- Did you know that Walmart sells
perfect condition used consoles?
Neither did I, 'cause I don't think that's a real thing.
Let's find out, shall we?
Introducing Walmart Restored.
You know, we got home security, appliances, cameras,
tablets cell phones, TVs,
but then I took a gander at the video game section
and immediately put my laptop down, came upstairs,
and wanted to shoot this video.
Right off the bat you see a One X for 270 bucks.
Seems reasonable.
PS5 for 600, maybe not so.
But then look at this, restored OG NES,
with Super Mario Brothers One, Two and Three for $197.
What is Restored?
Product works and looks like new.
We'll keep that in mind when these things actually show up.
Walmart didn't actually touch any of these items.
So these are all third party items
that could be sold on Amazon, or on eBay, or whatever.
The one line that absolutely got me was this,
"Functional product in Like New Condition
that may or may not have minor cosmetic defects,
blemishes, dents, scratches
when held approximately 12 inches away or less."
So if I'm looking at this thing 13 inches away,
it better be spotless. (cash register ringing)
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That's what it looks like?
That's from walmart.com?
- [Jared] That is how they sent it to us.
- Okay, again, let me just reiterate,
like new, great, wonderful, perfect condition.
But you can already tell that it is not that.
Well, I wonder what this one is.
(both laughing)
All right, we'll start with the GameCube
since it's technically packed.
So, do I, do I push it through?
- [Jared] It just gave birth
- This is how baby GameCubes are born.
I'm not sure if I'm 12 inches away or not.
I can see it looks a little scuffed.
Wait, this is a Japanese GameCube.
Look, everything now is in Japanese bits,
it's JPN on the end of the model number.
Jared, it's not.
- The GameCube, just like the Wii, is region locked
which means we're not gonna be able to play this at all.
We only have US games.
- Well, we're off to a great start.
(hat thudding) (host thudding)
What's the hat for, wait, I get this.
What's the hat for?
- [Jared] How are you gonna know
you're always 12 inches away
unless the 12 inches is permanently strapped to your face?
- Like this. (tape screeching)
Boy, oh boy. - Engineers at work.
- Aren't you happy that you've subscribed and decided
to ringeling the dingeling button
on this high quality channel,
which clearly is here to give you
the most accurate product testing possible.
All right. - Okay, at 12 inches away,
what do you see?
- It's scuffed, it's a missing a piece.
Oh wow.
Yep, third party, brand new, but third party controller,
with no GameCube or any kind of logos on it.
But I mean this feels fine,
like it's clearly the correct mold,
and they've been making GameCube controllers
pretty much nonstop for the last 20 years.
So we're gonna test out the GameCube,
but what else is in the box is.
- I can't tell. - Eventually we'll find out.
- Oh, wait, hold on guys.
This is, so, this is a DS Lite.
Okay, so I'm glad I got my hat on for this,
'cause this looks terrific right out the box.
Now I will say DS Lites were made
of the finest vintage mid two-2000s scuffed up plastic
that you could ever hope for.
Oh, that's pretty good.
Oh no. (upbeat music)
- [Jared] Did they recase it or something or what?
- No, I don't think so, it also has the Game Boy slot,
which is actually impressive
'cause almost all DS Lites lost this slot.
At 12 inches of distance, I will say,
unless you've got the light directly on it,
this is actually in really good condition.
It's got a stylus, smells new.
This honestly is good, let's actually take a look
and see what's on the inside, this is really not bad.
Look, I would actually say this DS Lite
gets a thumbs up for me.
Now, Jared, could you remind me
on how much the GameCube and the DS Lite cost?
- The Nintendo GameCube has a great value of $136,
and that Nintendo DS there was about 90.
So a little rough.
- 90 bucks for the DS Lite, a little steep,
even though the actual quality of this DS Lite
is really quite nice
if this is a truly original DS Lite, which it could be.
Someone it definitely took really good care of it.
We're gonna let that charge for a minute.
I wanna hook up the GameCube instead?
So let us take our very many GameCube accessories,
and see if this works with the US market game,
"Luigi's Mansion," let's go.
(logo dinging) (uptempo whimsical music)
So instantly works and instantly makes GameCube things.
- Also in English. - It is in English.
- Okay, all right.
Calendar, it is 2114. (both laughing)
I think it's- - Nintendo.
- [Jared] Wait, so why is it, did they reshell this?
But if so, then why is it in such beat up condition?
- It could be a modified GameCube.
That's spooky.
That's not supposed to float.
(lights whooshing) Oh my God.
- Jared. - Jared
you're never allowed to touch the lighting board ever again.
(all laughing)
- [Joanna] I was like, wow, cool special effects
from GameCube (laughs).
- So let's test the DS with a copy of "Pokemon Black 2".
Maybe my favorite Pokemon game ever
and hope that this actually wants to work.
(DS dinging) (slow dramatic music)
Okay, the last time I played my copy of "Black 2,"
I was in the hospital like an hour before my son was born.
- [Jared] Your son was about to be born,
and you were playing Pokemon? - Well yeah.
I mean by the time he was ready to come I put the game down.
I will say that the DS is generally a thumbs up.
I don't think it's perfect quality wise,
but I'm actually pretty happy with this.
- Okay, okay, but is it 90 bucks?
That seems kind of a lot for a DS Lite.
- You know you say that,
you can get a kind of scuffed up DS life
for probably like 60 bucks right now,
but considering that this is direct
from a reputable retailer,
you're getting a money back guarantee
as well as the ability to return in physical stores.
It's not amazing, I'm kind of okay with it though,
like it's not wildly overpriced.
The GameCube I think is, the quality is not terrific,
I think the quality is just decent.
130 bucks for a GameCube.
I know they've come up in price, but like, ah, too much.
- [Jared] All right, here's our second package.
- Hey, hey, easy, easy, easy, easy.
This is all the Walmart inventory left that I've got.
We got a bunch of Wii stuff, oh.
- [Jared] This for the Wii Mini.
- I forgot we ordered the Wii Mini, excellent.
So we've got the red Wii remote nunchuk,
which also are new.
What the. - There's no way
those are new.
- Literally all of the accessories
and controllers we've got here have like no logos
or markings on them at all.
Let's see this one though, this will be the real tell,
'cause the actual Wii remote
say the word Wii anywhere on it?
No, Motion 2-in-1.
(upbeat music)
So all of these are third party.
I'm actually kind of okay with that
'cause in a lot of cases I'd probably prefer
to have a brand new third party
than like some scuffed up first party.
I will say this actually does not look super high quality.
You can see it's different shades of red.
Like this is different shade than this than this.
Okay, now that, I don't even need to be 12 inches away
that looks terrific, I mean mind you,
this is all that kinda like that rough plastic
which does hide scratches and scuffs really well.
I would say if I pulled this out of the package brand new,
I would not complain.
This is the first console I can say,
without any shadow of a doubt is exactly what you described.
How much do we pay for this admittedly excellent condition
Wii Mini with all the various bits and bobs.
- This Wii Mini was $114 (chuckles).
In the United States, this launched for a hundred bucks,
but it got you not only the console-
- Oh, "Mario Kart!" - But also a copy
of "Mario Kart" to go with it.
- But the thing is the Wii Minis, they made so few of them,
they're almost a little bit of like a collector's piece.
Can I please have a copy
of the greatest game for the Wii please.
- And we're playing "Wii Sports."
- You know, we also have a copy of "Brawl,"
the actual best Wii game,
but sure, we'll play "Wii Sports."
Wow, okay, that's something weird.
Look at all these channels,
and yet it's just "Wii Sports" and the the Wii Maker thing,
that's it, there's nothing else on here.
(upbeat music)
Oh!
All right, the Wii Mini works, let's play "Brawl."
Look at my cursor right now, look how bad this is.
All right. - Kirby!
- [Kirby] Hello.
(all laughing) - Oh, what the.
- Can you do it again? - I will say
this third party controller,
the audio doesn't work very well.
(controller dinging) - Hello.
- All right, I can beat Zelda.
She finally touched me. (Jared laughing)
What? (upbeat music)
- I'm taking that out of context.
- What's up, gamers?
I just won with my Wii Mini.
- [Jared] Everyone, look out,
Austin, just be a level one CPU.
Oh no. (upbeat music)
- Let's move on to the next item.
Let's go with the big lumpy one.
I had no idea what this is.
Oh, okay.
So this, my friends, is the Atari VCS,
better known as the Atari 2600.
If the item is a gift.
Please inspect and operate the item
before giving as a present to make sure it's complete
for your needs at no additional.
Well okay, so hold on a second.
- There you go. - Thank you.
- [Jared] Does not exactly exert confidence.
- This is by far the oldest system
that we're gonna be taking a look at today.
You can tell because it has two TV types, not HD and 4K.
No, no, no color or black and white.
- This came out in 1977. - '77.
- [Jared] Like what, two years older than you
or something like that.
- [Joanna] Finally, the, the jokes have been reversed.
- I know. (Jared and Joanna laughing)
- I would argue very, very good condition.
Now, mind you, it does, it does smell like 1977,
which is cigarettes and great Aunt Bertha's old lawn chair.
It's so weird that the power connector
is basically like an aux.
I know it's obviously not technically what it is,
but that's such a weird concept to me.
Yeah, there's a channel select here,
so you can pick channel A or B,
because this is using RF,
which is, I would say like antenna data,
I guess this is back when you would run an antenna
on your TV.
- So yeah, it literally, that's not the cable
that's on there, but we had to get an adapter
to go from what's on the Atari 2600
to a coax cable that you would use for your TV,
and we're going to plug it into the antenna cable slot
on this TV, so it's really kind of funky.
- We've also of course got the joysticks.
Now I'll say these definitely are original,
and have been well used, although honestly, ooh, ooh, oh.
- [Jared] They're very mushy.
- You know what don't feel great,
40-year-old rubber, it (laughs).
We don't have ET for this, do we?
- No, sadly I could not go out to the New Mexico desert
to unbury the ET copies ever there,
but we do have some of the best selling games.
"Pac-Man" and "Missile Command."
- "Pac-Man" looks a little too happy there,
like I don't think- - Well he's, you know,
eating those pills all day long.
I guess now we know what's in 'em.
- So of course the only way to play Atari 2600
on OLED display, it's the accurate experience, the 1977 way.
(upbeat music) (console clicking)
Hey, that don't look right
- When you have a game that's running at like 120P,
it doesn't scale up to 4K very well.
- Let's play some "Missile Command."
Wow, load times instant, love it, all right.
Look at what the TV's doing though.
Like, like it's smearing the pixels,
which actually to be fair makes it look kind of-
- [Jared] It does give it an analog feel.
- Obviously the Atari 2600 is incredibly rudimentary
by today's standards, but this is almost 50 years old.
This came out 45 years ago.
All right, let's see what we got next.
Ooh, my friends,
welcome back to the year 1996.
Oh my god. (upbeat music)
Oh, Jared, you can see it from there.
- [Jared] Oh my god, yeah, that's really rough.
- I don't even think I need the hat for this one.
This power switch,
it requires like the strength of four 10-year-olds to push.
I guess from the front and from on the,
oh wait, this is Japanese too.
Are we just tripping,
or did they just have like Japanese model
and US models all have the same thing?
'Cause this says JPN on the bottom.
There we go.
Our internal external power brick.
These sellers must just not want
any of the original accessories for these things.
And always just add the third party stuff.
- [Jared] Is that not going in.
- No, it's not going in.
It like goes in on one side,
but the actual like connector part doesn't.
Cool, so for reference,
this is an original authentic N64 power supply,
which I will say weighs like 20 times as much.
I'll see if this one actually slots in.
Instantly. - Instantly
- Instantly, so the adapter that they gave us,
just something is just poorly manufactured on or something,
'cause it just doesn't, it doesn't go in.
So what we'll do for now
is we will just use our own N64 power brick.
But that's strike one and strike two for the condition,
and for the fact that the power adapter does not work.
What was weird about the N64
was that this was the first 3D controller
that Nintendo ever made.
Coming from something like the Super Nintendo,
this is a lot more complicated,
especially if you got three hands
because you had your L and R, you also have the Z button,
which is almost like your trigger.
So for some games you were actually meant
to use it like this, and then switch hands.
I, to be fair, never was a massive fan of the N64.
All right, we're gonna play "Doom."
Look how dark it is, wait. - Wait, why is it.
- Is "Doom" supposed to be this dark?
- [Jared] You can't even see your health.
- It is obscenely dark, but like actually though,
like dark to the point where I almost wonder
if like is there a adapter
not like coming through it,
like full brightness or something.
How much is the N64? - The N64 was $115.
- [Austin] Wow, that's $85 more than it should have been.
- Yep. - Next up, we have.
Ooh! (upbeat music)
This my friends is a like-new Xbox 360 Elite.
These don't look great, now mind you,
I don't know what they were thinking
trying to sell a black Xbox 360 as like new,
because it looked not great right out the box.
We're missing the memory card slot here, just fine.
The chrome actually seems like it's
in relatively good shape.
It does have the 120 gigabyte hard drive on top.
There we go, okay.
So this is built in 2009,
so this would've been a fairly late model
of the original 360.
It's got games. (upbeat music)
Actually this is pretty good games "ODST".
I know a lot of people loved it.
I didn't really like "ODST" as much,
but "Forza", I'm down to play some "Forza".
Wait, it comes with the original S-Video cable
still sealed in the box
- [Jared] Actually, insane, why would they-
- This is cool, I mean we don't need to use this at all,
because it's got HDMI,
which is better in every possible way,
but considering that every other console we've had today
has had like some remanufactured whatever,
the fact that this is like a crispy clean S-Video cable,
kind of cool actually.
There's also, ooh, a controller,
which not authentic.
Not authentic, it literally says made and China on it.
(Austin and Jared laughing)
That is, my friend, not what the Xbox 360 logo
is supposed to look like, it's supposed to have a X there.
Now Jared, how much was this?
'Cause I remember this was actually a reasonable price
considering they actually came
with two relatively nice games.
- It was the most money we paid for any of these consoles,
but it did come with the most, it's a 145 bucks.
- Now that's a lot for 360, up until recently,
prices on these have actually come up a fair bit,
which is kind of strange to me,
because almost everything you do on Xbox 360,
you can do on an Xbox One or an Xbox Series X.
And in almost all those cases it will play the games better,
and higher frame rates, and all that kind of stuff.
But hey, you know what, who am I to judge?
Those graphics do not look bad at all.
Try hard mode, okay, everyone just watch.
Walmart may have ripped me off today,
but my skills will not.
- For a console with half a gig of ram, this looks awesome.
- Yeah, yeah, dude. - I'm kind of forgetting
how good the Xbox 360 looked for its age
- Next up, we have the fat PS ew.
- [Jared] PSU, it's a power supply.
- No, PS2, but I'll pull out the hat
for just official confirmation here,
but 12 inches away, and I'll tell you,
I can see some scratches.
- [Joanna] It's like I can see it from here so.
- Yeah, to be fair, like most of these other consoles,
it's not in horrible shape.
Like, I mean, nothing's gonna be as bad as that N64.
(person screaming)
Still has the warranty void sticker as well.
So I don't think it's ever actually been opened up.
The fan's a little dirty.
They probably could have cleaned it a little bit better,
but honestly that's, it's probably like a B
when it comes to quality, it's fine, it's not terrible.
Okay.
- [Jared] I think that's first party.
I think that's official. - It's party, all right.
That is so bright,
it's like radioactive sludge green.
Yeah, it does not feel as good as a regular controller.
- Oh wait, we get two. - Another one?
Oh, this one's nice.
- How much was this PS2?
- [Jared] So this was a 140 bucks.
- Ooh, that's much. - A little rough.
- For a Fat PS2, I feel like you should be looking
at more like a 100 bucks, maybe even like 80 or 90.
- If that. - Yeah
- [Jared] I mean this is the best selling console
of all time, there are plenty on the market.
- Over a 100 million.
- [Joanna] Whoa.
- I wasn't ready for that. (upbeat music)
All right, well I guess it works.
Load up "Gran Turismo" with my neon green controller.
I will say taking a little bit of time to read the disc.
- [Jared] Not the best sign.
- I'm gonna reset this real quick here.
Okay, that's not good.
It's not launching the disc.
- [Jared] Is that the disc's fault?
Seem pretty clean though.
- The disc should be okay,
and you can see it's certainly not perfect,
but it there's no like obvious deep scratches
or anything on it.
Please activate.
Ah, it's taken a long time.
I don't think this PS2 works.
Thanks, Walmart. (upbeat music)
Well, we almost made it through the entire video
without being bitterly disappointed,
and sadly giving up on all that is fun in life,
but if you would like to not give up on all its fun in life
check out our video where we put a PS5 in the back of a car,
around a real racetrack to determine who's better.
Spoiler alert, I'm the winner.
You won't know I'm lying unless you watch the video.
- [Jared] I don't think they need to watch the video
to know the truth behind that one.