Greetings ... and whoever scored the system, congrats to you ...
I tend to haunt the thrift shops in Woodland & Davis, CA a lot, as Denio's (the big flea market in Roseville) is a little far to drive sometimes. Sometimes the deals I get are pretty good - I once scored Phantasy Star in box, no manual for $4 - and other times not so great. Last week has just about broken my heart though ...
I stopped by one thrift store on Friday afternoon, but didn't really find anything interesting to begin with. There were your usual junky SNES, random VGA monitors, and car stereos of dubious origin sitting on the shelves ... I looked at a Choplifter cart (for 7800) on the top of the usual videogame shelf, where they have approximately 4 million variants of Madden for Genesis and thought "Hmm ... $3.50 ... not too bad ..." ... but thankfully I kept looking. Choplifter was sitting on top of some black vinyl-ish box that looked a lot like an old 5.25" floppy box, so I took the box down to take a look.
Last Resort. With manual in baggie. $6.50.
I dunno if it's a great game, but for $6.50 I figured I couldn't go wrong; besides which you never see any Neo stuff in thrifts. The deal got sweeter when I checked out - Goodwill was running some kind of random 15-25% discount, so I ended up taking it home for about $5.
I went back on Monday - there was a tantalizing clue - someone had left an Eight Man manual just sitting out. I tried to use that to cadge my way into the back of the store, so that I could rummage through the bins feverishly looking for the AES that I knew had to be back there somewhere ... they wouldn't let me back there, but at least they gave me the manual for free.
So again, I went back yesterday. It's a primal need to torture myself, I guess. After nearly half an hour of digging, I found a memory card (price at checkout: $1.50) hidden in the middle of a box of mason jars. It was my luck this time to get the cashier who knew her videogames (in fact she had a NGPC in her purse).
"Oh, a Neo memory card ... you know, we just sold a Neo the other day."
(sinking feeling, acting casual) "... oh, that's interesting ... How much did it go for?"
"I don't really remember, maybe $8?"
So ... that's my sad story ... if only I'd hit up that Goodwill a couple of more times last week ... ah well.
I tend to haunt the thrift shops in Woodland & Davis, CA a lot, as Denio's (the big flea market in Roseville) is a little far to drive sometimes. Sometimes the deals I get are pretty good - I once scored Phantasy Star in box, no manual for $4 - and other times not so great. Last week has just about broken my heart though ...
I stopped by one thrift store on Friday afternoon, but didn't really find anything interesting to begin with. There were your usual junky SNES, random VGA monitors, and car stereos of dubious origin sitting on the shelves ... I looked at a Choplifter cart (for 7800) on the top of the usual videogame shelf, where they have approximately 4 million variants of Madden for Genesis and thought "Hmm ... $3.50 ... not too bad ..." ... but thankfully I kept looking. Choplifter was sitting on top of some black vinyl-ish box that looked a lot like an old 5.25" floppy box, so I took the box down to take a look.
Last Resort. With manual in baggie. $6.50.
I dunno if it's a great game, but for $6.50 I figured I couldn't go wrong; besides which you never see any Neo stuff in thrifts. The deal got sweeter when I checked out - Goodwill was running some kind of random 15-25% discount, so I ended up taking it home for about $5.
I went back on Monday - there was a tantalizing clue - someone had left an Eight Man manual just sitting out. I tried to use that to cadge my way into the back of the store, so that I could rummage through the bins feverishly looking for the AES that I knew had to be back there somewhere ... they wouldn't let me back there, but at least they gave me the manual for free.
So again, I went back yesterday. It's a primal need to torture myself, I guess. After nearly half an hour of digging, I found a memory card (price at checkout: $1.50) hidden in the middle of a box of mason jars. It was my luck this time to get the cashier who knew her videogames (in fact she had a NGPC in her purse).
"Oh, a Neo memory card ... you know, we just sold a Neo the other day."
(sinking feeling, acting casual) "... oh, that's interesting ... How much did it go for?"
"I don't really remember, maybe $8?"
So ... that's my sad story ... if only I'd hit up that Goodwill a couple of more times last week ... ah well.
