Yesterday morning, we saw an ad on Kijiji (which is similar to Craigslist) where the seller was giving away an Atari 2600 4-switch with 50 games. Eric called, left a message. Since the guy wasn't calling back, I decided to call on my cell and talked to him. Turned out that someone else (a sumguy?) was even faster than us and had called just before Eric did. A few hours later, the seller called me back, saying that the guy never came over and that he really wanted to get rid of his Atari.
Eric came back home a couple of hours later. There was indeed an Atari VCS 4 switch with several joysticks and paddles. Most of the games (all loose) were of the common type (Defender, E.T., Frogger, Plaque Attaque, etc.), usually with worn labels, but there was one gem in the lot, surprisingly clean and with an intact, unscratched label:
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Looks like Eric's stroke of thrifting luck (he recently found in the wild a CIB Chrono Trigger on SNES for $20, as well as CIB Final Fantasy III SNES for $10) is continuing...
Eric came back home a couple of hours later. There was indeed an Atari VCS 4 switch with several joysticks and paddles. Most of the games (all loose) were of the common type (Defender, E.T., Frogger, Plaque Attaque, etc.), usually with worn labels, but there was one gem in the lot, surprisingly clean and with an intact, unscratched label:
Looks like Eric's stroke of thrifting luck (he recently found in the wild a CIB Chrono Trigger on SNES for $20, as well as CIB Final Fantasy III SNES for $10) is continuing...