I helped my grandma clean junk out of her house on Thursday. She let me keep whatever I wanted. I found a few things and brought them home in Dad's old Commodore 64 box. [imgt w=435 h=326]https://i.imgur.com/LmyoAIF_d.jpg?maxwidth=520&sha...[/imgt]
> Nice find on the Pac-Man box/manual. Did your grandma still have the cartridge too?
I obtained Dad’s old Atari 2600 and whatever games it had last year. I can’t remember if PAC-MAN was among them. It doesn’t matter much, though, since neither of my two 2600s actually works.
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>> Truly shocking.
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> It’s unfortunate, but something tells me I’m not missing much.
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I highly recommend Atari 50. Even if it doesn't have a complete library, the experience is great, and gives an opportunity to play a lot of Atari's catalog spawning multiple generations.
The weather is starting to get a bit chilly, but as long as there are yard sales, I will go. This is one of my favorite sales, I believe they have it twice a year.
image Movies were $1 each, Mario Kart was $14. A lot of movies going into the PC. Top row is all sealed.
image Don't know too much about this, but it was $10. It is basically a Roku box?
This one tends to go for a lot of money on eBay used... and I won a sealed one on auction for one dollar. The seller listed it as "Atmosphere" instead of "Atmosfear", and the auction ended at 7 AM, so the night before I bid like three bucks on it and won it. Shipping was also cheap, set to six bucks... and the seller got kinda angry because I paid before he could adjust the cost. Um. I feel kinda sorry for the guy, I've made that mistake before too.
This is one of those unusual DVD board games I never thought I'd be able to grab for cheap. Go figure.
> Don't know too much about this, but it was $10. It is basically a Roku box?
Killer deal on the Shield. They're WAY more versatile than a Roku or Kindle Fire. I've been hoping to find a decent deal on one to use as an emu station.
Found this for $40 at a thrift store today, ibm as400/e 9406 tower. Seems it's used for business / Healthcare databases? A broken similar model sold for $720 plus shipping and working they're listed for $1000+
Anyone have any info on this? If there's anything cool I could do with it or how to test it, what it's used for?
Today, I had one of my better finds in the last few years. Paid $120 for:
N64: NFL Blitz 2000, Mario Party, Mario Kart 64, Battle Tanx Global Assault, Star Wars Rogue Squadron, Snowboard Kids, Snowboard Kids 2, WCW vs. NWO Revenge, Star Fox 64, Bomberman 64, F-Zero X, Gauntlet Legends, International Superstar Soccer 64, Zelda Ocarina of Time (unfortunately all the carts have marker on them somewhere)
GameCube: Baten Kaitos Eternal Wings, Beyond Good & Evil, Skies of Arcadia Legends (all CIB) Disc Only: Custom Robo, Dragonball Z Budakai, XG3 Extreme Racing, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, F-Zero GX, Pikmin 2, Phatasy Star Online Episodes 1 & 2 Plus, Soul Caliber II, X-Men Legends
Wii: Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn (missing manual), Wii Sports
Almost everything will be going on my available list, stay tuned or message me directly if you're interested in a specific title
Also an interesting factoid on Radiant Dawn is it got reprinted late and those copies did not include a manual. No way to know which one this is, but there are sealed copies with no manual out there even.
As some of you knew, this weekend was Retro Game Con. Our very own Forgotten Freshness was a vendor and I was lucky enough to score this bad boy from his booth:
image Grabbed these three keychains for $50, Wii Sports for $15. They keychains were the only things I bought during my early entrance - things were just so expensive.
As it was a video game conference, what are people going to be wanting to buy? Video games! So I had to pivot and look at things that were not liable to be popular, and thus might be cheap:
image All the DVD are sealed and I got for $50. SMG was just a random $15 pickup.
image These DVD were from the same seller (but on a different day). They are also sealed and were $10. The RDRII disc was from a $1 box - I have the PS4 game but it is missing a disc. I hope this is the disc I am missing!
image There was a guy selling Pokemon and Magic cards who had one random box of baseball cards. I correctly guessed that it was going to be there all weekend. Paid $325 for it. Opened it last night and did pretty well!
Bundled in with the Jaguar was Cybermorph. They had it in the free play section of the convention, and yeah it is pretty terrible. So I decided I needed a real game to play. Forgotten Freshness to the rescue! image
Before I went to the convention, I emptied out my storage unit with items that had just been sitting around. Was able to trade most of them in with Frank. Got some killer credit and used it all (and plenty of cash) on this guy: image
>> Found a $50 steam card too, but in trying to check the balance I accidentally
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> You could always sell games to people for the balance.
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> I'd ask for that but Steam hates my region and it won't let me get most gifts ;_;
> or just launder money through me haha
Thanks for the tip, will definitely try gifting games to people cause I felt dumb for redeeming the code when I only wanted to check it, like how on PlayStation it confirms the code is legit and then asks you if you want to apply it to your balance
image The DVD game is sealed, cost me $2. The movies were $1 each - I'm glad I found that copy of Hard Boiled, it was in good shape.
That thing on the right... appears to be a very old GBA flashcart and dock. It cost me a dollar. I have no idea how to use this but it turns on if I plug it into my computer, it's recognized as something, but Windows doesn't know what to do with it. Figured it'd be okay trade fodder. I don't even have a GBA anymore, heh.
This thing. It's apparently new in box, but opened. A seller at the flea market that sets up near my house had this and sold it to me for $10. I'd been looking for a case to build a new PC with, and this is old, but it actually has space for hard drives and optical drives - almost every new case I've seen doesn't have any space for them! I still have old hard drives so I needed to get this. The accessory bag seems to be intact in there, so I took a chance on it.
I've been trying to get parts for a new system and I think I'll see if I can nab a CPU and motherboard combo at the least here. Someone has to have something recent...
I'm really digging the translucent orange. I was starting to regret my color choice, but after seeing it in person I am actually very satisfied with it
Well, I've been slacking. But when money got tough, I cut my weed prices in half by finding a place that sells $50 ounces. It's decent nuff.
But getting back on bein' productive, apparently slacking forever never lasts and you have to pull your seat in and adjust into the metric of this ergonomic social economy and have simple plans and goals, TO A BETTER TOMORROW. But what the heck about today? LOL
Found recoil in jewel case for $5, got it for $11 CAD shipped. Now I have 3 copies...but watchers on the 1 I'm trying to sell. We'll see. Seems if ppl use pricecharting, it's the same games that get undervalued, and so much parity, but I guess this world ain't par. Everyone clubs into the whole shindig their own way from wherever their alignment is, but maybe a little bit of symmetry beyond all this repetition, gotta find something that can last, to eternity, to infinity, and to forever - everyone into the koombayah and we'll reshuffle the engine and it won't mark the parked so hard that there is always an assuridty in life, at least to the way the brain works. Can't yield when the world just ain't even running at pace, everyone fly! Ha ha, that's optional. Whatever, just had to write something and anything. It prob makes little to no sense, to no avail again, onwards until we leave no trace behind but manifest it with energies and everything that is from the clouds that now have misted us in with the lag of LEFT RIGHT LEFT...down here, as once above the clouds, these things in premonition appearing as we cross distances, not quite, still an echoless universe. WTF..LOL
image $1 from eBay, brand new. Being patient pays off.
image $16 from Amazon, but I sold a bunch of Steam keys to cover it. I now officially own all Hirameki International game related items, and the whole six issue run of the magazine. I plan to get these scanned later this month (as soon as I get enough money to pay for shipping them out to a friendly scanner) so they're preserved. A Youtuber already dumped the DVDs (though, they're not clean dumps) so my concern is the books.
I went to my flea market yesterday. One of my sources is a guy who seems to buy stuff from storage units. This week, he had a ton of computer monitors, old computers, and external hard drives - all pretty heavy and different brands (WD, Seagate, etc). I took a peek at what he had, and asked for a price. He said, "it depends on how big the drive is."
I picked up a 6 TB external drive, he looked at it, and said "$35." I went OK, put it back down, and was about to leave until I saw there was a bin below with a bunch more smaller sized external drives. I dug around, saw an Nvidia Shield, some remotes, a bunch of other smaller drives, and this was near the bottom. It was an external enclosure that felt very light. I popped it open and saw it had a Samsung SSD inside. I took it out, saw that it was 4 TB, then put it back in and closed it. I asked him for a price, and since he didn't see any sizes on it, he went "$10." So I paid him and took the drive home.
I might've tried to grab more drives but they were all mechanical and there was no way of knowing if they were still good, so I only took a chance on this one.
I got home, found a USB-C cable to test it out, and it worked just fine. All SMART readings were good. And here is where things got weird.
Okay so I started digging through the drive. It was apparently used as someone's external backup, with the Shield for streaming downloaded movies, and for downloading torrents. I looked through the files, found a bunch of old shipping labels, other info that showed the previous owner's address, family photos, personal photos, and so on.
And then I opened the Torrent folders.
Friends, I don't need to tell you much about my life and how online I am, but I have never, ever seen that much gay porn in my entire life. Literally 3 Terabytes of all the data on it was gay porn. Of all sorts. I am scarred now. So many fat hairy naked dudes. Not my taste. Yech.
About 0.5 TB of the rest of the space was all cracked and pirated software, the rest was personal data and uh, the guy's personal videos, if you get my drift.
And now I'm wondering about the rest of the drives; if they contained similar stuff, or if they were from a completely unrelated lot. I really hope they didn't have anything like this one, because it could land the seller in huge trouble. Selling the drives without even checking the data on them is bad enough. But who knows what kind of stuff was in those other drives...
Anyway. After that little... adventure, I'm now trying to figure out how to securely erase its contents. When I grabbed it, I thought I could use the drive as an internal SSD for games, but it runs extremely hot, and it would probably overheat in my computer. So instead I'll be using it as an external backup drive.
If anyone has any suggestions on what programs to use, I'd appreciate it.
You should contact the guy and give em a heads up. he could be charged for distribution, or worse, if there is kiddy stuff on those drives,or if he sells adult stuff to a minor..
He only shows up on the weekends, and if someone found stuff then you bet someone would've told him about it today.
But the guy's prices are usually so high than they probably didn't even sell them to a normal customer at all. I bet a reseller bought them for cheap at the end of the day, and they probably wipe the drives immediately.
