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Resident_Hazard on 03 September 2008

The most I ever spent on a used game was $45. During the 32/64-bit days, I picked up SNES Final Fantasy III (VI) and it came in it's box with the instruction manual.

The most I paid for a new game was an embarrasing $70 for Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire when it was new. That game was hard as hell to find at that time, I could only find it at Shopko, and they were charging premium price for the thing.



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Xen on 03 September 2008

$1000? lol



iamfanboy on 03 September 2008
Resident_Hazard said:
I collect based on what's available, what I'm looking for and how much money I have at the time.

If I can get a good deal on a game with case/box and manual, then I go for it.

Most of my Genesis games are lacking their cases, except for Forgotten Worlds (a truly awesome game), and they're all lacking manuals.

I do, strangely enough, have manuals for two of my 6 Atari 2600 games: Combat and Defender.

My coolest is that I have the original Dragon Warrior (American name of Dragon Quest) for the NES with it's box (somewhere), it's instruction manual, it's map, it's "starters" guide book, and information card that all came with the game.

Hi friend :)

Those were the good old days when you could get something for free.  My gf got it free for being a subscriber to Nintendo Power at the time.  

I almost forgot, I got four Wiimote condoms for free through their site.

 



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Maynard_Tool on 03 September 2008

:O damn....a really expensive hobby.



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Commando on 03 September 2008

I have F-Zero and Legend of Zelda:Link to the Past Factory Sealed!



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iamfanboy on 03 September 2008
pichu_pichu said:
I would never ever sell any of my games whether it's good or bad... I keep everything from the box to the instruction manuals that come with the game. It even hurts me to rip the transparent sheet when I have to open them ;-;

I'm thinking about selling my Mario 3 game.  I got it at launch (still in mint condition), however, my parents bought me another NES near the end of the NES days and at it came bundled with Mario 3.  I never opened the second copy.... it's worth hundreds now :)

I hate those seals... I spent so much time carefully removing them.   It pissed me off so much when I accidentally removed some of the print on the packaging.  

 



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iamfanboy on 03 September 2008
Xen said:
$1000? lol

Perhaps you should take a look at the other links I provided ;)

 



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DaSimkin on 03 September 2008

I do collect them, I rarely if ever sell my used games. Even if I never plan to play them again.

But I would never buy games and leave them in the package, ffs I usually can't wait till i get home and start opening the game in the car while stopped at red lights/waiting for that train that ALWAYS seems to be there when I'm going home with a new game.



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BottledSpringWater on 03 September 2008
Commando said:
I have F-Zero and Legend of Zelda:Link to the Past Factory Sealed!

 

Whoa, that's money right there bro!



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Resident_Hazard on 03 September 2008
iamfanboy said:
Resident_Hazard said:
I collect based on what's available, what I'm looking for and how much money I have at the time.

If I can get a good deal on a game with case/box and manual, then I go for it.

Most of my Genesis games are lacking their cases, except for Forgotten Worlds (a truly awesome game), and they're all lacking manuals.

I do, strangely enough, have manuals for two of my 6 Atari 2600 games: Combat and Defender.

My coolest is that I have the original Dragon Warrior (American name of Dragon Quest) for the NES with it's box (somewhere), it's instruction manual, it's map, it's "starters" guide book, and information card that all came with the game.

Hi friend :)

Those were the good old days when you could get something for free.  My gf got it free for being a subscriber to Nintendo Power at the time.  

I almost forgot, I got four Wiimote condoms for free through their site.

 

When I was a kid, I convinced my Mom to subscribe the library she worked at (she was in charge) to Nintendo Power.  She got Dragon Warrior for free and gave it to me. 

I still have the manual, box, and map that came with my original gold NES Zelda.  Unfortunately, the map is not mint since, as a kid, I drew out the rest of the overworld in the parts of the map that weren't filled in.