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BoneSnapDeez wrote:Goodwill is like a treasure trove of old PC games. Three of my February games were from Goodwill - $1.99 each. I'm convinced people give away a lot of their old PC games because they don't know they can run them on current PCs (they don't know about DOSBox or whatever).

My Goodwill rarely has PC games and when they do it's usually those shoddy little compilation packages. I will say though, that when the other thrift stores around here get in good PC games they are almost always in excellent condition (And cheap too. What I found today only cost me $1 each). Make the jokes you will about the "master race", but PC gamers take excellent care of their stuff.

BoneSnapDeez wrote:Lucky for me I multiple PCs with DOS, Windows 3.1, 98, XP, Vista, and 7.

I shall now always picture one room of your house as completely dark and just covered in wall-to-wall computers.

Michi wrote:

BoneSnapDeez wrote:Lucky for me I multiple PCs with DOS, Windows 3.1, 98, XP, Vista, and 7.

I shall now always picture one room of your house as completely dark and just covered in wall-to-wall computers.

Only two of 'em are hooked up. The rest live in the closet or basement, unfortunately.

I had a copy of Two Worlds (PC) arrive from Amazon today. The game was 1 cent... plus $4.99 shipping.

Also stopped by the Video Game Exchange (Augusta, Maine) and picked up a couple of Genesis games - Dragon's Revenge (cart & box) for $8 and NHL Hockey (cart only) for 95 cents.

Later at Goodwill I snagged X-COM: UFO Defense (PC-DOS) for $2. Overall, a decent outing.

Games Purchased 2013

Previous games acquired this year:


16.a. Shin Megami Tensei Box, Manual, Inserts
17. Shining the Holy Ark - SAT JPN Import
18. Sakura Taisen - SAT JPN Import
19. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoners: Souls Hackers - SAT JPN Import
20. Blue Seed - SAT JPN Import

Decided to grab a few of the cheaper Saturn imports since I bought an Action Replay and realized I could use my credit card points on Amazon. Looking forward to picking up some of the other Japanese exclusives during the year. I've been playing a lot more first-person turn-based RPGs in the last couple months than I have in probably my entire life.

Michi wrote:My Goodwill rarely has PC games and when they do it's usually those shoddy little compilation packages.

Make sure to always give those shoddy compilation packages a second look. As I wrote about here you may be surprised to see what's included in some of them.

BoneSnapDeez wrote:

Michi wrote:My Goodwill rarely has PC games and when they do it's usually those shoddy little compilation packages.

Make sure to always give those shoddy compilation packages a second look. As I wrote about here you may be surprised to see what's included in some of them.

I remember that post!

But, alas, I have yet to find anything of significance included in the thrift store's multitude of Mahjong collections

My haul for February 2013:
C = cart
I = instructions
B = box/case

SNES
Donkey Kong Country C
NHL '94 C
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario World 2 C
Interact Superpad controller ($1.25)

N64
Mischief Makers CIB
Resident Evil 2 CIB
Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth CIB

Gamecube
Alien Hominid CIB

Wii
Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure CIB (plus an extra set of instructions)

Game Boy/Game Boy Color
Donkey Kong Land III IB (looking for a nice copy of the game)
Kirby's Dream Land instructions (looking for box/game of this)

Game Boy Advance
Super Mario Advance CIB
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 IB

Sega Genesis
Richard Scarrey's Busytown C

oXbox
Spartan: Total Warrior - working on my collection of Sega published Xbox games

*Current Month - 11 new games, 2 pieces (boxes and/or instructions), and 1 controller*

Year to date additions:

Picked these up yesterday.

PC ENGINE Best Collection: Soldier Collection (1280 yen)
PC ENGINE Best Collection: Ginga Ojosama Densetsu Collection (980 yen)
Radirgy Noa Massive (1280 yen)
Densha de GO! FINAL (2980 yen)

I FINALLY found a copy in the wild of Densha de GO! FINAL at a reasonable price.
Most game shops mark up its price due to its popularity and mild scarcity.

I was intending to keep up with this thread and kept stalling. I did keep track of what I purchased, I just lazily neglected to post the list here.

So here's January and February for me.

I've made a couple more pickups for March, and more will come very soon, but I'll probably wait to update on that until the end of the month.


January:

Alisia Dragoon - Genesis
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons: Eye of the Beholder - Sega CD
Castle Shikigami 2 - PS2
Crimson Clover - PC
Quake 2 - N64
Metroid: Other M - Wii
Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron 2 - Gamecube
Gunvalkyrie - Xbox
Demon Stone - Xbox
S.C.A.R.S. - N64
Cruisin' USA - N64

February:

Evil Twin: Cyprien's Chronicles - Dreamcast (PAL)
NHL '94 - Sega CD
Spider-man - Xbox
Spider-man 2 - Xbox
Goldeneye: Rogue Agent - Xbox
007: Everything or Nothing - Xbox
Tony Hawk's Underground - Xbox
Tony Hawk's Underground 2 - Xbox
Project Gotham Racing - Xbox
Midnight Club II - Xbox
Blood Wake - Xbox
Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 and 2 - Xbox
The Incredibles - Xbox
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee - Xbox
Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers - Xbox
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood - Xbox
Medal of Honor: Frontline - Xbox
Quake 3 Arena - Dreamcast
Headhunter - Dreamcast (PAL)
Ys: The Oath in Felghana - PSP
Superman - Genesis
NBA Jam T.E. - Genesis

hashiriya1 wrote:PC ENGINE Best Collection: Ginga Ojosama Densetsu Collection (980 yen)

Holy crap this exists?!

BoneSnapDeez wrote:

hashiriya1 wrote:PC ENGINE Best Collection: Ginga Ojosama Densetsu Collection (980 yen)

Holy crap this exists?!

That was my response. Those look awesome!