I went to my first convention, the Retro World Expo, last Saturday. here is what I got from different vendors. I did some bargaining on all of them
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I drove up with my friend Jon, who I imminently lost as I entered, he went to the Magic the Gathering area. I ran into my other friend Brandon and we mostly stuck together,
Lot 1 - $55SEGA Power Base Converter (Was $40)
Zillion 2 (CIB)
Shinobi
The Ninja
They had other SMS games, after talking, wanted $70 for all of them (CIB, Outrun, Carmen Sandiago, 2~ more), I only had $70, Was going to do the PBC and the 2 loose games, and I got them to toss in Zillion, they asked if it was because it was worth something, and I said no, it just looks fun
This was my first bargaining like this, and it was fun. The booth annoyingly had no prices and was just looking up everything they had online when asked, still got a good deal IMO.
I then went to the Gaming Historians panel, it was great.Lot 2 - $26Ghost House (Was $20)
Gyromite
Altered Beast (Was $7)
This one I was just browsing for Master System games, they had a few. I was compelled to actually buy because i was being a little bit of a hassle, I tested my PBC on their Retron 5, and tested a couple games. I also got in a conversation with someone I reconised from the Gaming Historians pannel, I offered $26 for all 3, I had $27 left.
I originally got a Light Gun game for the SMS, I realized this when I was in the convention's game room and tried to play it. I went back to swamp it out and got Altered Beast, it was the only thing there I wanted that was equal value, It was $1 less, but whatever.
I then ran into Pete Dorr, a YouTuber I occupationally watch, and had a good long conversation.
I caught up with Jon and he got a retail box of MTG cards, and found a $300 card, he was happy.
Lot 3 - $90Pelican GB Player controller ($25ish)
Punch Out (Was $25)
Tiny Toons SNES ($5)
Stunt Race FX ($5)
Manuals - ($5 for all)
Mario Kart DD!! ($30-Jon's)
I was walking and saw the GB controller, and the guy said around $25, he was unsure if he wanted to sell it nad new it was worth more. I quickly grabbed other things to add to the purchase to entice him to sell it, adding the carts and Mario Kart that Jon wanted. I also looked through his manuals and found thous, he originally wanted like $5 for each of the Konami ones, no set price. After some talking (He had a AVP Jaguar manual, worth more than I thought it was) he offered $5 for the 3 and just tossed in the TTA manual randomly and the deal was done.
My friend spotted me.
Lot 4 - $15Circus Atari - (Val $3)
Re-Volt - ($3)
Chopper Attack - ($5)
Top Gear Rally - ($5)
Mission Impossible - ($5)
Spec Ops Stealth Patrol (PS1) - ($4)
ACDC Rock Band (PS3) - ($4)
Full Spectrum Warrior (Xbox) - ($4)
Hyper 3D Pinball (Saturn, cracked case) - ($3)
Rumble Pack - ($9)
On our way out as they were closing, I saw in a far corner 3 long tables full of just piles of games, labeled 1$ and 2.50$. I dug around, it was mostly crap games from NES to Modern, sport titles and crap filler titles. I was able to pick out some good games, mostly the N64 games before some group of people started picking through the pile of N64 sport games picking out the Wane whatever 3D Hockiys saying "These are worth $5"
I tossed random numbers at the guy for a bigger pile, starting at $10, but he declined. I dropped some crappier titles and we agreed on the last $15 my friend Jon had
I owe Jon a lot. He tossed in ACDC and Circus Atari randomly to the ones I had.
The seller was a guy who did storage lockers, store liquidations and tag sales and that was were he got it all. He had some displays but I did not have enough for them, and was not too interested. We had a interesting conversation.
Then we went to eat at Sonic
