a chronicle of thrift store and flea market finds
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Tiger R-Zone XPG handheld console (with Star Wars: Millennium Falcon Challenge cartridge)
Yamaha PortaSound PSS-6 keyboard; Talking Big Bird (a la Teddy Ruxpin); Ultraman bubbleflapper; Rick Wakeman, Talking Heads, Todd Rundgren, Uriah Heep LPs
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Street Fighter II Turbo, Faceball 2000, Star Fox, Yoshi's Cookie (SNES); PaRappa the Rapper (PS1); 256-in-1 Pocket Arcade handheld
Casio SK-60 sampling keyboard; Tandy Cobra Super Copter tabletop arcade game
Castlevania IV (SNES); Demon Attack (Atari 2600); Game Shark (N64); Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; Jabba the Hutt Burger King premium; Jimmy Castor Bunch 45
12 He-Man action figures; 1 Thundercats action figure; SNES Mouse; ESPN National Hockey Night (Sega CD)
Teddy Ruxpin; 4 Channel Dynamite 8-track cartridge; Supernaturals VAMP-PA action figure (packaged)
Rad Racer, Wrath of the Black Manta, Double Dribble, Star Voyager, Life Force, Predator, Elevator Action (NES); Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1); Casio PT-1 keyboard
Nintendo Power Pad; Go-Bots "Coptur" action figure
GE portable AM/FM/8-track unit; Freeway (Atari 2600); another fucking Furby
Sega Genesis 32X add-on; Mattel Electronics Baseball LED handheld; Texas Instruments Speak & Read; Star Command (IBM PC); Virtua Cop (Sega Saturn)
Nintendo Virtual Boy; another NES (no.2)
Mario Quiz Cards; Atari Jaguar joypad; HULA PIG!
Sega Master System; random Atari computer cable
Berzerk board game + first post-Katrina return to New Orleans
Atari Jaguar video game console; Tiger Electronic Toys Playmaker Football handheld LED game; Super Mouse 9999-in-1 handheld game system; Captain Planet Dr. Blight action figure; Disney's The Haunted Mansion McDonald's premium
Star Control video game for Sega Genesis (complete)
Etch-A-Sketch Animator; 2 packets of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tissue paper; talking Bart Simpson watch; 1 GBA game
Realistic SCR-2500 AM/FM Stereo Cassette Receiver; Montgomery Ward Airline Stereo 8-Track Player; Commodore 64 model 1702 monitor (no.2); Wells Fargo company picnic t-shirt; Tir Na Nog, Shel Silverstein LPs; ABBA, Johnny Cash, Banded Together 8-tracks; 5 sealed, blank 90-minute cassette tapes
Casio SK-1 sampling keyboard + post-Hurricane Katrina thoughts
Mamiya ZE-2 SLR camera; Led Zeppelin, Foreigner, Black Sabbath, Cledus Haggard & The Citizen's Band, Krush Groove OST LPs
MAD Magazine and X-Men ALERT! board games
"Broken Silence" by Vinciata (framed print)
Power-Joy Nintendo Famicom clone
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Lite-Up Drawing Desk
V.I.N.CENT (from Disney's The Black Hole ) model kit; Herbie Hancock, Shotgun LPs
Magnavox Odyssey^2 video game console + 6 games; Sega Genesis (original design) + 1 game; NES Advantage joystick + 4 NES games; Growing Pains trading cards; Colecovision ADAM keyboard; Smiths, B-52's, Elvis Costello, Weather Report, Beach Boys, Electric Light Orchestra, Clash, Who, Jane Birkin + Serge Gainsbourg, Bee Gees, Queen, Polka Dot Bear LPs
Sega GameGear Portable Video Game System
Yamaha Portasound PS-3 keyboard (with case); Sega Genesis 3 console + Sonic Classics game; Hank Williams, Yes, Helen Reddy 8-tracks
Milton-Bradley's Pocket Simon; 9 NES games
Casio Casiotone CT-102 keyboard; 2 Atari 2600 joysticks
Stylophone Electronic Organ; Casio PT-100 keyboard; boxed/sealed E.T. cartridge for Atari 2600; Yes, Stan Getz & João Gilberto, Ventures, Herb Alpert, Moody Blues, Steely Dan LPs; Cyndi Lauper, Culture Club, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Thompson Twins 45s; Bee Gees, Moody Blues, Bob Dylan, MFSB, Yes 8-tracks; Pete and Christy (Marriage) 8-track home recording
5 Moody Blues LPs, 1 ABBA LP
Zapp, Bruce Springsteen, Country Stars on LP, Happy Fiddle, Elvis, Shadow, Boss Groups, Mass Production 8-tracks; 8-track-to-cassette adaptor; handheld 30x microscope
Atari 2600 + 40 games, 2 joysticks, 2 paddle joysticks, a few instruction booklets
Nintendo Entertainment System; Tina the Ballerina LP; 1 Sega Genesis game; Boston, Beach Boys, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Sly & the Family Stone, Rolling Stones, Genesis, Moody Blues, Donovan 8-track cartridges; someone's 8-track mix cartridge; blank 8-track cartridge
Zenith IS-4180 Integrated Stereo System; 2 Kiss LPs; Top Hits of the '70s LP; 2 SNES games; 1 Sega CD game
VTECH Talking Little Smart Alphabet Desk
Rick Wakeman, Meco, DNA, Too Much Joy, Bernadette Peters LPs; Gary Numan, Bay City Rollers, Cliff Nobles, Chakachas, Marmalade, Delfonics, Rick Dees, David Allan Coe, M/A/R/R/S, Tears For Fears, Meco, Chubby Checker, Left Banke, Jerry McCain, Bee Gees, Frankie Ford, WAR, B.B. King, Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, ? & the Mysterians, Procol Harum, Laid Back, Dixie Cups, Trade Winds, DeFranco Family, Ruby and the Romantics, Soul Children, Young MC, Toni Basil 45s
Roy Ayers, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Beausoleil, Firesign Theatre, Weather Report, NAB Test Record, Hot Blood LPs; Big Music Little Musicians CD; Jean Michel Jarre cassette; 3 NES games; 4 Sega Genesis games; TERROR BAT!
Ramsey Lewis Sun Goddess LP
Jimmy Cliff, Booker T. and the MGs, Tin Tin, Bee Gees, Tommy James and the Shondells, the Honey Cone 45s; 2 Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians cassettes
MASK "Firecracker" truck; Squeeze, Rick Wakeman, Bob Dylan, 5th Dimension LPs; Elephant's Memory, Carla Thomas, Diana Ross 45s
Yamaha PSR-248 keyboard; Foxy, Sweet Thunder, Pepe Velázquez, Wendy Carlos, The Wonder Band LPs
Rap-Master keyboard by Realistic (featuring VOICE EFFECTOR!)
Casio Casiotone MT-205 keyboard; a Furby; 2 NES games; 2 N64 games; 1 Sega Saturn game; 8 45s; Sesame Country LP
Insite game; Sega Dreamcast Web Browser; Sega Saturn joypad; broken wind-up robot; 2 Home Depot action figures
Nintendo N64, 2 N64 joypads; Sega Saturn joypad; Super Nintendo joypad; Microsoft PC joypad; Sega Saturn game
Stewart Copeland, Jean-Michel Jarre, the Tubes, Yes, Stevie Wonder, Utopia LPs; Cyndi Lauper 45; Fantomas comic book
Blaster Master for NES (sealed in box); Rod McKuen and Mary Buffett LPs
Ohio Players, Cars, Nytro, Ritchie Family, A Clockwork Orange, Love and Kisses, Ted Nugent LPs; El Dorado board game; 2 Sega CD games
Girlschool, Linda Ronstadt, Hi Neighbor LPs; "London" Eva-Tone soundsheet; 2 G.I. Joe VHS tapes; 2 Sega Genesis games; 1 Ronald McDonald cassette
16 Atari 2600 games; 2 PS1 games; 1 Sega 32X game; 1 Gameboy Color game; Atari game binder
Sega Saturn console (with one joypad); Sega Genesis console (with two joypads), 7 Sega Genesis games; KB Toy Club B&W TV; 221B Baker Street board game; Bee Gees and Mary Lou Retton LPs; "Songs of the Humpback Whale" Eva-Tone soundsheet; 10-pack Memorex cassettes
Tempo For Tots, Rhythm and Rhyme, Wet Willie LPs
Arlac Trimula game; Saved By the Bell board game
Talking Heads, Police, Blondie, Queen, Morris Day and the Time, Weather Report LPs
Commodore 64 Model 1702 monitor; Speak & Spell no.2; Tomytronic Pac-Man electronic game
Big Bird's ABC Learning Machine; 2 Biker Mice From Mars action figures; Burger King Chicken Tenders toy; Kimba the White Lion (?) LP
Casio Casiotone MT-240 keyboard
LJN S.D. Jones action figure; Roboforce S.O.T.A. action figure; some random robot; Transformers lookalike; creepy Power Lords action figure
Speak & Spell no.1
The Morgan Family - Elijah cassette
Updated 12/06/05
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