Have You Ever Given Any Games to a Thrift Store?

[briskbc]

Has anyone else out there ever given any games or systems to a thrift store or Value Villiage etc? Include things from when you weren't collecting.

I have given the local thrift store a couple old Sierra PC games. They were complete and in nice shape. I just got tired of having them around and they were only worth a few bucks on eBay so I donated them. I also, just recently, got rid of some Vic 20 tape drive software. Most of it was instructional stuff. There were a few games but nothing major. No, Ultima Escape From Mt. whatever.

[tholly]

nope......

i guess that makes me a bad person for not donating stuff....but oh well....my game stuff is mine...i have donated clothes and toys and what not though...so that makes up for it

[captain nintendo]

Um ..... No

If I have something I dont want I offer it to my fellow Dpers first ;)

I have donated tons of other stuff to them however.

[-hellvin-]

Yes

[Raedon]

back when I lived and breathed the hunt in the wild I would find something cool about once a month and would stop in every other day.

nothing rare.. think my best finds were a FFIII, Atari 2600+20 good games all mint, 5 common SMS games and a complete boxed VIC20 and who knows how many .50 cent NES carts.

[BLACKFROSTT]

ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

[Jibbajaba]

Definitely. Some stuff is just plain worthless. I put stuff in the B&S forum, and if no one wants it, I get it out of here. If I can sell it on eBay great, but if it has no value on ebay either then what choice do I have?

Chris

[underexposed+]

Yes! NHLPA 93 and World Serirs Baseball 95 for the Genesis a few months ago

[Mitch_Naz]

Nope, but thrift stores are a good place to look for games - I usally find nes, genesis,atari 2600, and bare consoles.

[Bri79]

Nope, and I have not even been lucky enough to find any in them either :o

[soniko_karuto]

this is such an uncommon question.

btw. no.

[Cmosfm]

I feel that I give them so much money anyways that I'm doing my part.

So...nope.

[Raedon]

Ohh. GIVE stuff.. I give them my old crap when I move. It's a good place to dump dead monitors sense the law here is, "No monitors in the trash."

[The_EniGma]

Ohh. GIVE stuff.. I give them my old crap when I move. It's a good place to dump dead monitors sense the law here is, "No monitors in the trash."

LOL ^

i have never donated to a thrift store since there aren't any here!

although we have oxfam stores where i saw some zx spectrum or commandore gamse before i was collecting, I THOUGHT THEY WERE LAME

How very wrong i was....

[EnemyZero]

Every so often I do thrifty runs but never once found anything worthwhile...may be 2 or 3 loose nes carts.....but anyways...they have so many of my old clothes......and toys...that my parents donated to them....so that counts for somethin...it was my stuff after all :D

[FantasiaWHT]

My wife seriously hasn't thrown out a piece of clothing she's owned since middle school... it's been piling up. Earlier in the summer I finally convinced her to go through it all....

14 giant garbage bags full of clothing donated...

Never donated a game tho hehe

[DTJAAAAMJSLM]

Nope, I've kept all my games. I'm greedy...

[nathanray]

i used to community service for a thrift store and the people would drop stuff of in the back and we would have to go through it surprisingly they throw a lot of stuff a way they threw a jewelrey box full of jewelry away because the box was locked they threw a few nes games away cause some of the cartridges where dirty they also threw some computers away cause they where to old its kinda stupid but oh well ive actually given a few things to the thrift store things like clothes toys and extra mario/duck hunt carts

[RangerG]

Yes - usually TRS-80 games or really common 2600 games.

[blissfulnoise]

I have given the local thrift store a couple old Sierra PC games.

*** Sniff *** i love those games...

Seriously, and not to pour salt in the wound, you'll probably be pretty amazed at how much classic complete Adventure games can go for (particuarlly LucasArts and Sierra) on eBay. The Sierra collector editions routinely get over 100 bucks.

But no, no games for charity. We've given lots of other items however; especially old clothes.

[Pantechnicon]

When I found my first 2600 Jr. at a thrift, I went back and donated my 4-switch woody in its place (just the console as I needed the controls & other hookups). And the only reason I did this was because I was living in an apartment and space was at a premium. In fact that's the only reason I bought the Jr, which set me back a mere $3.

But now that I have a house and Room of Doom (pics coming one day), the answer is absolutely not.

[dan2357]

LOL
that would be like a Twilight Zone episode......Picture if you will a video game collector walking in to a thrift store to donate a game.You're travelling through another dimension. A dimension, not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight Zone!