1 Atari 5200 Console
1 Atari 5200 Power Supply
1 Atari 5200 RF Adapter Box
1 General Atari AC/DC Power Adaptor
3 Atari 5200 Controllers
1 Atari 5200 Controller Holder
Games: (All Atari 5200 [with the exception of DK] Cart only):
1 Kangaroo
1 Space Invaders
1 Super Breakout
1 Pac-Man
1 Space Dungeon
1 Football
1 Centipede
1 Jungle Hunt
1 Defender
1 Popeye
1 James Bond 007
1 Pitfall
1 Keystone Kapers
1 Donkey Kong (Atari 2600 Cart Only)
Paid $4.00
Initially when I woke up, I decided I wanted to check out 1 sale which was about 5 or so minutes to my house. It was a community garage sale with proceeds going towards Hurricaine Katrina Relief. Turned out to only be like 3 Houses with mostly clothes and other odds and ends. On my way home I noticed a sign that said Yard Sale Sat 9/11. I thought it was a little odd and continued driving. A little later I see another sign this time saying Yard Sale Sun 9/11. I also noticed it was only a few streets down from my house so I decided to check it out...
There was a bunch of old electronics there and a bunch of random stuff. As I glanced into one of the bags laid out, I saw the Atari Logo. Upon further inspection, I saw that it was a 5200 Console with a bunch of Games and Accessories. I asked how much for the bag, and he looks over and says... "Oh that old thing, well it's broken but I'll let it go for 5 Dollars since there are a bunch of games and everything still." I examined the games, and thought about it for a minute or two, and asked him since it was broken if he could let me get a better deal. He really didn't want to budge too much, but let me go down to 4 Dollars. I gladly take it at 4 dollars and figure I'd most likely sell the Console on eBay for parts, and sell the games as a seperate lot.
I get home and unload the thing into my room. I see all the connections are there, so I plug it, stick in Pac-Man, and fire it up. Much to my surprise it powered on perfectly, and the Game booted up just fine. I plug in the controller, and find that it is totally unresponsive. My heart sunk at this point. I decided to check online for some repait tips and fine out that the Unresponsive controller is the most common problem with 5200's. I follow an online guide and clean the button connections points in the controller, and find that it works like new! So now that I've got it going, I'm definitely going to keep it.
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Originally Posted by snotknocker
Nice score on that SNES(my favorite system) lot. Sweet deal. Super Metroid and DKC are 2 of my favorite games. Zombies is a great game also but gets kinda repetetive and difficult. Scoriing 2 in one day is amazing. You should have a lot of fun with those games. I would'nt of haggled on the $20 asking price either. Good job. I'm hoping to get a nice SNES score before the seasons over. I've been itching to get my hands on Mana cheap for I while now. Several times recently I had to fight back the urge to buy it on E-bay for like $30 bucks, and I actually passed up a complete one earlier in the year at a sale for $30 I think. If the yardsale Gods could shine their good fortune on me and let me find it, that would make my season complete
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Thanks Snot, also if you have any Gamecrazy stores near you check them out for Secret of Mana and any other RPG's since many of the SNES Games are dropping to $4.99 there.