, and the games were absolutely filthy. I didn't even think about bringing the boxes in the house, so I put everything in some grocery bags and brought them in that way. I spent most of the day on Sunday cleaning this stuff and some this morning as well. I had to completely disassemble the SNES and wash it and a yellow N64 controller (not pictured because it wasn't dry when I took this picture). I know the SNES and some of the games look bad, but they look 1000% better now than they did, I actually thought about tossing the SNES right away because it was so filthy. I still haven't tested anything in this lot, but there doesn't appear to be any major damage to anything, it was just really dirty. All the games except the bottom row are dupes for me, so I'm hoping I can resell the rest fairly quickly. The mass of wires on the right is a mix of cables including some phone chargers and a USB data cable that actually fits my phone, so that may be useful. Between this and the last deal, my dad wanted $25 back for it, as he was "donating" $10 to me because I do all the driving (and therefore buy the gas) when we garage sale. Still no stats, as I don't have my "official count" list finished yet.
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Another great weekend for you congrats.
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Great deal with the SNES and N64 bundle. USB cable could be used (depending on your phone and cell provider) to backup contacts, pictures, etc. from the phone.
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Nice grab on the ice blue N64 and the N64/SNES lot!
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Pretty sure World at War still retails for 40 bucks. You could make a nice turn around on that if you try unloading it right away.
Once again great finds.
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Very nice finds, that blue N64 + World at War for $6 is an amazing deal.
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@Izret101: Actually, I'll be playing that one for a while. Since I bought it, I couldn't wait to try it out and didn't get a chance until last night. Is the online community still good on this? It might be another reason for me to get Live again.
@bickman2k: Yeah, I'll be glad to have a backup of the pictures on it, since I have no other way of getting the photos off the camera.
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sweet finds
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Nice. Ironically, my favorite memories of large finds were individually cleaning the carts and test each (about 10 minutes of testing for each sometimes). Good stuff.
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@bombatomba: I enjoy a good cleaning if the stickers come off on one peel or if its' just a few games. Cleaning nearly 40 games wasn't fun at all. Especially when you have to be super careful to get the dirt that's right next to the label without actually getting the cleaner under the label.
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