Scored a Waynes World Cart only

 Got it for $20 Mint label and cart.

I got it from my moms neighbor in CA. I had checked out a bunch of games for them and appraised them pointing their copy of contra out.

I saw the game then but knew nothing of it. Honestly thought it was a shovelware $5 dollar game.

I asked my mom about their games and just started with a $20 offer off the bat since I was worried they would look it up and im friends of theirs.

I think it was a fair offer because I would never pay retail for these expensive games. I played it there and its just a bland game.

Its on its way to being shipped. Pics when I receive.

It will actually be the most expensive game I own. Worth more then some of my PS3 limited editions.

So its going to be my first true holy grail. Can't wait till its in my hands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuM7R76oBfA

I love Jay and silent bob.

And I just got word its coming with the manual   Please come to my hands.

So you ripped off your mom's neighbor is what you are saying?

I should start doing that for friends of the family.Tell them I will appraise their collectibles since I'm a nice guy and they are a friend of the family. That's when I got them right where I want them and I give them a royal screwing.

"I'm sorry Mrs. McNabb, your games are all junk. What we call shovelware, but because I'm a nice guy I'll give you a few bucks for that Little Samson. OH AND WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T LOOK IT UP ONLINE!"

It's just like the Ring. If you look up completed eBay auctions it comes through the monitor and kills you.

Sweet.

My sleezy college room mate and his girlfriend stole my dreamcast about a decade ago. When they moved out they left a few random and what I thought to be worthless NES games (almost all were). A year or two ago I took all that stuff out of storage and realized one of the games was "Panic Restaurant" in extremely good condition. I'm still mad about the dreamcast  but think this makes us even.

Dokstarr said:

So you ripped off your mom's neighbor is what you are saying?

I should start doing that for friends of the family.Tell them I will appraise their collectibles since I'm a nice guy and they are a friend of the family. That's when I got them right where I want them and I give them a royal screwing.

"I'm sorry Mrs. McNabb, your games are all junk. What we call shovelware, but because I'm a nice guy I'll give you a few bucks for that Little Samson. OH AND WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T LOOK IT UP ONLINE!"

It's just like the Ring. If you look up completed eBay auctions it comes through the monitor and kills you.

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Those are the steps to finding gems folks.

Honestly when I saw the game I made multiple comments about how crappy it was which was based off of watching AVGN review it.

I speculate his review drove prices up because I never remember it being worth even $50 in fact its only $27 loose cart on price guide. Clearly not that on ebay. Then Again the guide has Panic Restaurant listed as $54 for a loose cart.

GBAstar said:

Sweet.

My sleezy college room mate and his girlfriend stole my dreamcast about a decade ago. When they moved out they left a few random and what I thought to be worthless NES games (almost all were). A year or two ago I took all that stuff out of storage and realized one of the games was "Panic Restaurant" in extremely good condition. I'm still mad about the dreamcast but think this makes us even.

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How in the world!? It sells for $400 used... what is so special about it?

needler420 said:

Those are the steps to finding gems folks.

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I'd never do that with family or friends but that's what we (yard salers) do during garage sales, more or less. I don't tell them the value of the games ever (whether to lie or not). Always say, "I'll give you x for those old games". Implying that they're old makes it seem like they're worthless so they just sell it for whatever. Sometimes they'll reply that they can get more for it on eBay. Ok. I reply "alright, I'll just buy it at a pawn shop, I see a bunch of NES, Gamecube, etc. games all the time there". They eventually say "alright, I'll do x for it". Never fails.

needler420 said:

Those are the steps to finding gems folks.

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ThatOneGuyWho said:

I'd never do that with family or friends but that's what we (yard salers) do during garage sales, more or less. I don't tell them the value of the games ever (whether to lie or not). Always say, "I'll give you x for those old games". Implying that they're old makes it seem like they're worthless so they just sell it for whatever. Sometimes they'll reply that they can get more for it on eBay. Ok. I reply "alright, I'll just buy it at a pawn shop, I see a bunch of NES, Gamecube, etc. games all the time there". They eventually say "alright, I'll do x for it". Never fails.

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Yeah, I would never do that to anyone I knew personally or a friend of my family. I'm always upfront about values to people I know because it's not worth it to me to take money from them. I'm not saying that's what you did, but it's not like you are going to tell them the value of the game is $100 after the fact.

I also never lie about values of stuff when I go to yard sales. If someone takes my offer, great. If they want more than what I'm willing to pay I move on. I'm not religious and I don't believe in karma, but there was a point in my early yard sale days where i would lie and take advantage of people and I didn't really like the way I felt about it so I stopped pretty quickly.

Now that I think about it, weren't you the guy whose family stole his games?

angel98 said:

Now that I think about it, weren't you the guy whose family stole his games?

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I have to guess he is just making up stuff now. One post he is looking for sympathy after his family sells his stuff then next he is playing off that he is douchebag ripping off old ladies who know his mom.

As has already been discussed it is one thing to try to get the best deal possible at flea markets, yard sales, etc. It is a whole different thing to try and take advantage of friends and family. Tell them you are helping them out by letting them know what their stuff is and then ripping them off.

Its my moms neighbor. Her friend. She was more then happy to take the $20 dollar offer.

Any reseller or mom and pop store taking them in wouldn't have offered much more. You're local game shop might not even mention its value.

I could have offered a couple bucks and still had it. I think $20 was still fair because she wouldn't have wanted retail prices from me anyway. Nor would have I paid anything near retail. It was a favor to my mom for me.

She knew i knew something about it to begin with because of the $20 offer for a single cart only game out of a dozen games she has Im sure raises flags.

I did also hook them up. I gave them a free retron one and NES power adapter.

When someone says ill appraise that for you.....

Honestly I think she was a bit more happy because she is old and ill. She wasn't about to go and research these to get top dollar.

She was going to yard sale/garage sale the whole lot system and games for near $20 when another game is contra.

I'm also not going to sell the game for profit. Im keeping it in my collection and I think she knows that too. She knows im a collector not a reseller.

Doesn't really matter. If you offer to appraise things, you need to do so. It's not even close to the same as what people do at yard sales. I'm a buyer and they're a seller. I'm paying a price they have set, or making an offer which I'm not saying in any way is fair. I'm not going in and saying let me tell you what your games are worth then offering 20% of the value. (less when you take into account the manual)

It would be different if your mom told you her neighbor had a bunch of NES games she was going to sell at a garage sale for 20 dollars and asked if you wanted them. That would be fine. When you offer to act as an expert though, you need to be up front about it. It's the same reason most of us look down on a game store ripping someone off but wouldn't hesitate to buy a 100.00 game for 1.00 at a sale. When you offer to act as an expert you need to do it.

Bring back memories when my neighbor asked me to appraise their son's stuffs (jerseys, toys, games, etc.). The family was falling hard times and their son was in the Marines.

Oh man I noticed a bunch of cool items and gems:

Michael Jordan & Scotty Pippen McFarlane Action Figures (NEW in BOX)

A bunch of retro NBA Jerseys (Jordan, Kobe, Webb, Wilkins, Ewing, Rodman, etc.)

Sneakers with Original Box (Jordan 1-23, Kobe, Pennys, Dunks, etc.)

GameCube and N64 Games (Super Smash Bros, Zelda, Ikuraga, Paper Mario, etc.)

Then I noticed a few items that I believe belongs to me (WTF MOM lol):

My fishing pole

Resident 3 Nemesis

Mega Man X8

Snowboard

Schwinn Vintage Road Bike

That's the way game chasing go... Wayne's World Party time!

Now I know why I thought it was shovelware. It was a $20 dollar game in 2008 and before.

So it really did shoot up. That's what scares me about this gaming boom were in. Would suck to see it back at $20 five years from now when I'm $20 into it.

I swear AVGN reviews artificially raise prices.

needler420 said:

Now I know why I thought it was shovelware. It was a $20 dollar game in 2008 and before.

So it really did shoot up. That's what scares me about this gaming boom were in. Would suck to see it back at $20 five years from now when I'm $20 into it.

I swear AVGN reviews artificially raise prices.

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I don't know where you got that value. I sold a cart only Wayne's World in 2008 for $60. It's rare because it was a late-cycle NES release and was not heavily printed - not because AVGN reviewed it.

Doomstink said:

I don't know where you got that value. I sold a cart only Wayne's World in 2008 for $60. It's rare because it was a late-cycle NES release and was not heavily printed - not because AVGN reviewed it.

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The value is from price charting. It shows its average was $20 in 2008

http://videogames.pricecharting.com

Since price chart records show it was at its lowest in 2009 with recorded online sale of $12 dollars. In 2007-2008 it was $17-$20 and has been tracked since 2007.

Which sounds about right because I remember not even 10 years ago when I was around 16-18 going to the used game shops and seeing the game multiple times for under $10 bucks.

That's why when I first saw it I thought nothing of it. It just so happens in the last game chasers video they are trying to buy a box for waynes world and that caught my eye. I had remembered just last week before leaving CA my moms neighbor had the game and was offering to sell me them.

I just don't see it being as rare as they say. I know it was ported to SNES but the prices show unstableness. I wish I could see records on it prior to 2008. I don't get how it was $12 in 2009 and over a hundred now.

That's not like a super mario RPG or Chrono trigger which always were what they are prized. Even back when gamestop and EB games still sold retro, those games sat behind the counter or wall or whatever. Waynes world sat out with the other commons. I just don't understand it's popularity.

Makes me think of beanie babies and comics.

I wouldn't trust historical data from VGPC. I didn't know about VGPC until 2009 but even then it wasn’t very accurate. I can't imagine their 2008 data being anywhere near correct. It was definitely worth far more than $10 at that time.

VGPC didn't get accurate until eBay made it easier to collate sales data in 2010/2011.

ThatOneGuyWho said:

How in the world!? It sells for $400 used... what is so special about it?

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In addition to being a pretty good game, it's a late NES release by Taito. Many of their games (ie Bubble Bobble 2, Little Samson, etc.) go for a pretty penny online.

Here is some more info on the game from around 2005 which is pre-dating price charting guide.

It pretty much sums up what I said earlier. One poster there even said he seen the game sitting as his local shop for over a year for $9 loose.

I do realize its a late release in NES life and that Garth is only playable in NES version and the fact we did enter a retro gaming boom. But I still believe AVGN helped influenced the price that it is today. Maybe $40-$50 game but over a hundred.

http://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?70642-Wayne-s-World-for-the-nes-worth