[quote name='Goodwill Hunter']Luck like I haven’t seen in a while at Goodwill over lunch today….
Right away, I saw a half dozen boxed NES games for $2.99 on the movie shelves which was unusual enough… snagged the two that I needed boxes for, and went to the CD shelves. Saw the Zork Anthology disk, and even if it isn’t worth anything, as a fan of the Hitchhiker’s text adventure, I’ve always wanted to try Zork.
After adding Zork to the 2 NES games in hand, my eye caught a freshly-placed stack of black-spined CD cases with the telltale NTSC logo at the other end of the row. I patiently waited until the guy looking at the classical CDs moved on, and then I started going through the stack of about 20 games, all priced $1.99 each.
Spawn, need it….Croc, have it for the Saturn, not the PSX…passed on a few sports titles….and then BINGO, one after another, Tomba!, Tomba!2, Klonoa, Final Fantasy VII!...plus a bunch of other less exciting titles I did not yet have in my collection.
3 months ago, most of these cases would have been empty already, but fortunately this Goodwill recently started keeping all disc-based media in these big CD binders behind the counters. The cases and manuals were in good shape, and my hunch that the discs would be as well turned out to be true. Best lunchtime score I’ve had in a while…it’s been a heck of a May so far!
Rich
P.S. Not to mention the fact that I learned that Magic Johnson’s Fast Break is filled with “Slammin’ – Jammin’ Basketball ACTION”!!![/quote]
The one neighborhood thrift store around here has some PS1 and other games at times, but most of the Salvation Army stores around here suffer from the missing disc problem on disc based games. We only have ONE Goodwill around here and it's about 30-45 miles away, so I've only hit it ONCE since it's been open and it's been open for 3 or so years now.
All I got from there was Bionic Commando for the NES and some sealed Making Of Star Wars VHS for $3 total.
Then again, I really can't complain because I've found other deals in the normal retail stores that were halfway decent compared to my thrift hauls.
You got a hell of a score though, since Tomba was one of the PS1 games I played a demo of, but never got around to getting the full version of(much like Intelligent Qube). I won't pay Ebay asking price for either of them either, so I guess I'll just have to forgo playing both.