mrhaboobi no I have not opened any of the titles yet. I had contemplated opening up the crappier less rare games and moving my way up but im still stuck. As for the way I got these games, it’s was a wierd craigslist ad response that was a little fishy and ended a bit sleezy but how does one complain. So here goes….
In the early part of July I was bored at work and decided to check my local craigslist as I do every so often for retro stuff and yeah I always check for Turbo stuff first. Ran across an ad that said “Turbo Grafx System for sale”. The guy advertised a TG 16 in a hard case and that he had over 100 games and that he knew the value of it all and wanted $450 or trade for an Ipad. Then it had a picture that I could have sworn I had seen on the net before. The picture had a boxed TG16 and a Duo and like 50 games. So I sent a text to the # in the ad right away. I didn’t have the cash at the time so I responded with a message that if he would trade all the stuff for a $300 gift card for Best Buy. I had gotten it for Christmas like 2 years ago and was sitting in my wallet. He responded with a yeah!
We proceeded to try to meet up. He was a bit of a ways from my house so I found a Best buy in between us. We decided to meet up there. The guy did seem a little incoherent and weird in his texts and when I would ask him if I could call so we could go over the deal he kept giving me the run around. I ended up going on google and typed up Turbo grafx and his default picture came up in someone elses blog. This is where I began to get worried. After a few more texts he finally told me that he was def and that’s why he wasn’t letting me call him. He told me that he would have his mom call me and asked if I spoke Spanish which I do and work out the deal. So I get a call about 10 minutes later and its the mom. She explains that her son has games he needs to sell but he cant speak. I told hr we already finalized the deal but I wanted to see some pictures to make sure I can see what im paying for. She promises that her son is gonna take a few pics and ill get em shortly. We hang up and a few minutes later I get some pictures via text.
The first picture is of a TG16 in a hard case and a big brown box full of games. A lot of em look pretty beat up but still in box with like cracking wrapping. Some games were duplicates from what I could see. I was a little bummed that there was no duo but oh well there was still a good deal to be made. So I did the math on the games I could see and if I kept some and sold the dupes I could see, I could still make my money back. In the picture I could see games like Neutopia, Splatterhouse, Valis, New Adventure Island and others. I asked him for a list of the games I cant see and he mentions some other commons. So im like ok let’s meet up after work.
I drive to the Best Buy and I get a text that he’s on his way and his dad is bringing him. So I wait in my car and about 30 minutes later I see a beat up ass truck and an older Hispanic man and a youngish (19 maybe) teen.
I get out of my car and walk over. They say hello and the kid proceeds to bring out this really large sized bag as seen in my video. I open the bag and only see about 30-35 games when the kid said he had over 100. Also never did he mention any of these rare titles. He only mentioned the commons. The bag had another bag inside blocking most of the games and that little bag contained some duo controllers, a duo tap and some other title. I lift the bag out of the bigger bag and BAM I see that all the games are sealed and there is a Magical Chase in the Bag along with a Bonk 3. The kid then hands me the TG16 in the hard case and im like trying not to pass out and be cool. I don’t even get into why there aren’t 100 games. I mean you see a Magical Chase in the bag and you just wanna make the deal and run. So I say everything looks good trying to keep my cool at the same time. I hand them the gift card so we can go inside the Best Buy and Verify the balance. I take the stuff to my car and go insde with them to best buy. We verify the balance and deal done.
I walk back to my car in shock. Open my trunk just to make sure I saw what I saw and I couldn’t even touch the games. Still in shock! Jumped in my car and sped home. The drive seemed forever! The video you guys all saw picks up right when I got home. Told my girlfriend to get the camera out and come outside and that’s where the video starts.
When I got home and looked thru the games I noticed a couple of games were missing and some of the doubles were not there. Also none of the games were beat up like in his picture and all the games he gave me were in mint shape. So I text him to thank him for the deal. At the same time I don’t wanna be greedy and bring up that he didn’t bring all 100 games but in my head im like “Dude you just scored on a Magical Chase sealed for basically free” So I didn’t bother to bring that up and just mentioned that he forgot to give me New Adventure Island. He realized he forgot to include it and send it to me a few days later via mail. That’s not in the video.
A few days later I go on Ebay to see the value of all these games and get an idea of what I had just scored for free and I stumble upon this:
http://stores.ebay.com/excitebytegamer/Turbografx-16-Duo-/_i.html?_fsub=3747455011&_sid=64036251&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322Turns out this Ebayer is located about 30 minutes from where this kid lives so I think we now know where the doubles went. So turns out this kid made 2 deals and split the games. Since I was first he gave me the system and what turned out to be 35 sealed mint games. The better, more minty 35 games at least and the Magical Chase. This other guy probably got the rest and as you can see in the pictures on this guy’s Ebay site are some of the cracking and more beat up games. But now we know this kid had 2 Bonk 3s as well as a few other doubles. The way I was able to piece this all together is because someone on youtube saw my video and also was trying to get in on the deal and he told me that the kid told him that he had made 2 deals and only had about 20 games left. The youtuber told me that what he had left were some beat up sealed commons that weren’t worth his time.
Hopefully this wasnt too boring but that is how I got Magical Chase and the rest for basicaly free.
Here are the pictures the kid originally sent me:
Here is a picture I took of just the games he gave me:
And here is the Sealed New Adventure Island he mailed out to me later:
