GREAT arcade related thrift store find today

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Found this today while walking through the thrift store for only 5 dollars. Arkanoid isn't one of my favorites, but as a long time NES collector, it's finds like these that you dream about. The set as a whole sells on eBay for $70. For some odd reason, the game is fairly common, but the controller is impossible to find, and the box and manual are even more so.
 

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Nice score!

I'll double your money on it, AND you can keep the game and controller... I already have them... :D

I got my controller in a lot on eBay. Pretty sure the manual came with it too. Got a good deal. And a bunch of other random NES stuff.

but seriously, that was a sweet find.
 
Man, how does everyone find this stuff?! I stop at goodwill almost every time I pass one and I never find anything!

You guys have some kind of strategy for game finding that I don't know about? or Am I just unlucky..?
 
Honestly, it's just luck most of the time. I make the rounds at the local thrift stores at least one a week, and 99% of the time I walk out empty handed. Since the rise of eBay, there's a lot of competition in finding deals at thrift stores and tag sales, so you pretty much have to luck out and be there at the very moment items are put out on the shelf, because most items, particularly video game related items, sell quick, unless its absolute junk.
 
Honestly, it's just luck most of the time. I make the rounds at the local thrift stores at least one a week, and 99% of the time I walk out empty handed. Since the rise of eBay, there's a lot of competition in finding deals at thrift stores and tag sales, so you pretty much have to luck out and be there at the very moment items are put out on the shelf, because most items, particularly video game related items, sell quick, unless its absolute junk.

Not to mention Goodwill has their own auction site now. Rediculous.

About a year and a half ago I had a buddy working at Goodwill. He came in to my work and told my boss about an Intellivision in the box for $6. Once I got there, they told me about it, so I left right away and went for it.

I got it, but when I was checking out, the guy said "Oh... wow. this kind of stuff is supposed to go online"

douchebags.... I'm glad they missed it...
 
lol, that really makes me mad when people pull shit like that. I know they're trying to make money, but they get all that for free anyways, why not sell it cheap.

One time I was bidding on this rare Gameboy Pocket on eBay (the only one I've seen) and some douche out bid me and won it for $110. The very next day it was on eBay again Buy it Now for $500. Fuck! I actually wanted that and that douche bought it just to resell!

Anyways.. idk where to find any thrift stores where I'm at, but I hear they're better than goodwill and pawn shops. I've been thinking about trying garage sells too, but idk what I'll find there.
 
They are a "non profit" organization. So, they donate everything they make or something? I guess there has to be some explanation

what version of game boy pocket is worth THAT much!

The only one I could think of may be the Gameboy Light... Japan only release. It's just a pocket with a front light.

Not even sure it's worth even that much, though.
 
We'll it's not really worth $500 if you ask me, but I've only seen one online for sale before. It's the Gameboy Pocket Pri-Cla Atlus Version. The gameboy lights usually sell for around $60-$80 unless they're famitsu model which can sell for over $200.
 
I hardly ever go into Goodwill anymore. I check a lot of the mom and pop stores. Goodwill bites (well, there is one Goodwill exception that I check because it's on the way to the good ones. I hardly find anything good there, though).
 
Nice score! It took me a long time to find the controller. Now, I don't know where the game is. :(

The thing about thrift stores is that they always try to say that the employees are either forbidden to buy things at their own store, or that they have to wait a day, etc., but believe me - a lot goes on in that processing area.

For starters, you wouldn't believe the sheer amount of theft that occurs when there is virtually no inventory system. Places like Goodwill also love to use free labor, in the form of community service "volunteers," and more recently, government funding to employ people whom are fresh out of prison (under the guise of 'helping to re-integrate them into society.')

I'm not saying that all these people are responsible for the theft problem, but it certainly adds to the criminal element going on - I've seen it first-hand. If it's not theft, there's almost always a system in place where someone working in the back calls or texts a friend to come to the store and 'wait by the door' for something to come out.

If I had to guess, I'd say only 10-20% of the most valuable donations actually make it to the sales floor for actual customers to have a chance at buying them.
 
about 10 years ago I bought three of them off of ebay for $30 a piece but they were sealed in the box w/ original shrink still. I sold my last one about a year go for little over $100 IIRC.

Meh...
 
Nice score! I have never actually seen one of these.

I live in college land USA, there are about five colleges in a ten mile radius so the hipsters ravage all of the thrift stores here.
 
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