Sweet!
MLK day was 1/2 off day at the Unique Thrift stores. I took half a day vacation from work just to hit them all. Stood in line -10oF for 15 minutes before it opened at the first one. This was how I got my Original model 3DO for 5$ a couple years ago.
Over the last 6 months, I'd found Atari 2600s twice at Goodwills for around 6$. But both times, the systems had something wrong with them, so I took them back.
So,, I found another Atari 2600 at the thrift store. It's the model with 4 switches and the fake-wood front. It came with 2 joysticks, power adapter, and paddle-controllers! This exact same package costs 50$ at Toyriffic. Everything works great on this one! (except "up" doesn't work on one of the two joysticks, but it doesn't matter, because you can use 3-button Genesis gamepads with atari too).
To boot, I found 2 higher-quality quickshot joysticks at the thrift stores, both of which work with the atari. I also found 2 games (suprisingly the atari games were at a different store than the system). I picked up Combat (it's a staple, gotta have it, only cost 90c after half off) and Volleyball (another classic). I had already picked up Moon Patrol (yeah!) at the goodwill when I'd found one of the other ataris.
I'm definitely suprised tha the power adapter works. Usually that's the first thing to go. It doesn't have an RF switch, so I'll have to get a manual one at Radio Shack (the signal isn't powerful enough for auto-RF switches, but you can still see the picture and sound enough through my nintendo one to see that it works).
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: I used to have around 160 games for atari! I found nearly all of them at garage sales in the late 80's. I used to have the Vader one (atari Jr). I got it for my birthday around the same time some of my friends were getting NESes. Eventually the power connector went bad, and I ended up selling everything. What a dummy! I used to have tons of controllers too, including trackballs. I think it's been about 12 years now since I owned an atari.
Now I just gotta collect the staples. Midnight Majic, Mario Bros, Frogger, and all the paddle-controller ones. I love paddle-controller games. My friend got one of those plug-into-the-TV 10-in-1 games. And it has several paddle controller games on it. But it makes you use the joystick for them. It's seriously impossible to play them with a joystick when they were designed for paddle controllers. Kaboom used to be my favorite.
I now this is a Sega board, but hey
people talk about dumber things in the General forum. And I've already got the master system, genesis, CD, 32x, saturn, dreamcast, and game gear. I am however look to eventually pick up a MegaLD. I think that's the last Sega System to get. A system who's only games are FMV shooters, and I'm like the only person alive who actually enjoys them.
MLK day was 1/2 off day at the Unique Thrift stores. I took half a day vacation from work just to hit them all. Stood in line -10oF for 15 minutes before it opened at the first one. This was how I got my Original model 3DO for 5$ a couple years ago.
Over the last 6 months, I'd found Atari 2600s twice at Goodwills for around 6$. But both times, the systems had something wrong with them, so I took them back.
So,, I found another Atari 2600 at the thrift store. It's the model with 4 switches and the fake-wood front. It came with 2 joysticks, power adapter, and paddle-controllers! This exact same package costs 50$ at Toyriffic. Everything works great on this one! (except "up" doesn't work on one of the two joysticks, but it doesn't matter, because you can use 3-button Genesis gamepads with atari too).
To boot, I found 2 higher-quality quickshot joysticks at the thrift stores, both of which work with the atari. I also found 2 games (suprisingly the atari games were at a different store than the system). I picked up Combat (it's a staple, gotta have it, only cost 90c after half off) and Volleyball (another classic). I had already picked up Moon Patrol (yeah!) at the goodwill when I'd found one of the other ataris.
I'm definitely suprised tha the power adapter works. Usually that's the first thing to go. It doesn't have an RF switch, so I'll have to get a manual one at Radio Shack (the signal isn't powerful enough for auto-RF switches, but you can still see the picture and sound enough through my nintendo one to see that it works).
:
: I used to have around 160 games for atari! I found nearly all of them at garage sales in the late 80's. I used to have the Vader one (atari Jr). I got it for my birthday around the same time some of my friends were getting NESes. Eventually the power connector went bad, and I ended up selling everything. What a dummy! I used to have tons of controllers too, including trackballs. I think it's been about 12 years now since I owned an atari.Now I just gotta collect the staples. Midnight Majic, Mario Bros, Frogger, and all the paddle-controller ones. I love paddle-controller games. My friend got one of those plug-into-the-TV 10-in-1 games. And it has several paddle controller games on it. But it makes you use the joystick for them. It's seriously impossible to play them with a joystick when they were designed for paddle controllers. Kaboom used to be my favorite.
I now this is a Sega board, but hey
people talk about dumber things in the General forum. And I've already got the master system, genesis, CD, 32x, saturn, dreamcast, and game gear. I am however look to eventually pick up a MegaLD. I think that's the last Sega System to get. A system who's only games are FMV shooters, and I'm like the only person alive who actually enjoys them.
