October 2014 loots.

[Mel]

Gamestop has some of their Wii games for pretty cheap. I got these 11 games for $40, if you take out Conduit 2 which was $8.99 it was basically 10 games for $30.

Would you be able to scan the Conduit 2 cover? Thanks

[jrjigga57]

Craigslist for $70... not greatest deal but i will take it

[wiggy]

Not a bad deal at all considering that $100+ is the going rate, and that looks like a pretty clean copy too

[jrjigga57]

yea its def pretty clean label is nice!  thank you!  im trying to work this other guy down to $100 for snes earthbound he had agreed to it last week but stalled on meeting and now trying to stay at $120

[TDIRunner]

Today was a good day.  I got a tip about a local pawn shop that had a huge retro game sale.  Apparently a game collector had died and his family had sold his collection to the pawn shop.  I have to say, I wish I could have met this collector.  I’ve never seen so many games, systems and boxes in perfect condition.  The consoles looked like they’ve never been used.  The boxes were near perfect with little to no wear.  The games were in amazing condition.  I wish I could have found this sooner as I had already missed out on a working CDi with about a dozen games (sold for $150  ).  


Anyway, here are my pickups.  It all set me back $200.

This is something I’ve never seen before.  The Starpath Supercharger for the Atari 2600.  This is an add-on device for the Atari 2600 that increases the RAM from 128 bytes to 6KB (seriously).  You then plug an audio cable into the headphone jack of any cassette player and put the games (which are cassette tapes) into your cassette player and hit play.  WTF  I can’t wait to try this out.

The games are:
•   Suicide Mission (CIB)
•   Communist Mutants from Space (CIB)
•   The Official Frogger by Sega (CIB) ***BY SEGA***
•   Fireball (CIB)
•   Killer Satellites (CIB)
•   Phaser Patrol (with manual)
•   Sword of Saros (with manual)





Next, I picked up two Atari Lynx systems.  No boxes, but I have the manuals.  The systems are almost perfect.  There are some scratches, but not on the screen.  I have one A/C adapter and one link cable.  I also have the following games:
•   Checkered Flag (with manual)
•   World Class Fussball/Soccer (with manual)
•   California Games (with manual)
•   Todd’s Adventure in Slime World (with manual)
•   Batman Returns (with manual)
•   Pit-Fighter (with manual)
•   Blue Lightning (CIB)
•   Chip’s Challenge (CIB)
•   Black Out (CIB)
•   Ms. Pac-Man (CIB)
•   Klax (CIB)
•   Shanghai (CIB)





I also picked up the following Atari Jaguar Games:
•   Evolution: Dino Dudes (CIB)
•   Pinball Fantasies (sealed CIB)
•   Kasumi Ninja (CIB)
•   Cybermorph (with manual & overlay)





And finally the following NES games:
•   Donkey Kong 3
•   Zelda II: The Adventures of Link

[sheep2001]

Wow. 

Sad that someone had to die for you to get it, but glad it went to another collector at such decent prices.  I would probably shit with excitement if I picked all that up for that little money!

Did you leave much else behind?

[Aton7]

You should feel lucky.  We have no local retro game scene.  I have to drive 2 hours to even hit a mega replay.

Lots of buying on Nintendo Age and Ebay for me.

Mega Replay? Where are you located pringlesman?

Southern Illinois

Wow, never thought someone from Southern Illinois would be on here. I'm in Carterville, where are you located?

[TDIRunner]

Wow. 

Sad that someone had to die for you to get it, but glad it went to another collector at such decent prices.  I would probably shit with excitement if I picked all that up for that little money!

Did you leave much else behind?

It is sad.  I wish I could have seen his collection they way he had it setup.  I spoke with the store owner and he seemed to think that most of the buyers had been collectors as well.  I hope that turns out to be true as I would hate to see any of this stuff end up on eBay.

I passed on a Radio Shack brand of Intellivision with about 30 boxed games.  I swear they looked like they had never been handled.  Amazing condition.  I also passed on an Atari 5200.  They had a few N64s including one in transparent green which is one of my favorite N64 colors.  They had the N64 memory upgrade in original box.  I wanted to buy so much more but I simply had to refrain myself.  I was thinking that I would wait a week and if anything is still left over, I might make a very aggressive offer to clear him out.  They also had an Atari Jaguar with several boxed games which I already had (I bought all of the games I didn't have and left the others).  So much more stuff that I can't even think to list right now.   

[TDIRunner]

You should feel lucky.  We have no local retro game scene.  I have to drive 2 hours to even hit a mega replay.

Lots of buying on Nintendo Age and Ebay for me.

Mega Replay? Where are you located pringlesman?

Southern Illinois

Wow, never thought someone from Southern Illinois would be on here. I'm in Carterville, where are you located?

I see you aren't too far from SIU.  I'm only 2 hours from you.  I went to SIUE.

[TDIRunner]

Okay, so I couldn’t help myself.  I went back to that pawn shop to take another look.  Just about everything had sold including the Intellevision and boxed games.  There was also a perfectly clean TurboGrafx 16 with several controllers that I was not aware of yesterday.  

However, since everything had been picked clean, I was in a good position to make an aggressive offer on the rest of the lot.  $120 out the door.

First is the Fairchild Channel F.  This is one odd gaming unit.  All wires are permanently attached.  This includes both controllers, RF video cable and power cable.  The controllers are eight-way joysticks with no buttons.  The joystick acts as the only button.

Six games total, all complete in box:
•   Videocart-1 - Tic-Tac-Toe, Shooting Gallery, Doodle, Quadra-Doodle
•   Videocart-2 – Desert Fox, Shooting Gallery
•   Videocart-3 – Video Blackjack
•   Videocart-5 – Space Ware
•   Videocart-9 – Drag Strip
•   Videocart-12 - Baseball

I have a feeling there aren't too many covers for these games floating around on this here site.....





The sale also included an Atari 5200 with 5 controllers, one track ball controller and 24 games all complete in box.

The system is so big it gets its own picture.




One of the controllers came with a box which is in fantastic condition.  I wondered why there were so many controllers and then I remembered:  The controllers are famous for being faulty.  Also, this system actually has four controller ports!!!!!




And the games all CIB:
•   Astro Chase
•   Baseball
•   Centipede
•   Congo Bonbo
•   Countermeasure
•   Dig Dug
•   Frogger
•   Galaxian
•   Gorf
•   H.E.R.O
•   Mr. Do!’s Castle
•   Ms. Pac-Man
•   Pac-Man
•   Pengo
•   Pitfall II
•   Popeye
•   Q*Bert
•   River Raid
•   Star Trek Strategic Operations Simulator
•   Super Breakout
•   The Dreadnaught Factor
•   Wizard of Wor
•   Zenji
•   Zone Ranger

[sheep2001]

Jealous of that 5200, we didn't get it over here.

[pringlesman]

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Craigslist for $70... not greatest deal but i will take it

That is one sexy cover you got there.

[TDIRunner]

Jealous of that 5200, we didn't get it over here.

Yeah, it's a strange animal.  They had so many good ideas when they designed it.  It's unfortunate that they didn't capitalize on all of the good ideas. 

The 5200 has always confused me because the 2600 is 2nd gen and the 7800 is 3rd gen.  So what the heck is the 5200..........generation 2.5???

[SegaNomadman]

I'm more confused by the Galaxian cover... Are those supposed to be angels? 

[TDIRunner]

I'm more confused by the Galaxian cover... Are those supposed to be angels? 

Ha.  I don't know.  It's a fun game though.  Even with the poor controller.