Overall, this was a great weekend for treasure hunting. Hopefully now that June is here, the bargains of summer will continue non-stop until Autumn.
I only had a couple garage sales lined up for Friday, but it turned out to be an awesome day. There was a small street sale that they have a couple times every year, but it's always junk and I wasn't going to go, but I had to drive right by it anyway, so I stopped. Nothing video game related but I did get some great music stuff. The Beatles' Second Album and Ratt - Dancing Undercover, both marked $0.50 each, and I was happy to pay that when I see a CD entitled "Rockin' Down The Highway" marked $0.25. It's a compilation of driving/car songs. Anything with Foghat is worth a purchase. I offered $1 for everything, she accepted.
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The last sale of the day didn't look too good, but I notice an old guy looking through a box and asks about some Playstation games. The woman says $0.50 each, he looks through them, most have the game and case separated, he picked out all the ones that had the discs in the case. It took him a good 20 minutes, meanwhile, I'm waiting patiently to look over his scraps and see a Mario Kart 64 on the table for $0.50. When he finally finished getting the good games, he goes to pay and the woman says "oh, how much did I say these were?" he responds with a "$0.25" He pays that and is on his way, the asshole was obviously a reseller looking for easily sold games, because he didn't notice the best thing in the box. But I did.
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Absolutely Complete Green Hose Game & Watch - Manual, Styrofoam, warnings, even the little stickers to seal the battery compartment to keep babies from eating them - it's all there and in excellent shape.
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DK Jamz - DKC Soundtrack - CIB
Mario Kart 64
Driver 2 - case, manual, Disc 2 - Perfect for the loose Disc 1 I had.
Splinter Cell - case, manual
GTA: VC - case only
Ape Escape Demo - CIB
Playstation Magazine Demo Issue #68
Metal Gear Sold disc 1
Mortal Kombat 4 GH box, manual
Syphon Filter 2 disc #1
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 box, manual - Perfect for my loose copy.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 box, manual
WWF Warzone box, manual
Itchy & Scratchy Comics #3
Simpsons Comics $25
Simpsons Illustrated Summer '91
Beavis & Butthead Comic - Special Summer Fun Issue
Grand total: $5.
Saturday was a damn good day, for the first time this season, we came home with a truck full of stuff. My dad got a vanity, medicine cabinet, a bag of mortar cement, and some bathroom accessories for $10 for the rental house, he was pretty happy about that since it was all stuff we needed.
For me, the day was also quite good, not a lot of stuff, but very good prices.
One of the first sales had a large Rubbermaid box full of NES stuff and an N64 organizer, so asked how much it was, she said to make an offer. I said $5, she accepted. I should have said $1, she probably would have taken it.
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Adventure Island
Super Dodge Ball
Burgertime
Ghostbusters II
SMB/DH
Solomon's Key
Skate or Die
Willow
6 dust sleeves
NES with hookups, 2 controllers, Zapper
Link's Awakening DX (GBC) manual
"System 3" N64 organizer, the top opens up to old the system and 13 carts, the bottom is a drawer to hold controllers and other stuff.
It was all dirty, definitely stored in a basement or garage, but cleaned up well.
Another sale had a ton of GameCube, PS2 & Xbox games, most were marked decent, but I only picked up a couple, I think these system's games are going to hit rock bottom prices this and next year.
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Thunder Strike:Operation Phoenix (PS2) $3
Bionicle (GC) $2
For being kid owned games, they're in very good shape and complete.
One of the last sales of the day was a guy that has a sale every couple months, but always has video games. First I notice a "free table" with a Colecovision and several Gameboy carry cases, so I snatched them up. But I didn't see anything else I really wanted, but felt guilty about taking the free stuff without buying anything so I picked out a few Genesis games I didn't have. After I had those, I saw some things I really did want, so I got those too.
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NFL Football '94 (CIB)
College Football's Nat'l Championships (CIB)
Greatest Heavyweights
LOZ: MM & Banjo Tooie preview video
Hot Newz 64: DK64 & Jet Force Gemini video
Intellivision with 1 controller and no hookups, I really only wanted it for the controller anyway.
2 Joysticks for Intellivision
3 GB carry cases.
Total: $2.75
In non-gaming finds, I found the following records for $0.25 total.
John Ono Lennon & Yoko Ono Lennon - Wedding Album, there's no jacket, but disc is in a sleeve and has the little pictures of John and Yoko and a photo of a piece of cake.
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour, disc only
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn, I never heard of this guy, but it looks interesting.
The Beatles - "The White Album" It's got some water damage, but the vinyl is good and the poster is there, I want to frame it so bad, but I need a frame.
Pete Seeger Sings Little Boxes & other broadsides My dad made me buy this one, I'm not against Folk, but the jacket is also water damaged.
Stephen Stills - Manassas Also water damaged jacket.
I also got a 7.5VDC 1Amp AC-DC adapter and a hole puncher for free at that sale.
At another sale I got a set of Optimus Pro-100 Wireless headphones with all hookups for $5.
I don't know why, but I also got a camo hat that says "This is my gun jamming, dog losing, deer missing, hunting cap" for $0.25. It's also got an anti-smoking pin on it.
Today was an alright day at the flea market. Tons of people and a lot of people selling games at decent prices, nearly every game I saw was priced at $4 each for some reason. The only thing I picked up was a sealed ECW Hardcore Revolution (N64) for $4. The box has a puncture on the top, but it's brand new, I couldn't pass it up.
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