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#8226  

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Posted Fri Mar 19, 2010 6:04 PM

View PostSTICH666, on Fri Mar 19, 2010 5:26 PM, said:

My god....
I know...
What the h*ll?
Why in gods name must YOU be the chosen one?

#8227  

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Posted Fri Mar 19, 2010 6:09 PM

Seriously nice finds man!

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Posted Fri Mar 19, 2010 6:34 PM

That was one heck of a deal... all of them... you stole that 5200, even if the controllers don't work.

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Posted Fri Mar 19, 2010 6:41 PM

Shit not even my debug compares with that.

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Posted Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:04 PM

Hehe, well... I tested everything and the 5200 controllers, while beautiful, are mostly useless. The sticks work great, but *none* of the buttons work except Start on one of them. I interchanged my other beat-up 5200 and controllers, checked multiple games, etc., but as pretty as the controllers are they are toast. That doesn't bother me, though... it's still an amazing score, and I'm incredibly happy with it :)

Everything else works, including the NES and special arcade-looking controller. The controller was why I bought the NES, since I already have several, and to my surprise the entire system with all controllers appears to be working.

When I talked to the guy we bought all of this from, he was from Kentucky, visiting family, and only passing through every 3-4 months. He said he always brings things for sale when he visits, and he told me he had tons of gaming stuff he would bring next time. I gave him our phone number and I'm hoping he will let us know the next time he comes around so it's less of a random thing...

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Posted Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:16 PM

View Postakator, on Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:04 PM, said:

Hehe, well... I tested everything and the 5200 controllers, while beautiful, are mostly useless. The sticks work great, but *none* of the buttons work except Start on one of them. I interchanged my other beat-up 5200 and controllers, checked multiple games, etc., but as pretty as the controllers are they are toast. That doesn't bother me, though... it's still an amazing score, and I'm incredibly happy with it :)

Everything else works, including the NES and special arcade-looking controller. The controller was why I bought the NES, since I already have several, and to my surprise the entire system with all controllers appears to be working.

When I talked to the guy we bought all of this from, he was from Kentucky, visiting family, and only passing through every 3-4 months. He said he always brings things for sale when he visits, and he told me he had tons of gaming stuff he would bring next time. I gave him our phone number and I'm hoping he will let us know the next time he comes around so it's less of a random thing...
If you see him again before he leaves. Ask him which part of Kentucky he's from. Because if he's local to me, I might want to see what he has too. If you don't mind asking and sharing that is......

As for the controllers, you could do some guts swapping. And have a nice set of good looking 5200 controllers.

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Posted Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:38 PM

View Postnightwheel, on Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:16 PM, said:

View Postakator, on Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:04 PM, said:

When I talked to the guy we bought all of this from, he was from Kentucky, visiting family, and only passing through every 3-4 months. He said he always brings things for sale when he visits, and he told me he had tons of gaming stuff he would bring next time. I gave him our phone number and I'm hoping he will let us know the next time he comes around so it's less of a random thing...
If you see him again before he leaves. Ask him which part of Kentucky he's from. Because if he's local to me, I might want to see what he has too. If you don't mind asking and sharing that is......

As for the controllers, you could do some guts swapping. And have a nice set of good looking 5200 controllers.

I will go back tomorrow (Saturday). I would also like more info to keep in touch with him when/if he returns. I was so excited when I bought everything, that I had a nerdgasm -- and while I gave him our info I didn't get his ;)

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Posted Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:01 PM

View Postakator, on Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:04 PM, said:

Hehe, well... I tested everything and the 5200 controllers, while beautiful, are mostly useless. The sticks work great, but *none* of the buttons work except Start on one of them.

LOL, I almost called it. 5200 controllers, if original and sitting in a closet for 20 years still tend to not work. It's been repeated ad nauseum, but if you really want to get awesome long-lasting 5200 controllers, just get the Best Electronics gold ones. You paid hardly anything for your 5200, so even with the cost of those, you'd hardly have anything into the system. Get those and a multicart and your 5200 setup is pretty much done. Oh, and a Trak-Ball and Space Dungeon joystick holder of course!

#8234  

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Posted Sat Mar 20, 2010 11:54 AM

Not too much, but went to the Goodwill in Bentonville and picked up a boxed copy of Deluxe Paint II for the PC for five dollars, loose copy of Virtual On for the PC for two, and same for a non-greatest-hits version of the original Hot Shots Golf.

#8235  

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Posted Sat Mar 20, 2010 12:53 PM

Didn't get S* today. Saw three sports PS2 games, and Wii Party Games for $12 each, and a V.Smile marked $35 at a consignment yard sale, that still had the Target 34.98 markdown sticker on the box. Yeah, use it then sell it for what you paid. Right. If it wasn't for CPU's box of boxes delivered today, I wouldn't have been okay for my classic gamer addiction "fix."

AX

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Posted Sat Mar 20, 2010 1:55 PM

View Postnightwheel, on Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:16 PM, said:

View Postakator, on Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:04 PM, said:

Hehe, well... I tested everything and the 5200 controllers, while beautiful, are mostly useless. The sticks work great, but *none* of the buttons work except Start on one of them. I interchanged my other beat-up 5200 and controllers, checked multiple games, etc., but as pretty as the controllers are they are toast. That doesn't bother me, though... it's still an amazing score, and I'm incredibly happy with it :)

Everything else works, including the NES and special arcade-looking controller. The controller was why I bought the NES, since I already have several, and to my surprise the entire system with all controllers appears to be working.

When I talked to the guy we bought all of this from, he was from Kentucky, visiting family, and only passing through every 3-4 months. He said he always brings things for sale when he visits, and he told me he had tons of gaming stuff he would bring next time. I gave him our phone number and I'm hoping he will let us know the next time he comes around so it's less of a random thing...
If you see him again before he leaves. Ask him which part of Kentucky he's from. Because if he's local to me, I might want to see what he has too. If you don't mind asking and sharing that is......

As for the controllers, you could do some guts swapping. And have a nice set of good looking 5200 controllers.
You don't really expect him to tell you where he lives do you? :D :evil:

#8237  

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Posted Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:06 PM

A few goodies while I was out:

Atari Junior Long Rainbow version - $10
Sears Video Chess - $2.50
NES Rollerball, Quattro 4 Sports, Super Spike V'ball, Lunar Pool, Circus Caper - $3 each
and my favorite - loose 2600 Track & Field - $5

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Posted Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:14 PM

My local Goodwill had an NES with 22 games in clear Nintendo boxes. I had $5 on me. I bought Mega Man III and got a nickel back.

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Posted Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:15 PM

View PostRik, on Sat Mar 20, 2010 1:55 PM, said:

View Postnightwheel, on Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:16 PM, said:

View Postakator, on Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:04 PM, said:

Hehe, well... I tested everything and the 5200 controllers, while beautiful, are mostly useless. The sticks work great, but *none* of the buttons work except Start on one of them. I interchanged my other beat-up 5200 and controllers, checked multiple games, etc., but as pretty as the controllers are they are toast. That doesn't bother me, though... it's still an amazing score, and I'm incredibly happy with it :)

Everything else works, including the NES and special arcade-looking controller. The controller was why I bought the NES, since I already have several, and to my surprise the entire system with all controllers appears to be working.

When I talked to the guy we bought all of this from, he was from Kentucky, visiting family, and only passing through every 3-4 months. He said he always brings things for sale when he visits, and he told me he had tons of gaming stuff he would bring next time. I gave him our phone number and I'm hoping he will let us know the next time he comes around so it's less of a random thing...
If you see him again before he leaves. Ask him which part of Kentucky he's from. Because if he's local to me, I might want to see what he has too. If you don't mind asking and sharing that is......

As for the controllers, you could do some guts swapping. And have a nice set of good looking 5200 controllers.
You don't really expect him to tell you where he lives do you? :D :evil:

I went back by to see him, and he politely declined to give me contact info. He told me not to worry, that he would contact us next time he was in town...

As for the controllers, next month when I have the money I will get the parts from Best Electronics :)

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Posted Sun Mar 21, 2010 2:59 PM

View PostGregadetH, on Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:14 PM, said:

My local Goodwill had an NES with 22 games in clear Nintendo boxes. I had $5 on me. I bought Mega Man III and got a nickel back.

Why would you want a really bad pseudo rock band?

#8241  

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Posted Sun Mar 21, 2010 5:11 PM

picked up a nice, working N64 console with Diddy Kong Racing and all the cables and a controller for $4.99 at Goodwill. Excellent condition for all of it.

#8242  

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Posted Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:05 PM

<------------ daily fix.

Got Shinobi CIB for the Game Gear for $5.

#8243  

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Posted Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:41 PM

Well, I shared my great finds last week, so I will also share my dismal finds this weekend. Lots of gas money, not much findin'. I got a nice vintage power switching pizza box thing (that drawer on the left is for your 3.5" Atari ST disks) and a Game Boy for $8 total. Passed on a lot of overpriced stuff.

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Posted Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:14 PM

Picked up a pile of Atari 2600 games over the course of two weeks from one of my usual thrifts. They were mostly dirt-commons and the store asked 50 cents a pop for them, so they weren't exactly a steal. But it's a local thrift that operates for a good cause, so I was happy to buy them. They'll make good fillers for whenever I have a complete system or two to sell again.

I also picked up the Activision Atari 2600 collection for the PlayStation 1. It's amusing to see how the PS1 was apparently only barely capable of emulating the 2600 with any degree of playability. It's even more amusing to see how the programmers apparently messed up and used a PAL version of H.E.R.O. I realize graphics tend to be abstract in old video games, making it hard to tell if something is the right color or not, but did they think there was nothing wrong with pink snakes and purple faces?

Edited by FujiSkunk, Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:15 PM.


#8245  

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Posted Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:43 PM

Fighter Stick SG-6 for Sega for $2.50. Good for a hack project.

A power supply that supplies 1.5A @ 5v and 1.5A @ 12v for $1.41. another hack project part.

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#8246  

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Posted Tue Mar 23, 2010 6:40 PM

Wandered into a video store that had a ton of VHS for sale. Nothing interesting. Had some Genesis and N64 games for sale but all sports games. But then I spotted on a top shelf some sealed vintage video games. There was some Genesis (a Star Trek game I think), maybe some PS1's? Snagged a sealed mint copy of Back to the Future for NES. They had another sealed copy and a sealed copy of Dick Tracy NES as well. Not a great find...paid twenty bucks...but I never see anything sealed in the wild, and I figured if I didn't pick it up I'd regret it. Nice addition to the collection even if it was overpriced...thoughts?

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Posted Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:06 PM

View PostAtariLeaf, on Sun Mar 21, 2010 2:59 PM, said:

View PostGregadetH, on Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:14 PM, said:

My local Goodwill had an NES with 22 games in clear Nintendo boxes. I had $5 on me. I bought Mega Man III and got a nickel back.

Why would you want a really bad pseudo rock band?

Trust me, I don't. They suck! :lol:

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Posted Wed Mar 24, 2010 11:48 PM

I wandered into Goodwill tonight looking for a USB keyboard didn't see any, I was going to walk out but noticed some CDs so I browsed...hmm PSone games...Final Fantasy IX, Castlevania Symphony of the Night[GH], Syphon Filter 2 @$2.99 apiece. Bought them got home opened them and all the discs and manuals are mint. I'm still in shock.

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Posted Fri Mar 26, 2010 10:22 PM

^Nice haul

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Posted Sat Mar 27, 2010 7:15 AM

On the way to my kid's Pinewood Derby race on friday, I found a Value Villiage. I've heard some awesome things about them so I made the trip back that way yesterday. I gotta say, I wasn't impressed at all. They had 3 gaming related items, each severely overpriced. A Playstation with no hookups for $60, F13 for NES for $10 and one Atari 2600 Jr with no hookups for $60. That's thrift stores in Georgia. Overpriced like crazy. Anyhoo, on the way home I noticed a Yard Sale sign that read "Like new furniture! Like new books! Really old video games!" and decided to follow the bright orange ribbons that lead to the house. I'm glad I did...because I grabbed everything in the picture for a grand total of $17. They had 4 boxes of Atari 400, 7800 and 2600 "games and machines" about an hour before I arrived, but they sold it to another guy for FIFTEEN DOLLARS. That was a crazy good deal. And now I hate that guy, whoever he is. :lol: All in all, not a bad haul though. Notice the zapper? The same guy who bought the Atari stuff bought their copy of Wild Gunman, but not the gun. Go figure.

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