Golden NES find

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Every now and then, I am blessed with a great find. When I lived in Florida, it was nothing to go to the flea market in Daytona or Sanford and pick up original Nintendo games on the cheap. But since I moved up here to Illinois, everyone tries to price gouge the games.

Today as I picked my children up, I stumbled across awesomeness. I picked them up at my babysitter's church and they were preparing for a rummage sale for charity. Thanks to this, Blaster Master, Castlevania 3, Paperboy and Life Force are now added to my collection. Total cost - $2.00. That's right....50 cents a piece. Might not mean much to some of you, but I know all you NES faithful can relate to the awesomeness of this.
 
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Every now and then, I am blessed with a great find. When I lived in Florida, it was nothing to go to the flea market in Daytona or Sanford and pick up original Nintendo games on the cheap. But since I moved up here to Illinois, everyone tries to price gouge the games.

Today as I picked my children up, I stumbled across awesomeness. I picked them up at my babysitter's church and they were preparing for a rummage sale for charity. Thanks to this, Blaster Master, Castlevania 3, Paperboy and Life Force are now added to my collection. Total cost - $2.00. That's right....50 cents a piece. Might not mean much to some of you, but I know all you NES faithful can relate to the awesomeness of this.
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Found a similar deal here in Colorado Springs for some SNES games at about 75 cents apeice. That was kind of my console growing up.

Nice btw
 
gj 2 both side & landry on the finds!!! i really never go shopping for that stuff. (not even sure where the nearest flea market is round here).
 
Hm, the other games I'm not familiar with, but I played Paper Boy quite often when I was a wee lad.
 
Side said:
Today as I picked my children up, I stumbled across awesomeness. I picked them up at my babysitter's church and they were preparing for a rummage sale for charity. Thanks to this, Blaster Master, Castlevania 3, Paperboy and Life Force are now added to my collection. Total cost - $2.00. That's right....50 cents a piece. Might not mean much to some of you, but I know all you NES faithful can relate to the awesomeness of this.
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I remember being so excited to play Life Force when it first came out. I had read about the game so much prior to picking it up. I sat down and played through it twice in one night. Blaster Master is one of those games that I picked up, played a bit, reached some impossibly hard part, then never played it again. I've been meaning to download it and play through it on an emulator.

My friends and I loved to find the more obscure action/adventure NES titles. We didn't play just any obscure title. We wanted the ones that were actually good, but never got much hype. Some of our favorites were Low-G-Man, Conquest of the Crystal Palace, Faxanadu, and my all-time favorite Clash at Demonhead.

Man, thinking about those games takes me waaaaay back...
 
Dang, I payed a dollar for each of my NES games :P
 
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when I was a kid I was riding my bike back from the convenience store and saw something in the middle of the 4 way intersection and I ran out there and found Ninja Gaiden 1&2!!
I still have them with the tire tracks on them and everything.
I'm dead serious too that was the coolest thing I ever found as a kid:P
 
man the nes. that sure brings up some great memories. i used to play that thing for years. it was awsome. i loved that system. it ruled. so many fantastic games. sadly i no longer have my nes. i do have emulators and roms though :)
 
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