Once again, I had spectacular luck this weekend. Almost a 100 more games were added to my collection after the hunting was done for the weekend, and I got a system I've wanted ever since I first heard about it, but I never thought I would find one for a good price.
Also, I've made the images clickable, so you can click on them and view them in their full size so you can actually read some of the game titles now.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles '09 - #10
Another spectacular weekend for finds. Judging from Friday's treasures I thought it was going to be a Sega heavy weekend unlike the last couple weeks which were primarily Nintendo games. But, it turned out to be more of a hardware heavy weekend, in fact, I got 2 new systems, one of which is something I never thought I'd find and is a true piece of gaming history.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles '09 - #9
The past few weekends have been spectacular, a little too spectacular actually. My game room is a mess with stacks of games that need a shelf to call home and there is stuff in places where it doesn't belong. So I'm a little relieved this weekend wasn't so heavy with treasures as it gives me a chance to get caught up on organizing and stocking shelves. But it still wasn't a bad weekend at all, mostly thanks to one huge bargain at a garage sale on Friday.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles '09 - #8
A spectacular weekend this turned out to be. I got a ton of games and the vast majority of them were for my favorite system to collect for, the NES. This weekend was a very busy one for me, I had a different party to go to for each of the 3 days this holiday weekend. The one from Sunday left me impaired Monday which is why I'm just now getting around to posting this.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles '09 - #7
Another great weekend for treasure hunting. I was able to do some saling Friday again, but this time I was alone, so I was able to cover a lot more ground in a shorter amount of time. The sales weren't very good on Friday though, I only bought one thing the entire day. Luckily, Saturday was better, not a lot of stuff, but I got something that I never thought I would find, but had always hoped I would. Sunday at the flea market was freezing, Saturday was close to 80, but Sunday never went above 60 and was about 45 when we went to the flea market. Despite the cold weather, the place was packed and the deals were abundant.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles '09 - #6
Friday was the last day of Spring semester so I got out really early on Friday morning and since my mom, sister and niece were going garage saling Friday morning, I tagged along with them. I learned a couple things that day, the most important is that women take a very long time at garage sales. We spent about 6 hours saling and only went to about 1/3 of the sales that me and my dad could go to in that time. I also learned that saling on Fridays makes the Saturday really short for garage saling. We started at about 8:30 on Saturday and were home by 10:00, which is about 2 hours shorter than what we've been doing lately. I did manage to get some pretty cool stuff this weekend though.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles '09 - #5
It's been a while since the last installment, but for once this year, it's not because of a lack of sales, but because I simply couldn't go to many sales these last few weekends. Last Saturday, I was in Cleveland the entire weekend so I couldn't do any garage saling. I had planned on going to some gaming stores that were only 10 minutes from my hotel, but I had limited Internet connectivity in the hotel and had a tough time getting a map and directions so I wrote down basic instructions on a piece of paper, but it disappeared the morning I was going to go and then I couldn't get back online to get new directions, so I wasn't able to make it. This past Saturday, I spent the first half of Saturday volunteering at our new township park, so I missed the best garage saling times, but did manage to get in a few sales after 1:00, but I didn't find anything. Luckily, I was able to get to the flea market yesterday and found enough stuff to make a worthwhile post.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles '09 - #4
Well, this week I didn't go out at all, there were a total of 3 garage sales listed for the entire area, and they all looked crappy from their descriptions or were perpetual sales that I've been to already. But, luckily, I've got treasure from last week I didn't have a chance to post, so that's what I'll show you now.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles '09 - #3
Well, it's been over a month since my last entry in the Treasure Hunt Chronicles, and I blame that solely on the weather. There just are not any garage sales or flea markets in the frozen tundra Northeast Ohio this time of year. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel, it's in the 50's today and 60's the next couple days so garage sale season will be here before we know it. Luckily, until then though, I've still got some awesome treasure through some online trading I did through RFGen, Digital Press and GameTZ. So that will be the focus of February's finds.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles '09 - February
This week has brought me some good stuff. At the beginning of the week I trawled though the shops where I work, and I finished up today doing the rounds of my home town.
PS1
Time Crisis,
TOCA Touring Cars, GBP 1.99 each
Warcraft II, GBP 2.50
Colin McRae Rally, GBP 1.79
PS2
Final Fantasy X guide, GBP 3.99
Rune Viking Warlord,
Chaos Legion,
Maximo vs Army of Zin, GBP 1.99 each
XBox
Unreal Championship, GBP 1.99
Hunter the Reckoning: Redeemer, 99p
PSP
Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops,
Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops Plus, GBP 10 each
A couple of the games (Unreal Championship & Rune Viking Warlord) I already had, but they were missing the manuals. These were complete, so I was more than happy to pick them up at these prices. The deal on the PSP games wasn't that good, the normal Gamestation offer of 2 for 20 quid, but I've been holding off buying these for too long, and I am a huge Metal Gear Solid fan.
That brings the total for this week to GBP 41.21
and the total for this year to GBP 180.51, but that also includes eBay purchases and the like.
Inspired by NES_Rules posts I'd like to document my hunts too. Whilst I don't spend quite as long at it as NES_Rules appears to, I've been blogging these on my own site, but I think including them here is also appropriate. I'm not proposing to copy all the previous entries over, so I'll start here with my latest one.
Playstation
Blaze Rave Station, with Dancing Stage EuroMix and Dancing Stage Party Edition, GBP 5
Wip3Out and TOCA 2 Touring Cars. No covers or manuals, but the cases are in good condition and I've got some that are broken, 50p each
Game Boy Color
2x Body Boy silicon skins, 1 clear, 1 yellow, GBP 1
Pong and Megaman Xtreme, GBP 4 each
Master System
Sonic the Hedgehog 2, no instructions, but includes the SEGA poster that's missing from my other copy, GBP 1
Game Boy Advance SP
Carry case complete with car adapter and 7 cartridge protectors, GBP 2
Commodore 64
GFL Championship Football (not shown) GBP 1
Grand total of GBP 19
It's been almost 3 months since I ended the Treasure Hunt Chronicles series for the 2008 season. And I honestly wasn't expecting to start the 2009 season so soon, but I feel it's time to get it going. And no, garage sale season has not started yet, I'm not that lucky, there's still more than a foot of snow on the ground. I haven't bought much since November, but I have received quite a lot of stuff through trading, and that will be the focus of this post.
So without further ado, the stuff I've received the last couple months.
Oh, and thanks to Dave, I've tweaked the formatting a little. It's probably nothing any one will notice, but the coding is much more simple for me.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles 2009
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