Do you have any cool thrift store finds?

[Frickinfrik]

Here’s all the cool stuff I found at various thrift stores in my area. (I even work in one of them)

 

[NotReallyHere]

I totally remember getting that Donkey Kong Country tape in the mail, back when I was a Nintendo Power subscriber. Just randomly showed up one day. I also got a N64 preview tape, along with one for Star Fox 64 and Diddy Kong Racing. 99% sure I ended up taping over all of them

When I lived in Eugene, OR, the thrift shop finds were off the scale!

My personal favorites:

Lime Green iMac G3 w/ matching mouse and keyboard - $25
15" Sharp CRT TV (which I still use for my retro games) - $12.50
Sega Genesis Model 1 (complete with all hookups and two controllers) - $10
Panasonic VCR (which still works, and I still use) - $5
SO MANY assorted VHS and cassette tapes - 10 for $1

I miss when random old tech used to be so affordable

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

I got my PSP with all the trimmings: protective shell, memory card, charging cable & a stack of like 10 games including Monster Hunter Freedom, Ghost in the Shell & Dragon Ball Z Shin Budokai. All for like $50. Fun fact, I even coincidentally made friends with the person who initially got rid of them years later

Otherwise, I've found some cool stuff now and then. River City Girls for PS5 with the soundtrack CD included. A dvd box set of WWF/WWE Royal Rumbles shows. The Godfather trilogy box set on VHS for $1.

I love a good thrift store, but you kinda gotta be in the right place at the right time for really good stuff

 

[gwardojones]

My younger brother and I found boxed copies of:
Metroid 2
Super Mario Land
Super Mario Land 2
Yoshi's Cookie
Kirby's Dream Land
Aaaaand... One other that escapes me (my brother took that one)

They were only $20 a piece. I held onto them for a few years and sold them this year for $100-$200 a piece.

 

[MajesticSiN]

Not in years since alot of thrift stores try to sell things at ebay prices

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

Some japanese poker cards, 2 game boy advances and a game boy light. I went to one last week and found a nice viewsonic monitor for a computer im making.

 

[diet_orange]

Well, considering that I work at a thrift store, I have more than a Baker's dozen :P

Some of my favorites have been a Hardback copy of Greg Bear's "Blood music" (listened to an early version on cassette as a kid and it scared the shit out of me), my Sports yellow Sony CD/Cassettes player, my three box sets of SCTV (watched it first through my local library and fell in love with it. Love comedy. Also borrowed In Living Color, Scrubs and Kids In The Hall), my Larry The Lion Animal Yacker's doll from the 60s (voiced by Mel Blanc no less!), and finally, my two Fisher Pricer Husky Helpers vehicle sets

 

[UnDubious]

I don't even see proper thrift shops anymore, just a few random pawn shops. When I was a kid they were everywhere though, and I used to hit the ones in my neighborhood all the time, looking for CDs and video games mostly. Pretty much anything I bought with whatever pocket money I might have was used. Sometimes games were still expensive, even then - RPGs especially tended to keep their a lot of their value, unless they were completely unknown or not well-liked. I think I paid 40$ for Phantasy Star III when most Genesis games were 15-20$ w/the box, probably 10 without. Sword of Vermilion was a lot cheaper though, probably 15 w/everything. At least games rarely really went up in price back then. People used to be shocked that Panzer Dragoon Saga was selling for 150$ on ebay, lol. I bought it once, played it, then resold it for the same amount I paid.

 

[Turbo Kid]

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin - Love that game. The tag team, character switching mechanic was so cool.

 

[bjork]

Never in my area. I think there's a squad of people that hit everything right when it opens and then call each other from whatever store they happen to be at, then meet up and trade around whatever that day provided. I don't have that kind of energy any more, heh.

 

[qw90700]

In my country the thrift store concept died out but not for good so rarely the concept has reminiscence of such good old days around. A few years ago I was in a small city in my country that I went for personal business so by luck I found such a shop. It was in a way everything you find around the junk, no matter what it is, they all sold for same price, so I was looking for movies and PS2 games and found legit physical copy of Silent Hill 4 and Second Sight for PC which was odd because despite Silent Hill games have a decent popularity never saw its legit games sold at all when mostly generic games like football and military stuff is usually popular here next to old school CRPG games. I take it someone personally imported them to my country but somehow they found their way to this shop. Perhaps it was one of the case of "my son is long gone married and all so I better throw his stuff, even the legendary Pokemon cards into rubbish" lol and these guys collected these stuff from garbage and selling it or something lol.

 

[GardeniaSky's icon GardeniaSky GardeniaSky]

I once found a cross-stitch Jesus. Wish I still had it.

 

[Dyne]

Cool Star Wars trilogy VHS. I used to have that one.

I don't know any thrift stores near me. Seems like everyone sells things online now. I miss the old days of swap meets and thrift shops where you could find a rare gem at a good price.