My recent flea market finds

[Enternal]

I started collecting games in the late 90's. Stopped around 2005-2006 and started back up in 2010 hitting up thrift stores, pawn shops, and flea markets. My flea market visits are about once a month and pawn and thrift about 20 stops a month.

In that time I've only found turbografx stuff at one of those locations 3 times.

-Splatterhouse With case and manual and Blazing lazers (just case and manual, no game) at salvation army for a dollar they were in with the music Cd's.

-Turbografx with cover and final lap twin for 50 at a flea market. (I should say the guy tossed in a sega power base convert, master system, and 3do for 5 each)

-Order of the Griffon with water damaged manual, and Dungeon Explorer for 100. (Because thats what ebay said) I got Order of Griffon for 30.

I also keep my eye out for ps1 and tg games when two weeks ago I while doing a quick scan of CD's I got tricked for a moment.  (Pictured above) This stack wasn't in front of me it was to my left behind the table I was looking at)

Anyone still go game hunting outside of game store? How have your games finds been the last year? When was the last time you found any tg games?

[ProfessorProfessorson]

What tricked you? I see nothing in the pic that makes me think there is a gold mine of TG goods sitting there...

[ShaneRC51]

C'mon, man, really? The orange label on the corner of the jewel case could be mistaken for a TG16 case if you see it in your peripheral...

[Enternal]

C'mon, man, really? The orange label on the corner of the jewel case could be mistaken for a TG16 case if you see it in your peripheral...

This, like I said once I actually looked at it, it was nothing.

It like walking in a crowd and seeing some short shorts out the corner of your eye but when you look over its a dude.

But no one else has any stories of TG finds in the wild?

I will say I've out of all the systems and consoles Ive come across in the last 10 years ive never found anything for the Atari Lynx.

[Warbucks]

When I am at Flea Markets, I always look at the CDs for Turbo games.
One day I will find one in the wild.

[ginoscope]

I have given up at finding turbo games in the wild in the Dallas area.  I have found everything but them.  Closest I got was craigslist but that is not the same as a yard sale or flea market score.

What I been doing is finding games for other systems to fund my turbo games at retail.

[BigusSchmuck]

When I am at Flea Markets, I always look at the CDs for Turbo games.
One day I will find one in the wild.

I found Space Ace for the CDI once with that method over at a antique store in Richland Washington in a Beyonce CD case no less. Also found a loose Laserdisc of Popeye in a Rolling Stone record sleeve.  99 cents for the both of them, can't go wrong with that lol. It goes to show to just take your time and shop around.

[Medic_wheat]

The only story of my finding any in the wild occurred


Right after I joined this forum. As I had stumbled on a Cl find with a guy selling off left over games from what I belive to have been a mom and pop rental store. That was what? 3-4 years ago


About two years ago I found some loose PC Engine games at a flea market.



And that surmises all my finds in the wild.

[Sparky]

I have not found 1 F@cking TG16 hucard in the wild believe it or not.  just an empty case for TV Sports Hockey and that was recently, last year.

But i have been really lucky at finding all sorts of other games common and rare for cheap which has helped me with trading towards Tg16/CD/Duo games i want.

I have got most of my games from this forum, local games shops, video game meets and in the beginning even ebay but that was back in 2002 i think when things were sane.

[esteban]

A: No.

[Enternal]

When I am at Flea Markets, I always look at the CDs for Turbo games.
One day I will find one in the wild.

I found Space Ace for the CDI once with that method over at a antique store in Richland Washington in a Beyonce CD case no less. Also found a loose Laserdisc of Popeye in a Rolling Stone record sleeve.  99 cents for the both of them, can't go wrong with that lol. It goes to show to just take your time and shop around.

My lone CDI find... a sealed Space Ace, same flea market that had 2 of my TG finds. though not at the same time. However the day I found Order of the Griffon last month I also found a CDI controller and 6 boxed master system games.

There is a store called 2nd and Charles,a chain under Books a Million that ours turned into. Its been one of my best sources for game finds.

They get a lot more traffic and product than the 2 retro game stores here. Unfortunately no tg games yet.

[ProfessorProfessorson]

C'mon, man, really? The orange label on the corner of the jewel case could be mistaken for a TG16 case if you see it in your peripheral...

This, like I said once I actually looked at it, it was nothing.

It like walking in a crowd and seeing some short shorts out the corner of your eye but when you look over its a dude.

But no one else has any stories of TG finds in the wild?

I will say I've out of all the systems and consoles Ive come across in the last 10 years ive never found anything for the Atari Lynx.

It looks like giant orange stickers to me, wrong size and all. Wouldn't be even remotely fooled. I see this kind of stuff all the time. Maybe part of why you were fooled was because you go in with expectations set too high when doing retro treasure hunts.

[o.pwuaioc]

Yeah, I check stuff at stores with the expectation of finding nothing and anything I do find being way too high. I'm never wrong.

[Lost Monkey]

It has been a long time since I have found a Turbo game, accessory or anything in the wild... probably since the 90's...

One time I found a case for "Deep Blue" at a Value Village, and I picked it up thinking they might have the hucard at the counter..  A kid came over to me and said he found something that looked like it went with what I had over in another area of the store.. I followed him over and there was the box and shrinkwrap.. someone had brought the boxed, shrinkrapped game over to the "textiles" section, torn the box open, and stole the hucard...

[Scillianaire]

There is a guy in mexico on facebook finding like 5-10 new mvs carts locally a week right now i dont even know what to think.