A huge score in the wild today!!

[KAZ]

I guess today was the right day to go to the Goodwill!!

 

I've done the same routine every day for the past month at least. I go workout at the Y, and then I drop by and go "fishing" at the Goodwill.

 

I walk in and out of the store within 1 minute usually. I was doing my daily sweep of the place, and as usual I didn't think anything was there.

I saw a flight stick thing for the Playstation, and played with it for a bit. Then I stopped for a moment and looked down, and there it was!

 

My patience and routine paid off huge! An Atari 2600 "Woody" sat there. It was in a nice zipped up plastic bag even! I couldn't believe it!

I could see some games in it too, which I later found were these games:

 

1. Pac-Man

2. Combat (text label)

3. 112 Tele-Games Space Invaders

4. Home Run (text label)

5. Hunt & Score (text label)

 

This was OLD SKOOL! I didn't even have Hunt & Score.

 

I was in the checkout line for 9 hours since the guy there is always slow like a turtle. The person behind me goes: "Wow, I remember that thing!"

And I didn't say it, but I was like "YEAH, IT IS MINE!"

 

I realized how rare it is to find this thing at the Goodwill. The only other time anything 2600 was in the place was at least since Christmas. And those were just cartridges.

 

Within the last two months, I've got a bunch of cool stuff from this place. All "fairly" reasonably priced.

 

Here is what I've gotten:

 

VHS TAPES:

Star Trek The Final Frontier

Dumb and Dumber

Ace Ventura

Speed

The Karate Kid (Beta) (Stupid me)

The Karate Kid

The Karate Kid 2

The Money Pit

Powder

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Back to the Future

 

GENESIS:

Risk

Mortal Kombat 3

 

PC:

Extreme Tennis (doesn't work on my XP, sucks!)

 

Two genesis 6 button controllers (Super Pads)

The day after I got Mortal Kombat 3, nice timing!

 

 

Commodore Plus 4 (In the box even)

Odyssey 2 and like 3 games!

 

Quite a haul if you look at it overall.

 

 

I got this thing home and started talking to it like "What did they do to you?" and "You're home now." hehe

 

I fired it up with one of the games it came with, and it worked.

 

I went to town on the top of it with isopropyl alcohol and cotton swabs, where that "grill" area is. There was easily 20 years of dirt build-up on it (obviously). I cleaned it up nice. Then I opened two of my shrink wrapped unopened games (Ms. Pac-Man and Dig Dug) and I commemorated the occasion!

 

The funny thing is that the color "wigs out" after a while, and then it either totally glitches out, or the color simply turns to gray tone. Wtf is up with that? Not that I really care, but I would like to know if I could fix it?!

My vader has no problems, and this thing is for nostalgic value for sure.

 

Plus the game mode switch is broken. The other switches all work.

How do I open the thing up to fix the broken switch?

 

 

Also, I got to see another shitty thing about Pac-Man. I noticed that he stays in exactly one place at the beginning of the game, and yet he somehow gets 1 POINT for just standing there. When you eat that wafer that he's sitting on, you got ANOTHER point! That's funny and stupid!

 

Especially when playing the glorious Ms. Pac-Man. I realize there is that remake Pac-Man, and I'll probably grab that sometime. It is really a hacked up version of Ms. Pac-Man tho (except with a different cool box.)

 

 

So that's the long story

[ussexplorer]

Nice hall on the C4 system in box. As for the Atari. Pretty good. Sometimes it is nice to find a system in a bad. Keeps the kids from playing with it sometimes. Plus you know what you get. As for the other stuff. Yea, I to pickup movies. Especially Laser Discs.

 

Laters,

 

Josh

[MegaManFan]

Congrats.

 

I guess my interpretation of "huge" is a little bigger. I thought you found Rescue Terra I or Spider Maze or something.

[Raijin Z]

I realized how rare it is to find this thing at the Goodwill.  The only other time anything 2600 was in the place was at least since Christmas.  And those were just cartridges.

 

And how. The employees are no-account, no-good, low-down dirty-rotten thieves that'll steal inventory just to spite you, then throw their ill-gotten goods in a dumpster after their idiot bastard grandchildren break whatever you've been searching your whole life for.

[ussexplorer]

In one store employees got first pick. It was really nice when they changed that policy. Plus, they was taking off with stuff. If you are familar with Deseret Industries. The bishop can come in and reserve what they want. Beleive me they do. You see this nice peice of furniture, say used 1,200 dollars easy. But it is reserved, and given free. At least the last I heard. They might have to pay something.

 

 

Laters,

 

Josh