Video Game Collecting

In the darkened backroom of my grandparent’s house I had saved the world from alien invaders, dodged space rocks, protected convoys from enemy choppers, explored the deepest caves, and enjoyed endless adventures with my ColecoVision and Atari 2600.

More than 20 years later the adventures are still fresh in my mind. And I do believe everyone needs adventures from time to time.

Im on vacation right now and I wanted to spend time thrifting in this foreign land. I have a theory about thrift stores that the best items and bargains are found in old neighborhoods. This neighborhood is about as old as any and its sparse population leads me to believe that there are treasures out there.

I visited two thrift stores yesterday, the first was a Goodwill and it only had some SEGA Genesis and Master System games but they were sports games and they didn’t interest me. The second thrift store was called ARC and it had some PS2, Game Cube and a few Super Nintendo games, but nothing of any real interest.

Then a few miles down the road were Antique/Flea Market stores. I was only able to visit one so far. I’d like to say I found the jackpot even though I hadn’t bought anything. Inside there was a complete Nintendo NES with 15 games for $125. Loose copies of SMB/DH and Wheel of Fortune for $3 each. An N64 for $15. And another display case with many NES and SNES games. Had I stayed longer I’m sure I’d have found even more.

In a few days I should be going back to that high concentration of flea markets (there were more than six that I counted) and possible find a Stadium Events for $15 and a Tengen Tetris for $3.