One Man's Trash: My Game Find

After watching The Game Chasers, I was inspired to look around my local thrift shop for some old games to no avail.  In fact the only product I came up with was the Sega Sports Pad, amazingly complete in box.  This was a trackball controller with two buttons for the Sega Master System.  The nice thing about early Sega controllers was that they usually could be used for Atari & Commodore consoles and computers.  I would have picked this up if it wasn't for the $15.99 price tag.  I had to double check just to make sure it wasn't an old label from another store but it was their price.

Moving on, I decided to take a look on Craigslist and sure enough I had a lead in my own town.  Someone was advertising a few random carts for $1.00 or less each.  At that price, i'll pick up just about any game cart.  He had listed; Yoshi's Cookie for NES, 4-in-1 Funpack Volume II, Daedalian Opus and Paperboy for Game Boy and last he had a Genesis game called High Seas Havoc.  Nothing jaw dropping but Yoshi's Cookie and Paperboy peaked my interest.

After a few e-mails and text messages we arrange a time and decide to meet at the Taco Bell near my house.  About two hours before were supposed to meet, I get a text and he said he found a few more games and would bring them along.

We meet up and he had a few more Game Boy titles but amongst them was a slightly larger cartridge.  Turns out he had a copy of Wario Land for the Virtual Boy.  Instantly I asked him if he had the system but he said it broke years ago.  Other notable games were Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakining and Grand Theft Auto both for Game Boy.  In the end, I walked away paying $7.00 bucks for the lot feeling completely satisfied.

When I got home I checked my games against current used retail prices on RarityGuide.com and found I really made out on the deal (See below).  As I come across more sweet deals, i'll keep you informed but you do the same.  Let me know what great deals you've come up with in the comments.  Happy hunting!

NES:
Yoshi's Cookie - Nintendo - 1993 - $5.00 Loose (Paid - $0.50)


SNES:
WWF Super Wrestlemania - LJN - 1992 - $4.00 Loose (Paid - $0.50)

Game Boy:
4-in-1 Funpack Volume II - Interplay - 1993 - $5.00 Loose (Paid - $0.75)
Daedalian Opus - Vic Tokai - 1990 - $3.00 Loose (Paid - $0.75)
Legend of Zelda: Links Awakining - Nintendo - 1993 - $24.00 Loose (Paid - $1.00)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves - Virgin - 1992 - $8.00 Loose (Paid - FREEBIE!)

Game Boy Color:
Chase HQ: Secret Police - Metro3D - 1999 - $10.00 Loose (Paid - $1.00)
Grand Theft Auto - Rockstar - 1999 - $8.00 Loose (Paid - $0.75)
Paperboy - Midway - 1999 - $8.00 Loose (Paid - $0.75)

Sega Genesis:
High Seas Havoc - Data East - 1993 - $7.00 Loose (Paid - $0.50)

Virtual Boy:
Wario Land - Nintendo - 1995 - $32.00 Loose (Paid - $0.50)