Hi there, I work as a computer tech for the goodwill computer store in tallahassee. Thank you for coming by our store and having such great things to say. Believe or not very few people in our own town actually know we exist.
I got 10 3ds games at salvation army for 2 bucks each, including Pokémon ruby, sapphire, moon, and ultra sun. Whatever that kid did to deserve his games being donated, I forgive him. I dreamed about deals like that. Literally.
I feel like gog gives a better experience than trying to maintain disks, you can just write those installers to a disk if you really care about them being physical media, and there is a box art website if I can find it again for making your own cases
31:11 hurt similarly but just because I love that CSI PC game series. Couldn't figure out why it was such a good series, turns out Telltale was making the series. They still hold up and are pretty fun to play through and easily available online with some fixes for new versions of Windows if you know where to look. But he's just not a PC game collector so! More for us! hooray! EDIT: He is redeemed for picking up one of the Wii variants of the game, I'll give him that-
I never walk into a Goodwill expecting to find a game, but that makes the moments when I stumble into one all the more special. My copy of Metal Gear Solid 3 is from a Goodwill, and I’ve even seen Japanese-region PS2 games once.
I used to go to 5 or 6 different goodwills and 1 salvation army around my area in Virginia. I used to do it daily from like 10am till 5pm. I find crazy things like boxed n64 games, sega genesis, dreamcast, rare PS1 titles, PS2, lots of gamecube stuff, DS, pokemon, gaming action figures some brand new some with no flaws, collector's edition items, cheap consoles, hand helds like gameboy, ds, 3ds, etc. Also goodwill has colored discounts on different days so if the gaming stuff is purple and is purple Tuesday then that's an extra 20-30% off. I also made friends with some of the managers at the locations to the point I get first dibs on stuff they find. I remember 1 manager got me a boxed original gameboy for $50 while its not brand new, it was flawless to the touch with everything included in the original package. Those were the good ol times.
As someone who's never been in a Goodwill thank you for providing me a lifetime of visits without having to leave the house. You really have me looking forward to the Wii Balance Board price checks. This was a super high effort, nice job bud 👍And freakin' awesome shirt!
It's never been so over for game thrifting! You used to be able to find a Genesis with controllers, cables and a couple games without really trying a decade ago. I can't image stumbling across that anymore.
I'm pretty sure anything remotely decent related to gaming is sold on their auction site, where it will get bid up to or beyond FMV. The GW Computer Works near me used to have Wiis for $20, which wasn't too bad, but I think COVID turned it into a donation-only center.
Goodwill is great for finding older games from gen 6 consoles to gen 8 consoles as long as they haven't been cleaned out by resellers. Your best bet is to try and visit them as soon as they restock in the morning on certain days of the week or month.
Happy to see that Blue Yeti for $15 actually worked! Thanks for the shoutout. I didn’t expect to watch all of it but I did. Great video! Just wish those portable TV Radio Flashlights had inputs smh
As a frequenter of british charity shops in it's so weird not seeing loads of Fifas in every shop. Those things are like the plague of charity shop game sections, along with Sims expansion packs of course
Same in germany lol, and it seems that every version that is not the latest, is automaticly worth nothing. Thanks to EA and their bullshit fifa packs system
You totally should have gotten that tv, flashlight, and radio combo…. Not because it was epic and could have been nice for a video… but because it was an emergency combo item. It’s a Weather Radio and TV. My mom bought radio versions for my sister and I recently. Since you live in Florida, it would be good for you to have in case a hurricane did severe damage and you needed something to get information for help. The crank on the side allows you to manually power it. I live in Kentucky and a whole section of my city was destroyed by a Tornado in 2021 and I wish I had one then. Whole week without internet, tv, or radio. Just lucky I wasn’t in Mayfield which was far worse.
Most of the TV tuner style things don't work anymore, because of the transition from analog to digital over the air signals. Generally speaking any portable TV from before 2010 won't work.
I was at a local thrift store yesterday and found something similar, it was a portable television, flashlight, compass combo sort of thing (I don't think it had radio). It was $8 but I didn't pick it up because it had no video input.
That's crazy, half the trees in my yard got ripped out by that very tornado and we were without power too. Funny seeing someone from so close by on this random video.
Whoa I got thrown off at the beginning here, didn't realize you were a fellow Florida man. I actually found a boxed copy of Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis and Zelda Minish Cap both at the Goodwill right near the Paddock Mall in Ocala when I was a kid, both for $3 each. Really wish game prices weren't so over the top nowadays though.
Seeing that haul out of 104 goodwills worth of stuff is so sad to see. 10 years ago those stores would have been chock full of older games with actual value. The smart phone era mixed with pure greed has truly destroyed goodwill and any reason anyone ever had to go to goodwill.
Watched this on 2x before I passed out last night. Brought back memories of watching "Goodwill Hunters" with the "Fluffy Gamer" years ago, except other than Smash Bros you couldn't find almost anything of quality (not into call of duty).
I found a copy of Shining Force 2 at a Goodwill for $30 which sort of made me mad at first until I looked it up on eBay and realized that wasn't such a bad deal (for cartridge only)
Retro Gamer in Jacksonville here - I don't even bother going to Goodwills anymore. There's a handful of mom'n'pop or smaller chain places here I pop by now and then and have had some decent finds at (including a couple of decent CRT TVs just this year) but I don't bother with Goodwills.
2002-2003 was really the peak year of sports games huh. Like the exact middle ground between when sports games were technically-impressive cash cows but were still made to be *fun*
I think most people actually look at 2004 as the best one. 2003 is very good though! NASCAR games were actually so, so good in the era before EA got the exclusive license. Competition between three different dev teams just made them all push so hard to put out quality games.
Back in the day seeing stacks of gamecubes for mere pennies still haunts me to this day. Id also say you definitely missed out on not picking up some of those boxed pc games. That wii mini would have been cool to pickup. people have modded sd card slots and a wifi adapter into them. really cool stuff and its a really nice design for the console.
I actually have an Inversion Table. It did wonders for my back for first 2 weeks or so, then I found it's effectiveness wore off over time, but still use it occasionally if I feel jammed up. Might be worth trying if you can get a 3 minute hang in before they kick you out of Goodwill.
This video was awesome! Incredible resource for knowing which Goodwill stores are worth making a trip for! It's also crazy(in a small world kinda way) how some of the games you saw I had also seen and just didn't feel like picking up. 😁 Congrats on all your finds!
Before Covid hit, I managed to get a whole bunch of OG XBOX games made by SEGA for dirt cheap. It was cool too because that was around the first time I got an OG XBOX. Only one game was scratched on the disc and it was Shadow The Hedgehog. It's playable but the cutscenes are all messed up including the opening that plays when you turn on the game. The rest were all in great shape! I got JSRF/SEGA GT 2002, House of The Dead 3, Toejam and Earl 3, Sonic Mega Collection Plus, Shenmue 2 and it even came with the bonus DVD movie of Shenmue 1, and a few other titles like Cel Damage, Mega Man Anniversary Collection, and Namco Museum. EDIT: It was a Goodwill in Ohio so it was cheaper stuff.
I live in Florida and i went to a few goodwills but I never knew about the computer and games store, this video is very useful to know where to go. keep doing what you're doing, it was a great watch!!
@@DS-us8sci'm french and the best way i would write the pronunciation in english is ma-cash-bruh or something LOL just look up how to pronounce macabre the e in french isn't an ay sound
42:14 is my hometown Goodwill! Very cool to see you hit this one up... yet equally frustrating that you had about as much luck as I usually do. Though it looks like you didn't notice rack they have near the front registers that usually have the games separated there. Granted, that was a pretty recent change and I'm assuming you recorded this before it happened.
yo man i just wanted to say i just watched this whole video front to back after having never heard of you before and it was just awesome. entirely deserving of the 199k views it has as of the time of me posting it and it's bound to hit a million+ imo. keep up the good work and i cant wait to see what else ya make. this was just a ton of fun to watch
In my area, the Goodwill, Salvation Army, and Community Aid stores ALL got rid of all their electronics about 8 years ago. You cannot buy them there. Kitchen stuff (toasters and electric burners), yeah. But you won't find monitors, keyboards, surge protectors, etc.
Every single one of these stores has 10 times the stuff the Goodwills in my area have. The "electronics" section here consists of a few dozen sad looking lamps and alarm clocks. Edit: Actually they look alot like the one in Stewart 36:20
I've only subscribed to 4 youtubers after a decade plus of being on here and you are number 4 because of how high effort this was. I can't believe you actually did this!
I always like watching these videos and seeing people nerd out about other stuff they find interesting while shopping because it gives you a glimpse into their life. Like now I know that not only do you enjoy playing video games and making RU-vid videos, but you also play basketball enough to have a favorite brand.
I am homeless and I can't still get in.. it is always close or they have an excuse for me to not go in... They have salvation army for homeless shelter but they always say " it is for elderly and veterans" but they say anyone can go in by lying, they don't even give.me.a.chance to explain myself on why I want to go in
I use to go to the Spring Hill Goodwill and they put their "good" games behind the glass (typically not very good) and for the first two in Orlando that you shown, the media section is just a small bookshelf by the front. The second one their media section use to be huge but over the last few months it's been just like how you see it, not sure what happen.
this video was so fun to watch actually I still have almost all of my games from when I was a kid so physical disks always have a spot in my heart. some of these are really great finds! thanks for the fun watch!
Speaking of Goodwills in Florida, last year I ordered a couple of camcorders from the 90s for 12 dollars each off of the Ebay store for South Florida and they actually work.
The best game I ever found while shopping at a Goodwill was Spyro 3 back in 2014 for $5... Didn't realize how much of a rarity that apparently was. lol
Great video, I'm glad you had a good time. Some good picks there. I hope you get a viral video out of this, had a good time watching. Stay safe and looking forward to more.
Thanks for letting us know about the goodwill areas taking games! I would have never guessed, but that's why you can't find any in my area. Thanks, and this video was a great watch!
Hilarious video, you're just like me hah head to as many goodwill as possible and check for games and electronics. Most of the time it's a bust because stupid goodwill sends everything to their website.
You mentioned sound bars, and may i recommend theoft shopping for individual speakers and a receiver. Maybe that was just a me thing, but i got into the whole sound upgrading gig about a year ago and had a lot of fun just throft shopping to see what they got. I ended up getting a STEAL with a whole set up worth roughtly $500 for all my equipment used online, but i got it all for around $110. Unfortunately none of the goods i found were at Goodwills, but instead an actual good thrift store in my area. Either way, long story short, i would heavily recommend looking into a basic surround sound system for your living room / game room, it sounds so much better than a sound bar.
That's commitment. I went to four to five Goodwills in 2 days (I was traveling for work so had some downtime) and that was enough for me. This is awesome!
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is kind of a hidden gem. Went way under the radar, despite an all-star development team. Ken Rolston (TES 3 & 4), Grank Kirkhope (did the music for a bunch of Rare's best games), and Todd McFarlane (Spawn).
Love these videos dude! We have so many weird random resale shops here in Chicago, this spot by me tends to turn up some interesting things. I'll keep you in mind in my travels, I'm only interested in Snatcher so I'll hook you up with treasures if I find something.
Most PC games pre-2005 should work if the code is still inside the box :) My luckiest find in a thrift store was a sealed copy of Modern Warfare 2 where I just needed to plop the code into my Steam. Easily saved 20 bucks that day.
I live in Charlotte and we have a Goodwill owned store called the Grid with nothing but electronics and video games. Ironically, they have the best selection in the whole city. They should open more stores around the US
@@ROCKSTARMANIC12 Probably Dokapon Kingdom for the Wii I think, or maybe Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. I feel like there was something from an earlier generation that I’m forgetting though.
I do miss the old days of Goodwill, when I was really young my mother was the manager of one and I remember every time I went in there the media racks were full of retro games, I even remember her bringing home one of those Coleco Pac-Man mini arcades one day! You definitely won't find stuff like that anymore.
My Grandma lives in Florida and I visit her every summer. There is a good chance I've been to some of the Goodwills you visited near the West Coast. I remember I bought a full on Original Xbox in box from one of them. I also got the Xbox 360 HD DVD expansion thing lol. That was many years ago now though so maybe you're right that goodwilling is dead.
I used to work at a Goodwill back in 2014-2015 and my store threw away several good copies of older games. I’ll never forget them throwing away MGS1 with both disks.
Rod Sterling is probably the most famous person from Binghamton NY, which is also where I'm from, so we watched a bunch of Twilight Zone growing up in school. Idk I always kind of grouped that show in with lame school stuff tbh
