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It's been a while I know. I'm not sure why, but garage sales have been really slow so far this year. Luckily, I finally have enough stuff from the past few weeks to make a worthwhile post. 
I got these from the flea market two weeks ago from one of my regular sellers. I used to buy a lot from the guy, but when the flea market's main building burned down a year or two ago, he quit coming except for a few random occasions. But now that their new building is up, he is back to coming nearly every week even though he doesn't even set up inside the building. Anyway, the games were priced differently, but ended up being $7 total. I tried getting them for $5, but that made him think King's Quest was more valuable than he priced it at, so he wouldn't take any less than $7. I'm just glad I'm still finding NES games that I need.
These are the results of the first successful garage sale this year! For games anyway.
When I first spotted these SMB/DH was off to the side by itself and I didn't see the others, just the SMB/DH cartridge with $5 on it. For a split second I thought that was it, just a SMB/DH for $5, but then I noticed it said "all" on the sticker, so I looked around and found the rest of the games nearby. I only needed one game in the lot, but I couldn't pass up easy sellers like SMB3 and DK Classics for $5.
I didn't even bother try haggling on these.
The first thing I spotted at this garage sale was a "free box", my favorite kind of box. The top layer was your standard free box fare, glassware, random toys, bits and pieces of stuff, but on the bottom was this PS2 Slim. A little deeper was the power cord and A/V cables. I didn't bother asking if it worked, since I knew the answer already. But the guy at the sale told me it didn't work, and he seemed happy when I told him that I could probably fix it or use it for parts on other broken systems. This is my last week of school for the semester, so I'll be able to go to some more garage sales on Fridays instead of just Saturday, so with a bit of luck, I'll be a little more successful in the coming months. But first, I need there to be more garage sales. I've only been to about 32 this year, usually by this time of year I'm going to that many in a week. It's rather annoying driving around all day to only go to a dozen sales, if gas keeps going up, I won't be able to afford that much longer.
Collection stats summary:
Number of total games: 2,357
Number of unique games: 1,942
Number of duplicates: 415
| | This Installment | This Year | | Total Games Added | 11 | 18 | | Unique Games Added | 5 | 23 | | Duplicates Sold | 6 | 5 | | Amount Spent | $12.00 | $35.04 | | Amount Spent on Shipping for Trades | $0.00 | $7.35 | | Amount Received from Selling | $0.00 | $332.00 | | Profit | -$12.00 | $289.61 |
Thanks Marriot_Guy for making the awesome new table for my collections stats!
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That is a sweet table.
Nice grabs too.
I was looking online for Slim PS2 fixes a couple months ago. Apparently the most common problem is the AC adaptor needing the solder to be reheated because it cracks.
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nice NES grabs! You really can't say no to a free PS2 can ya? despite working order
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30 yard sales in the past year I've been to, and the only thing I've found is racing wheels with half of the parts missing.
I did hit a yard sale a couple weeks ago that had games, but another collector was there before he opened and cleaned him out of all Atari and NES games  Apparently, the guy owned 700 unique Atari cartridges.
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I never have luck at rummage/garage sales, I think in the last 3-5 years I have hit maybe a handful worth while and we go usually every weekend.
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Nice table, looks much better than what you had before!
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Glad to help out - let me know if you want to incorporate the top Collection Stats Summary into the Table (bold at the top - different, but complimentary, color scheme).
I love the King's Quest series - it was one of my favorites during my early PC years. How is the NES version? I wasn't even aware that it came out for it.
Great finds!
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nice finds, Im with marriot_guy I grew up playing the Kings quest series ( on a Tandy and later a Packard Bell) but never knew they had a console version!
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Nice NES finds and a free slim is always good.
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Excellent finds on both King's Quest and Bucky O'Hare. I'm still looking for both of those titles.
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