Hey /vr/. I was super bored yesterday and hungry. I decided to

And?

I found two Lynx 2s like that for $5 each at the same Ohio Thrift before I went to the state fair a few years ago. It was nice to put one back in the complete packaging I'd been holding onto for the last 20 years after a so-called friend stole the console in high school.

>>3954049
Pretty good find OP. I found a Game Gear for $9 at Goodwill not too long ago, but it only came with Sonic 2 and it needs its caps replaced.

>>3954059
Are you going to replace the caps?

You get a big mac after?

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>>3954073
Op here, no recently im going after the happy meals. They include a neat mario toy.

>>3954049
jealous, anon. that's a hell of a find. My best goodwill find recently (I work next to a goodwill) was a loose Wii for $8. Had Super Mario 64 pre-installed and $10 in Wii points left on the system too, so I hacked it and swapped it out with my other thrift store Wii which was in worse shape.

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>>3954095
Op here, yeah goodwills are really stupid. And their exchange policy sucks ass. It uswd to be that you can get ur money back . but now is even exchange on electronics and clothes only. Oh well all good things come to an end. Like true retro game hunting, it has become an obscurity. I remember going into thrift store and passing on games like goldwn eye ocarina of time and final fantasy 7 to name a few. Just because they were overly abundant. Found this years ago for 5 bucks at a yardsale.

>>3954109
Yeah, that's how it goes. I go every single day on my lunch break just in case I find something good, but it's become slim pickings. I used to find much better stuff as you were saying; and yeah their return policy is trash.

>>3954109
>Like true retro game hunting, it has become an obscurity. I remember going into thrift store and passing on games like goldwn eye ocarina of time and final fantasy 7 to name a few. Just because they were overly abundant. Found this years ago for 5 bucks at a yardsale.
It's time to move on to PC, PS2, and Xbox games.

>>3954109
>Having a Goodwill where not all sales are final

>>3954085
What, are you a little kid?

>>3954190
We're on an anime / porn site discussing the vintage toys we like and someone collecting ephemera related to those toys is too much?
>>3954185
Most of the goodwills in my area have decent return policies on clothes and shit, but electronics are all 24 hours for store credit type deal.

>>3954213
There's some point even I draw my line, sorry.

>>3954062
I bought a set online, yeah. I'm not amazing at soldering but I'll do my best.

>>3954149
>PS2, and Xbox games.
if only they had good games

>>3954109
What's that big thing, some promo item or something?

>>3954238
It's a carrying case

I don't get why you're excited about the Lynx.

Nice GG find, though.

>>3954229

May the Dark Lord bless you and save your tender meaty soul lastly for his hellfire brisket.

>>3954263
The Lynx is superior to the GG in every single way. GG doesn't have Chip's Challenge or S.T.U.N. Runner.

>>3954263
The Lynx is much rarer than the Game Gear. I have 3 Game Gears and have started passing them over until I find a blue or red one. I've only ever encountered those 2 cheap Lynx in the wild. The games are really cheap, too. Kind of like NGPC

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>>3954291

>>3954291

Why would I care about either of those games next to Lunar: Walking School or the three mainline GG Sonics?

>>3954293
>>3954294

But what makes the Lynx better to play?

>>3954296
Why wouldn't you play those on the Master System like God intended?
>>3954297
More comfortable, ambidextrous (which is totally awesome), great sound and graphics, etc. Also it's an Atari which ups the cool factor.

>>3954309

It's not *really* Atari though is it? Epyx got two Amiga devs to develop it. In fact RJ Mical told me himself that it was a great device until "the wrong people got hold of it".

Fuck Atari.

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I've got the McWill mod done on mine.

Looks ace.

>>3954049
This has got to be your worst troll ever. Unless this is a pathetic copy cat in which case it's a total fail.

>>3954297
Well above all else, Game Gear has very Sega feeling games on it while Lynx has very Atari feeling games so ultimately most of it is subjective but the Lynx is noticeably newer hardware with a better screen and battery life and I'll go as far as to say it objectively feels a little better in your hand. If you prefer arcade style games Lynx wins easily.

>>3954845
>thinking subjectivity is real
>namefag
are you here specifically to shit up the place?

>>3955812
He is. He's proven it many times.

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>>3954049
>>3954095
I am even more jealous. At my Goodwill this is all they ever have. Yes, it is so valuable in my area, that it is behind glass. There's never any finds here.

>>3954789
It was sold and marketed by Atari, so yeah it's an Atari. Everyone knows it started as the Epyx Handy, but I would have liked to see Epyx send it to market themselves, it would have failed even more miserably. You tight with RJ Mical? The Lynx is a great device with a great library; it never stood a fucking chance against the Game Boy, and I don't think there's some alternate reality where it did better if not for Atari. If anything the Atari name allowed it to be as successful as it was.

>>3954149
PS2 is already getting pricy man. I bought two copies of Drakengard two years ago for $6 each and the price flew up when the new Nier came out. At least all the SMT games are super cheap. Can still be bought brand new for like $15 on amazon.

>>3955812
Of course subjectivity is real. Some people prefer certain genres over others. The Game Gear has better representation of more genres and so it's quite reasonable that many people would prefer it over the Lynx despite the Lynx having superior hardware. This entire board is about subjectivity, really. Modern games are objectively superior by any measurable metric.

>>3955910
Yeah, most of the Goodwills and second hand stores in my area (NoVA/DC metro area) suck ass. It's kind of sad just how bad retro is here.

>>3958382

But....I wanted to start a PS2 collection some day, senpai. :(

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>>3958398
>plays sonic
>calls someone else a faggot

>>3954109
Man the original Gameboy was fucking huge.

>>3954053
shit you live in ohio?
Im moving there next year, can you tell me pls, how are the thrift stores over there? are they lgr-thifting tier with cool retro /vr/ stuff or just regular run off the mill shit with some slightly uncommon thing every once in a while

>>3958468
oh it's Babbage's gramps. I keep forgetting to read the trips because I keep thinking no one is dumb/egotistical enough to actually have one in a mongolian old console fanclub forum
nvm please don't respond to my question.

>>3958468
Thrift shopping in Columbus is pretty good there are three different thrift chains besides Goodwill: Ohio Thrift, Village Discount and Volunteers of America. The Salvation Army stores are drying up but there's one huge one that will probably never close because it's attached to some training facility (and next to a halfway house one of my exes was at for a while). There are SO many that if you take all day you'll definitely find something good although you'll easily burn up $30 in gas. I'd recommend doing it on a Friday and while you're at it check all the auction cases at all the Goodwills then consider doing the live auction rotation on Saturday. A lot of people bitch about the auction cases but I think they're okay. If the one near me that I go to all the time had one it might annoy me because it defeats the "lucky find" but it also beats out overpriced items sitting in the showcases forever and most people just silently bid over the course of the week so if you go to the effort of hitting the live auctions it gives you an advantage and the stores are cool enough to do them at different times so you can go from one to the other.

>>3958478
Assuming you're a differentfag or you would have just deleted your post

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>>3958403
Get started my man.

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>>3958509
wrong yet again, faggot

>>3958687
when will you realize literally no one likes or appreciates you? even if you drop the trip your shitposting style is so consistent someone would be able to point you out.

>>3958698
Is it that swift lawliet namefag recently turned tripfag? I've noticed him being pretty agro with me lol.

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>>3958742
you cannot be that dense. are you sure it's not some sort of defense mechanism? it's obvious I was adding to my post.

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>>3958757
I guess it must be the defense mechanism one, Bro. I rarely drop the trip on this board on purpose anymore just when I forget to put it back on from other boards. I'm not here to be liked but people definitely appreciate me. Maybe mostly newfags who appreciate sick thrift shopping tips more than enough to tolerate my big fat mouth, I guess.

I mean your prejudice is self-evident. To you, my post went from being good info to a shitpost only when you saw the trip but whatever. I'm glad you're going to avoid my thrift circuits. You'd be thinking every obnoxious jackass you saw was me and it'd just burn your biscuit.

>>3958372

That's like saying Amigas sold after 1994 are Escom. I don't buy it. I do admit that Epyx were in the shit which is why Atari stepped in. I never said it would had been more successful did I? I just said you could barely call at Atari.

I'm not tight with RJ. Met him at an event a couple of years ago. He signed my lynx..we had a chat and he's decent enough to comment on some of my fb posts and shit. That's all.

>>3958858
Fair enough; I was only got heated due to your fuck Atari comment, I rather like Atari. My apologies.
>>3958687
>calling people out
>being a phone poster
pick one

>>3958809
I want to meet you and beat you up.
let me guess... look for the late 30s guy in the legend of Zelda t-shirt and skinny jeans with the nes controller iPhone case?

>>3958404

>implying classic Sonic is bad

Kill yourself.

>>3958674

:(

>>3958950
Man, close. NES controller t shirt and Zelda phone case.

>>3958957
Face the facts, you autistic furfag.

>>3958989

Eat my shit fuckface.

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>>3958972

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>>3959002
RETARD

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>>3954820
Op here, holy crap I havent been on /vr/ since days ago. I cant belive this thread is still alive. This is the longest lasting one for being the worst I guess. Anyways I went to my local flee mart today and found this for $10. But now i regret it cuz is be hungry and craving some macs.

>>3959032

PEDERAST.

>>3959043
FAGGOT

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Op here, the person at swapmeet litteraly bought this at a goodwill two years ago for $9.99 and was selling it for 25. I talked him down to $10

>>3959047

SISTERFUCKER

>>3959052
Ok you got me there.

>>3958674
how do you keep track of what saves you have in your memory cards?

>>3958889

no worries brah...I used to have an Atari ST and I own 2 Lynxes...I don't hate Atari per se.

>>3958809
>people definitely appreciate me
>being this deluded

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>>3959797
I get more "thanks" any given day on 4chan than you'd get in a year with that attitude

>>3959809
>IM LEAVING
>thanks for leaving i thought you'd be here forever
>haha someone said thanks

>>3959809
The only thanks you get is from the tranny for replacing it as the village idiot.

>>3959943
That's a good insult.

>>3958414
Pretty sure you're trolling. I had that sweet ass case. I wish the mfer was that size.

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>>3959301
Post-its

>>3959809

Are you the one that used to regale us with stories from your young adulthood in the early 90s or some shit?

>>3960973
That's me.

>>3959041
holy shit i got the same gameboy minus a case and the battery cover for 12$ i went to record exhange tand they are always selling gameboys for 50$ so i think i got a good deal
flea markets are god tier for retro

>>3961182

Oh, hey! Long time.

>>3960965

Hey, fuck you man. babbage gramps is cool.

Prolly been here longer than your newfag ass, anyway.

>>3959797
Gramps has helped me with good info quite a few times. /vr/ is not the place for saltiness, it is a place of good feels, remembrance, and classic vidya. Let's be cool and let OP tell us al about his delicious Big Macs and absurd pickups.

>>3954149
Don't bet on it, 6th gen is almost just as bad these days.

Any decent xbox/dreamcast/gamecube game is going to set you back a decent amount. Fortunately ps2 isn't as bad since a billion of those fuckera were prduced

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Found these a few months ago. Paid $4 for them. Both are still in the shrinkwrap. Curiously enough, one has a sticker placed over Bally Videocade, rebranding it as Astrocade Videocade (which is sort of redundant). The insert is also different, boasting a differently-colored screenshot of the game and a slightly larger font.

Anyone have info on these? I don't think either one is too rare (found them for $10 each on eBay). I'm more curious about the name change.

Unrelated, but the guy threw in some NYPD patches for free. Might sew one on one of my older worn out jackets.

>>3963004
>i helped my non tripcode self
lel

>>3962590
>defending retarded tripfags
>reddit speak and spacing
How new?

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Jeez somebody bumped this thread? I was sure it would 404

>>3962590
>>3963004
Hey thanks. I try to be pretty aloof and everything but it's good to be appreciated. There's actually more haters than I expected or they're just surprisingly malignant. They seem to be mostly people stuck around the precipice of ignorance on the topic of /vr/ who want so badly to feel smart that they try to pedantically deconstruct any post I make e
specially when I generalize. Like how in this thread the entire attack is based on "subjectivity existing" and my crazy assumption that someone would know how to delete their post if they changed their mind about it.

Probably my main objective here on /vr/ is to help people getting into the hobby to have the most effective experience which nicely dovetails with the authentic 80s-90s experience.

Probably the same people who believe there's no such thing as subjectivity also believe there's no such thing as authenticity so it's no surprise they would come after me - and other "gramps" anons who've lived similar lives to mine and have similar perspectives. Their increasing accusations against those Anons as being me without the trip tells me my efforts are beginning to be effective at marginalizing the negative "/v/-like" anons.

>>3963772
I think they're just sick of your shitposts kiddo

>>3963036
>trying this hard
Contribute sandwiches

>>3964013
I think your attitude hurts the board

>>3955910
Looks like the Goodwills in my area. There was one that had a tiny little Sony PVM and an honest to god Neo Geo MVS arcade machine with a bunch of games once, and of course I missed out on those.

I find cool stuff at Good Will and Savers once in a while but I feel like the ones in my area have largely dried up, and of course there's that one shitty goodwill that never has anything good. There's a new one opening up right near my house so maybe with some luck I'll actually find some good shit there when it's open. There just might be some more big box PC games hidden away in my town that someone doesn't care about or know the value of.

I never find shit at Goodwill unfortunately. I get some good books, but that's about it, every electronic I see is some old gimmick that people bought for their kitchen to use one time.

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>>3966087
>>3966119
Many, perhaps most Goodwills especially ones without auction cases ship all of their "computer" stuff off to Goodwill Computerworks stores, ShopGoodwill auction hubs or straight to Dell for recycling. It seems that there is some kind of big deal these days about the possibility of selling a hard drive that has someone's personal data on it like the reseller can be liable even if they have no knowledge of it. I've never actually heard of a real case of this and the idea of it alone kind of pisses me off since it absolves people of personal accountability for disposing of their own data. Software companies can mine the shit out of it with one click of an EULA but used hardware resellers can't get a binding legal waiver? Seems ridiculous but it leads to a lot of weird stuff like my favorite chain of "cash advance" pawn shops having tons of computers in the back unsellable because they're waiting on someone to "reformat" them which to them means reinstalling from their recovery partitions. It annoys me because I see PCs on their inventory app that aren't actually sellable but the flip side is that they often have "as-is make an offer" PCs that only need an OS installed because I guess they didn't have recoveries and just got reformatted. Meanwhile almost every single phone I've bought from them hasn't been (easily) factory restored and has pictures of ugly naked people on it.

At Goodwill it's much worse as I'll often see gaylords like pic related filling up with "computer" stuff waiting to be shipped off to fuck knows where - and when I buy computers from regional thrift stores I can pretty much read the former owners' emails and log into their facebook after five minutes of circumnavigating their windows passwords. Probably lucky for them they're never even slightly interesting.

>>3963772
>they just hate on me lol
you do know that no hate comes unsolicited right?
you've done shit to make people despise you. your reddit speak and talking random shit makes people hate you and then you act like a victim ohh noo these evil people hate me for no reason boo hoo
nah, you've earned that hate.
also stop samefagging without your trip, there is literally no sane person on this board who appreciates you. I think even Edgar has more respect than you on this board

>>3964605
I think your precense hurts this board.

My small town seems to have an overly active thrift store scene, they drove most of the old pawn shops out of business. Goodwill showed up for a few years, but they couldn't into competitive pricing and finally left. Retro gear is still pretty rare, but persistence is the word. I scored a pretty nice EGA monitor last week.

>>3966391
Oh yeah, I have a huge victim complex. See how hard I cry? That's how you can tell you really hurt my feelings. I honestly have no idea what "reddit speak" is but I've been posting in this style on this board consistently since the beginning. If anything since tripping up I've been making a conscious effort to contribute even MORE on-topic content and to do more to foster the culture that was prevalent on this board when it was a better board.

>>3966394
I think you're illiterate

>>3966396
Sounds like you had terrible pawn shops and a person could make a killing with a professionally run cash advance style pawn shop.