Another year over, time to look back at what 2012 brought to your collection! I've recorded a video of the 5 items I got in 2012 that I consider the best additions to my collection http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiJiJuRuHmk I'm curious to see what your top 5 is and why you choose those 5 (or 3, or 10, or 100 whatever you prefer ^^)
cool video ! my top 5 is 5. Tekken Dark Resurrection Press kit PSP 4. Pokemon Gold Developers Flash Cart Gameboy Color 3. Judgement Silversword Bandai Wonderswan 2. Sega Rally Nokia N-Gage Sealed 1. Yellow Automobile edition Playstation 2 PAL version only 666 were ever made for each region
They made yellow versions? I have a white one but I never have seen that weird ass yellow model. Best stuff i got this year was my stash of nintendo wii dev gear I have gotten from a flea market.
My top 5, in no particular order: Virtua Fighter 3 (Model 3) Metal Slug (MVS) Street Fighter Collection (Saturn) Wave Race 64 Rumble Support Version (N64) Clear Game Boy Pocket All pretty cheap, except for VF3. Still don't have it up and running, but hopefully I will in the very near future.
My great finds of 2012 Thriftstore finds: 2 Debug PlayStation 2s ($75 and $40) 3 GBA Proto Flash Carts (Spiderman 2, and 2x Marvel Ultimate Alliance one of which was a very early version, found at the same place/time as the first debug PS2 $5 each) My video game store Finds 2 Sega CDX units (About $25 each) 2 PlayStation 2 Startup Cards (Consecutive serials too $10 each) 1 Atari Jaguar CD ($10) Swap Meet Finds: 1 box of SNES Games (about $70, had FF2, FF3 2 Zeldas Bof, Secret of Mana among others, came in one of those official wooden drawers too) 1 Pioneer LaserActive ($10) 1 Mountain Dew Xbox ($45) 1 Kiosk Dreamcast 2 Boxed NES Zeldas, ($40 one of each, both gold.)
Megaman X2 - $24 Megaman X3 - $30 DOOM SNES - $8 Castlevania 2 Slimons quest (boxed/mint) - $9 SCPH-1000 Playstation - $5 (thrift store) Oh and I got Hagane for SNES earlier this year at a rummage sale for $5. Was in a box of random games.
thats a good find in the wild ! i never seen a yellow one before this year either Lucky these things are gonna be near impossible to find one day wave race is awesome i dont have that version yet but in 2013 its a must have damn i wish i found some of those
My third Katana, second GD Writer and second System-Disc 2 should be strong contenders and I am naturally grateful for the opportunities to reacquire them, however I have been down this road before. My best new to me or great deals of 2012 are: 1) Sega Katana Set 2.1 Development Board aka NEC PWH-6032 ARC1A - not very cheap or useful at all but a great piece of history to learn from. 2) HKT-7500 Twin Stick by Sega for Sega Dreamcast at less than half price. 3) HKT-7300 Arcade Stick + Sanwa JLF-TP-8YT OBSF-30 JLF-H GT-Y JLF-CD for Sega Dreamcast Cost a fortune but worth every penny. Can't afford to mod my spare stick just yet. 4) HKT-4300 Dreamcast Karaoke by Tokyo Electron for Sega Dreamcast at a very good price 5) NEOP22020 SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color to Sega Dreamcast communication connector cable at a fair price A noteworthy mention is that thanks to very few bidders I got 2 sets of HKT-9700 Samba de Amigo Controller for Sega Dreamcast for less than the going rate for one. Happy days!
This might not sound like a big deal to most of you but it is for me and Im happy. 1. A chipped ps1 with 4 controllers 2 of them dual shock 2 memory cards s video cable 40 games 30 of them originals with cases including metal gear prappa the rapper bushido blade rayman and final fantasy 7 all for 30 bucks! 2. 2 dreamcast systems with 4 original controllers each 4 vmus and several games for around 90ish altogether. 3. 7 jump packs for the dreamcast for 15 4. a jungle green n64 with matching controller and expansion pack for 35 5. Dead or alive 3 complete mint on xbox for 3 bucks And picked up a 65 inch crt projection hdtv to play all these games because it has every kinda hook up i need. 40 bucks I haven't been this happy in years and my living room is turning into the kick ass gaming man cave i always wanted. Can't wait for my dreamcast vga cables i ordered from here and my adapters for my x arcade dual joystick to play on these systems.
I'm cheating here because I didn't actually find it - I've owned it for a number of years.... But, when we moved to Italy about 5 years ago I left a load of boxes with my brother for safe keeping (... yeah right!) - As the years have passed, slowly, very slowly.. the boxes have arrived on the various trips my father has made back and forth from London to Rome... but one box, with my PAL NR Reader and a beta of The Incredibles never seemed to arrive.. in fact, he assured me they'd brought everything over, gone through his (damp) shed thoroughly, and there was nothing left... I had all but given up...Then, about a month ago, on one of his last trips, he brought back two boxes and lo and behold, there it was! I honestly thought it was lost, probably smashed to pieces by his 2 year old daughter who's favorite pass time is playing with old iPhones and iPods... usually throwing them on the floor very hard.So, my biggest find? Something I already had but thought I'd never see again... Of course, this doesn't mean I've reached glory road - sadly, a PAL NR Reader won't boot the NTSC beta! In fact, if any trusted members want to pm about ripping and releasing it for the forum in the new year, feel free to get in contact.
Earthworm Jim for the Gameboy for only 5€ with box and manual. It might be the worst version of the game, but I just like the retro thought of it and it's cool to play it in my pink Gameboy Pocket. The rest are just games which has been released this year and I enjoyed it playing more or less Sonic & Allstars Racing Transformed, my first game for the Wii U and bought it with it. Great game, Sega at it's best and Mario Kart really has to catch up to beat this game. Great fun, even though I've only played single player mode so far (but already beat it). Pokémon White 2, maybe the best game of the year, I <3 Reshiram, that's why I had to get the version with White Kyurem. Pokémon always rules IMO Paper Mario Sticker Star, I always loved the Paper Mario series, that's why I had to get this one too (and I also was one of the first 100 purchasers here in Germany, that's why I got the limited Sticker Book as well), don't like it that much like the previous games, but it's ok. The battle system is stupid though if you compare it to the other games Poképark 2: Wonders Beyond Limited Edition, or maybe that is the best thing I purchased this year, I dunno. I just love PKMN Games so much ^^; The limited Pack came with one small figurine of the starters, I chose Snivy as she's my fave off the three Unova starters.
