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If you want a TL;DR version, scroll to the bottom.
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I love to game hunt. I don't get to do it very often, as the city I live in doesn't really have much of anything game related at their flea markets and goodwills. What I can usually find are sports games or incredibly overpriced games. Super Mario Bros on the NES was $15 at Goodwill...LOL. I literally started laughing in the middle of the store. I'm sure people thought I was crazy, but check Ebay. Super Mario Bros is a $5 game, tops. So, what I usually do to go game hunting is drive half an hour to my hometown. My hometown has always been the best place to game hunt. I almost always walk away with something from either the Goodwill or at a particular flea market/vender store thing in my hometown.
I normally don't bother sharing my findings, because while they are good deals, I usually have nothing super great to share. However! I got the best deal I have ever gotten on Thursday! And it got me super excited.
I went game hunting in my hometown on Thursday because I hadn't been in a few months. I stopped at the flea market vender store thing first. The very last area I hit in the store was the jackpot! The first thing I noticed was a basket full of Atari 2600 games. I'm like, okay whatever. A dollar each was a fair price, so I grabbed seven games. I also dug out a random X-Men Sega Game Gear game in there for a $1 as well. Next to this basket was a pile of PS2 games. Nothing really special, mostly sports games, but I did pick up 3 non-sports games for $1 each. I see a few junky PS2 controllers and Xbox controllers, but I pass on them as they are in terrible shape. I did find a good looking Sega Genesis though! So I grabbed that for $2.
The next thing I noticed was this dirty Wii laying on it's side in a box with an Energizer Wiimote charging dock thing. I read the tag on the box and it says "Wii + Charger $8 BROKEN Read Disc Error". $8 for a Wii is a dang good price! Sure, it claims to be broken and has no cords or anything, whatever. I figured I could either hack it or attempt to fix it for such a cheap price.
At this point my hands are full and I head up to the register, pay $22 for the whole lot of 11 games + 1 controller + the Wii and Wiimote charger thing.
I get home, and the first thing I do is clean the Wii off and use my cords from my original Wii to power on the $8 Wii I just bought. I press the buttons on the front of the Wii to see if they are all working. The eject button isn't really working, so I hold it down for a few seconds to see if it does anything, and it eventually works. I was listening for the noise it makes when you eject something and a disc came out of the Wii and almost hit me in the face, LOL!
I was like...WHAT. So I back away a little and pulled the disc out. The game happened to by Kirby's Return to Dream Land. I noticed it had gunk and scratches galore, so I put it off to the side for the time being because it was kind of gross and I kind of doubted it worked. I pull out one of my own Wii games to test the system, and what happens? It reads the disc just fine. No errors, no problems. So the tag lied. This Wii works JUST FINE! Minus the eject button that is partly broken, but it still works!
Today I went and got the Kirby game cleaned at a local game store, since it only costs $1.50 to get a disc cleaned. I finally got around to testing the Kirby game a few minutes ago. Guess what? IT WORKS. Funny thing is, I haven't played a Kirby game since Kirby 64 The Crystal Shards, and just last week I was talking with one of my friends how I'd like to play some Kirby games again. Well, I guess I have a Kirby game to play now!
Now for the TL;DR part. Kirby's Return to Dream Land is a $40-$50 game. So for $8, I got a Wii and a free $40 game. Yup. I'm happy.
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