Don't you hate...

[TheRealist50]

Don't you just hate when you walk into a goodwill or any thrift store and you see a controller to a system you want...but the system is nowhere to be found?

I went into a Value Village today and found an atari 2600 controller...I spent a good hour looking all over the store to see if I can find the system...but nothing. I still bought the controller, it was like 5 bucks.

[SegaAges]

that happens all the time with genesis controllers at goodwills in omaha

[modest9797]

Is Omaha somewhere in the Green Hill Zone?

I see alot of PS1 controllers with no PS1 in sight.

[RadiantSvgun]

Actually, what I hate the most is when I go into a thrift or a goodwill and I find something stupidly obscure, like a Turbo Grafx game. Then I go to buy it and the clerk always says : "oh you should been here yesterday son, we had about 100 of those with the boxes, but we sold them all."

Thanks for making my find into someone's leftovers you bastard.

[mr.soul]

I wish this would happen all the time with Sega Saturn controllers. What a pain in the ass.

[SegaAges]

Is Omaha somewhere in the Green Hill Zone?

I see alot of PS1 controllers with no PS1 in sight.

Actually yes it is. It kinda sux having to avoid random machanical animals like monkeys in trees that throw cannonballs at me and if I get hit, I lose all my rings and have to pick them back up. I only have 10 fingers, so I lose my rings alot.

[jcalder8]

Yeah I do hate it when the poster doesn't put a full sentence in the topic so you have to check it to see if you care or not.... I mean finding controllers without systems.

[TheRealist50]

maybe its just where I live, but I rarely find any controllers or sytems at the thrift stores here. Yeah from time to time I do find a PS1 Controller but thats it.

I don't even find Genesis or NES controllers let alone the systems. So naturally when I found the Atari controller I got a little excited. I've been looking for an Atari for a long time now and there is no way I'm shipping it here from the US.

[rpepper9]

Ya know what I dislike? When you go to a Thrift and find a NES, but the controllers are priced as separate pieces. I found a NES recently, and it was shrink-wrapped with its power-supply and AV connections, but both controllers were priced seperatly, as was the light gun.

So the NES was 10.00 each controller was 3.99 and the gun was 3.99. Now I bought the whole works anyway, but I think if it comes in as a donation, and it is obvious even to the elder volunteers working that it is all parts of one unit, it should be sold as a unit.

Odd thing is that I have seen PSOne's bundled together with their controllers. Maybe the NES came in without the controllers attached to the unit so someone didn't put Two and 2 together.

On a nice note, the thrift store was having a 50% off everything sale, so I got everything for half off anyway!

[ryborg]

So the NES was 10.00 each controller was 3.99 and the gun was 3.99.


an atari 2600 controller...it was like 5 bucks.

Stuff like this really makes me appreciate the thrifts in my area, where controllers for old systems are NEVER more than $1.49 and you can get systems for ~$5 and sometimes far less if there is surface wear.

[Aussie2B]

Sometimes, but it's a good way to pick up extra controllers if you need them. It worked out really well for me once too. I noticed an unfamiliar controller, saw that it was for the 3DO, and then I scoured the VCRs and such and found the system. It was a bummer that they weren't packed together, but I'm sure I would've never noticed the system if I wasn't looking extra close since I wasn't familiar with the design of the 3DO at that point. Plus it helped that they didn't realize it was a system since VCRs are priced dirt cheap. :P

[ssjlance]

3DO controller at a semi-local flea market, but no system. :(

[Slate]

Actually, what I hate the most is when I go into a thrift or a goodwill and I find something stupidly obscure, like a Turbo Grafx game. Then I go to buy it and the clerk always says : "oh you should been here yesterday son, we had about 100 of those with the boxes, but we sold them all."

Thanks for making my find into someone's leftovers you bastard.

This is why at yard sales I ask someone not to tell me what they sold if they say they had old games.

[TheRealist50]

Stuff like this really makes me appreciate the thrifts in my area, where controllers for old systems are NEVER more than $1.49 and you can get systems for ~$5 and sometimes far less if there is surface wear.

Aw man, your lucky. Everything here is so expensive. There is this used video game store here that sells...well...video games, they are selling an NES controller for 10 bucks, guns for 10 bucks, Sega master system controllers for 15! but at the same time I picked up a genesis arcade stick for 6 bucks.

Systems are 10 bucks or more...a broken, beat up N64 with missing pieces is still 10 bucks, like wtf.

[natinh0]

Yeah, it sucks, specially when you go avid for the system but at the other hand it´s great when you found that f***ing WORKING N64 controller alone.It happen once for me, and lucklly was my love story with the Neo-Geo!
But what pisses me off is when you do find the game box/cover/manual but not the game itself, i mean, godamit where the hell is the Eternal Champions disc?Guess what, Sewer Shark was in its place, stinks!