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Posted on May 25th 2013 at 09:48:53 PM by ( Reps911) Posted under Collecting, Thrift,Yard sale,rare,bargain,games,consoles,SEGA,Playstation,Atari,Virtual Boy,Odyssey |
--- 05/19/2013 - 05/25/2013 ---
A very slow week as expected but I still manage to acquire some stuff. GrayGhost81 had some Odyssey2 games he was tired of looking at so I offered to give them a good home. And my son got a new game for the WiiU but I'm gonna claim it as mine 
RFgeneration Forum - Odyssey2 Games
Paid only Shipping for the lot
- Las Vegas Blackjack Boxed
- Football! Boxed
- Cosmic Conflict
- Baseball
- Freedom Fighters
- Alien Invaiders
- UFO
Nintendo WiiU
- Need For Speed Most Wanted
I didn't even have to leave the house this week! The Odyssey2 games came from GrayGhost81 and even though he was only charging shipping for them, he packed them very well and got them to me safe and sound. I'm not quite sure I'll have anything to post next week as money and time are still tied up around here. Things should be back to normal next month though...
Weekly Totals
Games = 8
Hardware/Accessories = 0
Other = 0
Current Gen = 0
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Posted on May 20th 2013 at 05:26:13 PM by ( Reps911) Posted under collecting, Thrift,Yard sale,rare,bargain,games,consoles,SEGA,Playstation,Atari,Virtual Boy |
--- 05/12/2013 - 05/18/2013 ---
This past week I was busy and due to some unforeseen expenses I had to hold back on unnecessary spending until things get sorted out (also why this post is a little late) Unfortunately that made me pass up really good local deal 
I did manage to score some stuff early in the week. On Monday I went to a Goodwill near me that I haven't been to in a long time and found a Virtual Boy in the box with several Import games. I had to hunt down all the pieces as someone before me (probably a kid) opened the box and scattered everything throughout the store. I found the Head unit on top of a piano, the stand by the Books, The controller on top of a TV, one game (Mario Tennis) next to the VHS Tapes and the box was with the toys! I could not find the eye shade though...
Inside the box were 6 Import games. The price on the box was $9.99 but the color of the week was purple and it just so happened the virtual boy had a purple tag, so my total price for The console and 7 games came out to $5 I also picked up Outrun for The Sega Master System for $5.
Nintendo Virtual Boy
$5 for the lot
- Nintendo Virtual Boy Boxed
- Virtual 3D Shooting Game (Red Alarm) Import
- T&E Virtual Golf Import
- Tobidase! Panibon Import
- V-Tetris Import
- Vertical Force Import
- Virtual Professional Baseball '95 Import
- Mario's Tennis
SEGA Master System Game
Not too much this week but for what I got I think I did well. I was really surprised to find the Virtual Boy at a Goodwill, I guess not all of them are as bad as I thought...
Weekly Totals
Games = 8
Hardware/Accessories = 1
Other = 0
Current Gen = 0
--- 05/05/2013 - 05/11/2013 ---
This past week was pretty good. Found some CIB NES games, some more PSX games, 1 Saturn game and made some forum/ebay deals. Also found a SNES at a yard sale and missed a SEGA power strip by seconds at a thrift store... maybe next time...
Forums and Ebay
PSX lot for $12
- Road Rash
- Test Drive 4
- Test Drive 5
- Test Drive 6
- Test Drive off Road 3
Was really only interested in Road Rash but couldn't pass up the Test drive games
- Genesis - Clue $.99 Sealed
- GBC - Vigilante 8 Box $.99
- Lynx - Steel Talons $3.00 Sealed
Nintendo NES CIB
Picked these up at a thrift store for $2 each
- Double Dragon II
- Double Dragon III
- Fester's Quest
- Image Fight
- NARC
- Sky Shark
- Star Force
- Star Voyager
- Time Lord
- Twin Cobra
Other Thrift Store Games
All PSX games were half off
- Rally Cross
- Test Drive off Road
- Twisted Metal 4
- Arcades Greatest: Atari collection
- CoolBoarders 3
- Tripple Play Baseball
- Grand Tour Racing
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
- Freestyle Motocross
- Crash Bandicoot
- Warhammer: Dark Omen
- Fade to Black
SEGA Saturn
Playstation 2
- Buzz! Junior: RoboJam $3.95 Sealed
Accessories/Hardware
- SNES console only (no cords) $5.00 - Yard Sale
- Sega Saturn Controller $5.00 - Thrift Store
Current Gen Stuff
- Deadly Premonition Directors Cut
You wont believe how hard it was around me to find this sealed. Every Gamestop near me only had 1 in stock and of course they open it for display (that really ticks me off about them). Gamestop's website was sold out as well. I had to use "site to store" at Walmart.com just so I could get it at a "real store"
Weekly Totals
Games = 31
Hardware/Accessories = 2
Other = 1
Current Gen = 1
--- Is it just me or has Collecting gotten harder? ---
Some time around 2009, my collecting slowed down to an almost non-existent crawl. The only additions were mainly new releases and the random game/console given to me from a friend or co-worker. Family life had taken up most of my free time and tracking down yard sales and searching thrift shop after thrift shop on a daily basis was just not going to happen like it used to. Now the want to collect never went away and of course it only takes one good find to get things going again.
That one good find happened a few weeks ago. While on my way to my parents I decided to stop at a thrift store that was on the way. Immediately upon walking in I saw it, right there in front of me with a very friendly price of $19.99... A Pioneer LaserActive with the SEGA PAC-S10. A console I have had near the top of my want list since I first saw it as a kid and of course near the top of my want list as a collector as well. Now I know I could have just spent x amount of dollars and purchased one of these through E-bay or craigslist but I wanted to "find" one and made it a collecting goal of mine.
Now as you can imagine this has fueled the urge to collect and I have been doing just that. I realized that during my commute to work I pass through three counties (Yeah, I drive a lot) and found several thrift stores and pawn shops just off the freeway(s) I use to travel. So on my way home I've been dropping by a few and seeing what I could come up with. Boy o' Boy have things changed! It would appear that almost every thrift store has gone "Ebay mad" with their pricing. $100 for a yellow NES, $60 for a Genesis 2 and if they have the box forget about it. A lot has changed in 4 years.
Now my local Goodwill doesn't even put game related items on the shelf! According to the manager they all go to their auction site... What??? Needless to say, I was taken back a bit with the current pricing trends and lack of availability. As a result my newly re-fueled collecting has taken a different approach. No longer will I hold out for the big stuff or less common. As long as the price is fair, I don't already have it and it's not complete junk... well I'm going to buy it. I'm still going to buy the good stuff too, but now I'm going to Start picking up the small stuff along the way. I will be keeping track of my weekly findings from thrift stores, pawn shops and yard sales.
So lets get started, For the week of 04/28/2013 - 05/04/2013
All PSX games were $1.95
- Coolboarders
- Coolboarders2
- Coolboarders4
- Demolition Racer
- Wipeout
- Air Combat GH
- Motocross Mania
- Sesame Street Sports - Sealed (Remember, No Restraint! LOL )
- Final Fantasy GH (Only disc 2&3) - $6.00 Yard Sale
- Silent Hill disc only, no case - $FREE (Found inside the Final Fantasy case)
- $2.99 PS2: Persona3
- $1.99 PS2: WRC Evolved, New-Sealed(PAL)
- $2.99 PS2: Colin Mcrea Rally (PAL)
- $1.95 PSX: Sa'i (NTSC-J)
- $4.95 Mega Drive: Altered Beast (NTSC-J)
- $1.99 Dreamcast: MDK2
- $1.99 Dreamcast: Typing of the Dead, New-Sealed
And something I never thought I would see at a Thrift Store
- $14.99 PSX: Playstation Debugging Station (Heavily discolored)
- Not pictured is a 360 controller that I got at the flea market for $10
Weekly Totals
Games = 16
Hardware/Accessories = 2
Other = 0
Overall, not a bad week. Most of the games came from Thrift Stores, Final Fantasy VII / Silent Hill was at a Yard Sale. The biggest surprise was the DTL-H1000 Debugging Console. It's not nice and blue like it should be and the drive doesn't work (yet) But still something you don't expect to see at a Thrift Store.
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