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[boxpressed]

In the latest RGR podcast, one of the hosts mentions the recent interview with O'Shea's. He then says that he'd heard that Big Lots received a lot of the liquidation inventory too. He was told by a person who worked there that there were NIB 7800s stacked to the ceiling, NIB games for $1, etc. Anyone here have the good fortune to buy 7800 stuff at Big Lots? How long ago was it?

[Atari Dogs]

1993 for Big Lots. I hit all the Big Lots in Greater Cincinnati.

[boxpressed]

That was a lot longer ago than I'd guessed. How much were the consoles?

[Darrin9999]

I went to a couple big lots in michigan, picked up a bunch of stuff. I do believe the consoles were $19.99. I dont remember seeing any 7800`s but they had tons of 5200`s and 2600 jr`s..

[the.golden.ax]

They never had consoles as far as I saw. I hit many many many locations from Tennessee, Wisconsin, Virginia. They had them from about 1993 - 1999, and I still had them coming in to my shop as trade-ins with Big Lots stickers as late as 2006. It has been 5 years since I've seen one other then those in my collection.

[20ohm20]

Pic-N-Save (what Big Lots used to be called in Southern California, or maybe the west coast) sold some silver and red label Atari 2600 games in late 1989/early 1990 for $2 or $3 each (I remember buying several of them). I vaguely remember them selling 2600 Jr's, but I don't remember how much they wanted for them. I've never seen any 5200 or 7800 games/consoles there.

[CRV]

I seem to remember getting 2600 Asteroids (the original picture label variation) at an Odd Lots in the '90s.

[nonner242]

Atari Dogs, on Sat Sep 24, 2011 11:05 AM, said:

1993 for Big Lots. I hit all the Big Lots in Greater Cincinnati.

Yep same for me in the Cleveland/Mentor/Medina area.
'93/94" Had bins of games.
Ace of Aces
Solaris
Dark chambers
Secret Quest
Jinx
Tower Toppler
ect....

There was no rarer games like Planet Smashers or Moto Psycho and like Ax said, no systems.

[TwinChargers]

There was a place in one of the malls in central MN, (it may heve been called something generic like "Everything's a Dollar") that had a small selection of Atari games in the early 90's. I remember getting Ms.Pac-Man there and Battlezone, maybe even Jr.Pac-Man. I was only a kid and had a small allowance, but if I recall they were actually only a buck.

[sdamon]

I got a 7800 console at a liquidation store (Ollie's) around 1991/1992. It came shrinkwrapped with 4 of the 7800 launch titles... can't remember for sure which ones. The whole package was $40.

[the.golden.ax]

sdamon, on Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:41 AM, said:

I got a 7800 console at a liquidation store (Ollie's) around 1991/1992. It came shrinkwrapped with 4 of the 7800 launch titles... can't remember for sure which ones. The whole package was $40.

And now those shrink packs get $300+ when they show up on ePay. Would love to have an attic full of those.

AX

[Sbdolan]

nonner242, on Sun Sep 25, 2011 7:47 AM, said:

Atari Dogs, on Sat Sep 24, 2011 11:05 AM, said:

1993 for Big Lots. I hit all the Big Lots in Greater Cincinnati.

Yep same for me in the Cleveland/Mentor/Medina area.
'93/94" Had bins of games.
Ace of Aces
Solaris
Dark chambers
Secret Quest
Jinx
Tower Toppler
ect....

There was no rarer games like Planet Smashers or Moto Psycho and like Ax said, no systems.

I actually picked up a 7800 and quite a few games at the Lorain Oh Biglots. 93/94 sounds about right. Got Fatal Run from there, Karateka, and a few others.

[Schmudde]

Contrary to a poster above, I believe I did get a few games published in 1990 at Big Lots in Peoria including MotorPsycho and Alien Brigade. I believe Peoria, IL Big Lots received this haul in 1993ish. The inventory sold included 2600/7800 games and systems. All games were $1-$3. I bought quite a bit of software to round out my collection (including Secret Quest for the 2600). It was a great time. Second best to the time when Don Thomas, while still being employed at Atari, helped liquidate much of their inventory through his connections at CompuServe.

Schmüdde
www.schmudde.net
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Edited by Schmudde, Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:53 PM.

[the.golden.ax]

In Tennessee they had $1 $3 $5 and $7 titles. Perhaps the goodies left quickly, I never saw any Alien Brigade or Fatal Run.

AX

[GonzoGamer]

Anyone have any idea as to where all of the 7800 sealed games that have been on ebay of late came from, seems to be a ton of certain titles listed as sealed.

[the.golden.ax]

GonzoGamer, on Sat Oct 1, 2011 2:42 PM, said:

Anyone have any idea as to where all of the 7800 sealed games that have been on ebay of late came from, seems to be a ton of certain titles listed as sealed.

User names?

Anything from Titusville Florida (various user names with "source" in them) are part of the Telegames buy out.

Anything from Venezuela is part of that south American warehouse find.

The girl with the cases is someone that bought a bunch of stuff before O'Shea sold off.

Am I missing anything? If it is big lots they have orange price stickers that don't come off easily. They either leave a mark, or they are still on.

AX

[GonzoGamer]

the.golden.ax, on Sun Oct 2, 2011 11:54 AM, said:

GonzoGamer, on Sat Oct 1, 2011 2:42 PM, said:

Anyone have any idea as to where all of the 7800 sealed games that have been on ebay of late came from, seems to be a ton of certain titles listed as sealed.

User names?

Anything from Titusville Florida (various user names with "source" in them) are part of the Telegames buy out.

Anything from Venezuela is part of that south American warehouse find.

The girl with the cases is someone that bought a bunch of stuff before O'Shea sold off.

Am I missing anything? If it is big lots they have orange price stickers that don't come off easily. They either leave a mark, or they are still on.

AX

AX, thanks for the info, being pretty new to game collecting i had not heard about all of these finds, one of mine does have one of the orange stickers.