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Great videogame finds in the wild?
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29-10-2008 9:35pm#1So, what great stashes have you come across in the most unexpected places? For some strange reason I seem to just stumble across things. It's quite a talent actually
The greatest ever was a charity shop around Capel street. A friend of mine was going around to most of them in town, asking if they had any old consoles in their storerooms. He managed to find one that said to come back as they had a few upstairs.
I decided to go back with him as a matter of interest.
What we found was like nothing I have ever seen. I really wish I'd have had a camera.
The corner of the room upstairs was a huge pile of old electronic goods, all tangled up in wires. It must have taken years to accumilate.
To my happy suprise, about 40% of all the goods were consoles and games. You were literally lifting up cables and finding another console. I think I found 7 or 8 N64s alone. (To my delight, some of which had expansion paks!
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We spent about three hours going through it, untangling wires and trying to free up consoles. I'd lift up some random old electronic blender or sandwich maker, and there'd be a NES or a Megadrive sitting under it.
Sadly, by the time we were asked to leave, we had only really scratched the surface. God only knows what else was under there. There was what looked like some form of Amiga within the pile but I just couldn't get to it in time. My mate was hassling me to help him look for the cables needed to test out the consoles he wanted to buy :mad:
Other than that, there was my cash converters bonanza, about 20 n64 games marked at 2 euro each. (Priced wrong but he let me have them anyway)
My mint fully boxed NES in a Bray charity shop for €15.
My mam found a Snes in a bray charity shop with 25 games. Pretty much all the best games for the console. I actually couldnt believe the quality of the collection. Whoever had originally bought the games had really good taste. It even came with a region adapter, two controls, game geanie...all for 15 euro!0
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Getting my N64 out of a Flea Market when I was out in Vancouver, Canada. It was maybe the first week I was there, really nice in September and sunny. It was Sunday, and the family I was temporarily staying with asked me if I wanted to go to church with them.....so I said "Oh I would!....but I'm going to the Market!"
So having dodged that bullet, I walked down. I couldn't believe it. It was like heaven on Earth, almost every table had something. I should have bought everything I saw - boxes of SNES games, each cart just $10, the same with N64 games. They had stuff I didn't even know about like Colecovision's. I finally settled on an N64 in it's carrier bag, great condition.
I got 2 controllers, a rumble pak and a memory card plus Resident Evil 2, Mortal Kombat Trilogy and some American Football game that I soon ditched. It cost me $55 which would have been about 30 euro? Then I ran around to another table and bought Goldeneye for $10! I also saw a Virtual Boy out there, but that was for sale by a Games Dealer - dodgy bastards
But I did manage to get an expansion pak off one of them for $15 for Perfect Dark.
I went out a few more times, and bought a boxed NES for $40. Sadly I had to leave that behind as I just couldn't fit everything into my bags.
Aside from that, the time I got Super Street Fighter II on the Sega for $3 in a charity shop, also in Canada. It was boxed and all with instructions. It's my joint favourite SF alongside Street Fighter Ex Plus Alpha.0 -
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Best find EVER!!!!!!!
3 arcade machines in a skip.- 1 fully working,
- 1 needing some work
- 1 donor machine for parts (smashed screen)
There was a SF2Turbo board and MK3 Ultimate board installed in them. I managed to salvage some buttons and joysticks from the 3rd machine.
Wow! I take it the skip was outside an arcade operators?No I checked, they don't take them in at the collection stage. Tried Oxfam, Barnardo's and a few others.
They must have just totally stopped recently. I know there was a legal issue where they couldnt sell second hand electronics. But Ive been buying stuff from them up until the last year.
Even if they're still not taking them in, chances are their storerooms (especially if it's an old shop) are still full of gear. They're just not legally allowed give any of it to you. Worth chancing your arm though
Actually another great place is recycling places. There's one around the corner from me that I've picked up several ps1s in.atavan-halen wrote: »hmm, all this talk of charity shops and finding retro goodness in them gets me thinking...theres 2 charity shops in the village literally across the road from my house, i must ask them....
oh p.s, o1s1n, did you buy anything in that charity shop?
You might as well give it a go!
In the first charity shop I mentioned, I only bought games. There was a fairly huge amount of Megadrive carts. Which was exactly what I wanted to see! Many of them boxed. I've never seen so many Sonic 2 carts in one place.
All the consoles that were coming out I already had. So I let my mate have them as he was only really starting off his collection (What a way to start!) Did get myself a n64 expansion pak though. And quite a few control pads. Actually I almost bought an original gameboy but they wanted a tenner for it. Pff, the cheek!
My friend left with a big cardboard box full of stuff. One thing the git wouldn't let me have was a fully boxed Japanese Nes copy of Double Dragon that he somehow pulled out of the mess.
I'm not joking, it was literally
'OMFG, LOOK AT THIS!'
*Finds something really interesting*
'That's nothing, look at this!'
Over and over again for 3 hours.0 -
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yeah, ill give it a shot
i myself have never come across anything great
allthough i did get a boxed 'cube + boxed memory card and a game for €20, but thats the best ive gotten0 -
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(Hi o1s1n)
hehehe the Airsofters are invading :pac: I even have Conor_MR2 buying MVS carts for me on the bay.
As for sweet finds - I can't say I have any at all, I did see a PC Engine Turbo (portable) in Japan for 60 euros, but thats hardly a find, seeing as there as loads of class things for sale......I seriously need to go back with an empty suit case
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everything and anything!
is there anything you want me to look out for if i get there?
oh thanks! its just for xmas temp but still, its my first job so yeah 0
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