NES Nintendo Bundle by xelement5x, on Flickr
Well, I bought Nintendo stuff for like the first time in a very long time last week.
This bundle was up on Craigslist on Friday for $60 and had only been up a couple hours so I texted the guy and got a reply "sorry, they were claimed already ". Okay, not unexpected since Nintendo stuff brings out all the tards near me, so I just forgot about it and moved on with my life. Had an excellent weekend and then early Sunday morning I got another text "others did not pick up, would you still like to buy the Nintendo?"
My spider sense was tingling, it seems odd that something like this would still be available after like 3 days on CL so I said yes, asked about location and it seemed like a regular residential neighborhood. Brought backup on the odd case it might be a scammer but the truth turned out to be more interesting...
I drive up and the garage door is open, it's an older guy and he is refinishing a door in his garage. I say hello, mention my name, and exchange greetings, the NES belonged to his daughter and he found it in storage recently and didn't want it, seems normal enough. I guess after putting up the ad he had a number of people contacting him, and he had 2 guys in line to buy it. One was going to pick up Friday evening, never showed. The other was gonna come Saturday, never showed. After getting 2 people lined up and having contact info he had deleted the ad and all the other replies, but for some reason mine just happened to survive the culling. Lucky me! He also had a gold record on the back wall of his garage which I neglected to ask about, but it was a funny experience, it's hard to believe I was the one who got to the goods out of sheer luck.
The NES deck is in nice shape, has original hookups but is missing the controllers even though there's a light gun. Games were Super Mario Bros 2, Super Mario Bros 3, and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Excellent Adventure is complete, Mario 2/3 are in nice shape but missing the manuals, I'm just kind of happy to finally have copies of the games in nice shape after all these years. It's not the best deal, but it's not the worst either.
Oh, also included was Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt but I forgot to include it in the picture.
