Got Pokémon Sapphire in great condition for $3 from a friend once.

You must have turned me into a metapod, because I just used harden
Edit: Oh, you mean't buying video games not pick up lines, I will see myself out.

Quote from: Keoni29 on January 05, 2013, 03:44:06 pm

Start:

€20,- (€10 discount)
Snes, controllers and power supply in near mint condition. The games are complete and the Secret of Evermore came in a large box with a detailed strategy guide/artbook.

Nice!!! I never saw that version of the SNES before.

I got Ultima V for PC MSDOS for $1 -- originally $70 in 1988.

Both the Japanese and European SNES look similar. Only the American one is different (for those who never saw one here is how the 1991 one looked like:



And the 1997 one:



My best game pickups were

-Secret of Mana back in 2001, because it had the official strategy guide in mint condition and the instruction manual/cartridges in decent condition. It had no box, though.
-F-Zero 1997 re-release (the million seller box), still factory-sealed. I bought it in 2009 and I have yet to open it (I already have another F-Zero copy which is the original and already opened, and according to various factory sealing doc, my copy appears to be legit. If it isn't, then the box is surely in great condition anyway and I got it for kinda cheap).
-Zelda: ALttP in French, which was very rare in North America
-Final Fantasy II and III  (not rare but in such high demand that sometimes they're still quite pricey)
-Dragon Warrior 4 NES
-Sega Dreamcast (those things are so hard to find nowadays here >.<)
-All 4 Star Ocean games. Sadly for the 1st I have the PSP version, not the original, but it's still kinda great.
-All other Final Fantasy RPGs. Even if some are still recent, they get harder and harder to find it seems and the PS1 copies we have are mostly original ones, not the Greatest Hits copies.

NEVER EVER SELL A POPULAR CONSOLE RPG! You'll never be able to find it again later and if you do, you'll usually pay far more for it than you sold your original copy for. I learned this lesson when I sold Star Ocean 2 PS1 and Mario RPG. Even Final Fantasy 13 is hard to find today.

If Ultima was this expensive in 1988, imagine with inflation how much it would have been today if games didn't decrease in value over time

Also nice to see you around again t0xic_kitt3n

The other one actually came with Super Mario World 2. I only ever saw it at Walmart, though.

This:

and this

For €4,-

Also: A box full of random joysticks and cables and two NES: €15,- I sold the random crap for €15 and I traded the second NES for a commodore 64!