/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1431719]

>riding to work (car is getting repaired)
>garbage day
>see something in the corner of my eye on a garbage pile
>pic related.

Anyone else found anything in trash/dumpsters?

[Anonymous No.1431735]

Wow, those are in great shape for a dumpster dive.

Some kids mom just threw away their childhood.

[Anonymous No.1431758]

>>1431735
They were in this holder.

Not sure if it is a official Nintendo one, but it is pretty neat.

[Anonymous No.1431768]

yeah, this totally happened, I 100% believe in this story that you just presented to me.

[Anonymous No.1431772]

>>1431768
What would be the point of lying on an anonymous board?

[Anonymous No.1431779]

>>1431719
So you found a collection of N64, with 7 of those games being the staple N64 games due to how small the library was.

[Anonymous No.1431780]

I used to dumpster dive at video game stores all the time. Now my friend works right next to Gamestop, he's gotten like five hardbound collectors edition GTA5 strategy guides.

[Anonymous No.1431784]

These look far too pristine to be thrown out like that but then again I once scored a near new boxed PS2 slim and games in a bag with a whole bunch of shit being tossed out to the curb.
I think under the circumstances someone got evicted or some shit. I live in a nice part of town with lots of flats and units and the stuff they sometimes throw away round here is amazing. CRTs every few months litter the sidewalks on collection week.

[Anonymous No.1431797]

When my mom moved out of the state I had to go clear out all my old stuff. I ended up leaving 3-4 milk crates full of vidya related stuff by the dumpster.

* N64
* GameCube
* PS1
* PS2
* Dreamcast
* All relevant connectors and adapters.
* All games.

I assume that whoever found it just took it to GameStop and threw it IN the dumpster after getting nothing for it, but I hope whoever actually found it got some use out of it.

[Anonymous No.1431949]

>>1431719
Well i have curb collections here so i usually find non retro games but i did find a creativision console one time

[Anonymous No.1431951]

>>1431772
No guilt or accountability?

[Anonymous No.1431954]

God damn it, why can I never find games on the curb?

Though I did find a decent Trinitron with component on the curb, but I'd trade it for games easy.

[Anonymous No.1431972]

>>1431719
>Fighting Force 64
I can honestly say I've never heard of this.

Once I found a metric shit ton of toys in a dumpster when I was 10. They were all still completely clean so I took them back to my house. Played with most before donating 90% of it to Goodwill. Still have a few random Star Wars action figures from all of that. It was well over $200 of toys based on store prices. I was so excited at the time.

[Anonymous No.1431975]

>>1431797
>... I ended up leaving 3-4 milk crates full of vidya related stuff by the dumpster.
What kept you from keeping them?

[Anonymous No.1431991]

I'm trying to find a YouTube video I saw a while back where a guy has a Jap Famicon w/Disk System, and an SNES that he found in a cardboard box while walking his dog.

[Anonymous No.1431997]

>>1431991
I know the video you are talking about i can't find it though

[Cold Hands No.1432001]

>>1431758
I used to have a friend with something like that, although it was a sliding drawer thing. I think it might have been made for VHS tapes and he just decided to put N64 carts in it.

[Anonymous No.1432014]

When I was 18 I threw away all my consoles into a recycling bin because I was wasting my time on them and put them at the curb.

No one picked them up so they got crushed.

[Anonymous No.1432113]

I found an NES with cables and a copy of Gun Smoke that was out for garbage day. I actually still have the NES though I don't use it in lieu of my top loader.

[Anonymous No.1433050]

>OP is an ausfag
>vidya is expensive as fuck here
>the games in his pic are worth $260-$300

Why would someone just throw that shit away?

[Anonymous No.1433109]

>>1431797
>I ended up leaving 3-4 milk crates full of vidya related stuff by the dumpster
why would you do such a thing you motherfucker

[Anonymous No.1433117]

>>1431972
Its also a PS1 title

[Anonymous No.1433138]

I found a copy of Pokemon Ruby in a snowbank one winter. Label was gone, but it otherwise worked like a charm.

[Anonymous No.1433151]

>>1431719
jesus christ what a fucked up thing to throw away
was this man on meds or something?
if not I think he needs to see a doctor asap

[Anonymous No.1433187]

>>1431719
Whoa, there's a green Yoshi's Story cartridge? I've only seen ones with the red Yoshi on it.

[Anonymous No.1433371]

>>1431772
10 minutes of feeling important.

[Anonymous No.1433391]

I found an old brick gameboy when I was 8, it was in a ditch face down in a puddle of water.

Cleaned it, let it dry, used that gameboy for years.

[Anonymous No.1433394]

my dad was a garbageman and bought home a master system and rastan that he found in a bin. at least that's where he said he found it.

[Anonymous No.1433398]

What the duck man..


Good find, gooood find.

[Anonymous No.1433407]

>>1431719
>>1433398
What the duck indeed OP, how the quack did you find that? I can't believe someone would just throw that stuff away and shrug it off like water off a duck's back. This bread is ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.1433443]

>>1431719
>Star wars racer
>Diddy Kong racing
>Banjo Kazooie
>Banjo Tooie
>Mario Kart 64
>Yoshi's Story
>Mario Party
>Super Smash Brothers
this can't be real no one is this lucky

[Anonymous No.1433527]

>>1431719

dat troll

[Anonymous No.1433559]

Found a few things while looking in the electronics part of my local skip
>snes
>decent speakers
>boombox
>xbox

That's about it but my friend has found a heap of stuff before

[Anonymous No.1433632]

i found a super nintendo besides a dumpster in my apts in average condition with mario's missing, mrs pacman, mortal kombat and street fighter turbo 2 and two controllers. Now I check the dumpsters a few times week to see if there's any retro vidya

[Anonymous No.1433695]

>>1431719
i too found myself a little treasure whilst dumpster diving. for example, i found a Stadium Events and Nintendo World Championships Gold cartridges, complete in their original packaging with shrink wrap included next to a small pile of gold encrusted with diamonds and other precious jewels. cant believe they were throwing them away! so I sold them and now i am RICH.

[Anonymous No.1433968]

>no goldeneye

Who didnt own goldeneye back then?

[Anonymous No.1433975]

>>1433968
Aussies, apparently.

[Anonymous No.1434646]

>garbage day

[Anonymous No.1435361]

>>1431719
I once found an almost full bag of doritos in the dumpster. They weren't very crunchy but they still tasted ok

[Anonymous No.1435365]

I found a stack of about 50 burned PS1 games near the dumpster once

[Anonymous No.1435483]

>going to school one day
>see a N64 box throw in the rubbish
>pick it up, and an N64 falls out
>didn't want to bring it home because my mother would probably tell me to put it back

Oh, and I recently saw a wire to a PS1 controller sticking out of the rubbish too, but I didn't want to take it out.

[Anonymous No.1435937]

>>1435365
You put them in, right?

[Anonymous No.1435960]

>>1431768
>some kids grown up and moved out forgetting about games he may not have played for over a decade
>his mum's clearing out the clutter and throws out stuff she doesn't want

Yeah, what an unbelievable scenario.

[Anonymous No.1437086]

>>1435361

[Anonymous No.1437119]

>>1431719
>Anyone else found anything in trash/dumpsters?
Never. I usually live in shitty areas, so the only things in dumpsters tend to be broken furniture and human waste.

[Anonymous No.1437121]

>>1435960
Women can be pretty stupid when it comes to the value of inanimate objects. Buying stupid decorative items to make other women jealous, and the like. Check /k/ for "female relative stole my guns and sold them while I was on vacation/deployed/studying overseas" stories.

[Anonymous No.1437123]

>>1437121
oh hey /r9k/ is here

[Anonymous No.1437807]

>>1437123
/r9k/ or not, he's still right.