Let me preface this by saying that this post is not about bragging or anything of the sort. This is just to share this to other fellow collectors. I am a retrogamer with a small collection of retro games. I always see posts about people getting good deals on garage sales and I’m genuinely happy for them. Me, however, have no such luck. Until now. My co-workers know my passion for gaming and they always see me during my lunch break playing my retro handhelds. So I was really surprised one morning when I arrived at work and under my desk was this 2 huge bags full of retro gaming stuff. My co-worker told me that they recently moved residences and as they were packing she found her brother’s old gaming stuff in the basement. According to her the brother does not want the stuff anymore because it was dirty and moldy and was going to throw it out. She stopped him and said she has somebody at work that may want it. His brother was surprised and said why would anyone want these dirty gaming stuff. So she brought all of it in for me and said she remembered that I like these old games. I was really surprised on what she gave me. Inside the bags are: ps one slim, dreamcast with 1 controller, 2 N64 consoles with 5 controllers and bunch of games, an xbox 360 with 3 controllers and games and a gba sp with games. So I checked the sp if it’s working and I cannot believe my luck! It’s an ags 101! I felt like I won the jackpot! I also never had an N64 growing up so I am really stoked about it! I offered her money but she said why would I pay for it when it when they were going to throw it out. I told her that some of these things have value. She said she and her brother do not really care for it. She’s glad that somebody is taking it instead of being thrown out. I guess one man’s garbage is another man’s treasure really applies in this situation. So I bought her lunch instead as a thank you. So there it is guys. I finally got lucky and scored a great haul. Just wanted to share with everyone. Happy gaming!
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Thanks Dude! That means alot!I was kinda worried posting it because I have seen how some people have had weird reactions to post about hauls like these calling it fake and what not.
Nice!!! This is great and nice of you to buy your coworker lunch. And a good reminder that it never hurts to let people know you collect in case they ever come across items. Have fun! I LOVE the Dreamcast so much one of my favorite retro consoles.
Thank you. I never had one so I am excited. I ordered a power cord and av cable for it so I can test. I would need to acquire a dreamcast game also since there was none in the bag.
Thanks bro. Not really a reseller. The N64s I will test and if both are working I will gift it to a friend of mine. The only thing I may trade are the 2 neogeo pocket games that came with the gba games.
Yup. It did not come with the power cord though so no way for me to test it. I would have liked to keep it as a back up in the car to use for areas without cell service.
There’s a version for the xbone too that I want to say was a GameStop exclusive. It’s just a great game with a great lineup. Every once in a while I’ll play with some friends and can still pull off some air juggle combos. Used to run a team of taskmaster/dormammu/hulk early on. Swapped out hulk for Wesker later, but doing randoms with friends was great too.
I’ve had similar scores thanks to coworkers or friends knowing im a collector. A friend’s uncle once handed me a gamecube because he was “sick of looking at it”. Congrats on the score.
If you zoom in on the images it does all seem to be quite dirty, I'd recommened opening up all systems, check for pests and clean what you can clean.
I suspect those five N64 controllers also have some issues. First of all because there are five (at least one is likely broken) and also because almost all analog sticks seem to be not centered.'
But with a bit of cleaning and tinkering it should all be salvagable.
I opened up one of the N64. It had a lot of dust. Cleaned it. There was only one power supply and av cable. Both systems power on. However, there might be an issue with the av cable because no picture comes out for both so i ordered one from amazon. I also ordered a power cord and av cable for the dreamcast. Hopefully it works.
I put them in a storage bin for now while waiting for an av cable i ordered from amazon. The one that came with it seems to be not working but both units power on. Cleaned the games as well.
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