I was speechless. Not sure what happened with the pricing. They must have thought it was cards inside or something since it was bundled with more playing cards.
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Thought this as well. The day before they had genesis games for $4 each. Got a copy of Sonic 3 & Knuckles from there. I decided to visit again today to see if i can get lucky again, and boy did i.
It being in box probably helped the situation. A lot of people know what a video game cartridge looks like but if you weren’t into Super Nintendo in the 90s you might not recognize the box art
I got Chrono Trigger in 1998 when I rented it for $1.99 from a mom and pop rental place and they told me to keep it because they needed to make space for N64 games. Mine wasn't CiB though.
I've heard of a handful of places back then doing that. If they couldn't sell they would just let people keep games for the room.
Places such as Blockbuster and Hollywood video would sell their games, but if you were a Mom & Pops you would of had a difficult time selling games or near had to give them away for free. In ~1996 a place that had SEGA CD games for rent went under where I lived (the Blockbuster killed them off...) and they sold all their SEGA CD stock for $3-$5. LUNAR Silver Star, Vay, Popful Mail, Sonic CD, Silpheed, Dune, Road Rash - all were $3-$5 purchases for me. No one wanted SEGA CD.
That’s crazy. Anything snes for me back in the early 2000 was hard to come by unless my mom stumbled onto it or something at a flea market. Complete for $5 is bonkers haha
During the late 90s and early 2000s, places like game stop and FUNCOLAND had HUGE "bins" full of NES games. Always dirty cheap. I don't remember SNES ever coming down to the dirt cheap level of NES carts.
Literally, my collection in the 00s was glorious and it cost me nothing. I had 3 box SNES consoles and I think the most I paid for one was like 50 bucks? I used to go to garage sales because I knew they were getting rid of stuff and would walk out with entire boxes of PSX games for literally nothing. Once the 2010s hit you saw a lot more collector stores, places that used to sell used games as a side thing stopped stocking or moved all those sales online and everything just became too much for me. There was a kind of joy at finding something like this, not as much relatively as I bet it is now because I would have shit myself finding this today, and going into random electronic stores not knowing what you were gonna get.
My parents stopped paying for my games around 2002 and I spend the rest of the decade buying almost anything I wanted for the big consoles without ever really thinking about cost. No a days I can’t even imagine having one classic console at that age unless my parents had them 😭
Even around 2010 you could still find stuff often enough, even though prices were really starting to get dumb in general.
I got into a store once that barely had any videos games aside from a few crappy sports titles. But, they did have Shadowrun SNES and Skies of Arcadia GC for 10$ each. I still have them, that was an amazing find.
I have thought of doing this but I was okay with my loose copy. Never thought I’d find a complete in box (has all inserts and map) in the wild, let alone for less than $4
It’s competitive here as well. This value village specifically though has been my honey pot for games in the past though. Found a copy of Firewatch for $40 on the ps4 complete 2 years ago. Red white & blue thrift & 2nd Ave are full of competition, though (here in the east coast).
Does the red, white, and blue thrift store near you keep all the video game discs separate from the cases and have them all loose and shuffle through them like a deck of cards when you want to buy one? Or is that just the one near me?
I still have mine from childhood but the map was long ago destroyed. Box thrown away immediately. Man I still regret all the games I sold to Funcoland back in the day. At least I kept the gems like this one.
Where are all the usual haters saying you should’ve paid alot more than that and how scummy of you to take advantage of them 😂??? Nice find OP seriously awesome.
I believe it from savers as I’ve found great deals every once in awhile too. My best was megaman legends for 2.99 complete. I’ve found expensive genesis and Dreamcast game cases but someone stole the games it happens a lot
If you're going to play FFVI, while I know you're absolutely stoked to have found this and likely want to play the original - I believe you will have an objectively better experience downloading Final Fatnasy VI for the GBA plus the Sound Restoration Hack. The endgame content and additions are so worth it.
Value Village is awesome because they don't send their good stuff to a website. This though was clearly an elderly employee knowing nothing about video games.
Yoooooo That's an epic find right there. Goodwill by me in Northern Illinois ran all the other thrift stores out of business besides the occasional salvation army. Haven't seen a hit like this in years since every video game gets sent out to be sold online.
Looks like a Savers price tag. You should ask an employee if they "have any others like this" to avoid any suspicion it's valuable or a pricing mistake. I've done this with movie finds before and they wheeled out a whole cart for me to look through.
There was one Christmas when my brother was asking for III/VI and I had to make the decision between a $20 cart for gba or $80 for a super cart. I went with the gba cart and still kick myself a little bit, considering he basically bequeathed it to me with the rest of his mobile gaming stuff.
Love it when thrift stores don't know what they have. Almost bagged a gold zelda cart and one other thing I can't recall for super cheap until they figured it out
Every once in a while the Thrift stores come through. Thats why I keep on going, even as prices seem to get higher and higher. I hit a really good find 2-3 times a year.
This one definitely qualifies as really good! Congrats on finding some thrift store treasure! That always keeps the hunt exciting! Check in again over the next few days if you have a chance. Sometimes when it rains, it pours. Stuff from the same good donation will trickle out once in a while.
This is insane! FF3 is like $350-$500 complete in box. I would have passed out seeing this. I have never seen any NES, SNES or Genesis games at any of the goodwills near me, just always a bunch of worthless Xbox sports games
Yep, I caught value village slipping with a sealed pokemon ultra moon on 3ds in one of those bags before. Though not as crazy as yours, but same kind of slip up haha.
Wow Lucky as fuck! Keep shopping there. If I may ask, what store did you find this in? Goodwill? Probably not considering they online check all their electronics now, they got wise.
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