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ok so i have been trying to find dodge ball for like 1 year or so and i finally find it on ebay for like 15 dollars plus SH. i was stoked. then the following day i go to the flea market and find it for 4 dollars. bummer uh. And i go to that flea market 2 times a month man i was bummed but now i have 2 copies yea

Well...my brother a really long time ago had Castlevania II, but he said he sold it, so I bought another copy, but then just a while ago, my found my brothers copy in my (use to be his) room.

something like that happened to me a few years ago. i saw a copy of Contra at GameStop (back when they still had NES Games) for $15. i was pretty excited as i wnated the game for awhile. so i bought it. a few weeks later a friend from school gave me all of his NES Games FOR FREE.... Contra was in the stack

but it evened out, i later traded the extra copy of Contra for Castlevania III

I had that often in Japan.
I searched for games, found them, bought them... and in the next store found them again, but cheaper.
That's life. As long as you got what you want it's ok I think.

I usually check every shop before buying a game. But, if I want an older game, only one shop sells them, so I don't have much choice (apart from using Ebay)

yup, shining force II, got several copies, guess it just means everything comes eventually.

I remember this hapening more than once, but the only occasion I remember is with Ninja Gaiden III. So I've wanted the game for a while, and finally decide to splurge on ebay. What do I get? A very crappy condition game with very beat up contacts. I thought ok at least it works so I can play it. Not even a month later I come across a complete one for about the same price, and the cart is mint. I sorta just go

That probably happens to me about half of the time I buy a game, even though I shop around looking for the lowest price within the next week or so Ill find somewhere that has it cheaper. Like manuel said "That's life" and you cant do anything about it.

Yeah..it happens, so I spend hundreds of dollars and the better part of about 5 to 6 years collecting all of the NES first gen line up (you know the carts with the pixalated/mosaic covers) finally when I aquire my last two missing carts (Kid Icarus, and Donkey Kong) my buddy comes over with a paper bag with a beaten up NES deck in it, claims he found it in the dumpster while throwing out his garbage and picked it up because he thought I could use it for parts, but points out that theres a cart jammed in it... not really caring as to what game it might be I looked in the deck and the game had no label and was beige colored instead of grey...weird.
Anxiously I tried prying the game out but it was really stuck in there I had to know what this thing was! Having a few NES decks and top loaders I really didn't care what happened to the deck so I literally sawed it in half (tried to unscrew the deck but some sort of nasty goo was holding it together; this kept getting weirder) Finally once I had a clear view I noticed some korean writting burned on to the casing, I throw the cart in to my working deck (cartridge is exactly the same dimensions as a standard cart but weighs about 3 times as much) and a list of titles appeared on my screen; it was a ROM cartridge containing 110 complete NES Games!!!! which of course included all of the first gen lineup I was so eager to own amongst other 3rd party titles...gee did I feel strange...and very lucky. I can now put my collection away and just use this mystical cartridge that came out of a dumpster..

Wow that sounds cool!! Post a picture of it.

man i would love to see one of those in my travels man you are one lucky SOB