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Chi-Style Drunksaling - The Drunkgamers Forum Weeks: Week #10 - The DG Published Week

April 22, 2004 By Glenn Turner

The following is our tenth Chicago-Style Drunksaling post to...

Actually, this was our first, and last, drunksaling article ever posted to the actual Drunkgamers.com website. For reasons completely unknown to us, Gus requested one for a guest week and I'm sure he has regretted that decision ever since! Including this website, that moment was the highlight of our web publishing career.

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.

These events took place on September 14th, 2002.

This week reminded us why we bother waking our ass up in the morning to deal with some of the lowest forms of humanity. It also reminded me to try to talk unitdaisy out of buying anything, otherwise my back gets to feel the burden of 500 pounds of sci-fi books.

peccaui: Our first stop was a multi-family garage sale. Predictably, their game availability was extremely limited.

peccaui: That's right - Paul Reubens is a $1.50 whore.

unitdaisy: one of peccaui's friends worked for the company that put this out, and so he's dirty by association

peccaui: All I ever needed to know about beer I learned in Kindergarten.

unitdaisy: all i need to know about beer is whether cider is available...

peccaui: Next up - a thrift store, and boy they were just as loaded as I was!

peccaui: That's right - Simon's Quest and Dragon Warrior I in their original packing, all manuals and ads PLUS cheatsheets and phone numbers left by the original owner! Now, if only the shop hadn't scrawled $3.00 on each box.

unitdaisy: from the handwriting on the cheatsheets, the first owner was probably 8, let's see if peccaui can figure out the games without an 8 year old's help

peccaui: Just what I need: another stick in my lap. This one gets top billing from now on.

peccaui: So a hedgehog, a dolphin and a ninja walk into a bar ...

unitdaisy: we can use this photo to blackmail the thrift store!

peccaui: Another orphaned console.

unitdaisy: what do people do with their cables? unless maybe they are performing some strange video game bondage acts

peccaui: OH!

peccaui: oh ...

unitdaisy: dashed hopes - 90 cents...

peccuai: After looting the thrift store, we meandered over to a single & lonely white man's garage sale:

peccaui: Needless to say, unitdaisy bought all of them. And then she forced me to be her pack mule.

unitdaisy: you carried one of my books while i schlepped the rest, if your physical abilities are so out of shape, i am going to return you to the boyfriend factory for a model that works properly

peccaui: P.S. That ain't root beer.

peccaui: The next thrift store we hit up eerily reminded us of Fatal Frame. Except I think there were more games in Fatal Frame.

peccaui: And they happened to have every kind of crutch for each one of my many failings!

unitdaisy: maybe you could have used one of those to help carry my books...

peccaui: One multi-family garage sale later ...

peccaui: The lesson here is: never let unitdaisy drive.

unitdaisy: my driving record is clean!

peccaui: Why play the game when you can watch the video?

peccaui: Hey! It's the Fonz! It's about time we jumped the shark ...

peccaui: Some middle-aged lady was hording these cards. Someone should have told her that Poke-balls aren't Ben-wa balls.

unitdaisy: and peccaui is one to talk with a 12" stuffed pickachu in his apartment

peccaui: Double-fisted action!

peccaui: And here, we see unitdaisy completing her Star Trek: Next Generation comic collection. Is there nothing she won't do for Data?

unitdaisy: peccaui just does this to rile me, for the record, no matter how unpopular it makes me, i hate next gen, original series is the only was to go! data: bah, spock: now there was a sexy man...

peccaui: As to not break tradition and be eternally cursed by the witches of consoles past, we went to the Brown Elephant for a glimpse of gaming goodness. Unfortunately, they were not kind to us.

Find of the week:
peccaui: It has to be Dragon Quest and Castlevania II. Just opening those boxes brought back a flood of memories. Now, if only I could actually play the games. Which brings me to the lesson of the week....

Lesson of the week:
peccaui: Never 'lend' your boy/girlfriend any gaming console. You will never ever get it back. Ever. It doesn't matter whether you're still together or have broken up - you'll have to pry it from their cold dead hands.

unitdaisy: if it's in my apartment, it's mine, big whiney babies will have to deal with it...

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