Kindof slow in the thread so I guess I'll ramble on about my day
It's been pretty crappy at work for the last couple of weeks so I decided it was time for some retail therapy. Back when I was in Kansas, doing 30-40K miles per year, I could just stop at a few shops in different cities along the way and sometimes get lucky.
For instance, I went through my old posts and looked at my old trips below in St Joseph (MO), Colorado Springs (business trip), or Richmond (VA- once I moved):
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2214418&postcount=110
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2664368&postcount=216
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2664368&postcount=217
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5089925&postcount=107
Granted, the big scores always happen at one place and they're so darn rare. But I went for a more conventional "I'm in a part of town I don't always head to so let's see what I can get at a few stores along the way".
I started at the Goodwill Outlet store on Shadeland. Saw a couple of broken PS1 games in there but nothing worth keeping. I got something neat for my wife there for 37 cents. Also, I saw some guy had a yellowed SNES in his cart
BTW, for the record- trying to backfill holes in my collection, PSX and SNES seem to be the ones that are disproportionately expensive. I mean, PS2 and NES stuff are like candy and pretty cheap. The N64 is a little expensive but there weren't a ton of games so I've done pretty good proportionally with the collection. But that PSX and SNES... just cost too much for how mass produced they are.
Next up was KMart. I have to admit, they've stepped up their game lately with this whole rewards program and the rep posting in the CAG forum, etc. Good to see more gaming competition because I was worried for a while there that we would just be down to ol' bait and switch Best Buy, pricescrew Gamestop, and "yes we have games but we don't care about games" WalMart. I picked up a copy of
Dragon Quest 6 since it has a $15 reward back. Hard to go wrong with it at $20, in essence.
Next up, I stopped at Target in Washington Square. I was hoping to find the Mario Monopoly, Chess, or Yahtzee on clearance but no such luck. I got some heater/air conditioner filters on clearance which was fortuitous as we just put in our last ones this week.
Next in the mall, I went to the Gamestop. There's just something good about a good EB/GS. I walked up with a $15 copy of
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (last one, sorry) and the guy at the desk, definitely a gamer, refers to me as "welcome, collector of rare and strange games" and we chat about how it used to be a Babbages- you can tell by the shape. Good stuff.
Finally, I go up to WalMart and picked up their last copy (sorry, again) of
Red Steel 2 with Wii MotionPlus for $20 (and some girl scout cookies at the shoe store next door- I mean, really, they set up at the shoe store instead of the WalMart)
Tomorrow, I'm going to hit up McVan's and then go to Castelton and get my Celebi and try out Pokemon: Black/White.
SI