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Originally Posted by sgaldis After a long thrift store dry spell, and generally just not stopping into the local ones as much as I used to, I finally had a pleasant surprise today: First time I've ever found a sealed NES game in the wild, I believe. For $5, I couldn't pass it up. Looking on Amazon, it seems that there are only two listings for new copies, and I am not seeing any on the 'Bay as of now, so I think this is one to hang onto for awhile. It is in really nice condition, complete with the retail hang tag still intact.

Ack, I'm not sure where this whole "the 'Bay" thing started, but it makes my eyes bleed, isn't it just faster to type ebay? Anyways, as far as sealed games go, that one isn't terribly valuable, maybe $25 at most, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it for less than that.

So went to one of my local Savers again, and found a bag of gameboy and ds games for 9.99. Originally all I could see was the 2 advance
games(Hamtaro and F-14 Tomcat) and Super Mario 64 ds in one of those
ds cases. I thought I saw both cases having 2 games each, so I figured
6 games for 10 bucks, not to bad, especially with Super Mario 64 included.
Buy the stuff, open the cases, and find 5 games in the cases instead of 4.
If the picture doesn't show the titles clearly enough, the games are as follows:

Hamtaro: Ham Ham Heartbreak GBA
F-14 Tomcat GBA
Super Mario 64 DS
Shrek Superslam DS
Cooking Mama 2 DS
Wario Ware Touched DS
Metroid Prime Hunters DS

Interested in playing Metroid since I never played this version, other than
that most will go to my daughter. If she doesnt want them, looks like i can sell a good portion of these games for 10 bucks a pop(except for shrek and f-14), so should make my money back easily

I think that Metroid Prime is just a demo.

Originally Posted by my2k2zx2 I think that Metroid Prime is just a demo.

Yeah i think you're right. Oh well, guess they are all for the daughter then

I went to my goodwill. They had skylander starer set PS3 oh $hit!! game sealed..yes! instructions sealed...yes!!, that thing you put the figures on sealed...yes. box opened..no big deal... all three figures missing...BOO!!! I searched and searched like a homeless person but could not find them. Probably some kid stole it...
Price 29.99 ARRRGHGHGHGGHGH!!!

Lol. It would've been a great steal! My Goodwill always seem to have the Skylander Set once in a while. My bro picked it up a few months ago. During June, I found 2 SEALED figures for 2.99. Imagine the look on my face when I saw it. So glad no one stole it or anything. And it was in the damn toy aisle too!

Ok, I think this takes the award for weirdest video game related finding at a Thrift Store



Almost passed on it thinking it was nothing, but did a quick search on eBay using my phone and found that one recently sold for $60 bucks, so off to eBay this thing shall go. Paid 75 cents for it.

I snagged a copy of Taz: Escape in Space for the Game Gear for 99 cents. Im hoping to sell it on ebay at some point, or trade on here once i open up my own thread. It was a sweet deal tho

All this talk of eBay reminds me I still have my sealed copy of Packy & Marlon for SNES I found at a Salvation Army store about 6 months ago that I really should sell, though the corners of the wrapping are MIA and the box is worn on those corner spots.

Originally Posted by robwhois Hamtaro: Ham Ham Heartbreak GBA F-14 Tomcat GBA Super Mario 64 DS Shrek Superslam DS Cooking Mama 2 DS Wario Ware Touched DS Metroid Prime Hunters DS

Oh god, I have nightmares about F-14 Tomcat. One of my first GBA games and I remember it being pretty horrible... Glad to see you're having some luck though. I haven't been hitting up the stores all the frequently.

And of course not within 10 minutes of listing my Mario Paint Paas on eBay, I get a message from someone "I really want this, but I'm on vacation, can you send it to an address other than the one listed on my PayPal account?". in scammers

Xevious NES- $3, saw the cartridge sitting on the shelf.....further down the clear bag with the black sleeve in it.....further down the booklet....and even further down the box with the foam block in it! Everything is in amazing shape.

Passed on some Mario Kart Wii wheels, Genesis games that I can already play on the Ultimate collection they made for 360, and a returned boxed N64. She let me look at it, person said the system was broke, I asked if I could buy the box with the foam, controller, baggies, cables, and booklets. She called the back and the manager said No. I said "how about $15 for everything then?" (it was marked $30). Manager said no to that as well. Pissed me off cus she said theyd probably throw it out too, might have to keep an eye on their dumpster.

Originally Posted by spmahn And of course not within 10 minutes of listing my Mario Paint Paas on eBay, I get a message from someone "I really want this, but I'm on vacation, can you send it to an address other than the one listed on my PayPal account?". in scammers

you should have said yes, but still sent to the address on paypal

Snagged The Legend of Dragoon for PS1 and Grandia II for Dreamcast today for $4 each. Decent prices I think even though apparently neither of them are particularly valuable :/ might just toss em up on eBay if I don't get a kick out of playing them

This is probably my best week for finding video games at thrift stores.

The two blu rays were $8 each at Goodwill and the games were from an upscale thrift store. They were $3 each, except for Final Fantasy, that was $4.

That reminds me I still have my copy of Wall-E that I picked up for $5 about a year ago that I haven't watched yet and the copy of the Pillars Of The Earth mini series that I haven't watched either and I had PM'd at BB.

Picked up a ton of DVDs today from my local GW, which is still doing them for only $1. Shining examples that I plan on keeping for myself:

Samurai Jack Seasons 1 and 2
Red Vs Blue Season 1
The Mentalist Season 1
Adventures of the Gummi Bears (Whole series of 47 episodes)
Bruce Willis 4 Film Collection (Last Boyscout, 16 Blocks, Last Man Standing, Whole Nine Yards)
Classic Comedy 4 Film Collection (Vegas Vacation, Spies Like Us, Man with Two Brains, Man Who Knew Too Little)

Also got:

GTA San Andreas (AO) Complete
DOA Extreme Beach Volleyballs (Complete, even has lenticular card)

And they also had Lego Indiana Jones 2 for the DS, but upon looking inside case, expecting disappointment, there sat a Pokemon Platinum DS cart.

Originally Posted by Eagle3ye Snagged The Legend of Dragoon for PS1 and Grandia II for Dreamcast today for $4 each. Decent prices I think even though apparently neither of them are particularly valuable :/ might just toss em up on eBay if I don't get a kick out of playing them

If you don't enjoy Grandia II, you should probably just stop playing games. In other words: it's fantastic. One of the few JRPGs still actually worth a damn.

Originally Posted by sp00ge Picked up a ton of DVDs today from my local GW, which is still doing them for only $1. Shining examples that I plan on keeping for myself: Samurai Jack Seasons 1 and 2 Red Vs Blue Season 1 The Mentalist Season 1 Adventures of the Gummi Bears (Whole series of 47 episodes) Bruce Willis 4 Film Collection (Last Boyscout, 16 Blocks, Last Man Standing, Whole Nine Yards) Classic Comedy 4 Film Collection (Vegas Vacation, Spies Like Us, Man with Two Brains, Man Who Knew Too Little) Also got: GTA San Andreas (AO) Complete DOA Extreme Beach Volleyballs (Complete, even has lenticular card) And they also had Lego Indiana Jones 2 for the DS, but upon looking inside case, expecting disappointment, there sat a Pokemon Platinum DS cart.

Damn. Nice haul. I wish I could find season sets like Gummi Bears and Samurai Jack at my thrift stores for that cheap.

Picked this stuff up today. Didn't have time to clean it all up yet.

GB games were $1.98 each, MidiEvil was $.88, KH2 was $3.98 but is missing the manual, the SNES games were $2.98 each (label damage on Doom and Mega Man X sucks but for $2.98 I think it's alright), and the Gen 3 was $15. I probably would have passed on the Gen 3 but I needed another 6 button controller.