The following is our fifth 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.

This week was rather sad, not only in findings but that we ended up purchasing a cheap tossaway camera for the shots - so visually it's a dang abomination. So it goes. The below article is from June 29th, 2002.

Yet another week of drunksaling, and the sales go from bad to worse. We started off without our trusty digital camera - so we were forced to rely on a Walgreens loyalty camera. When will we learn ...

The touchy-feely garage sale.

peccaui: Why didn't we just run away right then and there? Ah well, it wasn't a total bust. They has Tetris.

Wow. There aren't millions of copies of this out there.

[ed. note]: Actually, no there aren't millions of copies of Tetris DX out there - after a bit of reading up a few months after first posting this Drunksaling article, we quickly realized that Tetris DX is widely considered one of the best versions of Tetris and actually is somewhat hard to find. Who whoulda thought!

peccaui: I've played a lot of horrible Star Wars games, but I'm proud to say that I've never played 'Pit Droids'.

All of the action of Racer with the charm of the Ewoks!

peccaui: Next up - an actual garage sale, located in an actual garage! Yet again, we are assaulted by aibo-knockoffs.

peccaui: According to the sticker, they were suckers that bought this for $350. And they wanted $150 for it. I'll buy that for a dollar! Actually, I won't.

peccaui: On our way to the next location on our list, we literally stumbled over this sale. And by that, I mean I ran into the large wooden piece of crap precariously positioned in the middle of the sidewalk.

Wow, a Death Star discoball AND craptacular PSX games! What fresh hell have we stumbled upon?!

peccaui: After basting in the sun for about a half an hour, we finally got to our next sale - one of the most disturbing ones we've ever been to. You see, these people were too lazy to actually drag their junk out to their garage, so they just had us walk into their house and peruse.

I am Jack's middle-class apartment.

peccaui: As you can guess, there was no NeoGeo in that fridge.

peccaui: Again, we stumbled upon another alleyway garage sale. By this point in time, I had sweat off half of my body weight and exhausted all of the whiskey stashed away in my flask. My interest was waning until I found their stash of comic books.

What a 45-year-old, or her burn-accident mother, was doing with this is beyond me.

peccaui: Unfortunately, all they had was bad Eros comics, patronizing hippie Concrete crap, and photo mags of Xena. To cap things off, I had to stand by while the 120-year old women reminised with unitdaisy about sewing and fashion.

peccaui: Lastly, we visited the Brown Elephant - a staple of our drunksaling experience since week 3. Unfortunately, they were dry as well, offering up only a SNES 'bazooka' peripheral and this Star Wars 'Video Game' (meaning that it was game that included a video tape).

unitdaisy showcases exactly why this accessory did not sell.

From the days of VCRs and no-interactivity.

unitdaisy runs from yet another disgraceful drunksaling.

Find of the Week: Seeing as Tetris was the only semi-respectful game that we found, it get the coveted title 'Find of the Week'. Please note: We do not endorse multiple purchases of sub-par, rehashed video games ([ed] Of which Tetris DX is neither!)

Lesson of the Week: Always have an excuse and/or distraction ready to escape from lonely garage sale organizers that may want to talk to you for hours. We've come up with 'Your house is on fire!', 'I just fed your mutt alka-seltzer!' and 'I have herpes' for future drunksaling events.