Per @exodus suggestion, I’m starting a thread for everyone to show off their cool stuff they’ve picked up recently!! I want y’all to gimme the goods you’re super proud of!
Here’s some stuff that I picked up recently:
I’m going to a game convention in the next two weeks, so I’ll be popping off in here for sure. Now…. SHOW ME WHAT YOU’VE GOT!!!
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Yo great thread idea! I'd been staring at the mailbag thread, and wondering if there was a place for posting the stuff we found the old fashioned way.
First up is the surprisingly refined-looking Ys 6 pocketwatch!
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This neat Gunbuster CD I grabbed for a friend
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And a Dreamcast copy of Third Strike! This one isn't staying with me, but it'll be the grand prize at the start of year sf6 tournament I'm throwing at my uni.
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I went to 3 stores, traded in some stuff, and got some more stuff. Here it is. The genesis games all came from a record store by the way, as did the star blazers book. I figure you all will want to see inside that (it‘s very silly, it’s screens of that Yamato movie cut into panels). As much as we all hate Doug tennapel I do like when backgrounds are done well on the genesis and that earthworm jim was only 60 bucks. So I went for it!
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The cds and dvds are largely just things I wanna try (obviously knew globe already) - if I don't like them I put them back into the ecosystem! Here's a fun one I found
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Also I didn't mean to get that Gintama ost, I picked it up and forgot to put it back! So that'll be in my next sale group, ha ha.
Not a complaint but what is the difference between “what’s in the mail” and this thread? Isn’t this basically a better version of the “what’s in the mail” thread? Or maybe there is a specific vibe about the “what’s in the mail” thread that escapes me?
This is specifically for acquisitions that were neither [in thrift stores](https://forums.insertcredit.com/d/1458-thrifty-garaging-fleas-share-your-thrift-store-finds/) nor [sent to you per postal service](https://forums.insertcredit.com/d/942-whats-in-the-mail/)?
@“exodus”#p126299 I just listened to “Seasons Change” by Exposé based on this picture and it could basically be a credits theme from an early 90s animé. Wait. Both Exposé and animé end with é!? This is not a coincidence!
@"◉◉maru"#p126307 Mood? 🤷🏼♂️
@“◉◉maru”#p126307 it‘s subtle maybe but:
THAT SAID, the thrift store one and this one aren't that different and I wouldn't be averse to merging them assuming we changed the title of the thrift store thread.
Fair enough. I am not actively participating in any of these threads so I certainly don’t mind any of them existing but, from the outside, it was a bit confusing.
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@“exodus”#p126315 passport (I just got that)
Just in time for ~~Bitsummit!~~
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The handful of times this thread has popped up I‘ve always thought “here we go again, another acquisition or merger” and then I’m relieved when I remember we don't have a thread for that
@“Gaagaagiins”#p127817 I wish that every time anyone clicked on a link about ~ acquisitions ~ it ended up just being a cool Sonic cup
@“Gaagaagiins”#p127817 Literally taking an M&A class next semester. Please look forward to me … acquiring new knowledge.
Traded in while I was down in the lab working on kiosks for Long Island Retro, got it before it even hit the store shelves. Good per diem
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@“robinhoodie”#p127954 oh yeah, it's tail time!!!
Is it in working order?
@“connrrr”#p127961 Our crew said yes. I will of course put it through it's paces. Especially when it comes to reading CDRs. Dip my toes in some nostalgia and then decide if I want to pull the trigger on an ODE (highly likely)
@“robinhoodie”#p127968 I got the external one. As with all my ODEs, flash carts, and the like, I have not used it yet and can answer no questions. But! This is what it looks like.
@“exodus”#p127978 Nice! I will probably save the $100 and go internal with ideally every game on a single storage solution. But I took a look inside and everything looks good, no leaky caps. But my big excitement is I found it is a late enough model to be compatible with the 480i to 240p toggle. So I am going to bring it back to the store to get that mod done.
@“robinhoodie”#p127983 I went with external because I have about 20 games here, so might as well have it both ways!
My city held a pop-up videogame market over the weekend that I had to restrain myself from spending astronomical amounts at, instead spending “a bit too much” at. Some stalls had some real hot ticket items that I had to tempt myself away from but others seemed pretty generic - most of the N64 games in the entire market were racing games and I saw multiple stalls with tubs filled with only the most uninteresting 360 and Xbox One games. Heck, I had a good time though.
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I got a psone recently almost entirely because I wanted to hear the Sony BWOOOWOOOM jingle come out of my crt. Much to my surprise, my local game store left a copy of Gran Turismo inside. A fun bonus, but it feels a little ethically weird to keep it? It sort of seems like the kind of thing they might do on purpose as a little treat, just from what I know about this store, and it‘s not a super expensive game so… I’ll probably keep it? That Sony bwom, though, oof I missed that.
