Recent Purchases and Good Finds

i’m already doing that to my current se, another gives me more to do!

sometimes a bestbuy clearance varies from store to store and region to region…

none in my area :frowning:

Ashram,

Shame about the Wii Fight Stick in your area but that’s the way it works. Believe me, it’s happened to me, too!

First come, first serve, all pure luck!

Toodles,

I asked Per/The Real NeoGeo in the Akihabara Thread about possibly “suggestively bugging” Seimitsu about putting the Pearl buttons into at least a new limited production. I don’t know how the Japanese do these things and I’m not going to presume to e-mail Seimitsu if I even had contact information. I don’t know Kanji or Japanese protocol. Figured it was better to ask a vendor to pass on word.

AND my suggestion of the week – DON’T BUY Rustoleum spraypaint for vinyl and fabric to color your joystick cases!

I had a mini-disaster with it. I can salvage the case and it’ll be fine but I learned an important lesson about an inferior product.

If you have to spraypaint for vinyl and fabric, go with Duplicolor.

Found some deals in Akihabara… all in mint condition/with box. :smiley:

Hori Multi-Arcade Stick for PC-Engine, MegaDrive, and Super Famicom for 480Y

Sega Virtua Stick for PlayStation 2 for 5980Y

Hori RAP V3 SA for PlayStation 3 for 7980Y

I was able to TETRIS my luggage and bring these home rather easily!

Fighting Stick Multi for ¥480 is extreme jealousy!

Nice museum piece!

Not sure I’d want to play long-term with it.

The Mad Catz TE was the first joystick I ever played with where it didn’t feel like my fingers wanted to fall off after 10 minutes…!

Those older pre-Agetec joysticks… you guys can have 'em. They really stressed my hand and fingers quite a bit. The sticks that exist now are much more comfortable. You couldn’t convince me to go back to SNES pads let alone Atari 2600 joysticks. Those early joysticks really defined discomfort!

I never felt comfortable with American parts or the Hori Fighting Stick SS/PS lines.

^Cool story bro.

I can confirm its running in the Twin Cities area in Minnesota, just picked up two for $60.

Blazblue: Continuum Shift limited edition (PAL) - £17.99

BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (Limited Edition) Xbox 360 | Zavvi.com

It’s not the fan edition which sold out about a month ago, but the next best thing. And you can’t really argue about the price considering how much the same place is selling the standard edition for.

Not that I would go for it, but this is a god damned steal.

ARCADE GAME SEGA VIRTUAL ON TWIN SITDOWN FIGHT GAME

Twin sit down Virtual On for $300!

God damn that’s a steal for a real VO setup.

that should be a crime how low it was

Holy hell… Isn’t that the same price the Hori twin EX stick retails for?! Fuck the peripheral I want the whole thing!

At that price, there has to be a catch. The guy clearly knows the original value…

If it’s genuine and in good working order, then it’s the find of the decade.

DOH!!! the inlaws are out of town :frowning:

:amazed::amazed::amazed::amazed::amazed::amazed:
wow, if i wasn’t across the county…
that is an AWESOME deal…

No kidding! Great game!

Hard enough to buy the V-O twin sticks now – and frankly they’re of no use beyond playing the game on any system it was released on (XBox360 Live, Sega Saturn Sega Dreamcast) — but this is WAY better than the controller.

$300 for a sit-down arcade game IS a steal.

I can’t imagine your electric bill won’t surge, though!

It’s probably next-to-impossible to get rid of that game because of its size.

I also doubt it’s in huge demand. The V-O fanatic crowd isn’t that big. SEGA Fandom is also not what it used to be. The V-O game itself is also well over 10 years old now…

It’s gotta be the current owner got it really cheap and wants to get rid of it, OR it “fell out of a truck.”

You can get some good deals in the current economy – if you can pay the shipping costs!

Namco Arcade Joystick (PS1/PS2/PS3) - BRAND NEW! - eBay (item 290479310523 end time Sep-30-10 12:02:59 PDT)

I’ll call that a hot deal on a NIB Namco if it doesn’t go much higher.

So a few pages ago, I posted of an MvC2 deal. Here is the same person advertising it in cabinet:

ARCADE MACHINE - MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 2 - MINT CONDITION

I just want the boards (which he was selling for $100), not the cabinet. :lovin:

Also found an SF2CE board (don’t know much of arcade boards and such):

http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/ele/1977280134.html

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/5030295405_db6e5a0a6c_b.jpg

posted it in another thread, but it came in… mint condition too. Considering selling it though.

if u want to sell it let me know will buy off u.

i really really wish it was a 2p… You’ll be the first to get it meus.