How much did you pay for your Sega Nomad?

I found mine in a used electronics shop in the nineties. They wanted $90 for it. Neither I nor the girl behind the counter really knew what it was. Of course, I recognized that it was a Sega and knew that it was not a Game Gear. I thought it was expensive until I priced one at a new electronics store at $180 and found out that it played Genesis games, which I had plenty of already. So I bought the used one and it came with the official carrying bag, AC adapter, battery case, rechargeable battery pack, car adapter, and AV cord.

A few years later, I dropped it at the airport and the screen cracked. Or so I thought. I found out the outer screen just pulls off and was able to put a new one on for a few dollars. My Nomad still works great to this day, except for the rechargeable pack. I always plug it in anyways.

Paid $60 + shipping a little over two years ago, from a seller with whom I've dealt on a bunch of occasions, for a loose Nomad with battery pack and AC adapter. It's great for playing RPGs while we watch TV. Certain other titles work well on it, especially sprite-scaling games like Road Rash and Space Harrier II which arguably look better on the Nomad than on a CRT.

The one downside is that the fluorescent backlight on mine sometimes takes a while to kick in, especially if I haven't used it in a few days or weeks. I wouldn't mind a new screen, but I'd almost rather find one with a dead screen and get that one modded. The SMS compatibility mod would be nice too.

I wanted one bad but its was $149. I told myself I would be one if it was ever $50. Well it bombed and I bought one new at Toys'R'US for $50 back in the day.

$179.99 brand new about when it was first released. Also at Kay Bee! Still own it. Now it's LCD modded. If you include the mod, I have around $250 into it total, but I've got my use out of it!! In fact about 15 years or so.

Got it six years ago off of eBay Germany. I paid about 80€ (about 97 $US in 2006), but I also got a replacement screen and six Genesis games with it, so overall I think I made a bargain.

i paid 60 but mine came with a model 1 and about 20 games which included the manuals had gunstar heros and bloodlines

I got mine for free from a friend who didn't like it.

That was about six or seven years ago. Still works today, though it takes a little bit to warm up.

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Originally Posted by Baloo

I got mine for free from a friend who didn't like it.

That was about six or seven years ago. Still works today, though it takes a little bit to warm up.

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Yeah, that's how I got my second Playstation. My friend gave it to me after he got a PS2. We used to play all the Playstation linked games. He told me that if he ever wanted to play linked up Playstation games, he'd know that I already had two of 'em.

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Originally Posted by GohanX

I also bought one on clearance at EB, but I paid $49.99.

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same situation here, 'cept i had found mine at my local TOYS R' US.

never have used it much, so it's quite healthy to this day.....

I currently own two, both picked up from Goodwill for $5 and $20 respectively. The $20 one has a vertical line running through the screen but otherwise works great. It also came with a battery pack while the $5 unit was bare.

I have owned 2 of them. They both had the battery holders for the back. The first I got at Game Crazy for $40. Upset the guy working there because he was going to buy it at the end of the day. The second one I picked up at a yard sale with a couple games for $10.

$80.00

But it was with a mall gift card at a used game store. So like $20 out of pocket. Funny thing is I didn't even want it, what I really wanted to buy was the Turbografx they had in stock but they refused to sell it me because it was missing a power cable. I even offered to buy it without the cord. This went back and forth over a few visits before I settled on the nomad.

Before that I had nabbed one in the box at a yard sale for $5 only to discover that the screen was totally shattered. :/

$15 for mine from Gamestop as they were liquidating their genesis stock. It lacks the battery holder, unfortunately, but it works on the AC adapter.

I find it interesting that people find Nomads for sale cheap at garage sales, etc. I'll admit that I don't really get out to that sort of thing but I never see Sega stuff for sale in second-hand stores anymore. The last few times that I asked if they had any old games, they showed me stuff like PS2 and XBox.