Greetings from Terra...
Like I've said before, when I break a thrifting dry spell, I break it BIG.
And I finally figured out how to use my phone camera!
Well, sort of, anyway:
Fortunately, I shot my best side.But I finally figured it out so my fellow RFGentlemen could bear witness to my good fortune on this day:
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Final Fantasy XII Limited Collector's Edition strategy guide, $3.99: I bought this one, which had the pull-out poster chart but no art book, as a trade-up for the one I already owned, which has the art book but no poster.
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Yoshi's Island and
Golden Sun GBA carts, $2.99 each: I also bought a
Metal Slug Advance cart with these, but later discovered it was a bootleg with the save/continue disabled. For some reason, I've been finding quite a few bootleg GBA carts lately...
- Cabela Top Shot Elite light rifle accessory for Wii, $2.99: I now have one of these for each seventh-gen home console. I'm stockpiling these more than I am Nerf guns...
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Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain and
World's Scariest Police Chases, $1.99 each: I bought the former as a trade-up, and the latter because I totally dug those police-chase shows this ties into, back in the day.
- CIB
KotOR for XBox, $0.95: Here's another one for the Shadz tote board.
Not pictured:
- CIB
Star Wars Battlefront (Greatest hits) for PS2, $3.99
- AasciWare aasciPad SG-6 controller for Sega Genesis, $1.50
But those were merely the opening acts before the main event:
PSP games, $1.95 each (CIB unless noted otherwise):
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Jeanne D'Arc
- Chili Con Carnage
- Warhammer: Battle for Atluma
- Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles
- Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops
- Resistance: Retribution (sealed)
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Ultimate Ghosts 'N Goblins (no manual)
Finally, there's the most interesting pick-up of the day from the local Savers: seven game cassettes and cases for the Atari's Supercharger add-on, for $2.50 each...
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Frogger
- Phaser Patrol
- Fireball
- Suicide Mission
- Dragonstomper
- Rabbit Transit
- Communist mutants from SpaceA moment after picking these up, someone noticed I had these in my hands, and asked me if any of those games were good. I responded, "I sure hope so!"
A moment later, I found out that this inquisitive gentleman had just found the Supercharger accessory, and was looking for the games that went with it. Basically, he'd beaten me to the hardware, but I'd beaten him to the software. I looked around the place for a few more minutes when I noticed him checking out, talking at length with the clerk. I made the guess that he was trying to negotiate a lower price for the hardware. Which made sense to me, seeing as how most electronics at this Savers are marked "no exchange," and I'd grabbed all the software he could have used to test it out with.
A little while later I hit the checkout line, and the clerk confirmed my suspicions. Hey, you win some, and you lose some. In this instance, I did both.
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