An old friend E-Mailed me from out of the blue to say hello and see if I might be able to stop by and help him hook up a printer he just got. So I stop over there, hook it up to his desktop and laptop, and while I'm there he goes, "Oh, before I forget I found something for you".
He comes back with a 2600 heavy sixer in the box. He was like, "This is just taking up space, and I'd hate to throw it away, but I know you're the guy that's going to appreciate it".
So I get it home, and the box is in really decent shape for the age. Definitely been chillaxing in a basement, but other than some moving scrapes and scuffs, the box is fully intact and structurally sound. Everything is inside including the original cardboard "tray", plus the original manual and warranty registration card which also has a free offer for a "Video Computer System Log Book". I'm sure some of the Atari collectors have filing cabinets stuffed with these Log Book things, but this is the first time I've seen one. I'm pretty excited for something that was completely free. I didn't have a heavy sixer box in my collection, and wouldn't have expected to find one is such nice shape.
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The Official "Thrift finds" Thread
Started by Happy_Dude, Dec 24 2002 12:04 AM
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Posted Yesterday, 10:03 AM
yes, the best thing come free.
a cousin once called me and said he had some stuff for me. Got a darth vader 2600 and some 20 or so games. A collegue once picked up a nes with 2 games and all hookups for free for me. It's nice having people thinking about other man's hobby and putting things aside for you.
a cousin once called me and said he had some stuff for me. Got a darth vader 2600 and some 20 or so games. A collegue once picked up a nes with 2 games and all hookups for free for me. It's nice having people thinking about other man's hobby and putting things aside for you.
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Posted Yesterday, 2:14 PM
Similar thing happened to me...my cousin I guess gave my dad a heavy sixer with a few games, an AC adapter (official Atari, though I don't know if it came with the heavy sixer), some third party controllers, some paperwork crap...he asked me if I wanted it.
Got pretty lucky in the thrifts today...
Three Dreamcast games: Resident Evil: Code Veronica, and two copies of Phantasy Star Online Ver.2, one of which had Sonic Adventure inside instead.
Super Smash TV for SNES, complete in a really beat up box (not that I care, I just wanted the game). They had the NES version CIB too, but I passed on that one. Looks like it's ex-rental.
Spot: The Videogame, with instructions, in one of those clear blue cases.
A Quake CD CIB (gatefold), to replace mine that broke. There's a sticker on the front that says "EPISODE 1 Shareware", but the soundtrack seems intact, and that's all I was really after.
...and the best score of all, probably the best one all year...Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody on CD!! Everyone is going to hate driving with me \m/
Got pretty lucky in the thrifts today...
Three Dreamcast games: Resident Evil: Code Veronica, and two copies of Phantasy Star Online Ver.2, one of which had Sonic Adventure inside instead.
Super Smash TV for SNES, complete in a really beat up box (not that I care, I just wanted the game). They had the NES version CIB too, but I passed on that one. Looks like it's ex-rental.
Spot: The Videogame, with instructions, in one of those clear blue cases.
A Quake CD CIB (gatefold), to replace mine that broke. There's a sticker on the front that says "EPISODE 1 Shareware", but the soundtrack seems intact, and that's all I was really after.
...and the best score of all, probably the best one all year...Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody on CD!! Everyone is going to hate driving with me \m/
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Posted Yesterday, 4:16 PM
Never Gonna Give You Up, Never Gonna Let You Down
(and then the barfing sounds begin)
(and then the barfing sounds begin)
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Posted Yesterday, 4:17 PM
Damnit now I'm singing the song and it won't stop!
Curse you
Curse you
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Posted Yesterday, 5:47 PM
Best part was... it was HALF PRICE!
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Posted Yesterday, 9:12 PM
Hmm, the Sonic Adventure disc won't read...and it's not even scratched up, really =/
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Posted Yesterday, 9:21 PM
Asaki, on Fri May 25, 2012 9:12 PM, said:
Hmm, the Sonic Adventure disc won't read...and it's not even scratched up, really =/
There are a few Dreamcast games that, for reasons unknown to me, will work on some consoles and not others. I believe that Sonic Adventure is one of them.
Sega also had a run of bad disc pressings early in the Dreamcast's life. I don't remember if SA was one of the affected games, but Hydro Thunder was among them, IIRC.
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Posted Yesterday, 9:33 PM
Well crap =/
Funny thing, even the boot disc wouldn't boot it...it just made the spinning reindeer spin much slower. I'll just have to be content with a burned copy, I guess.
Funny thing, even the boot disc wouldn't boot it...it just made the spinning reindeer spin much slower. I'll just have to be content with a burned copy, I guess.
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Asaki, on Fri May 25, 2012 9:33 PM, said:
Well crap =/
Funny thing, even the boot disc wouldn't boot it...it just made the spinning reindeer spin much slower. I'll just have to be content with a burned copy, I guess.
Funny thing, even the boot disc wouldn't boot it...it just made the spinning reindeer spin much slower. I'll just have to be content with a burned copy, I guess.
Yup, Sonic was one of the infamous bad pressings. I had to take my first copy back too. Someone on eBay is selling a giant wholesale lot of them right now (or just did). It's too bad since you know that they will probably get purchased by someone that leaks them back on to the used market. The discs should have been destroyed.
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