The garages sales were plentiful this weekend, but weren't all that great. Again, the flea market was great as I've now bought nearly everything from my new favorite vendor. He's still got a few more things I want, so I should have a couple more 'Chronicles' this season. Saturday Garage Sales
The Monster Rancher 4 and Finding Nemo were from one sale for $3 for both. Both in excellent shape (and CIB) for being kid games. Big Game Hunter (CIB) was $0.50 and THPS (CIB) was $0.25 from another sale. They also had an N64 with hookups, 2 controllers, and 2 Football games for $10/make offer. But I didn't bother with it, probably should have picked it up, but I just didn't want to be bothered with re-selling it.
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Got this from a sale for $0.50. It was marked $1, but she just wanted to get rid of it. I probably could have gotten it for $0.25.
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I didn't get this from a garage sale, but I did pick it up during my saling time, so I'll count it here. I actually got these from FreeCycle. She said they go from 2000 to 2004, but I haven't had time to check them over. There are 40 of them though.
A little rant here: why do people at local sales, tear off the address label. I was at your house, I know where you live, what info could I possibly get from the address labels that you need to tear them off and rip the cover in the process?
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This was a strange sale. It appeared to be a guy selling off stuff people left in his storage building. My dad got another set of lawn darts for $1. I got the TRS-80 Color Computer 2 for $2. I almost didn't see it as I just assumed it was another typewriter, but something made me take another look under the translucent dust cover.
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Sunday Flea Market
Bought these for $2 each. He had about 30 more and said I could take them all for $30, but I didn't need any of the others, plus they weren't in very good shape.
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Traded Super Mario 64 (PC), Mario Kart 64 (PC), LOZ: Majora's Mask, SMB, SMB/DH and Super Mario World plus $5 for all them. The top two rows are CIB, the bottom two rows are missing the manual. All but one are in mint/excellent condition.
Oh yeah, this was in that lot too. Yeah, it's complete and mint. Anyone know what's it worth? I didn't realize what it was when I bought it, but once I got home I learned it's THE hardest to find SMS game.
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All in all, a very good weekend. Although I have no idea what I'm going to do with all these SMS games. Plus the guy has a SMS that I'll probably trade for or buy next week since I haven't found one yet.
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So much for the finds slowing down for the year.
Great pickups
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Video Game Collector has "Buster" Douglas Boxing at $90 for CIB. I've never actually seen one for sale, though. Great, great finds there!
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Buster Douglas Boxing is or was when I was looking years ago 150-200 CIB. Hell of a pick up.
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Nice pickup on the Top Gun, really great joystick.
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Dawwww.... 
YOU ALWAYS HAVE THE GREAT FINDS!!!
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Amazing finds once again, NES_Rules!
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@jcalder8: Yeah, the weather has been extraordinary this month, I think that's had a lot to do with it. There's usually a dozen garage sales max this time of year. We're still going to 40+.
@BadEnoughDude: The DP guide has $90 too. I'm just still having a hard time believing a sports game can be that much.
@Tynstar:  I guess I'll have to make room in my "showcase" for this one.
@c2852: I don't usually bother with PC stuff, but this one felt like a really good stick. Very realistic button placement as well. Plus, the Top Gun name makes it more collectible than the standard PC stick.
@logical123: I got that TRS-80 just because I knew you had one, I wanted one too.
@Sirgin: Thanks, I do what I can.
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Excellent finds
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Awesome finds, especially the boxing game, that is indeed rare.
You know, if you don't have SMS, you could get a converter and play the games on the good old Megadrive.
Your blog inspired me to do some "hunting" myself, but even after few weekends I don't have enough items to brag about in a single entry. Everyone around the place you live must be into video games.
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I personally sold a complete, excellent copy of James Buster Douglas Knockout Boxing for SMS a few months ago for a whopping $250.00. I was astonished, having listed it at a starting bid of $4.99. Someone contacted me immediately trying to covertly make a deal outside of eBay and I knew I had something. Too bad I was selling it from someone else's collection, so I only got a percentage, but it was a cool experience.
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