"Game programmers are generally lazy individuals. That's right. It's true. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Since the dawn of computer games, game programmers have looked for shortcuts to coolness." Kurt Arnlund - Game programmer for Activision, Accolade...
i found a n64 for $10 and two controllers (one green one yellow) for $5 ea at a goodwill.
the joysticks are totally shot though
I know it's old, but a week and a half ago (Feb 6), I managed to obtain two, 4-Slot Neo 25 cabs from my local Pizza place. I know the owner, and we have been talking for some time about me picking them up since she no longer wanted them. Also scored six MVS carts. The price? Free!
Sadly, the monitors seem to be shot. Also, one of the MVS units won't boot, or at least I can't confirm if it does, as at least one of the cabs has sound (that's how I know one MVS unit works). Yet the "damaged" MVS looks great physically, just very dusty.
I'm happy I got the units. Hope it helps my depression. Will be an interesting project.
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Proud owner of a Neo 25 Neo Geo Candy Cab!
Ultimate Sim Series (PC, 1998) - Includes Sim City 2000 Special Edition, Streets of Sim City, and Sim Copter. - $2, from a thrift store.
It has most of the manuals, except for Sim Copter. A previous owner left a manual for The Sims in the box.
- Austin
Last edited by Slate; 02-19-2020 at 04:50 PM.
I had the same 3-in-1 set. I dont think I ever got around to playing Streets or Copter. or maybe I couldnt figure oit how to play it. dont remember. Most the Sim games kicked the llamas ass, thats for sure
I played "catch and release" tonight. Local thrift had a few NES games for $5 each loose: Tiger Heli, Caesar's Palace, Track &Field, Winter Games and Rescue:The Embassy Mission. I debated on Track and Field and Winter Games but put them back.
Caesar's Palace on the NES is actually somewhat rare, it's not that valuable but it's still nice to come across. I managed to see several common SNES games at my local value village today, all priced $19.99 each. I miss finding games at $5 each or less. I rarely see games at all now at thrifts.
I had this set back in 98, as a kid. Streets is a bad Twisted Metal ripoff that I enjoy for some reason. Copter is basic, janky, and enjoyable. Both are playable on Windows 10 now, but you have to download an extra program to start and play them; otherwise, your computer's too fast for them. The "patch" programs are here, at these fan sites:
www.streetsofsimcity.com
www.simcopter.net
I also had most Sims games. That was back from 98 - 2002. They were lots of fun then, I'd probably still play Tower and others now.
I haven't had finds lately. If this was just a yard sale or thrift store thread in general, I'd probably post more often. I did find a 50s or 60s box fan in the last few months, and it was dirt cheap.
- Austin
Last edited by Slate; 02-26-2020 at 11:17 PM.
Local St Vinny's had some SNES games with manuals for $10 each. They also had a yellowed SNES deck with two controller and DK Country for $65.
If anything, it might take a different remover. I never had issues with Goo Gone but I haven't used it in years and don't recall if I tried it on a disc based game. I have to see if I still have Zelda Skyward Sword, which I also boughtvat Family Video years ago, to see if I took the label off. If I did, then I used Goo Gone. If not, I might have to try it if I still have my bottle of the stuff.
I couldn't find my bottle of Goo Gone or I might have tried it. But I used some years ago to get sicker residue off a plexi arcade bezel and you can still see where it was. And it made a mess when using it. At least the spot's not sticky though. Goof Off though, I've never used but have heard you need to be more careful with. I just figured the stickers aren't hurting anything and my level of caring about that sort of thing has dropped in recent years.
"Game programmers are generally lazy individuals. That's right. It's true. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Since the dawn of computer games, game programmers have looked for shortcuts to coolness." Kurt Arnlund - Game programmer for Activision, Accolade...
last couple of weeks i've had some luck finding some items...got 6 master system games in box...4 are missing manuals...the games are great baseball, joe montana football, rambo, great hockey, alien syndrome, and black belt....also got some genesis games CIB..jungle strike, star trek next generation, mortal kombat 2, B.O.B, and judge dredd.......all the master sytem games were $5 each and the genesis games were around $6 each......also picked up some disc only sega saturn games from gamestop.com...fighting vipers, virtua figter remix, Bug!, and virtua cop 2.....none were more than $10.....bought the retron 3 in 1 adapter for the retron 5..$46 on lukiegames.com.....lastly....ordered a 10 pack of replacement sega cd/ sega saturn cases from amazon ...should be here saturday
.:Collection Pics:.
Went flea market shopping today - didn't find anything there so I hit a couple of GameXchange stores on the way back, along with another local store called Game Trade. Most of the games are $4.99 or under to score their "buy 2 games under $7.99 and get 1 free" sale. The less-than-common games I ended up paying $19.99 or less for at the Game Trade store. My PS3 and Xbox 360 collections are exploding in size. Between the two consoles I think I have 135 games.