I Am, in Fact, Alive

I suppose every blog needs one of those, “Man, I sure haven’t updated this in a while,” posts and well… a lot of life happened in the past year or so. For instance, this find was across Michigan on my honeymoon, so yeah, big change.

Paid basically top dollar for everything – close to $100 on the lot – but got some oddball Master System games I’ve never seen in person, a weirdly uncommon Madden, and a replacement cart as my GBC Rampage gave up on life.

Gift Carded

A gift card pickup from a local game store and eBay. Down to nine games to go for a complete US Game Gear set now!

Conman

$20 at a local game store for this minor haul. Nothing special, but filling in collection holes.

Using All My Luck

Sure to be the best garage sale find of the year, these were $20 total. They are all 100% complete. I’ve never seen this many in one location, even dating myself back to the late ’90s when I started collecting.

Admire My Cart Stacking Skills

Hey, that couch arm slants back. This wasn’t an easy pic. Anyway, this was paid for with trade-in, and I got to check off one of the only Ninja Turtles games I was missing. Also excited to never get past the first level of Back to the Future III.

Chi-Town Hunt

No, I haven’t stopped collecting. However, the process of moving has dwindled both time and budget as I start making room for what I already have. Buuuut, on a trip to Chicago this past weekend, I stopped in a game store and grabbed these oddities. Paid $100 for the lot which is way, way more than I usually would, but it was a vacation, Vectrex/3DO/Jaguar games aren’t seen often, and I had some spending cash.

A Wonderful Christmas Time

The annual Christmas haul has brought me within 10 games of a complete US Game Gear collection. Time to start working on the rest as I can.

Aging Into Atari

A random stop into a DVD Transfer store led to this surprising find. They were on a shelf and were only $2 each. Not going to ask how or why, nor do I care.

It’s a Fun House

Normally I wouldn’t pay up for Intellivision stuff, but I’d never seen a boxed Loco Motion and decided to grab it from a local game store. Krusty’s Fun House now puts me ever closer to a complete US Game Gear set. I’m now 16 games away.

Intelligent [Sealed] Vision

A now super rare vintage gaming find at Goodwill. Most of these go straight to their online auction house. But, here we have five factory sealed Intellivision games priced at $6 a piece. Solid deal.