Just found a NES Top Loader and 10 games at a garage sale ..

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I finally found an NES Top Loader at a reasonable price after looking
for quite a while. We had our community garage sale today and I walked
around to check out what everyone else had for sale while Laura sold
our junk. I saw a table with some NES games for $1.00 each and then
looked next to them and saw the holy grail of NES collecting, a top
loader NES! They wanted $20 for the NES or $25 for the NES plus 8
games and a cleaning kit. Well, I didn't have any cash on me and since
$25 is high in the garage sale world, I figured I'd let it sit for an
hour or so and see if I could get it cheaper. Now, I know these go for
$50-75 on Ebay but I love a bargain.

Anyway, some time passes and I decide to walk back over. They've
marked the games plus the NES down to $15 for the whole lot, so I grab
it up. I got the NES deck, AC adapter, RF adaptor, dog bone
controller, NES controller, two head cleaners with solution and
attachments, the instruction manual for the NES, an NES storage tray,
and 10 games in their black NES sleeves. The games are Tetris, Dr.
Mario, Caesars Palace, Pinball, Wheel of Fortune, Othello, Casino Kid,
Jeopardy! Junior Edition, Super Mario Bros., and Super Mario Bros. 3.
The lady said the unit belonged to her daughter, which makes sense
based on the game selection. My wife likes the same sort of games as
do a lot of female gamers I have met. Luckily, those are some of my
favorite games as well, and I'd say there's only about 10 or 15 more
games that I'll have to pick up on Ebay. I already had Castlevania and
Back to the Future that I picked up on Ebay a few years back, knowing
I'd eventually get an NES again.

So I got a Top Loader NES, accessories, and 10 great games for $15.
Can anyone beat that? I need to go to more garage sales.


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"Rictor" <rictor99@gmail.com> once tried to test me with:

> So I got a Top Loader NES, accessories, and 10 great games for $15.
> Can anyone beat that?

Yeah. I can play all the NES games on my PC using an emulator. Why would I
want to go to all the trouble to hook up a real one?

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> World Championships '90 cart for $1.

From where? Sorry but I find this hard to believe. The last grey one went
for around $6000 on ebay!