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Is dumpster diving applicable?
I got a DS with a broken start and R button, so it's almost in good condition
I might keep it since its Red

There's this place in my uni that's selling old consoles, though I don't know if they're overpricing them or not. I wonder if they've got a PS2. I apparently missed out on an entire era of godly games.

>>13052
>broken start and R button
No MonHun for you.

I picked up Super Mario All-Stars and Super Mario All-Stars + World at a thrift store for 25 cents each when I was a kid. Still have them, in near mint condition.

I got a copy of Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen from a Target that was closing down for thirty cents.

The thrift stores where I live have pretty much nothing as far as worthwhile games go (pretty much just sports and movie games there); makes me wonder if scalpers make daily rounds and buy up anything of worth to resell. I've had decent luck with a local multimedia store though if willing to count that. Some finds from there:
>DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 3 ($12; PS2, complete)
>Fire Emblem Path of Radiance (~$10; picked up replacement manual for it for $5)
>Koudelka ($12, complete)
>The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess ($30; Gamecube, complete)
>Pokemon Soul Silver ($12)
>Shadow Hearts: FtNW ($12; complete)
>Suikoden V ($18; complete)
>Super Mario Sunshine ($12; black label, complete)
>Wild Arms: Alter Code F ($18)
>Xenogears ($5; black label, complete)
>Xenosaga Episode III ($13; complete)
>Yakuza 2 ($12; complete)
I suppose prices aren't the best on those compared to what they might be at a Goodwill or thrift store, but they still beat the regular prices they go for elsewhere, ranging from half to a sixth of the usual prices. Love it when that happens with a game I've been meaning to play but hadn't gotten around to yet due to prices.

Also recently found Phantasy Star Online: Episode I and II Plus at another place for $35. Might not sound that great, but considering how much it usually goes for ($70 disc only, nearly $100 complete) I'm pretty happy to find it for only that much.

>>13061
Good luck with that (a small tip: don't just immediately write off a place; check there multiple times as sometimes even generally poorly priced shops can have a good find occasionally). The good news for you is that a lot of the PS2 library is still pretty cheap these days. There are exceptions though.

>>13064
Wish I could have some luck with finding cheap SNES games, but it seems to be a system everywhere local is on the ball about and anything worth playing is pretty pricy. Even common, well selling games can be a good $30 cart only if it's a well known one.

>go to local Giant Tiger for groceries
>large bargain bin full of shovelware and sports/movie games
>ehh, why not
>start poking around
>large case crammed up against one side
>Zone of the Enders HD Collection: Limited Edition
>with the art book and soundtrack and everything
>$20 plus tax

I don't know if the price was fair or not, but I did not expect to find something like that at Giant Tiger in a random bin.

>>13096
I don't think we have that store where I live. They a regular grocery store, or something like a Super Target or whatever, where they have regular stuff you'd expect to see there, as well as what you'd go to a grocery store for?

As for ZoE HD Limited Edition, I think that was about average price for it for a while (though I think it has since gone back up a fair amount). From what I recall, the original unpatched HD version being rather bad meant that prices fell to rather low amounts and demand for the game in general dropped for a time. Thankfully the patch HexaDrive did helped the game a lot in the end. Still, not something you see everyday at a grocery place, but I've heard of people finding decent video games at times at odd places like pharmacies as well, so maybe it's not that strange to see.

In my area we have a very popular pawn shop that deals almost exclusively in electronics and video games.
So that's where all the good potential thrift items go, and these people know exactly how much to sell each one.
Not that I had any interest in buying anything anyway, I don't quite have the palette for seeking old console vidya outside of emulators.

>>13018
I've been there
5$ for a PS1, another 5$ for a PS2. Perfect condition.

Oh yeah, also twisted metal inside the PS1.

Thrift shops are awesome. They will be even more awesome in a few years.

>>13114
You're lucky your thrift stores actually have good stuff as far as video games go. I swear, if scalpers don't just make the rounds where I live for worthwhile games to resell, people here either don't have good taste in games (hence all the sports and movie games at them), or do have good taste and know better than to pawn their games for less than they could get elsewhere, or give them to Savers or Goodwill. On that note, I'd swear some of the few remaining older game stores here (given how Gamestop's driven a lot out) go to Goodwill themselves for games to charge regular price for. Occasionally I see a big influx of games with Goodwill price tags on the sides. That said, as long as the price on them is still reasonable (provided it's a game I'm actually interested in), I don't mind much, but you'd think they'd at least take the old price stickers off first.

>>13114
>Thrift shops are awesome.
Whenever I go to local thrift shops all I find are beat up old consoles covered in stickers from a time when it was loved by some kid who's now probably a frat boy. Worst part is that they're always upwards of $50.

I got the original ICO for $3 at a local place.

I got Oni for £1. Nothing exciting.

>Mom & pop thrift shop
>They cell old cell phones in a bargain bin
>Mostly old Nokia flip phones/prepaid phones
>Decide to check it out before I leave
>120gb Microsoft Zune in perfect condition with a case and cord
>$5
Zunes are okay I guess

>supcom FA collectors edition from half price books for 20$
>also got mein kampf (1947 english translation) for 25

was good day

>Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback 2
>Zuma Deluxe
>GTA III
>Splinter Cell
>Space Quest 6
>Need For Speed II SE

Those are all I've found at thrift stores that weren't edutainment games or old software.

>>13286
>half price books.
The local one around where I live closed and the only one that I know of left is a good ways away. Also, the few times I've been looking for games there, it's left me wondering if their name applies to everything in the store, or just to the books (and thus is still accurate). I mean, I've found some decently cheap video game finds there before (Radiata Stories for $10, Wild Arms 4 for $15, both complete; saved about $15-20 on those compared to normal prices I've seen them for here), but a lot of other times they're asking the same prices as everywhere else for their games (granted, at times said prices aren't exactly bad if it's normally $15-20, but other times they want a good $45-50 for a game because that's the average price; really not "half price" in that case).

>>13414
>Sidewinder
Fuck how much I've been hunting for one. Lucky you.

>>13528
Too hot to go to flea markets often where I live, and the few times I have been, no one stocks video games.

Where do you live that there's no pawn shops or anything? Just curious since where I live there's one every two or three miles. Not that they have much in the way of worthwhile games.

My top 3 vidya related thrift store finds:

3. Yesterday, found a fully functional gamecube controller in near-perfect condition for $3

2. A few months ago, found a Logitech G4, again, in near-perfect condition. The only issue with it was that it was missing the weight cartage thing, and I had an extra of those due to my G500 breaking recently. Software downloaded from the Logitech site still works with it, so it's programmable too. Cost: $4

1. About 7 or 8 years ago, saw a copy of Unreal Tournament '99. At the time, I thought that I just didn't like FPS games because all my experiences with them were console FPS games, and I just couldn't get into them. However, I had heard good things about UT, so I picked it up. I played it, it was fucking awesome, and I've loved PC FPS games ever since. The online was mostly dead, so all I was doing was fragging bots, but I was having way too much fun to care. Cost: $5

>>13653
*G5

>>13645
North Mexico
There's pawn shops but they very rarely stock video game stuff, only if ever they receive new consoles and sell at very heavy prices, pawn shops here only take jewelry and hardware
For example i saw one last week, they had Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 for the Gamecube for 2 dollars, but next to it was a PSP for 140 dollars, which is hilariously expensive, more so when behind it was a Vita for 140

In the city there's around 5 flea markets, they are very standard and well guarded so there's rarely black market activities other than the dangerous business of selling pirated animu series
The thing about those markets here is that the owners travel a lot to America and hunt for cheap/surplus packages of stuff, any stuff, mostly garage sales they pillage with money, then resell it here for double its amount which still is very cheap because some stores and people in the US almost gift away tons of stuff they dont want anymore

And americans sometimes thrown away perfectly fine stuff in terms of hardware, i found 5 OG xbox controllers once which are rare around here, 2 of them in mint conditions, 2 classic PsOne controllers, the empty shell of a Panasonic Gamecube which is like finding a glowing meteorite, a crystal skull Xbox, cheap japenese imports, etc
In terms of games they usually throw away the shovelware, some good games get mixed in there and they come here, Max Payne 2 is widely popular for some reason, all the Spengbab games for Gamecube are seen constantly, all the sport games for SNES, N64, 360. But most of the times there's 15 shovelware for one good game
Overall vidya in flea markets here is very normal, if anything it's the go-to place for people with not a lot of money and with a knack for the original copies

The puzzling thing here is that there's some stores who sell assorted things, the owners clean them up and stock them in boxes. Glasses, kitchen accesories, music discs, DVDs, cheap paintings, and the main point of this, the emblematic personal items.
You could grab a box and collect several graduation plaques, some highschool old boys reunion memorial plaque, a 50th anniversary wedding set of fine glasses with the name of the couple. Who throws away that sort of personal things? who would even buy them?

>>13807
>Who throws away that sort of personal things?
They're from estate sales, more than likely.

>who would even buy them?
Yuppies. They have no sentimental belongings of their own, so they go out and buy dead people's stuff to use as window dressing so they can maintain the appearance of a fulfilled, enriched existence.

>>13807
>but next to it was a PSP for 140 dollars
What the fuck. I got a 3000 model new a year or two back for about $100 at a Target. PSPs should be about $60-80 at regular used prices depending on the model, and it's not like they were a rare or poorly selling system.

>cheap japenese imports,
In my experiences, imports are always something of a mixed bag. If it's a heavily story/character driven game where knowing Japanese is very helpful, if not required, they can be quite cheap, especially if on a region locked system, since the overall audience is rather limited in areas outside the intended one. Other ones that are much more gameplay oriented, or at least have English menus (or at times, English voicing like Metal Wolf Chaos) can wind up fairly pricy out here, especially if region free and not a game the west ever saw.

Are the flea markets they have where you live indoors at the very least? Considering that the closest ones where I live have all been technically outdoors (whether under a giant ramada or in a big tent-style setup; either way they tend to get too warm from how many people there are, combined with the average temperatures here), that's probably why I find them too hot to bother with much.

Any Ameriburgers in New York Queens specifically know any good places to go video game hunting without going into Manhattan?

>>13919
Sounds awful to have to put up with, but that's just my opinion I suppose. Still, good luck finding cheap, worthwhile video games. Not sure if you guys have used multimedia stores down there, but they might also be another option to look into.

>>13923
I collect stuff and with the very civil nature of svidya i been wanting to make a Collector's/Market thread someday, i do find cheap or rare stuff from time to time but im not interested in them and some people might look into it, especially Americans that get their prices sky high in certain games i may find for cheap, and vice versa.
Obviously with low prices, and in my case with the price i originally found them, i prefer seeing Clock Tower 3 in the hands of some anon instead of a kid

Also to have a feedback on our libraries, but i will see, there's still few people here, and no insult to the bros but it seems the majority here is digital-only or very casually collect games, so not a lot of sick hunter-gatherers to beef a micro-community for the board

We do have multimedia stores but people are cheap bastards, they rather walk with the heat and gamble 2 hours instead of lurking in a well-conditioned store that charges 50% more