Silverfleet Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 The wife and I were visiting her aunt's house over the weekend, and she mentioned that she was getting rid of a bunch of stuff from their basement and asked if we wanted to take any of it before it got tossed. She had been saving some Xmas stuff for the wife, so we headed down to take a look. What I didn't expect to find was a HUGE stack of vinyl records. Like many of you, I also collect vinyl. She said the only thing that wasn't up for grabs was a Queen record autographed by Brian May, which is totally understandable. I wasn't expecting to find much, but I ended up snagging a fat stack of about 20 records. A lot of it was 70's-80's Pop stuff, but there were some real gems in there, and everything was in great, playable condition. Some of them were still sealed!!! Here's a sampling of the lot: Then, I realized that my Sherwood stereo receiver I picked up from a Salvation Army a couple years back was still on the fritz, so I couldn't listen to any of these. So, I went off to Savers the next morning and snagged these: The receiver is a Kenwood KR-A3060 from around 1994. Probably overpaid at $29.99, but I wanted something decent with a dedicated Phono input, and this one seemed to work well enough. Has 50 watts per channel, which is decent for back then, and it's built like a fortress. Games were $5 total; nothing special but I didn't have them and they were complete. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+GoldenWheels Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 That Steve Martin album is a great one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 Five dollars at a garage sale/resale shop. All discs and manual in great shape. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yakumo1975 Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 The wife and I were visiting her aunt's house over the weekend, and she mentioned that she was getting rid of a bunch of stuff from their basement and asked if we wanted to take any of it before it got tossed. She had been saving some Xmas stuff for the wife, so we headed down to take a look. What I didn't expect to find was a HUGE stack of vinyl records. Like many of you, I also collect vinyl. She said the only thing that wasn't up for grabs was a Queen record autographed by Brian May, which is totally understandable. I wasn't expecting to find much, but I ended up snagging a fat stack of about 20 records. A lot of it was 70's-80's Pop stuff, but there were some real gems in there, and everything was in great, playable condition. Some of them were still sealed!!! Here's a sampling of the lot: excellent luck on finding all of those records. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverfleet Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 excellent luck on finding all of those records. Yeah, it really was. Everything I've played so far has sounded great. And they have even more of them for me the next time I visit! Also, that receiver is all hooked up, and everything sounds amazing. Really happy with that purchase! (BTW, big fan of your YouTube channel. Keep up the good work!) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Here's my pickups from vacation... Draconian I got at the AtariAge booth at PRGE. $50 The Time Soldiers for the Master System is case and manual only, figured I might use it as trade stuff at PRGE but did not. Got it at one of those Goodwill donation centers where you pay for stuff by the pound. $0.57 3DS bought at PRGE. Traded in my Suikoden 2 manual to get the price reduced a bit. Didn't get as much as I wanted, but I waited around and pickings were getting slim. Came with a charger and seems to work fine okay, but they didn't do a factory reset on it, so I'll have to call Nintendo and get help with that later. $85 Shenmue II I got at a pawn shop in some little town somewhere... don't remember the name. Found a cheaper one at PRGE but this one is in awesome shape. $15 Legend of Dragoon was at a place called The Garage Sale Warehouse in Beaverton Oregon. From what I hear, it's a pretty awesome game. Discs and manual are all in great shape. $5 The last item is a program from PRGE. free! These are some of the console trading cards that you could pick up from various stores and vendors around the Portland and Seattle area. The 2600 one was from AtariAge... it came with my purchase of Draconian. Not sure exaclty where the others were from... one was from Ground Kontrol arcade, another was from a toy shop a little up the road from Ground Kontrol, one was from a vendor's table at PRGE, and the other was from Pink Gorilla in Seattle. All were free, but they were selling complete sets of them at the PRGE booth for like $10. I think there were like 12 or so in all... not sure. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homerj Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 At a yard sale Friday I picked up - Genesis model 2 Sega CD model 2 Atari 5200 Atari 2600 2 Intellivisions Intellivision Voice Synthesis Bag of complete boxed Intellivision games All the consoles were complete & in good condition with the exception of the 5200 missing the controller cover & no controllers. Paid $50.00 for the lot & they said they had much more that they just hadn't gone through yet. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FujiSkunk Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 I snagged one of my current 10 most wanted at the Houston Arcade Expo: Qix for the NES. CIB, too! Also traded for a SNES Super Double Dragon at the swap meet before rain chased everybody out of the parking lot. Oh well. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 It's not video-game related (nor is it my find), but this article appears in the newspaper today: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/australian-travellers-find-17k-in-diamond-rings-hidden-in-3-board-game-from-p-e-i-thrift-store A couple from Australia bought a board game at a thrift shop, and found Cdn$17,000 worth of jewelry hidden inside the box (under a false bottom). I have shopped at that very store (several times), but I never found anything video game-related there -- just books and a framed piece of art that now hangs in my living room. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 I like that they said they'd give it back if it ended up belonging to someone's gramma or whatever. Good story! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 I had this insane thrift find today, a nearly new in the box Slingbox 500 for $9. After market has it at $150-200 range, new they're $300. I tested it to get a menu and net function up and it worked. I don't get quite how it works as it doesn't pack in a manual of any kind, but my understanding is that you use it as a bypass between your cable(etc) box and TV and then you can use that intercepted feed and watch tv, your dvr, etc on any mobile app or other computer. I'm curious to dig more into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 It's not video-game related (nor is it my find), but this article appears in the newspaper today: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/australian-travellers-find-17k-in-diamond-rings-hidden-in-3-board-game-from-p-e-i-thrift-store A couple from Australia bought a board game at a thrift shop, and found Cdn$17,000 worth of jewelry hidden inside the box (under a false bottom). I have shopped at that very store (several times), but I never found anything video game-related there -- just books and a framed piece of art that now hangs in my living room. The only thing I ever found like that was an older PC game from a thrift store that had a burnt porn CD-R under the bottom flap of the box. I only watched it once. . . or twice before tossing it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+GoldLeader Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 Yeah I once watched some porn on DVDs,...Just nasty, gross, terrible stuff...I finally had to turn it off after about 8 hours. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+GoldLeader Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 I'd been meaning to post this for a while,...Probably 3 or 4 trips worth. Every game was $4! The Star Wars game also has Tetris Worlds...And I don't usually buy sports games, but I used to sometimes play this golf game (Waialae Country Club) on SNES back when I was in college, so for $4 I couldn't say no. It's funny that I bought it used; this classy, relaxing golf game and whoever owned it before me had a character saved in there named "Mr. Poop". And this cracked me up like I was 12 years old again. Also I love 6 disc changer CD players. They had one for $7 so I took a chance...In case mine in my bedroom dies, I'd like to have a back-up. And not only does it work fine, But when I turned it on, to my surprise, I hear Burl Ives singing "Holly Jolly Christmas" because whoever owned it before left a CD of Christmas carols in it. It's not exactly free porn but still ... Score! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 i liked Waialae! I fired up a copy of it not too long ago. Mr. Poop is pretty danged funny, hehehe. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 I remember when that game came out on SNES. I just was too young to care or bother with something like that on a console because if I needed a fix for something strange like that I had access to Links 386 for DOS in the day. But I would keep reading up, seeing the images in NP and the demo stuff at some stores and it blew me away. Much like how Mario was a hit how much it jumped over the NES, just like ActRaiser was outright ear candy too with the sampled music, this one really set the bar for what I didn't think I'd see a console game do. The high color rendered type look of the stills on the caddies, the colorization of the greenery, to the way the courses looked and all just seemed well beyond what you'd expect from something that didn't run on a home computer. I really should fire that game up some time and just see how it feels. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 My favorite golf game is still Golf for NES. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 I remember playing a Links game, but couldn't tell you which one it was... it was on my brother-in-law's computer. But we played it a lot. I've enjoyed a lot of golf games over the years. Definitely my favorite "sports" games (unless you count racing). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Ragan Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Links on the original Xbox is pretty great. I like it better than Tiger Woods 2006 on Xbox 360, at least. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 I came across and purchased the Sony Playstation version of Final Doom today for $14. My understanding it it's just as amazingly good as Doom was on the system and I paid like 1/2 the value for it too which is nice. I don't buy much for the system unless it's something I really think I'd use and doom is a good game to get a release out of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 Final Doom is actually 2 Doom mods that originally were going to be free. Funny that it got a console port. I came across and purchased the Sony Playstation version of Final Doom today for $14. My understanding it it's just as amazingly good as Doom was on the system and I paid like 1/2 the value for it too which is nice. I don't buy much for the system unless it's something I really think I'd use and doom is a good game to get a release out of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowgate Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 (edited) https://imgur.com/gallery/gtkuDc6 Found a fun item today. A Sony WM-3 Walkman. It was at a flea market but the vendor was a local guy who I always see in local thrift stores hunting for items. I'm guessing this find slipped under his radar. $10. It doesn't seem to power on. I'm torn on if I should tinker with it or just trade it to someone who knows them. I don't think it's the exact model but I can pretend I'm Star-Lord. It would have made a great costume prop for Halloween. Edited November 5, 2018 by Shadowgate 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+GoldLeader Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 https://imgur.com/gallery/gtkuDc6 Found a fun item today. A Sony WM-3 Walkman. It was at a flea market but the vendor was a local guy who I always see in local thrift stores hunting for items. I'm guessing this find slipped under his radar. $10. It doesn't seem to power on. I'm torn on if I should tinker with it or just trade it to someone who knows them. I don't think it's the exact model but I can pretend I'm Star-Lord. It would have made a great costume prop for Halloween. For the longest time, when I'd mow lawns, I'd be cranking a walkman (sometimes SONY, sometimes something else) and I'd listen to tapes of songs from CDs, other tapes, albums, even from VHS stuff haha...And it always rocked ! BTW did ya laugh at the fact it had volumes for left and right? That struck me as funny. Someone at Sony probably had a set of headphones where suddenly one ear was louder than the other... I finally made the jump to MP3 players about 6 or 7 years ago, mostly because I like having lots of playlists made on Micro SD cards, without the hassle of dubbing songs to a tape...But Walkmans always lasted a lot longer than MP3 players...(I buy a bunch of Cheapos then when they quit working or lose a charge I move on to the next one...)...Along with ear plugs and a little amp to make it louder, I generally take 5 or so MP3 players with me, and multiple playlists... Still I will say that when an MP3 player dies...You don't get that sound of a tape being eaten... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asaki Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 Still I will say that when an MP3 player dies...You don't get that sound of a tape being eaten... Mine does =/ Sometimes the internal storage goes corrupt, and the songs go a little bonkers...it's pretty awful, but at least it's easy to fix. I just have to reformat and fill it back up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homerj Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 Gameboy Color w/Tailspin & The Jungle Book One of the older AtGames Genesis plug & plays w/The Adventures of Batman & Robin and Batman Forever Mad Dash - Xbox Tenchu - 360 Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles - GC Lord of the Rings - GC Sonic Adventure DX - GC Ty The Tasmanian Tiger 1 & 2 - PS2 Road Rash - PS Jet Moto 3 - PS NFS High Stakes - PS 3DS charger Couple of memory cards All for $16.00. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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