what your best value retro product/game have you found and bought

[the_villa]

mine is finding a four score (multi tap nes) and with 2 pads at gamestation for ₤4.99 :awesome:

[Jazzem]

Super Mario RPG (Complete) for £36 including P&P from ebay. I just need an NTSC SNES to play it!

[8-bit soul]

Well if i had bought it Megaman 1 on Nes boxed and in mint condtion for £9.99
in game station oh man i wish i got that....

the last Ebay Megaman went for £40

[Kurtle Squad]

I saw a SNES with Super Metroid for around £20 in town the other day I think. They had a £1.99 NES controller too ;)
Didn't buy either though!!

[Calza]

Mines buying a sega mega drive for 8p :D

[Kurtle Squad]

Mines buying a sega mega drive for 8p :D

Surely no-one can beat that!!!

[Cheapshot]

Shenmue 2 for Dreamcast - probably not THAT rare but it took me an age to find.

[AshMat]

Mines buying a sega mega drive for 8p :D
howhowhow, you must reveal your secrets

[Calza]

howhowhow, you must reveal your secrets
it was at a scout fete, saw it reached into my pockets and all i had was coppers i offered them for a joke but he accepted it!!! Also i might be able to get an atari (can't rember the name) with alot of games for free!!

[Nevahom]

You conned a charitable event!! cunning lol

[8-bit soul]

Car boot sales and Fetes are best for deals!

a lot of stuff i got over the years have come from car boots
the reason is that most people just want to off load the unwanted crap and are just concerned about making a profit at the end of a hard days haggle

you do get the occaisional "expert" who wont let his stuff go cheap
but dont be fooded car boots are hard work you could search all day and not find anything also you need to get up early!!!

it beats all these ebay auctions with "Rare resident evil 4 on cube" who know and want to make money out of their stuff

[harribo]

Best deal I got was a Master System 2(Box was in mint condition with some instructions and all the leads), 2 controllers, Shinobi and sonic the hedghog 2 for £3.

[Ramar]

My best deal was £40 for my NES (unboxed), two control pads, boxed zapper gun, one NES advantage controller, Mario Bros, Excitebike, To the Earth, Punch-Out and Stealth. The games were unboxed but had sleeves, some had manuals and came in a need little holder thingy.

[triforcemario]

My best deal was 1 euro for sonic and knuckles. (megadrive)

[Platty]

Super Mario Kart in Mint condition from ebay! Got it for about £30. Box is perfect and it even has the little plastic bag for the game, looks brand new.

[Wesley]

£5 for Goldeneye?

OH! Final Fantasy XII for PC, original boxed version that was first release and is no longer produced, MINT condition with all intstructions and even god damn advertisements for £40!

[|Laguna|]

Tombi for the Playstation one for 2.99 from Blockbuster. Nice condition too. Currently being sold on EBay for nearly always 35+

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TOMBI-Playstation-PS1-PS2-Complete-Excellent-Cond_W0QQitemZ8243873206QQcategoryZ3719QQrdZ1QQcmd ZViewItem

[Jazzem]

£5 for Goldeneye?

OH! Final Fantasy XII for PC, original boxed version that was first release and is no longer produced, MINT condition with all intstructions and even god damn advertisements for £40!

I presume you mean VII?

[the_villa]

It also has turbo buttons on the four score
http://www.retrogames.co.uk/stock/assets/images/1Mach_-_Nes_Four_Score.jpg

[skarmachild]

4 Player NES!

And it took Sony how many years to come up with more than 2 players?

[mario image T]

4 Player NES!

And it took Sony how many years to come up with more than 2 players?
they never came up with it - just had to wait a while b4 stealing the idea without making them look cheap.

[NintyNat]

Mines buying a sega mega drive for 8p :D

Oh I got one for 50p. I thought nobody would beat that. :p
Obviously nobody thinks much of the megadrive these days, its the saturn thats more sought after.

Tombi for the Playstation one for 2.99 from Blockbuster. Nice condition too. Currently being sold on EBay for nearly always 35+

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TOMBI-Playstation-PS1-PS2-Complete-Excellent-Cond_W0QQitemZ8243873206QQcategoryZ3719QQrdZ1QQcmd ZViewItem


Oh Em Gee!
I've never been able to find that game anywhere, I even asked in my local retro gaming store when I was like 12 and they couldn't even find it on the internet. :hmm:
I shall be having words.

[AshMat]

http://img492.imageshack.us/img492/5610/lylatwars1wb.jpg

Thats:
Lylat wars (n64)
Rumble Pack
Original batteries that came with the game :shock:
Instruction booklet
Box
Other sheets that came with the game when it was released.

And how much did this cost?

£0.00 !!! get in there bitches!

(i know that the box has a £4.99 sticker on it but i did get it for free from gamestation)

[fatnickc]

The last time I bought a box of retro goodness was back in July, when I bought an N64 with 2 controllers, a memory card, Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64 for a tenner. I'd love to pick up a NES or SNES sometime, but the last one I saw in Gamestation was 30 quid or so..

[|Laguna|]

I've got a StarWing SNES joint bundley package. Is this valuable?
Also I own a Master System with a good few games, Sonic 1+2, Wimbeldon II, some crazy MacDonalds game, and more

[Platty]

Retro-Lover how did you get Lylat wars for free huh ?

I remember paying about £55 for that when it came out. Mine is still in pretty good condition as are all of my N64 boxes.

[Oli1983uk]

I think mine are buying a game and watch in its box with everything including the batterys for £18 and also my boxed NES with Rob in all working order with everything including hard to find gray light gun! for £50

[AshMat]

Good question.

I went to gamestationbecause they had a boxed compelte mario Paint for Snes in their window for a tenner, there was a bogof sticker on it and lylat wars with te same sticker next to it for a fiver, so when i bought the game he asked me if i wanted lylat wars with it, naturally i agreed.

This is what has reaaaaaaly pissed me off though. Ive lost the universal power adapter i was using for my snes (i got the snes off ebay because there was no power adapter, so anturally it was cheaper) now i ahve no means of powering it, and ebay can naff off because the prices on thee are ridiculous. Im going to have to try the market on saturday. Egh it will be heeaaving

[the_villa]

4 Player NES!

And it took Sony how many years to come up with more than 2 players?

Here's some info on the four score (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES_Four_Score)

[the_villa]

bought this today http://www.1stvideo.com/nes/BoulderDash.jpg£4.99 and got this freehttp://consolemedia.gameworldnetwork.com/boxshots/nes/4553.jpg

[The Bard]

I bought 4 copies of Chrono Trigger from ebay for an average of £10 and sold 3 of them to gamestation for £55 each...

[Caris]

My 2nd Gamecube, £25 With a 256mb memory Card (offical) and the Cubes the Platinum colour with no marks what so ever, not even dust in the fan areas, musnt of been used very much at all.

[DiemetriX]

I bought 4 copies of Chrono Trigger from ebay for an average of £10 and sold 3 of them to gamestation for £55 each...

So far, you win :)

[EchoDesiato]

Starwing for the SNES complete with box and manual for just 10€, free shipping.

[Tellyn]

N64 with controller for a tenner.

[The Bard]

So far, you win :)

Yaay! :yay:

[altheman]

My most recent bargain was Deep Fear, the last game released for the Sega Saturn in europe - £12 from Gamestation. I've seen it go for £30+ on ebay.

I bought a Mega Drive II with 1 x 6-button pad and 2x 3-button pads and ten games from a car boot sale for £10 a few years ago, which i was quite chuffed with.

[Sméagol]

Not too long ago, I bought some retro stuff for the first time. I usually had other priorities (buying new stuff that is), and in my direct vicinity, there are no good 2nd hand shops anyway. There is one shop now, but it's pretty new, and it's owner is a Sega fan, so most of the retro stuff there is Sega, no Nintendo. But I had luck when there was an event for retro gaming, on walking distance from my house. So I stopped by, wasn't expecting much of it, and it was small, but there was so much stuff to find.. I had my first experience with the Virtual Boy here. This time, I couldn't go home without some Retro stuff. I never had a SNES, so that's one of the things I looked for.
In fact, I made a picture which I posted on another forum:

Unfortunately I don't seem to be allowed to post my picture of the stuff, I'll just write it down then:
- SNES
- Parodius
- Super Ghouls & Ghosts
- Zelda LttP
- Metroid 3
- Super Mario Bros 3
- Ducktales 2
- Megaman 4

That's the stuff I bought, for € 210,- more or less. As you can see all of them boxed (except the Mario/Duckhunt, which I actually got somewhere else), most of them with booklets (except DuckTales 2, the Metroid booklet's missing the cover, Zelda has the map included). Megaman 4 is probably looking even better than my Megaman 5, excellent condition, as is Parodius.
I'm not sure though, if I should regret not getting Parodius NES version.

From what I've been told by another dealer, the Super Ghouls & Ghosts with box & booklet for € 10,-, is a very good deal.

Also too bad I came very late, all the good RPG's were gone. I saw 2 Chrono Triggers, but both of them US.

[Stefkov]

i saw an n64 with 2 contrllers, all leads, no box zelda and another game for £7.50 at a car boot sale, didnt get it though. damn you all and your cheap retro things

[Kurtle Squad]

I got 'Fire' for around £15 off eBay a while ago, It's in okay condition.

[DiemetriX]

:O A nes With 6 games and 2controllers.

the games:

Mario 1
Turtles 1
Duck Tales
Double Dragon
Punchout
Hq spinner

for $10

Now thats a bargin :) (and a stupid seller)