/vr/ - Retro Games

Thought I'd OP something interesting. Maybe we'll find something worth taking home today!

Model 2 Genesis + 5? games (I saw Aladdin) $40

Mainly this will be pictures of the kind of worthless crap you have to look at in a day to MAYBE find a treasure

And this is the last of the crap at this particular store (going to try to hit 6 today).

Some of you probably would have bought that Genesis I guess. Maybe even some of those sports and music games (?)

But not for me.. Not today

SNES Lion King and some other/vr/stuff behind the counter. Didn't even look at it. That shit pisses me off.

Like $3 reach and I don't want any of it

>>870536
I hate stores like this. They know what they're doing.

>>870536
>sport games
They should just destroy these each year.

>>870559
I agree, sports games don't need preservation like other games. They're so mass-market, they will never be rare or even worth the media they're printed on or the cases in which they reside.

PacmaThese are $5-$7. I'm eyeballing that Armarines & Ms Pacman. What do you think?

>>870580
buy that boxed rugrats.

>>870580
go for it
but definitely this >>870585

>>870585
Why?

What kind of thrift stores do you guys go to to find all this shit?

All the resale stores around here only sell old furniture and donated clothing...

>>870626
They likely do not live in retrogaming-reseller-hell. You know, where the shop owner has an army of cronies who scour every estate sale, rummage sale, garage sale, yard sale, community sale, boat sail, thrift store, flea market, craigslist post, and ebay lot auction to bolster their inventories for pennies.

>>870637
I dunno if you're looking at these prices but they aren't pennies and most of it is trash.

>>870626
Ohio Thrift is a Columbus area chain. They have pretty good business practices but they tag their sports games too high and the good titles get swallowed up. Sometimes you find gold though. Hopefully today.

I didn't buy that Rugrats game btw. What the hell do I want with that? Taking a shit break right now at a ghetto Kro..

>>870637
>tfw remembering the time before the bubble

>>870656
When do you expect this bubble with burst? Five years? Ten? Will it only get worse?

>>870672
I don't see it getting better, as with Youtube being constantly in the public mindset, new collectors will be born as soon as they see enough AVGN/CG.COM videos, and as long as people are interested in classic games, there will be a market for people to exploit the ignorant.

>>870681
CG.com? What? Assuming this is an abbreviation I can't remember but probably have visited in the past.

>>870687
*MASSIVE BASSLINE*
CLASSIC GAMING DAWT KAWHM

>>870698
Okay actually I've never been there. Huh. Looks like a website IGN forgot existed.

A little better pickings here

>>870760
I totally disregard PS2 and Xbox games because I know I can probably find them sealed for $20 on ebay or amazon.

>>870760
>timesplitters

GET IT GET IT

>>870760
Aw shit nigga you betta get yo ass dat Popeye VHS

CRY extravaganza. They price them too high and there are Goodwills and Salvation Armies right uptown that sell them for half as much or less.

Some PC stuff. I thought that Super Huey 2 was pretty cute

>>870819
CRT*

>>870834
>Burning Crusade
Oh wow

Some behind the register stuff. Why does Psp need to be behind the register?

>>870834
LOVE Super Huey II.
All those early flight sims
LHX, Gunship, SWOTL, TFH, BoB

Aged not as well but there's something about that graphic style
the nostalgia's come back, thank you anon

One lonely NES SMB2

>>870854
crack open, disc pocket, profits dive

same reason gba/gb/ds games are locked up

>>870860
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>870860
6 bucks isn't bad. I'm surprised it's not 20.

>>870860
Is that a military medal? What the fuck who would donate that.

>>870928
Ungrateful relatives.

>>870536
>SSX3

youre missing out chum

>>870834
Abes Oddysee is a good as hell game

>>870860
I'd probably buy that and I don't even have a NES.

>>870440
>Price Sticker on the BOX of the Millennium Falcon
>>870580
>Price Stickers on the Cartridges

FUCKING FUCK

Salvation Army's basket

And remember what I said about getting your CRTs at Salvation Army? Yeah

>>870860
I thought it was illegal to sell military medals

>>870998
So is the only thing in thrift stores is shitty sports games?

>>871006
It's probably a fake.

Guys I really don't think there's a US military medal with a yin yang on it. That having been said, the army navy store sells medals all the time.

Here's a bunch of /vr/ stuff I actually bothered to get out from behind the counter. I might get that Clue for Genesis. I probably would get that Professor Layton also if I didn't already have a flash card.

>>870536
>MK: Deception
holy fuck i haven't had a working copy of that game in awhile, I miss it

And the requisite shelf of shit

>>871094
What do you thing the VGA grade for that unopened Sammy Sosa High Heat Baseball 2001 would be?

>>871094
>ESPN NFL 2K5

at least there's something good in that pile of shit

too bad it's the PS2 version, a little more complicated to update the rosters on there than on the Xbox version

sage for not retro

>>871071
>>871006
It's not illegal to buy or sell them, but misrepresenting yourself as having earned it when you haven't is like a felony. That includes any form of 'wearing it'.

>>870626

This. I'm having a really hard time believing this is just a run of the mill thrift store.

>>871124
Sorry your thrift stores aren't as good as ours

>>870476
>>870490
>>870536
>>870998
>>871094
>>871291
Oh God I know this suffering. People should just burn sports games.

>>871071
>FF7

what label is it?

>>870819
>all those CRT's

>>871363
honk honk

>>871348
That's FFVIII, and Greatest Shits. A good pickup if you've never played the game, but most collectors would hold out for a black label copy.

>>871367

>>870654
you're in the 614 too? what part?

All the CRT's in my area are $1 at goodwill. Are you guys seeing this? I got a sony 27 inch flat screen for $1. With remote no less.

>>871468
Where I live people give away CRTs and thrift shops charge little to nothing for them.
Then again, finding games at thrift shops here is impossible.

I went to a thrift store in palm springs the other day.

They had Boxed GBA games.

14 full shelves of them.

All of them were Operation/Mousetrap

.....Every. single. one.


;_;

>>871374
That sign looks fake as hell but I've seen them in Brooklyn enough.

>>870928
You'd be surprised.

>Grandpa, Vietnam vet
>goes to Florida for like 5 years
>comes back to home state of Texas
>his sister threw out his Silver Star and 2 Purple Hearts while he was gone.

>>871113
TIL I was a hardcore felon as a child

This is now the norm across every single thrift store You might come across a good game every once in a while but rummaging through sports games is true suffering.

Picked these fuckers up for $1.99 each today. Love me some thrift stores.

>>871071
power ranger is one of the best game on game gear btw

>>871959
LOL upvote do an AMA bro!

my locals thrift stores don't even have video games.

>>871823
How does that even happen?

OP back. Battery died yesterday.

I saw a PSX (no AV jacks in the back) for $15 with a Dual Shock controller, not the awkward Dual Analog, else I'd have bought it, a Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen game for GB/GBC (black cart), and some PS2 trash. Nothing else of interest beyond ROTT for PC, but eh.

So I bought a Microsoft Optical Wheelmouse for $2. Best mouse evah.

>>873019
They probably received some retail store's unsold inventory. Ever go to KMart, WalMart, etc and in the $10 clearance bin see dozens & dozens of copies of a few, if not one, title? Thrift store is probably the final destination.

$100. Pawn shop yesterday. Not the best deal I've ever made, but not terrible.

$35 for the copy of Klonoa. It's a former rental, so it has stickers and shit all over the manual, but the disc is in good shape. $40 for the N64. Pretty good shape. Small crack in the plastic near the cartridge slot, and the mismatched expansion pack cover is driving me nuts, so I might have to go to eBay for a new one.

>>874468
OP here. The best thing I bought was a Cherry brand M type "clacky" keyboard with a touch pad, serial pass through and magnetic strip reader.

>>870559
there are people destroying copies of shaq fu but i do agree only a few sports game are rare. 99% of them have millions of copies floating around

>>872221
this check your privilege burgers