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Greetings and welcome to Episode 4 of LGR Thrifts!
Where I'm going out to thrift stores and other stores, where things are usually cheap,
in search of games and interesting items.
Because it's my hobby. I like doing so. And apparently, you guys like watching it!
And this time is gonna be a little bit different.
Uh...
If you've paid attention to my Twitter and Facebook...
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You should go follow me on those.
Then you would know that I have been on vacation for a good little while.
And I was able to go to the Chicagoland area,
specifically, the southwest... portion of the suburbs
of Chicago,
and visit several awesome people, as well as some awesome shops.
So without further ado...
Let's go thrifting.
[LGR Thrifts Theme]
First up is a shop that I wish I had around me,
Half Price Books!
Although they don't just sell books,
and I've seen quite a few that are not half-price.
So it seems that like much of their inventory, their name is a work of fiction.
But who cares! This is a pretty awesome place.
It's a bookstore, a music store, movies, games and toys.
A whole bunch of stuff just all crammed into one place.
You can take your stuff in to sell or you can just come in to buy.
And they have quite a few interesting things in here.
A bunch of LPs that I am certainly interested in,
or, well, at least *would* be,
if the prices were a tad more reasonable.
At least they have a nice selection to peruse.
Also have a decent selection of 45s, twenty-five cents each.
Not hugely into these, but perhaps I should get on that.
Anyway, on over to the gaming section,
and, yeah, there's quite a bit of stuff here.
Although, not nearly as much as I've seen before.
Some oddly chosen games in the glass case here.
A couple Commodore 64 and Amiga titles that were... overpriced, sadly.
Down here on this bottom shelf are some leftover Commodore 64 games.
I pretty much picked this place clean the past couple times I've been here.
Got something like twenty awesome games.
And because I feel like bragging just a little bit,
these are the last couple hauls that I got from Half Price Books.
Most of these between five and ten dollars each.
Some seriously awesome titles for the PC, Amiga,
Commodore 64, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, etc.
I love this store, but today... wasn't that great.
What's left is either stuff I'm not interested in or already have,
except for this.
Monster Trivia,
which I've seen the last couple or few times that I've been here,
and it's finally come down to a price that I don't mind picking it up for.
*Plenty* of console stuff to choose from.
Just about every console you can think of,
all the way back to the Atari 2600.
Very common cartridges here,
one Intellivision cartridge of Carnival that was kind of interesting,
but I already have every single one of these.
Did find a few big box PC games, though.
Prelude to Waterloo,
which is actually the eighth in the Battleground series by TalonSoft,
which is cool. I have another couple of these.
Several other things, but mostly stuff that I already have.
These Battle Chests, for instance.
And this Ultimate Strategy collection. I have each of these individual, so I don't care.
Did run across this pack called the MacPak from Sierra,
and I was interested in this,
but at $15, it was just a little bit more for me to just drop on something I don't care too much about.
A whole lot of new games in here as well
in the DVD-style cases and such.
Mostly a lot of hidden object kind of games,
but there are a few in here that intrigue me.
This one I ended up grabbing: Space Station Sim!
Just because it's a simulator in space, I had to get it. It was three bucks.
Also ran across Omerta: City of Gangsters
Only five bucks and I didn't even know there was a physical release. So that's cool.
Grabbed Syphon Filter 2 from the PlayStation section.
Really cool 'cause I grabbed the first one in an earlier episode.
And I found one lonely Dreamcast game:
Razor Freestyle Scooter.
Whatever. It was four dollars, so, hey, okay.
On to another Half Price Books.
I've also had quite a bit of luck at this one,
and it's pretty much the same thing
with like the same layout and everything.
These places don't seem to change much.
Heading over to the console game area and–
[laughs]
Space Jam for the Sega Saturn!
Five bucks, excellent condition. I cannot say no,
especially since I got the soundtrack recently.
Also ran across Tenchu: Stealth Assassins for the PS1.
Heard a LOT of good stuff about this.
Over in the computer game section,
yeah, tons and tons of more modern, cheap kind of shovelware titles,
as well as a TON of Sims 2 games.
If you're interested in collecting these or
filling out the gaps in your Sims 2 collection, this is a great place to go.
All of 'em are like five bucks or less.
Not much to choose from this time, as far as PC games.
There's that weird, crappy Hobbit game from many years ago.
As well as Star Wars: Rebel Assault in the big box,
which I would have grabbed, but I already have it.
Somewhere else to always check if you're in a Half Price Books is the clearance section,
and these are games that are usually two dollars or less.
Actually ran across Thrillville
for two dollars for the PSP.
That's pretty cool.
Never played it.
And also Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge for the Xbox.
And I liked the original on the PC, so I'm looking forward to trying this one out.
And if I were into portable games,
there seems to be quite a decent little selection here.
I don't know if these are good prices, but there's quite a few of them,
as well as your typical stock of Atari 2600 and NES games.
Most of the ones I'm interested in I already have,
or they were just too much for me to drop right then and there,
'cause I can probably find these elsewhere for less.
Another store I like to check out when I'm up here is Disc Replay.
Similar to Half Price Books, just without the books.
Movies, games, music,
and a few other little related goodies here and there.
The vast majority is movies,
but there are a LOT of games to choose from.
An impressive assortment of long box PS1 games.
Several of interest, not all at the greatest prices, though,
as well as lots of regular jewel case PS1 games.
And I've gotten a TON of them here over the past several times that I've come up here,
most of them around three to six dollars.
They even have a selection of Sega CD and Sega Saturn games.
One or two Japanese ones in here as well.
This is actually a pretty cool little selection.
Although, I don't get too many of them because I always think that I can find them for less elsewhere.
When they're ten to twenty dollars each,
eh, I'd rather just push my luck more so in the wild.
Nice little stock of boxed Sega Genesis games as well.
Some pretty cool stuff here, but I already have most of what I want for that system.
Not that I wouldn't mind having some of these,
but hey, I'm a collector, not a hoarder.
There is a difference!
And, you know, space and money is finite.
At least until I figure out a way to break space-time.
Some intriguing NES games as well, pretty much all loose.
Again, already have most of what I want.
Some Sega Master System,
and, hey, even some more Sega Dreamcast stuff.
Most of 'em between six to twelve dollars each.
Pretty fair prices, but I'm not really looking to stock up on any of these right now.
And keep in mind, I'm on vacation here. This is not local.
I can't just bring a ton of them back with me.
Unless I bring more luggage next time. Hmm...
And of course, a substantial selection of
loose games for all sorts of systems,
like the Super Nintendo Entertainment System,
the Sega Genesis,
Sega 32X,
and even a nice little boxed selection of Intellivision games,
as well as some stuff for the Atari 2600, 5200 and 7800.
I wish they carried PC games here, but they just don't.
So, typically, I don't get a lot of stuff here,
unless it's just really cheap
or they happen to have something that I've been after for a long time,
which isn't much when it comes to these consoles.
Some of the stuff in this glass case is interesting.
Like, I like that they have 3DO games.
But yeah, my focus *really* is the PC.
And the PS1 as of late,
just because so many of those games are so cheap.
And I just like the console. Speaking of consoles, man, they got quite a few of them.
And they're actually not badly priced.
Assuming they come with cables and peripherals, which I guess they do.
Sega Saturns for 50.
Intellivision's a bit overpriced at 90.
Sega Genesis CD and 32X combo for 119.
That's actually pretty fair, if you ask me.
TurboGrafx for $100.
Panasonic 3DO FZ1 for $100, that's pretty sweet.
And your newer consoles for, eh, pretty typical prices.
So, what did I end up grabbing?
Well, I got Hi-Octane by Bullfrog in a long box.
Forsaken, which is an intriguing Descent-like kind of game.
Die Hard Trilogy.
Not quite Die Hard Arcade, but still three intriguing games.
Area 51, the classic light gun shooter. We'll need a case replacement.
Steel Harbinger, which I have no idea,
but man, that's some wonderfully '90s artwork.
Starwinder–or "wind-er"– The Ultimate Space Race,
which I think I saw Metal Jesus Rocks talk about, so I wanted to give it a shot.
Tiger Shark. I don't know, but I like spaceships.
Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi. [laughs] This game sucks.
But no, it doesn't, because I played it a lot as a kid and I kinda liked it.
Test Drive 6, the only Test Drive game I was still needing my PS1 collection.
Grid Runner. I had no idea there was another one.
And this game called Racing. Wow, that is vague.
And kind of hilarious. I love it.
Some game called Epidemic with some kind of mech on front,
which intrigues me. No idea what it is.
And Army Men: Air Attack,
an Army Men game that I have not played.
One more shop to check out this day of thrifting,
and that is Savers: The Thrift Superstore.
Very similar to Goodwill. As far as I know, things are donated to this place.
And, yes, it's mostly clothing and housewares,
but you do find some games here.
Not much to choose from today, though, I've gotta say.
Mostly just crappy PS2 games and few Xbox games,
like sports and one or two that were kind of interesting.
Five dollars each, though, and not really games
that were really grabbing my attention, so I gave it a pass.
Always looking in the puzzles and board games selection for any big box PC games.
Again, nothing here today, although I have found some before.
Did run across this external USB floppy drive, still sealed in the package.
That's always useful, so for a couple dollars I couldn't say no.
Although, like Goodwill, when you go here it's fun just to look around
at all the strange things people give this place,
like these creepy dolls,
non-Egyptian Egyptian artifacts,
a wood and plastic dinosaur... [stammers] knick-knack?
Oh, it is a knick-knack. Says so right here.
Well that makes sense.
A, uh... [laughs]
[continues laughing]
I don't–I don't wanna know. It was five–uh, no-no-no-no.
Some interesting clocks.
Like this one here from Jim's kitchen.
Why was he giving away his clocks?
It had forks and knives on it.
Check out this ugly, gaudy piece of junk!
Diva princess.
Here's something strangely eye-catching 'cause it's so blue and,
well, it has Bugs Bunny on it.
A weird little Toshiba portable radio/recorder thing.
I don't know, it's interesting.
You can also come to Savers to get a magic 8-ball
...that refuses to work.
Like simply refuses to give an answer. Talk about stubborn.
Oh, man, I remember this game.
Oh, I got it for Christmas one year, probably in 1997 or something.
It was never as fun as it appeared be,
but it was still really cool because you had castles that exploded
and I lost all the pieces in like two days.
Man, anyone remember these?
Sing-along cassette recorder things?
There was one of these in like this sort of
daycare-y kind of place that I was at when I was like seven years old.
And I remember recording over one of their actual cassette tapes
because my dad had showed me how to do the whole
put-Scotch-tape-over-the-edge trick to record over it.
Whoops!
And in the electronics, yeah, it's pretty similar to what you would find at Goodwill.
A lot of older monitors and keyboards.
Nothing really particularly interesting most of the time.
And a selection of game controllers and random cables
and like wall sockets and stuff.
Uh, I was almost interested in these wireless Logitech controllers,
but, uh, not for eight bucks.
And this is it for my first day of thrifting in the southwest suburbs of Chicago.
Twenty-one total games!
And a brand-new USB 3½-inch floppy drive.
Not bad at all. Several things I was after here,
and came to a total of just a little over $90.
Not as much as I'd hoped as far as PC games this time around,
But like I said, for some reason I've just been on a PS1 kick recently,
as well as the Sega Saturn, so it's good to have some stuff in those areas.
Well, that was it for the first day out and about up there.
But of course, I didn't leave well enough alone
and had to go check out even more the next day.
So come back for Episode 5
to check out some more of the suburbs of southwest Chicagoland,
as well as some places in my general vicinity in North Carolina.
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