Video Game Collecting

Is this really the greatest SEGA Genesis & Master System thrift store find ever?  Quite possibly, well at least for me it is.  Let’s see what we got:

So I go to the Goodwill thrift store near my house and first I find a complete copy of Yoshi for Nintendo NES.  Then I find Alex Kidd in Miracle world.  I head to the back of the store and I find a SEGA Master system with one controller and the arcade stick ($5).  Then I find the phaser ($3), and then I find a SEGA Genesis with two controllers AND a mint Power Base Converter for $10!

I pay for this stuff put it in my car and go back inside.  Then kablamoo!  The motherload!  All for SEGA Master System: Zillion, Rescue Mission, Shooting Gallery, After Burner, Black Belt, Great Football, Gangster Town, Ghostbusters, Great Soccer, and Hang On/Astro Warrior.  But the story doesn’t end there.  The next day I go back and I find Transbot, with the game still in its case.  I buy it for $2, open it in the parking lot to find TWO copies of the game in the box.  SCORE!

All of the SEGA hardware must of came from the same person, as all of the cartridges have ‘Cuco’ painted on them in blue.  Also, a hate crime obviously occured infront of these games.  Look at Zillion:

What fool ‘tags’ a video game cartridge?  Why couldn’t they have abused Great Soccer and not Zillion?  Shesh.  I’m certain there is a circle of hell for what ever punk tried to ruin this SEGA Master System game.  The good news is I’m already in the process of restoring it.  Restoring it?  How can I restore a game that has been this abused?  Well, I guess we’ll have to wait for the second part of this post.