Weekend Adventures P4

Now that it's the start of this weekend, I need to finish my adventures of last weekend! After buying my first Game Gear game without the system, I finally found a Game Gear!

It came with the system and the charger for $15! I was so excited to find one! It looks and works great, but the screen was a bit scratched up.

I used some scratch remover that is intended for cars and voaila!

I've been told that I can get all the scratches off if I continue to do it, so we'll see.

Well that's it. I didn't find anything else last weekend!

Weekend Adventures P3

So Saturday was the last day to thrift in California for me. Went to a few places, did not have much luck. The first thrift store of the day was here:

This thrift store was quite big. It was a furniture store up until recently. There was a ton of stuff, but not too many videogame related things. I found some weird controller called the Dream Gear. I didn't know what it was so I had it researched as I walked around the store more. I found out later that it was something you got back in the day for signing up with come credit card company and that the 50 games programmed into it were garbage. Good thing I passed on that. There were some PS1 controllers that I don't need, a PS, and one of those Plug-n-Play controllers that had Atari games on it. I kind of wish I picked it up, but I didn't. Boo. Here's what I got though:

A Dreamcast controller and a NES controller. Got them for $7 combined. They are both in pretty good shape. The Dreamcast controller doesn't have too many scuffs on it and no yellowing on it. The NES controller does have some yellowing but the buttons feel pretty good. I have plenty of both of these controller, but you can never have too many controllers! Especially if you decide to sell them later..

Although I didn't have any luck at any other thrift stores, I did visit a thrift store that deserves an honorable mention:

Sorry for the lame picture that was shot from the car, but I decided at the last second to take the picture. This thrift store was HUGE. I swear it was a converted Wal-Mart or something cause it was massive inside. And there was so much stuff packed in there! It was also the hip place to be because there were a ton of people there! There was videogame stuff there, including PlayStations, PS1's, XBox systems, lots of Guitar Hero accessories, one N64 sports game, a few Gamecubes, and so on. But I didn't want any of it so I got nothing from here. I would love to go back here another time when it isn't so hectic inside and check it out some more. It was impressive.

That's all for my thrifting back in my hometown. Next post will be about what I found when I got home. It's good stuff.

Weekend Adventures P2

So here's one of the thrift stores I visited that I actually got stuff from (cause I visited a lot of different thrift stores):

You can tell it's awesome by the missing "a" in "deals" and the "e" in "store" But yeah, Great Deals Thrift Store. This thrift store was somewhat big. It didn't have a whole lot of game stuff and the stuff that they did have was hidden behind their glass display case. There was two small bins with some games, so I digged through it and got these:

Both Great Basketball for the Master System and NBA Jam for the Game Gear were $0.55 a piece. Even though I don't have a Game Gear, who could pass that up? The game probably isn't even worth that much, but it's still a deal! Quarth for the Game Boy was $4.98. I believe this game is worth about $8, so not a bad price. Thinking that it was all I was going to find, I went to go stand in the long line. Since there was a bookcase with some DVD's and such I decided to take a look and I found...

Great Baseball for the Master System and Wheel of Fortune for the Genesis! It sometimes pays to look through DVD's and VHS tapes. The case for Great Baseball is kinda messed up and is missing the manual, but it was only $2.98. Wheel of Fortune, on the other hand, is in much better condition. It has the manual and there aren't too many defects of the case. It was marked down to $1.99.

I visited a few other stores that day and had no luck. Goodwill in California is very sucky. Hole in the wall places are much better. I was originally going to post pictures of every store I visited, but what's the point if I didn't find anything?! I'll post another find tomorrow. I bet you all can hardly wait!

Weekend Adventures P1

Yes, I know. I haven't blogged in awhile. I can give you all the reasons (or excuses) as to why I haven't been blogging lately, but the reasons don't really matter. I have a few things to blog about since I've been away. But I'll make it a several part post. Here is the first part!

In a trip to California I went to quite a few places after I took a night to recover from having my wisdom tooth pulled. The first place I went to was the Upland Mini-Mall. Now I have no idea if it is actually called that anymore since the building was just painted and had no text, but it's just like any other indoor swap meet. There's vendors with their own booths and they sell stuff. The only one I cared about was the one that sold games, which they called themselves Game Station. Most of their stuff was spot on with their prices, but I did come across some goodies:

I got Baseball Stars for around $5, Pirates! for around $7, and Baseball for free. That's right, for free. See, it's funny when you're a female that buys games and actually knows what they're talking about. I picked up more items than this but they were traded for other items, so I actually spent a bit of money with this guy. I looked in their case with my printed price guide and picked out the goodies. Baseball Stars didn't have a price so I asked the guy how much he wanted and that I would pay $5 for it. He agreed. I tried the same with Baseball asking how much he wanted without stating a price and he said $5. I told him no thanks and went on my way paying for the rest of the items. After I paid for it all the guy put the Baseball game in my bag and told me since I was a collecter he would throw it in for me. Isn't that nice?

Both Baseball and Baseball Stars were in fine condition. No real blemshes, just needed a bit of cleaning (inside and out). Pirates!, on the other hand, had so may stickers on it it was unbelievable! You can't tell in the picture cause I did my best to clean them off, but I need to try out the WD-40 trick to get the residue off. I'm serious though, there was a magnetic strip on the front and back of the cartridge as well as INSIDE the case!! There was also a video store sticker on either side of the case and of course when you remove those you get the stupid reside with the word "void" through it. So I haven't cleaned it up too well, but enough so you all wouldn't have to see all the stupid stickers on it.

So there you have it, my first post of a several part post of my adventures from this weekend. Stay tuned!

Batman & Batman Returns on EBAY

I won this on Ebay for $5.00 free shipping. According to the price guides, these are worth $8.33 and $6.62, respectfully. I already have a copy of Batman but not of Batman Returns. Maybe this copy of Batman will be better than the one I already have. If not, I'll find something to do with it.

I haven't been looking too much at Ebay lately, but I have been going to the thrift store lately. I haven't found anything I have to have (except for what I found in my last post), but I'm continuing to look. I'm going out to visit my family this coming weekend and I hope to go thrifting out there. Maybe I'll find the motherload out there!!!!  :)

One day nothing, then the next day...

... you find some stuff.

All the items above were only $1.99 a piece. Here's what I got:

- Cyborg Hunter for Master System (which I thought was a Genesis game when I bought it)

- Cyborg Justice for Genesis

- Bart Vs. The Space Mutants for Genesis

- Quartet for Master System

- Altered Beast for Genesis

Unfortunately Quartet and Altered Beast are not in great shape. I was trying to get the "CUCO" off the Quartet label and the red of the label started coming off. That stupid "CUCO" is written on the back of the game as well in blue pen or whatever it is. I have no clue if I can get that off. Altered Beast has label and cartridge damage. They both have nice gashes. I guess in the heat of excitement I wasn't picky. No big deal, it's not like I spent a ton on any of it.

Classic Gaming Expo Weekend!!

Oh yeah! Finally they have the expo out in Las Vegas again! I honestly had no idea what to expect when I arrived to walk around. I was happy with what it turned out to be. I got to play a few arcade and console games and see all sorts of goodies. There were some vendors/sponsors as well:

I did pick up some goodies. The stuff below is from day one. Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Trouble in Wackyland, Pipe Dream, Stinger, and Space Channel 5. They all are in good shape and didn't require much cleaning (except Stinger, that had some idiot's name written on it).

Day two I got Rambo III, Boulder Dash, and Silk Worm. All these are also in great shape. All the titles including the ones above came from the same vendor. That vendor had a TON of stuff in a tiny booth. They probably had the most next to the Atari2600 stand. Certainly the biggest variety of titles and consoles. It was good stuff.

There was also a videogame musem (which I saw the first day and forgot to bring my camera, d'oh). There was stuff from all sorts of video game era's, different prototype items, and just neat stuff. I wish I didn't forget my camera that day cause I would have taken lots of photos of it. Oh well.

All in all, it was a great time. I hope they do it again next year cause I'll be there!