Best Deals and Best Wild Fines

[Tatsujin]

funnily I found them in the super potato in akiba, 4th floor in a junk bin. they had no clue what it was.

[esteban]

I found Bonk 3 in a sparrow's nest last spring. Sadly, the pins were heavily corroded by a white residue (yet to be identified). The HuCARD doesn't work, but the sparrows appear to be functioning at 100%.

[bishopcruz]

Man, you all are making me Jelly. Grats on those deals, the deals I've been happiest with I've gotten around here, with my best non-site deal being It Came From the Desert, Sherlock Holmes, Monster Lair, Addams Family and a loose Lords of the Rising Sun for $50, which is an amazing deal for ebay, but not all that great in the real world. Still, can't complain, as the deals I got here made up for it.

Just out of curiosity, where are some of you located? I'm in Miami, and the used game scene here is pretty dead. It's getting better, but it is definitely rough, we had a bunch of stores back in the day, but they are long dead now. Though with CD Trader and a new Game Exchange opening, maybe things will be different.

[jordan_hillman]

I bought Magical Chase MIB and Cotton MIB for $5 each, walked outside, tore Magical Chase open and played it on my Turbo Express during the ride home. Made it to the end, but didn't beat the final boss that night. Tore open and played through Cotton the next morning.

  Holy crap! Was this a flea market/swap meet find?

[jordan_hillman]

Mortal Kombat.

Hahaha! That's a damn good find!

[jordan_hillman]

Went to a Play N Trade in spring 2012 and asked if they had any TurboGrafx in back. Guy comes to me after vanishing for what seemed like 15 minutes with a stack:

Bonk's Revenge
Alien Crush
Final Lap Twin
Aero Blasters
Super Star Soldier*
Parasol Stars
Silent Debuggers*
Bloody Wolf

*missing manual.

All games were $5 each except Parasol Stars, that was $15. Apparently the games were priced in 2008 and just sat.

Always, always ask to look in back. :3

Another quick thing; Found a Bonk 3 HuCard loose for about $100 at a shop called "2nd Chance", it didn't work, brought it back after thoroughly trying to resurrect it. Yay!

Reminds of the time I found a copy of Samurai Ghost (card only) for 10 bucks at a used game store in Southern California. I guess the owner of the store hand't price checked it in years, and as I was about to buy it the store owner "double checked" eBay and then asked 50 for the card. Needless to say I haven't back to that shop since

But dam.. that really sucks getting a dead Bonk 3 :/

[jordan_hillman]

over the years I also found a lot of 30 to 40 buck games for only like 1 to 3 bucks, like double dragon II etc.

also a set of 5 sealed local b(. Y .)bs of hawaii for each 1 buck..lol LOL L O L!!!

Double Dragon II for PC-E is hands down my favorite game for the system and my favorite Double Dragon port period! That is an awesome find!

[jordan_hillman]

Man, you all are making me Jelly. Grats on those deals, the deals I've been happiest with I've gotten around here, with my best non-site deal being It Came From the Desert, Sherlock Holmes, Monster Lair, Addams Family and a loose Lords of the Rising Sun for $50, which is an amazing deal for ebay, but not all that great in the real world. Still, can't complain, as the deals I got here made up for it.

Just out of curiosity, where are some of you located? I'm in Miami, and the used game scene here is pretty dead. It's getting better, but it is definitely rough, we had a bunch of stores back in the day, but they are long dead now. Though with CD Trader and a new Game Exchange opening, maybe things will be different.

That is a damn good deal for eBay. I haven't come across too many killer deals on eBay yet, and that is certainly better than any deal I've managed to score on eBay.

I'm located in Southern California. It's a pretty damn competitive market out here for game chasing and collecting, but I have managed to score a couple of great finds. Plus, there are some really cool and fair traders and re-sellers out here

[majors]

I found Bonk 3 in a sparrow's nest last spring

Got a Express with both home and car power adaptors with 5 games for $30. Sold 4 of the 5 Hu's (dupes) for $30.

Last weekend I got a White PCE w/ Briefcase for $20 plus some trade fodder, I posted that on another thread last night.

[turboswimbz]

I found Bonk 3 in a sparrow's nest last spring. Sadly, the pins were heavily corroded by a white residue (yet to be identified). The HuCARD doesn't work, but the sparrows appear to be functioning at 100%.

Le turbo doodle the white stuff and the sparrows please and thank you.

[chany60126]

I responded to a Craigslist ad that had Turbografx games. I got around 15 complete in case games including as Ys I &II, Monster Lair, R-Type for $5 each. It turns out that the lady I bought the games from was a former NEC employee. As a matter of fact, I met her a couple of blocks away from the former headquarters in Wood Dale, IL, hehe. I've had quite a bit of luck on Craigslist. Another find was A Duo with all the hookups for $60. I had to drive over to Indiana, but it was well worth the drive as they had tons of other stuff for sale too.

[galam]

I've been on a good run with ebay lately, finding some good BIN's.
But nothing locally in the wild that I can remember.

There is this awesome forum that I'm a member of where I got a free Cadash, Order of the Griffon, and Parasol Stars for FREE via raffles.  Does that count?  The place really is wild.

[Black Tiger]

I bought Magical Chase MIB and Cotton MIB for $5 each, walked outside, tore Magical Chase open and played it on my Turbo Express during the ride home. Made it to the end, but didn't beat the final boss that night. Tore open and played through Cotton the next morning.

Radio Shack clearance bin.

  Holy crap! Was this a flea market/swap meet find?

[Lost Monkey]

At the end of the Radio Shack clearance (Dixie Value Mall, Mississauga, Ontario), they were taping together bundles of 10 Super CDs and selling them for $10...

The bundles  contained an assortment of Prince of Persia, Loom, Shadow of the Beast, Sim Earth, Buster Bros., Lords of Thunder and Forgotten Worlds.

[HailingTheThings]

Went to a Play N Trade in spring 2012 and asked if they had any TurboGrafx in back. Guy comes to me after vanishing for what seemed like 15 minutes with a stack:

Bonk's Revenge
Alien Crush
Final Lap Twin
Aero Blasters
Super Star Soldier*
Parasol Stars
Silent Debuggers*
Bloody Wolf

*missing manual.

All games were $5 each except Parasol Stars, that was $15. Apparently the games were priced in 2008 and just sat.

Always, always ask to look in back. :3

Another quick thing; Found a Bonk 3 HuCard loose for about $100 at a shop called "2nd Chance", it didn't work, brought it back after thoroughly trying to resurrect it. Yay!

Reminds of the time I found a copy of Samurai Ghost (card only) for 10 bucks at a used game store in Southern California. I guess the owner of the store hand't price checked it in years, and as I was about to buy it the store owner "double checked" eBay and then asked 50 for the card. Needless to say I haven't back to that shop since

But dam.. that really sucks getting a dead Bonk 3 :/

If there was already a sticker for that price on Samurai Ghost you should have been like "Neh, it says Ten, neh, I'm paying TEN, ye scoundrel!" lol Yeah I wasn't happy about teh Bonk 3... still not, since I never see it for a good price. Maybe I should post a thing in the sales section once I get my tax thingy.