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I bought King Arthur’s World for the SNES recently. Yesterday I ordered 2 brand new PS2 discs : Mega Man and Mega Man X collections. I also downloaded Castlevania: SotN on my PS3 with some leftover money from giftcards (the games discounted to only $5 for the Halloween).

My friend just gave me his old copy of Sunset Riders for the Super Nintendo for my birthday! He does not ever play his SNES anymore. There’s a short story about that game too!

About 10 years ago when I bought my first SNES (used), I managed to find a copy of TMNT IV (which was wayyyy overpriced). It was a game my friend rented a lot when we were younger. One day we were looking up games on some video games website and we learned about Sunset Riders which reminded us of TMNT IV.

That same day, we went to the local blockbuster-like place but before we got there, we agreed that if Sunset Riders was available for sale, my friend would get to buy it since I already had TMNT IV. Knowing very well that there were basically never any SNES games for sale there (except 1-2 sports game), this agreement didn’t bother me at all. Once inside, we looked at the used games counter and there it was : Sunset Riders for less than five dollars! My friend bought it as we had decided and I was so jealous! What were the odds that this game would be there!

So yeah.. I’m so happy to finally own this game!

Something (almost) amazing just happened to me at the flea market!

A few years ago, my roommate who was really into RPGs told me to try Chrono Trigger because he knew I liked the Super Nintendo so much but I was not that much into the genre back then. I tried the game and loved it instantly. Since then I’ve been searching for RPGs that give me a similar feeling and I have found very few (Phantasy Star IV and Suikoden II are the closest contenders so far in my opinion).

So I’ve wanted Chrono Trigger for a couple years already but I thought the game was too expensive to buy so I never did. I liked the game so much that I even bought the Super Famicom cartridge just to ”have” the game in my collection. The SFC cart was about $5.

Lately I’ve seriously been thinking about buying the actual North American release of Chrono Trigger for the Super Nintendo. I had seen the game go for about $130-$140 in my area and for about $100 online (before shipping, tax and Canadian dollar conversion). Today I decided to go to a few stores located at the closest flea market and buy the game at any given price if the cartridge was in good condition.

I went to my favorite store, the owner didn’t have it. I went to a second store, the game was priced at $130 and the label was horrible. At the third store (usually the one with the most expensive prices) I found the game for $140 and it was in pretty decent shape! I thought : “fuck it, I’m getting it this time”.

I asked the old lady at the counter if I could check the game and asked her if I could exchange other games for Chrono Trigger and I’d pay the difference with cash. She said yes. Luckily, I had thought of bringing my SFC copy of Chrono Trigger with me just in case I could trade it. I was going to let the SFC game go for about $5 because I just wanted to get rid of it if I was to buy the NTSC version of the game.

So while talking to the lady, I turn around (with my SFC Chrono Trigger in the pocket of my coat) and point at the couple SFC games they had and say : “The game I have to trade is a japanese game like this…” AND this is where the amazing part begins! I spot a SFC copy of Chrono Trigger priced at $60 and point it at the lady while showing her my own copy of the game. She then said she could “ONLY” give me $35 for my SFC game.. $35!!! Clearly she was not the owner of the store and didn’t know shit about game prices. So I casually said like “Yeah okay, whatever, I just wanted to get rid of it since I’m buying the much more expensive american version of the game”.

So i went to the counter to pay, gave her my SFC copy along with three $1 store coupon I had and paid the rest with cash.

>>TLDR : In the end I paid $102 Canadian dollars for a copy of Chrono Trigger at the local flea market where everything is ALWAYS wayyyyy overpriced. (That is about $80 USD). So yeah.. not that much of a deal.. but still a preeeeeetttttyy good deal compared to what I was gonna pay cause I NEEDED the freaking game.

Haha, wow! That is quite a break! Hard to come by a reasonably priced SNES RPG these days, so at least you got a little discount. Worth shelling out some dough if you REALLY wanted it, and you did. Nice buy.

I picked up a few inexpensive games from a local game store (Pink Gorilla), and the one I paid the most for was Capcom Classics Collection Remixed for the PSP. After playing it the last few days, I feel like I got a ton of value out of those 15 bucks. Some of the shoot’em-ups you can do in vertical screen mode, so you get more of the “full effect” when playing them. Just one of many nice little perks they threw in, on top of having some quality arcade games that never came out on console.

Oh nice, Ghost! Been on the look out for that golf game since I read about it somewhere on these forums!

Lot of good stuff in there. Looks like it might have set you back quite a bit of money, with that SMBRPG. Did it?

Yeah, I’d say Darkwing Duck is harder than the rest of the Capcom Disney games. Still fun, though, and great jazzy soundtrack.

Nice price on the SMBRPG, all told!

You know, I have to admit ignorance here, because I haven’t played that much of Tailspin. It felt like a game that could run into some design flaws because of the gameplay style. Is it stupid-hard?

It had been a while since I added any games to my SNES collection! Prices are getting quite insane these days, aren’t they? So I finally got my hands on UN Squadron and Street Fighter II Turbo!

Been trying to get into shooters lately.. Unfortunately all the best ones are out of my price range or supposedly have lag issues. The only shooter I already had was Gaiares on the Genesis.. (and maybe Cybernator on the SNES [?]).

I also already had the original SF2 on the SNES and the Special Champion Edition on the Genesis but I wanted a great (the best?) SNES version too!