Friday and Saturday sucked. I went to 40 sales, and I ended up buying stuff at 4 sales.
My first purchase was a bin full of old, classic books for $5. I think I overspent, but then again, I got about 30 books from the 1960s, so I think I can keep myself busy for a while.
I went to one neighborhood yardsale, which had about 22 sales. I only found two things. The first was a copy of the original PC version of Tetris by Spectrum Holobyte. I paid 25 cents. I already had a copy, but I didn't think it would hurt to have another. At another sale in the same neighborhood, I found the board game Battle of the Sexes and I paid 50 cents for it.
At the last sale I went to I noticed an Atari 2600 with some games selling for $20. I passed, but then I noticed a Genesis with a few games as well as a bare SNES with no controllers or hookups. I asked the seller how much it was, and he said $20. I tried to haggle him down to a good price but I could not get one. So I took his boxed copy of Sonic & Knuckles and offered him 50 cents for it. He said a dollar, which he was firm on. I caved in, and I bought the game for a dollar. Now I finally have a compete copy of Sonic & Knuckles.
Today was a good day however. A person I had given my phone number to a while ago called me, and told me that he had some games for sale. I went over to his house, and to my suprise this person's garage was chock full of good stuff! He had lots of N64, Dreamcast, Gamecube and Gameboy games for sale, as well as a lot of T-shirts and books pertaining to video games.
The person selling this stuff was, however, a high school student raising money for college. As a result, some of the things he had for sale were good deals, others not so much. I picked up whatever I wanted that was a good deal, until the person told me that he couldn't accept checks. I only had $14 on me at the time, so I had to pick and choose wisely. And this is what I got.
A Mario's Cement Factory Tabletop Game
A "Best of Super Mario Bros." Comic Book Compilation
A Nintendo Super Adventure Book with Mario (Not sure which one)
Two NES games: Little Nemo and Marble Madness
A Superjoy Multigame controller
A Super Nintendo display sign with Mario and Yoshi on it
I spent $10 for the lot. A little high for my tastes, but I really wanted that Mario's Cement Factory game. Plus, I wanted to help that guy.
I also agreed to meet with this person tomorrow when I will have more money. There is some stuff I left behind that I still want.
An interesting thing to note is that The Superjoy, which is a pirate game system with 10 games on it, features a Famicom game port. I tried some of my Famicom titles, on it, and they worked! This was definately money well spent.
I will post pictures as soon as I can.