The favorite item you've found

Gran Turismo 2, because it is the first game I paid with my very own money (also it rocks to this day!).

 

my 2nd dreamcast at cash converters, it still works but has aged with that dam horrible yellow stuff, i think i brought it for less than £10 so that wasn't bad, it just needed a good clean, i found a old original gameboy at a charity shop for no more than a couple of quid, good condition too.

 

My Debug PS1. I went to a garage sale no more than a quarter mile from my house and lurking near some old PC's was this baby. And yes that is what I paid.



It was owned by an Acclaim developer and he had no use for it so he was just selling it at his friend's garage sale. Of course he didn't sell it to just anyone. He made sure that whoever was going to buy it knew what it was. He denied a little kid because he thought it was just spray painted. Anyway it came with 2 controllers that both had a strange sticker that I found inside when I opened them to clean them. I'll take pics of the sticker If I can find which ones are the controllers.

 

lucky lucky sod, that thing can play games from any region i wish i had one of those i just have the psone new model.

 

found 4 of these (all new, CIB) - i opened one to play and kept the other three in box. each for $25USD new..

 

http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com/

Say hello to your new best friend.

 

I was at bootsale/flemarket and a woman had a Sega Mega Drive 1 totally mint box and I mean mint this thing looks like new not a dent or scratch nothing, I take a look in the box and everything is brand new in the bags and she also had Sonic 1 and Mortal Kombat also mint they even have the Sega stickers on the opening of the box's.

She told me that she had won it in a competition many years ago and had no use for it so she kept it in her attic all this time.

She sold it to me with both games for only £10, that was a really good find for me that day.

 

Shoulda got the PC's too! Coulda been builds on it!

 

Nah they were old Compaqs and E-Machines from the early 2000's. I did ask him if there was anything like that and he said all he could grab was the PS1.

 

^^
I literally have dreams about finds like that.

Sadly...never pans out.

 

Thats how i got mine. i bought 2 of them because i only had about $50. i bought them at target or kmart. cant remember.

 

lol yeah man. another "dream" that worked out for me was being able to go to a gaming warehouse FULL of EVERYTHING. i could put a sticker on what i want and they priced it out for me. i bought literally everything i could find. full consoles, Mega CD games , 3DO games, AES games, Saturn, Dreamcast games, pocketstations and everything else i could get my mits on.

i ended up with a serious retro collection over night

 

i had a look at that but i doubt you can obtain any of those chemicals legaly in the uk so i will have to put up with the yellowing.

btw i found something really good in a charity shop today a complete ico collectors edtion for 95p :033: disc is scratched but can be easily repaired, i was shocked when i saw that now i have 2 copies of ico now, one normal and one CE.

 

Best item I ever found was a Gameboy Light - never released here in the UK - paid £3 in a car boot sale - check out a blog I did on the console here : http://www.retrofusion.org.uk/article/700/gameboy-light-rre/

 

Greatest find is JVC X'EYE at a swapmeet for next to nothing dollars.

heres a pic of my kid holding it. he's like "Lol, Wut is?!"

 

It would ether be between geting a boxed N64 for £10 or geting a gamwboy collour for £10 (I lost mine as a kid and the one I picked up was the same collour as the one I had when I was a kid)

 

I'd just like to say that this is still the same Saturn I use for every Retro Core show and all the videos on my site. What a system.!

 

mmm, for me it's the Blazing Star aes cart...it was my third game for the system after kof98 and last blade. I really love this game...I have th OST, the full mvs kit (jap), the complete and original aes cart and one poster xDD

 

In my case, Vectrex.

My cousin had it when we were child and it has cost me lot of time to get it again.

 

My Sega master system 2 (Alex Kidd inbuilt) with sonic 2 and summer games or whatever for £5 (my first console ever) Oh! and a dreamcast £30, fully working with about 15 games (including RE:code veronica and Gauntlet legends), 2 controllers, 4 VMus, a VGA box, a keyboard,2 rumble packs and an arcade stick