My best find would be difficult, but some great finds have been at charity shops. Most recently I picked up SwordQuest Waterworld out of the junk bin at one of the shops. When they tried to sell it to me for $1 dollar I gave them a 50, which is about what it would be in the condition it is in. I got another copy, and my money goes towards some of the local veterans. Win Win 🙂

I have a few 'best finds', all of which I found at the flea market.

There was a guy at the flea market one day who had, I kid you not, two large plastic bins full of PS1's. I almost passed it by, but I saw something familiar in the sea of grey: A Panasonic 3DO. I figured this guy probably knows what systems are worth since he has dozens of them, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask how much he wanted. $5. I kept my cool, made myself look like I was thinking it over, then said 'Okay' and paid him.
Turns out Gex was in there as well, so that's a bit of a double score.

Another time I was at the flea market I came across a Sega Saturn with a memory card, also for $5. I picked that one up as well. I still don't know if it works, but I just bought the necessary cables, so I'll know soon enough.

A more recent find which I consider one of my best is a model one Sega CD for $8. I don't have any of the cables, same deal as the Saturn, but I'll have those cables soon enough as well.

Oh wait! I just remembered another find I consider one of my truly best. Usually I leave the flea market empty handed, as far as gaming goes, but one day I managed to pick up a boxed Commodore 64 ($15), and an Atari 520STFM computer with two external floppy drives ($10). I also found a CED player that day for $10, but it needs repairing.

TL;DR: Basically I'm saying my best find is the entire flea market experience.

I did recently find at a local quality Pawn Shop a copy of Jr pac-man for the atari 2600 for $5.99 just the cartridge itself, but it is a game I wanted for a loooong time and a bit harder to see in person here in south dakota, haha.

today I found a very great deal. On ebay I buy a complete (!) copy of Lunar 2, Tactics Ogre and Ogre Battle. All three games are in mint condition. For Lunar 2 I payed 43$, Tactics Ogre I payed 33$ and for Ogre Battle also just 38$. So I think all three games are a very very good pick.

Greetings from Germany!

There was one day in the summer of 2010 when I had the best garage sale day ever.
1st garage sale I went to I found a boxed Model 1 Genesis with Sonic for $5, a bunch of disc only PS1 games including Disc 1 and 3 for Final Fantasy 7 for 10 cents, and NARC and Operation Wolf on NES for a buck a piece.

Right after that I went to another garage sale and found-2 super nintendo's with all the hook ups, Zombies Ate My Neighbors (SNES), Final Fantasy 3, and a boxed Moonwalker, complete Altered Beast and loose Jurassic Park for Genesis for a total of $25.

I still consider that the best day of garage sailing since I've started collecting in 2010.