Recent Purchases and Good Finds

I’ve got me one of these along with a NES PowerPak. <3 Retrousb.com.

I finally gave in and bought a Wii. I’ve been saying for a while that I would pick one up when I found one for $100. I ended up getting a used system with a controller+nunchuck+2 Gb SD Card for $100+tax. I spent the last two days messing around with homebrew. Fun stuff. I also bought Punch Out for $15 to play with it.

Bought my first NES Advantage today.
Got it for $5 at the Swap Meet.

Always did like the Advantage. I just picked up the Super Advantage over the weekend, was able to talk the guy down to $10 for it.

Very cool.
Is that price sticker what he wanted it for?

I’ll never forget what my NES Advantage cost me.

Laugh.

Yup, it was a pawn shop. I’d bought $40 worth of movies and TV series, was able to get him to throw it in with the bundle for $10.

Argh, there’s a pawn shop in town with a ton of NES games. They write the price on the backside like that with sharpie. It hurts my soul.

I just dropped $90 on eBay for:
an SE modded with all Sanwa +
an incomplete custom stick with a JLF and 4 seimitsu buttons +
an extra JLF

Good deal? Right after I paid, I was gripped with the fear that I had just dropped almost $100 on a new hobby I may or may not continue with (although this thumb callous says otherwise).

I wish I had my NES Advantage still. If you were my age and American, this was everyone’s first stick. Oh the memories.

bought a 360 SE stick 15 bucks at gamestop, no lies, the employee didn’t know how much to resell for

Are those the collectors cards you had to mail in for that I saw mentioned in the SF2 instruction booklet?

My friend got a complete copy of SF2 with box and instruction booklet. For a deal. Since he’s the manager at a used game store and bought it in cash as soon as he had bought it from the guy who brought it in. Heh.

These cards were in issues of Nintendo Power.
They were for the Nintendo Super Power Club being.

Nintendo Power every month list three cards.
Anyone who had the three cards listed wins then.
The cards get mailed and winner gets choice of game.

Is that what you saw in the Game Manual?

Got a “Used” Soul Edge Namco in Jap Box with character card inserts for $60, turns out it’s brand new.

Maybe. I’m not sure, they just said there were collectable trading cards or something. I just recall thinking they’d be worth a fortune. Aw, well.

I picked up some Turtle Beach X1 headphones for $12.68 (after tax) at a local pawn shop. I swabbed them down with alcohol and they sound pretty good. I assume this was a good deal?

Picked this Tshirt up for ?20 at gamescom, there was one shop selling most of the stuff from lvlupwear. Level Up Wear ® - Stylish Gaming Apparel - STREET FIGHTER IV - DEMON CRUSH

They have a couple other pretty awesome tshirts of SF4 as well.
TIP: They shink quite a bit after you wash them, but they took that into account with the sizes. So just order your normal size and do a 60 degree wash. For example after a hot washing the L will fit good if you have a normal posture, don’t get an M or something like that.

Nes Advantage I picked up from Game Galaxy in Nashville for 50 cents. Used and a little beat up on the case but completely useable!

I might try to extend the case and mod it with a Cthulu and Seimitsu’s. :slight_smile:

Best deal I can still remember so far, was getting SSFIV for free by trading in God of War III @ Best Buy’s “Green Recycling Event” .

Recent purchases? parts for building my 2nd stick and my friend’s stick. Good finds? I crack stuff open from work and got more freebies for assembling this stick :slight_smile:

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