The favorite item you've found

My favorite item of my collection is a US copy of "Snatcher" for the Sega CD.

 

My first favorite item would have to be my Saturn. My friends had one when I was younger and I had been trying to get my hands on one for years with no luck. One day after I got home from school, my mom pulled a plastic bag out from the back of her car and told me there was a surprise inside. She had found a Saturn for six bucks at a thrift shop we frequent. :dance:

 

While each of my consoles has a story, and most of them interesting stories (The 360 that wouldn't die, the Dreamcast that wound up in the sale of a bridal gown, the "Promotional" Atari 2600 that my dad got from a medical laboratory) - My favourite are the PC Engine that was abandoned at a friend's house when his Japanese neighbour left the country (and that was sold to me for a few pesos and LOTR tickets) - or the Intellivision + Intellivoice + Boxed games with overlays sold to me for 80 pesos by a stoner in a flea market (80 pesos = 7 dollars in that moment).

Also, my long dead C64, which is what brought me into gaming. I always considered it superior to the NES. Too bad all my games were stolen by a "friend".

 

I thought I brought this up before, but my favorite item (that I literally found) was the cartridge for Sonic The Hedgehog 2 lodged in a tree that was in a public park. (I was only 5-7, so it was like magic to me.):nod:

I had also recently gotten a Genesis, and the only reason I was at this park was because it was near a sweet independent game store, so it was a bit ironic.

Also my Genesis was one that got ran over by a truck and was given to us, and still works. For awhile I never knew what the top shell even looked like for the Model 1. =]
All I know is, I was meant to play Sonic 2 in all its glory.

 

My favourite item is a NDEV that arrived boxed. i never wait so long for a package.

 

Now thats a great story :thumbsup:

 

At the moment it's probably the Dakota XBox prototype controller I found at a thrift store. I almost put it back thinking I couldn't afford the $5 for yet another Duke.

Not worth too much realistically but hey its cool to find a prototype in the wild for so cheap.

 

My first DC.

I was 12, and traded a guy in Seattle my GBC and about 6ish games (plus a couple PC games) for the DC and with two controllers, memory cards, nearly 20 games, and a gun (W/HOTD).

He, apparently, just didn't play it anymore and was looking to get a Gameboy for his daughter or something. I think it may even be a launch-day system? I chatted with him on AIM quite a bit before making the transaction. I even let him know how young I was.

If I had to get rid of every piece of gaming gear I own except one thing, it would be that.

 

SEGA-Rules

definitely my mega-cd 2. i found it NEW in a little shop that sold kinda left overs from other shops or so right next to a mc'donalds in ingoldstadt(famous for audi), it still has the (i think)599DM sticker on it LOL, but the box wasnt in a too well shape anymore and missed the ac adapter and road avenger as it was advertised on the box, but all the rest was still there brand new, manual, all the metalplates, screw, chinch cable, plastic extender for md 1, and the plasticbag in which the manual came. i think the mixing cable was also gone. didnt want to dig out box from above my desk and under the nintendo scope box and various other boxes. but after that i fell in love with the mega cd, its still hocked up to my tv with almost all of my other consoles xD and in working condition. i once had to do the usual fuse repair, i think i wired it up wrong once to my dad's self build multi purpose power "brick" or whatever.


i also got a copy of ecco2 for md pal and sega world wide soccer 97 for saturn brand new, they also had other video game stuff but cant remember what it was exactly, but i can remeber they also had a brand new saturn.sadly that shop is LONG gone the last i thing i can remember is a bycicle shop in there now or something

 

At the time being, my favorite gaming item would have to be my Nintendo 64 with 64drive, because that was the first console I had all to myself.

My second favorite would be Sonic Adventures 2: Battle for the Nintendo Gamecube, because of the added features for the Chao system

I started out as a Nintendo/Sega fanboy, but I later branched out to all brands, so it's really difficult to list a for sure favorite for me.

 

I'll be boring, with an item that's relatively new, that I didn't actually need to search for, etc., etc.: My original silver Nintendo DS + Mario Kart DS bundle.

It's the first system I bought new and from my own money, back when said bundle was just out, it's travelled literally several thousands of kilometers with me - accompanying me in France, Croatia and twice in Hungary -, it's a system I had so much fun with and is one I still use very frequently.

Some other things might also be noteworthy - like the copy of Zelda LA that's been "in the family" for a good 15 or so years - but those I didn't even get/find/buy myself, unlike the DS. Yet again other things are probably kinda cool to have, but I don't exactly feel attached to them, like my Japanese Tristar 64.

 

So far my fav items are the Net Yaroze Boot and SDK discs (both US/UK and JAP) that I recently got in eBay and in this forum. I've been looking for these for quite some time, and finally the opportunity showed up for me to get these. The same with the PS2 HDD Utility Disc 1.10, which I got really cheap on eBay (around 20 bucks).
There's also the Net Yaroze Access Card, for which I had no choice but pay a huge price... but it's ok I guess; you can't expect to always pay a small price for everything

 

I got a ds lite for free at my dentists office because the person moved and never claimed it. I also found an Atari VCS in my Uncles basement in a closet when I was helping my Uncle move.

 

Isn't that just another way of saying ''I'm a thieving bastard who stole a DS Lite because I didn't have the morals to do the right thing and hand it in to a receptionist so that the unlucky owner could call back at a later time to retrieve it.''

Hardly something to boast about now, is it?

 

The best item(s) I've found was an entire set of the colored N64's and Game Boy Colors (excluding the Pokemon version). I bought them all up for a mere $120 and turned around to sell them to fellow friends and collectors for a tidy profit. For a short period of time, I was in pure bliss of having just about the entirety of a hardware set.

 

No, that's not what I meant, sorry I was bit tired last night. My dentist gave it to me since he knew I was into games and all that jazz and no one claimed it and he wanted to get rid of it since all his children were not interested in it because they already had multiple DS'.

 

The best find for me was my old PS1 with random gaming stickers on it. I seriously loved that system and would play it all day on my own or with my best friend who lives upstairs from me (when it was bad weather or we just didn't want to go out).

Back then my friend and i played the heck out of fifa and various Resident evil games occasionally stopping when there was more than 3 of us to play a bit of multiplayer goldeneye on the N64.

That system right there is what really got me into gaming, sure i had played some SNES and MegaDrive but they hadn't got me hooked as much as the playstation did

 

@billcosbymon: Aah, then please accept my apologies. As it was written it didn't quite come across like that, sorry :thumbsup:

 

My Destruction Derby 2 Saturn prototype or the box for the unreleased Saturn version of X2.

Best price? Probably a set of roughly 10 Saturn games of which most were sealed including Taromaru (no, that wasn't sealed, but still) for 150 euros. Primal Rage (32X PAL) for 35 euros. A boxed multimega with 8 games for 75 euros. A sealed Smurfs 2 (SMS) for 25 euros.

 

My first dreamcast, bought pre-owned for $80 in 2001 after the major price drop to $100 for new systems. I hadn't bought a system since my psx in 1996, and as a teenager with no money, I could finally justify buying some new games.

Going from PSX graphics to Soul Calibur and Jet Grind Radio was an amazing feeling. Even though I had just bought a defunct console, I felt like I was on the cutting edge at a bargain basement price.