Have you ever got around to having good old lady luck give you something for nothing? ok that sounds retarded, but hopefully you get my point. When I was a kid, I stumbled upon a robocop 3 cartridge for the snes. the cart must've been dropped and whoever did that didn't notice, but that's not my problem. Sure, the game was fucking hard (seriously) and kind of shitty, but I was (and still am) a robocop fan so I kept playing it. until some prick broke into our house and stole our snes and their carts amongst other things. >:v fast forward this year. this month. a week ago. I am fiddling with my 3ds; its sd card went bleh at me and stopped working so I pop in another one, losing all my 3d pokedex data in the process, and I have to re-download all my 5 apps, so I log on the nintendo e-shop, and go into my downloads list. As I scroll down, I see "Super Mario Bros" just under "Bionic Commando" which I had bought. puzzled, I scroll down further: 9 other nes plus 10 gba games. Holy shit, I have an ambassador 3ds! See, I had bought it used for around the price it's being sold new in canada now (around 160 bucks), but it had never occured to me that perhaps I could, y'know, check if I got these games too. I had a friend a decade ago, who had gotten a free game boy advance with tony hawk's pro skater 2: his mom, who was working at Mont-Tremblant (in the laurentides; quebec; canada, etc.) cleaning stuff in hotel rooms of wealthy people, had stumbled upon the gba while cleaning a room that their renters had left the day before (their vacations were ending; iunno), and her boss told her to keep it since there was this unwritten rule that anything renters left was considered abandoned. hence, my friend got the handheld. Has that kinda stuff ever happened to you before?
buddy of mine found a copy of Smash Bros for N64 on the road of our neighborhood. We knew ALL the kids in our neighborhood, and I was the only one with Smash...and I still had MY copy. So...some how this showed up lol.
Many years back I bought a junk Dreamcast for next to nothing only for it to have a Fully working BroadBandAdaptor in it. I sold the BBA for 20 times more than I paid for the junk Dreamcast!
My dad managed to find: 12MP Camera, iPod Classic 80GB, iPod 20GB, Nintendo DS carts, boxed copy of New Super Mario Bros., Various DVDs, shit load of magazines, MSDuos, 500GB HDD. Many times he's found consoles which of course get claimed, after 3 months if the item isn't claimed the staff gets it.
A few years ago I was bidding on NTSC N64's on eBay to find one to rgb mod. 2 times no luck, but then I opened the 3rd console to check if it could be rgb modded to find the mod had already been performed (no mention of that in the auction). Also it already had the expansion pak installed, which wasn't mentioned in the auction either.
My brother once found a Commodore 128 + disk drive at a trash pickup point. Unfortunately it didn't work. As for me...well, once I found a 10 Euro bill. That's about it.
Found once a boxed SFC (inclusive s-vid cable), lying half way on the road on my morning walk to work.
I only ever lose. Infact, the last example, left my wallet 10m away from me, lost a fifty out my wallet, lucky that was all they took.. Lose, lose, lose. Oh well. Shit happens.
ROFL, nope has customers come and go all sorts of things get lost.. However most stuff gets claimed.. Sometimes I get good stuff like those things.. I should mention we have now 10 mobile phones Not like we're gonna use them.. Nothing like Android phones or anything just GSM school girl phones in 2002.
There have been several instances where luck granted me free gaming stuff. - I found a copy of Zelda in a box of old junk that someone asked me to haul away. - Twelve years ago, I bought out an acquaintances NES collection w/ NES II. As a bonus, he gave me a SMS II and Sonic CD since I'm also a big SEGA fan. - An online pal gave me a first generation PlayStation controller along with some old demos he no longer wanted. - My brother gave me an N64 he had bought at a garage sale because he didn't have an adapter for it. - A copy of Wind Waker was inside of a GameCube I bought for ten bucks. Since I've been so fortunate, I've also given away a few various models of the Sega Genesis and Super NES with games to keep my karma balanced.
I've been given a non-working Marty 2 that took a complete electronics gimp like me all of 2 mins to fix! (The switch to tell the system the cd lid is closed so it can spin away wasn't working - the top of the switch is like a fold over bit of plastic that had popped open - I folded it back, job done!) I've been given a broken Car Marty, that wasn't actually broken! I've also bought a few games over the years that were sold as used, but were actually sealed. Happy days! On the flip side, I sold a PCE Duo one time and left a cd inside by mistake after pre-sale testing. Bazaru de Gozaru no Game Degozaru :banghead:
Bought what I think was a bog standard XBox Duke controller for $5 from a thrift store to find out it was a Dakota prototype. Not too much more valuable but now I've got to custom build a breakaway cable.
I remember a few years ago someone had sold me his xbox and 10 games for around 20 bucks (the first xbox) because it couldn't read discs anymore. it was true, until I opened both the console and its dvd drive to clean out the lens (the console was pretty dusty), and the console worked again. the games he gave me? halo 2, half life 2, chronicles of riddick, the suffering ties that binds, and a couple others I don't remember. So I guess that counts too.
I remember you talking about this years ago,that's one of the most epic finds and this only happens in Japan.
Last quatrimester, as my class ended, a student remembered that on the introduction exercise (this is a language class), we had talked about hobbies and I showed the class a few pictures of my humble collection of old games. So this student comes up to me and she tells me something among the lines of "Hey, Mr. (Xerdo), you collect old games and stuff. See, my mum is tossing all of my brothers' Nintendo stuff, and I thought you'd like it, so I'll bag it up and bring it to you instead". I expected an old famiclone and some two or three pirated carts, if anything ever showed up. And well, I would have been happy with that. So, she shows up at my house one day on her way somewhere. Brings me a huge fucking bag, and thanks me for taking the stuff, then heads out. The bag contained: 1 NES console, clean, and with cables. Not working, but in nice cosmetic shape. Some alcohol and q-tips and compressed air, and it's back to the world of the living. 3 NES pads, two of them boxed. 1 Legend of Zelda, fully packed, instruction manuals, box, sleeve - new as if 1987 were last year. Another Legend of Zelda, sleeve only. Dragon Warrior 2, 3, 4 Ultima - with manuals and sleeve and maps Final Fantasy - Manuals, Sleeve, Map Mega Man 2, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Donkey Kong, Top Gun, and Legend of Zelda II - and some other carts - even a large grey pirated one, with "Bouken Shima" written on it in kanji. Not working as of yet, but still rather quaint. Obviously, I saw her the next day at school and intended to tell her how valuable her "garbage" was - but she still told me to shut up and take it, as her mum would only toss it and she didn't have space for it. Damn! I hit the fucking motherlode.
Oh God, did you contact the buyer afterwards? Unfortunately it wasn't me, but a friend of mine from the internet bought a huge PAL Dreamcast log for 180 Euros in 2004 or so. It was sold as "Dreamcast, new with 80 Games", no pictures - pure gamble. 2 weeks later, a package with a brand-new Dreamcast and some brand-new accessories arrived, no games. He contacted the seller, he said he forgot them. Dark thoughts... a few days later a package arrived with all 80 games, all of them original and SEALED. Stuff like Headhunter, Shenmue 1+2, even Rez and Skies of Arcadia. But again, wasn't me, just wanted to tell the story
i made the same experience when i was looking for a NTSC N64 to RGB Mod. The Mod was already performed. however I asked the seller Prior to my Bild about the serial number ;-)
