What Great Bargains did you get Games & Systems?

[Knuckle Duster]

Whats up with the Radiant Silvergun frenzy? You know you can get Silpheed for PS2, which is also made by Treasure, for like $5? I would put it right on par with Radiant Silvergun (with my limited emulator experience).

Saturn RS is a new age religious icon.

Silpheed? Don't spread your blasphemy any further ignorant whelp!

[Mr Smith]

I bought a Mega Drive with three-controllers, The Addams Family (tosh game), Castlevania and a few other semi-rare but quite pricey games for less than £20.

[nissling]

I got a PAL-Mega Drive (unit only) for $ 1,50. ^^

[kgenthe]

I got a SNES and 10 games (including Super Mario RPG and Earthbound) for $20. I didn't know till recently that Earthbound is such a desired title worth twice as much as I paid for the lot.

I also got a Master System and 8 games for $10 from another friend years ago.

Other than that, nothing noteworthy. Hoping to hit up yard sales this year and see if I can find anything good.

[kool kitty89]

I got a SNES and 10 games (including Super Mario RPG and Earthbound) for $20. I didn't know till recently that Earthbound is such a desired title worth twice as much as I paid for the lot.

Wow! Nice, and Earthbound it often goes for tripple that. (just for the loose cart! rediculous)

And Mario RPG tends to be quite pricey too. (luckily we got ours several years ago just before Game Stop stopped carrying SNES games, and it was pretty cheap)


I just got Virtua Racing for $.99, though it was $4 with shipping. (probably would have been less, but they didn't offer media mail...)

[Baloo]

I got a SNES and 10 games (including Super Mario RPG and Earthbound) for $20. I didn't know till recently that Earthbound is such a desired title worth twice as much as I paid for the lot.

I also got a Master System and 8 games for $10 from another friend years ago.

Other than that, nothing noteworthy. Hoping to hit up yard sales this year and see if I can find anything good.

I got a similar deal with my SNES, but not as good as yours about 3-4 years back:

SNES w/ all hookups
2 Controllers (1 3rd Party)
15 games

For $15.

Included all 3 Donkey Kong Countries, all 3 Super Star Wars, Tiny Toons Wacky Sports, and the Super Mario World + Super Mario All Stars cart, but nothing noteworthy, and no RPGs at all.

[kgenthe]

Wow! Nice, and Earthbound it often goes for tripple that. (just for the loose cart! rediculous)

And Mario RPG tends to be quite pricey too. (luckily we got ours several years ago just before Game Stop stopped carrying SNES games, and it was pretty cheap)

A friend of mine was hard up for money and made the offer so I said sure. It was probably 7 years ago and neither of us really knew the value. He just offered and I accepted.

Now that I think about it, I've gotten a lot of free stuff from family/friends unloading there old gaming stuff including a bunch of Sega CD titles (including Sonic CD), a box of 40 NES games (all stored in plastic clamshells with manuals, mint) and a Turbografx-16. That kind of strays a bit off topic though...

[Baloo]

A friend of mine was hard up for money and made the offer so I said sure. It was probably 7 years ago and neither of us really knew the value. He just offered and I accepted.

Now that I think about it, I've gotten a lot of free stuff from family/friends unloading there old gaming stuff including a bunch of Sega CD titles (including Sonic CD), a box of 40 NES games (all stored in plastic clamshells with manuals, mint) and a Turbografx-16. That kind of strays a bit off topic though...

Ahh, I've gotten my fare share of free stuff over the years as well including:

A Sega Nomad
Rayman 2
Crazy Taxi (Gamecube)
Super Smash Bros. Melee

And probably some other stuff, not really sure.

[AD2101]

Whats up with the Radiant Silvergun frenzy? You know you can get Silpheed for PS2, which is also made by Treasure, for like $5? I would put it right on par with Radiant Silvergun (with my limited emulator experience).

......God I hope your wrong. I have Silpheed for PS2, and While I would put it above the Gradius title for PS2 (Never been much of a Gradius fan), I didn't find the game to be anything special. I've never played RS, but there seems no way to me it's good enough to warrant the usual $200 + price of admittance. Plus I'm good with DoDonpachi and Souky anyways for a fraction of the price.

Also on topic I haven't gotten too many "Holy Shit" good deals, but the best deal I got recently was a bet I won, with a complete copy of Policenauts for the PS1 for free as my prize.

EDIT: I totally forgot my NES and the 14 or 15 games I have for it (the first 3 mario's, zelda, stuff like that) I also acquired for free. My friend left the NES with me because he was "done with video gamez" and my other friend let me borrow his games for it but when he went to prison they kind of just became mine I think. I don't know I should probably see if he wants those back as he's out now.

[Kollision]

Of course the price Radiant Silvergun is going for today is ridiculous, as with any other game that reaches > 150 USD.

But it is indeed an awesome, fantastic and amazing shooter experience.
I had to pay a lot for it, and I don't regret doing it.

[h00n]

okay i dont know if this counts as a bargain, more of a find i guess, but i am still pretty joyfull about it, skipping can bring some random joys at times. (as in the process of taking other people unwanted furnature and junk from disposal skips, no jumping over rope...)
Anyways..
Was walking past some bins. something caught my eye. looked down and there was a plastic bag with, a Megadrive2 poking out the top, ok so pretty rubbish right, but i picked up the bag to get it home as a freind of mine she had expressed an interest in owning a Megadrive again after seeing my collection, so theres other stuff in this bag ratteling around (a healthy sighn means no squishy organics) but obviosly i wait untill getting it home before rifling throught it, so got this bag home, and its gotta be some landlord clearing out a tenants junk, or some people got no sense.
So in this bag a megadrive 2 (rf cable screwed but it powers on) a ps1 (havent tested it yet) a radio, some mini speakers, a clock, a bathroom radio, and the main cause of the rattling?
Lovley lovley cartridges!
So ok its all carts onley, no boxes, but for free im not gonna quibble and duplicates are always good. spares my collection wear and tear.
So the cartidges i found
sonic and knuckles
afterburner 2
SOR2
art alive (haha)
zoom!
wrestle war
mega games 1
jurassic park
the menacer 6 game cart x2 like what the hell, who ever had 2 of these?
sunset riders
sonic 1
streetfighter 2
judge dredd
a j cart adapter
a japanese game (idk which one but its part 3 of whichever trilogy idk am a bit baka no read the nippon like)
So yeah, nothing massivley rare, but i was pleased as anything. its nice to have duplicates so i can minimise wear and tear on the boxes and carts i already own.
Its mad what some people throw away. i can just imagine back when i was a kid what my mum would have said if i walked in the door with that lot. as it is my wife just raised her eyebrows at me!
lol

[Baloo]

okay i dont know if this counts as a bargain, more of a find i guess, but i am still pretty joyfull about it, skipping can bring some random joys at times. (as in the process of taking other people unwanted furnature and junk from disposal skips, no jumping over rope...)
Anyways..
Was walking past some bins. something caught my eye. looked down and there was a plastic bag with, a Megadrive2 poking out the top, ok so pretty rubbish right, but i picked up the bag to get it home as a freind of mine she had expressed an interest in owning a Megadrive again after seeing my collection, so theres other stuff in this bag ratteling around (a healthy sighn means no squishy organics) but obviosly i wait untill getting it home before rifling throught it, so got this bag home, and its gotta be some landlord clearing out a tenants junk, or some people got no sense.
So in this bag a megadrive 2 (rf cable screwed but it powers on) a ps1 (havent tested it yet) a radio, some mini speakers, a clock, a bathroom radio, and the main cause of the rattling?
Lovley lovley cartridges!
So ok its all carts onley, no boxes, but for free im not gonna quibble and duplicates are always good. spares my collection wear and tear.
So the cartidges i found
sonic and knuckles
afterburner 2
SOR2
art alive (haha)
zoom!
wrestle war
mega games 1
jurassic park
the menacer 6 game cart x2 like what the hell, who ever had 2 of these?
sunset riders
sonic 1
streetfighter 2
judge dredd
a j cart adapter
a japanese game (idk which one but its part 3 of whichever trilogy idk am a bit baka no read the nippon like)
So yeah, nothing massivley rare, but i was pleased as anything. its nice to have duplicates so i can minimise wear and tear on the boxes and carts i already own.
Its mad what some people throw away. i can just imagine back when i was a kid what my mum would have said if i walked in the door with that lot. as it is my wife just raised her eyebrows at me!
lol

Heh, that must've been an interesting day.

[h00n]

The only thing that would be more interesting would be to skip up a boxed copy of alien soldier, golden axe 2 and 3 or snatcher, lol, i dream of walking past a skip or walking into a thrift store and seeing a pristine copy of snatcher.
i wouldent sell it on. i would build an altar to it and worship it as my God!

[h00n]

Now that I think about it, I've gotten a lot of free stuff from family/friends unloading there old gaming stuff including a bunch of Sega CD titles (including Sonic CD), a box of 40 NES games (all stored in plastic clamshells with manuals, mint) and a Turbografx-16. That kind of strays a bit off topic though...

or being that guy... 40 mint nes games w0w. not as deserving of worship as sega though. but for accrueing value, mmm tasty.

[kool kitty89]

[QUOTE=kgenthe;148028]A friend of mine was hard up for money and made the offer so I said sure. It was probably 7 years ago and neither of us really knew the value. He just offered and I accepted.

Now that I think about it, I've gotten a lot of free stuff from family/friends unloading there old gaming stuffQUOTE]

Well it's really only the last couple years that some of these games have been getting pricey anyway, so that would have been a pretty reasonable price under the circumstances. (it was arround that time we picked up Mario RPG from Game Stop, along with F-Zero and Sim City iirc, probably less than $5 each)

Yeah, I've got a fair bit of stuff like that, I've got an uncle that got a Master System 2 with a few games and a 32x (who knows...) with an Atari 2600 lot off ebay about 7-8 years ago. Unfortunately I found out he recently gave away the 2600 stuff to goodwill (many of the games had "stopped working"), but at least he said he'd give me the Sega stuff when he finds it. (he says he doesn't think he got rid of it with the Atari)