Post your rare finds from the wild

janrodricks · Post by **janrodricks** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:07 pm

I recently discovered the FYE at the local mall has factory sealed PS1 games. Nothing rare, but cool none the less. And some games I want to buy that I never played - like Final Fantasy Tactics. I got the first Spryo again since I got rid of it when I was a kid. EVerything is about 10 dollars too

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:45 pm

I finally found a Sega Genesis Power Base Converter...I also found Power Strike (Compile) and a couple other games...everything works except power strike...the reason I bought the thing in the first place. Did I get ripped, or is Power Strike non compatible with the power base converter?

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:04 pm

ROBOTRON wrote:I finally found a Sega Genesis Power Base Converter...I also found Power Strike (Compile) and a couple other games...everything works except power strike...the reason I bought the thing in the first place. Did I get ripped, or is Power Strike non compatible with the power base converter?

You probably got ripped. Every game should work with the power base converter except for one of the card games.

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:50 am

janrodricks wrote:I recently discovered the FYE at the local mall has factory sealed PS1 games. Nothing rare, but cool none the less. And some games I want to buy that I never played - like Final Fantasy Tactics. I got the first Spryo again since I got rid of it when I was a kid. EVerything is about 10 dollars too

Never really liked the Spyro games, even though dragons as main characters is cool. It just felt too childish and very derivative (i.e. bad camera angles and lots of pointless collecting. If I was a dragon, I won't let some fat greedy bear push me around make me fork over my money just to open a door, I'd burnt him to a crisp and steal his key.) Too bad most dragon games tend to suck (Draken was pretty cool however, and Cyvern rocks, haven't played Panzer Dragoon series however.) If I designed a dragon game, it wouldn't be a stupid collect-a-ton or a gay flight sim (dragons should not be doing escort missions, unless said escort can fend for themselves real well). Oh well....in on of those moods I guess. Just got off work a while back and let just say work sucks.

janrodricks · Post by **janrodricks** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:12 am

FatCobra wrote:
janrodricks wrote:I recently discovered the FYE at the local mall has factory sealed PS1 games. Nothing rare, but cool none the less. And some games I want to buy that I never played - like Final Fantasy Tactics. I got the first Spryo again since I got rid of it when I was a kid. EVerything is about 10 dollars too
Never really liked the Spyro games, even though dragons as main characters is cool. It just felt too childish and very derivative (i.e. bad camera angles and lots of pointless collecting. If I was a dragon, I won't let some fat greedy bear push me around make me fork over my money just to open a door, I'd burnt him to a crisp and steal his key.) Too bad most dragon games tend to suck (Draken was pretty cool however, and Cyvern rocks, haven't played Panzer Dragoon series however.) If I designed a dragon game, it wouldn't be a stupid collect-a-ton or a gay flight sim (dragons should not be doing escort missions, unless said escort can fend for themselves real well). Oh well....in on of those moods I guess. Just got off work a while back and let just say work sucks.

Yeah, I normally hate the platformers that make you collect shit (Banjo Kazooie and DK64...holy crap), but I've always just liked this game - the art, the music, the levels. Never got into the sequals though.

I really liked Panzer Dragoon Orta for the XBOX. I only played it for a weekend but I thought it was awesome. I also enjoyed the plot alot more than most other games (sides RPGs). It's not exactly the BEST plot, but I thought the way it drew you in and unfolded was very affective and interesting.

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:27 am

janrodricks wrote:Yeah, I normally hate the platformers that make you collect shit (Banjo Kazooie and DK64...holy crap

Never really played DK64, but Banjo, OMG all the shit you had to collect.....the music notes, the jigsaw pieces, those stupid bird-like things....it was unbearable (pun intended). Not to mention Banjo and Kazooie were pretty much the dumbest pair of platform heroes I've ever had the misfortune of controlling. (Ok, Banjo was dumb, and Kazooie tried to be witty.) When I played Conker's Bad Fur Day, I laughed at seeing Banjo's head on the wall and Kazooie made into a parasol. At least Rare had the sense to not put alot of crap for you to collect. All there was cold hard cash that talked trash to you. (Hey dumbass! I'm over here!). I did enjoy the game just simply because Rare had the balls to put such a game on the ugly plastic kid's toy known as the N64. I heard that there's a remake in the works for Xbox?

Speaking of collect-a-ton platformers, why is everyone getting excited about Pyschonauts? Sure, the art style is weird and unqiue, but you're just going to be running around collecting stuff again. Mario 64 ruined platformers forever. I want to go back to the good old days where collecting the coins was optional and if you did get a hundred of them, you got a 1-up.

PaCrappa · Post by **PaCrappa** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 4:48 am

Personally, I think it's weird that I'm the oinly one who gives a rat's ass about bloodflowers' post. What 'find' from 'the wild' could be more 'rare' than that? PSX games? LOL!

Pa

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:49 am

You insulted my 32X!!! OGM I HAET J00!!1!Z

And it's not that I don't care about finding rare cabinets, I don't own any arcade stuff so at the moment I don't have any hope of getting a comparable find. Hopefully soon since I'm getting into supergun stuff, but my city sucks for vintage gaming stuff (as you can see from me being excited to find a freaking 32X)

Post by **system11** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 10:25 am

PaCrappa wrote:
bloodflowers wrote:I went to see an arcade operator a few years ago, to buy a couple of JAMMA boards he didn't want anymore. In the back room, buried behind loads of old juke boxes, was a can with an alien head stuck on top.

I bought it, thought it was some crazy bootleg Galaga, turned out to be the only known surviving example of a Taitan - an official Taito machine which never saw full production, the head being made by the Dean brothers (Psygnosis artwork among other things). It's currently part of the touring Game On exhibition - I sold it to the Barbican art museum.
You win. That is the best find that anyone in attendance at this forum could ever hope to tell about. I'm surprised people are still telling about their miserable little 32X's and such after a post like that. Good lord, you are a hero bloodflowers. Do you have any pictures you could post? That thing sounds seriously cool.

Pa

A page with info typed up from a book on the Deans artwork, plus promo photos, flyer, and a pic of the machine I got the day it arrived.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jamesg22/t ... itans.html

A short page from my cabs collection (most are now gone!), with a photo of how it looked after I'd put the right board in.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jamesg22/cabs/taitan.html

PaCrappa · Post by **PaCrappa** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 6:36 pm

Thanks man! BOLDEST. CABINET. EVAR. That is the sickest thing in the world and I mean that. Easily the coolest thing I've witnessed on the gaming internet in the last five years.

iatneH wrote:You insulted my 32X!!! OGM I HAET J00!!1!Z

And it's not that I don't care about finding rare cabinets, I don't own any arcade stuff so at the moment I don't have any hope of getting a comparable find. Hopefully soon since I'm getting into supergun stuff, but my city sucks for vintage gaming stuff (as you can see from me being excited to find a freaking 32X)

Well, it's not a contest. I'm just shocked that out of umpteen "I found Shaq Fu for under the pop machine at a flea market" and "I got game X for two bucks before it got rare and stuff" here is a guy that found a fucking artifact of the caliber Tutanfuckingkhamen's tomb and not one of these alleged "video gaming enthusiasts" that frequent this forum can be bothered to act like they care. That is some actual rare shit. Go to dictionary.com and look up the meaning of 'rare' please. I really am flabbergasted that noone cares.

Pa

mannerbot · Post by **mannerbot** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 6:43 pm

I care, but the story was just so unbelievable it sounded made-up. Real kick-ass stuff though, I'd be scared to play on that cab with that head staring back at me. I mean, the eyes even light up.. wtfstfu get that thing away from me

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 6:52 pm

i also find this to be an incredible find, coolness on bordering hyperbole. didn't seem worth a post to say it is "the coolest thing ever" when it was so obvious already.

Shazzner · Post by **Shazzner** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 1:14 am

bloodflowers wrote: A page with info typed up from a book on the Deans artwork, plus promo photos, flyer, and a pic of the machine I got the day it arrived.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jamesg22/t ... itans.html

A short page from my cabs collection (most are now gone!), with a photo of how it looked after I'd put the right board in.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jamesg22/cabs/taitan.html

Ha! I remember reading about this a year or so back on some website or something. That's really awesome you managed to find this!

Capt. Takehiko · Post by **Capt. Takehiko** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 7:31 am

Yeah, we have a winner.... I just didn't acknowledge it before because I was kind of doubtful.

My findings aren't rare - just cheap. All my rare stuff was either normally priced or whatever. That cab is so god damn awesome, I want it.

...But I do agree that its pretty scary.

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 7:41 am

bloodflowers wrote:
PaCrappa wrote:
bloodflowers wrote:I went to see an arcade operator a few years ago, to buy a couple of JAMMA boards he didn't want anymore. In the back room, buried behind loads of old juke boxes, was a can with an alien head stuck on top.

I bought it, thought it was some crazy bootleg Galaga, turned out to be the only known surviving example of a Taitan - an official Taito machine which never saw full production, the head being made by the Dean brothers (Psygnosis artwork among other things). It's currently part of the touring Game On exhibition - I sold it to the Barbican art museum.
You win. That is the best find that anyone in attendance at this forum could ever hope to tell about. I'm surprised people are still telling about their miserable little 32X's and such after a post like that. Good lord, you are a hero bloodflowers. Do you have any pictures you could post? That thing sounds seriously cool.

Pa
A page with info typed up from a book on the Deans artwork, plus promo photos, flyer, and a pic of the machine I got the day it arrived.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jamesg22/t ... itans.html

A short page from my cabs collection (most are now gone!), with a photo of how it looked after I'd put the right board in.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jamesg22/cabs/taitan.html

wow. That is so cool. I haven't even found a single arcade machine at a yard sale. Do you still use that cab to play galaga or just SI Part II?

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:08 am

I hate you all for making me feel so inferior with my DS and the Saturn I got for free.

Capt. Takehiko · Post by **Capt. Takehiko** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:22 am

Yeah, free Saturn... YOU SUCK.

Post by **system11** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:42 am

BrianC wrote: wow. That is so cool. I haven't even found a single arcade machine at a yard sale. Do you still use that cab to play galaga or just SI Part II?

I sold it to the Barbican art gallery - they have a touring exhibition called "Game On" - apparently it's due to be at Chicago in September this year, for anyone in that area. It's a good exhibition, everything from Computer Space up to modern machines, old home computers and consoles. I didn't want to sell it, but I needed the money to pay for part of a new car. It was supposed to have SI part 2 in it, so that's what I put in there! The original looming had been left intact by whoever converted it, and they'd made a pretty shoddy adapter to hook up the Galaga bootleg.

Other rarities that have passed through my hands:
Ninja Warriors triple screen, only few known to still exist
Sagaia twin screen, UK built, runs a slightly different level layout to every other version, only 1 known to exist.
Thunderblade sit-down, these never appear in the wild anymore.
Alca "Planet" - Asteroids bootleg with pretty art, only a few known to exist.
Moon Patrol Williams cocktail - unmolested and still with the factory manuals inside. Most were converted into other games.
Juno First - not impossible to find, but very difficult.
Rougien PCB - obscure multi-style shooter that last I checked still isn't emulated. I didn't dump this board because the rom legs looked too weak to remove.

FRO · Post by **FRO** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 2:21 pm

BrianC wrote:
ROBOTRON wrote:I finally found a Sega Genesis Power Base Converter...I also found Power Strike (Compile) and a couple other games...everything works except power strike...the reason I bought the thing in the first place. Did I get ripped, or is Power Strike non compatible with the power base converter?
You probably got ripped. Every game should work with the power base converter except for one of the card games.

Card games I've played work fine (i.e. Transbot). I purchased Bomber Raid to play on the Power Base Converter and it doesn't work either - it wants to move the plane to the top of the screen and won't let you bring it back down. That's the only Master System game I've tried on the PBC that hasn't worked yet. Power Strike may have the same or a similar problem.

8 1/2 · Post by **8 1/2** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 2:36 pm

Bloodflowers, if I'm ever in the UK we're going to go yard-saling together.

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 4:30 pm

Capt. Takehiko wrote:Yeah, free Saturn... YOU SUCK.

My imported Saturn cost me $130...damn shipping.

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 4:41 pm

FRO wrote:
BrianC wrote:
ROBOTRON wrote:I finally found a Sega Genesis Power Base Converter...I also found Power Strike (Compile) and a couple other games...everything works except power strike...the reason I bought the thing in the first place. Did I get ripped, or is Power Strike non compatible with the power base converter?
You probably got ripped. Every game should work with the power base converter except for one of the card games.
Card games I've played work fine (i.e. Transbot). I purchased Bomber Raid to play on the Power Base Converter and it doesn't work either - it wants to move the plane to the top of the screen and won't let you bring it back down. That's the only Master System game I've tried on the PBC that hasn't worked yet. Power Strike may have the same or a similar problem.

Oh. So it's more of a problem with the controls than the game not working at all? From what I heard, some games have a problem with the regular Genesis controllers. I recommend getting some SMS controllers if you don't already have them.

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Bar81 · Post by **Bar81** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:38 am

ROBOTRON wrote:I finally found a Sega Genesis Power Base Converter...I also found Power Strike (Compile) and a couple other games...everything works except power strike...the reason I bought the thing in the first place. Did I get ripped, or is Power Strike non compatible with the power base converter?

Power Strike (both US and Euro) and Power Strike II work fine with the Power Base convertor.

ryosnk · Post by **ryosnk** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 3:20 pm

I just found in a garage sale panzer dragoon saga (japanese version) and three gamecube demos (from store display) all for $10.

fpbrush · Post by **fpbrush** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:27 pm

funny

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FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 3:11 pm

I know this thread is old, but I found something really rare in the pile of NES and SNES carts.....

I found Final Fantasy III for the SNES!!

Accutron · Post by **Accutron** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:53 am

I had to bump this thread because I found a great bargain today...

I'm in Ohio visiting with family, and today I stopped by a used game/movie/music store in Dayton. I only had like $25 on me, picked through the old stuff, grabbed a few cheapies including Thunderspirits and a minty red-label Telegames version of Yars' Revenge. Then I walked over to the PSX games, looked through the pile, nothing spectacular. As I was getting ready to head for the cash register, I spotted another small stack of PSX games that was separate from the rest of them, and right on top was a mint, complete copy of R-Type Delta. At first I didn't see the price sticker, but I figured I'd have to put back the other stuff if I wanted to get it, and even then probably wouldn't be able to afford it. Then I spotted the price...$6.00!

SteevTee · Post by **SteevTee** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 11:32 am

I found these little gems:

All GBP

ICO, in the cardboard roll-fold case, complete with picture cards for 9.99
Freak Out (nice Treasure game) 4.99
Rez 6.99

May not sound too great, but I had been looking for ICO for ages, then as I was looking in the last game shop I knew of, it was there, just catching my eye... heh

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