Hello everyone.  I am new to the boards and thought today would be a good day to make my first post.  I am na avid collector of vintage toys and although I've been holding on to my childhood stash of NES games, it's only been over the last 6 months have I stepped up looking to add it to it.  I guess I've been focused on vintage star wars for so long, but needed a change.  I've tried to avoid ebay as I enjoy the search and acquisition probably more than the owning aspect of collecting, and that leads me to my find.

I went to 1 yard sale yesterday.  I imagine many of you do the same, but here in the northeast, there aren't that many this time of year, and actually finding anything is even rarer.  With that said, I was pretty excited when i asked the lady if she had any Nintendo stuff (when I got there, there was sega genesis and 1 game sitting on the table).  She said she did and proceeded to pull oout 3 large tupperware containers of stuff.  It was a bit overwhelming, since I know NES more than any other console, but decided to "buy it all" and ultimately paid $100 for the following items.

http://picasaweb.google.com/petes...

14 loose NES Games (including Mega Man 6, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure in Movie rental case)

30 SNES games (including Harvest Moon, kirbyDream land 3, Kirby Super star)

30 N64 games (Mario party 1-3, DK64, Ocarina of Time)

25 Boxed Sega Genesis Games

13 loose Sega games

9 Sega CD games in cases

10 Sega Dreamcast games

9 Sega saturn games

NES Power Pad

SNES system complete

Sega satrun -missing controllers and 1 cable (has power supply)

Sega Genesis  w/3 paddles and power supply

3 NES controllers

1 N64 controller

2 original Gameboys

Nes Zapper

SNES mouse?

n64 tranfer pak

n64 rumble pak

Super game boy Converter?

and some other odds and ends

I had no idea it would include so much and was pretty excited that some rarer games were included.  In any case, it was all pretty dirty, but very few stickers and only 1 cartridge with ink on it.  Everything came up pretty clean, but since I don't have all the pieces I can't test any of the sega games.  I am going to sell all of the sega stuff, since i am a Nintendo guy, but all of sudden my NES collection is turning more into a NES, SNEs and n64 collection!  Thought I would share this since I recognize how lucky this score was, and you will appreciate it.  In any case, I hope to learn more form this site as I continue to grow the collection.  Thanks!

 

Nice finds! If you decide to stick with the nes, I could trade you some nes games for the snes and n64 games that you got. I stopped collecting loose nes and stay with the snes and n64 mostly. PM me if you are interested! And welcome to NA!

Amazing haul! Congratulations. Also welcome to Nintendo Age.

Great Score Man! Welcome

Wow! Awesome!

Thanks for the kind words. Knowing the collector in me, I'll keep 1 of everything, but I do have 3 snes doubles, 20 or so N64 doubles and I have about 30-40 nes doubles. I'd love to get hooked up with a few nes collectors to trade cart for cart. I have a combination of about 200-225 boxed/loose carts right now so i have a ways to go.

Very nice haul!

Nice snatch.

kaboosh!!!

Awsome find

WOW Amazing find!!! You are off to a great month of December indeed!

Awesome! Can we see pics?!

I added a link to my original post and here it is again. The last 2 pics show my loose nes cart collection and the very last pic is a bookshelf I use to hold some toys including my nes CIBs. I did not take pics of my other N64 games or SNES games (although before yesterday, I only had 3 or 4.

http://picasaweb.google.com/petes...

Wow sweettt!!!! I love the photos !!

Still figuring out Picasa. If you click on the picture and then click on the little magnifying glass above the pictures, you can zoom in on the actual games. It makes it real easy to see what the titles are. As I said before, I'm a noob but do know my way around the NES games at this point. Still learning SNES and N64. Let me know if there's any other games in there that aren't easy to find. I did most opf my research on racketboy.com (is he/she a member here)???

Awesome find! Congrats. I really like Harvest Moon, you should give it a whirl.

2 dark towers NICE!

I think he's a dude.

jesus christ 100 bucks? con grats man.

It's been a mixed week.  I was close to securing 100+ nes games for $100 (her asking price) before the woman backed out (I'm pretty sure someone came in after me and offered more money.  Yesterday was a different.  I picked up:

22 loose NES games (including Zelda, Link, Mario Bros Arcade version, Mario is Missing, Bubble bobble, SMB 2 and 3).  All had sleeves and instructions.

6 NES boxes with games (SMB, Star tropics, Zodas Revenge, Dr. Mario, Boy and his Blob and SMB 3)

Complete Top Loader System wth 2 dogbone controllers (1 still in sealed bag) and a nes advantage

15 SNES boxes with instructions (Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, SM Kart, Kirby Super Stars)

8 SNES Games (Wario's World, Mortal Kombat, SMB RPG, Justice League)

Super Scope mint in box

paid $140. 

Amazing haul dude, congrats!

Wow $140 for all that. I wouldn't be feeling too bad about that toad backing out on you if that's the consolation prize.

You are scoring some insane deals over there! Grats!

Thanks. I was pretty bummed about the 1 deal. Perhaps someone on here picked it up. It was out of Minneapolis. Lady agreed to mail me the games and next day refused to take my calls. I'm guessing someone came in and offered a lot more than her asking price. I have to admit, it seems super competitive picking this stuff up. I think I'm now over 230 carts.

Nice Score.