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i’ve had a lot of good luck at Goodwill stores. in the past few months i’ve found boxed copies of PQ1 VGA, Castle of Dr. Brain, and the Sierra Award Winners pack. i’ve also gotten some of the KQs, PQ4, Shivers, and others on CD. only downside is that the CDs often don’t come with documentation…
Electronics Boutique is also a good place to look. they have used games and since adventures aren’t “popular” anymore, they can be really cheap. I got the PQ Collection (including SWAT) at EB for $2.99 recently!
looking at these places is hit or miss… but it’s fun to look and even more fun when i stumble across something!
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(re: Old Games @ Goodwill / EB)
As an employee of EB Games I can say that most people just bring their stuff to make so quick cash. They really don’t care what they get for them. My company really rips people off for PC games and most other games in general. I got the whole Money Island collection (Curse of, Escape from, and Madness) for about $11 and sold them for $30 on eBay. The games we don’t take, people just leave there to be thrown away, so I take them to places like CD/Game exchange that has great finds. I found the Diablo Hellfire expansion just this week which is from my understanding hard to get.
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Sad, sad news:
I went game shopping a couple of days ago, and EB GAMES has officially removed “over 10,000 SKUs” from their computer, which includes ALL of the collections, and pretty much anything PC befre 2004. So as a source for Sierra games, EB GAMES is out. 🙁
Also, GameStop… is phasing out their PC section. The store in my area is pretty much down to the titles nobody wants. So there’s strike two in the used game market.
Rhino Videogames and CyberTron don’t have anything PC anymore.
I guess computers are just turining into internet access ports and places to dump your media files now 🙁
Tom.
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Over here PCs represent the de facto standard for gaming. Consoles are cheaper in the short term, but people have come to realise that in the long term a decent PC is much better value for money than a PS2/GameCube/XBox. Not only are PC games far cheaper (here you’ll easily pay two to three times as much for a just released console game as opposed to the same game on PC), but as a rule PC games offer far more depth and a far greater variety of choices.
And sure, some people will complain about the cost of (Microsoft) productivity software, but seriously, if you don’t mind searching a bit you’ll find a free (usually released under the open source banner) version of whatever type of program you need.
In conclusion, as long as there are intelligent gamers, there will be a need for intelligent games. And those you usually don’t find on the consoles.
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When you say EB’s not going to carry games pre-2004, do you mean just new (retail) games, or preowned ones also?
Either way, that’s a pretty narrow focus! (Is it me, or does everybody have REALLY short attention spans nowadays?) The good news, I suppose, is that people who used to sell their old games to EB will now (in theory) be dumping them off at Goodwill… 🙂
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From what the sales person told me, the “Pre-2004” only applies to PC games (new OR used). Although I know GameStop has begun to phase out the original NES and GameBoy games. Reasons being obvious: It’s too easy to just burn a PC game and sell it back, and #2: People have emulators for almost all of the old consoles on their PCs now and can download almost evey game at less than a meg apice. So nobody’s interested in “booting up” the old console, having to blow on the games, etc. Just us nostalgic types! 🙂
Yeah, it’s true that people *MAY* just dump their stuff at Goodwill, but if they’re not going to get any money for it, it’s easier to dump them in the trash outside EB Games than it is to drive to a goodwill for some people… 🙁 It’s the same if anyone wants old editions of virtually any textbook, just check the trash outside college book stores on “buyback days”
Tom.
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