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Found a complete English copy of Valkyrie Profile for 14 dollars at a used game store.

This just came in today and I'm super thrilled. I was searching for Dreamcast things on ebay, as usual. Then, on a whim I searched Napple Tale because I really wanted the came. I found, and won, an auction I found that didn't appear in the search for Dreamcast. It was for copies of Napple Tale, Bangai-O, and Frame Gride in Japanese. I won the auction for 10 dollars, and 4 dollar shipping. There were no images, so I was a little sketched out. Got them today though, and all three are in gorgeous condition. Especially since Napple Tale sells for around 70 dollarsand Bangai-O for around 50.

 

Maaan I would love an aluminium Gamecube sign for my wall. I recently picked up a Foxdata 'Chrome Leopard' N64 controller for £8.

 

Don't know if this applies or not but I'll share my tale anyways.

Around a year and 3 months ago I learned of the elusive Sega Genesis Demo System DS-16 store kiosk 6 game "jukebox". Soon after I started looking for one to add to my growing collection of Sega junk. (Mostly the uncommon or kinda rare stuff.) I found that they were averaging around $300 to $400 in price for those who got them at the time. Some even went for $500 or more!!! I found one on eBay around 10 months ago or whenever it was. Many members here were raving over it but said it cost too much for their blood at the time. It was an auction and the closing bid was $300. I was the one who pushed it to $300 before giving up since $300 was my set limit. The proxy bidder beat me at the auction with $300 despite my final bid being $300 as well!!! F#$K!!!!! So time went on and I kept bumping my WTB request. Around 6 or 7 months ago I got an email from some dude in California. Said he knew I was looking for one of these and had one he was willing to part with. I guess he saw my WTB here and got my email since I don't remember making the request anywhere else and he didn't have a membership here at the time. Was asking $300 if I went PayPal or $250 for postal money order. I went the postal money order route of course. I was taking a big chance since I knew nothing of this guy but figured "Screw it. I'll bite and see if I get this thing." Even got pictures of the system in our email chat. So I sent the money order for $265 to cover shipping and give a few extra dollars as a thank you for the offer. 3 weeks later I got a decent sized box from California. Man was I excited upon seeing the return address. Got home and opened it up. LOW AND BEHOLD, IT WAS MY DS-16!!! Same one from the pictures judging by wear marks and such. It came packaged real good too. So when I finally had a chance to mess around with it, I plugged it into one of my model 2 Genesis and IT WORKED!!! I was jumping for joy.

I don't know if I got a good deal on this or not but I was happy since it seemed to be cheaper than others I saw for sale at the time and was in good condition. I still have it around and keep it in a box for protection from dust (BIG problem here...) and other things that can destroy it. I'm happy. I don't know how many exist but I do know it can't be very many since they were mainly used for store kiosks like Walmart and such. (Don't know if Walmart was even around then or if they even used them. LOL)

 

My boss gave me a like new mega drive (Very first model) with 4 games (3 boxed!) and a controller for free just for showing up to work!

 

Gosh, that almost unbelievable! Can i join your company too? =P

 

An old friend from Michigan found out I was addicted to retro gaming and said he found some old gameboy games and wanted to know if I wanted them. Hell yes I wanted them! He mailed these over and I got these today. I'll be trading him a shirt and a small art piece for the games. I felt bad taking them for free


gameboy by Y=MX+B, on Flickr

 

I got:
- 2 Sega Saturns, 20+ games: $30
- A boxed Gameboy (DMG) w/ warrenty card: $15
- A boxed Dexdrive: $15

 

niceeee

 

I got a brand new Dexdrive a year ago from eBay for USD10 or USD15... I thought that was a regular price.

 

Funny. So did I. Brand new in box and everything. I guess it's for N64 because mine is.

 

Mine was for PS1

 

What is DMG?

 

The grey brick style gameboy.

 

nothing all too miraculous but here's what i picked up for 40€

master system with 2 controllers, cables and one game
crystal (transparent) xbox with 2 controllers, cables, dvd remote thingy and 7 games.

not too expensive i think ~
guy was about to trash them and asked if i wanted to buy them, and when i asked how much he wants, he just said, pretty much anything, so i gave him 40€ and both were happy ^.^

 

Got a sega CDX + 10 cpmplete cd games + Mk3U Complete and a lot of only cart games for 30 usd

 

I know the stuff is relatively new but I managed to pick up a copy of Darksiders 2 (Limited Edition) + Borderlands 2 + NHL 12 all for PS3 for $11.50 earlier today at my local thrift store. I thought it was a pretty sweet find!

 

WHERE???!!! I WANT SEGA CDX!!!!

But I'm too cheap to pay full price for one...

 

O.K. and what DMG stands for?
for myself to understand...
THX

 

DMG = Dot Matrix Game (the "codename"? for the Gameboy).
Also, IIRC the model number for the Gameboy was DMG-001 or something.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gameboy

 

AH - O.K. Thank You!