[typing] [music]
Greetings and welcome to LGR Thrifts.
And, yes, I'm outside because, uh...
thrift stores are outside.
They're not in my room, as much as I wish they were.
It's a decent day to go thrifting.
Not too sunny, but, uh...
not to terribly rainy, either, so...
Let's go thrifting!
[LGR Thrifts theme]
First up is my biweekly visit to my favorite Goodwill,
and, hey, it's time to check up on the construction project!
Not only are the walls up, there's a ceiling
and they're starting to install some... stuff.
Inside, always checking out the media section first,
and ran across quite a few PS2 games.
Mortal Kombat.
Shaolin Monks.
Several LEGO games for the Xbox 360.
Skipped on the Platinum ones, but ended up grabbing Indiana Jones 2 here.
Some PSP sports games that I don't care about,
and Need for Speed: Carbon, Greatest Hits edition,
which I don't care too much about, but why not?
Also, Rapala Fishing Frenzy 2009,
and I'm kind of a sucker for fishing games, so I couldn't resist.
There's actually another media section now with a few more things were hanging around.
Sneak King on the Xbox 360.
I dunno, why not?
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent for the original Xbox.
Never played this. Had no idea about it.
And also Kinectimals for the Xbox 360 with a Kinect,
that game with the creepy friggin' baby tiger animal on the front
that really, genuinely freaks me out.
Also a rogue DS game:
Feel the Magic: XY/XX.
"Join the Rub Rabbits. Win the girl of your dreams
by performing madcap stunts and rescuing her from danger."
"Rub, touch, shout, and blow"–
Okay, yeah, I had to get this. I mean, what in the world?
Speaking of the world, somebody left the world here.
A Smart Globe. I remember playing with these in, I dunno, first, second grade, something like that.
I would make a joke here about the man who sold the world.
But this Goodwill–it would be the man who gave the world away.
Anyone want a giant inflatable rasta hat and dreadlocks?
To me, it just looks like he's wearing a Jell-O sculpture on his head
with poo dangling out the sides.
Another 360 game in the VHSes
and it's another Burger King Xbox game, Big Bumpin'.
You know, I may as well. I've been passing these up for years.
And got a Gamecube game down here that I've never heard of:
Disney's Tarzan Untamed.
Looks intriguing.
Over in the electronics, and amongst a box of pocket calculators,
I found an external Toshiba 3½-inch floppy drive,
which has their proprietary connection,
but since I have multiple Toshiba laptops that can make use of this, I wanted it.
Just as I was about done with the electronics,
lo and behold, I see a LaserDisc logo and– [laughs]
Yep, I finally found a Pioneer LaserDisc player at Goodwill.
They were asking $35 for it, and that's not a terrible price.
In fact, it was working.
Everything was looking good. It didn't have a remote.
The only reason that I passed this up is because, actually,
around Episode 4 of LGR Thrifts,
one of my viewers actually sent me aLaserDisc player.
Which is actually a little bit better than this one.
So, I passed this up. I mean, what in the world, right?
I finally get a LaserDisc player,
and like two days after that, I find one in Goodwill.
Over in the glass cases near the front door, there was an NES for $35.
No. Plus I just got a couple recently I ended up selling off.
But I *did* find a PS2 slim.
A black one for 30 bucks.
And I had been wanting one of these for a long time, so I grabbed it.
Always, always gotta check the board games and puzzles
and, hey, what do you know?
I see the Humongous logo and it turns out to be Putt-Putt and Fatty Bear's Activity Pack.
In a weirdly shaped big PC game box.
Kind of reminds me of like a really thick 3DO box. It's interesting.
Anyone need some charcoal by Kingsford?
I mean, that's good charcoal, but it's like partially used.
Seriously, they just taped it back up.
Speaking of used,
I'm sure one of you guys needs a Cox Sterilizer.
"Alfa Cox Sterilizer."
[stammering] I dunno! I mean, if you need to sterilize your Cox,
this is the thing for you!
In all seriousness, though, these things seem to command a lot of money.
But not knowing anything about it, if it worked,
and not wanting to bother with shipping such a huge, heavy, bulky thing, I passed on it.
As I was about to leave, over near the wine glasses,
I found a chocolate fountain,
as well as copy of "Fifty Shades of Grey."
And when I thought it couldn't get any more perfect,
I rounded the corner and out the corner of my eye, I– [laughs]
I see a box of tampons.
All right next to each other! I swear I did not put this stuff here.
Maybe someone else did, but wow.
On to one more Goodwill and–ah, I gotta sneeze!
[sneezes]
Ahh, bless me.
Thank me.
I'm welcome.
Checkin' out the media. There's a bunch of CDs.
Bunch of crap I'm not interested in, but then I saw this:
South Park Rally for the PC.
As with most older South Park PC games,
I seemed to remember hearing this sucked entirely
so I can't wait to check it out!
Also found a copy–complete–of Disney Infinity for the Xbox 360.
And, uh, you know, I would have grabbed it,
except that to use it, well...
Just take a look at this. This is the Disney Infinity thing at Walmart near here, and, uh...
You know, I don't think so. Just like Skylanders,
I got no interest in getting into a thing like this
that costs eventually like hundreds of dollars
just to get anything to do anything with it.
But anyway, back at the Goodwill, we're going through the puzzles and games,
and I find a game with a Bungie logo on it,
so, ooh, I gotta check that out.
This is Myth: The Fallen Lords
for the Macintosh.
Complete. $3.50. Oh, yes, you know I'm getting it.
Yet another Goodwill because that's what I *will* do.
Just inside, I see a Star Trek Space Talk Series.
The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D!
Holy crap, it talks.
Or at least it would if it worked.
And I would have gotten it if it were not frickin' $65.
Oh, man! I always wanted one of these things as a kid.
And, yes, as a young boy, I wanted one of these miniature kitchen sets.
In fact, my dad ended up making one.
Just out of, like, wood and actual little parts and stuff.
But anyway, this one's made of plastic.
I loved these things as a kid because I liked anything miniaturized.
Over in the electronics–ah, man, instant nostalgia.
A V3 Racing Wheel–for the PC, no less.
This was the very first racing wheel that I ever had as a kid.
I got it for, I think Christmas, in like 1999
for Viper Racing by Sierra.
Lotsa memories with this. Not a very good wheel, though.
But it is at a "Good-will," though. Ha ha... ho...
Puzzles and board game section time and I'm feeling lucky because of today, and well...
Gangsters 2: The Mobster Sim
"The Sims meets The Sopranos," it says.
You know I've never played these games,
but, uh, well, I've got one now, so, hey!
Over in the media section and there's several interesting things.
A lot of stuff I already have but also Sid Meier's SimGolf,
which, oddly enough, I did not have a boxed copy of.
Also found Bully for the PlayStation 2.
One of my favorite Rockstar games.
Though I already have it on PC and 360, I love the box art.
Also found a copy of Dragon Ball Z:
Budokai Tenkaichi?
I don't know jack crap about "Dragon Ballz."
But I have one of the games now. Guess it's time to check into it.
Down below, I found a copy of Tony Hawk's American Wasteland on the Sony PlayStation 2.
The first open-world, free-roaming Tony Hawk game.
More Goodwills! Mmm, yes!
Over in the board games and I didn't find any PC stuff,
but I did find this old Barbie... something.
It just looked so old.
And the front of the carrying case said "Ponytail, 1962."
I'm too lazy to look up the value on these things,
so be sure to tell me in the comments if I passed up something awesome.
Over in the records, I found some stuff that differs
from the typical slew of old gospel and Christmas albums,
These appear to be a bunch of rap and hip-hop promo LPs.
Maybe some of these are local, I'm not sure.
And then there's also like Jermaine Dupri & Nas.
Really kind of an unusual find, but really not my thing, so I didn't get any.
And then we have poor Brenda Lee
[laughs]
Well...
That's all I gotta say about that.
Nestled in amongst the old CRTs,
I happen to find a colorful box here.
Ooh, this is a Thrustmaster Mark II Flight Control System joystick!
This is awesome!
I normally pass up a lot of old joysticks, but this is one of those that's just
kind of a legendary stick, at least if you were into flight sims back in the early '90s.
And I was, and I was always jealous of this stick.
I mean, this thing, it feels really good to me, even today.
Nice rubber handles, the grips are shaped nicely, it's just a–
It's a solid stick.
And I'm gonna stop talking about gripping solid sticks right now and move on.
Over to the media section. Found another DS game.
This is Code: Lyoko.
No idea what it is, except it appears to be based on a French television show.
Found a couple intriguing items over in the housewares.
This is an LCD wallet traveling clock.
This thing just looks classy.
It's made of leather or pleather or something, I don't know,
but it's a clock that you could stick into your wallet.
I have no use for it, but it just appeals to my inner repressed hipster.
And also found a...
...I don't know.
It's, uh...
slightly phallic
and it doesn't stand up.
Oh, man. So many gnomes.
And on the way out, I looked in the glass case
'cause it didn't look like there was anything interesting in there,
but I did happen to see what looked like a DS game and
WHAT?!
It's a 3DS game!
Pokémon Y for the Nintendo 3DS
and this was just recently released.
For 20 bucks, you're darn right I'm gonna get this.
Ah, yeah! Gotta keep hittin' up these Goodwills!
There's so many!
Except this one didn't look like it had anything at all.
And then out of the corner of my eye, once again I spy what looked to be a PC game,
and, hey, it's Jeopardy!
By Gametek. Complete in the box.
Really nice shape, still has the floppies.
And I'm a bit of a sucker for MS-DOS game show games, so I had to get it.
And since I found this, I started looking around a little bit more,
and I ran across
a sealed-in-box copy of the Prodigy service.
Now this was like a pre-Internet kind of internet service.
In fact, it was the very first online experience I ever had as a kid
on my old Packard Bell PC.
This is so unbelievably nostalgic for me.
The screenshots on the back, I remember all of this stuff. That Game Center.
This was–this was just like magic to me as a kid.
And to find this again for two dollars,
still sealed, I...
I just love this.
I didn't even know it came in a box. Ours came in a weird little sleeve.
I started thinking there might be some other old PC stuff
since I found these things laying around,
but all I found was this old Epson Action Printer 4000.
After Pokémon, I started inspecting the glass cases once again,
and well... this is promising.
That's a bunch of PS2 games.
Well, here we go. A copy of WinBack: Covert Operations.
A copy of Hot Shots Golf 3.
Ended up passing that one up.
As well as Cool Boarders 2001. I actually think I already have that.
Driving Emotion Type-S. Never heard of it.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars, a Shrek game, I don't know.
A game here, The Getaway. That's one I've actually wanted for a while.
Enter the Matrix, already have it. Uh, Star Wars: Episode I LEGO...
Pretty much all I ended up grabbing from here
was Tony Hawk's Underground 2,
Pro Skater 4 and 3,
Midnight Club, Le Mans 24 Hours,
Ridge Racer 5,
Hitman 2,
Paris-Dekar Rally,
and R: Racing Revolution.
Yeah, there was no way I wasn't gonna come away with quite a few games from this set.
On to another store that actually a viewer of mine let me know existed.
This is the Second Chances Thrift Store,
which helps support the Brother Wolf Animal Rescue next door.
Man, it is packed to the brim with all sorts of randomness.
Mostly stuff I'm not interested in,
but, really, I mean, there's just so much of everything here
that there's probably something for everyone, at least a little.
And being part of the animal welfare place right next door,
there is a lot of pet supplies, too.
So if you wanna get some thrift store pet stuff...
[chuckling] Or you just wanna run into some pets wandering around,
this is definitely a thrift store to check out.
And I hope that you're not allergic to animals.
Anyway, over in the puzzles and board games,
always checking out stuff anywhere I go,
I found a copy of Roller Coaster Tycoon Deluxe.
Already have it, but that's a cool find.
They had *some* PS2 games. Not very many, though.
It's mostly just movies and music CDs scattered in here.
Lots of LPs.
Some stuff a *little* bit different than normal,
but, yeah, really nothing I'm interested in.
I did find this. [chuckles] How to Host a Mystery.
This is a Star Trek: Next Generation murder mystery game setup thing.
That's pretty cool.
A little unusual.
And just as a black cat crosses my path,
I look down and see...
a Macintosh.
In fact, this is an iMac Special Edition DV computer still complete in the box.
Graphite gray, everything looks frickin' brand new.
It's still in the plastic.
Forty-five dollars? [laughs]
Here, of all places, surrounded by cat and dog hair,
I find a computer that I think is really cool.
And this is all of the thrifts finds today,
or at least this is some of them right here.
I'll be showing the rest of them in a moment.
But, yeah, quite a haul this time around.
I got 33 games, one game console, one computer,
one retro internet service provider thing,
one awesome old joystick,
an external Toshiba floppy drive,
and even a multi-tool I found for a dollar at the cash register.
I didn't get that on video, but it's in there.
Everything came to about $160,
and, yeah, I'm quite pleased with all of this stuff because
not only is it junk that's just really cool,
but there's a lot of games in here that I was wanting to get.
Some games that I didn't even know existed.
And some stuff that was like new
that I did not expect to find at all.
I mean, yeah, this is gonna be keeping me occupied for quite some time,
and hopefully we'll end up making several videos out of some of this stuff that I got.
Definitely leave some comments down there.
I'd like to hear about any of your memories with these things, good or bad.
And, yes, the iMac works wonderfully.
400 MHz, G3.
Really cool little system to play some late-'90s, early-2000s Macintosh games,
and, you know, I got Myth.
I can go ahead and play that on here.
And also, just keep sending me pictures of your own thrift store finds.
A lot of you are still sending me these on Twitter and Facebook or email or whatever.
Facebook's redesign recently has really screwed that up,
so I might have missed some of those.
My apologies. Nothing personal.
Awesome, awesome finds that you guys are getting out there.
I'm still just psyched that this series has inspired you to go out
and start looking at thrift stores.
And if you don't think that you have any good stuff around you,
and you go out and you fail,
well, just keep in mind that, seriously, most of the time when I'm doing these videos,
these are like multiple days condensed into one episode.
There's always times that I go out thrifting that I find absolutely nothing.
And of course those don't show up on video.
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