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Drunksaling Solo

October 18, 2006 By Glenn Turner

It's been a while since I've roamed the sales circuit, looking for video games, alone. Due to unitdaisy's hectic schedule, she was out of town for this glorious Saturday excursion (September 30th, 2006) and couldn't attend, which meant several things: I'd have no partner to keep me company while I snap photos of reluctant seller's possessions, and I'd also have no car to drive to these sales.

Like I said, it's been a while. Consequently, this trip really isn't worth logging as a full article

Before we had a car in 'the big city', we used to methodically plan out our saling routes based on frequently-running bus lines, as well as try and locate sales grouped in clusters, so we weren't running halfway across Chicago for one scrappy sale. This weekend there were more than enough sales in the local area so I didn't have to worry about buses, but it did entail a lot of walking. But enough of the exposition, let's dive on into the sales:

Here's a good lesson for anyone bold enough to try their hand at a garage sale: have the items there, in the garage (or front yard, or whatever). Photos make poor substitutes, especially when your dog keeps muscling into each and every picture, obscuring whatever junk you're peddling.

Speaking of buses, this was a mini-find for me: a sixty-year old corporate magazine for Chicago Surface Lines, the predecessor to Chicago's current transit system, the Chicago Transit Authority. Undoubtedly worthless but, unfortunately for you, I find these accidental pieces of history fascinating.

I bet this box contains a thousand broken dreams.

I'm not sure what surprises me more: the fact that they took the time to line up all of these toys, or that the positioning has remained mostly intact from meddling hands.

More blurry toys. Hooray for low-light conditions!

Hulk makes a mean board game, and you know what that means...

After exiting the prior toy sale, I got a little lost. Well, not exactly lost, since I was obviously at Ravenswood & Wilson (which, incidentally, is right by the infamous Zephyr Ice Cream Cafe that's about to be shuttered), but ...well, okay I was lost.

Ahha, found it! And this block sale had a convenient, but ultimately unnecessary, map! While the thought is appreciated, if 2/3rds of your sales are all on the same street and block, you probably don't need to draw a picture for your patrons.

Too bad the trek was in vain. There was very, very little available at the 'sales', some of which were little more than bed frames with pink posterboard prices.

Someone left out an 'f'.

I did briefly flirt with the idea of turning our living room into a dive bar but, fearing retribution from unitdaisy, I swiftly reconsidered.

It's hard to say whether this is a garage sale or whether a bachelor's den was magically transported to someone's front lawn.

Empty-handed, I started the long walk-of-shame back towards my apartment. Along the way I stopped at one of the local Village thrift stores and found the following:

The CD is Sega Smash Pack 2 for the Dreamcast. While I have most of the desirable games from this collection in their original cart-based forms, my faithful Dreamcast is always demanding my attention and affection.

The two Super Nintendo games are Earthworm Jim 2 and Mega Man X, respectively. And that game that looks like a slide? Why that's none other than Sega's Daytona USA for the obscure Tiger R-Zone.

Fun fact: we found an R-Zone over four years ago at yet another Village thrift store. Don't believe me? Here's the original picture of unitdaisy showing off its feature-set:

At least I came home with something and something is always better than nothing. Unless that something is another copy of Post Mortem, in which case I'd prefer you not come home at all.

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12 comments for ‘Drunksaling Solo’

#1 Toad64 Oct 19, 2006 10:35am

Darn it, I've been looking for the Earthworm Jim SNES games! Lucky!

#2 Soup Oct 20, 2006 02:15am

oh megaman x. such memories

#3 WholeFnShow Oct 21, 2006 11:59pm

Oh man, that collection of McDonald's happy meal toys....that is Brilliant! I remember so many of those, but especially that one to the right which resembles an ice cream cone BUT REALLY TRANSFORMS INTO AN AWESOME FIGHTING ROBOT! No foolin. That's a great find. And that milshake dealie transforms too.

And that giant transport looking truck thing in the very front is a Transformer! I had that same one but with a different color scheme. So many faux-wrestling matches with my other transforming dealies. So many good times.

#4 Soup Oct 22, 2006 08:32am

that's an onslaught redeco, probably for the extended Armada line. It seemed negligable, since they didn't seem to have any fo the other combaticons, nor the extra pieces to form Bruticus

#5 WholeFnShow Oct 22, 2006 02:40pm

Somehow I doubt that is from Armada. I had that puppy back when I was a wee lad and, outside of the color scheme, it's the exact same figure. As far as I've seen, the modern Transformer action figures are not nearly as simplistic as the older ones. But yeah, I'm not sure.

#6 Soup Oct 23, 2006 01:44am

well, technically you're right. The mold is from the G1 combaticons (if you remember the episode, They were formed by starscream in an attempt to once again wrest power from megatron). They first brought back the mold in the Car Robots/Robots in Disguise line. If you'll recall, it was the first post-beast machines line to feature contemporary vehicular alt-modes again.

However, since they had the mold, they kept using it again in Armada, simply switching out the color paint/plastic used. It's not any character featured in the cartoon, making it part of the extended line.

EDIT: okay, after doing some research, I found that it's actually a G2 onslaught reissue. But you can hardly blame me; they've released the same mold like, 8 different in the U.S. (15 worldwide)

#7 WholeFnShow Oct 23, 2006 02:24am

I totally have the G1 Silver Bruticus one. Thank you Souperton for adding depth to a chapter of my childhood. :o

#8 R. LeFeuvre Oct 23, 2006 08:07am

Bruticus is so awesome... easily my favorite gestault.

#9 Nez Oct 23, 2006 10:03am

I still have my R-Zone with some Jurassic Park game.
haha

#10 Benedict Oct 23, 2006 02:54pm

R. LeFeuvre wrote:
Bruticus is so awesome... easily my favorite gestault.

Do you mean Gestalt?

#11 R. LeFeuvre Oct 24, 2006 01:42am

Yes... forgive my misspelling which occurred at 4 in the morning after 15 hours of work.

#12 Benedict Oct 24, 2006 07:31am

Actually, I was just curious.