I hit this resale shop around the corner from my pawn shop. They sell very few games and want alot for them, sonic 3 was marked $49.95 without the box, so I don`t stop there much. I looked in the case and they had Final Fantasy II for the SNES for $7.95, and Congo Bongo for the Atari 2600 for $2.99. The guy won`t come down on his prices most of the time, but he would throw in the Atari cart if I bought the FF II, not a bad deal, and he told me that he has a chance to buy 2600 carts all the time so I left my number so he can send people my way.
Find 2
As I was heading home with my first find I saw some people at the vending company, I try to call all the time and it`s always closed, so I stopped. I`ve been wanting to get a arcade game for quite awhile ant the fellow that was there told me that they only do poker machines now but they had a couple of others that they would get rid of. He showed me 2 Nintendo cabnets that they didn`t want, and a BUNCH of boards for them, so we are working out a price today for them. but as I was leaving they asked me if I wanted this old driving game for free, YES.
Man is this thing cool, it`s not video , it has wheels that turn inside and are projected on a mirror thru a screen. It`s made by Chicago Coin and called Speedway.
Three good finds in two days, maybe my dry spell has ended!!!
5-7-1998
Well a friend called me up today, said he found his old Atari carts, and asked me if I wanted to buy them ( I think he should have gave them to me but he wanted to sell them). I went over to his house to see what he had. there was a box of 51 carts with a few duplicates like 3 Pac-mans, 2 Combats, 2 Missle Commands, nothing real rare but ones I needed. As I continued to dig thru the box I spotted the jewel of the collection,
CRAZY CLIMBER!
This game was never sold in stores just thru the Atari club. this cart is listed as an A title (look at my 2600 list) and my first one this rare. The whole box set me back $20.
6-8-1998
Not a big find but it`s been pretty dry for me of late. I`ve been on jury duty for two weeks and got a short break today and stopped in an antique store. They had about four 2600 carts that I have already but did find BIG LEAUGE BASEBALL and SPACE SPARTANS for the inty. Those two cart, that where both shrink wrapped, and a pair of 2600 sticks set me back a whole two dollars. They do have a RGB monitor like the one I use that I may go back and get to move some of the systems to, since I have all my systems on one monitor now.
7-2-1998
My brother-in-law`s mom called me up to say that she had seen my page and had a few 2600 carts to give me. Of course I went right over to get them and in a big box of 30 or so carts were a couple jems.
shuttle orbiter, Wizard of Wor, Fire Fighter, and a bunch of label upgades for my collection. Also in there were a bunch of manuals including the table top Donkey Kong and Gemini`s.
Thanks to people like this I`m able to keep the cost of my hobby down.
7-8-1998
I picked up a couple of nice additions for my collection today, two arcade machines, Centipede and Donkey Kong!! The Centipede needs a little work and the DK didn`t have the boards but I already had them so it`s working. This brings my total of arcade machines to six. It`s a blast to be able to go downstairs and have a mini arcade.
8-12-1998
Well two more arcade games worth braging about. A Mortal Kombat in a Street Fighter cabinet and Twin Eagle a Vert. JAMMA game. Both were suppose to be dead games but with just a little tweeking they work great! The price for both was $60 and got a few spare parts in the deal too.
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