Got this great old Thomas collection for my son. Love the old art in these back when they were real freaks.
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Hit up Recycled Books in Denton, TX (as well as the Free Play location there – they had Planet Harriers!) and came home with this stuff, including Insert Credit fave Rain Jerks, which was quite an unexpected Texas bookstore find:
Found this old photo of the n64 I found in the slab city junkyard
I set it on a tarp to work on it because it was full of crud
I salvaged parts and some are still in mg m64 today. The jumper pak was somehow entirely preserved haha
Also Found a pic of possibly the most epic groundscore of my life
@treefroggy wow, someone just dumped a while library eh? It’s wild when that happens.
I got this for 50 cents at a yard sale today, and a bunch of noise and drone tapes. Pretty wild stuff
the image won't upload but I sure did find a beautifully clean Sega Game Gear at the thrift store down the street the other day 
I don't like going to the thrift store closest to my house because its run by very old ladies and I can always feel their trans-judging stares as I browse the clothes section.
But i went there today and I bought a really nice skirt and a practically brand new 450w pc power supply (it was 7~ bucks!) and the lady at the counter said to me "quite the peculiar combo you have here" in a weird tone and at that point I just thought that was slightly amusing.
That thrift store directly benefits and orphanage so that's nice at least.
I’ve been traveling a bit (and not being on the forum/internet very much, hi everybody), and recently went to a dirt mall/trader’s mall/peddler’s mall called THE SHED in my hometown of Paducah, KY. Here’s some of the treasure they had, including an entire stall dedicated to Little Brother Controllers:
(I picked up some common games at fairly average prices, but it was fun to just look around the lovely garbage)
You get yourself some POWERFUL SEXUAL ATTRACTOR and a 3rd party N64 pad and you've got yourself a party
@tokucowboy damn, I love it! This is what a thrift store’s game section is supposed to look like! I feel like I see a 3do controller in there!?
this was actually at a weird head shop in morgan hill CA called ROCK ZONE, reminds me of video games.
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I found a photo I took of the bags exactly where I left them that day in oaklahnd… Glad I did because I could not find any photos of that PS2 bag online!
and here’s the score of the century, from hayfork, CA!
I did buy it and I did use my Sony Playstation to blast the tunes out into the forest.
I just thrifted a Hori Ace Combat 6 Ace Edge flight stick (both parts) which looks to be Xbox 360, which I don‘t have. I guess I thought I would be able to use it on the series X but apparently not. It was a pretty good buy at $20 I thought. But will likely sell it if I can’t actually use it
@onefiftythree I got mine at a Bungie garage sale (aka clearing out random Stuff that had accumulated around the office) and it’s got that weird rubber that’s deteriorated into stickiness over time. I know you can fix it but I haven’t done it yet. It is a shame the HOTAS doesn’t work on new Xboxes though, seeing as the game is backwards compatible. I think you can use it on PC though, if you wanna play AC7?
@andrewelmore yeah this one’s got that stickiness also. good to know, if I ever break down and get a PC…
Scored a Sony Handycam for $7. Came complete, including all of the composite to RF adapters.
Now I can start a youtube channel!
@copySave That’s rad. I love old Sony hardware.
@tomjonjon Me too! Would love to find a classic Walkman cassette player too.
My parents had a giant camcorder so even now this little guy seems amazing. It’s dense and everything on it feels great. Lots of good sliding rails and snapping components. I’m hoping I can pump it’s direct composite output to my Retrotink 2X and then OBS so I won’t need to use its little tapes (I’ll still get some tapes though). Haven’t tested it yet, but hopefully it’ll give me good 480i analog video.
@copySave The tape mechanism usually is the first thing to wear out on old camcorders so being able to capture is a cool way to keep these things in use.
Huge thrift / swap meet sessions coming soon. I feel my sleeping thrift dragon beginning to reawaken. Catch me at LACC swap meet at 5AM. nevermind, I forgot they open at 9