Thanks for that jeff

They were all in a box that said $20, I asked how much for all of them. They lady looked at me like I was nuts and said $20 like the box says.

It finally worked! After asking at hundreds of garage sales I finally snagged my best haul! Normally when I ask someone points over to the 6 Madden games and Kinect Adventures, or they take my number and never call. I did have a lady go in and grab an Atari 7800 and some games and another guy grab a couple PS4 games. But, this one takes it. There was an older lady at the sale and I asked her if she had any games, she said her daughter just stepped out who was running it and she didnt know. She sent her grandson in to ask his dad if he had an games he wanted to sell. Guy first brought out a box of 360 games and then asked what I was looking for. I told him anything as I collect. He then comes back with some PS2 games, then NES, then SNES. Offered him $500 for that pile and he was like "thats more that I thought you were going to" so I jokingly offered $300. He said hold on then came back with the systems, strategy guides, and Nintendo Powers with posters. We settled on $700.

I'm sure the trolls will say "you're lying" blah blah blah. Trust me I can't believe it either.

Not a sports game in sight! About 90% of this will be going into my collection.

I haven't dug though it thoroughly yet but I'll post a some pics in the comments of the initial gems and more as I find them.

EDIT: I didn't even realize the address on the magazines. Reddit won't let you edit posts with pictures. The address isn't even from the same city, might not even be the same person...the magazines are 30 years old so good luck tracking that down. And even if you do and its the same person...he doesnt have anymore games.

Also, nobody died. Nobody's mom sold them. Seller knew what he had. This was a collection I bought from the collector.

UPDATE: Just bagged and boarded the Nintendo Powers. Most of the issues are intact with their posters. A good amount of these are in really good condition. There are some missing covers but intact otherwise with posters.

Intact issues: 1, 4, 20-28, 30-43, 45-49, 52-61, 63-68, 70-72, 74-87, 94-105

Damaged issues: 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 44, 62, 69

Duplicates: 27 and 54

Also included the Nintendo Power Index 3rd Edition, and the Official Game Pak Directory.

Found a couple Game Player's Magazines: Super Metroid and Maximum Carnage

A couple random damaged what looks like guides that I need to identify.

There’s an older woman on my street who I help out with housework every week or so. We were cleaning out her attic and I stumbled across a box full of old Nintendo boxes. Nearly screamed when I saw Earthbound. Second photo is everything we uncovered. I told her they were likely worth a lot of money and she was shocked. Her and her husband are both in their 70’s, and apparently her mother in law was an avid Nintendo gamer in her later years. I told her if she ever wanted to sell them I could help her get a fair price, and she just sent me home with them instead, as well as 120+ issues of Nintendo power. To be clear I was extremely honest about what these were worth, and showed her completed eBay sales of similar items, etc, but she just said she wanted me to have them, and that if I sold them I could keep the money. I tend to collect Gameboy and GameCube stuff mostly, so it’s possible I might do that down the road, but honestly I’m just riding the high of such a huge win.

got a message from my father showing me he found some handhelds and a original xbox with those giant controllers. the lady told him she hasn't tested them and she doesn't know if they work. the 2 nintendo 3ds didn't have a charger but luckily I have some at home. the vita did have a charger but for some reason in the beginning it wasn't charging then it did. the two nintendo 3ds charged and are working perfectly fine. the vita also works perfectly fine as well. the Xbox Sadly doesn't turn on and makes a poping noise so I didn't bother to mess with it. he got everything for extremely cheap so I told him to give her some more money and he said no lol.

Power of the ask

Was clearing out old boxes at my parents’ house and we found this unopened Pokémon blue game. Unfortunately it got a little squished and there are a couple of creases. Is it worth getting graded?

The backstory: the owner of the games unfortunately died and his family sold the collection to a game store and I bought the haul from the store. It’s full of random titles but also well known ones condition overall is quite good for close to 40 year old games, anyways enjoy the pics I took :) 158 sealed NES games 2 sealed Gameboy games 6 non sealed games

I mentioned to a coworker awhile back that I like playing old games and he was kind of confused. He said he had an old ps3 he would give me and I told him I’d give him some cash when he found it. He insisted on me having it for free and I can’t feel more lucky after my SNES Jr. find and then this. I’m SET on games for awhile.

My mother saw someone list 6 free ps2 games on facebook and decided to grab them for me, just a random assortment of games to hand me when I came over for dinner today. This was sitting on top of the pile, amongst some random racing and sports titles. I was just dumbfounded. Thanks Mom!

As soon as I saw the color I knew this was the gameboy one. Super cool to find! Has the cord still plugged in, no game but can’t complain!

Funnily enough I found a boxed NES miracle piano at this same goodwill last month.

Why is someone having a garage sale on a Tuesday? Who knows. I can't complain.

Just finished my trip to Japan. Couldn’t resist the urge to buy some games for my collection. Nothing serious because rarer CIB games in the desired condition cost 50+ EUR per game, most of them 100+ EUR, so I went with cheaper titles I either knew about and wanted to have, or something I never heard of and just liked the cover art. No sports games though.

The goal was to double my current Japanese region collection because there are so many beautiful covers and boxes I would like to have on my shelves and I don’t have enough time to play everything I own anyway. Hopefully someday I will be able to return with enough money and buy the expensive part of my wishlist, but for now, unfortunately, I wasn’t ready for extreme prices of some games.

Some background: I’m collecting mostly PAL games, but had a bit of success with Japan region during 2012-2015 when pretty much all the games there cost close to nothing on Ebay, after that I stopped with Japanese games and continued with PAL. So, after an almost 10 year pause it was like a breath of fresh air.

I’m a bit exhausted after the flight, hopefully will unpack everything soon enough, still have to check if everything arrived safely. I guess I will do some photos of what I’ve bought and do another post, most of the games still have their price tags on, maybe it will be interesting for someone.

Stoked to try cyberpunk and Mario kart World.

If anyone

My dad asked for help cleaning out his messy basement as he’s working on selling his house. He said that any video games I find I can have as he knows. I’m an advert collector and enjoyer of retro games. I flipped open a box and… yoooo! I’m happy :)

My fiance and I were driving home and saw a couple setting some very nice looking chairs (probably pre-war) next to the street. There were boxes of stuff they'd already brought out. We stopped and asked if we could grab the chairs. They said that it was all up for grabs. And this was all in one of the boxes!!! Talk about great timing.

Insane find in Europe. Wanted to buy only a couple at first but could not say no to the whole thing. Fantastic display piece, now I just need to filter out what I want to keep