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They aren't gone man, get out there! I have success constantly in 2020 and prior years. Just gotta be the first one, or be better at talking to people/asking for games than the pushy reseller who was there before you.

I often get nostalgic for my early collecting days chasing NES carts in the late 90s, armed with my printed Mike Etler list (which was like 15 pages of text) and a fat highlighter marker. I tore up many a Funcoland/Gamestop/GameCrazy/video rental store clearance bins in the northern Chicago suburbs between '96-2004 and got some deals that I barely even knew were amazing deals because it was such a wild west era of collecting with not much information to be had or stable consistent pricing going on. I definitely have this vivid memory of buying loose NES carts packed up in plastic packaging at a local K-Mart when I was 12 years old; I started digging through them and instinctively picking out the black box games (my friend @AlfPogs and I called them "originals" at the time), staring at them and deciding, "Yep, this is for me." I could literally feel the collector switch in my brain toggling to the ON position at that very moment, and well here I am 24 years later still doing it albeit a few large gaps of inactivity. Oh and I also worked at a media chain called The Music Recyclery as a teenager in 2001. Had that five finger discount on some carts, that my boss basically turned a blind eye at despite knowing I was swiping them. He was down...lol

Maybe, "first checkout" from the store? Like, $3 for your first rental, to bait you in to giving them business and getting a membership, idk.

It's just your run-of-the-mill rental store cutbox. I don't see anything more here. Yeah, it's a generic sticker the store probably slapped on everything they rented out.

Bump.

Through DMs, sometimes people do claim sales where they rapid fire post a bunch of games at once one by one and people comment claim if they want it, etc.

Pretty sure he's on instagram as well. I sold him some stuff on there once.

The NES games had stickers, which I love for nostalgic purposes and as a reminder of where it came from. Sega CD has sharpie writing on the back of each manual and tray (rental codes). All VHS had stickers with his old store name on them. The consoles were all devoid of writing or stickers. He said he was also a garage sale/storage locker picker guy a few years ago but just kept acquiring and not selling stuff. A lot of the consoles were broken but I want to say 75% of them were ace with no tinkering needed.

All the consoles are gone at this point. This find was about two months old and I basically spent my summer sorting and selling all that stuff. Since I became suddenly unemployed from Covid-19 layoffs I had nothing but free time to dedicate to properly handling the lot.

Precisely. This guy was definitely one of those guys. He had other guys coming through after me too to buy leftover arcade stuff/pinball machines he had as well (a world I don't know too much about). Had I tipped my hat and said, "no thank you sir, your prices are far far too low, gonna have to pass so I'm not morally judged by some stranger on a message board a few months from now," I would have lost out big-time to one of the other potential buyers.

Yeah isn't there a plush banana too? I don't collect for n64 at all so I didn't have a desire to keep it. Had it been some rare NES promo thing I would have been all over it. When I first noticed the box I just thought hey that looks weird, never seen one of those, then later when I got home I started researching it and realized what I had stumbled upon.

LOL at the guy saying I should have helped him sell his stuff proper. I walked into a hoarded mess of stuff and got disgustingly dirty digging for hours multiple times to produce all of this, based on HIS suggested pricing and HIM saying he wanted me to take as much as I could. There was zero haggle, and we did exact counts of everything to total it all up. The guy even told me straight up, "I know I can sell all this crap for much more but I just want it gone, I don't have the time for it and have been trying to convince myself for years now I'd get around it to sorting it all, etc." He was pumped on all the newly freed up space and thanked me plenty by the third visit because it gave him some semblance of focus to get the rest of the storage organized better. When I was driving away the third time and we parted ways he wished me luck and said, "I hope you make a ton of money off all that, should keep ya busy for a while eh!?" I'd also like to add that on my second visit the guy expressed regret on selling me one of the Sega CD games, because he had a Sega CD still and would occasionally play...it was Double Switch...so I brought it with me on the third visit and gave it back to him. He was pumped.

Felt like sharing since I just read a post that user Zombi shared about finding a wild Samson in a lot...earlier this summer I developed an email contact for a guy who owned a small chain of local video rental stores in the northwest Chicago suburbs...I asked him if he had video games still and he said nope they are all gone, but to come on by anyway he has tons of stuff. I also collect VHS too so I mainly went to check out his stash of that (and boy howdy that was a juicy stash)...when I was there I again asked, "So no games huh? Old Nintendo or Sega etc?" "He then says, oh yeah there is a small box of Nintendo games still, and I have some Sega Genesis & Sega CD games too." Ok, so he is saying something completely different than the firm no he gave through email, whatever, let's roll with it...he grabs a box of NES games and I pop it open, BAM, eyes hone in on the blue label of that very rare and expensive Taito sequel, POWER BLADE 2. "How much on the games?" I ask....."I used to sell them for $5 a piece up at the 7 Mile Fair (nearby Wisconsin Flea Market over the Illinois border) back in the day, so $5 each is fine."......SCORE. Pics below. I cherry picked anything worth $10 or more from that box, including the boxed Contra that unfortunately looked like someone stomped on it several times. But wait it gets better... The Sega CD lot was decent too actually, also $5 a piece. I'll post that pic below as well, but the cherry on top of all of this was the random empty box we grabbed to put all the Sega CD games in (which I ended up later selling for $1,000 on eBay)...it was a box for a Donkey Kong 64 press kit that the guy said he got when he managed a KayBee Toys in the 90s. That sealed the deal on making it the best find of my life overall to date. Kept a few of the Sega CD games, the Power Blade 2, and upgraded a few of my other NES games as well...plus severely beefed up the VHS horror collection and made a shitload of money selling off doubles in that dept, plus other things I got from him like the MOUNTAIN of game consoles he had strewn about in his hoarded mess of a storage unit (which he also priced at $5 a piece). Again, this guy had TONS of game stuff so I don't know if he just didn't realize it in his stash at first or was lying about it to begin with for no apparent reason. Either way I made out big-time. Funny thing is, since he initially told me he didn't have any games through email I kind of blew off the lead for a whole month or so since I was under the impression it was an hour drive out from the city to basically go look at VHS tapes. One day I was severely bored during the quarantine and said fuck it I'll follow-up and go drive out because I have literally nothing better to do. So, so glad I did...I eventually made two more visits to comb over everything thoroughly which brought lots of more goodies but nothing as incredible as this first visit. Needles to say I was FREAKING OUT trying to keep my cool the first time there. Here are links to the hauls from every visit, on my Instagram, with total price paid on each visit: Round 1: Round 2: Round 3:

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Added some pics.

That'd probably help eh? Will get to that soon...

I have one of these. It's in very good condition considering the nature of what they normally look like. Just a case, no cart or manual...been thinking of selling it lately. If any of you NES freaks out there are interested shoot me an offer. I'd be open to a partial trade/cash thing as well but am pretty picky with what I want for my collection these days (I wouldn't mind a minty upgrade to my crappy looking Dino Peak cart though). For any kind of trading I'd only want to do that in person, in Chicago or nearby. I mostly collect for NES, Sega Genesis, Sega Master System, original Game Boy, and some Sega 32X/Sega CD a little as well. On a long shot related side note, I am still looking for a cart of Bubble Bath Babes but highly doubt anyone has an extra copy of that kicking around.

Nah doesn't fit but I just realized one of those Sega Genesis box protectors that are longer to accommodate the hangtabs, should work fine.

Gonna cross-check this right now, thanks!

Does anyone know where I can get a box protector for this? It's my only naked game and I'd love to get it into a proper fitting protector.

Absolutely. I'm in Chicago. Smack dab in the middle. Very densely populated and people are constantly moving/purging stuff. I even have friends a mere 40 min away in the burbs that say it's super dry where they are.

Yesterday. I got 15 NES games for $20, one of which was Gargoyle's Quest 2. I was remarking to my friend AlfPogs it felt like a casual "here just take them" deal from 1999. The guy said $10 and I gave him 20...there are also 99 cent GameStop stickers on some of the carts which probably had something to do with my nostalgic price point deal. I'm still out there hunting have had some crazy scores in recent times. Got a Power Blade 2 cart for $5 two months ago...damn it's been a good summer. Update 8/5/20 : Just found Die Hard on NES in the wild last weekend. Been quite the hot streak and this is very out of the ordinary for me all in one summer. Maybe people are having more free time to dig up their old stashes around the house. Idk.

1996 I started collecting NES games. I was 12 years old and everyone thought I was insane at the time...who's laughing now! I'm still insane though...before collecting I was the kid obsessed with Nintendo. Played it every day, and it was all I thought about. My older sister bought an NES when I was like 2 years old so I got exposed to it at an extremely early age...later got a Sega Genesis and loved it as well but the collecting thing hit when the ps1/n64 era came around because I hated the shift to 3D gaming and wanted to stick with my 2D games, so I started exploring those older libraries and gathering carts for VERY cheap. NES and Genesis are the two main consoles I collect for today, and still play regularly. Edit: I was collecting the same time as AlfPogs above. We grew up literally next door neighbors and fed off each other; would go gamehunting when he got a car...good times.