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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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Well, the site was down last weekend, and coincidentally, so was I. Friday evening, my dad and I went to work on the rental house, but I couldn't leave right when he did, so I left an hour or so later and rode my bike since it's only 4 miles, we did all we wanted to and I loaded the bike into the truck and rode home. Now is when the trouble began, I rode the bike from the driveway to the porch, and I was feeling energetic so I thought I would jump off the bike instead of getting of like a normal human being. I cleared the bike fine, but I landed kind of weird and my knee went sideways and the rest of my body went the other way. Next thing I know I'm on the ground and I know that I've twisted my knee AGAIN (this is the third time now). After laying on the porch for a while in pain and waiting for help (which never came) I hobble inside and hope I'll feel better for garage sales in the morning. But I didn't feel better at all Saturday or Sunday (so no flea market either). So I had no finds whatsoever that weekend.
Luckily, this weekend was a little better, but didn't start off well. I woke up at 8:10 to see my dad driving out the driveway, so I get up and ask my mom why I was left. She said he said he was going to a couple close ones because I apparently take too long to get ready. At around 9:30 I'm getting pissed and call my dad to see where the hell he is. He says he's at a garage sale and they have a GameCube for $20 and wanted to know if he should buy it. But, we get horrible cell phone reception here so I could only hear every other word and he could only hear every other word, so I just told him to come get me NOW. Basically, he went to an entire neighborhood sale without me. I ended up buying the Gamecube and when we were on the way to another sale, we passed a sale he had been to but it looked like a box of PS2 games sitting there but he said there wasn't anything good there, so I dropped it. We ended up going by again and I made him stop, sure enough a box of probably 50 PS2 games. After that, the day was normal, except he actually drove for once instead of me.
Platinum Game Cube with the Game Boy Player, bought mostly just for the GB Player.
GameCube games
Time Splitters Future perfect (no manual)
NFL Street (CIB)
Def Jam Fight for NY (CIB)
True Crime New York (no manual)
ATV quad power racing 2 (loose)
4 Mb InterAct memory card
All for $20. I tried getting it for $15 and the kid was going to take it but his mom stepped in and gave the "that thing cost hundreds new" and I didn't feel like explaining the games were scratched to hell (they did end up all working though) and the systems were nearly worthless with the Wii's backward capabilities.
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That sticker on the GC was one hell of a pain in the ass to take off. I spent nearly half an hour getting it off.
PS2 games (all CIB)
Star wars battlefront II
Cabela's dangerous hunts (GH)
Godzilla Save the earth
Driver Parallel Lines
Jak II
Paid $20 for all 5. There was an entire box (maybe 50) for $5 each but I just picked out the ones that looked the best.
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I also picked up this really weird plug n play, the system looks like a penguin and it comes with 111 in 1 Famiclone cart, the label shows games like DK64 but in reality, it's all NES era games, but there is actually 111 different games, which really surprised me. Also comes with a light gun and something I'm not sure what it is; it's a set of 2 LEDs on a little plastic bracket connected to a headphone-like plug. But there is no place to plug it into. The system also has a wireless controller which is nice.
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That's it for gaming stuff, not much, but much better than last week.
CDs
Neil Young - Decade
Michael Stanley Band - Right back at ya (1971-1983)
WASP - Double Live Assassins
Double albums were priced $2, singles were $1. But she didn't realize WASP was a double album, so I got them for $4. I debated getting the Neil Young album because I already have it on vinyl, but it was worth $2 to not do the digital conversion.
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Records
$0.50 each for:
J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame
Meat Loaf - Dead Ringer
U2 - under a blood red sky
All for $4:
Poison - look what the cat dragged in
Kansas - Power
Cinderellla - Long Cold winter
John Cougar - American Fool
David lee roth - skyscraper
Heart - Heart
Fleetwood mac - tango in the night
bruce springsteen - tunnel of love
david lee roth - eat 'em and smile
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We also stopped at this new store called ReStore which is basically a GoodWill for building supplies, to look for stuff for the rental house we're remodeling. It's a really nice place with good prices, but they've got a free section run by my school and I snagged me some 3 ring binders for next semester. What was funny though is that they have you sign a paper saying that you won't hurt yourself with the stuff you take.
Flea Market was terrible, many people but no deals. There are now 3 vendors selling video games, one guy I like because he trades with me and his prices are reasonable and always has new stuff, the other two charge at least eBay prices and have the same sun faded crap week to week, but they also walk around buying anything of value before I can get there.
The only thing remotely interesting I saw was a CIB Mattel Electronic Football game, the box was a little beat up, but not bad. I turned over to see the price sticker: $45. I offered $1 but he ignored me.
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