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exodus

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I picked up a guy's collection for $100
« on: June 23, 2017, 07:44:36 AM »
A guy I met through a laserdisc forum (ha ha) moved to japan, so I bought his laserdisc player and LDs... somehow in the transaction (we met in a parking lot like true contraband runners), he got to mentioning he needed to get rid of some games, too. I said "oh hey, I'd be interested in that!" expecting him to just have a few things. He mailed me a few weeks later with a few pics saying there was also a bit more, but I could have whatever he found for $100.

When we met back in that same parking lot, I was more than a little surprised at the amount of stuff I got. I didn't really know what all I had til I got it home (he just kept handing me moving boxes). So here it all is:

a few us Saturn games and manuals (robo pit accidentally not depicted), boxed virtua stick, and a jp-switched us saturn


model 2 genesis with Sega cd and a variety of controllers.


several genesis games (also got sol feace for scd, but that's in another photo)



a super famicom and some jp and us games. lady stalker, twinbee, panic bomber etc (ha ha)


some random n64 and nes games and controllers


52 US dreamcast games (accidentally put 18 wheeler in here even though it's JP), including boxed US maracas



46 JP dreamcast games, a few of which are limited edition. dude liked his visual novels, as you can see!



8 dreamcast magazines and supplemental guides


11 jp Saturn games, some limited, and twinsticks, Sakura Taisen guide


some random jp-only Xbox games, Yuna for pc-fx and pce, etc


There was some other random stuff too, but that's the main lot of it! pretty good for $100 if I do say so myself! I'm probably gonna trade a lot of it off to a local game shop, because I don't think that most of the stuff I'm not keeping is gonna be of interest to anyone. I already found a home for all the low-price dreamcast games, oddly! a friend is going for a complete collection, so we're gonna do some sort of trade.

Anyway! This is the sort of thing I often have dreams about, but this time it was reality :P

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Re: I picked up a guy's collection for $100
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2017, 07:47:27 AM »
P.S. sorry for the wide photos in some cases - I don't remember what we do in the editor here to reduce size!~

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Re: I picked up a guy's collection for $100
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2017, 07:47:52 AM »
You could um...do worse for $100....

Lol damn. And um, if there is more PC-FX stuff shoot me a list!

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Re: I picked up a guy's collection for $100
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2017, 07:52:20 AM »
Unfortunately Yuna was the only PC-FX thing - he didn't even own a PC-FX, he just wanted a complete Yuna collection for some reason!! I got his Yuna laserdiscs too, so now when you combine it with the Yuna stuff I already had, I'm getting pretty close to a complete collection myself, by total accident!

Also Gypsy, I saw your LD thread there, and you will perhaps not be happy to learn I bought this dude's faroudja LD1000, demodulator, and 180 anime LDs for $300...

this was all thanks to SignOfZeta on this very forum, who hooked me up with the guy.
« Last Edit: June 23, 2017, 07:57:23 AM by exodus »

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Re: I picked up a guy's collection for $100
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2017, 07:54:31 AM »
Ah damn no extras for you on that stuff then. :p

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Re: I picked up a guy's collection for $100
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2017, 07:58:00 AM »
yeah, not on the PC-FX front - but a lot of the other stuff will be extra! Maybe I'll make a post about it here later. (also note my above edit about laserdiscs)

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Re: I picked up a guy's collection for $100
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2017, 08:11:05 AM »
I don't know what any of that stuff is worth exactly, but it's definitely worth waaaay more than a mere $100.  Nice score!
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Re: I picked up a guy's collection for $100
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2017, 08:34:44 AM »
Wow!  That's an amazing pickup for $100, those US Maracas are pretty hard to locate anymore in the original box.
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Re: I picked up a guy's collection for $100
« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2017, 09:25:41 AM »
haha, I'm pretty sure it's this guy's personal collection, unless he stole it from someone who loves Yuna and Japanese Xbox dating sims!!

and yeah, the maracas alone are a $150 item. it's pretty nuts!

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Re: I picked up a guy's collection for $100
« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2017, 09:26:57 AM »
yeah, not on the PC-FX front - but a lot of the other stuff will be extra! Maybe I'll make a post about it here later. (also note my above edit about laserdiscs)

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Please let me know of any available LDs. Thank you.

Also this means you are in Michigan yes? I am up there somewhat regularly, most of my family is in eastern MI. Greatly varying areas of financial success, lol.

There was actually a comparable LD lot on local-ish CL for me recently, but by the time I noticed it the shit had sold. The player was not comparable to what you got, but just about 400 movies for $400.

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Re: I picked up a guy's collection for $100
« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2017, 09:52:23 AM »
Being a tool here.

Any interest in selling any of that lot?

I desire two of the NA dreamcast games.

Can do possible trade as well.


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Re: I picked up a guy's collection for $100
« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2017, 09:58:35 AM »
those twinsticks.

man, congrats I am glad you got this stuff I know it's going to a happy home.

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Re: I picked up a guy's collection for $100
« Reply #12 on: June 23, 2017, 10:06:41 AM »
What are the saturn manuals you have stacked up there?

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Re: I picked up a guy's collection for $100
« Reply #13 on: June 23, 2017, 10:36:23 AM »
@gypsy - a lot of them are available, but I'm in California! Zeta just told me about this guy on the forum, saying he was in the bay area (where I live). Basically everything is too pricey to ship and make decent money on, so it only made sense to sell them locally. Which is also the problem with getting any of these over to you :P I hate seeing deals on good CL stuff after it's gone! I made a big blunder once when a guy was selling a Sega Nomad for $120 with a bunch of games, and I was like "would you just sell me the nomad for $60 since I don't need the game" and he wouldn't, and... $120 was still an okay price just for the nomad. I noobed it!!

@medic_wheat - maybe later? I'll make a sale list when I've decided what I'm selling, but which two are you interested in?

@gredler - thanks! yeah, I was particularly excited about the twinsticks. I've always wanted some, but they're always $20 plus $60 shipping or whatever. And whenever I'm in japan I feel like they're too bulky to take back. so this was basically the only way I was gonna get some!

@wiseau - nothing good. the virtua fighter 2 from the triple pack, and a couple sports games. the sega CD one is rise of the dragon.

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Re: I picked up a guy's collection for $100
« Reply #14 on: June 23, 2017, 10:41:28 AM »
Dang, not even a spare daytona or virtua cop. Oh well, if you're ever gonna sell that Sonic 3D Blast and Custom robo i'll take em off your hands.
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