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I'm going to be focusing on the newer stuff, PS1/N64-era to PS3/Wii/360 era (about 1996 to 2014). Those games are, on average, cheaper, more plentiful, and easier to actually play nowadays than, say, Atari 2600.
N64 games are cheaper than most Atari 2600 games now? I haven't really kept up on pricing lately but that's still surprising to me, even PS1 games are getting expensive for anything good.

Not that I find Atari stuff in the wild anymore, maybe the odd time cartridge games turn up in thrifts but barely ever and they're just in the showcase or auction sections now for high prices. The last cart games I remember finding were some SNES games a few weeks ago at salvation army, mostly sports games and a few commons priced $19.99 each. There's always a chance of finding something good so I still go, but it's far rarer than it used to be to buy something game related.

PS3/Wii/360 games are still common and cheap enough for the most part, but these consoles don't really interest me so I mostly pass on them. If anything looks possibly interesting I'll look them up for more info but most games I come across don't seem to be special. I'd be happy to find good PS1 or PS2 games for cheap prices, I wish I could find Game Boy, Genesis, Sega CD or Saturn games like I could 20 years ago. I mostly buy other things at thrifts now like VHS tapes, thankfully I can still find good ones occasionally and they're priced the same as the commons. I look at toys, CDs, records and books too just in case something good turns up.