April 30th is the day the Dutch celebrate Queen's Day. One of the activities is a nationwide free flea market, where people can sell their secondhand stuff. For collectors it's an ideal oppertunity to find things for whatever they collect. This year my wife and second eldest son joined me on the hunt. After six hours of 'sniffing around' we ended up with 3 consoles, a handheld, 5 accessories, 84 games and 4 bags with kids clothing. (My wife and I have six kids, so the money she saves with buying secondhand clothes, I spend on video games, haha)
We arrived at seven in the morning and most of the sellers already had taken place. I told my wife I wouldn't spend more than 2 euro on a single game. Had to make an exception later, since I promised my two youngest kids both a NDS Pokemon game. From one of the first sellers I bought two XBoX360 games for 2 euro each. Further on a lady had a GameCube with several games for sale. Picked it up for 10 euro. We moved on but then the 'GameCube lady' yelled I forgot something. She gave me a cd-wallet with some loose GameCube games in it, thanks!
We continued and I bought several PS1, PS2 and XboX games at different sellers for 1 euro each. After spending half an hour trying to find my wife (we went in different directions without telling each other and she doesn't have a mobile phone) we stopped at a boy who sold his GameCube with GameBoy player and three games for 10 euro! After he explained me how everything works he grabbed a plastic bag and said that it came with the GameCube too. I looked in the bag and saw more GameCube games and also some loose GBA games. All for 10 euro, a real bargain! Our journey continued and I bought a loose SNES with nine games and an action replay for 15 euro. Further on were two old ladies selling a boxed GBA with three games. One of the ladies asked me how much I thought it was worth. Before I could answer the other lady said: 5 euro... Deal! We moved on and while my wife was digging through piles of clothes I talk to a guy who had two boxed G-con guns along with some PSP games for sale. He asked 10 euro for one gun and 5 euro for a PSP game. I told him I was interrested in both guns and a PSP game, but that I only had 17 euro left (I know, it's bad to lie) Lucky for me he agreed!
Along the way I got more PSP games for 2 euro each. We had walked around some time now and the weight of the bags started to make my shoulders feel like they would seperate from my body. We deceided to bring the stuff back to the car, get something to drink and eat, and start a second round. After a long deja vu, we noticed an area we missed out on our first round. I still had to buy some NDS pokemon games since I had ignored the ones that cost 7.50 euro or more. My 'be patient, there will be cheaper ones' attitude didn't pay off this time, so I deceided to invest a little more in the NDS games. A boy and his father had five NDS games for 7.50 each. I asked what the games would cost me if I bought all five of them. Too bad they only wanted to go as low as 35 euro, with a pink backpack for my daughter for free. At least I had some pokemon games! We deceided to go home and on our way back we stopped at a lady who had six GameCube games for 2 euro each. Took them all. Looking back, it was a very succesfull day: nice sunny weather, nice company and nice finds.
About Super Monkey Ball 1&2: In the cd-wallet I bought was a loose copy of Super Monkey Ball 2. Among the last six GameCube games I bought was a CIB Super Monkey Ball 2, at least that's what I thought. At home I discovered that the box of Super Monkey Ball 2 had a Super Monkey Ball disc in it. Lucky for me I had the correct disc in the cd-wallet, swapped the discs and now it's complete again.
The complete list:
Consoles:
- Super Nintendo
- White GameCube
- Black GameCube
- GameBoy Advance
Accessories:
- G-con45
- G-con 2
- GameBoy Player
- SNES Pro Action Replay MK 2
- XBox Memory Unit
SNES Games:
- Aladdin
- Dead Dance
- Lemmings
- Mega Man X2
- Mortal Kombat
- Street Fighter II Turbo
- Super Mario All Stars
- Super Star Wars
- Unknown (japanese?)
GBA games:
- Hamtaro: Heartbreak
- Hamtaro: Rainbow Rescue
- Kirby & The Amazing Mirrir
- Medabots
- Pokemon Pinball Ruby & Sapphire
- Shaman King: Master of Spirits 2
- Super Marioball
- Tom & Jerry in Infurnal Escape
- Yu-Gi-Oh!: World Championship Tournament 2004
NDS games:
- Eledees: The Adventures of Kai & Zero
- Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky
- Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time
- Professor Layton en de Verloren Toekomst
- Solatorobo: Red the Hunter
PS1 games:
- Football Manager 2001: The FA Premier League
- Guilty Gear
- Player Manager Ninety Nine
- Riven: The Sequel to Myst
- Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey '98
PSP games:
- Killzone: Liberation
- Luxor Paraoh's Challenge
- Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects
- Need for Speed: Underground Rivals
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Essentials
PS2 games:
- 2K Sports NBA 27K
- Alvin and the Chipmunks
- Bass Master Fishing
- Chessmaster
- Dr. Dolittle
- Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
- Monopoly Party
- Myth Makers Super Kart GP
- Rayman M
- Shadow the Hedgehog
- Shox
- Spongebob en zijn Vrienden: Aanval van de Speelgoed Robots
- Tetris Worlds
XBoX Games:
- Blood Wake
- Goldeneye: Rogue Agent
- Halo 2
- Marvel vs. Capcom 2
- Project Gotham Racing
- Sega Soccer Slam
- SSX on Tour
- The Great Escape
- The Simpsons: Road Rage
- Vietcong: Purple Haze
- WWE Raw
- XGRA Extreme Racing Association
XBox360 games:
- Kameo: Elements of Power
- Ninja Gaiden II
GameCube games:
- Beach Spikers:VirtuaBeach Volleyball
- Dark Summit
- Dave Mirra: Freestyle BMX 2
- De Legende van Spyro: Een Draak is Geboren
- De Sims 2
- De Sims 2: Huisdieren
- Disney's Magical Mirror starring Micke Mouse
- Disney's Winnie de Poeh en het Knaagje in zijn Maagje
- Doshin the Giant
- FIFA 07
- FIFA Street 2
- LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
- Luigi's Mansion
- Mario Party
- Mario Power Tennis
- Mario Smash Football
- Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
- Pikmin
- Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom
- Spyhunter
- Super Mario Sunshine
- Super Monkey Ball
- Super Monkey Ball 2
- The Sims: Erop Uit!
