Today I had to wake up at 5AM because I had a photo shoot at 6 in the morning. Once the shoot was done and after having a quick breakfast at Krispy Kreme, me and a friend decided to head to the Friday market.
Last time I went there was over a year ago and things have changed condierably since then. The place is cleaner and more organized then before. They seriously sell the strangest stuff there, you can find anything including used deodorant cans.
After walking around for around 40 minutes I spotted a guy with a ton of vintage video game systems. He had a ton of video games for the SNES, NES, Megadrive and MegaCD. He also had some video game consoles, Sega Genesis, Sega 32x, Sega MegaCD, Sega Saturn, Atari Jaguars, NES systems, a Panasonic 3DO and a NeoGeo. They weren’t all in the best of shape plus I had most of them so I wasn’t really interested in any of them for my collection. Then I spotted a NeoGeo game. The guy noticed I was interested and told me he had more pointing to under the table. I looked down and was like fuuucccckkkkk…. There were around 15 NeoGeo games just pilled up there.
A quick history on the NeoGeo. It was released in 1990 and back then it was priced at $650. It was one of the most expensive video game consoles and each game used to cost over $200 and most of the time over $300. Finding a brand new NeoGeo console today is very difficult, the last time I saw a brand new one online they were selling for $1200. Luckily a few years ago I got my brand new NeoGeo for less then $300.
So back to my story. The guy wanted KD5 for every game. I told him the prices were too expensive but he then pointed to the original price tags on the games.. KD75, KD60, KD65 etc.. I told him yeah they cost this much back in the 90s. I offered to give him KD10 for the 15 games. He said no and so I left. 30 minutes later I came back and decided to haggle with him. In the end I ended up getting 11 NeoGeo games (I had the other 4), a NeoGeo joypad and 2 Atari Jaguar consoles all for KD14. I have an Atari Jaguar but I accidentally ruined it a while back and needed a replacement. He didn’t know if the 2 systems he had worked so I decided to take both of them.
When I came back home I quickly started checking the NeoStore for prices of the games plus checked the price guide and it turns out I walked away with over $700 worth of NeoGeo games, the most expensive being Aggressors of Dark Kombat which is selling for $149 at the moment.
16 replies on “Friday Market Jackpot”
NeoGeo is actually a home arcade system. All the games are arcade chips. You basically got them for free Mark. However, how is the health of the joystick? If my memory serves me right, I think the NeoGeo controller is very fragile.
Mark, I challenge you to a game of Fatal Fury or Art of Fighting! 😉
joypad i got is in good condition and yeah the games were a steal 🙂
goddamn it man i jsut remembered, u should have picked up the 3DO.
wow – I thought Bill Gates was unique… but you’ve proved that being a geek can be financially beneficial!
so are u gonna sell it….
nope i didnt buy to sell.
Man.. I think you should open up a game console museum for things you collect! You would have to set it up with plasma screens and everything, with laser lights and the works!
You couldn’t help yourself and you had to bargain with the guy!
I don’t know if there is anything they dont sell in the friday market!
Friday Market = Kuwaiti version of eBay but not on-line 🙂
OMG! neo geo! remember that shop in rahab in mizanen floor near the main entrance that used to sell neo geo and games before the invasion!!! back then rihab had no shops for video games except this one and he was the dealer too!!
i remember i used to only dream of having one since it’s so expensive!!! ahhhh the 80’s….
Bro How The FucK are U So lUCky?
ur collection of vintage consoles is off the hook!
wow, aweseom…… im jealous!!! way to go!!! 🙂
I’d love to go but I’m extremely bad at bargaining(No Hasawi blood, damn it!). Teach us, O’Mark of Good Bargains.
Were you driving your Wrangler? I tihnk I flew by you in the Land Cruiser while going to work! If it was you I guess you noticed the Gulf Run sticker on my back window!
I got a SNES from there with 5 games, for about 2.75 KD.. 😀 that a good bargain?
Cables and everything included..