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[Kobun Heat]

Here in Connecticut anyway, the sun's out and the tag sale/garage sale/rummage sale/flea market/whatever you call it days are upon us. We just had a table at the local once-a-year market which means I got to scour the goods extra-early, as people were taking them out of their cars in some cases. I ended up with:

Boxed Genesis 2, 15 boxed games, Menacer: $10

NES games, $6 for all: Kirby's Adventure, Xexyz, Zelda, Krazy Kreatures (AVE), Jaws, SMB/DH, SMB3, Little League Baseball, Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, Q-Bert, Vice: Project Doom, Captain Skyhawk, Space Shuttle Project

Loose GB games, $20 for all: Zelda LA (b/w), SML3 Wario Land, Pokemon Yellow, Pokemon Blue, Super Mario Bros. Deluxe (GBC)

Non-numeric 2600 VCS keypad controller: $1

Anybody else hit some deals this weekend?

 

[Agent Dormer]

I didn't get a chance to go hunting for games this weekend, but you got some good stuff. Remindes me to go hunt for some of this stuff every now and then. As Calvin and Hobbes put it: "There's treasure everywhere!"

 

[bobbyconover]

Not this weekend, but a few weeks back I found myself a Pac-Man cocktail arcade game for the low price of $100. Best part was, when I brought it home and broke open the coin door - the previous owner had no key, as is usually the case - I found a whopping $48.50 in quarters inside. The poor guy was paying to play his own game the entire time that he owned it, and I got a $51.50 Pac cocktail out of the deal. Too rad.

It does need a little work, but I've already repainted the coin door and improved it in numerous other smallish cosmetic ways. All I need now is a replacement overlay for one of the control panels, and it'll be golden. Still, that's to be expected with most if not all classics, especially garage sale finds. I'll post up pics here when it's finished.

I've been collecting arcade games for about 6 years now, and have heard numerous legendary $50 Pac cocktail stories over the years. I knew if I waited long enough I'd end up with one myself!

Those are some great deals, Kobun, especially the $6 NES pack featuring KRAZY KREATURES. I'd shell out the $6 for that one alone!

 

[Musashi Wins!]

I didn't see anything at garage sales, so I took advantage of Gamerush/Blockbuster and their crazy promotional coupons.

Anyone looking for new releases....trade them any game from this gen or ps1 (minus a few sports titles) and you get the new release for 29.99, plus you get the trade credit for the game off. Instant $20 savings for anyone thinking about Riddick, Four Swords, etc.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

A couple of those crappy Sonic games included in Happy Meals. Free, though.

 

[Kobun Heat]

That's... a great deal. And you're right about Krazy Kreatures. Sadly, the Genesis games in the package weren't nearly as obscure as the NES ones. Sonics, Eternal Champions, that kind of thing.

 

[drohne]

i found a sealed copy of gba buster's bad dream for ~$30 shipped off some uk online store. looks pretty rad. i never consciously intended to collect them, but now i own every treasure game besides rakugaki showtime and yuyu hakusho. which i don't intend to shell out for. wahey.

 

[Defensor]

Got Gun Survivor 2: Biohazard Code Veronica w/Guncon2 brand new still sealed for the PS2 for $60 and Wip3out 3 brand new for $5.

 

[iapetus]

Nothing of that nature here, but I did finally get round to finishing off my abuse of the GAME special offers, and ended up with a dirt cheap copy of Mario Kart and NFL Street for GC, plus a couple of 'interesting purchase' type PS2 games (NOLF and Alter Echo).

 

[Seth C]

Not this weekend, but a few weeks back I found myself a Pac-Man cocktail arcade game for the low price of $100.

I would kill for that deal.

 

[BobbyRobby]

I bought a Sega Nomad off of some kid who tried to trade it in for $10. The screen is in perfect condition too. The screen protector was never even taken off.

 

[Guzim]

Here in Connecticut anyway, the sun's out

I live in Connecticut, and it's cloudy and wet

 

[Lambtron]

Krazy Kreatures is the shiznit. I got a sealed copy of it at a Wal-Mart, when Wal-Mart first opened here, god, before the SNES came out. It's some high quality business. And my mom's favorite game of all time.

 

[Nester]

Not this weekend, but a few weeks back I found myself a Pac-Man cocktail arcade game for the low price of $100. Best part was, when I brought it home and broke open the coin door - the previous owner had no key, as is usually the case - I found a whopping $48.50 in quarters inside.

Reminds me of when I bought an Arkanoid Machine for $40 a few years back. There was no key to the back of the machine, just the coin door. There was no coin bucket inside, but when I drilled out the lock of the back of the machine, the entire floor was covered in Quarters.

 

[maximusPSO]

Where does one acquire the coupon for the $20 off Blockbuster deal?

 

[DopeyFish]

some place offered me $80 for a Virtual boy and all it's games. too bad i didn't have $80

 

[Citainus]

Any recommendations of flea markets in general in the North Jersey/NYC area?

 

[Alcibiades]

I think I need to set up a stand and sell all my crap one day...

:/

 

[shoplifter]

Now that I won't be working on weekends (or at all for a while ) I might try to hit up a few next weekend.

 

[fennec fox]

Come to think of it, I've never been to one around San Francisco. Does anyone cover that scene?

 

[bobbyconover]

Reminds me of when I bought an Arkanoid Machine for $40 a few years back. There was no key to the back of the machine, just the coin door. There was no coin bucket inside, but when I drilled out the lock of the back of the machine, the entire floor was covered in Quarters.

Crazy, I actually got an Arkanoid for $30 myself! It was "broken" and the guy wanted someone to "haul that hunk of junk away." I brought it home, noticed one of the interlock switches on the back door had been switched off (pushed in), and simply pulled it back out. Voila, the game worked.

I ended up peeling off the black laminate on the sides to reveal that it was actually a Q-Bert conversion, with most of the sideart still in-tact underneath. I ended up selling it to a guy who was interested in doing a full Q-Bert restoration, so here's hoping he pulled it off. Another classic saved!

 

[Argyle]

I just scored me a Fighting Bujutsu board (Konami Cobra hardware) off eBay, I sure hope it's JAMMA...hell, I just hope it works

If not, it'll be fun trying to get pinout information on it. I don't suppose anyone knows what the pinout looks like?

 

[bobbyconover]

I just scored me a Fighting Bujutsu board (Konami Cobra hardware) off eBay, I sure hope it's JAMMA...hell, I just hope it works

If not, it'll be fun trying to get pinout information on it. I don't suppose anyone knows what the pinout looks like?

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=F&game_id=7781

It's Jamma+, though I'm not sure what the "+" is all about since it seems to use the standard 2-joystick, 3-buttons-apiece Jamma setup. You should have no problem playing it, anyway.

What I'm wondering is, is this the arcade version of Konami's psx game BUGI (aka Kensei: Sacred Fist for the US)? I actually kinda-sorta thought that was decent.

 

[Argyle]

bobby: I think that Kensei and Bujutsu were developed by the same team, but I don't think they're the same game.

I've played Bujutsu at a trade show already - and I know it kinda sucks (the low punch seemed to beat everything), but it's more the curiosity factor - the Cobra hardware was supposed to be Konami's answer to the Sega Model 3, after all...

Hell, I have a problem, clearly - I keep buying crap fighting games! I should start up a museum of craptacular fighting games, I have some real winners...

 

[shoplifter]

Damn, I haven't played Fighting Bujutsu in YEARS. They had a machine at my local WalMart when it first came out. It was a passable Tekken clone IIRC.

 

[bobbyconover]

Hell, I have a problem, clearly - I keep buying crap fighting games!

My big thing is beat-em-up games, the more bizarre the better. I've been trying to get all of Konami's beat-em-ups from the late 80s/early 90s for years now, and have actually managed to get ahold of some of the more expensive and rare ones - Bucky O'Hare, Sunset Riders (not rare, but sells for hundreds), and G.I. Joe (not so much a beat-em-up, but similar). The two that I'm really hung up on are Asterix (euro-only) and Wild West COW-Boys of Moo Mesa, which like Bucky O'hare is based on a completely awful cartoon and is ridiculously hard to find. Looks really fun, too!

Of course, it should go without saying that "Ninja Baseball Bat Man" is at the top of my must-find list:

 

[shoplifter]

That could quite possibly be the greatest walk'n'thump EVER.

 

[Wario64]

'What happens at flea markets anyway?'

 

[FortNinety]

'What happens at flea markets anyway?'

Nice to see certain people try so hard to get in as many posts as possible. :/

 

[Matlock]

This weekend I fired up Mark of Kri (bought it and Ico) and...well...I'm impressed as hell. The graphics aren't anything to blow you away, but the style and charm of it all amaze me. So far, I can't figure out why it couldn't have pulled a T (which would have widened the audience quite a bit), but...just wow.

Gameplay's pretty simple, pretty fun...the prescripted stealth kills are pretty cool, brutal as well. However, thank god, they didn't go overboard.

It's like they merged Conan the Barbarian and Disney animation (the CGI's where it's drawing-in the scenes are amazing) into one really good game.

Ico I haven't touched yet, but I will. Oh yes, I will.

 

[Takuan]

I didn't get squat. There are NEVER any good video game deals here in Canadia.

On another note, that Baseball Bat Man game looks like a riot. I'll have to keep an eye out on the ol' emulation sites.

 

[Linkhero1]

I found a Facebook post that seemed pretty interesting