HEY NOW!
As many of you already know, the week started on a pretty low note for me.
Daylight burglaries aren't exactly a laugh-a-minute.But things improved immensely today when I got off work and embarked on what I call a "hot-hand" thrift crawl, where almost every stop yielded at least a little something, and a couple stops a LOT something. Read on and you'll see what I mean.
The day started off small as I dropped by the Goodwill near work:
Although they lacked manuals, I found
Mario Kart Wii and
New SMB Wii for $3.99 each.
Then came the deluge as I hit the Mountain View Rasputin's:
This haul consisted mainly of $1.95 CIB PS2 games, including:
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Conflict: Global Terror
- Dark Cloud
- Dr. Muto
- Kessen II
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII
- Samurai Warriors XTreme Legends
- Star Wars Bounty Hunter
- Terminator Dawn of Fate
- Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken LandI also found a few $1.95 CIB PSP games:
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Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
- Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
- Monster Hunter Freedom UniteLet's not overlook the $1.95 CIB 360 & GameCube games:
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Wario Ware, Inc.
- Donkey Konga
- Kameo: Elements of Power
- Gun (sealed)Finally, some miscellaneous stuff I snapped up for $0.50 a pop:
- CIB
Age of Mythology Bonus Edition for PC
-
Riven for PC
- Official XBox Magazine #45 demo
- CIB
Kiss Pinball for PS1
Next up was the Mountain View Goodwill, where I found a morsel of number-crunching goodness:
While this $4.99 Texas Instruments BA-II Plus business calculator was a nice find, there were no gaming goodies of note at this stop. Good thing it was a different story at the Parkmoor Savers in San Jose:
For a little over seven smackers, I walked out with fifteen
Nintendo Power back issues-- and I mean WAY back, between issues 16 and 41-- as well as
Mario Mania, Top Secret Passwords and a
Ninja Gaiden II player's guide.
Next up was the Almaden Expressway Savers, which yielded all you see here:
The
Super Mario 2 cart, CIB
Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, and CIB
Supreme Commander were
$2.99 $2.39 each with savings coupon, and the
Nintendo Power Mario Collector's Special set me back
$1.99 $1.59.
Funny thing about the
Dragon Quarter pick-up: a few minutes before I saw it, I was thinking about SirPsycho's recent acquisition of the same game, and how it looked like a promising title. It's a happy coincidence that's happened a couple times before in my thrift hunts, and has almost led me to believe I have some odd power of clairvoyance. But it's not that I possess odd powers; I'm just plain
odd. A few miles up the expressway, and I arrived at the Almaden Goodwill. Sadly, this particular store has some of the most ridiculous asking prices for console games and hardware I'v ever seen. $9.99 for a loose
Ecco the Dolphin Genesis cart with a half-ripped-off label? Thanks, but no thanks (and tell the pricer to stop hitting the pipe). Fortunately, I'm always finding other interesting things here for far more reasonable prices...
...like this CIB Tomy Atomic Pinball game for $5.99. And, ummm, you might wanna cut back on the heavy breathing there, SingleBanana; you're kinda creeping everybody out with that. Someone's in need of a cold shower.
After checking out another Goodwill that didn't have diddley, I ended today's run at the Bernal Goodwill, where I found:
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Metal Gear Saga Vol. 2 / MGS4 bonus DVD, $3.79
- CIB
PlayStation Official UK Magazine demo disc 25, $3.99
- Sealed
Dungeon Keeper for PC, $3.59
Needless to say, I'm feeling a little better now.
Until next time...
...'Late