I'll go ANYWHERE to make a deal! (Live Video Game Hunting)

[@TominoCabana]

Sometimes the more sketchy it is, the better the deal.

[@retrorick]

so true...i have seen that be the case multiple times!

[@corymulvey3117]

I can vouch for this as well

[@josephwaul6137]

PS2 Hagrid!

[@eclipsetradingcorp.8107]

Its an awesome learning experience too!

[@CertifiedHuSTLer]

If u onnnnnlyyyyy new lol

[@johnf198207]

Had one of my best pick ups a couple hours ago: factory sealed Donkey Kong Jungle Beat on the GameCube for a whopping $3.25 at the Salvation Army!

[@bensstuff4363]

:0

[@WarBunderStinx]

:[]

[@yoshifan1239]

:o

[@ViktorErikFade]

Dang........ GG I only hope once I start hunting for games as there is always a market for them I'll find amazing deals like this

[@liampreyer6607]

Alright so last month I helped a family friend move and they had some video games they wanted to give me I just thought it would be a game or something I was wrong. I got a trunk with a PlayStation 3, a Sega Genesis with Sega CD, and games for both

[@retrorick]

oh dang....you were def at the right place at the right time!

[@jacobjohnson9739]

@@retrorick agreed

[@MrAndresm900]

That sketchy clip quickly reminded me of the movie Wrong Turn 😭😭 Me personally, if you smoke around any collection it's automatically worth 50% of what it's current value is, but hey that's just me 🤷‍♂️

[@alexheisler6900]

I found a stack of Gamecube games at the Goodwill bins for $5 for all.

[@retrorick]

holy crap...what a find!

[@sipfromthehourglass]

I'm jelly! That's awesome :)

[@Drgames999]

My goodwill bins even if you find the loose discs in a bin still charge you 5 each so lucky you👍

[@GeneralMalice]

Because of you I have been doing the 10$ game challenge for myself the past 3 months. Im up to 500 games, countless consoles, but my best find have been a open 1 time snes completely intact in box all inserts and a ps1 7501 complete in the box open and played once. I've been filming. Its so fun... ty ty

[@rbourgoine1]

I just found Mario Kart double dash at a goodwill! So surprised it was still there.

[@retrorick]

ive found one there too but it was years ago!

[@itskennyjohnson]

A couple of months ago, I found Pikmin 2 and Zelda Ocarina of Time for the Gamecube. In the same store!

[@pizzafan823]

:O

[@TheMonsterkid1447]

In the past week, I traded a CR1616 battery for CIB Avatar Into the Inferno, Sonic Riders Zero Gravity, and Tony Hawk American Wasteland (all PS2). A couple months ago I picked up an original red Game Gear complete with some new sealed games, Japanese exclusives, and a bunch of other miscellaneous games. Thanks for introducing me to this new hobby!

[@TrentonBlessWrestlemania489]

You want a great pickup? I go to this one GameStop next to my work all the time. I found a copy of Super Mario Land for the Game Boy in one of their cases in the back. I had to have it, and I used some coupons that were about to expire and got the game for like $5. I don't know who is giving Game Boy games to this GameStop, but I thank them for it!

[@KentRoads]

"What games does it come with" 'Yes' I hate dealing with people like that on FB

[@TheRetroWorld]

Those sketchy deals end up being so good sometimes!

[@mattscola6073]

Left that PGA Tour game on the shelf in the Pawn Shop... selling for like $40 on Ebay. Augusta Version.

[@AliStClair-lv5kr]

Dude you just described everything I deal with where I live. To go to Walmart we drive 45min away and an hour and a half if you want to go to the mall. Lol I've always lived in the middle of nowhere.

[@itskennyjohnson]

Last weekend I bought a PS2 Slim at Goodwill for only $15! And it has Star Wars Battlefront II in the disc drive!

[@retrorick]

oh heck yes!! Thats a great find Kenny

[@itskennyjohnson]

@@retrorick Haha thanks!

[@mikecole6208]

My best recent flips have been a WWF Survivor Series DVD. Paid 50¢ sold for $29 Breaking Bad Complete series on Blu Ray. Paid 50¢ sold for $40 Test Drive: Eve of Destruction for Xbox. Paid 50¢ sold for $29 Love the channel Rick!

[@rhino6431]

A local rental store was going out of business so they were selling games for 3 for $10 xbox one and ps4 games. It was a steal

[@nightwheel]

Take cartridges apart for a careful cleaning, and reassemble them. Then stuff them in a ziploc bag with a handful of dryer sheets for a week or two. That should take care of the smoker smell.

[@clint125]

“I have never seen this before “ when rick is talking about rumble roses after he buys it . 😏😂

[@JopieHaargel]

The yellowed controller looks to only have a discolored front, so a thorough clean and retrobrighting might restore it. If the yellowing was due to smoking, the back would be affected too. Also, to get tobacco smell off of plastic, soak it in vinegar for a few days and top that off with a lowest temp cycle in the dish washer. Source: second hand Lego. (Not recommended for stickered parts though, if you wanna keep those labels... 😕)

[@joshcoppo5775]

I found a boxed N64 last week for $20 Aussie as it wasn’t working, pulled it apart, cleaned it, and it works a charm! Was pretty chuffed!

[@TelespielTobi]

You can easily replace the wobbling N64 stick. Replacements are available for cheap money on eBay. Please DONT spray paint the grey controller. You can unscrew the shell, clean it thoroughly with soapy water and then bleach with H2O2. It‘ll look like new! Cheers, Tobi

[@_loveableidiot]

hard to believe we're already at 30+ episodes- I found and subscribed when there were like 10 episodes. One of my favorite video series on KZbin!

[@Dogsport1]

I’d probably swap sticks from the “smoke gold” controller to the red one, then sell the red one as good and the other as “for parts”.

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

I would try retrobriting the yellow one, might work and H2O2 isn't that expensive.

[@garrettterwilleger901]

Ocarina of time def my fav that you picked up. My fav n64 game ever. I feel so nostalgic every time I see a copy. Gonna get my hands on one soon even if I have to pay full price!

[@Oneightyproductions]

Just scored a great deal this weekend: Mario Kart Wii, Wii Sports Resort and Wii Fit for $10 TOTAL!!!! Although the Wii Fit has little values, I turned the other two around for $30 a piece.

[@quackstonhale4757]

If the stick on that gross yellow controller is good, you could swap the internals with the red controller and have a good red controller and a donor controller. Great video Rick!

[@michaelsanner3374]

Last week I found the original black label Silent Hill on the Playstation for $1.99. Disc is in immaculate condition, as is the manual, very little blemishes on case. A game shop just down the road has a copy in their showcase for a whopping $106. Not a bad find!

[@jackgreen7342]

In September I found megman x collection for the ps2 at a value village. Then at my favourite game store, microplay, i got soul caulibur 3, medal of honor vangaurd, resident evil 4 and spongebob revenge of the flying dutchman. Those were my best recent game pickups.

[@calebkayyy1270]

I havent had too many good game finds recently but a few months ago I had my best finds ever back to back. I went to a pawn shop and picked up 3 comics for $25 after being clearanced down from $100. It was Giant Size Xmen #1, werewolf by night #32(first app moon night), and daredevil #132(first app bullseye). Im shocked that those books were still sitting there after a whole year considering that they are worth at least $2000 graded. The next day at goodwill I found Rtype Delta, Castlevania SOTN, and street fighter alpha 3 for .99 a piece. I also got a bunch of other good games there but those were the highlights in the lot.

[@calebkayyy1270]

Sorry for the long comment lol. Just wanted to flex my best finds ;)

[@andysauro1500]

Hey Rick! Can you do an update next week displaying the entire $10 Game Collection up until this point? It'd be cool to see what all you own now piece-by-piece after starting with $10! :)

[@contrakai4059]

I found a lot of 4 Panasonic 3do games at a thrift store for $0.65. It was the start of the $10 game challenge for my Xbox Series X that I am picking up tomorrow. Can't wait. Your sketchy adventure sounds like the plot of a really bad B-movie. All joking aside, glad you are okay and it ended up being on the up and up. Stay safe brother.

[@brandenjohnson]

This weekend, stopped in a secondhand store that almost never has anything good. Found minty, complete copies of Ys I & II Premium and Ys Oath Premium (PSP) for about $20 each. Together they're easily worth over $300... Couldn't believe it.

[@goodcommunitylife]

At my local Goodwill, they don’t sell video games. As for the other stores, I have found a lot of Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS games, especially from The Salvation Army thrift store and other thrift stores as well!

[@sipfromthehourglass]

I was the first one at an estate sale and found some mint complete 64 games. Zelda Ocarina of Time, DK 64, Toy Story 2, and Banjo Kazooie 😍

[@paceeilers2253]

I got Tetris party Deluxe for the Wii and Mario super sluggers for $2 each at a garage sale. Mario super sluggers is pretty good but Tetris party is one of my new favorite party games to play with friends.

[@FuturisticSwag405]

I would’ve not brought that backpack inside my house. Should have left outside for couple days lol. Could have roaches.

[@oakley568]

Two things: 1. Haven’t found anything lately, but been selling off my GameCube collection because I got a GC Loader. 2. My favorite game in that lot definitely is Diddy Kong racing...played that so much more than MK64, but I do love MK64 too. Great video too and glad you made it back ok!

[@pabluz9489]

Well I think one of my best pickups recently was a ps1 lot. 80 euros for a playstation 1, 2 controllers, 2 memory cards, tomb raider 1, tomb raider 2, tomb raider chronicles, tomb raider the last revelation, final fantasy 8 and 9, dead or alive 1, resident evil 1, grand turismo 1 and lastly tomb raider angel of darkness for the ps2. That lot brought me a lot of nostalgia for one of the systems i played the most during my childhood

[@jakek5152]

I picked up a copy of Futurama for PS2 for $5 at a pawn shop it sold on eBay for $146.50! That was a great pickup I had got. I really enjoy your videos man.

[@DoYouNerd]

Rick, you were fine--I went back to the footage of you down that dirty road doing the shady deal and never once did I hear banjos, so you were safer than you thought. LOL Oh man, it hurts with how filthy this stuff is...but I won't lie--we've been there too...Especially to pick up some of these games in the lot, totally worth it (so long as they're all working of course).

[@jeffwilliams881]

My best game pickup was at a Goodwil one day a while back, I found Mario Kart Double Dash, Zelda Twilight Princess for Wii, and Sonic Mega Collection for gamecube. And like 8 others that weren't as great. It was a great day!

[@HyphyGold]

I can smell the smoke and feel the residue on that stuff lol. Have picked up plenty in similar condition lmao

[@wasatchpop]

My best recent pickups...got Nba Street vol 2, SSX tricky, and 007 Nightfire for the gamecube for $9

[@Snivy102]

Facebook Marketplace is truly a warzone. I found a SNES console and games with a Chrono Trigger for $60 and offered $70. Even though I'm usually first to message for these deals (because I made an app that scrapes Facebook Marketplace), I offered to etransfer $70 right away if they could hold it for me. I etransfered the $70, but ended up having to pay $50 more because the seller got several offers of $200+. I was bummed that I had to pay more even though we had already agreed to the $70 that I etransfered, but $120 is still a great deal for an SNES bundle with 11 good games and a Chrono Trigger. (Canadian prices btw)

[@swupetey05]

One day at lunch last month, I found 4 n64 games sitting at the thrift (they werent there when I walked in but got sat out while I was looking around) Lego Racers,Wave Race,Mickey Speedway and Namco Museum - $3 apiece... then either later that week or early the next week I found a n64 in an n64 branded carrying case, one controller, a memory pak & had the expansion pak in it for $40 total at the same thrift store. I literally stepped in there when I left work and only had $10 min due to having to pick up my kids. It was in the front case.

[@joelsinn9302]

That Tony Hawk game reminds me of garage sailing for games back in the day, it was not uncommon for me to find new release movies for a few bucks. That was even back the the day when Blockbuster and Movie gallery were still around. It was almost like people were just buying DVD's to watch once.

[@JBowkz]

I recently found a copy of Boom Blox (Wii) for a $1 at a video game that was going out of business. It isn’t worth a lot but it’s a fun game I don’t hear people talk about much

[@propicker]

Boom Blox is definitely an underrated wii title.

[@Phil_is_it]

You can de-yellow the controller, I know that odd tinkering on youtube has a video about it.

[@TheFlippinDad]

Not a game, but I got this Nick Jr vhs that I sold for $40 on eBay. Got it for $0.25 at a flea market

[@jakedominguez952]

My most recent Facebook marketplace find was one to remember. Paid $40 for everything and got 10 complete in box sega Genesis game valued at $178. This included: Golden Axe, Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle, Altered Beast, Power Monger, Last Battle, Sonic the Hedgehog, World Championship Soccer, Choplifter, Super Volleyball and Coach K College Basketball. Not bad🤙🏼

[@ScottsRetroCollectables]

I absolutely love the $10 game collection videos!! Your setup is amazing too. Please continue to entertain the world with your amazing footage! Gotta love a Facebook market place score too! If you are after anything from the UK let me know, happy to source for you. God bless

[@johnconner7813]

If you can get concentrated peroxide (beauty supplies stores ) you can use that fix the stains on plastic like that and the discolor of old plastic

[@Topdaug831]

Bro!! I remember that n64 lot for $30!! About a month ago. I tried getting it too but price kept changing. Lol. Crazy!!

[@dimmaswitch]

There’s a KZbin channel that restores yellowed Nintendo products called ODD TINKERING. Super satisfying to watch and does an excellent job! Just another option for you instead of spray painting the controller!

[@tylerisgreen001]

Game finds have been slim to none for the last few weeks. I can't think of any games I've picked up in the last 2 weeks.

[@retrorick]

dang that is a bummer Tyler

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

Yea, same here. Corvid got us good. Numbers are so high that I am not hunting at the moment. I skipped flea markets almost completely this year (way too many idiots that refues to wear masks).

[@liesureleeminis8268]

Spec ops the line is easily one of my absolute favorite third person military shooters. Absolutely amazing!

[@TECuber99]

Nothing really good lately but the best thing i found was a Japanese import of Star Wars for Famicom. I paid 50 for it CIB because I knew it was rare and I'm a Superfan of Star Wars. I went home and saw it had just sold for almost 300 dollars on eBay more than 5 times in the past few days!

[@doormatter20]

The n64 smokers lung edition lol. But cool stuff as always.

[@samtheelf7]

Picked up an entire ps2 collection, an atari 7800, Sega Genesis games, and super nintendo games in a trade. A sealed copy of persona 3 fes was in there's and controller to a rare bally astrocade was in there. That controller isn't worth much but I didn't even know bally made a system till trying to research it.

[@retrobro61]

The Goodwill near me has been cleaned out as of lately. I was able to trade in some shovelware Wii games the other day and picked up Short Order/Eggsplode on the NES. Game says it uses the power pad, so looking forward to pulling it out and trying it.

[@sufymcfly1642]

You can remove the yellow with 12% hydrogen peroxide and UV light. It’ll take half to maybe a full day to remove the yellowing. Maybe be a good video trying to remove it.

[@spencernadeau]

My best game haul as of late was at Value Village where I got 7 PS2 games for $4 cad each. Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance, Burnout 3 Takedown, God of War, GTA Vice City, Myst 3 Exile, Ratchet & Clank and Soul Calibur II.

[@jessewarren9177]

Some of the best deals I have ever gotten have been from asking at yard sales and extremely sketchy places and people

[@susanshutler8751]

Get yourself some disposable gloves. Yoy can use them for a lot of different things such as cleaning. Here's a tip... Go to a beauty supply place like Sally and get a box of them usedfor hair dying.

[@allthisforasong1200]

This channel is SO CLOSE to being perfect! All it lacks is the great music of the 80s!

[@fossil-bit8439]

Some people pawn off stuff because they are horrible with money. My old neighbor was in a GameStop trading in a PS4 controller and they gave him like $10 cash and he took it. They didn’t have money to buy a mower to cut their grass or money to feed their kids. He was always asking neighbors to borrow a lawnmower and their kids would bother people in the neighborhood during dinner hours asking for food. But you damn well better believe they had money to smoke weed every freaking day... I’m so glad I moved.

[@tonymiranda917]

Unfortunately for me, Goodwills in my area charge Price Charting Prices for games and the weather now is changing making yard sales and garage sales vanish. So I try to pay attention to Facebook but most people seem to know what games are worth these days. So my hunting has stalled for the most part until spring.

[@Topdaug831]

I met an older lady today that gave me about 10 complete sega genesis games with cases and manuals for free. One of the games is worth $250. I think it’s streets of rage 3. I’m in NLR Rick. I want a meet and greet.

[@ezekiel244]

Last good pickup i got was a Wii lot on fb marketplace for $70 and the value was over $200. It was listed for a few hours which surprised me but listing was in spanish so i messaged them in spanish and i think that was the deciding factor. My spanish has honestly helped me out quite a bit while game hunting!

[@williamsamargis6582]

I used to work at a pawn shop and yea they never gave much money for games we were told to not give anymore than 5 dollars for each game. People would give us their first party switch games for $5 each and it would baffle me lol.

[@BlueStateRedHeart]

I am a young teenager but my parents are older and they love retro stuff so i grew up loveing that stiff to and playing woth it we still have plug in games and an Atari rember myself playing rockem sockem robots

[@Psychopat002]

1 - I'm in Canada and never had to worry about getting to other people's house I just typically do the deals on the porch. But MY rule is I never meet at my house unless it's a well known friend from my collector's club. I'm afraid of sketchy people having my adress and knowing I collect games. 2 - From my 15 years experience ANYTHING can be sold! clean those controllers, change the stick on the red one (replacements are cheap on ebay) price them accordingly and you will get rid of them!

[@KyleEvans09]

Sweet pick up and great tip for FB marketplace. I just picked up a huge random lot on tmnt 90’s playsets and figures. They wanted $100 I offered $150 and got it. Technodrome, News van, school bus + much more. Super stoked about it.

[@danlenihan2706]

I’m not finding many games these days... but I did pick up a Wii with 2 remotes. 2 nunchucks and 2 classic controllers for $25 and a PS2 fat with 2 controllers tested for $40 at my local thrift store. Knew the Wii was a score and think I did ok on the PS2 as well. I’ve been seeing them at that price and higher online.

[@NARC.1]

Glad you made it out alive!

[@kendallwong6959]

Lolol “RETOspect” - you should do a series with that title where you just share old stories about game hunting or give your option about retro stuff. 😂🎉

[@niagarajoe4402]

Decent deal on the n64 stuff.....made me laugh because it made me think of collectors luck....”can you please delete the ad”.......so people don’t tell them what their stuff is worth haha

[@Gunit-xd1ll]

I bought 3 video game and console lots from an online auction for a great price and there was a sealed need for speed PS2 game, sold on ebay for $119, and a Simpsons Xbox game I sold for $42.

[@ValkyrieRetro]

Rick I can't believe you bought that! If it's from a smokers home no way! Hahaha. At least where was some good games in there

[@niagarajoe4402]

I found 4 different “Silent Hill” games at one Salvation Army thrift store.....someone’s mother must have donated their collection lol....because I got a silver ps2 slim...and a gameboy Color that had 5 games with it.....

[@wadenisley3414]

My best find I’ve had recently was I found Worms Armageddon for the N64 for $20 at a pawn shop. He said he prices all his games off eBay pricing lol I caught him slipping bad.

[@CincyGameHunting]

MAG is an online-only game and the servers have been shut off I believe, so it pretty much is a paper weight. So you dodged a bullet on that one... When it comes to that Facebook marketplace deal, you are braver then I my friend. That was some Deliverance stuff right there... haha. I laughed so hard when you gloved up to do the pickup video, bust out the Clorox wipes. I came across a Simpsons Hit and Run on Gamecube just this evening for $4 at goodwill. That's probably my best pickup in the last week. Enjoyed the episode as always, have a great week!!!

[@miggle]

I haven't been out to hunt much, but a bit ago I got a lot of some good N64 games with their manuals all for less of their average value online! Got Pokemon Snap, Ocarina of Time, and Mario Party like that!

[@retrorick]

i love Pokemon snap!

[@danielnichols7817]

My most recent find that was a good haul was. My video rental store went out of business, and was selling games on the cheap. I picked up lots of switch games and wii u games.

[@rickeyrankin8457]

My latest pickup was some N64 games F Zero X was one of them

[@dytrus8203]

Unbelievable find with Grandia 2 and Skies of Arcadia for sega Dreamcast and Orange Box for Xbox 360 at my local goodwill for $35

[@ScatteredCollector]

4:46 I traveled to a local Goodwill just for the hell of it, and sitting in the glass case was Myst, not just one game but the whole master collection which has the full trilogy. It was mint like no one played it. Got it for .99 cents. The cashier charged me for CD prices not video games.

[@Jackson-id9iz]

Diddy Kong Racing was one of the first games we got for our N64, we went from 1 controller to 4 controllers that day as dad was having so much fun playing he needed to maximize the fun for the whole family, he ran to the store for 3 more controllers, man we played that game a lot. Lol , I prefer it over Mario kart 64 any day!

[@oscarandrade1643]

With Market Place I’ve only ever gone to people’s houses 😅,no one ever wants to meet up,but I keep my distance/not enter homes. Best pickup was crazy,woman was selling lot of miscellaneous games/DVDs,wanted 110 for everything,I was only interested in 5 games(she had them listed at $4 each) ended up giving me the whole lot absolutely FREE 🔥🔥,guess I was the only person that was interested

[@homefry84]

I found a copy of mario 64 ds at one of the last yard sales of the season here in Idaho for 5 bucks

[@retrorick]

heck yeah...that is amazing!

[@homefry84]

@@retrorick kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKvbmKiGm7ybm5I restoration of a yellowed n64 controller like yours

[@Casualgamingpoet]

My finds have dried up a little bit, but I've got a thrift store connection I hit up about every other week. Last thing they brought me was a stack of 3ds/ds stuff and wii stuff. I finally got a 2ds and a copy of mario party 8. I had been looking for that forever. I hate finds like that n64 lol. I don't wanna clean it. Super dirty, but a great find!

[@ryanstonebraker9484]

I got a copy of Silent Hill 2 for the PlayStation 2 at a goodwill last week. Also on the same time SSX Tricky and Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 also for the ps2. I was happy :)

[@Goofballs-]

How much does it cost for you to ship your items? If I sell a game for 8 on ebay I pay atleast 3 to ship it and after eBay fees, packaging materials and gas to go down to the post office we're maybe making around $3-4 total. If it costs $2-3 to buy the game from goodwill then I don't see much income at all. Also I just wanted to say I started selling on eBay last month thanks to your videos inspiring me! Keep up the awesome work, brother!

[@essfjay]

Spec Ops is an underrated GEM. Great 3RD person shooter, the mechanics are great and it’s a campaign only. Really solid campaign story as well.

[@ronnysgames9625]

Great N64 haul. Looks like you got some cleaning!

[@ourscamplife5210]

Man in MN, that "Sketchy" story from Marketplace is the norm for me. I think out of all the good deals I've found on vintage games maybe 2 of them didn't require me to meet at a house. And I've run into the "Gold" gray controller/rumble/transfer pack a couple of times.

[@thomasworthington4135]

Magic erasor will make that cigrette melt right off . Goo be gone is also your best freined when cleaning up cases and stickers . Alcohol for the black marker

[@zombieboyfiend]

A week ago I found a Gamecube (no cords or controllers) with the Gameboy Advance Player attached and Gameboy Advance Player disc inside at the Salvation Army for 5.99. Still haven't tested it.

[@dancingpapi8904]

Best KZbin series!!!

[@retrorick]

ha thank you so much my friend!

[@funkoking5607]

I am watching all your videos it cool that you can find these great deals you have inspired me to go hunting for video games and dvd me and mom go hunting for games found a game for 5 bucks and sold it for about 35$ dollars keep the goods video up