#alicethemadnessreturns

[cerivena]

2 of the mascot variants I created for twitch if you want to see the rest you'll have to tune in my twitch streams every Saturday,Sunday and Monday at 12 pm - 5/6 GMT time <3

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[crowonatophat]

I have this old inktober that I someday wanted to work in to a more polished piece. It was a very traditional portrayal of Alice in wonderland, with the blond hair and blue dress. As it happens I recently started following the development of Alice Asylum. It's so neat and inspiring to get a peek at the creative process. So much so that my personal piece morphed into more of a fan art. 😅 The Alice franchise has always included occult stuff but its so exciting to me that they are thinking of incorporating Tarot themes into the game.🤩 Fun fact, alchemy/planetary symbols show up in the games but I went full astrology astrology with it. #aliceinwonderland #alice #americanmcgeesalice #astrology #alicethemadnessreturns #aliceasylum #digitalpainting #digitalart #myart #inktober https://www.instagram.com/p/B2VIuHhHrkB/?igshid=12zue4yq9jqda

[oldnintendonerd]

Prime Hunting Season Starting Soon

Official hunting season for 2018 is long over. With another season in 2019 just around the corner. I visited what was to be the final yard sale of the 2018 season on October 25th 2018. A brave older couple was downsizing and held a yard sale when it was 36 degrees out. Unfortunately, they were not gamers. Nor did they have any games from any kids or grandchildren. They did have some stereo equipment, and a surround sound speaker system. No music, or blu rays either though. The stereo was a shelf system, not a component type unit like I would be looking for to match the Sony TC-WE805S tape deck that I got at the start of the season. An all around bust of a sale for me. I wished them luck and headed on my way.

I closed out the last post with the PS3 find from 09.01.18. Giving me access to HD console gaming. A new era for this Old Nintendo Nerd. I do primarily game at 240p being that NES, SNES and N64 are the consoles nearest and dearest to my heart. GameCube and Wii weigh in at 480p at their absolute best, still falling short of HD. But now, with a PS3, we’ve got 720p gaming (mostly, some is 1080p). I have no problem with collecting a little for this system, I’ve heard good things about Uncharted, The Last of Us, and a smattering of a few other games that I will be looking out for.

Before we get into finds for the last, freakin 5 months, I have sold a couple things since the last post, and I should hope so, since its been forever! Right? Sorry. Life.

I had a bundle of 16 total PS1 games that I let go of. Titles were the likes of Syphon Filter, Driver, Test Drive 5, Rainbow Six, and a smattering of other luke warm titles. I’ve posted all of them up here at one point or another, so you have an idea. They were nothing I’d ever want to play, and since I only paid around $16 total for all of them at $0.99 a piece, I thought if I could average around $2 a pop on eBay id be doing OK doubling my money. They all added up to a value of about $95 on pricecharting. Now granted, that is fantasy prices, even those prices aren’t the prices the sellers MAKE when sold. Ultimately they all went for $52.99 as a lot. After fees and shipping it netted me $38.44, which comes to right about $2.40 each. 40 cents higher than I was hoping to get per game. Not bad!

The end of the last post left us with $9.73. Put that in with the $38.44 for a total of $48.17.

Additionally, I sold a disc only copy of Animal Crossing on eBay that I had laying around for $18.99. This came to $13.58 in pocket after fees and shipping. Tack that on and we now have $61.75 game hunting money moving into this post.

I’ll be honest, it’s been thin, it is cold here in the winter, there are no yard sales through the cold months at all. Places like Arizona or Florida where you could sale year round are lucky. Not here. Even donations to Goodwill slow down significantly as well, making the hunting quite a bit more difficult. I had zero finds for basically all of September. Which was surprising, it is really the last warm month here with temps still reaching 70′s and sometimes low 80s. But it wasn’t until the end of the month I ran across something at the Goodwill.

De Blob - Found 09.29.2018 at Goodwill

Disc, case and Manual all in pretty good shape, but nothing to write home about. If it were June and prime hunting season and I’d been getting finds, I probably wouldn’t have bought it.

But I did, and it cost me $3.21. Takes the total down to $58.54.

Next up was the first official game for my new PS3. Again nothing fantastic, but at least it rang up at the DVD price instead of the game price. Saved me $1.

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Found 10.04.2018 at Goodwill

Minty fresh.

But, again nothing special, not even a full game. But I sat and played it for an hour anyway. Probably already had $2 worth of fun with the thing. Despite being labeled $5.99, they still only charged me the DVD rate of $1.99. Hah! So, $2.13 out of the till leaves us with $56.41.

The next find was literally the next day. Different Goodwill though.

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas on PS2 and Grand Theft Auto IV on PS3 - Found 10.05.2018 at Goodwill

This was absolutely minty fresh as well. Both of them were. Discs, cases, and manuals / maps. I wasn’t going to buy San Andreas but when I saw that it was in as good of shape as it was, and had a bonus inside, I couldn’t not get it.

First time I’ve found a game in Goodwill with a Memory Card inside. Those are $8 to $10 each right there, and I am a little short on memory cards, so I had to get it. The game was technically the bonus, I bought it for the memory card. Heh.

Great shape for two Goodwill games, they look brand new. Plus I heard that while GTA V is superior graphically, GTA IV is better with exploration, in that you can enter buildings, and enemy AI is a lot better as well. So I thought, what the hell?

Those two ran $6.42 together taking us to $49.99.

The next find was from 10.15.2018, from Goodwill, another few halfway decent games. Borderlands, Alice, Dante’s Inferno, Marvel Vs. Capcom 3,  and a Disc only copy of Skyrim. It was actually in the same case as Alice, just under the Alice Disc for some reason. I wasn’t arguing with that so I left it there.

PS3 Lot - Found 10.15.2018 at Goodwill

Sucks about the two basically disc only games. Marvel Vs Capcom and Skyrim. One being from Best Buy pre-owned. The other hiding under Alice in the same case. not that I’m complaining about that one. Free game? Nothing wrong with that. How Best Buy even gets disc only copies of stuff is beyond me. Game system trades or returns with games still in them? I wasn’t aware they did pre-owned anything.

In any case... They are all in good shape. Minimal labels and damage.

Especially Alice. I dig the art on this one, and it is in very good condition.

As for Skyrim, well, I had a spare case laying around for FIFA 09, and I figured, why not print out a cover for it. I couldn’t give a shit less about FIFA Soccer. You can see the print lines, but it’ll do to hold the disc.

All of this ran me $12.86 being I paid for four games at $2.99 each plus tax. This takes the hunting money down to $37.13.

Moving into November, I had a spectacular find. At least, for the hunting money total. Not so much on the video game front, because it was just a Blu-Ray movie.

Wing Commander Blue-Ray - Sealed - Found 11.08.2018 at Goodwill

This thing, just looks like cheese from the cover. I picked it up, and immediately put it back down and walked around the corner to where some more shelves are. Then I said to myself you know what? No, let me check that, immediately dismissing something out of hand like that loses people money. Pulled up eBay on my phone and about pooped my pants. A sealed one was listed for $180. I thought that has to be some looney toon’s listing. I kept scrolling and no, used ones were just under $100. Check sold listings and there were real sales for $80+. Suffice to say I bought it, of course. Listed that sucker up, and I was hoping to get over $100 for it since it was sealed, but, there was some damage to the corner. The plastic was not in tact anymore.

This made the listing go for a lot less than $180. However, I was still pleased to see it sell for $85.00. For a $2 item? That’s a home run! After fees and shipping it netted us a nice cool $68.67. To be fair I will pull the money I used to buy it from the game hunting money, it was $2.12 ($1.99 plus tax) dropping us to $35.01. Then, adding $68.67 gives us...

**** DRUM ROLL****

$103.68!

We are now officially above the original $100 I started this game hunting journey with.

Not a bad note to end this post on. I’ll post up the finds for the very end of 2018 in the next post. Hopefully I can cobble that together here in the next couple of weeks and have it up much faster than I got this one up. There’s a really nice co-worker find to detail.

2018.03.25

[theharlequinlady]

Its an old and unfinished painting but I still love it~ It was supposed to be a gift for my fiance but the eye creeped me out so it got shelved, but looking at it again I really wanna finish it . Alice succumbing to the madness of Wonderland @creativeboss #madeyewpaint I think you're the person that could make this painting as good as it was meant to be! Plus my heart would explode into a million tiny bits❤️ . . . #peculiarcharms #art #macabre #aliceinwonderland #alicethemadnessreturns #acrylic #olderart

[maskofsilenceartwork]

Six Fan Arts No. 2 Phase 3 #sixfanarts #injustice2 #dccomics #catwoman #intothespiderverse #marvelcomics #milesmorales #tomclancy #rainbowsixsiege #dokkaebi #ubisoft #assassinscreedodyssey #kassandra #disney #emperorsnewgroove #yzma #americanmcgee #spicyhorsegames #alicethemadnessreturns #watersolublepencils (at Longwood, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD9fv5KJ13D/?igshid=17f2n7s1abts1

[super-fan-of-all-things]

In this spirit of giving, here #fanexpo2019 day 4 part 1. . . #dc #greenlantern #superman #shazam #billy #freddy #darla #pedro #mary #eugene . . #videogames #alicethemadnessreturns #alice . . #anastasia #austinpowers #androidwoman #childsplay #chucky https://www.instagram.com/p/B5wtW4MjG_n/?igshid=lwgmsk2rtikf

[purpledawncreations]

Hysteria I made this painting because my favorite video game needs love! Alice: The Madness Returns was a wonderful game and made an awesome painting for the Colossalcon craft fair! #videogames #aliceinwonderland #alicethemadnessreturns #acrylicpainting #traditionalpainting #rorschachtest #hysteriamode https://www.instagram.com/p/BzEqt7lAPsX/?igshid=tacq7sk2ijip

[melancholymasterpiece]

"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by logic." #alicethemadnessreturns #cheshirecat #purplehairdontcare #finallysomethingdifferent #makeup #tattoos #girlswithpiercings #goodvibesonly https://www.instagram.com/p/BsQr-QzgHxN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5skdpgsekb11

[whatanormie]

Alice Liddell #drawings #illustrations #digitalart #digitaldrawing #digital #artwork #alicethemadnessreturns #aliceliddell #fanart #artistsoninstagram #instaart #art #artbysunnysan

[hashtagonlyingotham]

To whoever showed Mad Hatter the game Alice: the Madness Returns- your suffering will be legendary. #onlyingotham #americanmcgeesalice #alicethemadnessreturns

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[vampiredarkrose]

It's not a dream, it's... a memory. And it makes me sick! 🔪🍄🐽🦄🌂 #edmontoncomicexpo #hattersdomain #E0CEE #alicethemadnessreturns #americanmcgeesalice #darkalice #steampunk #steampunkdress #cosplayers #downtherabbithole #cosplygirls #gamer #gamergirl #goth #gothic #Gothicmodel #artist #handmade #comiccon #Edmontonexpo2018 #VampireDarkRose #DarkRose #GothicFreyja #VampireQueen https://www.instagram.com/p/BoxNpMag-G5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1me8d9ro0tz9p

[kweenytodd]

Snicker snack! 🔪 #aliceinwonderland #alicethemadnessreturns #americanmegee #darkalice #vorpalblade #downtherabbitholewego

[rzk-cristate]

happy halloween the 17th. Alice: The madness returns is one of my favorite games, even with all its glitches. #personal #alice #alicethemadnessreturns https://www.instagram.com/p/BpDaaP2luPd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=gd3tbe37jgix

[maskofsilenceartwork]

Six Fan Arts no. 2, Phase 2. #catwoman #injustice2 #milesmorales #intothespiderverse #dokkaebi #rainbowsixsiege #kassandra #assassinscreedodyssey #yzma #theemperorsnewgroove #aliceinwonderland #americanmcgee #alicethemadnessreturns #vorpalblade #hobbyhorse #spearofleonidas https://www.instagram.com/p/CD6mIIkJCSx/?igshid=cgi4yszkx1gb

[gentleevan]

#myheroacademia #bokonoheroacademia #cosplayer #enjitodoroki #alicethemadnessreturns #steampunk (at Anime Oasis)

[oftwomindsdesigns]

This is the amazing gift from my husband @stevilmeyers I have loved/been slightly obsessed with Alice in Wonderland since I was a kid. We found this statue in an antique shop!! I will post more pictures after I paint her!! #ilovemyhusband #aliceinwonerland #alicethemadnessreturns #takemetowonderland (at Of Two Minds Designs)