The Small Scores Thread: Part 2!

[inRainbows]

Some days going to the post office is like getting to be a kid on Christmas morning all over again...

this is super cool

[singlebanana]

Willikers!!!!

[bickman2k]

Jiminy Jillikers!

[Crabmaster2000]

I'll try my best to steal Duke's thunder with something that he himself sent me! Been wanting one of these for a while and Duke did me a big favor by holding onto it for me for the better part of a year. Thanks so much Duke!!!

So if you guys don't hear from me for a while its because I'm engrossed in the world of Backgammon and Strip Poker!!

[noiseredux]

^great haul! I meant to mention that Tennis game in my Virtua Tennis write-up. I remember being blown away at the realistic look of that game at a kiosk in Circuit City back in the day. But damn, you got some great CIB stuff man. Dragon's Lair is a must of course, but Strip Poker? Wow. That's hilarious and awesome. Oh and I've heard that version of Tetris is pretty great with it's FMV backgrounds.

[noiseredux]

was happy to find a PAL (blue swirl) Dreamcast controller today in the wild... boxed. And minty, as in steal wrapped in plastic for $14. Not a steal, but about online prices minus shipping.

[Zagnorch]

It's been a surprisingly good week for me so far.



For XBox (all CIB):

- Area 51 $0.50
- Driver: Parallel Lines $1.95
- NightCaster $3.99 $3.17
- Prima NightCaster strat guide $2.00


For PSP (all CIB):

- Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII $1.95
- Madden NFL '07 (sealed) $0.95: I never had a PSP Madden game in my collection before, so I figured for what they were asking, why not? And it's still sealed, which means it'll fetch even more big bucks when it inevitably becomes a highly sought-after collector's item! 

Also got (both CIB):

- State of Emergency for PS2, $1.95
- Nights: Journey of Dreams for Wii, $3.95

In non-gaming small scores, I picked up three Ranma 0.5 soundtrack/song collection CDs and a DragonBall Z Best Collection CD for $2.00 each.

And while the asking prices for games at the local thrifts have been going up, the Nerf guns are another story (yay). I managed to pick up the Mad Max-esque barrel break and the M.A.S.K.-esque Deploy CS-6, each setting me back a paltry $1.99.

But wait, there's  more:



This is what I received in a trade with Mr. Razor Knuckles. He stated that he had a surplus of type-1 Genesis machines, and I was looking to trade my type-2 for one. Needless to say, he was game-- er, so to speak. That Sonic cap is pretty much brandy new, and even has the tag still attached to it. And the man knows how to hook a 7-11 maven up, lemme tell ya. Thanks, big guy.

But the biggest of my small scores was this:



My dad found this in a parking lot a few days ago, and gave it to me. He musta figured it didn't have much of anything on it, which I also thought was most likely the case. But just to be sure, I went online to check its balance, and was shocked to discover it had $100.00 on it! I've already used most of it to preorder the Skylanders Giants portal owner's starter set for the Wii, and I'll likely use the remaining balance to buy some of the new Skylanders figures when they hit the shelves.

So, howzabout the rest of ya's?

[Razor Knuckles]

^ Great score

I have a surplus of 7-11 coupons from a customer of mine that gave me too many of them. Gotta share the love. Oh and the hat was just a joke, you should put it in the game room, or wear it in public if you got the balls. 

[Zagnorch]

Oh and the hat was just a joke, you should put it in the game room, or wear it in public if you got the balls. 

If you really wanted me to take a dare, you shoulda sent me one of these to wear:

[Duke.Togo]

Glad to see it all go to a good home, Crabby.

I went back to the local shop that I bought all the Famicom games and they mentioned needing some hardware. I brought in an extra Famicom and Famiclone and they treated me really well, giving me all these in exchange:


Cosmic Epsilon is going out to Singlebanana

The gentlemen that manages the store is a good guy and fellow collector. I mentioned the site to him, and hope he takes the time to drop in.

[wildbil52]

Some days going to the post office is like getting to be a kid on Christmas morning all over again...

I'm sure we'll talk about it on Friday but what is that?

[wildbil52]

Wow, Crabby, very nice on the CDi.  If you have never played The 7th Guest, its a fantastic and very challenging puzzle game.

[Duke.Togo]

I'm sure we'll talk about it on Friday but what is that?

Fancy cassette deck

Used for saving Family Basic programs, as well as custom made levels from the "programmable" series.

[ProjectG.U.E.S.T.]

Scored myself Sonic 3 Complete in Box! Plugged it into my Sonic and Knuckles and went to town.

[Crabmaster2000]

So for many, many, many months now singlebanana has been gathering NES carts for me locally when he finds things I need for my licensed set. I finally got around to paying the poor guy for all his hard work and he sent it my way. Boy did he do well for me! And to top it off he sent me a truck-load of extras, some of which are extremely thoughtful.

I did a blog post waaaaay back about games that were important to me or had somehow shaped my gaming habits. I mentioned my earliest gaming memory as a 2600 game called Frostbite. He noticed that my collection was without said game and made sure to fix that for me. In addition to that he has been bugging me for some time about getting into famicom collecting and tucked a famicom converter and a copy of Flappy in my already overflowing box of amazingness so that I would no longer have any excuses.

And to go even further he sent me some toys for my son based his interests in past conversations we've had. We're really lucky to have members here like singlebanana and I cant wait to return the favor for him down the road.

Enough of my teary-eyed ramblings. On to the pictures, thats what you all came for anyway, right?