I haven't been out at the thrift stores that much these days, but decided to give it a go this afternoon. As has been the case lately, it's pretty barren out there. What gives? Maybe I've given away too many secrets in these pages, and now I've got more competition.
One store that's always good for a few games turned up Wings of Wor for Genesis ($3.50) and a few SNES standouts, of which I selected Super Star Wars and Super Castlevania IV. $2.50 each.
After the jump, things I didn't buy and a video of me playing something else I did.
From what I can remember, that one store also had a plastic longbox copy of Ace Combat for PSone ($9, way too much!) – excuse me, it was retitled "Air Combat" for the US. You know, because we're too stupid to realize from the airplane on the box that it takes place in the air. They also had Super Metroid, Star Fox, Clayfighter, Stargate, and Rise of the Robots for SNES, plus Bram Stoker's Dracula for Genesis. From back when Sony made games for Sega consoles. I nearly bought it for the irony, but decided against it.
Another store actually had two Famicom games – Moero! Basketball from Jaleco (which, bizarrely, doesn't seem to have been released in the US as near as I can tell) and Datsugoku (P.O.W. in the US). At $3 each they didn't seem worth it.
And that was pretty much it. As it turns out, they converted one of the Goodwills in the Mission to a Goodwill outlet store, in which things are actually cheaper than normal Goodwills if you can imagine that. It's all clothes now.
Dejected, I walked a little further than I usually do, over to the EB Games, where I found... The Red Star! And Puzzle Quest! Finally! San Francisco's main EB has been completely sold out of both of these forever – I think they got in one shipment of each, then never got any more ever again. But then, that's EB for you. Excitement.
Anyway, after that I went to the music store and bought a low G whistle. Why? So I can play along with Mitsuda. Badly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTAdwsIcnpA
