Folks,
I'm very excited.
It's been an amazing week!
Monday began with my coworker giving me this out of the blue...
Then on Thursday this arrived from burningdoom:
Turbo Grafx 16 Console with:
Keith Courage in the Alpha Zones
Alien Crush
Saturday I had what I would consider my first "Awesome Haul" after a morning of garage sale-ing.
I didn't have a planned route or anything. I just woke up early and had the itch. So I hopped in the car and drove the route I usually take to go to church.
I always see signs for sales on Sunday, but I don't do commerce on Sundays so it always makes me wonder what I'm missing.
Saturday there was a sale on nearly every block.
In spite of this the first hour and a half was something of a bust.
I only had one neat find.
Indian Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Not the CD-Rom re-release but the original 286 version on 5.25 floppy disks.
It's complete in box. Manual, registration card, a map, a piece of paper with notes taken by the owner. A newspaper and even the original purchase receipt and even more stuff. It was like opening a time capsule. (If folks are interested I can post pictures of the complete contents).
The next few sales were a bust. So I decided to hang it up and head home.
On the way I stumbled on this lot:
I got everything pictured for $12.
PS1Area 51 (disc & manual)
Bubble Bobble (disc & manual)
Crash Bandicoot (disc & manual)
Croc (disc & manual)
Need for Speed High Stakes (disc & manual)
Tekken (disc & manual)
FF IX Disc 3 & manual turned out to be crammed inside the Final Fantasy Adventure box.
Konami Justifier light gun (with manual)
GBAFinal Fantasy Adventure (box, manual, map, and other extras, but no game)
**I have since ordered the game itself from ebay. So this will soon be CIB.
Funny story. The stuff was actually part of a much bigger lot which included a ps2 (fat) and a ps1. A bunch of sports titles, several demo discs, a ps1 steering wheel, and some controllers. All the hookups were missing.
For the hell of it I offered her $20 for all of it.
She countered with $30.
I countered with $25.
She refused to budge from 30.
I told her that was more than I wanted to spend so I'd whittle the lot down and make a new offer. It was at this point I inspected the systems and games in detail. The box was a mess of mismatched hookups and cases without games and games without cases. Tons of demo games and the consoles were filthy enough that I questioned them being viable as backup units.
So I whittled the lot down to everything I though was actually of value to me and offered her $10.
She countered with $12.
And I said "alright".
Funny thing is. All I really wanted was the Justifier. Everything else is just gravy.
As I continued home figuring I'd done the best I could do... I found a mother load of game cube and game boy advance stuff.
Here's what I walked away with for $20
GBA AccessoriesCharger
rechargeable battery pack
light and protective flip cover
game link cable
car adapter
GBA GamesNBA Jam 2002 (with manual and case)
Ghostbusters
Lego Bionicle (with manual and case) for my son
Magical Quest Staring Mickey Mouse (with manual and case) for my wife
Donald Duck (with manual and case) for my wife
Game Cube AccessoriesNintendo Wavebird Wireless controller (with fresh batteries and the receiver)
When I got home my wife informed me my eBay purchase arrived it was:
Super Mario USA (nes)
We went out to eat and on the way home I stopped by Fry's, picked up some crimped cables and successfully completed a solderless AV mod on the Turbo Grafx 16!
Not a bad week at all and I still have stuff in the mail that should arrive next week!
I think theflea would be proud!
