/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1701070

My local goodwill is shit, all the good stuff gets saved for the friends of people that work there.

>>1701075
They should be happy enough to work at Goodwill those greedy assholes.

>>1701075
Goodwill stores in Ohio and PA dump anything remotely valuable to Goodwill's online auction warehouse, where they charge for shipping (which is a given), but also have a separate handling charge, which is what it cost them to ship it from their stores to the warehouse. All for donated merchandise.

I haven't seen anything good for a LONG time in a thrift store. In western Ohio in the middle of nowhere, a couple years ago, I found Threads of Fate for like $9 at a Goodwill, in a stack of Spice Girls CDs, and about ten years ago, a complete NES, sans box, with power pad and gray zapper, for $10.

>>1701105
At the one I go to, every single disk in the store is fixed at 5$ Whatever it is which in some cases is a ripoff but a great deal in others.

My Goodwill is decent, I got a nice CRT there for $10 and my friend got an N64 for $8
The problem is not much good stuff goes there and when it does I think the local used media store has people go and get things to resell it like the Jews they are

my city is a little smaller and the people who work at the thrift stores here don't know the value of video games related items but I know I'm not the only one who searches the stores so I know I have to be on top of shit to get the good stuff.
I think it's the local reseller scum that searches CL to get people shit for free.

For the guy who was scavenging the DVD section for PS2 games in central Florida today, I saw you buy Ace Combat 4. Good taste

And to think, my Goodwill had Super Smash Bros 64 for $3. which I then sold on ebay for $40

Goodwill is shit, the only good place around here is called Savers.

Just found a fucking Coleco Frogger tabletop for $5.

I found this at my local Goodwill for 10 bucks today. They almost never get anything /vr/ in (PS2 and XBox stuff pretty often though). It's enough to make me believe they don't ship everything off to be sold online, though.

This is a haul I got a while back. All for 26 bux

>>1701070
Wasn't the Master System a huge flop in the USA, to the point that they sold like 10 machines in total?

I work at Goodwill.
I cum in your video games.
I don't give a fuck.

the best thing i ever found was several rare NES games that were inexplicably in pristine condition for 6$ each.

>>1701070
If you think the Goodwill in Victor is shit, you should go to the one in Webster on Ridge Rd. They had an Atari 5200 with no games, controllers or power supply for $149 a few weeks ago. The sad thing is that someone probably bought it since it wasn't there when I went back this afternoon.

I've had better luck with the Goodwill's on the west side of town. The one on Jefferson by the mall had several really nice, working Mac SE's with keyboards and mice for $15 last week. I bought a couple of them...

>>1701070
Live in Victor , saw this shit and got a picture myself.

I also saw an GBASP for about $30 or so.

>>1701070
goodwill here is pretty shit at least recently. Nothing much besides overpriced playstations and a few gamegear games for $3 each, but they're really not worth it. I've found some good things, but last time was back in February.

>>1701949
Liar.

>>1702010
I swear

Well, $26 plus tax but you know

Where state are these Goodwills that charge $399 for an SMS and $149 for just the 5200 console located in?!

I live in Indianapolis, and I got Castlevania I & III for $2 each a few years back. The lady at the register didn't even know what console they were for, LOL. I told her they were for the NES, and a co-worker behind her said to her, "It's Castlevania, DUH!". I also got a 1982 Sony Trinitron, complete with original remote and documentation, for $8.

But that's nothing compared to what I scored a few years before that: a 6-switch Atari 2600, complete with AC Adapter, RF switch (bad), 3 joysticks, 2 pairs of paddles, 2 keyboard controllers, 10 games, and Tele-Games storage bin.... all of that for $5. Of course, I had to replace the RF switch and blow into the cartridge slot before I could get it working again, but STILL.

Lately the goodwills here haven't been as good though, and their prices have gone up (though they're still MUCH cheaper than the OP's goodwills). But the best goodwill I've been to is the one in Terre Haute, IN. I once found a fully-functional Tandy TRS-80 Model 4P, complete with floppies and documentation, for $25 there.

>>1702089
Forgot to mention that some of the games included were a snake-style game and ZORK I.

>>1702089
Yeah, prices have definitely gone up in the last year and a half I've noticed, and I'm in Oregon. It's pretty bullshit, but I can occasionally find some games for cheap.

>>1702089
>Where state are these Goodwills that charge $399 for an SMS and $149 for just the 5200 console located in?!

NY. Specifically, Western NY.

There's at least four well known resellers working in this area with deep pockets. One of them tried to give me $15 for a working Intellivision with nine games and got upset when I didn't accept it.

Avoid Heckle and Jeckle "Collectables" in Rochester, NY (Chili) at all costs. Those fuckers are supreme idiots.

>>1702118
that intellivision story is close to how I got mine.

Found it at an antique show with 6 games for $10, but the people had everything half off so I got it for $5. Works great and is in pretty good condition.

You just have to know where to look.

>>1702184
That is to say, nowhere north of the Mason-Dixon line, where people tend to be smarter than a bag of wet hair about pricing anything that looks high tech above three fucking dollars.

>>1701070
Usually in "rich areas" they jack the prices up because they know some rich kid will buy it regardless

Not much better in Central NY either.. (Liverpool) best thing I've ever gotten out of a thrift store wasn't even game related.. $100 or so cymbal for $8, other than that, nothing really.

I guess you could count MK3 for the PS1 for $2.50, but it wasn't even in the original box.

>>1701991
>>1701998
never thought i'd find /vr/os near me!

you guys should check out the flea markets in avon every sunday. big outdoor one at the drive-in movie theatre and then there's an indoor one 3 miles down rt 15 (avon is about 20 minutes down 390 south)

the victor goodwill, as of yesterday, has two psx systems with the cables taped to them for 20 bucks each

kill me now

>>1702118
>Avoid Heckle and Jeckle "Collectables" in Rochester, NY (Chili) at all costs.
i always heard bad things, never went because of it. thanks, i'll avoid

i fucking love this board

>>1701070

That reminds me. Someone around 2002 or 2003 found a Virtual Boy in a Walmart with the original price.

>>1701967

Yeah. I never heard of it. I really thought Sega's first console was the Genesis.

It was big in Brazil for whatever reason.

>>1701967
Poor marketing by Tonka toys didn't help any. Sega originally sold the U.S. SMS rights to Tonka, believing that the toy distributor would allow the SMS to be better circulated, but Tonka's marketing department passed over popular European titles (such as Psycho Fox) and instead released flops like Cloud Master. After the release of the Genesis in 1989, Sega USA reacquired the SMS rights, and released some popular titles... but it was too little, too late. it actually did fairly well all over europe

>>1703197
I bought a box of about 40 (mostly) common Atari 2600 carts from the Avon drive-in flea market for $40 last summer. I haven't been back there this year yet. I live in Ontario, so I don't get down that way very often.

I'm going to pick my boss up at the Buffalo airport tonight and was thinking of leaving a couple hours early to hit up some thrift stores out that way.

>>1703201
A mom and pop toy store that was closing down in Southern California had brand new/sealed Atari 2600 cartridges in 1998. I bought a couple copies each of Asteroids, Missile Command and a few others I can't remember for $4 each. I went back less than a week later and they were all gone; supposedly one person bought all that remained.

>>1703287
fyi, the super flea closed in buffalo

last time i went there was 10 years ago with my mother. i bought a grateful dead bong, she gave me squinty eyes of disappointment. we both got sick from hotdogs.

don't forget to stop at Duff's for some chicken wings!

>>1703197
>Avoid Heckle and Jeckle "Collectables"
>i always heard bad things

I used to live around the corner from that fucking place. Every single time I was in there, there was someone pricing a stack of games while browsing eBay. That would explain their laughable prices and how absolutely dusty everything they don't have in their glass cases is.

all these western NY bros should get together for some vidja

i promise i'm not a serial killer
but my wife may be

>Live in Missouri
>Should have bumpkin GW workers and shoppers that don't know shit about anything
>nope.jpg
>Apparently my city is home of Thrift Shoppers Avengers League Society of America Inc. LLC because fuck you if you aren't perusing every one of those stores before 11, shit will be GONE.

Not just limited to video games, either. An aunt of mine was selling things out of her storage locker a la garage sales, and apparently more than 10 people called the storage place itself trying to pay the attendant to get into the locker and give him the money to pass on to her for the item they wanted. Ruthless, these people.

I'm going to go hit one or two Goodwill stores, for lack of anything better to do at the moment. I hate going alone, as it drives me fucking nuts, since I don't genuinely want anything, and want to leave as soon as I enter, unless I'm looking for something that somebody else wants.

Eh. Will report while I'm out.

My local goodwill stores don't ship the good stuff away, but that's the only good thing about them. Good stuff rarely comes in, and when it does it has a 50% chance of getting a ridiculous price (depending on the manager on duty). I've seen Ocarina of Time go for 2 and decent GBA cames go for 3 while used copies of WoW, brain-training DS "games", and Madden '95 rot in the glass case with $5-10 price tags.

Unfortunately, in addition to those issues, I now have confirmed I've got a rival. There's some guy who always wears rubber gloves, a baseball cap, dark glasses, and a surgical mask who shows up only looking for video games. The mental image you have of "reseller scum", it's that guy. Every time I see him he's rifling through every piece of vidya, looking up the price of every last item on his phone.

>>1703427
Goodwill in Austintown, Ohio is a complete bust. PS2 Madden games and dime-a-dodecatillion PC game CDROMS from 1997. Off to Youngstown, I guess.

>>1703532
Nothing in Youngstown either, as usual. Just EA sports crap. Well, there was an ATi capture card missing the multi-input cable, making it useless. I guess I'll go to the Goodwill in Hermitage, PA now. This would be annoying if I hadn't already expected to find not even so much as Mario/Duck Hunt.

>>1701070
Some of my local ones in North West PA aren't too bad. The one's who charge retail for shit I steal from like a fucking bandit in the 1970's. Most of those are goodwill's BTW which just take in the profit and don't give to charity anyway.

Act like a real thrift store and I treat you nicely. Act like a retail cunt and I pull out my old bag of tricks.

>>1701967
No, It couldn't compete with the NES but it still sold quite well. I have 3 systems and a printer paper box full of games. There's some real good games for SMS too. They can get quite pricy tho.

>>1702089
>blow into the cartridge slot

wow...

>>1702118
>got upset
Jesus that's the opposite of here. I offer people decent prices but then THEY get upset about the offer and storm away when I didn't offer them $150 for what ever piss covered garbage it was. It takes time to clean this shit assholes.

>>1703287
That's not that good of a price alot of shit Atari games are really only worth 50 cents in your pocket from it's sale. Atari games are shit business.

>>1703590
LOL the GW in Hermitage charges practically Retail for their broken garbage. Once I scrapped a Famiclone pirate cart out of it's broken system they wanted $10 for. But dude not only was the Batteries corroded and bludgeoning out of their housing the controller was completely busted beyond use. I fucking hate that store. The used game store by the taco bell isn't very good. Not terrible but I did buy a copy of Doom 64 from them that I cannot for the life of me make function.

>>1701070
Maybe if it was factory sealed untouched pristine from release day, a hard core collector would buy it.

>>1703625
They didn't even have anything for me to even get irritated by. They have a Linksys WRT54G v8 router, but I didn't buy it because it only has 2MB of flash memory, making it a pain to use custom firmware with it. No classic games, same as ever. Just cheap ass edutainment crap and EA sports nonsense. Their display case was all purses and crap, no electronics, same as the Youngstown store. I'll check one more Goodwill on the way back home, but I'm positive that there will be nothing there, as well.

>>1703648
Ya, it's tough anymore with less people having shame about going to thrift stores anymore.

my town is a pretty hip college town so at all the thrift stores they sell anything remotely electronics on ebay, no idea how much they go for but it's not even worth it

at the next town over i've found some good stuff. I found shadow of the colossus for $3, and I got Azure Sky for the PS1 for a $1 as well. They try to sell the video games for $3 but I just scratch off the sticker, bring it up and say "whoops looks like it didn't have a sticker!!!" so it becomes $1 automatically.

>>1703652
:)

yeahhhh, goodwill generally does suck. unless you're going in to buy clothes pretty much everything is overpriced. even the DVDs at my local one don't usually go below $5.

they probably figured that maybe they'd get lucky and someone with more money than sense would want that master system. $400 would be a decent price if it was brand-new, but it's about 4x too much for used, even if it was complete.

i do highly encourage folks to check out the master system's library if you haven't already. some gems just from my own collection:

Aladdin (EU)
Alex Kidd in Shinobi World
Cloud Master (yeah, I liked it)
Fantasy Zone
Fantasy Zone II
Golden Axe Warrior (Zelda clone)
Golvellius - Valley of Doom
Master of Darkness (EU) (Castlevania clone)
The Ninja
Phantasy Star
Psycho Fox
SpellCaster
Taz-Mania (EU)
Wonder Boy in Monster Land
Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap
Zillion
Zillion II: The Tri Formation

a warning to anyone thinking about collecting for the SMS... games are not region-locked. EU games (and I believe Brazilian too) will play just fine in a US system, but the speed will sometimes be off by ~17%. not a huge deal. this makes the potential library much larger and far more expensive. ;)

>>1703659
;)

>>1703663
I'm waiting for my Copy of Fantasy Zone collection for J-PS2. I just happen to have a J-PS2 too. A translucent blue one. Some local couple bought thinking it was a US system and was perplexed as to why it wasn't playing any of their games but played the game it came with just fine. Oh what a good deal for me that was.

>>1703663
>Golden Axe Warrior
Also good fucking luck finding that and then be willing to pay for that.

>>1703619
Not really. I kept the four carts that I didn't already own and almost quadrupled my money by selling the rest. I got almost $40 for Montezuma's Revenge alone.

>>1703669
hot DAMN that's nice, haha... I'm generally more interested in playing PAL imports, which unfortunately can usually only be done with a PAL system and a PAL TV (or a pricey converter box). i don't speak any Japanese, so that limits me a bit when importing stuff.

i do have a decent Famicom collection building up though. :D

>>1703671
ugh, yeah, that game got stupid expensive. i snagged mine boxed from a european seller before the price got high over there, probably set me back $20. it's a shame because it's not actually a particularly rare game in europe. i guess people in the US caught on to that though and started buying them up.

>>1703675
oh well, good job. Perhaps I should do something with this retarded amount of 2600 games that I have.

>>1703690
if I had any money right now i'd say you should sell them to me. i'm always looking for Atari stuff I don't already have. ;)

>>1703678
Nice, I love famicom. I accidentally got a Taiwanese famicom from ebay along time ago. Shit was so cash! Alot of PS2 era Japanese games have English language options. Silent Hill 4 is one of those. I bought that game months before it's US release. Too bad it wasn't very good tho.

If you like homebrews, you can send your commons to AtariAge for credit. I sent them 20 copies each of Asteroids and Pac-Man.

But then again, you might have to deal with the manchildren over there, so it might not be a good idea.

I live in AZ,

As a kid, I went to Savers alot, and I remember there were tons and tons of NES games on the wall (you could possibly get yourself a cool collection in one sitting for about $1 to $2 a game). I bought a play-it-loud red gameboy in good condition once for like $10.

I don't see very many savers anymore, although I know they are alot better than fucking goodwill, every time I go to a goodwill, absolutely nothing of value.

Mexicans, mostly the lower class immgirants, will raid every goodwill in the morning (i've looked in the mornings too, nothing good either), and they will even drive out to the goodwills in rich white neighborhoods. It's a shame that they put themselves on thrift-level, but oh well.

Alot of stores around here nowadays tend to put any high price item on ebay.

>>1703693
never knew that about Japanese PS2 games... I may have to look into importing some, since I believe my softmodded memory card will boot them.

>>1703691
How about an Atari 2800?

>>1703704
haha, definitely wouldn't mind having one of those, but i couldn't justify buying it unless i lucked out and found it at a garage sale for cheap. =\

>>1703641
that's essentially what i said to the nasty bitch working there, what a bitch that bitch was.

perhaps i'm biased against her since she accused me of stealing a gameboy when i was waiting in line to buy it.
>you handed me the gameboy and i haven't left your sight, i'm in line to buy it, i have no other merchandise in my hands... are you serious?

bitch.

>>1703704
I bought it for $20 at a semi-descent thrift shop. I don't think they knew what it was. Since it doesn't actually say atari on it.

>>1703718
nice. the controllers alone go for at least $20 apiece on ebay.

...and I'm back.

The only Goodwill that had anything was my LOCAL Goodwill, ironically the last place in my multi-county, multi-state trip. All I got was a Genesis 1 AC adapter, which is good, because I only had one before now, and I have four things that need it. My Genesis 1, my Master System, my Neo Geo, and my Sega CD model 2. Whee.

I don't think I'm going to go to Goodwill again for at least a year, because this was a massive waste of effort.

>>1703809
Ya, There's a salval in a basement in Erie that sometimes has good stuff. One time I bought a Cd-i that was a Magnavox Consolized version and it came with that stupid fucking Zelda game, the famous one on youtube with the derp link riding on a magic carpet. Made a pretty penny off that deal. I tried to enjoy that system but I just couldn't. Waste of space. Good Money

>>1703838
Erie's like a two hour drive for me, so I shan't be going there any time soon. Game On is a cool game store, though. I managed to go there on my "fuck it, let's go to Erie" trip a few years back.

I didn't hit any SallyArmy stores because they're forever on the wrong damn side of the road when there's sixty miles of traffic.

The only good thing I got recently from Goodwill was a $10 PS2 Slim, but that was over a year ago at the cursed Hermitage store.

>>1703809
I was hurting for Sega adapters too, but I found out there's a newish product called the Sega Trio... it's one wall wart that supplies power to the Genesis, the 32X, and the Sega CD. Multiple variations to choose from to get the correct configuration for your hardware. It's kinda pricey at $25-30, but it'll free up your other adapters (and outlets) for the other systems. :)

>>1703871
you can also use any power supply that has enough amperage and split it into three plugs

i did it for my genesis and sega cd, no 32x though :(

i used a laptop power adapter with proper voltage and a bit more than the combined amperage

>>1703871
Electronic engineer, so I don't need that. You can daisy-chain surge protector strips all day long, so long as the total current draw at any of the "weak" points in the wiring doesn't cause catastrophic thermal breakdown. AC adapters seldom draw a lot, but I wouldn't run ten game systems simultaneously.

>>1703880
Well sure, if you wanna have a big ol' daisy chain of power strips. I never got my degree, but I did go to school for electronic engineering, and it'd work, but I prefer to keep my stuff a little bit neater.

>>1703879
I think the problem is that different versions of the Sega stuff used different voltages, not just different connectors. You could potentially build a circuit in there to drop the voltage appropriately for certain devices, but I'd rather just throw someone a couple bucks to do it neatly and cleanly. ;)

>>1703889
>Sega stuff used different voltages
eh, 9v +/- 1v won't hurt anyone

>>1703895
Yeah, you're right... I was under the impression that it varied more than that, but it was all 9V-10V. I thought about it a bit more, and using a laptop adapter is even better because it doesn't use a wall wart, it's just a regular plug at the end with a box in between. Can't help but wonder why they didn't do that with the Trio.

>>1703904
I never understood why wall warts even exist.. if they just put the circuitry down the line a bit it would have made my life so much easier...

i'm so sick of buying 6 inch adapter cords or power squids

>>1703910
Ah, the power squid. The retro gamer's best friend. lol

>>1703443
sounds like a real faggot. you should approach him and ask him why he dresses like Kabal from fucking Mortal Combat.

Does he use to metal objects in either hand to sift things around the bins with out touching them?

This is forever what I will picture when someone says 'reseller scum'

>>1703871
I picked up some cables from that guy and they all seem to be working perfectly, will have to grab a Trio after I get a 32X and CD some day

>>1703862
>Game On

Where's that? All the game stores I knew about shut down.

>>1703652
I found an n64 with no controllers or the AV cables once at a goodwill with no price tag on it. took a $2.99 tag off of something else and put it on. I've done this a few times with other gaming things so I can get them for a few dollars off. I've found it works best in the evening when there are still people there but enough space for you to do it.

>>1703938
Only douche bags use their phones for little stuff. I only use a phone for big stuff I don't have room for if it's not right.

>>1703953
I've seen a N64 with no controller or AV cords have a $35 price tag on them. Check the ram and see that glorious red plastic and yank it right the fuck out and replace the cover. Pocket time

>>1703950
Derp, sorry, it was Play World. Game On is a game shop in southeastern Ohio.

>>1703993
Oh ya, play world. Ho man that place always gave me the creeps. I forget that place even exists if it still does tho. Used game places are dropping like flies. I used to go to this place in Cranberry TWP called Game Again. Nice place but it just went out with in the past month. He did good business too. Always had people in their. Good prices.

Last thing I picked up their was a Fairchild Channel F 2. CIB and had 8 CIB games with it for $100. I hadn't even plugged it in by the time he went out of business.

>>1703993
Well I have to go to the bank. Don't know if I'll be on again tonight. If I am tho I'll take some pics of my stuff and post to either this thread or on /vr/

take care

>>1704010
Drive safe, and don't let the creepazoids get you.

>>1703443
Slash his tyres then beta

>>1703652
Actually when we suspect anyone is ripping off label we say some oh yeah that's $10

>>1703671
Really last time i looked it wasn't that expensive maybe like $40 on the high end

>>1703809
It's numbers game you have to go constantly at least once a week

>>1704215
Even when I had unlimited free time and nigh-infinite funds, there was fuck all. This was in the days before the drooling idiot masses became aware of the web. You know well that now that the public is aware of "nerd culture" and its potential for profit due to hipsters running on mommy-and-daddy-money with no concern for the amount of effort required by the average person to earn a dollar, any venue that carries legacy technology will be turned upside down and inside out in order to wring every cent out of it, whether the companies themselves do it, or their mealy-mouthed patrons who reek of ammonia.

tl;dr
Pickings weren't that good thirteen years ago, and they're worse now because people with no concern for the cost of scouring sales and stores for loot are raking up everything and dumping it on idiots with more dollars than sense.

>>1701070
I got my boxed Master System at my Goodwill for $25, and I live in the Midwest.

>>1704248
sounds like you need to get good i even find stuff in Australia

>>1704259
Yeah, but -when- did you get it?

>>1704267
I live in a libshit leftist hellhole, where a large chunk of the population gets paid by the government to play their Playstation 4 games and stay in a state of perpetual pregnancy, with nothing better to do than scour yardsales at 7AM for anything that will turn a profit on eBay or Craigslist.

Anybody with a job doesn't have that kind of time.

>>1704273
about half a year ago.

Living in Alabama, all the thrift stores blow ass because they have nothing in the tech departments but broken CRT tvs and decade-old Desktops. I have NEVER found anything worth buying.

>>1704276
And now the final question, which corner of which state? Because the western quarter of Pennsylvania, and northern half of Ohio are fucked.

Alright so a guy 20 minutes away has some n64 games for sale. He's asking an insane amount for Kirby, Zelda, and Mario, but the other ones he's asking $10 apiece. He has others not shown, and I talked the guy down to $30 for Star Wars Pod Racer, Goldeneye, Pokemon Stadium, and Tony Hawk Pro Skater.

Is it a good deal or should I bail? Cheapest I've seen these games honestly.

>>1704348
thats not a bad deal I'd pull the trigger on that and I don't even care for 64 that much.

>>1704408
alright thanks. I usually don't see pokemon stadium or goldeneye go for less than $15 or $20, so I think I'll do it.

>>1704273

I feel ya. I'm in California, where our legal system leaves us at the mercy of any fringe lunatic group looking to impose on the rest of us.

>>1703443
Guys like that are the reason I feel self-conscious looking at my collection on my phone. I've had people refuse to give me a break on prices because they saw me checking my phone and assumed I'm reselling. All I was actually doing was verifying whether a game is on my want list or at least something I don't already own. (You know you've got a problem when you can't remember if you own a game without checking a database.)

I wonder if Real Game Hunter ever posts here anymore

I miss him ;_;

>>1703717
Oh wow why do you still shop there m8?

>tfw there's competition in my area now, so all the underpriced good games at my local SA are getting snatched up long before I come through
It was fun while it lasted

Things are pretty shitty here in south central PA. I go to flea markets and ask if a booth that normally sells video games has anymore games, and I get brought to a selection of board games. The goodwills have nothing. The only places I find with any retro games period are pawn shops.

>>1701915
And to think, this is why everyone here bitches about expensive thrift stores and shitty resellers.

>>1704468
He left when everyone realized he was just a piece of shit reseller scum that priced his shit way too high.

>>1701915
Not helping at all, man
At the very least I hope you played it before you flipped it...

someone posted this earlier. I laughed pretty loud

>>1704548
It's one minute from work and I have the fever like all of you... You never know...

But I ask myself that question when I leave empty handed everytime

I always have more luck with locally owned consignment shops than I do with any of the more corporate thrift stores.
I've never found shit at Goodwill aside from some common PSX titles. Salvation Army usually has only the shittiest games that no one else would take. Christian Mission did manage to have Mike Tyson's Punchout in box once--but the box had extensive water damage and I ended up tossing it. Lady at the counter though it was some form of VHS tape...

But then, sometime last year, a lady and her husband opened a thrift store near the university that is such a gamble on what you'll find. I did manage to pick up an X-Box for $5, a Dreamcast for $5, and a GBC for $5. No connections, but no real problems there. But I believe the store is done like a consignment shop; where different slots of the store are rented out to people selling things and the owners get a cut of the profits. Which would explain why they want 100+ for a DS Lite with a bunch of shitty Disney games.

There's also a pawn shop here that manages to have good things every now and again. It's not as reliable as hunting everywhere, but the deals are nice.

>>1706253
There's a cash connection in my town and another 20 minutes away, and it's like you said about the pawn shop, they sometimes have good things for decent prices. It's just a matter if do I want it bad enough to pay that?

The Goodwill near here in Canada is pretty good. I got a PS1 there, with all cords, 2 Dualshock controllers, and a Mega Memory Card for 20 bucks.

While not /vr/, I bought Rule of Rose for $3 there, too.

>>1704418
jesus dude, goldeneye is like a 7 dollar game.

i go to my markets in eastern/north eastern PA.
i usually hit them early as hell and i usually get some nice stuff. but some days, i feel like doing it on my own and only having one set of eyes makes it that much harder to find anything good.

im afraid that in the next few years, im not going to see any NES or SNES games, im barely seeing much as it is and if i do its all junk. i've moved on to PS2, GC and GENS while still keeping an eye out for older stuff.

>yfw pic related

>>1706693
20 for a complete PS1 isn't a crazy deal but fuck Rule of Rose for $3? Holy fucking shit anon that's going for $100 used on Amazon right now.

>>1703310
I know that feel, man. I'm in west county STL and I've pretty much entirely given up on trying to get games at thrift stores. At least I'll occasionally get a decent record and good books are easy to find.

>>1705936
>cannon
What clown.

>>1705936
>crystal is held together with tape
Are you fucking serious about this shit

My large-city area is just overflowing with resellers these days. I use to go out on a daily route (10-15 stops) to find games, and over the years I found some fair deals - but not that often any more.

I know its mostly resellers, because a little while back I came across Power Stone 1 and 2 and Digimon World for $3 each. Guy came by and was telling me I could get them cheaper online (lol) and then asked me if I would visit his eBay store.

There's another "bro gamer" whom started doing a video blog, like Game Chasers, except very crudely done and very "holier than thou" attitudes - and instead of collecting and selling dupes, sells them at a local flea market for higher than feebay prices.

One of my favorite finds was a leather Gameboy Advance case for sale for $3.43. It was wrapped in plastic, but I'm always picking these things up and it was pretty heavy. Went to check out with a few things ( I also collect retro board games), the sales assiciate missed a "3" before hitting cash, and I ended up getting the whole thing for 34 cents. I told her about the mistake (I'm an honestfag, sue me), she winked and told me not to worry about it.
When I got to the car I ripped open the plastic to find a Gameboy Advance, Gameboy SP, and 30 GB/GBA games ranging from Pokemon to Final Fantasy Tactics.

My rarest find, and one of my biggest regrets of not being able to buy, was at a Salvation Army. Don't go there often because they run everything off of feebay prices. Anyway, they had a Vectrex with five games (and overlays) for 299.99. I tried to buy it on the spot but the sales associate said the system had already been sold. Some time later I found the same system for sale in a mom and pop retro store for 600 bucks.

I can also confirm that my GoodWill (both of them) sells their stuff on the GW auction site. I don't even bother checking them out unless I'm in the area.

One more thing, I got to know several people who run one of the smaller goodwills, and the stuff that doesn't hit the internet auctions or the shelves goes to the dumpster. I scored a working 3DO on its way to the trash this way.

I was told that unless it "looks new," they throw it away. YMMV though.

>>1705035
His prices seemed pretty reasonable and he was willing to give good deals to fellow /vr/ troopers
He put up a few videos earlier in Spring but nothing since... I hope he's okay ;~;

>>1705936
Another person from Bend browses /v/? I thought I was the only one

I laughed hysterically at that too. $50 each....
>Price is negotiable to a small extent

In the past week of visiting my 3 local goodwills I've managed to score Ridge Racer Type 4 and Tigershark for PS1 (which they accidentally rang up as only one game), and a Lightspan Adventures RF adapter for PS1, which is pointless but goes with my Lightspan Adventures set.

>>1708306
Wait, you're in Bend? Nice man. I'm in Redmond, we should meet up sometime. Did you see the Virtual Boy? I'm thinking I might grab it, it's a bit pricey but stil.

>>1709108
Yea I saw that awhile back, didn't pick it up since I already have 2 :/

I bought the Steel Battalion controller that was on there today if you saw that.

>>1709115
Do you ever go to that swap meet with the guy who sells all the games? His prices on regular games aren't bad. He has some mediocre stuff for like 3 bucks most of the time.

>>1702196
Bull. My Goodwill (swfl) has nothing but early-00's clothes for lardasses. Fucking retirement town.

>>1709124
Yea Mark.

I trade the consoles and shit I pick up for dirt cheap to him for more than I paid and get trade on games.

He's a pretty chill dude. I need to take a SNES and N64 to him actually, unless you want to buy em?

>>1709202
How much you asking? I already own both but just checking. Also, what does he pay you for systems? cus I've been curious as to what he'll offer me for some.

>>1709208
Ehh I dunno? Haven't thought about what to ask too much.

His trade values are pretty good if you get trade from him rather than cash. I think I get around 30 or so out of an N64. I think I;ve taken him 3 of those so far. I got $35 trade for my extra Saturn I traded to him.

Also if you go there to buy, buy in bulk. He starts to deal really good if you pick up a bunch of stuff.

>>1709217
ok cool good to know. I've got like 2 Dragonball Z games for the wii, think he'd do much for them?

>>1709221
dunno?

I haven't really dealt with him much on newer stuff.

Probably depends on the market value of the games

Steam ID spacedragon90

>>1709226
Alright thanks man. Good to know someone else around here browses /vr/

Fucking shitty rant post

Some shit local sales group on facebook, i'm a member of a few to see if i can catch some cool shit, got my saturn from one of them once

Some random facebook mommy is selling loads of "retro video games", ps2 (lol), ps1, gc, gb/gbc, along with a master system, a fucking SEGA 32X (hard to find in the UK, for a good price especially) and a bunch of 32x games.

>Offer her £100 for the 32x, master system, and all of the master system and 32x games.
>"sry no hun going for like £150 on ebay xx"
>reason with her, explain that those are buy it now prices and she should check the sold history
>copy and pastes the same "sry no hun going for like £150 on ebay xx"


Facebook mummies fuck me off so much anyway, but it really really winds me up when people somehow get this stuff and they have absolutely no care or appreciation for it but want ebay prices or higher

>>1701070
Just went to a local thrift store in MT, and found this beautiful package.Total haul was:

>1x Punch-Out!! Cartridge, NES
>1x Castlevania 3 Dracula's Curse Cartridge, NES
>1x Spy Hunter Cartridge, NES (Not pictured)
>1x Contra Cartridge, NES
>1x Skate or Die 2 Cartridge, NES
>2x Legend of Zelda Cartridges, Gold, NES (1x not pictured)
>2x Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt Cartridges, NES (1x not pictured)
>1x Gradius Cartridge, NES
>1x Super C Cartridge, NES (Not pictured)
>1x 3 Stooges Cartridge, NES (Not pictured)
>1x Gauntlet Cartridge, Tengen, NES
>1x Tecmo Super Bowl, NES (Not pictured)
>1x NES Zapper
>1x NES Advantage
>1x NES Controller
>2x NES Consoles (1 unusable) (Usable Console Picture
>8x Cartridge Dust Jackets (Not Pictured)
>1x Cartridge Case (Yellow) (Not pictured)
>1x Cartridge Case (Blue) (Not pictured)

Whole package was only 20 bucks. How did we make out?

Stopped by goodwill for first time in a few weeks. Same shit as usual. Only games they had were some sports ps2 titles and Beavis and Butthead for the gamegear for $3.

For the NCfags:
Goodwill:
Lexington > Apex > Asheville > Cary
I don't know how rich snobs general has the most ghetto Goodwill, but they did - and the selection is always below shit. I don't think I've seen anything good in there at all.

>>1710889
I'd likely be willing to pay double if not more for the lot, so I'd be pretty damn happy.

Need to find some good places to look around Pittsburgh; Currently places I frequent never have anything worthwhile at all.

Kansasfag here

Best goodwills are in derby, and maize. Avoid the one near 235 exit on central. They overprice goods(but mark games at $3.99). The straw that broke the camels back was they were selling a pink gba SP for $99. But I normally don't go to goodwill for games anymore. I don't agree with what they are doing with the auction site.

I go to almost every goodwill on thursdays. I might start changing my tactics to sundays and mondays because of yard sale season. I do find some good electronics at good prices. I have an almost entire sony stereo system. Ive also bought alot of CRTs from them, Records and vhs's too. I mainly go out of town for better game scores, like say Oklahoma or kansas city. I have a horror story from the goodwill outlet I visited in KC....god I'm never going back to that store.

I haven't had good luck at a Goodwill in years.
I heard that has to do with some sort of ebay page they launched, where they auction off the good stuff.
Sounds about right too, because I haven't seen anything of note pop up in any of their area stores.

OP here, although I haven't hit up any thrift stores lately (still pissed over that master system) I did make it down to Avon, NY for their two flea markets.

>2x NES Max controllers, dirty as hell but working $5 for both
>Super Gameboy for $8
>2x N64 Star Wars: Shadow of the Empire and 1x Wave Race, carts only for $10
>PS2 Controller, 8Mb memory card, composite cable, all Sony for $10

not bad, those local /vr/os around WNY should DEFINATELY hit it up. A lot of retro game stands. The Super Gameboy I got was from a pretty cool dude with probably 500 games set out on tables. All retro (plus some ps2) including import titles.
Nice guy, chatted for a while then talked him down to $8 on the super gameboy from 15. A lot of boxed NES games, all complete too.

Any other nice grabs lately?

>>1712362
Did my old rounds today and found squat. Not even a sports title in about fifteen stops.

>>1701070
OP is a cool guy.

I was wandering around Goodwill a couple weeks ago and was so shocked at the price I took the same pic.

2spooky4me

The thrift store near my place is a spitting image of the ebay store from the 40 Year Old virgin.

Anything remotely considered valuable is locked up in an auction case.

There isn't that much vidya there nowadays, but when there is, it's priced like pic related...

However, they said they'd be willing to take offers on a lot of their "auction" items since they'd "need a person full time to monitor an ebay page" One of those items is a boxed Dreamcast controller with a "$5 starting bid", what should I offer for that controller?

On the other hand, my local flea market still has some bretty good deals.

Picked up a Generation NEX famiclone w/ controller for $5, it's just missing an ac adapter Anyone know where I can find one that's compatible?

Also grabbed Wily Wars for $20, because why not, I love Megaman (also i've never seen a physical copy IRL).

>>1714769
Is there anywhere on the console that lists the Voltage/Current input? Usually they'll have that information on a sticker on the bottom or near the DC-in port.

It'll look something like "10VDC/850mA"
The values are just for reference.

You'll probably be able to use a generic power supply/adapter as long as the voltage/current ratings match. The only reason I couldn't see this working is if it had a proprietary power connector or something stupid like that.

>>1714780
Hey, thanks for the reply man!

Also the console says it takes DC in 9v with a 650 mA current. Would Radioshack or something like that have one? I've also heard stories of people using cell phone adapters and having it work just fine.

>>1714794
Personally, I'd probably just get the nearest generic one from a North American seller (USAfag here) on eBay but do what works for you.

Here's a quick amazon one I pulled up http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Adapter-Power-Supply-650mA/dp/B003XZSZWO

I will warn you to be careful on whether or not the adapter is supposed to be center-positive or center-negative. Though it seems the most common version of this adapter is 5.5mmx2.1mm with a center-positive plug.

>>1714794
>>1714804
For clarification on what the symbol should look like on the console if they have it properly labeled.

Hope that helps.

>>1714813
In that case, looks like the NEX is centre-positive.

Thanks again for the help, fellow /vr/trooper!
Your efforts will not go uncongratulated.

>>1714824
Oh, and you might actually want to avoid that amazon listed one. Just checked the reviews and it's apparently got problems with voltage ripple. So much so it's not even technically legal for US retail sale.

>>1714769
you've never seen a physical copy because legit ones don't exist, that's a repro. Don't feel bad though, a quality repro with a case will run you about $50 if you buy it directly from the guy who made it, so you got a great deal.

>>1714934
Yeah, that's right. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Wily Wars was only released over a now-defunct satellite download service and only saw the light of day in the NTSC-J and PAL regions? (meaning only "Megadrive" territories would apply, rather than the Genesis)

This week's haul from goodwills around central VA has been alright. Got a working NES (3rd time's the charm) for 30 bucks. Had two controllers, no discoloration, and a nice surprise when I got it home and took that tape off, somebody left Mario 3 inside.

Other than that it's been pretty dead. Nothing but PS1/2 sports games, though I did snag a few decent records.

>>1701070
My local Good Will gets in a lot of games. Mostly Playstation, and Xbox. They are cheap enough as far as games go. 1.99 for PS1 games and 2.99 for anything else. However their systems are fucking expensive.

They want 30 bucks for an old beat up Playstation with no controllers.

>>1717871
>They want 30 bucks for an old beat up Playstation with no controllers.

that's ridiculous but so common now. even at the avon flea markets by me i saw a few psx for 25 and a ps1 for 30... but the gcn for 45 with no accessories takes the cake.

but those are all from one stall of an old old man that has no idea

>>1701070
The St. Vincent de Paul near where I live sometimes has a couple of nice stuff. Just today I got Zelda, A Link to the Past and Demons Crest for $5 each, and just the other day an N64 for $40 with cables and two controllers.

>>1717889
Do yourself a favor and buy a fat ps3. The upscaling on ps1 and ps2 makes it tolerable on HDTV's and not complete ass like putting a PS1 or PS2 directly on there and besides a handful of games (legend of legaia has a bug that has a near 100% chance of happening towards the end of the game that soft locks it during a cutscene, but can be skipped by downloading a save that someone uploaded past that point) its pretty much perfect. Not to mention the slew of USB based hardware like fightsticks and shit that you can use on it, the only problem is no light gun games, but those are usually just a novelty anyways.

>>1717889
wtf is a "gcn"

>>1719889
GameCube. It's official abreviation is GCN.

>>1714757
>$30
>Wuuuuuuuuuuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh

>>1718698
Well first you have to have a model that has PS2 backwards compatibility. The 40 GB model does not. Also if you buy an original PS3. You replace the thermal compound, no ifs ands or buts.

>>1714757
5 bucks. Seriously, my local shop sells em in fine shape for 6.

>>1719979
Hell, if you buy a PS3 in the first place, you may as well get a professional solder reball station ready. Odds are you'll need when (not if) the garbage lead-free solder on the CPU cracks.

>inb4 not retro

>>1701070
Eight days late but holy shit, a victorbro? It seems like the Good Wills around here never have anything, but if they do it's nothing special. Not retro, but the best I got was Animal Crossing with the original memory card for four bucks.

Like five years ago, I scored a boxed Master System on ebay with eight games, two controllers, light gun, 3D glasses, and little arcade stick for twenty dollars. Looking around Game Crazes and seeing Master Systems go for fifty on their own boggles my mind how lucky I am.

>>1701070
>>1701991
>>1701998
>>1702118
>>1703197
>>1703297
>>1714634
Holy shit, all these western NYbros and Victorbros? Macedon here, graduated from Victor though. Likely won't happen, but a meet up would be fucking cool.

It seems like the Goodwills around here never have anything, but if they do it's nothing special. Not retro, but the best I got was Animal Crossing with the original memory card for four bucks.

Like five years ago, I scored a boxed Master System on ebay with eight games, two controllers, light gun, 3D glasses, and little arcade stick for twenty dollars. Looking around Game Crazes and seeing Master Systems go for fifty on their own boggles my mind how lucky I am.

By the way, what do you guys think of Game Craze? I've only been to two in Rochester once each, but I go to the one at Eastview Mall fairly often. I used to go to the one in Canandaigua a lot as a kid, but I'm pretty sure it's a front for drugs or some shit. The dudes who work there nowadays don't strike me as gamers at all and they put the price stickers on the on the paper cover sleeves beneath the plastic. It's disgusting. Thanks for the heads up on Heckle and Jeckle, I shall steer clear.

>>1701070 (OP)
>>1701991
>>1701998
>>1702118
>>1703197
>>1703297
>>1714634
Holy shit, all these western NYbros and Victorbros? Macedon here, graduated from Victor though. Likely won't happen, but a meet up would be fucking cool.

It seems like the Goodwills around here never have anything, but if they do it's nothing special. Not retro, but the best I got was Animal Crossing with the original memory card for four bucks.

Like five years ago, I scored a boxed Master System on ebay with eight games, two controllers, light gun, 3D glasses, and little arcade stick for twenty dollars. Looking around Game Crazes and seeing Master Systems go for fifty on their own boggles my mind how lucky I am.

By the way, what do you guys think of Game Craze? I've only been to two in Rochester once each, but I go to the one at Eastview Mall fairly often. I used to go to the one in Canandaigua a lot as a kid, but I'm pretty sure it's a front for drugs or some shit. The dudes who work there nowadays don't strike me as gamers at all and they put the price stickers on the paper cover sleeves beneath the plastic. It's disgusting. Thanks for the heads up on Heckle and Jeckle, I shall steer clear.

I haven't been to the Avon flea market since last summer, I ought to make a trip there again sometime.

Anyone been to the International Center for the History of Electronic Games at the Strong Museum? I highly, highly recommend it especially if you haven't been to an arcade in years like me. Such a blast.

>>1720321
If your name is Jake I'm going to shit my pants.

I'm currently in the process of buying a house in Fairport, off of 31 by Turk Hill. Maybe I'll try to put together some vidja playing once I'm settled in. I'm in a shitty small apartment in the ghetto of the city now, wouldn't work there.

I always thought Game Craze was over priced, I don't think I ever bought anything there, just browsed, pic related.

Does anyone remember Game CrazY in Batavia? That place was the shit when I was in high school a decade ago.

I was at the Museum of Play two weeks ago with my wife and 9mo old, he didn't care but I loved the arcade and all the vidja history!

At my local goodwill years ago I picked up Battletoads/Double Dragon for the NES for 2.99. Pretty nice steal.

>>1720604
My name is... you ready for this?

......

......

Ben.

Oh well!

You sound a bit older than I am, so we most likely don't know each other.

Was Game CrazY in a mall? I thiiink I've maybe been to it only once. Never went to it enough for it to leave an impression on me unfortunately.

If you're moving near 31, do you by chance remember Video Game Monster? It was only there for about five years maybe before it went out of business. It was generally a little high on prices, but I always left with a few good buys. The first time I went there I got like six good SNES games, later found a few Master System games, and when they were liquidating I got a few things for cheap. It's a pawn shop called Mega Pawn now, I haven't checked if it's got any vidya yet.

>>1720604
My name is... you ready for this?

......

......

Ben.

Oh well!

You sound a bit older than I am, so we most likely don't know each other.

Was Game CrazY in a mall? I thiiink I've maybe been to it only once. Never went to it enough for it to leave an impression on me unfortunately.

If you're moving near 31, do you by chance remember Video Game Monster? It was only there for about five years maybe before it went out of business. It was generally a little high on prices, but I always left with a few good buys. The first time I went there I got like six good SNES games, later found a few Master System games, and when they were liquidating I got a few things for cheap. It's a pawn shop called Mega Pawn now, I haven't checked if it's got any vidya yet.

31 used to have so much for arcades back in the day. A little over ten years ago, the roller skating rink/skate park, Spinners, used to be the shit before it got shut down for having overnight lock-ins filled with drugs and hookers. Had a great arcade. The go kart track across the street, County Line Raceway, seems to have shut down recently too. I wish I would have gone there more. The mini golf nearby might have a few arcade games still, but I haven't been there in years.

>>1720604
My name is... you ready for this?

......

......

Ben.

Oh well!

You sound a bit older than I am, so we most likely don't know each other.

Was Game CrazY in a mall? I thiiink I've maybe been to it only once. Never went to it enough for it to leave an impression on me unfortunately.

If you're moving near 31, do you by chance remember Video Game Monster? It was only there for about five years maybe before it went out of business. It was generally a little high on prices, but I always left with a few good buys. The first time I went there I got like six good SNES games, later found a few Master System games, and when they were liquidating I got a few things for cheap. It's a pawn shop called Mega Pawn now, I haven't checked if it's got any vidya yet.

31 used to have so much for arcades back in the day. A little over ten years ago, the roller skating rink/skate park, Spinners, used to be the shit before it got shut down for having overnight lock-ins filled with drugs and hookers. Had a great arcade. The go kart track across the street, County Line Raceway, seems to have shut down recently too. I wish I would have gone there more. The mini golf nearby might have a few arcade games still, but I haven't been there in years.

>>1720321
>Anyone been to the International Center for the History of Electronic Games at the Strong Museum?

I just got back from Strong Museum. It's a five minute walk from where I work and I go there a couple times a week for lunch. And since I have a Strong membership, I usually sneak in a few games of Tempest and Robotron while I'm there.

I live in Spencerport, BTW. There's two like minded people that live here in the village, including a dude in his early 40's that has more Gen 2 and 3 games/systems than I've ever seen any single person have. He also restores arcade games and has a fully restored Dragon's Lair and Space Ace in his basement.

>>1721005
It must be awesome to be so close to the Strong, I live like 25 minutes away but I don't really have any business in the city so I don't go there too often.

That arcade game restoring guy sounds cool as hell. I wish I had the money/place for an arcade game.

>hurr reseller jews
>durr i hate it when others make money

Every sickly basement dweller on /vr/. If I found a copy of Earthbound today, I would sell it for as much as I could on Ebay.

>>1721450
What's your problem?

>>1711218
Lexington, really? How is that possible?

Just stopped by the one in Winston close to LVJM the other day. They literally had nothing as far as /vr/ would be concerned. Not much of anything game related to be honest.

Thomasville here.

>>1714757
You should offer to slap the shit out of them for putting common NES and shit tier GBA games in a glass case.

>>1721450
I'm so happy I bought a copy of that on clearance for $15 at the tail end of the life of the SNES. Still have it complete in box with the guide and scratch and sniff cards. I'm quite surprised that used copies are still going for upwards of $300 on feebay. I'm just glad I didn't sell mind when it was topping out at $150. Easily the most expensive game in my very meager collection.

What say you, /vr/? How long should I ride it out before I sell this little gem of mine?

>>1721712
I'll hold on to it for you so you don't sell it too soon.

>>1721698
The GBA games I can understand. People often just pocket those. I've even seen boxed GBA games with the game stolen out of them because they didn't put it in the case.

>>1721698
6 bucks

>mfw I shop at that goodwill all the time
never for vidya though, I just emulate

>>1721872
True enough, but not even a crackhead suffering three day withdrawals would steal That's So Raven or American Idol.

There's two Uniques and a Goodwill near me.

One of the Uniques and the Goodwill never have anything, I stop in sometimes just since they're all on the same route, but it's usually pointless.

The furthest Unique from me sometimes has decent shit, but it's a question of luck and do they know what they have.

Got Warcraft III Collector's Edition, Kings Quest VI, and 5 boxed Intellivision games for 23 dollars.

But usually they overprice the hell out of their shit. 10 dollars for SMB/DH and things of that nature.

They did have a Master System for 50 but I was like ehhh. Is that a good price for a Master System?

>>1721939
That's right about ebay price for one depending on what it had with it.

>>1721943

It looked in decent enough shape, but they were selling the blaster separately for 10. Didn't see any other controllers or wires.

>>1701941
gotyay

>>1721450

>>1721950
then no it was not worth it

>>1721450

>>1721912
Heh, I pretty much only ever buy clothes from these places. Sometimes also books if the price is right (by that I mean $1 basically, lol).

Only good "deal" I found was an Amiga 1000 for $50 but that was back in 1992-3 at some no-name thrift store. But I already had an Amiga 2000 so didn't care about it. And these days I haven't seen any old 80's computers at all in these places. I don't even care about game consoles, those I'll just emulate, same as with MAME.

Found this today at a small thrift store in Poseyville. Im going to see if it will work

>>1723471
So far so good

>>1723484
>dat shit background
>dat test music
>dat Sierra logo

its 1998 again

>>1702184
There are always a ton of little bags like that hanging up in my local savers, there's probably some good shit hidden in there. They mostly go ignored because they're 99% cables and other random worthless crap.

>>1721661
yeah, capitalist pig

>>1723494
So on the disk there is You Dont Know Jack Vol.3, 3D Minigolf, and a sports page demo

>>1723509
ITS ALIVE

>>1723484
>>1723520
I'm as surprised as you are. This game is GOAT but I really never got it working right for one reason or another. I can get Creep Night working like a charm through a custom installer that doesn't require the disc though.

Also
>there will never be a hi-res patch for Ultra Pinball games

>>1723520
There are many tables (12 of them maybe?) That you have to get by accessing them through the main game or doing practice mode
>>1723529
Really? And yes this game is GOAT.

But what if they get put on as a remake for Pinball Arcade on Steam?

>>1706975
I'm in STL and I'm still finding deals in thrift stores every once in awhile. You just have to look harder bud.

>B&M Exchange selling Mario Paint and the mouse and the mousepad
>Its 95 Dollars

What the fuck

Well last week I went to a flea market and picked up a few games (mostly retro)
-Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
-Resident Evil 3
-Tomb Raider Collection (1,2,3)
-Devil May Cry 3
-Silent Hill 3
I paid somewhere around $35-40 total. I think I could have talked the guy down to $25 or around there but I think I did fine. I could have really fucked him over though since all the games have a sticker on them with the price (I could have switched the more expensive stickers with the cheapest ones)and he was helping someone out of sight. I'm glad I didn't though.

Oh man there are so many Western New Yorkers in this thread. My girlfriend used to work at the Henrietta goodwill and one time they got gold cartridge Majora's Mask still sealed in the original box and whoever put it out decided that they should take it out of the box.

all you guys complaining about not finding anything need to get good

>>1726775
Who Southern Tier here?
Only place I've ever found /vr/ here was at Gamerz Haven and they overprice everything to shit.

eastern PA /vr/o here
there is NOTHING in our state sadly.
everything is at least 30-40 mins away at best.
I used to check sally armies, but this was early to mid 2000's. i could find stuff like saturns and TG-16s. i don't bother now due to distance and flea markets are becoming filled with more and more people looking for retro, sadly more resellers than collectors.

Not retro but man I got a good deal yesterday from a local CD store

Xbox GTA: San Andreas, NM, CIB, includes poster
>paid $2.50
>online: used from $10, not guaranteed with poster, etc.
Xbox Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2, NM, CIB, etc. (but with an old Game Crazy sticker -- can easily be removed, oh well)
>paid $2.50
>online, used from $20

not even retro but probably the best deal I've gotten all year

>>1702089

My 317 nigga

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