Thrift Store Run

humanman42 · Post by **humanman42** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:10 am

I went to two thrift stores today. Only one had something i wanted at that moment.

99cent NES (only console, untested)
11$ SNES (console, 2 controllers, untested)

it was worth every penny.

the other had a ton of Atari games, but I will go back when they have their 30% sale.

casey.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:13 am

I picked up a few games at a trift store.

$0.25 1 NES cart of Castlevania
$0.25 1 NES cart of Ninja Gaiden (w/ black plastic nitendo protective sleave)
$0.25 1 NES cart of Ninja Gaiden 2
$1.00 1 PSone Disc of Nightmare Creatures

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:18 pm

we've had so many of these threads, we seriously need to make a Sticky. Super Duper Cereal.
Anyways...
A week ago, my school decide to throw out EVERY old computer. My friend and I combined got like 12 nice computers, (including one miniserver), ten routers, a bunch of speakers, cords and keyboards, and a switch box. It's a pretty nice haul. They even had a copulate mainframe, but obviously way to big to take.

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:25 pm

I found NES and master system games/systems in the school garbage one time, in a box labeled "teachers lounge"

extremesonic · Post by **extremesonic** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:03 pm

I just game back from oen today, and they go a huge SNES shipment in(and apparently there is more in the back, they still have to price and clean).

Tons of stuff(some things I already had). All i picked up was Yoshi's Island for 15(this is all Canadian fyi).

They also had the following

Yoshi Isle x2 - 15
Megaman X2 x2 - 20
FF2 - 20
Kirby Supersta - 20
Kirby's Dreamcourse(i would have grabbed, but my friend saw and bought it first) - 7
Crono Trigger - 35

And of course here is the real kicker

EARTHBOUND x3!!!! - 70

3 copies of Earthbound................wow is all I had to say to that.

Krepticor · Post by **Krepticor** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:53 am

are those prices in dollars!!!!!

Man I never thought a thrift store would charge that much!!!

x24 · Post by **x24** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 5:35 pm

extremesonic wrote:Crono Trigger - 35

I would have grabbed it in a second. thats like 1/2 priced compared to around here.

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 5:37 pm

Krepticor wrote:are those prices in dollars!!!!!

Man I never thought a thrift store would charge that much!!!

thats canadian money.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 5:56 pm

Now I'm confused. St. Kitts as in the island somewhere off in the carribean? Because they use american currency, along with some local ones. Where exactly are you (extremesonic) from?

extremesonic · Post by **extremesonic** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:41 pm

^ St. Catharines(it in Ontario), but we "locals" call it St. Kits sometimes.

And yes Krepticor those are dollars, Canadian dollars.

Post by **bicostp** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:08 pm

I just got an SRS "WOW Thing" box for a buck.

Just need to figure out how to power it... (no power supply)

http://www.geek.com/hwswrev/conel/wowthing/index.htm

If you have one, could you tell me the voltage and polarity of the power supply? I'm pretty sure the tip (inside of the connector) is positive and the ring is negative, just not sure of the voltage. Maybe 12? maybe 7? Who knows?

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:43 pm

I just got this weekend, Sony, four feet tall speakers, with rear wireless receivers, all for free. I love them for my music.

Sir Games-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Games-A-Lot** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:48 pm

Gamegear with Super Columns 2.99 @ good will, works great, both battery colors. They had two genny's but they were both missing the power adapters and tv hook-ups so I skipped those.

Joes2Silly · Post by **Joes2Silly** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:57 pm

today, I found a three LEDs and two switches on a old computer faceplate (I was on my way to school and I didnt have time to grab the whole case, or what was left of it) If there were any hardware, I would have grabed it no-question

PS I also found a motherboard & CPU in a dumpster that worked, but the motherboard kinda broke when i tried to pull it out of the case (what was left of it!)

Reaperman@home · Post by **Reaperman@home** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:13 pm

oooh, big find today!

virtual boy console complete and working
rental unit case
complete ac adapter set and AA battery pack
vertical force and baseball game
$30

do an ebay search on completed listings using 'virtual boy case'
$200-300+
I'll be cleaning this case/system up for sale

(nobody likes virtual boy that much, and I have another one)

that baseball game is actually playable. unlike most baseball games I've played, you can see how far away the ball is--it's the best baseball game I've seen.