Drunksaling
Continuing the garage saling adventures that Gus and Geoff started from the now-defunct drunkgamers.com, we sort through the detritus of the nation's garages to find gaming antiquities.
Unitdaisy and I took a long deserved weekend off from drunksaling last weekend. To compensate for our laziness we're opening the curtain on our process and my surliness. Enjoy, and we'll have a new drunksaling for your gawking pleasure later this week.
Since Chicago likes to mimic Antartica for six months out of the year, we've decided to unveil some old Chi-Style Drunksaling articles that we used to post on the old Drunkgamer.com forums. It's like taking a trip back in time (minus the dinosaurs and plague)!
This week we deviate a bit from our regular Chi-Style DG Forum post by bringing you a Chi-Style Drunksaling entry that was actually featured on the Drunkgamers site! Yes, we were so proud of ourselves in those days. Too bad pride is fleeting.
Hey, look - Week #2 from .. well, over a year and a half ago! This drunksaling took place on June 2nd, 2002 and started to establish some of the practices we follow religiously today. Like not finding any games. Damn. Sorry about that.
Check it out - the third in our Chi-Style DG Forum posts! This one is quite special and close to our hearts because it was the first trip out where we actually found game-related objects worth waking up at 7am for!
The fourth in our Drunkgamer's Forum Drunksaling posts - I remember this week pretty well, as it was hellish and focused on what sucked the most: walking through the abysmal heat while hungover. Damn swamp summers.
So, we're up to the fifth in our Drunkgamers Forum Drunksaling weeks and this week ...wasn't amazing. All we found was porn and a Super Scope. Oh well, maybe next week will be better.
In this blast from the past, we find out why I'm usually behind the lens in these reports. Oh, and we found some games and voice-emulating goodness.
August in Chicago is a very, very fine time to go garage saling. Especially if you hook up with strangers over the Internet for free retro gaming stuff!
This Drunksaling week is actually a two-in-one. And it's NSFW (Not Safe For Work). With that kind of lead-in, you must be thinking we found some magnificent stuff! I'll give you a hint - we did not find an original copy of Softporn or Leisure Suit Larry I.
And we're starting to near the final lap of the Drunkgamer Forum Drunksaling articles, as well as the end of our 2002 Drunksaling articles. And this week, in retrospect, was a damn sight for sore eyes.
It's been a long time since unitdaisy and I have hit the streets, searching for a few gaming deals and that comfortable feeling named nostalgia. Join us in our journey for retro gaming and the satisfaction of finding a fantastic piece of gaming antiquity. A cheap one, preferably.
Ah, the first drunksaling of the season always renews the spirits. At least until you actually make it to the first sale.
Two Chi-town Drunksaling reports in the span of a month! Blame the weather. In fact, I'm going to blame the weather for the results of this drunksaling. And this impending weekend too!
Thanks to this weekend and some social niceties, we're the envy of all our friends. Peek inside for a look at one of the best electronic deals we've ever found, and a none-too-common console!
Whenever there are a scant number of garage sales we spend the day investigating local thrift stores for some quality gaming goods. This outing proved to extraordinarily fruitful, and included something to play in a Sega console, a Sega console or two, and something to tote Sega hardware with. We like Sega.
Kicking off thenewsite retrospective week, unitdaisy and I learn from our previous mistakes by taking a look back at some of the highlights, and depressing lows we encountered garagesaling last year.
Looking for new Chicago-Style Drunksaling articles? Sucker. But we have one you haven't seen before.
The second lost chi-town drunksaling. Vegans, Top Gun and singing cats - just in time for the holidays! Oh, and maybe some games - though I'm not promising anything.
Oh, you are going to be so jealous when you read this you are going to schvitz.
Thanks to the constant severe weather warnings that have flooded Chicago over the past few weeks (in fact, there is one in effect right now!), our second week of Chi-Style Drunksaling was put on hold. But have no fear as Namons made the rounds way up north for us!
I'm not sure how he does it, but Namons manages to find all sorts of gaming treasure each week he steps outside. I'm starting to think his weeks are rigged!
A wise man once said, "He who hesitates, is lost..." It is with this mentality that I approach every week of Great White Northern Drunksaling. This concludes our foreshadowing. Read on!
In the hallowed tradition of the now defunct (or is that de-Fink-ed?) drunkgamers.com and Chi-style Drunksaling here at The New Gamer I am proud to present... Ben: "Loo coo coo coo coo coo coo!!!" Craig: "Loo coo coo coo coo...
Contributor Namons brought us a little present this week! Turns out, he was inspired enough our Chi-Style Drunksaling to go ahead and document his own! And he found better stuff than we normally do. I think I know whose identity I'll be stealing soon.
This week Namons brings us a dual-fisted treat - two weeks of Great White North Drunksaling wrapped up in one article of gaming goodness!
On some days Chicago is a beautiful city full of sun, love and life. Unfortunately none of those days ever occur when we venture outside, as the skies prefer to shower us with hail and lightning bolts. Stubbornly, we managed to find a few goodies that weren't thoroughly soaked with grimy midwest water.
You thought we quit, didn't you? There were a surprising amount of garage sales this past weekend that kept us hopping around the city (and plenty of pictures - those on dial-up might want to be careful). Did we strike gold for what may be the last big sale before 2004? Check and see..
We've been waiting for a sale of this magnitude for close to a year now. And it finally arrived: old-school gaming nirvana.
This week isn't as grandious as last, but a few items found helped to fill the void in our souls. In this edition, I also reenact my Friday night out for your enjoyment.
This week unitdaisy ran away from home. The last I saw of her, she was chasing an escaped zoo monkey down the street. The following morning she phoned me from Phoenix, AZ in a confused and bewildered state. Unfortunately, this meant finding a fill in for Chi-Style Drunksaling.
A super guest star edition!
After short hiatus, we're back with a whimper. Feel free to mock unitdaisy and me as we get sunburned, shafted by sellers and return with little to show for it. Enjoy!
We're quickly coming up to the half-way mark of this year's garagesaling adventures. Let's hope the rest of the year isn't as flat as this week.
We finally remembered that we write for a website and aren't pro-bowlers. I gotta say though that the National Bowling Association was none too pleased by unitdaisy's request to install bumpers in her lane. Anywhoo, enjoy this week's drunksaling episode.
Summer days are for the lazy and this week we encapsulate the spirit of the season by skipping half our marked sales. Go us!
