February 2018 hauls - Hoarding continues

[amace04]

I brought a PS2 trade in to a local video game store to see what they would offer.  It was a PS2, 2 controllers, memory cards and about 50 games.  Average, common, near worthless games.  Mostly titles like Jeopardy, Hitman, Dead to Rights - stuff you'd see in a goodwill or a flea market.  Some good ones (Ico, SotC, MGS 3) but again, nothing to write home about.  Nothing rare, no RPGs or big name, must have or pricey titles.  I was going to put it on offer up for like $100 OBO just to be rid of it, but tried this first. 
Anyway, the woman goes through everything and offers me $250 credit for all of it.  I couldn't believe it.  Either she knew something I didn't, her figures were way off, or this place is seriously over priced.  So I took the credit, and immediately bought a Nintendo Switch they had in box with Mario Odysee. 

So a mint Switch plus Mario cost me about $50 out of pocket, a spare PS2 and a ton of worthless games I would have never played. 

Nicely done. Hopefully you didn't have a gem in there you didn't know about.

I figure, one of the pawn shops I go to sells common ps1/2/3 xbox/360 and wii games for $5 each.  More collectible games are individually priced.  If they do something similar, I can't see them getting more than $250 for the games, plus $60 for the system with controllers - and that's on the higher end of things.  You got yourself a great deal from the sounds of it.

[Megatron]

You got yourself a great deal from the sounds of it.

So I have been running the numbers through my head and I think I "may" have figured this out. Possibly.  So a buddy of mine works in a game store in Virginia.  he told me that usually stores will either offer one of two deals for trade ins:  credit value or half cash value (ie 20 credit or 10 cash) or credit value and 2/3 cash (ie 20 credit or 13 cash).  It depends on the store.
If this lady was new, and when I said I wasn't sure if I wanted cash or credit, she may have found the cash value and doubled it, as opposed to finding the 2/3 factor.  That might explain it.  $125 cash or $185 credit seems a bit more plausible. 
Anyway, I have more doubles and extra systems laying around.  I might find out when she is working and go back.  I could use a new Neo Geo 

[TDIRunner]

Dang , I would have bought that SOTC from you 

[wiggy]

Finally get to play those MSU-1 ROMs

[TDIRunner]

As much as I love the MSU1 feature, I have yet to find a game where I enjoy the music BETTER than the original.  It's a cool feature to have though. 

[wiggy]

As much as I love the MSU1 feature, I have yet to find a game where I enjoy the music BETTER than the original.  It's a cool feature to have though. 

For me it’s one of those “I gotta be able to play this” sort of things. I basically agree, though Zelda and Metroid are really awesome!

[TDIRunner]

As much as I love the MSU1 feature, I have yet to find a game where I enjoy the music BETTER than the original.  It's a cool feature to have though. 

For me it’s one of those “I gotta be able to play this” sort of things. I basically agree, though Zelda and Metroid are really awesome!

Super Metroid MSU1 is pretty cool, although I had some issues with some songs cutting off at weird times. 


DONT' FORGET.
When you are playing MSU1 games, you have to reset the game first before powering off in order to keep your save.  I lost 2 hours of Super Metroid the hard way. 

[Tech13]

2 more good finds for 5 bucks each

[Yoshi Egg]

2 more good finds for 5 bucks each

Wow, that is a sweet deal! Captain Toad was a cool game. Hope they make another for the Switch.

[Tech13]

2 more good finds for 5 bucks each

Wow, that is a sweet deal! Captain Toad was a cool game. Hope they make another for the Switch.

Yea the Alabama Video game market is really odd. if it is 1 or 2 generations old you can get it for a steal, but as soon as it is 3 generations old. the price shoots past MSRP.
Right now you could not even find a sega saturn game on a shelf in a used game store within 50 miles of my house.

[wiggy]

As much as I love the MSU1 feature, I have yet to find a game where I enjoy the music BETTER than the original.  It's a cool feature to have though. 

For me it’s one of those “I gotta be able to play this” sort of things. I basically agree, though Zelda and Metroid are really awesome!

Super Metroid MSU1 is pretty cool, although I had some issues with some songs cutting off at weird times. 


DONT' FORGET.
When you are playing MSU1 games, you have to reset the game first before powering off in order to keep your save.  I lost 2 hours of Super Metroid the hard way. 

Hmm, I haven't had that problem.  But I'll make sure to use that method regardless from here on out.  Thanks!

[aaron-hagel]

Some of the new items I picked up over the weekend.

[TDIRunner]

This arrived today.  I've already finished the first 5 Colossi.  I'm loving it so far.  This is how you do a remake.  So far this is making up for the Crash remake failure. 

[wiggy]

Fuck fuck fuck!  I forgot to pre order the LE of this.  I don’t know what made me forget. I had it in my damned cart, then , and forgot

[TDIRunner]

First impressions of Shadow of the Colossus are very good. I finished the first 8 Colossi tonight. The control is just the way I remember. Very easy to get back into it despite not playing this game for over a year. The game looks beautiful. The extra level of detail is amazing, especially in the forest areas. Differences are minor. Saving is automatic now which basically makes the shrines "healing stations" now. Also, there are 3 difficulty settings right out of the box instead of the one in the past with hard mode being unlocked after you beat it. I'm playing on normal now and will go through hard after I finish. This makes me feel a lot better about the abysmal Crash remake.