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I've bought a lot of stuff recently. I got Diablo 3 and Reaper of Souls (Collectors edition), Dark Souls, Typing of the Dead:Overkill, AVGN Adventures, Duke Nukem 3D, Deud Ex GOTY, and Jet Set Radio all for pretty cheap. I'm really enjoying Diablo III. I didn't know what to expect, but what I got is wonderful.
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Guess what came in early? That's right, my Nvidia SHIELD tablet is here and I am posting from it right now. Having the ultimate gaming tablet means I would want games to play, right? I got the Android versions of Jet Set Radio and Portal to play on my new tablet.
EDIT: The Amazon Appstore is at it again. Last edited by isbragg; September 29, 2014 at 01:53:14 PM. |
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Interactive Multi-Game Demo Disc: Volume 18 for the GameCube - $20 shipped off eBay These are the demo disks that were used for demo systems found in stores like GameStop or Walmart. These disks were supposed to be returned to Nintendo, though from the amount of them on eBay they were pretty lax on this rule. Got for my Paper Mario Thousand Year Door collection as this contained the first demo of the game (back when it was still called Paper Mario 2). Has a few interesting differences from the final game. Now then inb4 spam of Smash Bros 3DS (which I pre-ordered and will be picking up after work tomorrow). |
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Yeah, eBay doesn't seem too picky about what they sell. You can even find the event cartridges for things like the Shiny Dogs and Meloetta and stuff. (Amazon sells no such thing. I guess they actually examine the things people put up for sale on there . . .)
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Just got back from a 25˘ book sale at the public library, and brought home $6.75 worth of books, CD's, videocassettes, and CD-ROM's. Among these were these two highly notable VHS tapes:
- Dune (1984) - Dirty Harry (1971) I also bought Tom Clancy's Op Center in audiobook format, which marks the first book on tape that I've ever owned. Edit: I just noticed that I claimed Post #1111. Last edited by Seiji J. Konokama; October 3, 2014 at 02:57:30 PM. |
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One of my friends and I went to the midnight release at Gamestop yesterday for Smash bros. Initially we planned to buy it on Amazon prime, but things didn't work out well with that. About an hour later, I found out that a nearby Gamestop has plenty of copies and it would be very likely that I could get one if I went to the midnight release. It was a really nice surprise- I didn't think I'd get my copy until the end of the weekend.
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As long as you don't go after the widescreen sets next. Those are really expensive.
Myself, I picked up Rhythm Heaven Fever, SimAnimals, and SimAnimals Africa (all for Wii) from GameStop. Last edited by Cat333Pokémon; October 30, 2014 at 01:32:56 PM. |
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I sold a LOT of gaming stuff, mostly duplicate consoles (including a Sega 32X) and games that I never play. In total, I received $130 store credit and used some of that to buy Yoshi's Island (SNES), The Lion King (SNES), Burnout 3: Takedown (PS2), and a new NES power adapter. I also bought the previous RGB monitor and stand that Yoshi had.
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Which style of PS1 is it? The larger light gray model, or the smaller off-white one? |
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Considering I just sold two complete PlayStations, one of each model, I'd say they're not worth more than about ten dollars, and paying more than that is a bit much. Yoshi has told me the reason behind that is because the PS2 can play nearly all PS1 games flawlessly.
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I traded in my Xbox 360 to the Microsoft store and bought an Xbox One for $250. I got the Assassin's Creed bundle, along with NHL 15, Sunset Overdrive, and a year of Gold. I like it a lot so far, just wish the first day wasn't all updates and general disarray. Especially since I have slow internet.
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*Sonic Mega Collection Plus (PS2) complete and Mario Party 2 strategy guide - $11 shipped off eBay
*DreamCast SCART cable (maybe this one will work unlike my previous one....) - $20 shipped off eBay *New cart and some cheap Logitech speakers for the Sony BVM monitor I got last week. |
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A sweet DRM-free copy of Terraria (I'm glad it has finally been released on GOG), Papers Please, and an assortment of Atari 2600 cartridges (Solaris, Haunted House, Basic Math, Miniature Golf, and Millipede).
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Did a little Vectrex shopping this week:
*Vectrex system manuals + Minestorm overlay (worth about $40-50 on it's own) - $20 shipped from eBay *Vectrex multi-cart - has every released Vectrex game (yes this is legal, all retail Vectrex games were released in the public domain) plus a bunch of homebrew games/demos - $50 new from eBay (of which I'll get back after selling a few of my actual carts) Now as per tradition before a major game release... INB4 SPAM OF POKEMON OMEGA RUBY/ALPHA SAPPHIRE AND SMASH BROS WII U I got Alpha Sapphire, Smash Bros, and Yoshi Amiibo figure waiting for me after work tomorrow (uh, gonna be a LONG day). |
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So I recently bought a couple things:
- Complete Japanese copy of Pokemon Platinum $20 shipped - Complete Japanese copy of Pokemon Emerald $40 shipped - Complete ASCII GameCube Keyboard Controller $40 shipped That last one was completely on a whim. I paid $13 (CAD) for the item itself and $27 (CAD) for shipping. |
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Finally got myself another external hard drive. Seagate, 1 TB. I've heard some not-so-nice things about Seagate hard drives (i.e. crapping out way more quickly than other hard drive manufacturers) but the 500GB one I have has been fine for more than a year so I'm not too worried.
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Since Amazon is running another promotion where they offer $X amount of Android apps for free (good until Friday), I decided to do some app grabbing. Among a ton of utility apps that replace their inferior built-in counterparts, I got a hold of these games:
- Five Nights at Freddy's - Terraria - Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Worms 3 - Tetris I must say that I've always wanted to get Terraria. Seems as if my Moto G was on Santa's "good list" this year. XD EDIT: The promotion has ended. Last edited by Seiji J. Konokama; December 27, 2014 at 08:09:25 AM. Reason: Amazon promotion is no longer in effect. |
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My television died on Christmas, so I had to pick up a new set today, an Insignia NS-40D510NA15. It's not too special, but it gets the job done.
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I went to Nintendo World this weekend! Despite being completely crowded inside, I managed to buy a few things.
A very...expensive Ganondorf figure that I bought for one of my friends. The Nintendo World employees were very nice to let me take a picture of it. And a Sylveon and Carbink plush because I like fairies. Last edited by Reuniclus; December 29, 2014 at 01:21:13 AM. |
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Traded in Mortal Kombat I and I, as well as Super Street Fighter II - all of which are the Sega Genesis versions - for the 5-screw variant of the Duck Hunt game and a battery charger for both Nickel-Cadmium and Nickel Metal Hydride AA/AAA battery types. Though I'm a good 5 blocks away from home at the moment, I was able to test the battery charger using the batteries in my mouse. We'll see if Duck Hunt - which I hope has the ever-popular, official Famicom-to-NES adapter - was worth the trade when I get home.
This is just me, but I really didn't care for Mortal Kombat on the Sega Genesis, which is strange because I love arcade-style fighting games. o.o EDIT - The game does not have the Famicom to NES adapter after all. However, it is my second NES cartridge to have a ROM board with a copyright date of 1986, the first one being Contra. Last edited by Seiji J. Konokama; December 30, 2014 at 02:37:25 PM. |
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Picked up a few various Steam games in the holiday sale over the last week or so.
More interestingly, I also went and picked up a copy of Cube Ninja, which happens to contain a bug that basically lets you do homebrew on your 3DS. One step closer to realizing my dream of making a game for the 3DS |
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I love clearance CDs. I managed to pick up 31 of them from a local music shop for 50 cents apiece, mostly classical, rock, pop, new wave, and new age.
And to keep it relevant to video games, I also picked up Putter Golf on the PlayStation for $4. Last edited by Cat333Pokémon; February 5, 2015 at 01:34:39 AM. |
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Not necessarily video game related, but still some nice finds for under $5.
- Hanimex 2105 vacuum-fluorescent calculator: $0.99 at Goodwill. - Apple iSight FireWire webcam: $3 at the resale shop. Original price in 2003 was around $150. When I connected the iSight to my iBook G3, it only worked as a microphone, and iChat AV said that - and I quote - "video conferencing is not supported by this computer." I suppose that's because the iSight requires a larger screen depth than what the iBook is capable of displaying (the iBook can display up to a meager 800x600 pixels). With that in mind, I tested the iSight with my eMac (which has Mac OS X 10.3.9 - the same as the iBook), and iChat AV gave me not only the volume levels from the microphone, but also a preview of the camera input. The good thing out of all this trial and error, is that the iSight remedies the iBook's lack of an internal microphone, and it was worth waiting all afternoon to have Mac OS X installed on the iBook. I will investigate what other audio/video programs I can possibly use with this built-like-a-tank webcam. Pictures will be posted later in my Tech Ramblings thread. Last edited by Seiji J. Konokama; February 5, 2015 at 08:13:42 PM. |
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It's not exactly gaming, but it was a rather nice find nonetheless at another local Goodwill.
The Yamaha PortaSound PSS-130, a purely synthesized portable keyboard with two-note polyphony released in 1987. The unit appears to be in pretty nice condition, sports a variety of patches, and accepts four C cells, which were conveniently already installed. I already own a wavetable PortaSound PSS-12, but it's in disrepair. One key is broken off, and another doesn't work properly. In addition, one of the speakers is loose inside the keyboard. Last edited by Cat333Pokémon; February 14, 2015 at 12:34:20 PM. |
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Cat and I went to a bunch of garage sales yesterday (very beautiful weather).
First a few cartridge-only Genesis games *Sonic the Hedgehog *Sonic the Hedgehog 2 *Generic FootBall Sports Game II *Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (which I can resell for a nice $30-40 profit) Guy had no idea what they were so only asked 25 cents each. Then at another one I got this. The guy had a hobby of making these framed displays for older trading cards. These two had cards for Donkey Kong from the early 80s by Topps. $20 for them both (the cards alone are worth about $1-2 each if sold individually). I'm going to take them out of these frames (the cheap printed artwork in the center really throws off the overall appearance and there is way too much white-space for my liking) and put them into my trading card binder for now. These frames I will probably re-use for some other larger posters I have. Last edited by Yoshi648; February 22, 2015 at 08:58:17 AM. |
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From the same set of garage sales, I obtained the following:
Ms. Pac-Man (GEN) - $0.25 Xenogears (Japanese, PS1) - $5 Simple 1500 Series Vol. 1: The Mahjong (Japanese, PS1) - Packaged with Xenogears PS/2 Logitech Marble Mouse (a trackball) - $3 USB Dell keyboard - $3 VGA cable - $2.50 DVI cable - $2.50 Small TV stand - $10 Small organizational trays - $1 15 lb. bowling ball, bag, and size-11 shoes (my size ) - $5 I didn't mention the two WRT54G Linksys routers I picked up a few days ago for $5 each, so I guess I'll mention those now. Also of worthy mention are all the card games I picked up over the last few weeks: Fluxx v4 Monopoly Deal Uno Loonacy No Thanks! (And the following a few months ago) EcoFluxx Rook Scrabble Slam! Last edited by Cat333Pokémon; February 22, 2015 at 09:58:50 AM. |
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Cat and I went garage sailing again today. Not as many as last week due to predicted rain storms (which we didn't get). For the most part pretty boring, until we got to the last one which had A LOT of video game stuff (mostly Wii, DS, and PS2). Here's what I got from it:
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Oh, I didn't post what I got from the same garage sale day of wonder:
I also recently picked up a double-nine set of dominoes, Phase 10, LCR, and Skip-Bo. Last edited by Cat333Pokémon; March 12, 2015 at 08:21:00 PM. |
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You indeed did. Both screens have a few distracting scratches on it, the 3D slider is hard to move (but I never play with 3D so that isn't a problem for me) and the top-left corner has a bunch of small chew-marks on it. However, the buttons all work perfectly, which is rare to see on a heavily-used system. I think the SD card has some bad sectors, too, as it has already failed to be read twice. But still, the SD card is easily replaceable and the screens can be buffed. And yes, $35 with the charger.
Here are two pictures, one with flash (to show all the scratches on the screens) and one without (to show how they're not terrible). Two particular scratches can be seen in both photos: look between the yellow "!" icon and the word "Health" on the top screen, then look at the one with which that scratch intersects. I really had to drop the JPEG quality on these; they were 10 megs apiece. Last edited by Cat333Pokémon; March 7, 2015 at 10:40:23 PM. |
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Garage sales again today. There were like a bajillion of them today, but pickings were pretty slim as far as interesting stuff:
GameBoy Camera (yellow) - $2 (and included free pictures of dogs and someone picking their nose) Sandwich size bag full of LEGO parts - $1 Bag with a few extra keys and key remover for a mechanical keyboard - 50 cents Also got the new Yoshi amiibo from WalMart. |
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After much pain and much waiting, and a tip off from Yoshi..
I finally was able to buy the Majora's Mask New 3DS at gamestop with the last bit that finally flooded in for them. Instead of paying 400+ I got it at the regular new 3DS price. |
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Never mind, that was the small shirt. I was able to order it too. Last edited by Cat333Pokémon; April 5, 2015 at 08:36:36 AM. |
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That Etrian Mystery Dungeon combo was bogus. The DS game was garbage (everyone got the same one), the shirt didn't interest me in the slightest, and the DLC was all free anyway.
Anyway, garage sales can be quite amusing, especially when you find rare items for dirt cheap. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (3DS, unopened) - $1 Burnout 2 (PS2, disc only) - $1 Tetris Worlds (GameCube, complete) - $1 Kyocera Brio feature phone - $2 (worth it for the laughs of having two phones with the same number) Bowling ball (15 lb.) - $5 Yes, that is indeed correct. A brand new copy of A Link Between Worlds was only one dollar. (Well, it was $5 for the three games plus the phone, but the guy counted the games out as a dollar each.) And yes, I did get another bowling ball, as the other one was only worth it for the shoes. It's a bit heavy for my tastes, but it was only five bucks, and it's worth trying out a few balls until I find one I like. Last edited by Cat333Pokémon; May 7, 2015 at 06:43:53 PM. |
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I got back into bowling regularly at the beginning of last year. The house balls vary enough that it can be tough figuring out my bowling style, and my scores vary wildly because of it. There are certain bowling alleys that have perfect bowling balls for my tastes, as they have finger holes in many different sizes, regardless of the ball weight; the regular alley I visit bases the hole size on the weight.
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Got a free SixAxis controller for my iMac over the weekend. My brother didn't need it anymore because he rarely plays multiplayer games on his PS3, which is something he hasn't done since he moved to Michigan in 2012. Plus, for the games he plays on his PC, just one SixAxis controller is enough.
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