Top 10 Rarest Games

[Top 10 Rarest Games]

Numbers 2 and 1 were bought by the same guy at a garage sale I went to. I'm still trying to figure out where the StarFox proto I bought went.

[The Official "Thrift finds" Thread]

How do you guys find all that awesome stuff at thrift stores? I searched through several thrift stores and the closest thing I could find to classic video games was an alarm clock.

 

I did get a colecovision with 6 games (donkey kong, Q*bert, ladybug, subroc, carnival, and root beer tapper all with manuels) for $10 at a flea market.

I also picked up a model 2 genesis at the dump with 2 controllers but no av cables, ac adapter, or games.

I didn't buy it at a thrift shop. I got it from some lady I was talking to at a thrift shop and she said, and I quote, "I didn't know people wanted these old things".

[The Official "Thrift finds" Thread]

Yeah. Too bad I already have almost all of them. Will be a good lot to sell at Play-N-Trade though.

[The Official "Thrift finds" Thread]

Hopefully this is a sign of things to come. Again I struck up a conversation at a thrift shop and I scored this lot for $10.

 

[The Official "Thrift finds" Thread]

Found some really cool stuff today. 2 Toycard Sansui controllers for a dollar each and a PS2 with 20 or so PS1 games for free. I saw a steering wheel laying on top of some garbage so I stopped to pick it up and the owner of the house came over and said she has the console if I want.

[The Official "Thrift finds" Thread]

[The Official "Thrift finds" Thread]

Yep. All the time. He always comes just before I get there.

[Testing power supplies]

No. Voltmeters are the best way. Learned the hard way with the only Jaguar that ever came my way...

[How many of you have considered getting a PSP..]

I got an original with low firmware so I could do the "easy as an xbox softmod" firmware hack. It's great. I use a converter to convert all my PS1 games into ISO then into a format my PSP can read. I also love GBA games on it. It also has the best screen on any affordable handheld.

[Which arcade stick was better for the sega genesis?]

Official IMO. Just get one dirt cheap, clean it and you'd swear it was using microswitches.

[I just found my old game system and I want more!]

Not to mention you have the best mall. I'm from Islip Terrace and our mall sucks.

 

 

we had the best mall. it sux ass now. I miss the 2 arcades in there. a couple of years ago, they tried reopening an arcade. it last a couple of years but now it went the way of the d0-d0!

 

I find myself going out of my way to the fancier, roosevelt field now.

I'm now going to Smithaven more often. We had a great arcade at the Bayshore mall with 2 Initial D Stage 3 machines and 3 DDR machines and a Marvel vs Capcom 2 sit down cab. Now they closed it because those stupid assholes from the wannabe MS13 gang started robbing little kids in there. One tried it on my friend's little brother and my friend is a 300lb 6'4" defensive lineman. Lets just say it didn't end well for the punk El Salvadorian.

[Buddies Jaguar Collection]

How in the hell did you get the Jag Duo mockup?

[I just found my old game system and I want more!]

Not to mention you have the best mall. I'm from Islip Terrace and our mall sucks.

[The Official "Thrift finds" Thread]

Shit not even my debug compares with that.

[The Official "Thrift finds" Thread]

My god....

[I just found my old game system and I want more!]

Try your luck witch garage sales this summer. Already found some stuff in the Brentwood area 2 weeks ago but it looks like Deer Park is gonna be the hot spot with that new Play-N-Trade opening up and people remembering what stuff they have.

[Game room paintjob.]

Also just realised im a Moonsweeper now and its only been a few months.

 

-Darren-

Don't worry. I hit moonsweeper after about a month. Anyway great idea. I need to actually lighten my room up. It's got all the 70's wood paneling and faux rock walls to be expected from a 40 year 0ld house

[New SNES controllers]

Video

[New SNES controllers]

The third party look-alikes are great so long as you sit no more than 2 feet from your SNES. I recommend getting the rubber contacts from the 3rd party and swapping them in your old controller. I did it for mine and the buttons feel as good as microswitches and they now give a firm pop when they are fully depressed.

[opinions on a 3DO]

I haven't touched mine really since I got it. It's like if a PS1 and a Genesis had an overpriced bastard child.

[STICH666 Collection]

Updated.

[Worlds First PC Disk Engine]

Luke's mods are always awesome

[Ahead of its time...]

Speaking of internet, when the Dreamcast came out most people were still on dial up so the online play was NOT a selling point for the Dreamcast.

I'd disagree w/ this statement (unless you're talking about the mainstream's acceptance of the internet thanks to hi-speed). But the internet is the internet, regardless of your connection to it. Think WebTV. Mid-Late 90's were a great time for online gaming and surfing in general (much better experience than it is today, even with "hi-speed"). Saturn was even well setup for it. I logged countless hours playing Duke Nuke'm on that thing - dial up of course. No, Sega was on the ball with those concepts for sure before they handed all of their great ideas over to Micro$soft for play by Joe Sixpack and XBox.

I saw one of these boxes in a thrift shop and I still don't know what it is. Can you explain a little.

[Ahead of its time...]

Dreamcast. I mean WTF. Great library, powerful enough to compete with it's rivals and an awesome controller. All that thrown away because some dipshits wanted a DVD player.

[The Official "Thrift finds" Thread]

And the car.....