VideoGame_Discussion

My PEZ hander arrived! I cleaned it out and bought a boatload of PEZ, then gave it a test run. Someone pick a flavor: cherry, strawberry, lemon, grape, orange, or raspberry.

SupremeSarna wrote:
Pick a flavor, as in for you to try? Strawberry and lemon at the same time. 😋

nonamesleft wrote:

For the sake of reducing the number of PEZ packs I have to open (I've already used up two and will use another tomorrow), I'll just pick strawberry. But props for thinking outside the restriction.

@nonamesleft Viola! Jar Jar is helpful. https://youtube.com/shorts/9Y5OVvLRVts?feature=sha...

SupremeSarna wrote:
:) Thanks. Appreciate it. So that's how it works. That's much more satisfying than a regular pez dispenser. Worthy purchase.

Went to a few garage sales and estate sales over the weekend. I got a $2 copy of NBA2k for GameCube, and this bad boy for $35...

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3D glasses have been ordered.

Is that the Playstation 3D TV?

Porksta wrote:

It sure is. I've been wanting one for so many years. I never thought I'd find a working one this cheap out in the wild.

Here's a better photo
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Oh wow. Really cleaned up nice.

Frank wrote:
Nice. I know very little about the PlayStation 3D TV. Makes me think of a giant PSP. What can it do/play?

@Frank that is super cool. I used one once to play motorstorm against some random on a kiosk in GameStop back when this came out. We were both blown away, it felt like black magic at work

The 127 Yard Sale is next week, so I figured it would be best to come visit my parents a week early - work from home and do some shopping before all the dealers show up. Found the following:

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NES games were $5 for both. Found them in the back corner of a dirty flea market booth.
DVD and Dark Souls were Goodwill finds. I'll be damned if I am going to pay those sticker prices (and 10% sales tax to boot!) so I waited until yesterday and took my mom so I can get the 20% senior discount.

nonamesleft wrote:

I love that it looks like a giant PSP Go screen. So it's a 3D display, so by nature, it can be used for 3D movies, as well as some 3D-supported PS3 games. Theoretically, I could also play the few PS4/360/XB1 games that support 3D on it as well.

The coolest feature for me, which was encountered similarly to @bumsplikity, was eliminating split screen. The TV has the ability to have Player 1 and Player 2 see different images on the screen. I got to demo Call of Duty Zombies, with this feature, at GameStop back when this thing was new. My mind was blown.

I've also been wanting a 3D TV, but couldn't justify taking up space to have a full size. This was the perfect score, and it fits in well in the Game Room. I'll probably eventually move it next to the PlayStation Stuff. But for now it's okay where it's at.

Did some antiquing/thrifting with my mom in Knoxville yesterday, had a pretty good day:

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These were all from an antique mall. Booth was a video game vendor, not sure if I caught him sleeping or what. Everything was priced as marked. The PS game is Spider, and Earthworm Jim has no manual. Lollipop Chainsaw was $4. Movie was $3 and from a different booth.
Will go back and do a deeper dive in this booth tomorrow as I will be going solo.

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Grabbed these from the various thrift stores we hit up. DVD was $4 and sealed, Action Replay is also sealed and was $2. Rampage was $3 after military discount.

One more find from the antique store Saturday! A mystery box!

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I wonder what could be inside! The booth was half off, so $100 worth of games for $25? I'll give it a shot:

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Wow, what a score! If anyone wants all of this for $75 let me know! Oh, Halo 4 is missing disc two, Halo 2 is apparently a 360 game, and Bioshock 2 case contains just Bioshock.

At least GTA will get me $5 at Gamestop.

Fast forward to Sunday:
Even though the 127 doesn't start until Thursday, people set up early. My mom and I set out and I found a few things:

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Got all of the disc games for $1. Golf was also $1. Genesis games were $5 each, Wii Sports and NFS were $5 for the pair. Batman was $3.

Porksta wrote:

9 Xbox games not hitting $100 or $50 market value? Crazy. It's almost like if your prices are good you don't have to hide them or something

Well, getting my money back was easy. They immediately put the money in my account. I took some pictures mentioning his emails where he told me to send and the fact he never gave me a tracking number. Stubhub usually pays that way, so I don't know if it's due to that, they did it. I thought there'd be an investigation. Maybe the account was already flagged...who knows.

The other deal, the person getting married. Either a real wedding crasher, or I shared a good deal lol. Whenever I let a good deal slide, the equation in my head seems like a multiplier of energies, not quite synnergies, but a code to get through life. Sometimes no matter how good something is, you just sometimes go fudge it, based on something inherent. I don't think much of it, but sometimes, it's not all about lining your pockets with dollars. Maybe I'm just strange. That $400 went by so fast haha. Time to do some chores while enjoying summer. Anything for money is a chore in my opinion. Everyone had some sort of slave labour. LOL.

All good, not finding any deals, but haven't really been searching. Taking to the outdoors better, but inside, it's like, this again. Ah well, no choice. The dolphins with the green light in miami need to download their brain, and do something to sustain the time or 5th element the google wizbot. No idea. Some kinda babbling crazies left in my brain from all the tripping with no meds haha

Has anyone been to the 127 Yard Sale in the past? Is it worth going to? How far have you gone out of the approx. 690 mile path have you covered?

Hit up the pawn shops Monday, think I did alright:

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Everything here was $15

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Got all of this for $45.

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These last two photos were from two different stores, but each item was only $2.

Porksta wrote:



The return you get alone on Splatterhouse should just about cover all of this

So I took a rather long hiatus, but somehow that's how this year started...lol...trying to feel like a kid having a summer. But no more slacking. Ha ha, did a contest run, no luck to reward me yet. and than started browsing for deals 3 days ago

got my first hit. This is an old friend, or at least we did this before, he did say best offer, than had it for free, so I said how much would you like? he said free. I texted him, thought I was too late, than got on and went there. Found a place that either sells cheap single bic lighters or has a deal on crush grape bottles but who knows when I'll be back lol

here's what I got, the two worlds demo is still sealed, as is lego masterpiece rock raiders. Also have a manual to gruntz not pictured, and one for worms armaggedon. Also not pictured is exotic japan a guide to japanese culture and language by Nikki Yokokura

https://freeimage.host/i/HZZOHas
https://freeimage.host/i/HZZO29f
https://freeimage.host/i/HZZOJ8G
https://freeimage.host/i/HZZO9Fn
https://freeimage.host/i/HZZO3u4
https://freeimage.host/i/HZZOFwl
https://freeimage.host/i/HZZOKt2
https://freeimage.host/i/HZZOBM7
https://freeimage.host/i/HZZOqnS
https://freeimage.host/i/HZZOCP9

free is good, I'm pretty broke lol - time to start doing more tomorrow

PS/EDIT: Keeping revolt and gta 2 for my collection. Was about to pay $20 for both, but it didn't pan out. I hate having to pay out of pocket for collection, when I'm not really a collector. Just a photo or word nostalgicator that seems to keep me keeping some things around. I guess it somehow makes a little sense lol. Also had the sims in jewel and an add-on to it. Realized it when I stepped on it on the floor, prob one case is gonzo lol.

Hit up a couple local pawn shops/thrift stores yesterday:

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Four on the left were $5, 24 was $6 and is sealed.

Sale officially starts tomorrow (Thursday) but I popped in yesterday (Tuesday) to the main strip to check out the vendors that set up early. First tent got me this:

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All for $75 (plus $1 for the VHS). Cords included. Lady said it was tested and working. When I asked if there was a controller she went into her RV to look. Came out with no controller but a handful more games.

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Same lady showed this to me and asked if I knew what it was. Looked it up and saw it is a train controller for PC games. She asked me to make her an offer. Told her I would do $40 but she could probably get more. Offer was accepted as it is pretty heavy and she didn't want to deal with it.

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Wipeout 3 was from a different vendor and was $3. It is sealed. Paid about $16 or so after tax for the other items at various thrift stores.

Wooo Wip3out!

While the 127 officially starts Thursday, the unofficial first day is Wednesday. I found some cool stuff:

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Everything on the top row was $1 each. MX was also $1 and is sealed, but is R3. NCAA and Beyond were $10 each, and GoW was $5. Beyond is the steelbook.

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Everything in this photo was $30. I have found a lot of PSP games during this trip. Didn't buy them all, but have seen a lot for sale.

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All of this for $22. Noragami is sealed.

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This is probably my favorite find. Paid $25 for it and it works. Unfortunately the artwork is the only thing Mario related about it. Typical pinball noises when you play it.

Nice haul! I've always wanted Fantasy Zone II: The Tears of Opa-Opa on the go, but I could never find a copy for a desirable price. As for that Mario 64 game, wowzer! It's so cool! They made one for Kirby's Pinball Land that I'd kill for, but I've never seen one sold.

Yesterday was the official first day of the sale, but all it did was rain. Did find a few items in between showers:

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Indiana Jones was $5 but is missing a few items (including a disc). I have always wanted to see Zombieland 2, and the code is still good! The black thing is a radar detector.

Nice timing on the Digimon CD, Discotek is releasing the movies on Bluray.

Hi, I have a question here to someone with more knowledge on the subject. I got in my pc game lot a game called Yu-Gi-Oh : Power of Chaos Yugi the Destiny. I see various prices, but most don't include the cards. Mine has the sealed cards, I believe it's a 3 (Nope, 5-) pack. Anyone know if they're rare on the top of your head. I see 2 selling for more with the cards, but maybe they just priced it as such. Thought it someone knows they can easily let me know something.

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/225136197324?chn=ps&norove...

well, did some searching, and see it's prob $50-60 for the cards alone at a reasonable sale time. Not interested in keeping them. Anyone know a little more about them, and can say for sure, what a fair price for them is. Thx in advance if you know more than I do, most people do...haha, nah

nevermind, just typed the exact title and searched finished auctions, and saw it sell on ebay for $100, than $169 crossed out...guess I'm usually too tired to really do too much at once, but realize giving questions or expecting others to figure it out, is like leaving the board blank and expecting something to happen. Someone break the internet across the world, we need some time off haha

I finally caught a break! $5 for everything...

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That is a score.

Holy crap

Yesterday was the last day of the sale for me. Weather was great. Fields were a bit muddy from the previous day's rain, but no big deal. Did see a few cars get stuck.

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Admiral was $3 and Lost was $5, each are sealed. The two 4k were $1 each. Zapper was $3 and Street Fighter was $15. Other four were $10, but Fortune Street is case and manual only.

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Found a video game vendor, not sure why people like him set up. I don't go out at 9am in 90 degree weather on muddy fields to pay $100 for boxed NES games, but I suppose if he wasn't making money he wouldn't set up. He had a $5 or 3/$10 table so I picked up a few things. L4D2 gets $9 cash money at Gamestop, he must be new to the selling game.

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Genesis controller was $5 from the video game vendor, completes my bundle from a few days ago. Skylanders were from a different sale and were $2 each. Didn't know Crash had figures, that is pretty cool.

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I was so close guys.
I was the first one to contact him.
I also just happened to live right around the corner from him, so I was there immediately when he asked for me to “come through”, and came through cash in hand.
He still sold to someone else and gave me the runaround as I waited for him in my car (he said “ I have a lot of people asking e right now first come first serve”)

tarzanpat wrote:
I've played several Yu-Gi-Oh video games, but I don't think I've heard of that one. It's a PC Yu-Gi-Oh game?

JesterScott wrote:
Wow. Awesome. Local sale?

Frank wrote:

You don't understand, I was on his doorstep with over $200, texting him "Hello, I'm here at the address you gave me cash in hand" and all he could say after 15-30 minutes of waiting is oh I have a daughter and I can't get away at the moment. I was nervous I was gonna be robbed or something but I should have shown a picture of the money along with having already said I have cash in hand.

EclipseLion wrote:

Oh wow, that's a really shady situation. He obviously held you up for something else. I wonder if he actually found another buyer, or just realized he had more than he initially thought.

Either way that really sucks. It's situations like that, that make me leery of using either Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist anymore.

Porksta wrote:

A while back I bought a bag of Skylanders, JUST because I saw the Crash and Neo Coretex figures.

I don't play Skylanders, but I really dug these figures and wanted them on my shelf. I appreciate their size.

Frank wrote:

Yeah, after about 5 minutes of waiting, I sat in my car, letting it run with the doors locked, I live in an area that's near constantly patrolled by cops so that was some relief, This early afternoon he apologized, and tried to offer a messy black wii with cables with pictures taken from the backseat of his messy car. This kinda has me hoping the consoles in those boxes were in bad shape, so I wouldn't have wanted them anyway, and...I know even the Nintendo boxes have value, just let me have this lol

nonamesleft wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yu-Gi-Oh!_vi...

there's actually a few more. This is the first one, and I guess the real bonus is the sealed 3 pack of cards I can sell for way more. Not really a card collector, and don't collect what I haven't played and/or didn't want to play back in the day. Redguard was a beautiful looking game I had, but sold that. One of the games, that I go, is prob going to be a surprise later on and prob worth more. I don't think of it with money really, I just price fairly and try to get good deals. It all seems easy when the money is rolling right, but usually you don't have money when you're at your best or worst, maybe a little of both haha. Now I'm drifting. In thought.