06/18/05
01. Sega Saturn console (with one joypad), Sega Genesis console (with two joypads), 7 Genesis Games
Finally, an awesome video game haul! Found all this in a deep, dark corner of a shop in the Jefferson Highway Flea Market. I was just checking out the records, and caught these peeking out at me from a well-hidden cardboard box on the floor. When I finally found the owner of the shop wandering around aimlessly, I showed him my plastic bag (bring your own - the shop owners don't always have them) full of this shit, to which he gave a confused look and muttered, "Twenty?" Stifling a schoolgirly giggle, I put the cash in his grubby little hands and left the flea market. I was so satisfied with my purchase, I didn't even bother to stop by the overpriced toy shop!
I've been looking for a cheap Genesis for a while now, as I can't seem to find my old one anywhere. Mine was an original design, and this one is one of the later, sleeker models. It doesn't really matter to me, as long as I can play my copy of Gunstar Heroes again. The seven games I bought are: Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Super Street Fighter 2, Asterix and the Great Rescue, Aladdin, NBA Live 97, NHL 97, and Power Rangers: The Movie. I hear there's a secret code to unlock a digitized picture of Bulk and Skull making out.
Everyone says the Sega Saturn was a piece of shit, but I'm willing to give it a chance after I picked up Sega's Dreamcast a year or two ago and discovered what an insanely underrated, brilliant piece of hardware it is. Being such a fan of software developer Treasure, am I going to spend 200 dollars on eBay for a copy of Radiant Silvergun for the Saturn? Probably not, but I'd punch a little girl for one.
Special Bonus!! Abstract re-interpretation of the water fountain scene from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as seen at Jefferson Highway Flea Market!
02. KB Toy Club B&W TV, 221B Baker Street board game
Why did I buy this TV? As it is, the only time I use my other, regular-sized TV is when I watch DVDs or VHS tapes picked up at thrift stores. One clue is that it was only five dollars. Actually, now that I think about it, that's the only clue. I mean it's the answer. What? This ULTRA-RARE KB TOY CLUB EXCLUSIVE!! runs on a 12V AC adapter or 700 "C" batteries. I'm serious, the whole bottom of the TV is a huge battery dungeon that's destined to remain empty, lest someone bankrupt himself trying to fill it.
Not sure what to tell you about 221B Baker Street, so I'll let these guys do it for me. I dunno, I like weird board games I've never heard of. As you can see, it was $1.95. The tag color sale was of no help today at Red White & Blue, as both items had white tags, and the sale was half off everything but white tags. Assholes. Speaking of Red White & Blue, there are two obstacles you must be prepared to deal with if you ever pay this store a visit:
OBSTACLE 1: Everyone from college-age hipsters to middle-aged housewives to smelly old men with 1/4 of their shirts untucked hog the LP section at all times (just on the weekends, usually.) Be prepared to hover around the nearby book and movie shelves and rush in to take your place when someone inevitably passes out from dust inhalation.
OBSTACLE 2: 1,500 slow-moving women clog every aisle and seem to be too fixated on useless baubles and shiny things to notice your presence when you try to get by them. I snuck up on these two and karate chopped them into oblivion.
03. Three records and ten blank cassettes
There must've been some kind of sale going on, because all of this stuff together was five bucks at the Bridgehouse thrift store on Jefferson Highway. I stopped in here - in 92 degree weather - after getting a gallon of milk at a nearby Rite-Aid. I couldn't help myself. I felt bad when I thought of my milk sitting there in my oven-roasting car getting all hot and sweaty, but that's the price you pay for finding a Bee Gees record from back when they were actually really good. The name of this 1968 offering from the brothers Gibb is named Rare, Precious & Beautiful, and Marsha Stoefen used to own it. Thanks, Marsha!
Mary Lou Retton, hero to flat-chested, hipless girls across the nation, released this FUNFIT record in 1985 when her popularity was at its peak after winning the gold medal for gymnastics in the 1984 Olympics. Songs include: "Like a Tiger", "It's Your Move", "Rock-Easy, No-Bounce, Floor Stretch", and "Working the Joints" - which reveals Mary Lou's talent at rolling slow-burning, evenly-packed funny cigarettes.
From page 24A of the January, 1979 issue of National Geographic (it says so right on the label) comes this 33 1/3 soundsheet record entitled "Songs of the Humpback Whale". If you've never seen soundsheets before, they're paper flat, flimsy plastic records made almost exclusively by the Eva-Tone corporation since time immemorial. Anyway, these whales can't carry a tune to save their lives.
50 cents a tape for ten blank, shrinkwrapped Memorex 90-minute cassette tapes? Don't mind if I do.
I don't know if I'm getting luckier or just better at finding the good stuff, but I came away with some nice booty today. Thanks to everyone who made this possible: Mary Lou Retton, Jimmy On the Dock, Clueless Shopkeeper no.1 and Cobra Commander.
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