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Chi-Style Drunksaling - The Drunkgamers Forum Weeks: Week #9

April 7, 2004 By Glenn Turner

The following is our ninth 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's excursion was too labour intesive, with not much of a payoff. I'll leave the pictures to explain because apparently, unitdaisy didn't contribute that week. Oh, and these events took place on August 31st, 2002.

peccaui: We don't have many pictures from the first few garage sales, mostly because they had either only fetish wear or beanie babies. After the first three, we went to hit up the first thrift store on our list, and they were closed. So we made a beeline for the first pub we saw, and as it happened they were flooded with rabid football (soccer) fans.

peccaui: I thought the only people up at this time on a Saturday were losers like myself. Oh wait. I'm still right.

peccaui: Boy, it was really worth waiting for them to open.

peccaui: A free Addams Family flashlight and Quisp? How could I go wrong?!

peccaui: Guys - never think that a woman can out-nerd you. This is unitdaisy's pile of books. Suddenly, my video gaming tendencies pale to her Star Trek fiction fetish.

peccaui: Still in their shrinkwrap! At least the previous owner had some sense ...

peccaui: We stumbled upon Orion's porn collection - I didn't know he read The Advocate. (Editor's note: If don't know who Orion is, don't ask.)

peccaui: Next sale up only had this to offer. Seriously - it was around 1pm and this was all she had out to sell. The Powerbook (running OS 7) was mighty tempting, but a bit much at $15.00.

peccaui: According to unitdaisy's map, all we needed to do to reach the next sale was to trek past this roadblock, trample someone's flowers and break a few fences.

peccaui: Shortly after that, we made a trip to our local GameStop so I could pick up a copy of Mario 64. We spotted a Salvation Army on the skyline and walked to it. This was the only 'game' to meet us when we arrived.

peccaui: Oh yeah, this looks like a bastion of gaming.

peccaui: Finally! Now I too can be a Final Fantasy composer!

peccaui: Sega has invested in some quality hardware in the past. This is not one of their better judgement calls.

peccaui: How do I make a Beowulf cluster out of this?

peccaui: According to this picture, Chicago's Wicker Park area has the highest pigeon-to-human ration in the U.S.

peccaui: The next sale was strewn across an entire block - it seemed as if they specialized in ignorance and kitch.

peccaui: [insert cheap guS joke here] (Editor's note: Yes, this Gus.)

peccaui: OMFG STFU! 1 0WnZ3R j00 @T TH13 G@M3! Look mom! I'm a cyber-surfer!

peccaui: Is the owner of this car fucking delusional? Yeah, Herbie the Love Bug was cool when you were too young to know that you were a corporate shill, but come on. (P.S. Herbie was never cool.)

peccaui: A standard hipster garage sale. Hey, I think I see unitdaisy's sunglasses.

peccaui: I switched unitdaisy's map of Chicago with the GTA1 map. Let's see if she notices.

peccaui: Any garage sale that has not only the kitchen sink but the bathroom toilet and bathtub is no place I want to be.

peccaui: Okay - last stop before we called it a day. We hit up one of Wicker Park's many thrift stores and found a bonanza.

peccaui: Yeah, I could pay $15.00 for a Game and Watch Blackjack (it's Multi-screen!) - or I could just pay the salesman to dance like a monkey.

peccaui: A bounty of SNES sport games. If I liked sports, I probably would have fainted. As it stands, I fainted anyways.

peccaui: You'd have to pay me to take this. As large as the GameGear and half as powerful.

peccaui: In case you missed the florescent blue price tag sticker, they wrote $15 on the fucking console. Thanks a lot shitwads.

peccaui: You can't see it through the plastic, but this Genesis contained a copy of Revenge of Shinobi. We mistook the price tag for $5 instead of $15.00. Nuts to you!

Find of the Week: The GameGear. Until now, I have only known one other person to have owned this fine portable system. Now I have joined the ranks of men that paid too much for it.

Lesson of the Week: Covert photography is the name of the game - when taking pictures within a shady thrift store, try to make sure to avoid taking incriminating photos. Otherwise, have something to wipe the blood off your lens. We learned this the hard way.

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