Talked to Tommy of Gator Games at the same flea market this morning and found out that someone had cleaned him out of an entire row of NES Golf from his $3 rack just yesterday. I think they’re treating these like lottery tickets! I also talked to another big game vendor, Inez, and she told me that people were pouring over her copies as well. Now she knows why.
Talked to the vendor that actually sold them to me (Dylan of Infinite Games LLC) and asked again if he knew where they originally came from. He told me that he had recently purchased several games from other flea market vendors and threw them on his shelf. Makes sense, since he often beats me to the games that randomly pop up from non-gaming vendors (he has the advantage of being able to browse when the market is closed).
It's like we're always racing each other.
Most recently, I went back to a certain vendor for 3DO Super Street Fighter II Turbo and he had already grabbed it... so I bought it off him instead.
A year before that he beat me to $5 NES Toki but I only needed the manual that he accidentally left.
The old man had a Nintendo Z bag full of games and was asking $5 each regardless of title.
He doesn't always beat me though. When I got that $1.43 SEALED Super Everdrive that I found on some DVD table a couple years ago I bumped into him while he was looking for that same vendor. Someone tipped him off about games hidden in the mix! He looked through my finds and and was particularly disappointed that I got a sealed Viewtiful Joe DVD that he totally would have bought. It was his birthday and, sensing that he was the bigger Viewtiful Joe fan, I gave it to him. That was also only $1.43 so I followed that up with a Viewtiful Joe retail poster that I've had since around 2004.
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