Retro Thrifting

[Anonymous No.4638314]

Anybody still find cool retro things at thrift stores these days? All I can find is Gen 6+ stuff
Discuss shopping strategies or cool finds

[Anonymous No.4638316]

It seems like the oldest games I find these days are PS1 type stuff but they are quite rare.

[Anonymous No.4638324]

>>4638314
Recent Thrift Store pickups
>GC with GB Player $20
>Super Scope and XBox 360 HDDVD Player $20
>Kirby Return to Dreamland $4
>FZero (SNES), Acro the Acrobat and NES Top loader $50
There's more, but I forgot. I love thrift store hunting. It's how I find like 90% of my retro games and I find great games for less than half what stores have them for. I have 2 copies of Super Mario RPG that I played less than $15 for

[Anonymous No.4638341]

I once found Wonder Boy and Wonder Boy 3 at the tip shop among the video tapes. Other than that it's just copies of PS1 games and maybe some PC games. I got Half Life 1 from there once, too.

[Anonymous No.4638347]

>>4638314
i found harvest moon for ps1 labelled as a CD at Arc but that was a rare mistake.

[Anonymous No.4638353]

>>4638341
I buy old Half Life games because Valve lets you redeem them on Steam still

[Anonymous No.4638357]

Goodwill stopped carrying that shit since the early 2000s when they became corporatized. Anything of value that gets donated never sees the shelves, instead it's handed off to Ebay scalpers. End result is that the store has nothing but old VCRs and cell phone chargers.

[Anonymous No.4638373]

>>4638357
While that's true for the most part.
My Kirby RtDL came from Goodwill. I've also found quite a few things there that make the trips worth it

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4638641]

If 4chan has programed your brain that only games made for consoles released in 1999 and earlier are worth collecting save your gas money to pay for shipping

[Anonymous No.4638674]

its hit or miss for me but i had a lucky streak lately.
found a game gear with 3 games and the original xbox component box for $4 each

[Anonymous No.4638690]

>>4638641
/vr/ is full of retards.

[Anonymous No.4638691]

>>4638314
>Have a row of thrift stores off of Holt Blvd.
>Always make decent finds when I go out to browse.
>This stops around 2012
>Thrift stores are all still there,
>Never have shit anymore
>When they do have anything, it's priced at Ebay prices or higher
>Three (3!) retro game stores have opened up on Holt blvd.

Fuck those fucking vultures.

[Anonymous No.4638742]

>>4638314
I don't go thrifting as much as i used to anymore (mostly due to my work schedule) but a few times a year I have some good finds. Highlights include:
>Sega CD w/ Model 1 Genesis for $15
>Splatterhouse 2 and Shinobi 2 both cib for $4 each
>Tomba 1+2 cib $7 each
>LoZ:Oracle of Ages cib for $10
And a bunch of other various stuff. Now its rarely anything before 6th gen. Maybe some ps1 sports shit but thats it. It's honestly got increasingly tougher in the last 1-2 years, for 2 reasons:
>More competition; now you're competing with potentially hundreds,thousands more people to find this shit so other people are hunting for this stuff just as much as you are if not more

>Thrift stores themselves have caught onto the retro market: 2/3 of the thrift stores in my city put any worthwhile Nintendo/gaming crap in general behind the display case at the front marked at ebay prices or what you pay anywhere else for this crap... $25 for a GCN controller, $15 - $25 for common ass NES games, $25+ for anything that has Zelda/Pokemon on it. There is still stuff left out on the shelves but even then its STILL marked at or above ebay. I went on friday and saw a Sega Phaser for $19.99, Zappers for $15 each, and no worthwhile games outside 6th gen sports. Thrift stores (especially Value Village) do their homework now and it makes even more difficult to find anything.

However, I found Tomba 1+2 there late last year so I still have a shred of hope that I can still find good stuff there. I wish there was a goodwill around here because whenever i went there in my old city i always found something good on the cheap. I still get a laugh at the Salvation Army here that dedicates an entire shelf in the showcase to games - all sports games! Like, can't let anyone steal those valuable sport games that have been sitting here for months!

[Anonymous No.4639907]

>>4638314
Can't ever find shit because they've long since been picked clean by scalpers or people are just the wiser with retro shit.

[Anonymous No.4639953]

>>4638314

I still find retro stuff every now and then but it's usually stuff most people overlook like big box PC games or PS1/Dreamcast games in the CD sections. Anything cartridge based is usually pulled immediately pretty much everywhere nowadays. I do find controllers/consoles relatively frequently though so its still worth my time.

[Anonymous No.4640096]

Where I live it’s simply not possible to find good /vr/ stuff at thrift stores anymore. Like others in the thread have said, they’re either monitored 24/7 by scalpers or they put everything remotely /vr/-related behind a glass case at eBay prices.
Now I just go to garage sales and keep an eye on craigslist. It’s not often I get good finds since even garage sales are being picked clean by eBay scalpers hours before they’ve even fucking started, but it’s a much better chance than thrift stores for me.

[Anonymous No.4640102]

>>4638314
It's been really hard for me to get any good shit from thrift stores these days. There's like 5 of them in my area alone but over the years I've noticed the stock has been shifting around bad. A lot of furniture, and the media sections have shrunk considerably. I know for a fact that Goodwill has wised up to the video game resell market and now the majority of game stuff they take in gets put online for sale through amazon and such. Maybe I just live in an unlucky area for game thrifting in general.

[Anonymous No.4640105]

>>4640096
I forgot to mention I can still find classic computing stuff (usually 80s-90s) at places like Goodwill, so if you’re into that kind of stuff it’s still worth a visit every week or so

[Anonymous No.4640112]

>>4640096
I honestly hate how resellers scalp places like these just so they can make money. The whole point is that all this stuff is given new lease in life rather than just waste away in a landfill or whatever. The low prices are meant to ensure people will buy second hand items, but now we have these scalpers going around scrubbing places clean, preventing people who would actually hold onto the items as their own belongings, not stock.

[Anonymous No.4640148]

>>4638314
I found Power Stone 2 for the Dreamcast at a Thrift Store. It only cost me 3 dollars. Yet on ebay it goes for a lot more. About $80 I think.

[Anonymous No.4640179]

>>4638357
I have occasionally found some things that slip through the cracks. In my area they hold weekend auctions that sometimes has a bin of random consoles and games for a couple hundred bucks. Theres almost always the same group of guys bidding on them that are most definatley selling them on ebay.

[Anonymous No.4640402]

When I was a kid, you could go to Goodwill and see literal shelves of dot matrix printers, 286 PCs, toaster Macs, etc.

[Anonymous No.4640406]

>>4638357
I agree with you completely. The goodwills near me sell everything at insane prices, 35 for a vcr even

[Anonymous No.4640431]

Sadly the glory days of thrifting for videogames are over. I don't mind the increased competition. After all, I'm not solely entitled to deals, but what irritates me is how every thrift store, flea marketer, and craigslister wants fuckin' full blown ebay retail and then some.

>Mad you can't fleece old ladies anymore

No. Sellers at thrift stores and such need to understand that when you buy something on eBay, it is usually tested, has a return policy, and is shipped to you (as opposed to a buyer having to drive 20 miles to a flea market or to meet a seller). When you buy in the wild, you usually buy "as-is," so if your NES DOAs, you're shit out of luck. "As-is" items of any kind are usually 20%-50% of their working counterparts' prices in good cosmetic condition.A lot of the items you typically find at flea markets and more mom-and-pop thrift stores are typically untested, in fair cosmetic condition, and just piled non-desrciptly in a box or on a shelf. Their items don't deserve eBay nor retro game store premium prices.

There's still finds out there, but they're rare, and as someone said, the untapped mine so to speak is vintage computing equipment and games.

[Anonymous No.4640587]

>>4640431
Craigslist seems to be lousy with idiots like the seller you've mentioned. Poor, useless, or worse yet stock images, items just as dirty as they were found, cables knotted into wads, no or limited ability to check functionality, and yet they still expect retarded amounts of money for nothing special or literal junk. It is worth a laugh though to watch listings like that sit around for months and occasionally go down in increnents of $10. They really have no clue.

[Anonymous No.4640645]

I haven't been in about 7 years but I used to see a ton of random genesis,snes and psx games sitting on the shelves. My best score was a snes with 2 controllers and SMW for 10$. This was in like 2008.

[Anonymous No.4640651]

>>4640431
>Vintage computing

Too bad everybody with IBM model M keyboards overprices the shit out of them. I've been looking for a low priced one for years

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4640664]

>>4640105
Goodwill stores are literally under corporate orders NOT to sell computers for any number of bullshit reasons from privacy to a "recycling" agreement with Dell to supposed goodwill dot com and/or goodwill "computerworks" processing. For whatever reason here's a pic I sniped from behind the scenes of an entire gaylord full of stuff that had been donated at my local store but would never make it onto the shelves, waiting to be shipped off to god knows how far away from my local community.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4640668]

>>4640651
Buy a Cherry

[Anonymous No.4640671]

>>4640668
I have a black widow with cherry mx keys, I just like the feel of the original model M more

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4640676]

>>4640671

[Anonymous No.4640795]

>>4638314
I used to occasionally check goodwill but they have this new policy where they send rare shit to some warehouse and sell it online now for market value.

[Anonymous No.4640798]

>>4640664
I've never seen computers at a Goodwill since the early 2000s.

[Anonymous No.4640815]

Sharing my flea market horror story
>looking for a fat PS2 with a broken drive for modding
>Mega flea market in po-dunk nowhere midwest
>Several game "stores" spread throughout the building
>The biggest one is the center and is the worst of them all
>Everything in terrible condition
>giant bins of dirty, sticky, tangled controllers with "$10 each" spray painted on the side
>stacks and stacks of consoles in varying degrees of working order
>owner is a drunk so his wife is running the store
>find a PS2 with the drive tray snapped off, assume I can get it for cheaper than the rest so I ask her how much
>she whips out her cellphone and starts rattling off ebay prices
>Explain to her how I want a broken ps2 for modding and the ones she listed are refurbished
>She gets all pissed and says I "insulted" her store and yells me out of the store
>a month later they are out of buisness
>store gest absorbed by all the smaller game stores run by people who understand how to take care of their products
>find the exact PS2 for the price I wanted to pay in a bin labeled "broken"

[Anonymous No.4640817]

>>4640431
I've been seeing crts go up in general but crt PC monitors are insane near me, shitty 14 inch gateways are going for $50+

[Anonymous No.4640929]

>tfw rescued 20+ PC CRTs when they were getting thrown out 10 years ago
I hope they'll last me for the long haul

[Anonymous No.4640964]

>>4640815
Ya those flea market "game shops" can be complete jews with their prices. Some store wanted 70$ for a scratched to shit Windwaker with the cover art torn. Might as well just buy them online at that point.

[Anonymous No.4640969]

>>4638314
Is this considered cool or shit?

[Anonymous No.4640983]

Guys, is a cracked nintendo ds lite from 2012 worth buying, or will it die on me in 2 months?

[Anonymous No.4640987]

>>4640969
That's cool anon

[Anonymous No.4640997]

>>4638357
well the thing is I go to my local red white and blue and they have decent shit,
beta players, VHS tapes (hundreds of em), vintage furniture, ps2's + 1's. but only on Saturdays because everything becomes half off. and that's when I have gotten some good deals.

[Anonymous No.4641027]

>>4640983
Made from Nintendium, it will be alright.
But why buy a cracked one? DS Lites are easy to find

[Anonymous No.4642256]

>>4641027
Ahh, sorry, by "cracked" i meant "hacked"

[Anonymous No.4642263]

>>4642256
>i meant i don't know what i'm talking about
FTFY. How many ebay dollars are you going to spend on your "hacked" DLS. lol

[Anonymous No.4642427]

>>4642263
You're right, I don't; never owned a mobile console. The guy says he adds a r4i thing to it which I presumed is a "hack" of some sort. Auction has 3 days left and is currently for $21

[Anonymous No.4642563]

>>4638314
I'm looking for Harvest Moon SNES and the prices are crazy.

It seems like it's full of scalpers and resellers. wth. Is it a thing now?

This game totally doesn't worth 200 dollars plus.

[Anonymous No.4642578]

>>4642427
R4i is a flash cart. You can play any DS rom with it

[Anonymous No.4642640]

I do a lot of thrifting. Ive found some really nice stuff. Recently I went to salvation army and they had 2 entire bins of games that were cleared out from an old game shop and every game was two bucks a piece. I got the entire suikoden series and Wizardry VII in a big box. I also went to a thrift shop that recently opened and bought an apple iie and mac plus for 10 bucks each. Goodwill occasionally has some nice stuff, mainly old DOS and windows games, but occasionally I'll find some ps1 games. Sadly, goodwill likes to list all their consoles and computers on shopgoodwill, but I've found Ps2s and saturns before that slipped through somehow. Garage/estate sales are also really fun to go to. Last month I bought an Imac G3 and Gateway 2000 PC from one, and I also went to one that was fucking LOADED with old PC parts. They had a thing where anything you can fit in a walmart bag costs five dollars, and I ended up leaving with a ton of floppy drives, HDDs, sound/video cards, and an old 486 motherboard and processor.

[Anonymous No.4642680]

>>4642640
Nice haul. Wish people would do garage sales near me. Maybe they do, but without riding around and actively looking for one I have no way of knowing there is one nearby. What are you planning to do with all that?

[Anonymous No.4642763]

>>4642680
A lot of it I keep and play. Usually when I get duplicate stuff, like extra PS2s and such, I give them to friends and family who don't have one and want a game console to play stuff on. With the computer parts, I end up building computers for certain games, such as a PC set up specifically for stuff like Might and Magic or System Shock. Also, look in the newspaper for garage/estate sales. Even if they don't list that they have games I go to them anyways just in case. You might find something you didn't know you wanted, like 2 Arisaka actions for 20 bucks each or a nice .22 rifle for 80 bucks. If you see a game console or something for like 20 dollars, its always worth a try to offer 15 for it. It usually works, and you'll have some money left over for lunch when ypur done shopping around.

[Anonymous No.4642832]

>>4642763
>
With the computer parts, I end up building computers for certain games, such as a PC set up specifically for stuff like Might and Magic or System Shock
That's an interesting hobby. Is there anyhing unique about running a game on a pc that was assembled specifically to run it, or is it purely the satisfaction of collecting parts and making something work from scratch? Right, I completely forgot about newspapers, thanks for reminding me; I'll try it out

[Anonymous No.4642860]

>>4638357
this. all the good stuff will never make it to the store

[Anonymous No.4642873]

>>4642832
Yeah, there is. Take Mechwarrior 2 for example. The best way to play it is with PowerVR graphics because it enables actual textures unlike other cards. A lot of of PC games from the 90s took advantage of very specific hardware. You can have one computer to rule them all, but then you won't have the good music and graphics the game was specifically set up for.

[Anonymous No.4643396]

I tried visiting every thrift store in my County one day a while back. Ended up with some 15 dollar GBA remakes and an Atari Flashback 2 for 5 bucks. Only reason I even bought it was because it's a decent emulation machine for $5 that looks pretty retro and like hell I'm going to waste my money on a real 2600, so I figure I might as well play the games at some point. Ended up flipping the GBA games for marginal profit on ebay, and now the atari just sits there in my living room being played for a few minutes every once in a while. All in all, barely a worthwhile experience, considering how much gas money I wasted that day. Thrift stores are fucking awful these days.

[Anonymous No.4643410]

>>4640179
give me their names so I can forward them to the mafia

[Anonymous No.4643427]

>>4638314
My local goodwill never has anything aside from loose PS1 games and they just started hiding those in a cabinet with 6th gen stuff instead of out in the open with the 15 million Celine Dion CDs nobody wants. I can only find decent stuff at a store called the Desert Industries nowadays.
>>4638357
Or they lock it up in a cabinet and sell it for ebay prices.

[Anonymous No.4643448]

>>4640664
I saw exactly one C64 in a Goodwill in my entire life, and that was when I was in grade school. It was actually one of the early silver label models and there was an Alps mech 1541 with it. I've seen Apple IIs a few times though.

[Anonymous No.4643475]

There's nothing in Fairfield County CT. About five guys go to every thrift store from Bridgeport to Westport and snap everything up.

[Anonymous No.4643516]

>>4640105
>>4638357
I remember seeing a TI-99/4A (in the original box!) and cartridges in a Goodwill as recently as 2005 or 06. But it's remarkable how few C64s I've seen in the wild given how many of the things were sold.

[Anonymous No.4643534]

>>4643516
>But it's remarkable how few C64s I've seen in the wild given how many of the things were sold
C64s are way more collectible/sought after that a TI-99/4A or other retro PCs.

[Anonymous No.4643550]

>>4640664
Apparently only SOME goodwills are allowed to sell computers, and there's a bunch of shit they need to do to them before even getting a unit on the shelf like wipe the hard drives and install Windows.

[Anonymous No.4643556]

>>4643550
>and there's a bunch of shit they need to do to them before even getting a unit on the shelf like wipe the hard drives and install Windows
I wonder what they'd do if they got a TI-99/4A? "Ok where's the fucking hard disk on this thing? We have to wipe it before we can sell it."

[Anonymous No.4643561]

>>4643550
Is that because they could get in trouble for selling a PC that has Captain Planet on it?

[Anonymous No.4643562]

>>4643556

[Anonymous No.4643568]

>>4643562
why was>>4643556 deleted?
was something wrong with it?

[Anonymous No.4643571]

>>4638324
>GC with GB Player $20
Nice dude, I'm still wondering where the hell my GB player went.

[Anonymous No.4643579]

>>4643561
IDK, maybe. Years ago if someone donated a 286 PC to Goodwill, it wasn't a concern because unless someone made ASCII porn, there probably wasn't anything lewd on there.

[Anonymous No.4643584]

>>4643579
>>4643561
Do you guys think that maybe people have personal documents or financial data on a computer? You think there's more than just smut that you wouldn't want all the world to see?

[Anonymous No.4643598]

When I was a kid, we got a used Dell Pentium box from a local computer store. I presume they wiped the hard disk because it had a clean Windows 98SE installation and this machine should have shipped originally with Windows 95.

[Anonymous No.4643756]

>>4640664
god damn thats a sad fucking pic it hurts my soul

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4643767]

>>4643756
Apple, Commodore, Atari, Sega, Nintendo all together at the same low on their final journey.

[Anonymous No.4643790]

>>4638357
Results may vary, but 5 months ago I picked up a commodore 64 monitor, commodore 64, and cables for 45 bucks. I think it depends on the people running the store, do your really expect them the look at every damn item and say "is this valuable?" hell no

[Anonymous No.4643801]

>>4640664
Dammit your going to make me go drag mine out that I bought 5 months ago...

[Anonymous No.4643804]

They let things slip. Same as salvation army

[Anonymous No.4643845]

>>4638691
They're just a business. It's the hoarders that made them realize that they were underpricing games. Same thing happened to my local thrift store around 2012 too.

There's this one guy who goes to my local thrift store every day multiple times a day looking for games. I don't even know what the fuck he does because he must not be working or going to school.

[Anonymous No.4644087]

Did someone say THRIFTING?

[Anonymous No.4644312]

>>4643790
I've never seen any computers in any Goodwill (and I've been in a lot of them) in years and years.

[Anonymous No.4646259]

bump

[Anonymous No.4646321]

There are 3 big thrift stores in my town. Sometimes on the weekend I will visit all three in one go and find some cool stuff.

[Anonymous No.4646407]

>get Jet Force Gemini and Donkey Kong 64 for $10 at Goodwill I used to work at
>years have passed and got new job
>decide to visit when in the neighborhood
>it turned into a flea market where everything is in a bin
>people surrounding the bins like hungry hogs on a through
I never 360ed out of a store so fast before.

[Anonymous No.4646435]

not as much around here, anymore

[Anonymous No.4646445]

>>4644312
Not retro... but.

Local salvation army and goodwill have stacks of old computers every so many months/years. They are usually when a place like walmart or some shit switches to new POS.

Recently there were i3 4xxx, 4gb of ram builds for $30 a piece. But the i3 isn't removable and there isn't any spot for more ram or anything but pci slots.

[Anonymous No.4648134]

>>4643475
About 18 years ago at the Monroe Goodwill, they had a big brown box full of a master system and games for $20... my mom wouldn't buy it.

[Anonymous No.4648138]

I have given up on finding games and related items at the Goodwill. Instead, I'll find stupid crap that people will pay money for online and eBay it, then use that money to buy games online. Eventually, the Goodwill catches on and either raises the prices or puts them on eBay themselves.

[Anonymous No.4648187]

It's definitely much less common to find good prices on retro games at thrift stores or flea markets these days, nearly impossible. I blame the meteoric rise of game collecting/thrifting channels on Youtube. Every schmuck and their pals are going out and picking stuff up. The last "deal" I had on a retro game was Koudelka for $50 at a books/media store.

I've been thrifting for nearly a decade now and it's very disappointing how

[Anonymous No.4648208]

It's definitely much less common to find good prices on retro games at thrift stores or flea markets these days, nearly impossible. I blame the meteoric rise of game collecting/thrifting channels on Youtube. Every schmuck and their pals are going out and picking stuff up. Used to be that you just had to know some slightly obscure titles while all the normies were hunting for Pokemon/Mario/Zelda, and you could score some amazing finds. Pic related cost me $40. Now even the obscure games are common knowledge thanks to the thousands of PSX/N64/WONDERSWAN HIDDEN GEMS TOP 10 MOST VALUABLE GAMES videos. The last "deal" I had on a retro game was Koudelka for $50 at a books/media store.

It was fun while it lasted I guess.

[Anonymous No.4648557]

>>4646407
Because a 180 wasn’t good enough.

[Anonymous No.4648565]

>>4648557
like this

[Anonymous No.4648597]

>>4648565

That's a 540 chief.

[Anonymous No.4649616]

>>4648597
What about this?

[Anonymous No.4649631]

>>4643804
I've never seen any C64s in any thrift store I've been in. Did see an Atari 400 in the original box once.

[Anonymous No.4650017]

>>4648208
wario land 3 is still only like an $8 game, I know because I bought it and it sucks

it's not just youtube's fault, it's smartphones in general

[Anonymous No.4650025]

>>4638314
I gave up on that shit years ago. When prices started to go up and I had hundreds of consoles and thousands of games I just said fuck that shit. Must really suck to be new to it.

[Anonymous No.4650038]

A big reason why I want 6th gen added is because they've replaced /vr/ games at thrift stores.
That's pretty much why I played retro systems for so long because games were plentiful and cheap at garage sales. That's why I now own a PS2 and xbox.

[Anonymous No.4650098]

>>4650017
That image wasn't meant to showcase WL3, but yeah okay it's only around $10 or so. Great game though, why the hell didn't you like it?

Smartphones and the easy to use ebay app definitely played a big part, but these videos telling everybody exactly what to look for didn't help either. I found this on a GW bookshelf in 2013. Nowadays anything that even looks like it MIGHT be a game is behind glass and $19.99 minimum.

[Anonymous No.4650115]

>>4650038
Literally what the fuck are you talking about? Do you live in the past? Over the last few years 6th gen titles have nearly doubled in price across systems, and trying to buy ANY desirable Gamecube game is going to be $30 minimum.

Only two years ago Kuon was sub 100 and Rule of Rose was like 150. I bought Blood Will Tell in 2016 for 60 and thought it was high. 6th gen is absolutely bonkers right now.

[Anonymous No.4650172]

>>4650038
A big reason why I don't want 6th gen added is because your kind replaced quality posters on /vr/

[Anonymous No.4650189]

>>4650115
6th and 7th gen games show up at my local thrift store for around $5 each with nobody giving a shit what’s worth what. The games that come in have slowed down a bit (most restocks with PC shit) but last year I picked up Melee, Pokemon Colosseum, and Path of Radiance (albeit in a generic GameStop case) for the aforementioned price in one trip.

[Anonymous No.4650261]

>>4640431
>vintage computing
that shit is going up too, it hurts. Thankfully I picked up my atari 600xl for 25 bucks with nothing (not even power). couple of weeks later, someone listed the exact power brick I needed on craigslist, so I scooped it up for 20. I managed to get pretty decent deals on cart-only games at retro game expos by doing the bundle, but fuck me, disk games are expensive as hell, even for disk-only games with no manuals. Might just invest in an SD2SIO system and pirate the games.

[Anonymous No.4650262]

>>4642640
>rescued old parts
you're doing gods work anon

[Anonymous No.4650423]

>>4638357
Depends on the stores hombre. I just got a brand new 3ds at Goodwill for 9.99 the other day.And I got a ps2 for 19.99 last week

[Anonymous No.4650434]

>>4638314
I did find this thing in a house full of free stuff (the owner needed everything gone to renovate it).

Only thing is I don't know what it actually is.

[Anonymous No.4650442]

>>4650434
I'm very sure that's for a Genesis.

[Anonymous No.4650443]

>>4650261
>that shit is going up too, it hurts

[Anonymous No.4650449]

>>4650261
>vintage computing
>that shit is going up too, it hurts

Depends on the stuff. I don't think something like a TRS-80 is especially valuable although if it's an Amiga...holy god, you will pay through the nose for it.

[Anonymous No.4650457]

>>4650442
It is. Two seconds of Google searching would have told Anon everything about that controller.

[Anonymous No.4650550]

>>4638314
>2012
I found a Macintosh Portable for $40/ It was in a soft carrying case with two batteries, a mouse, booklets, AC adapter
>2016
Found a copy of FF VII for $10. It had the disk to FF tactics slid in there, too.
>2017
Nothing but 20 copies of Just Dance for the Wii and PS3 titles for $30 in the glass case in front.

Also, I found this beauty for $100 locally. Craigslist isn't all garbage yet.

[Anonymous No.4650580]

>>4650550
Probably an ex-school computer since in the later years of the Apple II, about 80% of them went to schools. I actually saw a //e in an antique shop a few years ago but it had the Monitor /// and original Disk II drives instead of the white case ones. That would mean it was a IIe from 1983-84 since the newer-style monitor and disk drives were introduced in 85.

[Anonymous No.4650584]

>>4650550
Infocom adventures should support 80 column text if the computer has an 80 column or DHGR card. I'm not sure if it's an option you can select or if the game auto-detects it.

[Anonymous No.4650598]

>>4650584
>>4650550
My dad had Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on his C64 and I will say, this is one game genre where you'd much rather play it on the Apple II. Not just the 80 column text but one million times faster disk access.

[Anonymous No.4650606]

>>4650580
I haven't found any trace of a school district label, but it may be.
And yes, it's a //e enhanced, so it is a newer model.
>>4650584
Not sure about the option, but it did come with an 80 column card stock. I've since replaced it with the ramworks IIII kit.

[Anonymous No.4650608]

>>4650606
>And yes, it's a //e enhanced, so it is a newer model.

Actually the standard and enhanced models both came out at the same time, the only important difference is that the //e has a 65C02 CPU for the five or so programs that can use it (late AppleWorks and maybe a utility program or two).

[Anonymous No.4650615]

Are there any significant incompatibilities between different Apple II models?

[Anonymous No.4650618]

>>4650608
That's not true. The //e enhanced didn't come out until 1985. the enhanced had features from the //c, which itself wasn't out until 1984, so there's no way that an enhanced //e would have been out before the IIc.
The original //e came out in 83.

>>4650615
The IIgs has unique software for it, but it's 99% backwards compatable with normal II software.
Other than that, some titles may require a //e or a //e enhanced, but there are very few of these.

[Anonymous No.4650626]

>>4650618
The //e I saw had original-type Disk II drives and I know they were replaced by the white case units in 85, but I'm not sure exactly when it happened, perhaps not until late in the year. It's entirely possible that when the //e initially came out, it would have shipped with the original Disk IIs.

[Anonymous No.4650629]

>>4650615
Not really, although the method of detecting the vertical retrace is different on the II/II+, IIe, IIc, and IIgs, meaning that you may get screen tearing on some games if they were designed for a different model.

[Anonymous No.4650637]

>>4650626
Well, it's my understanding that you paid extra for disk drives at all, but yes. Disk ][ drives could be used with a //e enhanced. No matter the type of drive (Disk ][ or Apple 5.25) you still need the appropriate controller card for them.

[Anonymous No.4650639]

Got 2 Nascar games and Rayman 1 for PS1 all for $8 at a Goodwill a few months ago

[Anonymous No.4650660]

>>4650580
>I actually saw a //e in an antique shop a few years ago but it had the Monitor /// and original Disk II drives instead of the white case ones. That would mean it was a IIe from 1983-84 since the newer-style monitor and disk drives were introduced in 85.
What color keyboard did it have? Brown or gray?

[Anonymous No.4650671]

>>4650626
>>4650580
The enhanced IIe came out in March 85 and the Apple 5.25" replaced the Disk II in September 85 so there were a few months when they shipped with Disk IIs. But the unit you saw was probably a IIe from 83-84. If it's an enhanced model, it will actually say so underneath the power LED.

I think late IIes also had a different keyboard font.

[Anonymous No.4650695]

>>4650608
>the only important difference is that the //e has a 65C02 CPU for the five or so programs that can use it

The motherboard layout is slight different as well.

[Anonymous No.4650929]

>>4650189
You are insanely lucky and that is not typical at all.

[Anonymous No.4650992]

>>4643584
>Walking down the street with some buds years ago
>See a fairly complete 386 piled up next to the sidewalk
>While looking at it an elderly woman comes out of the house its in front of
>Says I can have it if I want, they just upgraded
>The guys and I carry it back to my place nearby
>Hook it up hoping to find Chips Challenge
>SkiFree, one of the Microsoft Flight Simulators...
>Notice a suite of financial programs
>This woman and her husband tossed out a computer loaded with all their tax information, credit cards, SIN, you name it

They're very lucky I was the one who got it, that could've gone reeeaalll bad.

[Anonymous No.4651048]

I picked these up at Goodwill yesterday. HotD2 is sealed ; }
I'd say I score something good like 1 out of 10 trips.
There isn't any set schedule to this stuff, but I do try and build a report with the workers and occasionally they will let me see merch before it gets put out.

[Anonymous No.4651520]

>>4650929

As with >>4643804

[Anonymous No.4651535]

>>4651520
Indeed.

[Anonymous No.4651640]

>>4650550
>allowed file names with 16 characters and spaces
>IBM compatibles were limited to 8 characters and no spaces for how many years?
Why.

[Anonymous No.4651648]

>>4650434
>I don't know what something that actually has its name printed on the front actually is

[Anonymous No.4651705]

>>4651640
Because everyone loves shortened filenam~1

[Anonymous No.4651712]

>>4651640
Because Microsoft stole the 8.3 file names from CP/M. From what I understand, that setup was mainly done to conserve limited disk space.

[Anonymous No.4651716]

>>4651640
On a PC, respectively:

HELLO
ANIMALS
APPLPRMS
APPLSOFT
APPLVSION
BIORHYTM
BOOT13
BRIAN'STH
CHAIN
COLRDEMO
CLRDMSFT
COPY
COPYOBJ0
COPYA
EXECDEMO
FID
FPBASIC
INTBASIC

Yeah, fuck that shit.;

[Anonymous No.4651724]

I grabbed a working Gameboy at a Goodwill for a couple bucks. Screen's got a few stuck pixels and it's missing the gray overlay bit on the front, but it works great. Had a copy of Tetris 2 inserted as well.

Not retro but I also found a 3ds for around the same price on that day.

[Anonymous No.4651725]

>>4651640
On a PC, respectively:

HELLO
ANIMALS
APPLPRMS
APPLSOFT
APPLVSION
BIORHYTM
BOOT13
BRIAN'STH
CHAIN
COLRDEMO
CLRDMSFT
COPY
COPYOBJ0
COPYA
EXECDEMO
FID
FPBASIC
INTBASIC

Yeah, fuck that shit.

[Anonymous No.4651727]

>>4651705
I love my schlrprt.doc term paper.

[Anonymous No.4652013]

>>4644087
His recent thrifting videos have been so depressing. There's just nothing left.

[Anonymous No.4652084]

>>4652013
That's why there hasn't been a lot of thrifting videos lately.
We can always binge watch the whole series, somehow it always feels fresh to me.

[Anonymous No.4652565]

Saw an Apple IIe in a Goodwill once years ago. The whole thing with the disk drives, printer, monitor, separate numeric keypad, and a joystick. I still can't get past the fact that I've seen more Apple IIs in thrift stores over time than I have C64s, which I've seen like never.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4652573]

>>4652565
Because Apples were in all the schools in the 80s and early 90s thanks to Jobs brilliant marketing - then they all went to surplus when they became obsolete

[Anonymous No.4652574]

>>4652565
A lot of Apple IIs were used in schools, plus some of them could have been cleaned out of an old guy's house when he died. I do suspect that the average age of their userbase was higher than C64 or Atari users especially since it seems quite common for Apple IIs to appear on Ebay that came out of estate sales.

[Anonymous No.4652579]

Actually I've even seen Atari 8-bits a few times. An 800 once, a 130XE, and a 400, specifically. No Commodore stuff any time ever.

[Anonymous No.4652591]

IIRC total Apple II sales from 1977 until the early 90s were about 6 million units with the IIe accounting for the largest percentage of them (no doubt thanks to school sales). That's about as many as there were NTSC C64s.

[Anonymous No.4652627]

>>4650550
>Found a copy of FF VII for $10. It had the disk to FF tactics slid in there, too.
I just had to roll my chair over to my PSX games to make sure my FFVII with tactics in the case was still there. You had me concerned......

[Anonymous No.4652673]

>>4650550
>I found a Macintosh Portable for $40/ It was in a soft carrying case with two batteries, a mouse, booklets, AC adapter
Can't be too many of those around, especially when you paid $6000 in 1989 for an 8Mhz machine with no hard disk.

[Anonymous No.4652713]

Don't get what the big deal with the Apple II was. Terribly overpriced, very few shops carried software for it, and it couldn't display colour on PAL monitors.

[Anonymous No.4652819]

>>4652713
Stick to playing James Pond, Europe.

[Anonymous No.4652824]

I got a copy of final fantasy 8 for a dollar

[Anonymous No.4652919]

>>4652084
He still does 10x better than me, but yeah, everyone's grandmas are switched on to ebay now.

[Anonymous No.4653223]

>>4642427
That's a good deal imo. R4I itself probably sells for $20.

[Anonymous No.4654030]

>>4638314
There's two thrift stores where I live and both check ebay before pricing all their video game stuff. Did find that limited edition Blade Runner on bluray in the briefcase near mint condition for like 1/3 of what it goes for on ebay though which was awesome.

[Anonymous No.4654108]

The UK is just mountains of FIFA unless you go to CeX or some indie store.

[Anonymous No.4654626]

>>4654108
In US it's Madden.

[Anonymous No.4654724]

>>4650449
you'd be surprised, TRS-80 stuff is climbing up. I want to get an Amiga eventually, but the prices are really off-putting. Even NA Amigas are pricey, and those barely have software/games compared to the European Amigas.

[Anonymous No.4655051]

>>4654724
>Even NA Amigas are pricey, and those barely have software/games compared to the European Amigas
That's not saying much when 80% of those European games were shovelware garbage.

[Anonymous No.4655056]

>>4654724
I used to post Ebay links to stupidly overpriced auctions for TRS-80s but there was one autist who became insanely butthurt about it and yelled that I should stop posting this shit and complaining about Ebay sellers. It got so annoying I quit doing it. He was probably a butthurt Ebay scalper who didn't like being called out.

[Anonymous No.4655058]

>>4654724
Don't get the reason for it. There's no good software for them and they're basically like using a diet IBM XT with no sound or graphics hardware.

[Anonymous No.4655064]

>>4655058
Are you talking about the TRS-80 Model I/III/IV or the CoCo line which is totally different?

[Anonymous No.4655184]

>>4655056
Autistic as fuck.

[Anonymous No.4655192]

>>4655184
That he was. I remember one auction where the guy had a TRS-80 Model III and said it didn't power on or was busted or something, but on a disk system, you have to press Ctrl-Reset to go into BASIC or you get a blank screen. While I can take the assumption that he probably didn't know that, he could have found out the proper startup procedure for the thing with two seconds of Google searching. I mean, you can't be bothered to do any research about a computer you're selling?

[Anonymous No.4655205]

>>4655192
You'd be surprised. Most of these sellers have no knowledge or interest about the thing they're selling and they're not interested in learning either, they just want quick bucks.

[Anonymous No.4655212]

>>4638314
I paid $15 fo this stuff at Goodwill a few days ago. $5 each for the gameboys, $2 for the games, + tax.

All of it works, although the Gameboy needs a new speaker. Fortunately that's an easy repair and I have done it before.

[Anonymous No.4655215]

>>4640651

Unicomp keyboards

[Anonymous No.4655217]

>>4655192
Yeah...there was a guy on VCFED who bought a Model III on Ebay that the seller claimed was nonfunctional and it had no picture when powered on. Turned out the brightness on the monitor was turned all the way down.

[Anonymous No.4655223]

>>4655064
The CoCo might be more collectible because it can actually play games fairly well, the other ones just have monochrome character graphics and no sound hardware.

[Anonymous No.4655298]

there's only a few stores like that around where I live. value village you can rarely find something decent like a ps1 for 10 bucks. there's a record store that also sells old games but it's all ebay priceola, or fucking romhacks on carts. the two games stores are awful. one of them all the cashiers, except the one who knows what she's doing, just look the prices up on ebay when you bring the game to them. it's fine if it's like tony hawks pro skater or something but don't even try to buy ocarina of time unless you want to spend about 100 dollars. the other one is in a small strip mall and the store is basically just the one glass display case which doubles as a counter. if it's nintendo the price is outrageous and all the systems are e-bay priced except most of them are barely tested. bought a gameboy advance sp there for 40 bucks only to get home and see that it won't charge, took it back and they told me to kick rocks and beat it. thankfully my amigo was working and slipped me a working one.

[Anonymous No.4656287]

>>4655058
collectors being collectors I suppose. I did see a computer club at the last vidya expo I went to with a TRS-80. The guy in charge got basic video playback working on a stock machine with a external HDD interface holding the video data (intro to new doctor who, some scene from a james bond movie, and the intro to macguyver I think?). Really interesting stuff (though I admit I had no clue about half the stuff the guy talked about).

[Anonymous No.4656295]

Thrift stores I visit have decent stuff from time to time but the prices are ridiculous. I'm talking €40 for Sonic 1 or Bubsy on Mega Drive. Then there's this guy who has his own little section of a store where he sells NES games for absurd prices and tricks little kids into buying shiny pokémon cards. The only cheap stuff anywhere is found within the massive shelves of PS2 games where 99% of all games are some variation of FIFA. eBay prices are usually better than what I find in these second hand stores so if I really want something I just buy it there (and still pay too much). They're constantly checking eBay prices, then adding another 10 or 20 bucks for no reason and they wonder why nobody visits their stores.

[Anonymous No.4656307]

>>4642427
R4 is just a flash cart, any DS will play it cause Nintendo did nothing to stop piracy in those days. Those carts seem to be getting harder to find these days though, seems Nintendo found out who made them and shut them down a few years ago.

[Anonymous No.4656335]

>>4640964
Fuck.
You.
Nazi.
Scum.

[Anonymous No.4656359]

>>4656287
addendum, it was a model 4 with the built in monitor

[Anonymous No.4656369]

>>4656359
I couldn't figure out what model he was referring to, but the Model 4 did indeed have bitmap graphics. The Model I/III were character mode only, while the Model II could have bitmap graphics with an extra-cost video board.

[Anonymous No.4656403]

>>4638314
I found a boxed Turbografx at a Goodwill quite a few years ago (lost the box somehow) and later a fat stack of Master System games at a St. Vincent.

[Anonymous No.4656430]

>>4642263
>>4642256
>>4642427
Bruh "cracked" is actually the proper term, don't listen to this charlatan. (although 99.999% of people use hacked)

[Anonymous No.4656514]

>>4638314
There's decent DOS stuff sometimes but never console stuff in my experience. Best find was a full boxed copy of the original Descent, in good condition.

[Anonymous No.4656520]

>>4638314
I honestly don't see much in terms of retro outside of mediocre PC games that I don't really want
hell, even the VHS selection is pretty piss-poor sometimes and I don't know shit-all about records so I couldn't see any value in anything outside of the original virgin killer album

[Anonymous No.4656524]

>>4650098
>Smartphones and the easy to use ebay app definitely played a big part, but these videos telling everybody exactly what to look for didn't help either. I found this on a GW bookshelf in 2013.
You got very lucky. In-box copies of Daggerfall were $100 on eBay before Oblivion had even been released.

[Anonymous No.4656536]

>>4640815
anyone who jacks up their prices and go on about that 'oh it's that much on eBay' horseshit need to do everyone a favor and kill themselves. I hate anyone who does that shit. if you wanted that much for it, try selling it on eBay dipshit. At this one flea market, there's this vendor with the most scratched up games imaginable, and they always want $10 or more a disk. it doesn't even matter if the game needs two disks to really work or how fucked the disk is

[Anonymous No.4656542]

>>4638324
>GC with GB player

Bet it didn't have the boot disc.

[Anonymous No.4656573]

>>4656369
FOUND IT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah9HSCZzQI0
the author was showing this off at the expo

[Anonymous No.4656605]

>>4644087
What's this guy's name?
Or was this one of Pat the NES punk's buddies?

[Anonymous No.4657036]

Found mint condition copies of Legend of Mana and Final Fantasy Tactics for 5 dollars each at a local thrift store. 2 dollar Spyro the Dragon at a Goodwill. 9 dollar mint copy of Kartia: The Word of Fate and 2 dollar, but no case, Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen.

[Anonymous No.4657051]

>>4656573
I can see it's actually a Model 4P (slimline disk drives). The Model I and III require a bit of fudging since they don't have a true bitmap mode, but you can sort of fake it by using block characters.

The Model 4 also has a speaker in it whereas on the Model I/III you have to use the cassette port hooked up to an amp for sound generation.

[Anonymous No.4657087]

>>4656605
He has nothing to do with Pat.

He's LGR or Lazy Game Reviews, he reviews old PC games and hardware and sometimes goes to thrift stores to see what interesting things he can find.

He's actually pretty a cool and good guy, most of the time /vr/ approves of him. Give him a watch and see what do you think.

[Anonymous No.4657741]

>>4640964
Are you kidding me right now? I get a warning and my post deleted yet this nazi fuck is still allowed? ARE YOU FOR REAL RIGHT NOW?! My fucking grandfather didn't die on the beaches of Normandy for this kind of shit to happen mods do your god damned jobs and DELETE THAT FUCKING POST NOW!

[Anonymous No.4658613]

>>4657741

[Anonymous No.4660197]

>>4640969
Pretty neat.

[Anonymous No.4660680]

>>4640969
I had one of those as a kid. My childhood is suddenly flashing before my eyes. Every week I would pack up the cube and go over to my brother's house for the weekend. Those were fun times.

[Anonymous No.4661348]

I found the box versions of The Sims 1+2 and like every expansion. Not really interested in The Sims but thought it was weird that someone clearly loved the series then decided to offload everything one day.

[Anonymous No.4661362]

>>4656536
>if you wanted that much for it, try selling it on eBay dipshit
i got banned from a pawn shop for having an autistic rant about this. i'm pretty sure that's an exact quote from that.

[Anon No.4661363]

>>4657741
Lmao'd for real
Thanks anon

[Anonymous No.4661381]

I found Crash Bandicoot: Warped for $2 a couple days ago.

[Anonymous No.4661391]

>>4656536
Yeah I don't think store owners realize that the whole point of ebay is convenience, sure the prices are higher but people are willing to pay it because it's online and easier to search for specific things. No one goes to a physical store or flea market to pay ebay prices, no one.

[Anon No.4661405]

>>4661391
They go to pay more

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4661441]

>>4661362
>>4661391
Nearly all the used video game stores in Columbus formed a cartel under the same name "Play It" and agreed to fix prices in this way which promptly drove all but the biggest ones straight out of business. I for one certainly wasn't going to waste my time and especially my gas. I only go to the one on campus because they actually get obscure stuff that goes cheap on ebay where the shipping is what gets you.

[Anonymous No.4661456]

>>4661391
>>4661441
>you wanna sell this? let me find the cheapest one on ebay, disregard shipping price, and i can offer you 1/20th of whatever the current bid is

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4661497]

>>4661456
Sold listings, disregarding shipping minus the 20% ebay and paypal take from the seller might be a halfway reasonable place to start yes. Otherwise why wouldn't I just conveniently browse while sitting in the bath tub and have it arrive directly at my door?

[Anonymous No.4661502]

>>4661497
>Sold listings, disregarding shipping minus the 20% ebay and paypal take from the seller might be a halfway reasonable place to start yes.
yes, that is what they generally try to do, i was being facetious.
>Otherwise why wouldn't I just conveniently browse while sitting in the bath tub and have it arrive directly at my door?
that is part of the point many of us were making.