The Official "Thrift finds" Thread

[icemanxp300]

I didn't buy a 360 last week for $15.

 

I didn't post it but I went to a sale for two Xbox's. The image showed an original xbox and tons of games in binders. I got there and they were all burned games which sucked. The system however has a chip in it. I have yet to test it lol. Anyhow the other system that was not shown was a white 360. They wanted for $40 for everything. I offered $20 for the xbox, they countered at $25. I basically left the 360 for $15.

 

Still undecided on what to do w/the chipped xbox. It has a shitty Thomson drive in it. I am thinking I might just swap my nice Samsung drive with it and then sell my xbox w/the Thompson drive. Then I would have a sweet chipped xbox w/a sweet drive.

 

On a side not the 360 appeared to have burned games too so not sure if that meant it had a chip or not.

[RodLightning]

I didn't buy a 360 last week for $15.

On a side not the 360 appeared to have burned games too so not sure if that meant it had a chip or not.

 

Probably chipped or jtag nand mod if it had a collection of burned games. The one I have here got updated to a new firmware in the past that will make a mod much more difficult, but still it has jasper mobo so less likely to red ring even if kept stock. I like that 360 retail boxed games are falling into the bargain range lately.

[FireStar]

Managed to find another early 80's electronic game, this time a Tandy simon clone, which uses a 9V battery of all things, so I can't test it until I get one of those batteries. The genesis stick I actually already had but mine has sticky buttons while this one is pristine with non sticky buttons. The tee is from an online only store which means someone ordered this shirt and then decided against it and gave it to a thrift, perhaps a present gone wrong?

[Asaki]

We have that same Simon clone, I'm not sure we played it very often =)

[Tanooki]

I cant see the pic but I bet its the pocket repeat sold by Tandy and radio shack. I had one as a kid and it was a lot of fun

[+FujiSkunk]

The tee is from an online only store which means someone ordered this shirt and then decided against it and gave it to a thrift, perhaps a present gone wrong?

 

I can see someone cringing at that shirt, but I laughed out loud when I saw your post. I'm gonna hafta find it for myself!

[FireStar]

Yeah, I think the shirt is so cheesy it works in a way. The store it's from is Threadless, and the design is "let the game continue". I've ordered a more subtle gamery tee from there before and been satisfied so I guess I can recommend them.

[Tanooki]

I couldn't see the pic on my mobile but at home I can today. That t-shirt is I'm pretty positive came from T-Fury one of those online shirt makers for like $20 a pop. I remember that one just because I loved the creativity behind making the bricks.

And I did guess right, pocket repeat, and it is pretty fun. I found it more interesting than the mobile Simon as it was smaller and had more tha one game to it but still retained the differing skill levels.

[mmbe]

Picked these up at a church garage sale for 50 cents each. It was the second day so everything was half off. The Wii game is complete and the disc looks very good. The book looks like no one ever read it.

 

[Keystone Kelly]

Got this cool little Coleco Digits hand held game for $3 at the thrift store...

 

 

 

[ussexplorer]

Don't give up hope. After years of finding nothing at a thrift store. (Well not true. A while back I found 2 Sega Genesis games I didn't have.) A nice selection of Sega Dream cast Games. I got a good bundle and a couple of duplicates. But who cares, for $2.00 each, I'm not crying. Also picked up a virtual racing for $5.00. and probably over paid for it. Also found 2 Sega CD games and a joystick. Joystick was $6.00. Normally I pass on that for the price. But I have never seen that style before. What really got me is I was out with family friends this morning and my understanding is they put out a whole collection. I was told by one of the workers it was donated yesterday. Still for somebody to miss all the Dream Cast games. About 4 of the games need to be polished at the local video store. The rest are in great condition.

 

Another Deal in the works.

 

Also I'm working on a Facebook market place deal for an Atari 2600 jr (no box,) and misc. goodies. Including a box of Atari Roms used back int he day for "cough cough" pirate games. The funny part is years ago at a thrift store. I saw a modified board with a zif socket in it and a few cases of chips. Stupid me didn't purchase them. When I went back they was gone. A few days later the chips showed back up but no board. I have thought a couple of time of ordering the stuff to make a cart for said chips. But I'm to lazy. Kinda of like going through and e-pay a stack of common games and such.

 

TTFN,

Josh

[RodLightning]

 

Weekend finds, more 360 stuff. I got a Kinect camera and power supply from Salvation Army store for $3.

The games are from different thrifts for $10 total. It's hard to make out the $54.99 game store price tag stuck on a used Dead Rising. I was happy to get it for the $5 thrift store price.

[ussexplorer]

Don't give up hope. After years of finding nothing at a thrift store. (Well not true. A while back I found 2 Sega Genesis games I didn't have.) A nice selection of Sega Dream cast Games. I got a good bundle and a couple of duplicates. But who cares, for $2.00 each, I'm not crying. Also picked up a virtual racing for $5.00. and probably over paid for it. Also found 2 Sega CD games and a joystick. Joystick was $6.00. Normally I pass on that for the price. But I have never seen that style before. What really got me is I was out with family friends this morning and my understanding is they put out a whole collection. I was told by one of the workers it was donated yesterday. Still for somebody to miss all the Dream Cast games. About 4 of the games need to be polished at the local video store. The rest are in great condition.

 

Another Deal in the works.

 

Also I'm working on a Facebook market place deal for an Atari 2600 jr (no box,) and misc. goodies. Including a box of Atari Roms used back int he day for "cough cough" pirate games. The funny part is years ago at a thrift store. I saw a modified board with a zif socket in it and a few cases of chips. Stupid me didn't purchase them. When I went back they was gone. A few days later the chips showed back up but no board. I have thought a couple of time of ordering the stuff to make a cart for said chips. But I'm to lazy. Kinda of like going through and e-pay a stack of common games and such.

 

TTFN,

Josh

No dice on the market place deal sigh...

[Yakumo1975]

Don't give up hope. After years of finding nothing at a thrift store. (Well not true. A while back I found 2 Sega Genesis games I didn't have.) A nice selection of Sega Dream cast Games. I got a good bundle and a couple of duplicates. But who cares, for $2.00 each, I'm not crying. Also picked up a virtual racing for $5.00. and probably over paid for it. Also found 2 Sega CD games and a joystick. Joystick was $6.00. Normally I pass on that for the price. But I have never seen that style before. What really got me is I was out with family friends this morning and my understanding is they put out a whole collection. I was told by one of the workers it was donated yesterday. Still for somebody to miss all the Dream Cast games. About 4 of the games need to be polished at the local video store. The rest are in great condition.

 

Another Deal in the works.

 

Also I'm working on a Facebook market place deal for an Atari 2600 jr (no box,) and misc. goodies. Including a box of Atari Roms used back int he day for "cough cough" pirate games. The funny part is years ago at a thrift store. I saw a modified board with a zif socket in it and a few cases of chips. Stupid me didn't purchase them. When I went back they was gone. A few days later the chips showed back up but no board. I have thought a couple of time of ordering the stuff to make a cart for said chips. But I'm to lazy. Kinda of like going through and e-pay a stack of common games and such.

 

TTFN,

Josh

A lot of Dreamcast love right there. I like it

[Asaki]

Got some CDs, some VHS tapes, a DVD of Terry Gilliam's Brothers Grimm...and I'm pretty sure I got majorly hit on by one of the cashiers @_@

Edited July 7, 2018 by Asaki

[Tanooki]

Things have just gone from bad to worse around here between any thrift and the flea (2 weeks there, thrift like 2mo) where nothing at all ever comes up, or the rare time it does like today at the flea some bimbo wanted 2-5x the ebay paid price on common 90s and 80s carts. I did happen to find a nice copy for $6 of Bust A Move Millennium for the GBC for my daughter so at least she was happy.

 

Then at home 2 streets over a garage sale that has gone on 2-3 weeks, everything being sold is also ebay priced. >:\ Annoying too, some nice old 50s/60s coke bottle carrier/display stuff I'd like but I don't think so.

[pacman000]

Bust-A-Move is always a good choice.

[Tanooki]

Today was more prosperous at the flea market i pretty much wrote off as it has been useless for months. Guess my kid is a good luck charm. I found a Rahxephon DVD entire complete set for $10 along with DS kung fu panda and prof layton complete for $2/more each. Another dude i walked away at $5 with a jakks ms pacman, 1890s green glass railroad transmission wire cap, hdmi switch 1x4 port, toy car, little carebear mini tin, a zhuzhu pet cat, and few other tiny odds and ends for her and me combined. Not bad really for $19 I think at least. Had two of those caps, but my daughter decided to get attitude flinging things and it went flying and shattered just after paying, so the rubiks cube she got in that deal got left behind too as a lesson in manners.

[FireStar]

Found a nice mix of n64 games, the apparently uncommon shrek+shark tale gba video combo, which I found out through someones nice collection and story here on this forum, and the first, xbox 360 exclusive entry in one of my favorite series. The stick is not a thrift find but a game store one.

[Jess Ragan]

Shrek and Shark Tale? Wait, they put two feature films on one cartridge? How'd they manage that?

 

Heh, you should try to watch some of those video cartridges on an HDTV. It's like an assault on the eyeballs.

[Tanooki]

Not a huge wow thing so no pictures, but I just did get for $5 taxed a complete gbc game of Shadowgate Classic. Fantastic if not a bit obtuse game where so much trial and death is in order. I never could get into the other Kemco games of that style as they tended to tick me off, but that one isn't so bad. I thought I already had it, but I realized I don't so it's a keeper. Box shows a light bit of corners and one slight edge wear but otherwise is very nice as is the rest. As is with such games, more adults likely bought it, and less who treated stuff like garbage too compared to more kid friendly things.

[Asaki]

I never could get into the other Kemco games of that style as they tended to tick me off, but that one isn't so bad.

You really need to play the original versions on the Macintosh. The Kemco ports have some decent music, but otherwise, the MacVentures are where it's at.

 

BTW, Uninvited never got ported to the GBC. It might be my favorite of the series...but it's kind of like picking a favorite child. Shadowgate is probably the most accessible, it can easily be beaten in less than an hour.

Edited July 10, 2018 by Asaki

[Tanooki]

Oh I know it didn't, and Deja Vu 2 was never on NES either but both hit a GBC only cart.

 

NES: Shadowgate, Deja Vu and Uninvited was it in my world back then, later the GBC got 2 of those and a sequel NES lacked. Uninvited kind of got thrown under the bus I guess.

 

Shadowgate I can't beat, never have without using a guide, it's just too confusing, but I like poking a stick at it now and again, same with Dragon's Lair as my crap short term memory will never allow me to finish that game without pop up prompts like the Wii release had. Yet I do have that GBC remaster(demaster?) of Dragon's Lair which I found a week ago for $4 too and it still amazes me what they did in a 4MB space.

[icemanxp300]

Ok so I ran across this today on a facebook garage sale site. The person listed it and said he thought it seemed to be rare and wanted best offer. I seen the post like within 20 minutes and they were only 10 minutes away. I asked if it worked and they said no but "they thought" the battery they used was bad LOL. I offered $15 and they took it.

 

So let me just say this was filthy and I have cleaned it up well. I found out this guy got it off the side of the road just a few houses down. Someone was moving and threw tons of stuff to the curb. The guy had huge boxes of ps2, wii, xbox games. All junk so it's not like he scored at all. Hell most of the crap he would have to pay to get rid of.

 

Back to the clock. The clock hands were all knocked off the spindle which is why he couldn't get anything to work. I have fixed the clock hands pretty well. However the music part still does not work. I may try and toss on a new speaker as this one may be damaged. The small pcb has the one lead broken so maybe I will pop the glue and pull the speaker off and try to re-solder it and see what happens.

 

My research shows this was released in 1994 and they had 4 of them. This is ceramic not plastic. Not sure on value but in my opinion the clock itself for display is worth the $15 I paid all day. I imagine the important part of this clock besides the clock itself will be that assembly. The fact I got the hands to move means I have hope on getting music out of this thing at some point. It kind of needs a new battery holder that supplies juice to the speaker as the housing is cracked.

 

I'll be tinkering w/it in hopes of getting music.

 

 

 

 

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[HoshiChiri]

I will be very curious to see how you get that thing going- the craft store I work in sells clock movements very similar to that- except the place where you'd put the battery has no contacts. It's like they re-wired the clock mechanism to run out of a seperate power unit, so you could run the speaker from the same batteries, even though it now takes more batteries so they could have just made a separate speaker unit entirely. Interesting choice.