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Cool musician stools for my my cabinet
Even though Iām a Genesis guy I got an instant SNES collection today at a garage sale. $10 for a dirty (but not yellowed) system with two controllers, AC and the following 27 games. She was asking $20 and offered it to me for $10 without me even asking to lower the price.
Barkley Shut Up and Jam
Donkey Kong Country 2
George Foremanās KO Boxing
Hook
John Madden Football
Jungle Book
Killer Instinct
King Arthurs World
Krustyās Super Fun House
Lion King
Madden 96
Mario is Missing
Mario Paint
Michael Jordanās Chaos in the Windy City
Mortal Kombat 3
NBA Jam
NFL Football
NHL 95
Paperboy 2
Plok
Sim City
Starfox
Street Fighter 2 Turbo
Super Mario World
Super Metroid
TMNT Tournament Fighters
X-Men Mutant Apocalypse
Iāll help you make a profit and buy it for $20, LOL. Actually, thatās a nice find. Now youāll just need a stick for some of those games.
Already have another uber clean SNES wired up for my cab. Today was actually a sweet day. My āHigh Definitionā Genesis also came in the mail along with some expensive games - Punisher, Contra Hard Corps, Streets of Rage 3, Captain America and the Avengers. Itās my third Genesis console now. My first recent one was a Genesis 3. It didnāt play Psycho Pinball which really bummed me out. I then got another as a bundle with wireless controllers. This one came with some nice wired six button controllers.
Why canāt I ever find deals like that at yard sales?
I got the Agetec I bought from e-Bay (in the past week) todayā¦
Is it just me, or do these retro joysticks get dirtier by the copy??? Iāve gotten three of them and they just seem to be progressively dirtier than the copy before it! Like my second Agetec, this one had quite a bit of corrosion on the faceplate and baseplate. Corrosionās occuring on the outer edges which is easy to file/steel wool-off without much metal wasteage. Way more crud (ārust dustā) on the indents in the Agetec case than the past two cases. Iām going to have spend some time with soap and rubbing alcohol to get all the crud out of the tight spaces on the top of the case!
(I still havenāt bought an Agetec thatās as rough as some of the Namcoās Iāve seen here, though. The abuse Iāve seen some HRAPās and TEās go through already is amazing!)
Unlike the other two Agetecs, the stickers on the baseplate of this Agetec are in decent shape; Iāll probably cover them for safety when I paint the baseplate this coming Spring.
The original Ascii joystick on the case was shotā¦ It was actually held on by glue! LOL I had to cut off the pivot on the shift to get the joystick offā¦ The previous user had glued the ball handle on (glue on the INNER threads!) and it was impossible to take the ball handle off. The original buttons also seem to be shot. Good thing I never intended to keep the original hardware! A total rehab is in orderā¦
How often do you go? Iām out every Saturday from 8 till 12 or 1. I actually donāt come across much retro gaming stuff. When I do I post here. Itās all PS2/Xbox1 for the most part. Itās like the stuff is either long gone or people are actually hanging on to it.
sniping sites drive me nuts, its like cheating
My work makes doing that pretty much impossible.
Yep, except I donāt win if someone is willing to pay more than me. I just donāt show my hand until the end.
I used to have a job where I worked weekends. Iām glad I donāt now. It did give me a bunch more time for SRK though. :sad:
Guys,
I volunteer at a local Goodwill and honestly they get a LOT of retro consoles!
Weāre talking PS1ās, Super NES, occasionally NES, GameCubes, N64ās, and a lot of PS2/XBox stuffā¦
ā¦ and not all that stuff is in bad shape.
Last week, I came across a Commodore 64. That was one of the top gaming computers in the 1980sā¦ It wasnāt in great shape ā all yellowed and dirty keyboard(!) ā but who knows? It might still power up!
Sure, many people get grease and other crud-I-donāt-want-to-think-about on their old systems, but once in a while you get a fairly clean system that doesnāt have that many scratches and will power up without replacement parts, too.
Of course, there are other system donations that are basically the main console by itself and no cords or controllers included!
What people turn in to Goodwill is very weird. Sometimes a kidās whole system plus games gets turned in; other times itās pure junk that nobody wants that is better turned in to a scrap yard.
Hiya George. How large is your town? My house is three blocks from our Goodwill so consequently Iām there 3 or 4 times weekly. I do see consoles fairly often. The problem is if theyāre in decent shape they end up in the display case. Hell, I buy expensive stuff there on occasion. Itās just that when you pony up the cash ($30+ for a console) it doesnāt really feel like a score. Most of the games are from the PS1 and newer era which donāt interest me as much. That matches my overall experience though. What I consider retro (NES/Genesis/SNES) is getting much harder to find.
Too bad itās almost impossible to find auctions on eBay where the seller ships worldwideā¦ :sad:
Have you tried asking the seller directly? It doesnāt work all the time, but on some occasions sellers are willing to ship worldwide if you ask them politely enough.
May give a try next time I find something that really interests me. 
I live close to Columbus, Ohioā¦ Actually about halfway between Delaware and Columbus as the crow flies.
I actually still have a Genesis 2 and a few games for it myself (probably try to unload them soon in Trading Outlet) but I find my interest in 16-bit is primarily with arcade games as opposed to home consolesā¦ The CPS-2 and SNK Neo Geo really outpowered both the Genesis and SNES.
My deal with 16-bit console is that so much of it is emulated so well now itās kind of pointless unless youāre ultra-hardcore and really want the hardware. Kudos to fans that love the systems. I thought they were both very good, too, but Iāve moved on to a slightly later era.
The reasons Iāve held onto my Saturn and Dreamcast is that they havenāt been successfully emulated yet. The Dreamcast requires so much horsepower that I think itās basically pointless to do emulation when the hardware is still readily available. The Saturn Iām finding is getting harder to find systems that are in decent shape in the US. Much, much easier to find software AND hardware overseas ā particularly in Japan where the Saturn was most popular. Again, so much of the software for those systems has been unique to them and the fact that the hardware hasnāt been deciphered well yet----!
The Saturn is still my favorite system to date with the PS2 a solid secondā¦ Would love the PS3 more if only the darn thing werenāt so expensive and tied to the PSN Network! Hard drives have ruined consoles, IMHOā¦
Damn technology!!!
Old manā¦jk
you canāt get rid of the dreamcast they still have games coming out only like one a year but its a cool system I love the saturn too. I didnāt purchase one when it came out but I love playing the old versus games
I just picked up a Dreamcast VGA box and a Dreamcast SD adapter
Both about $25 each
I feel like Iāve been emulating since the beginning of time (Wikipedia says '96). It has lost its luster for me. I even tried flash carts so I could play on real hardware. That doesnāt really get me hyped up either. I get more enjoyment out of cleaning dirty ass carts.
Iām with you on the CPS-2. When undamned comes around that may be my new system of choice. There isnāt all that much for me on the Neo-Geo. I enjoy the Metal Slug series and a few others.