Goodwill Hunter
02-27-2004, 09:22 PM
When I posted about the Donkey Kong Country Competition Cartridge I found in a Gamestop at the beginning of February (“Found my first Competition Cart tonight!”) this was the one reply that stayed with me…
I love how Goodwill Hunter made the title of his post "...my first competition cart!", as if he's expecting to find more. Man, I wish I was that optimistic! :P Great find.
I laughed and acknowledged my own over-enthusiasm when I read that post. But at the same time, in the back of my head, part of me was saying, “Well, why couldn’t you find another one!?” And for the past month, in addition to my usual search for games, I have been obsessively combing through every stack of SNES games I could find….Gamestops, used game stores, thrifts, etc. The only fruit this labor had produced was one Donkey Kong Country demo cart...until today.
I went into a used game store during lunch today that provides a find from time to time, but the more rare stuff has prices that lean in the ebay direction. I scanned the loose SNES games in the front case, but didn’t see anything different from the other times I’d been in there this month.
As I walked past the SNES boxes (most are overpriced and don’t have manuals), for some reason I checked out the plastic boxes on the bottom shelf. When this store gets a loose SNES game that deserves more promotion than getting tossed in the front case, they make a color copy of the label, insert the copy in a plastic game case, write the name of the game on the spine, and put it out with the regular SNES boxes.
There were 2 plastic boxes labeled STAR FOX that caught my eye. I tipped the first one out and saw a copy of the standard Fox McCloud cart label. Tipped out the second and did a double take…this is what I saw:
http://members.aol.com/a54br9/test/SFW1.jpg
This must have been sitting there awhile as it was $11.99, marked down from $12.99. I thought “this must be a mistake”, but I took the case to the front anyway and said, “I’ll take this one.” The kid looked in several drawers (sell many SNES games?) before finding the right one, and hauled out the standard StarFox cart. Hiding a mixture of disappointment and hope, I feigned ignorance, pointed to the case, and said, “No, this one is Super StarFox.”
“Super StarFox?…I never heard of that!” said the kid as he went to check another drawer. And I must have been nice to someone in a former life, cause that kid turned back around and put this on the counter:
http://members.aol.com/a54br9/test/SFW2.jpg
Mint condition without a mark on it…I put it in the plastic case as he wrote up the ticket. I think he sensed something was up as he handed me the change and said, “Just what is that?” I tried not to smile too much as I responded, “I hear it’s a good game” and walked out the door.
So I started February with DKCCC and ended it with a StarFox Super Weekend Cart…not bad for a short month with crappy weather. I guess I owe norkusa a thank you for inspiring for my quest…but that’s all he’ll be getting, I’m keepin’ the carts :D
Rich
I love how Goodwill Hunter made the title of his post "...my first competition cart!", as if he's expecting to find more. Man, I wish I was that optimistic! :P Great find.
I laughed and acknowledged my own over-enthusiasm when I read that post. But at the same time, in the back of my head, part of me was saying, “Well, why couldn’t you find another one!?” And for the past month, in addition to my usual search for games, I have been obsessively combing through every stack of SNES games I could find….Gamestops, used game stores, thrifts, etc. The only fruit this labor had produced was one Donkey Kong Country demo cart...until today.
I went into a used game store during lunch today that provides a find from time to time, but the more rare stuff has prices that lean in the ebay direction. I scanned the loose SNES games in the front case, but didn’t see anything different from the other times I’d been in there this month.
As I walked past the SNES boxes (most are overpriced and don’t have manuals), for some reason I checked out the plastic boxes on the bottom shelf. When this store gets a loose SNES game that deserves more promotion than getting tossed in the front case, they make a color copy of the label, insert the copy in a plastic game case, write the name of the game on the spine, and put it out with the regular SNES boxes.
There were 2 plastic boxes labeled STAR FOX that caught my eye. I tipped the first one out and saw a copy of the standard Fox McCloud cart label. Tipped out the second and did a double take…this is what I saw:
http://members.aol.com/a54br9/test/SFW1.jpg
This must have been sitting there awhile as it was $11.99, marked down from $12.99. I thought “this must be a mistake”, but I took the case to the front anyway and said, “I’ll take this one.” The kid looked in several drawers (sell many SNES games?) before finding the right one, and hauled out the standard StarFox cart. Hiding a mixture of disappointment and hope, I feigned ignorance, pointed to the case, and said, “No, this one is Super StarFox.”
“Super StarFox?…I never heard of that!” said the kid as he went to check another drawer. And I must have been nice to someone in a former life, cause that kid turned back around and put this on the counter:
http://members.aol.com/a54br9/test/SFW2.jpg
Mint condition without a mark on it…I put it in the plastic case as he wrote up the ticket. I think he sensed something was up as he handed me the change and said, “Just what is that?” I tried not to smile too much as I responded, “I hear it’s a good game” and walked out the door.
So I started February with DKCCC and ended it with a StarFox Super Weekend Cart…not bad for a short month with crappy weather. I guess I owe norkusa a thank you for inspiring for my quest…but that’s all he’ll be getting, I’m keepin’ the carts :D
Rich