Bitter sweet because I'm pretty sure this means we lost real one. RIP
It's church thrift store run by elderly people and they get overwhelmed and will just toss anything on a whim. They practically give away the stuff they do sell.
The others that were piled up in the bottom of the box. Some of the discs had fallen out of the cases and sleeves but they all seemed fine except for one: Half-Life GOTY disc got a few tiny fatal cracks. A lot of software and bargain bin games have been excluded.
There were two discs that go with two joysticks I have. I have a sidewinder somewhere but couldn't bother looking for it for the pic.
Thrift stores won't even set them out anymore. They go straight to ebay.
Look for the ones that are run by a church or charity. They're less greedy and profit motivated. They get tons of retro professional music equipment from churches updating their media stuff.
This annoys me so much. Our culture became a weird mix of nostalgia-hoardy and desperation to make a quick buck because most jobs are next to worthless anymore.
Everything became a speculative scarcity-obsessed stock market good, and it sucks.
That's one thing I enjoy about digital stuff: All you need is one good hard copy in existence, and somebody can replicate and archive it for generations to come. "Piracy" really is preservation in this case.
I have seen 1980's Technics turntables in church thrift stores.
It's always been my dream to stumble on a beaten up 1200 turntable or a fixer upper Moog at a charity shop, but I think miracles like that stopped happening once all the normy resellers could just scan all the electronics with their phone and snatch up the good stuff.
Don't lose faith. I saw the turntable last December as it was being paid for. I was there minutes too late, but apparently it had been on the sales floor for weeks.