holy shit i found earthbound for $3

Local H Jay

so yeah, i regular goodwill and the salvation army. sometimes, these places have gamez. sometimes they are old or hard to find gamez.
like today, i stumbled upon a stack of SNES titles, at $3 apiece:
earthbound
super street fighter 2
megaman X2/X3
and a few assorted sports games left untouched

seeing as how i also just bought a SNES there 2 months ago for $15, now i am going to enjoy more than super mario world over and over.
(also i mean, how hard is earthbound to find...)

so, where do you find your gaming treasures? do you yard sail or frequent flea markets?
or do you just shell out online for your prized games?
and what have is your most FAVORITESTEST game evar?

Push Button / Receive Cat

great find! earthbound is great. for $3 it's amazing. i had to pay $30 for secret of mana 2 weeks ago but it was worth it.

my friend told me about the deal on craiglist, but i have been wanting to check out flea markets for a very long time.

Bartholamue

Yeah, for $3 that was an awesome find. I paid $20 US for it, and it was the Japanese version.

For my finds, I found Shadowrun Genesis, Soul Calibur and RE: CV for the Dreamcast for $4 each at a Value Villiage. Sometimes Value Villiage is great for old PC titles too.

Also found Mario Party 1-3, Yoshi's Story, Killer Instinct Gold, Harvest Moon Back to Nature, Yoshi's Story, and Megaman 64 for $1 each at a Blockbuster. They were just clearing them out too.

Casually Hardcore

Zone of Ender 2 for $10 the other day at Game Crazy.

Dr Snofeld

I once saw Ultima 1 through 8 for £2 at a car boot sale. I've never so much as installed them, but I figured I'd better be safe and get em anyway.

Xenogears of Bore

Local H Jay wrote: »

so yeah, i regular goodwill and the salvation army. sometimes, these places have gamez. sometimes they are old or hard to find gamez.
like today, i stumbled upon a stack of SNES titles, at $3 apiece:
earthbound
super street fighter 2
megaman X2/X3
and a few assorted sports games left untouched

seeing as how i also just bought a SNES there 2 months ago for $15, now i am going to enjoy more than super mario world over and over.
(also i mean, how hard is earthbound to find...)

so, where do you find your gaming treasures? do you yard sail or frequent flea markets?
or do you just shell out online for your prized games?
and what have is your most FAVORITESTEST game evar?

I hope ypu bought X2 and X3 as well as those are worth coin as well...

cj iwakura

Suikoden II for $10 at a Tampa flea market. Like new.

Local H Jay

nice, i did nab them, but i kinda was planning on keeping those. i'm probably selling earthbound once i've beaten it.

Bartholamue

I don't know if this is worth mentioning, but I got a Saturn, two controllers, and 7 games for $80. Two of those were Guardian Heroes and Dragon Force.

cj iwakura

Either Guardian Heroes or Dragon Force alone is worth $80, so yeah, steal of the decade.

Antimatter

Local H Jay wrote: »

so yeah, i regular goodwill and the salvation army. sometimes, these places have gamez. sometimes they are old or hard to find gamez.
like today, i stumbled upon a stack of SNES titles, at $3 apiece:
earthbound

lucky bastard. Last time I checked eBay, there wasn't a copy under $80
I found DK country 3 for two bucks

LewieP

I got a DS lite, shortly after they came out, with NSMB, for like £20.

You can't even get NSMB for that price now.

Speed Racer

I got Twin snakes, MGS2 and MGS3 for twenty bucks total.

Also got Shadow of the Colossus for five bucks.

Kuribo's Shoe

I got Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 for the ps2 for a dollar.
secret of mana for 50 cents
act raiser for 50 cents
little nemo for the nes for f'n free

I do alright

bwanie

what's CvM2 worth nowadays?

Kuribo's Shoe

80-100 bucks

if they're planning to release it on xbla like they say, that'll drop fast

Obs

Got chrono trigger for $7 once

Xagarath

Ultima 7 complete, with expansion and cloth map, for a few pounds in a charity shop.

Antimatter

Oh yeah, Phantom Hourglass for a dollar

Impersonator

Antimatter wrote: »

Oh yeah, Phantom Hourglass for a dollar

How?!

Viscountalpha

I remeber finding dungeons and dragons dragonstryke for 6$ at some game shop. Its a Top down dragon shooter. Its awesome. Best dragons shooter ever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonStrike_(computer_game)

Finding the game for sale is the hard part.

I found a dreamcast keyboard new for 50% off at my workplace, paid something like 12 or 20$ for it. I kinda wish I could adapt it to a PC- p/s2 slot or USB and use it as my gaming keyboard.

My favorite was a 40$ dreamcast joystick for 6$ which I'll probably end up modifying into a 360 arcade stick.

Rent

PS2, controller, 20 games (including the entire .hack series, RE4), 2 PS2 memory cards, 1 PS1 memory card for forty bucks

Buttcleft

cj iwakura wrote: »

Suikoden II for $10 at a Tampa flea market. Like new.

I'd have bought 10 at that price.

Suikoden's fucking rare as Rhodium

Congrats to the op for the Earthbound nab, its a fuckawesome game!

Antimatter

Impersonator wrote: »

Antimatter wrote: »

Oh yeah, Phantom Hourglass for a dollar

How?!

Garage sale. It belonged to a kid who won it from a contest, and didn't like it. He didn't even get the sword.

TheStig

Antimatter wrote: »

Impersonator wrote: »

Antimatter wrote: »

Oh yeah, Phantom Hourglass for a dollar

How?!

Garage sale. It belonged to a kid who won it from a contest, and didn't like it. He didn't even get the sword.

They should sell that with an option to pay an extra $5 to smack that kid around.

UnbreakableVow

A couple of years ago, I got SaGa Frontier 1 and 2 for $1.99 each at a local used game store.

My crown jewel, however, is Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth (PlayStation version) for $2 at Goodwill.

Rigor Mortis

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

My crown jewel, however, is Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth (PlayStation version) for $2 at Goodwill.

Man, I hope you believe in a god of some sort because that is some divinely ordained shit right there.

cj iwakura

Except actually playing Hoshigami is like a trip through purgatory.

anoffday

That's awesome. I just went to a new Goodwill that had opened up to look for games, but found nothing. One of my friend's found a cheap Atari at a Goodwill before.

As far as my deals go I managed to find Half Life 2 when it came out on ebay for 10 bucks.

KKprofit

I have 3 playstation 1's I bought at a goodwill just after PS2 came out. I paid like 2 dollars each for them. They thought they were cd players. (they kind of are..)

I also got saga frontier for $1 and various sega games.

S0up

I bought a copy of Earthbound for 55$ at a local comic book shop. Granted it's not the cheapest buy ever, but considering I was working out a deal with a coworker for 120$ for his copy, it was pretty cheap to me.

Oh, and I also got these other SNES games for free from my Aunt who claimed they were all garbage:

Super Metroid
Secret Of Mana
Donkey Kong Country 1/2
Zelda: A Link To The Past
Super Street Fighter 2
Super Mario All Stars
Super Mario World
Harvest Moon
Yoshi's Island

And many more. But those are the games that stick out.

Doc Holliday

I can't wait for summer to roll around so I can start garage sailing again. Haven't done it here in Portland, yet. Hopefully it's as good as Austin was.

zimfan

they have Earthbound completely new in the box at a collector's store at a mall near me

it's 50$

Antimatter

zimfan wrote: »

they have Earthbound completely new in the box at a collector's store at a mall near me

it's 50$

buy it and send it to me

zimfan

nah I've always seen it and been like

fifty bucks? boooo

then again I don't have a SNES so I wouldn't be able to play it or anything

Dehumanized

I'm surprised that it's lower than the price it originally sold for at all.

Antimatter

zimfan wrote: »

nah I've always seen it and been like

fifty bucks? boooo

then again I don't have a SNES so I wouldn't be able to play it or anything

I have a SNES.

Viscountalpha

Doc Holliday wrote: »

I can't wait for summer to roll around so I can start garage sailing again. Haven't done it here in Portland, yet. Hopefully it's as good as Austin was.

It can be, But there is the rain factor here. Even in the summer.

Viscountalpha

anoffday wrote: »

That's awesome. I just went to a new Goodwill that had opened up to look for games, but found nothing. One of my friend's found a cheap Atari at a Goodwill before.

As far as my deals go I managed to find Half Life 2 when it came out on ebay for 10 bucks.

I paid 50$ for a mint atari 2600. I don't regret it. It has ZERO scratches and works.

Buttcleft

anoffday wrote: »

That's awesome. I just went to a new Goodwill that had opened up to look for games, but found nothing. One of my friend's found a cheap Atari at a Goodwill before.

As far as my deals go I managed to find Half Life 2 when it came out on ebay for 10 bucks.

I got HL2 at release for a buck 8-)

Kaseius

Viscountalpha wrote: »

Doc Holliday wrote: »

I can't wait for summer to roll around so I can start garage sailing again. Haven't done it here in Portland, yet. Hopefully it's as good as Austin was.

It can be, But there is the rain factor here. Even in the summer.

I assume we're talking about the great northwest here.

The weather has been kind of lousy lately, although it's finally nice today. A good change.

also, I don't think I've ever really had a good videogame deal that stand out to me

OH WAIT HOLY SHIT I GOT VALKYRIA CHRONICLES NEW FOR 27 BUCKS