Didn’t have too much time to do the thrift store thing this weekend, but some other errands I had to run took me by a few places. The searches are turning up next to nothing these days, mostly because the spring-cleaning season (which in San Francisco runs from about March to November) is over and it’s too cold and rainy to clean out the closets for charity. We’re nesting.
Anyway, it wasn’t a total bust, thanks in part to EB Games’ continuing practice of taking back classic Game Boy titles.
EB Games, for some reason, had a copy of F-1 Race for Game Boy — which includes the four-player adapter! — with the box and instructions and all that, for three bucks. Apparently they found it while cleaning out the back room. Sounded good to me! It would have been nice if EB actually carried other classic games (or indeed had any boxed GB stuff besides this piece of crap), but oh well.
The adapter is pretty much useless, because to play it four-player you have to actually find three other people who owned F-1 Race. I’m sorry, but that wasn’t going to happen then, let alone now.
Hitting a Goodwill on the way home, I saw a stack of Genesis games. It was pretty much worthless (bunch of Maddens and NHLs). And I wasn’t quite sure if Arcade Classics was worth it, but it’s a later-release Genesis game (as indicated by the ESRB rating on the box) and I’d never actually heard of it. Oddly, it’s a first-party Sega release, but based on classic Atari games!
The Digital Press online guide gives it a scarcity rating of 3 out of 10 and prices it at $8 in this condition. They go on to note that Electronic Gaming Monthly slammed it in their pages, giving it a 4/4/4/3.5.
Ordinarily, I’d call this a bust, but the day was saved — across the street from Goodwill was a Burger King!