Awesome find on that box w/ goodies, Flea! I'm also jealous of your Trinity Universe, that's one of the few PS3 RPGs I'm still missing and I haven't come across it anywhere so far.
I went out to sales yesterday since there were several neighborhoods having sales. The first two were busts, not much at all in the first neighborhood and calling the second one a "neighborhood wide sale" was a joke, I think I saw 4-5 sales. The last one was packed, tons of sales and tons of people. Very few games, as usual - asked everywhere, and I mostly got the usual weird look & "no.." answers from people. Some guy was selling a fat PS2 w/ 5-6 games, nothing spectacular, for $70.
Would not part out games, the only one I had any interest in was Dynasty Warriors 4 anyway and I doubt he would have sold it for anything I would have paid. Some lady said she had a DSi & 1 game - Rio - when I asked if she had any video games. $40 - I don't think so. Some other lady had a 360 - I didn't need it, but I asked her how much out of curiosity. She said she would "let it go" for $125. When I told her no, her friend starts in with "That's still almost $400 in stores!" I told her it wasn't, that everyone was trying to get rid of them because the new systems were out. She replies "That's a
Kinect." Oh, well in that case,
HELL no.
I was about to quit when I finally started to have some luck. A minor find first, 2 Perfect Shot gun controllers for the Wii - those things you snap the wiimote into. I had been wanting those for all the light gun games on the system. $2 for the pair.
About 3 houses later, I see a couple of crappy PS2 games mixed in with some DVDs. I ask the guy if he has any other games, and he says just a couple of PS2 games. When I ask what they are, he says he can go inside & check. Comes out a few mins later w/ a stack of 360 games which I had no interest in, a Harry Potter 3-game collection in a slip cover for the PS2 which I grabbed just to add to the collection, and Final Fantasy 7 (GH). When I asked how much, he says "Well I was asking $2/each for the other games." Sold! $8 for the HP set & FF7.
A few houses after THAT, I walk up just as a guy is bringing out a stack of 360 games from his house. Glance through them & see Bioshock, which I needed to recomplete my 360 CE of that game, and the Marvel Ultimate Alliance / Forza 2 2-pack. He sells me both of them for $2.
Then just after that, I find a house w/ a box full of Wii stuff. See a few games I don't have, nothing spectacular (side note, apparently no one in my town bought first party Nintendo games for their Wii. I *never* see them. It's the strangest thing). She says she wants $50 for the system, games, everything. I ask if she'll sell the games separately, and she says she really wants to get rid of it all. I chuckle and reply "You and everyone else." She laughs and says true, and then tells me to just make her an offer (finally, someone with a sense of humor
). I offer her $16 for 8 of the games, she says "give me $20 & take the whole box." Done! In the box was:
- White Wii system w/ all cables, manuals, stand, etc.
- 3 Wiimotes
- 2 Nunchucks
- HDMI cable
- Off-brand steering wheel
- Link's Crossbow Training w/ Wii Zapper (no box tho, sadly
) - Cooking Mama: Cook Off
- Thrillville: Off The Rails
- Monopoly
- Wii Play
- Family Game Night 2
- Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (disk is completely trashed, but luckily I already have this one)
- Rayman Raving Rabids TV Party (case/manual but disk is missing - main one I saw that interested me too )
Oh - and for some reason, a complete baby monitor set.
And today I went one town over & hit up the retro store. Traded in the SNES I bought last year that reeked of cigarette smoke - I never could de-stench it - and Dragon Age: Inquisition for the PS4 which I just haven't gotten around to (and expect a "complete" edition to hit before I do at this point). Used the credit to grab:
- Sphinx & The Cursed Mummy - PS2 - $5
- Super Bust-A-Move - PS2 - $5
- Dead Space 2 CE - PS3, in absolute MINT condition - $50
Walked next door to the flea market & found:
- Amped 2 - Xbox, still factory sealed - $4
- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - PS2 - $5
And finally, I checked their Gamestop & got 4 more from the 4-for-$10 sale:
- inFamous - PS3
- Shaun White Snowboarding - PS3
- The Fight: Lights Out - PS3
- Sonic & The Secret Rings - Wii
