The following is our original first Chicago-Style Drunksaling post to the old Drunkgamers.com forums. If you're unfamiliar with Drunkgamers.com, occasionally they would go out drinking and go garage saling for video games and then post about it. Unitdaisy and I were inspired to do the same and posted the bulk of our first year finds in their forums, and in fact if it weren't for drunksaling you probably wouldn't be reading this site right now.

We'll be posting one from the archives every other week or until the weather turns spring-like in Chicago which means that yes, we have quite a few of them. Even a few that I lost and recently recovered on an old hard drive. Some of the early posts were pretty technically inept, especially this first one as we had only a disposable camera for pictures, and we didn't quite have our format down but here it is, in all of it's glory for reasons of posterity and whatnot. The below article is from May 18th, 2002.

Ah, our native environment.

peccaui: For our initial Drunksaling activity, we started out small. And we weren't drunk. And we only made it to one garage sale, but it was a whopper. Actually, it was about 100 garage sales crammed into a high school that doesn't resemble anything I've ever seen on tv.. Unfortunately, we didn't take many pictures as all we had this time around was a cheap disposable camera. The picture to your left makes the place look much smaller than it really was - though this was just the 'gear room': full of computers, old calculators, broken cell phones, even a webtv. This is where we scored most of our finds.

unitdaisy: once we found it, after moping about the toy area looking plastic bowling pins, until we realized there must be another room...

Push my buttons!

peccaui: Those that read Sin City may recognize this guy - it's Frank stuck in an electric chair. You push a button and he convulses. Fry Frank Fry! Seriously though - we found this in the kiddie's section. Right near this:

Stop violating me!

peccaui: We passed up Tails - too many brown baby stains. After we threw him back in, we noticed this little thing:

My Own Corporate Anthropomorphized Stuffie™

peccaui: I may lust after Tivo, but this just creeps me out. What poor child was forced to endure this torment?

unitdaisy: even worse that the gateway cows...

peccaui: We did manage to find some video game related stuff - like this Light Boy!

Apparently, unitdaisy doesn't know how to work a flash.

unitdaisy: it's a snappy camera you can't turn the flash off unless you wait for ten minutes, anyway at least i remembered to bring a camera...

peccaui: *cough* Anyway, despite the fact that I owned a GameBoy, I felt it was neccessary to damage my eyesight as quickly as possible, so I never aquired one of these fine inventions. And since I pawned my GameBoy for some New Mutant "collector cards" years ago, I will never need one of these ever again.

What is wrong with me?

peccaui: This is a hella nerd find. I used to play this back in the days when I ate apple sauce and spit up often, shortly after I graduated high school. Otherwise, I'm not sure why I bought this.

unitdaisy: can't help you out there...

Wow - a copy of Beast Wars!

peccaui: The find of the week! A NES Game Genie! Well, it was either this, Rifts or a bunch of horrible Genesis sport games that we spit on and buried in a corner.

peccaui: So, what I learned is that community garage sales have quite a few goodies. I also learned that schools aren't as posh as Dawson's Creek or Cruel Intentions would lend me to believe.