Hit some game stores today with a box of trade items and came back with this. I traded bottom-of-the-barrel stuff for this and still have $87 in store credit left over (from $228). The DS games, Boulder Dash, and Mech Platoon are for the collection, the others are for resale. Everything is CIB, and Catwoman is sealed but not great condition, it was only $12 though.

Nothing crazy, but a couple decent goodwill finds for $3 a piece. Apparently people haven't been doing their homework as the Master's one had been sitting there for almost 2 weeks  .

You should look into retrobrighting as well. If you pop in chat I can help answer questions on that if you have any.

 

Yeah for sure I will, thank you for the offer    I might need your help anyways, I think 1 or 2 need a new voltage regulator. 

Getting around to looking at a random PS1 console I picked up at a Savers, I notice it came with the Interactive Demo Vol 7 CD that has the demos of Einhander and Tomba. That's probably the closest I'll get to picking up either game in the wild.  

More Neo Geo goodness!  

nice find,  ive always wanted to find a ps1 at a thrift store
 

My local Savers must've had a big restocking day yesterday; there was a big pile of random bagged electronics unceremoniously dumped into a wireframe bin. I dug in and pulled out a slim PS2 and an XBox 360 slim power brick/ac cord. I was short an AC cord for my 360s so that was just what I needed to find. I paid about $20 for both plus some 2600 games and went on my merry way.

So a little while later I stopped at the local supermarket strip mall with a Gamestop nearby. I thought to myself "Hey let me walk over and trade in this power brick I don't need."

I walk in and offer up the power brick. I was expecting a couple of dollars at the most.

Clerk: "So minus the $4 refurb fee because its missing the AC cord, you're trade in credit is $34.80."

Me: /spit take "You sure that's right?"

Clerk: "Yep, I checked it again. You're getting $34.80 back."

That was (and still does) sound way too high. But hey, if Gamestop wants to throw money at me, I'll take it. I made my money back, plus $15 which went to a Steam GC for the Summer Sale. Thanks Gamestop!  

So this week I bought a couple really cool things online.

-Zelda World Of Nintendo NYC Exlucisve shirt and Art Cell (283 of 1000)
-Zelda Breath Of The Wild E3 Shirt
-Zelda Breath Of The Wild E3 Crew Shirt (not available to public)
-Zelda Breath Of The Wild E3 Coin
-Zelda Breath Of The Wild E3 Lanyard

Best part is two of the sellers gave me bonus items for free! I got a dishonored E3 Keychain that has two potions that light up. I also got a random game company pin and some Elderscrolls playing cards.

Boy do I have a story for you all.

I went into Disc Replay this morning and they had a crapton of NES games. Only problem though, most of the games had sharpie on them. I don't like buying games with sharpie on them, but luckily there was a sharpie-less copy of Mega Man 3. There were some yellow blotches on it, but I don't see a whole lot of Mega Man 3's go for $20 online so I picked it up.

After posting about it in group chat though, one of my friends who had been looking for Mega Man 3 for a while said he felt bad about it. I went back there because I wanted to return a 3-button Sega Genesis controller I bought because the buttons were pretty tight(it was $5) and I had about $37 credit from that and previous purchases. There was a much better condition Mega Man 3 there, so I bought that one and some other stuff. I'm going to sell the first one I bought to my friend(not on my FS/FT list, sorry!)

So yeah, here's everything I bought from Disc Replay today except for the controller. Pretty good prices for everything, both Mega Man 3's for $20, Super Ghouls and Ghosts for $15(I don't see it go lower than $21) and Dr. Mario, which I also already have, but the one I had had sharpie on it so I'm selling that one to one of my friends. I also bought The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past from eBay on Sunday. Overall nice hauls.

Some items showed today, some i got this past week & some i did in trade!   happy to have a copy of Captain Commando again!And i havnt had a Neo Geo Pocket since high school so its pretty neat to have 1 again!  

Some good ps2 finds today. Went to a game store and most of their stuff was overpriced. Found a couple hidden gems and they were having a b2g1 sale, so ended up only paying 37$ for all 3  

Nice Mr. Mosquito! I bought one on NA for a friend. I am still trying to find one in person. I found a disc only, so my search continues!  

Picked up a gently used, yet complete in box NES30 controller by 8bitdo for $20 at a local pawn. It's nice.

Thank you for reminding me what this sucker is worth. I knew I had a copy, went searching, and found it wedged between a few sports titles. For shame. Onto the top shelf it promptly went. I somehow keep forgetting that this is one of the big boys after moves and re-orgs...