Hi there, I work as a computer tech for the goodwill computer store in tallahassee. Thank you for coming by our store and having such great things to say. Believe or not very few people in our own town actually know we exist.
Back in the day seeing stacks of gamecubes for mere pennies still haunts me to this day. Id also say you definitely missed out on not picking up some of those boxed pc games. That wii mini would have been cool to pickup. people have modded sd card slots and a wifi adapter into them. really cool stuff and its a really nice design for the console.
I used to go to 5 or 6 different goodwills and 1 salvation army around my area in Virginia. I used to do it daily from like 10am till 5pm. I find crazy things like boxed n64 games, sega genesis, dreamcast, rare PS1 titles, PS2, lots of gamecube stuff, DS, pokemon, gaming action figures some brand new some with no flaws, collector's edition items, cheap consoles, hand helds like gameboy, ds, 3ds, etc. Also goodwill has colored discounts on different days so if the gaming stuff is purple and is purple Tuesday then that's an extra 20-30% off. I also made friends with some of the managers at the locations to the point I get first dibs on stuff they find. I remember 1 manager got me a boxed original gameboy for $50 while its not brand new, it was flawless to the touch with everything included in the original package. Those were the good ol times.
I got 10 3ds games at salvation army for 2 bucks each, including Pokémon ruby, sapphire, moon, and ultra sun. Whatever that kid did to deserve his games being donated, I forgive him. I dreamed about deals like that. Literally.
2002-2003 was really the peak year of sports games huh. Like the exact middle ground between when sports games were technically-impressive cash cows but were still made to be *fun*
I think most people actually look at 2004 as the best one. 2003 is very good though! NASCAR games were actually so, so good in the era before EA got the exclusive license. Competition between three different dev teams just made them all push so hard to put out quality games.
I never walk into a Goodwill expecting to find a game, but that makes the moments when I stumble into one all the more special. My copy of Metal Gear Solid 3 is from a Goodwill, and I’ve even seen Japanese-region PS2 games once.
As a frequenter of british charity shops in it's so weird not seeing loads of Fifas in every shop. Those things are like the plague of charity shop game sections, along with Sims expansion packs of course
Same in germany lol, and it seems that every version that is not the latest, is automaticly worth nothing. Thanks to EA and their bullshit fifa packs system
Happy to see that Blue Yeti for $15 actually worked! Thanks for the shoutout. I didn’t expect to watch all of it but I did. Great video! Just wish those portable TV Radio Flashlights had inputs smh
yo man i just wanted to say i just watched this whole video front to back after having never heard of you before and it was just awesome. entirely deserving of the 199k views it has as of the time of me posting it and it's bound to hit a million+ imo. keep up the good work and i cant wait to see what else ya make. this was just a ton of fun to watch
I found a copy of Shining Force 2 at a Goodwill for $30 which sort of made me mad at first until I looked it up on eBay and realized that wasn't such a bad deal (for cartridge only)
That's waay to much. They need to more people that aren't boot-licking jackasses that look up prices on line. sorry but you ain't getting that cut of profit in your minimum wage paycheck hunny.
I used to frequent Goodwills like crazy back in the early 2010s, and you couldn't walk into one without spotting a PlayStation 1 or a GameCube. Last year I had a spree with friends every month where we would go Goodwill-hopping and visit 6-7 stores once a day every month. Come to find out now Goodwill scans every donation bin and ships out valuable stuff like games to distribution centers so it can be resold for market price on sites like Ebay. Really sad. Most of the valuable games (what little remain in the store) are usually kept in the glass cases at the register because people like to steal the discs out of the cases (very common). The only true way to get a great find at Goodwill now is to read between the lines and look for things employees overlook or underestimate.
Retro Gamer in Jacksonville here - I don't even bother going to Goodwills anymore. There's a handful of mom'n'pop or smaller chain places here I pop by now and then and have had some decent finds at (including a couple of decent CRT TVs just this year) but I don't bother with Goodwills.
57:40 I had this Performance Dreamcast pad as the "2nd player punishment" controller. It was not only BAD, but it's just freakin' MASSIVE. That Goodwill Computer store is kind of like a dream though. I wish Oregon had anything close to that.
Whoa I got thrown off at the beginning here, didn't realize you were a fellow Florida man. I actually found a boxed copy of Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis and Zelda Minish Cap both at the Goodwill right near the Paddock Mall in Ocala when I was a kid, both for $3 each. Really wish game prices weren't so over the top nowadays though.
I will never forget the time I went to a Goodwill with my wife and saw an Atari Jaguar with 3 games, all cables, some manuals, 2 controllers and the covers for the numbers on the controllers from different games. Everything for $60.
probably why you saw it, the stars aligned and gifted this precious piece of history or... ain't no normies going into goodwill looking to spend $60 on some ancient arcane hardware that didn't sell well while it was still in production.
My best goodwill finds over the last 4 years have been Clock Tower, loose, for the Ps1 and a Matt Hardy signed copy, cib, of WWE 08 for the ps2. Paid $4 for each.
Before Covid hit, I managed to get a whole bunch of OG XBOX games made by SEGA for dirt cheap. It was cool too because that was around the first time I got an OG XBOX. Only one game was scratched on the disc and it was Shadow The Hedgehog. It's playable but the cutscenes are all messed up including the opening that plays when you turn on the game. The rest were all in great shape! I got JSRF/SEGA GT 2002, House of The Dead 3, Toejam and Earl 3, Sonic Mega Collection Plus, Shenmue 2 and it even came with the bonus DVD movie of Shenmue 1, and a few other titles like Cel Damage, Mega Man Anniversary Collection, and Namco Museum. EDIT: It was a Goodwill in Ohio so it was cheaper stuff.
I actually work at a Goodwill in my town in Tennessee, mine is actually pretty decent and spaced out. It's in a strip mall of all things that has a grocery store and a planet fitness Stumbled upon this video and unironicallly today I actually snagged some old games from mine after work! Got them for $10 too! I found a copy of Epic Mickey and Super Monkey Ball for the Wii and the PC version of The Sims 3! Since working at mine for the last couple of months I managed to find some pretty interesting stuff including an old early 90s Sharp camcorder, a mid 1980s VoIP phone with an alarm clock, and a Razer Mechanical keyboard of all things! Goodwill's can be a hit and miss but you can definitely find some good stuff there at times!
I would like to confirm that YES Goodwill ships off valuable games a lot of the times! Theres usually a list of game franchises to ship off if they pop up, along with other high dollar items. Goodwill knows the worth of the items they receive and anything good goes to the goodwill auction site. That printer that appeared early on probably should've been shipped off for auction ngl.
Thanks a bunch for taking one for the team!! Wooow!! Im really impressed with your journey. The 💰 would've been much better spent on a road trip vacation instead of all that crap. Except for Batman, controllers and mic. It takes courage and BIG balls to do what you did! To you Sir, I tip my hat. Greetings from Chicago. Salud! 🤝🍻💥🍻
This video was awesome! Incredible resource for knowing which Goodwill stores are worth making a trip for! It's also crazy(in a small world kinda way) how some of the games you saw I had also seen and just didn't feel like picking up. 😁 Congrats on all your finds!
Every single one of these stores has 10 times the stuff the Goodwills in my area have. The "electronics" section here consists of a few dozen sad looking lamps and alarm clocks. Edit: Actually they look alot like the one in Stewart 36:20
40:56 Oh shit, that’s my local Goodwill! I live in New Tampa but don’t really like going to the Weasley Chapel store as I never find shit. The best thing I found was COD World at War for 360 but the case was completely broken, so I slipped the cover into a movie (The Lincoln Lawyer) and put the disk in the case so it was lose. The person at the register didn’t even notice and I got a game. I recommend you visit Community Thrift Store in Hillsborough county off Nebraska Avenue, you can actually find some good games there.
Most PC games pre-2005 should work if the code is still inside the box :) My luckiest find in a thrift store was a sealed copy of Modern Warfare 2 where I just needed to plop the code into my Steam. Easily saved 20 bucks that day.
When I worked at Goodwill we scanned all books and digital media. There were different categories and it would assist in determining an items value. The highest valued items were placed in e-commerce bins and sent to sorting centers. The items would then be sold on a Goodwill auction site. If you saw behind the scenes of Goodwill, you wouldn't believe they were a 'non-profit'
that’s crazy i heard spring hill goodwill…then i heard trinity! you went to all the areas i grew up in. hope you were treated nicely. i’d love to show you some of the really hidden away game shops around the brooksville - to - new port richey area. lots of enthusiasts!
I had the exact same grandfather clock at 26:57 in my house growing up. I think my mom inherited it from my great grandma when she passed. I don't know how old it is exactly though
You mentioned sound bars, and may i recommend theoft shopping for individual speakers and a receiver. Maybe that was just a me thing, but i got into the whole sound upgrading gig about a year ago and had a lot of fun just throft shopping to see what they got. I ended up getting a STEAL with a whole set up worth roughtly $500 for all my equipment used online, but i got it all for around $110. Unfortunately none of the goods i found were at Goodwills, but instead an actual good thrift store in my area. Either way, long story short, i would heavily recommend looking into a basic surround sound system for your living room / game room, it sounds so much better than a sound bar.
I used to work at a goodwill not too long ago, I quit eventually but on my last day was the holy grail of donations (you're not allowed to shop at your own store), there was a ps1, all cables, sealed ff7, 9, and 10. Also with a copy of marvel vs capcom, and a couple of imported JRPGs
32:12 I had a robosapien growing up and actually took it into my CNET class in high school and we hooked it up to a Kinect to pilot it. Super cool little doodad
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is kind of a hidden gem. Went way under the radar, despite an all-star development team. Ken Rolston (TES 3 & 4), Grank Kirkhope (did the music for a bunch of Rare's best games), and Todd McFarlane (Spawn).
Oh man, 31:27 Pinball Hall of Fame on the Wii is pretty damn good, it's a shame you skipped on that because those games eventually became the Pinball Arcade series which was a great selection of digitised Pinball machines for the PS3, 360 and PC.
I've only subscribed to 4 youtubers after a decade plus of being on here and you are number 4 because of how high effort this was. I can't believe you actually did this!
Found a perfect condition corsair strafe keyboard today for $2 at a Goodwill. Best Goodwill find ever. Most of my gaming finds come from local thrift shops. Only time I have had any goodwill luck since probably 2017.
7:24 I lived near that Goodwill for 13 years! Most of their games were behind the counter near checkout. One time I saw a framed poster for the Rocky and Bullwinkle movie from 2000.
Cool to see you go to Lake Ctiy's Goodwill As someone who grew up in Lake City we used to go there all the time as kids and it was just fun looking at the electronics and stuff. Now its a ghost town basically haha
Dude! I live in Merritt Island and kid you not found an N64 with doom 64 IN the system for $50 around 2 years ago. I have never been to a GoodWill since, my luck is forever gone 😭
Hilarious video, you're just like me hah head to as many goodwill as possible and check for games and electronics. Most of the time it's a bust because stupid goodwill sends everything to their website.
I used to go to local Goodwills pretty often, however they started looking everything up on ebay and pricing them at whatever they found stuff listed for. This made people stop shopping there and instead of the 3 we had in town they were condensed into one. A prime example of this was a old camera they had for sale. I collect old cameras and I noticed they had one in the case. It was camera I have 2 of already, however it was in good condition and was in a different color than either of the ones I have. So I was somewhat interested and asked an employee to pull it out for me. I was then able to see the price tag of $120 hidden on the back of it. The other two versions of this camera I have ran me less than $20 each. At first I thought that it had to be a rare color, or a slightly different model. However checking ebay I could buy one in the same color and mode number for $15 plus shipping (like $7 I think). But I also saw one just like it that was brand new with box, manual, battery, and film for $120. So they saw that price and just went for the most expensive result.
My goodwill doesn’t leave any discs out. You go up to the front and they search a binder they keep behind the counter, but even then sometimes they don’t have or can’t find it😂
my local goodwill moved into an empty department store a few years back. i stopped by and found a white WiiU for $10. Gamepad and hookups all included. insane deal, and was great since i only had a black WiiU.
Thanks for letting us know about the goodwill areas taking games! I would have never guessed, but that's why you can't find any in my area. Thanks, and this video was a great watch!
Congrats Jason! Real chill and enjoyable watch 🤘🙂 must've taken months to trim and organise all these clips! 57:25 close your eyes and it's Mike Matei!
one of the coolest things i found at goodwill once upon a time was lamanated newspapers from 1929 as placemats, and that was the best purchase ever made. goodwill has some treasures inside.
I used to live in Seattle from the early 2010s right up to the pandemic. We had the Nintendo headquarters and Microsoft, so there a lot of games from their employee-only stores. I remember finding stacks of super nintendos, color variant N64s, PS1 games, and controller galore. But towards the end of it (2019) it all turned to dogshit. The stores caught on and started either overpricing or just selling online. I still go today, and it's bad, but I've never seen anything as bad as what you've just shown us. Good content, though. Good video.
I used to work at a Goodwill back in 2014-2015 and my store threw away several good copies of older games. I’ll never forget them throwing away MGS1 with both disks.
My best find was at Salvation Army. All found during the same trip for Gamecube: Mario Party 5, 7, Super Smash, Mario Sunshine, Mario Kart DD, Luigi’s Mansion, Sonic Mega Collection, Namco Museum 50th, and Wario Ware (empty box).
Lol you hit one of my old hunting stores from when I was I kid. I live in a new state now and honestly the last year I have found some bangers at Goodwill, including darkness requiem, f zero gx, and time splitters 2 for Gc $5 each. Every now and then I stock up on controllers for repair when they go on sale. Though the last 6 months hasn't been as good for Goodwill cause most everything gets sent to their online store now
It baffles me to this day that pre 2020, I walked into my local goodwill and impulse bought a PS2 with two original controllers for less than $50. That feels unheard of today.
47:20 that's a Gaming laptop cooling pad I have one for my gaming laptop a MUST have when you're playing a game to help keep it cool by making sure it's lifted enough or air intake and the fans are just to give additional flow
i used to go t oa good will computer store in NC i got most of my stuff from there for cheap. but in 2009 they closed it and opened the grid (the replacement store) prices went way up and the fun or going there was no longer there. i might as well got them off ebay
Absolutely Wild to visit this many goodwills and only like 30% actually had something worth getting. 2 weeks and a crying wallet later. A journey of epic proportions!
I died a bit when you put the sonic unleashed disc back on the shelf because it wasn't oblivion To me seeing a game like that in a goodwill is kinda crazy
When it comes to games from Goodwill, the best I got was Titanfall 360 for $3 last year. Sadly Goodwill sells the fun stuff online basically exclusively now a days. Tbh my favorite thing I bought from Goodwill was a brand new "Libman Microfiber Freedom Spray Mop" for $7. They normally go for $24 at Walmart, so that was rad. Other than that I usually shop at Goodwill looking for seasonal decor. That's like my local store's favorite thing to sell lol
this is way too cool to watch... i live out in saint cloud where you did store #46 in the video. i also visit the shopping center that has the goodwill in kissimmee with all those other stores very regularly. there's a dope ass game store to the right of it that's fun to check out. was surreal seeing a place i visit at least monthly in a youtube video >.
The Dollar General I frequent the most had a single copy of Titanfall for the Xbox 360 sitting on display behind the counter until I wanna say around 2022 or 2023. Its presence bought me a certain comfort all those years, and now my life is in shambles.
It was funny, you missed so many stores in my area when you went through the Bradenton and Sarasota area. There actually are more then a few places I knew you would have found games.
Funny that a Sims 3 expansion was in one of the Bioshock games...imagine a kid wanting that game, and they check it out, but see that when they get home
12:29 I'm cracking up 😂😂 It's always good to see a Florida RUclipsr, I'll always stick around for channels that are in my state. Subscribing from South Florida, love from Deerfield Beach 🍺🍺🍺
Hi there, I work as a computer tech for the goodwill computer store in tallahassee. Thank you for coming by our store and having such great things to say. Believe or not very few people in our own town actually know we exist.
Heck yeah that place rocks
@JasonGravesPoser thank you. I just showed the video to the rest of the crew over here, and our manager wants to say thank you very much as well
This is some wholesome stuff
Why did they change the one in Panama City? That was an awesome location too before they converted it over....
I couldn't work there because I would make $0 a month from buying as much as I possibly could, the coolest shop I've seen.
Back in the day seeing stacks of gamecubes for mere pennies still haunts me to this day. Id also say you definitely missed out on not picking up some of those boxed pc games. That wii mini would have been cool to pickup. people have modded sd card slots and a wifi adapter into them. really cool stuff and its a really nice design for the console.
So this is what Good Will Hunting was all about.
Nice
Upvote, take it
How do you like THOSE Apple TVs???
I am dead 😂
Bravo, sir
I used to go to 5 or 6 different goodwills and 1 salvation army around my area in Virginia. I used to do it daily from like 10am till 5pm. I find crazy things like boxed n64 games, sega genesis, dreamcast, rare PS1 titles, PS2, lots of gamecube stuff, DS, pokemon, gaming action figures some brand new some with no flaws, collector's edition items, cheap consoles, hand helds like gameboy, ds, 3ds, etc. Also goodwill has colored discounts on different days so if the gaming stuff is purple and is purple Tuesday then that's an extra 20-30% off. I also made friends with some of the managers at the locations to the point I get first dibs on stuff they find. I remember 1 manager got me a boxed original gameboy for $50 while its not brand new, it was flawless to the touch with everything included in the original package. Those were the good ol times.
I got 10 3ds games at salvation army for 2 bucks each, including Pokémon ruby, sapphire, moon, and ultra sun. Whatever that kid did to deserve his games being donated, I forgive him. I dreamed about deals like that. Literally.
oh my god........... LUCKY! That poor kid hahaha
damn son, ruby and sapphire on the 3ds!!!
Man I remember finding fully boxed copies of heartgold and soul silver for like $4.99. Didn't have the pokedex though lol.
@@borgdwarf1513they probably meant the remakes lol
@@trigun442you mean the pokewalker?
NASCAR Thunder 2003 is actually a great find. It's still the best NASCAR game to this day.
I think Dirt to Daytona is my fave, but Thunder 03 is still amazing!
2002-2003 was really the peak year of sports games huh. Like the exact middle ground between when sports games were technically-impressive cash cows but were still made to be *fun*
Nascar 98.
I think most people actually look at 2004 as the best one. 2003 is very good though! NASCAR games were actually so, so good in the era before EA got the exclusive license. Competition between three different dev teams just made them all push so hard to put out quality games.
@@kentonbrewer3232 true, Madden 04 and Fight Night 2004 are rlly good. yes, ik they were technically made in 2003, but whatever lol
I never walk into a Goodwill expecting to find a game, but that makes the moments when I stumble into one all the more special. My copy of Metal Gear Solid 3 is from a Goodwill, and I’ve even seen Japanese-region PS2 games once.
I got my ps2 from goodwill wildly enough??? It worked too, was just dusty
I got a JPN version of Fatal Frame 2 at Goodwill.
I love the electric scooter found at @18:50 is literally someone else's property. Its one of those rentable scooters.
As a frequenter of british charity shops in it's so weird not seeing loads of Fifas in every shop. Those things are like the plague of charity shop game sections, along with Sims expansion packs of course
Just replace FIFA with Madden, and you have US thrift stores lol!
Same in germany lol, and it seems that every version that is not the latest, is automaticly worth nothing. Thanks to EA and their bullshit fifa packs system
It was totally worth it my man, I sat an watched this whole thing. And now I'm gonna be a subscriber
Happy to see that Blue Yeti for $15 actually worked! Thanks for the shoutout. I didn’t expect to watch all of it but I did. Great video! Just wish those portable TV Radio Flashlights had inputs smh
HE ALREADY HAS TITANFALL 2 >:(((((
yo man i just wanted to say i just watched this whole video front to back after having never heard of you before and it was just awesome. entirely deserving of the 199k views it has as of the time of me posting it and it's bound to hit a million+ imo. keep up the good work and i cant wait to see what else ya make. this was just a ton of fun to watch
I found a copy of Shining Force 2 at a Goodwill for $30 which sort of made me mad at first until I looked it up on eBay and realized that wasn't such a bad deal (for cartridge only)
Would have bought that 10 times!
RPGs go for a lot now.
No because Goodwill is too willing to take what they think their cut is.
That's waay to much. They need to more people that aren't boot-licking jackasses that look up prices on line. sorry but you ain't getting that cut of profit in your minimum wage paycheck hunny.
I used to frequent Goodwills like crazy back in the early 2010s, and you couldn't walk into one without spotting a PlayStation 1 or a GameCube.
Last year I had a spree with friends every month where we would go Goodwill-hopping and visit 6-7 stores once a day every month. Come to find out now Goodwill scans every donation bin and ships out valuable stuff like games to distribution centers so it can be resold for market price on sites like Ebay. Really sad. Most of the valuable games (what little remain in the store) are usually kept in the glass cases at the register because people like to steal the discs out of the cases (very common). The only true way to get a great find at Goodwill now is to read between the lines and look for things employees overlook or underestimate.
That’s depressing 😞
Retro Gamer in Jacksonville here - I don't even bother going to Goodwills anymore. There's a handful of mom'n'pop or smaller chain places here I pop by now and then and have had some decent finds at (including a couple of decent CRT TVs just this year) but I don't bother with Goodwills.
If ur in Jax go to VGR and gone broke gaming two good places but due to no vehicle I usually shop online via ebay or whatecs
This video has to get a whole lot more views, the dedication is off the charts
I was thinking the same thing!
57:40
I had this Performance Dreamcast pad as the "2nd player punishment" controller. It was not only BAD, but it's just freakin' MASSIVE.
That Goodwill Computer store is kind of like a dream though. I wish Oregon had anything close to that.
Awesome to see HPRshredder! I just discovered his channel this year, great stuff.
This was actually an extremely underrated channel and video in itself, I unironically watched the whole hour and ten minutes of the video :-)
Whoa I got thrown off at the beginning here, didn't realize you were a fellow Florida man. I actually found a boxed copy of Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis and Zelda Minish Cap both at the Goodwill right near the Paddock Mall in Ocala when I was a kid, both for $3 each. Really wish game prices weren't so over the top nowadays though.
Lol I found out when he went to see my sears store in Palm Beach county. It's closed now😢
He went to my Gainesville stores, I used to score in high school and now I haven’t seen a single game in either store in years 😭
Glad I found you here too meatball 😂
I'm so jealous, just bought a copy of Minish Cap for $80 😅
I will never forget the time I went to a Goodwill with my wife and saw an Atari Jaguar with 3 games, all cables, some manuals, 2 controllers and the covers for the numbers on the controllers from different games. Everything for $60.
probably why you saw it, the stars aligned and gifted this precious piece of history or... ain't no normies going into goodwill looking to spend $60 on some ancient arcane hardware that didn't sell well while it was still in production.
@@balsalmalberto8086 My wife ended up buying it for me as a gift. We got home and started playing Tempest 2000.
My best goodwill finds over the last 4 years have been Clock Tower, loose, for the Ps1 and a Matt Hardy signed copy, cib, of WWE 08 for the ps2. Paid $4 for each.
Before Covid hit, I managed to get a whole bunch of OG XBOX games made by SEGA for dirt cheap. It was cool too because that was around the first time I got an OG XBOX. Only one game was scratched on the disc and it was Shadow The Hedgehog. It's playable but the cutscenes are all messed up including the opening that plays when you turn on the game. The rest were all in great shape! I got JSRF/SEGA GT 2002, House of The Dead 3, Toejam and Earl 3, Sonic Mega Collection Plus, Shenmue 2 and it even came with the bonus DVD movie of Shenmue 1, and a few other titles like Cel Damage, Mega Man Anniversary Collection, and Namco Museum. EDIT: It was a Goodwill in Ohio so it was cheaper stuff.
I actually work at a Goodwill in my town in Tennessee, mine is actually pretty decent and spaced out. It's in a strip mall of all things that has a grocery store and a planet fitness
Stumbled upon this video and unironicallly today I actually snagged some old games from mine after work! Got them for $10 too! I found a copy of Epic Mickey and Super Monkey Ball for the Wii and the PC version of The Sims 3!
Since working at mine for the last couple of months I managed to find some pretty interesting stuff including an old early 90s Sharp camcorder, a mid 1980s VoIP phone with an alarm clock, and a Razer Mechanical keyboard of all things! Goodwill's can be a hit and miss but you can definitely find some good stuff there at times!
Major props to you, Florida is a massive state.
The Goodwill where I live doesn't sell video games anymore because people kept stealing them. A lot of Goodwills don't for the same reason.
I would like to confirm that YES Goodwill ships off valuable games a lot of the times! Theres usually a list of game franchises to ship off if they pop up, along with other high dollar items. Goodwill knows the worth of the items they receive and anything good goes to the goodwill auction site. That printer that appeared early on probably should've been shipped off for auction ngl.
Putting the Bioshock game into the Madden case was hilarious!
Thanks a bunch for taking one for the team!! Wooow!! Im really impressed with your journey. The 💰 would've been much better spent on a road trip vacation instead of all that crap. Except for Batman, controllers and mic. It takes courage and BIG balls to do what you did! To you Sir, I tip my hat. Greetings from Chicago. Salud! 🤝🍻💥🍻
This video was awesome! Incredible resource for knowing which Goodwill stores are worth making a trip for! It's also crazy(in a small world kinda way) how some of the games you saw I had also seen and just didn't feel like picking up. 😁 Congrats on all your finds!
Every single one of these stores has 10 times the stuff the Goodwills in my area have. The "electronics" section here consists of a few dozen sad looking lamps and alarm clocks.
Edit: Actually they look alot like the one in Stewart 36:20
40:56 Oh shit, that’s my local Goodwill! I live in New Tampa but don’t really like going to the Weasley Chapel store as I never find shit. The best thing I found was COD World at War for 360 but the case was completely broken, so I slipped the cover into a movie (The Lincoln Lawyer) and put the disk in the case so it was lose. The person at the register didn’t even notice and I got a game.
I recommend you visit Community Thrift Store in Hillsborough county off Nebraska Avenue, you can actually find some good games there.
That Left 4 Dead 2 was a trap. If the code inside the box was used, its just a coaster. Same things for any used PC games that require Steam.
Big reason why I was hesitant to buy any pc games. You never really know what's going to work
Most PC games pre-2005 should work if the code is still inside the box :) My luckiest find in a thrift store was a sealed copy of Modern Warfare 2 where I just needed to plop the code into my Steam. Easily saved 20 bucks that day.
When I worked at Goodwill we scanned all books and digital media. There were different categories and it would assist in determining an items value. The highest valued items were placed in e-commerce bins and sent to sorting centers. The items would then be sold on a Goodwill auction site. If you saw behind the scenes of Goodwill, you wouldn't believe they were a 'non-profit'
They're non-profit because the fatcats get all the money and there's none left.. ergo.. no profit..
This was a really cool video. Over an hour and I watched the whole thing. Thank you for making this.
Watching this on my break while I work at GoodWill!
Dang, Tallahassee really was the coolest store for electronics and games!
that’s crazy i heard spring hill goodwill…then i heard trinity! you went to all the areas i grew up in. hope you were treated nicely. i’d love to show you some of the really hidden away game shops around the brooksville - to - new port richey area. lots of enthusiasts!
I had the exact same grandfather clock at 26:57 in my house growing up. I think my mom inherited it from my great grandma when she passed. I don't know how old it is exactly though
You mentioned sound bars, and may i recommend theoft shopping for individual speakers and a receiver. Maybe that was just a me thing, but i got into the whole sound upgrading gig about a year ago and had a lot of fun just throft shopping to see what they got.
I ended up getting a STEAL with a whole set up worth roughtly $500 for all my equipment used online, but i got it all for around $110. Unfortunately none of the goods i found were at Goodwills, but instead an actual good thrift store in my area. Either way, long story short, i would heavily recommend looking into a basic surround sound system for your living room / game room, it sounds so much better than a sound bar.
I used to work at a goodwill not too long ago, I quit eventually but on my last day was the holy grail of donations (you're not allowed to shop at your own store), there was a ps1, all cables, sealed ff7, 9, and 10. Also with a copy of marvel vs capcom, and a couple of imported JRPGs
Fun video. The DJ Hero board was specifically a DJ Hero Renegade edition board, so it's worth a bit more!
32:12 I had a robosapien growing up and actually took it into my CNET class in high school and we hooked it up to a Kinect to pilot it. Super cool little doodad
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is kind of a hidden gem. Went way under the radar, despite an all-star development team. Ken Rolston (TES 3 & 4), Grank Kirkhope (did the music for a bunch of Rare's best games), and Todd McFarlane (Spawn).
Oh man, 31:27 Pinball Hall of Fame on the Wii is pretty damn good, it's a shame you skipped on that because those games eventually became the Pinball Arcade series which was a great selection of digitised Pinball machines for the PS3, 360 and PC.
Appreciate your effort and hard work
Well another goated 🐐 game hunting channel time to binge every video
I've only subscribed to 4 youtubers after a decade plus of being on here and you are number 4 because of how high effort this was. I can't believe you actually did this!
Found a perfect condition corsair strafe keyboard today for $2 at a Goodwill. Best Goodwill find ever. Most of my gaming finds come from local thrift shops. Only time I have had any goodwill luck since probably 2017.
Man, good call on grabbing The Munchables on Wii. Definitely a hidden gem. Its like Katamari Damaci.
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I lived near that Goodwill for 13 years! Most of their games were behind the counter near checkout. One time I saw a framed poster for the Rocky and Bullwinkle movie from 2000.
I loved this so much, really well made.
The goodwill in Florida are gems. Especially in Ocala and Orlando.
Cool to see you go to Lake Ctiy's Goodwill
As someone who grew up in Lake City we used to go there all the time as kids and it was just fun looking at the electronics and stuff. Now its a ghost town basically haha
Dude! I live in Merritt Island and kid you not found an N64 with doom 64 IN the system for $50 around 2 years ago. I have never been to a GoodWill since, my luck is forever gone 😭
Hilarious video, you're just like me hah head to as many goodwill as possible and check for games and electronics. Most of the time it's a bust because stupid goodwill sends everything to their website.
I used to go to local Goodwills pretty often, however they started looking everything up on ebay and pricing them at whatever they found stuff listed for. This made people stop shopping there and instead of the 3 we had in town they were condensed into one.
A prime example of this was a old camera they had for sale. I collect old cameras and I noticed they had one in the case. It was camera I have 2 of already, however it was in good condition and was in a different color than either of the ones I have. So I was somewhat interested and asked an employee to pull it out for me. I was then able to see the price tag of $120 hidden on the back of it. The other two versions of this camera I have ran me less than $20 each. At first I thought that it had to be a rare color, or a slightly different model. However checking ebay I could buy one in the same color and mode number for $15 plus shipping (like $7 I think). But I also saw one just like it that was brand new with box, manual, battery, and film for $120. So they saw that price and just went for the most expensive result.
This is true investigative journaljsm
The first goodwill is already the nicest one I've ever seen
Yoooo a Tetris BOARD GAME?!
My goodwill doesn’t leave any discs out. You go up to the front and they search a binder they keep behind the counter, but even then sometimes they don’t have or can’t find it😂
shout-out to grandma PS. What's on the mem card?
Have to subscribe and wait until next time ;)
my local goodwill moved into an empty department store a few years back. i stopped by and found a white WiiU for $10. Gamepad and hookups all included. insane deal, and was great since i only had a black WiiU.
Thanks for letting us know about the goodwill areas taking games! I would have never guessed, but that's why you can't find any in my area. Thanks, and this video was a great watch!
20:56 channeling my inner rainbolt for game spines and identifying this as Game Party 2
Congrats Jason! Real chill and enjoyable watch 🤘🙂 must've taken months to trim and organise all these clips!
57:25 close your eyes and it's Mike Matei!
A couple years ago, my local Goodwill had 15 Wii fit boards crammed in a shelf in the corner of the store
one of the coolest things i found at goodwill once upon a time was lamanated newspapers from 1929 as placemats, and that was the best purchase ever made. goodwill has some treasures inside.
I used to live in Seattle from the early 2010s right up to the pandemic. We had the Nintendo headquarters and Microsoft, so there a lot of games from their employee-only stores. I remember finding stacks of super nintendos, color variant N64s, PS1 games, and controller galore. But towards the end of it (2019) it all turned to dogshit. The stores caught on and started either overpricing or just selling online. I still go today, and it's bad, but I've never seen anything as bad as what you've just shown us. Good content, though. Good video.
I used to work at a Goodwill back in 2014-2015 and my store threw away several good copies of older games. I’ll never forget them throwing away MGS1 with both disks.
dude i can't believe you missed out on that castlevania: curse of darkness at 20:22
My best find was at Salvation Army. All found during the same trip for Gamecube: Mario Party 5, 7, Super Smash, Mario Sunshine, Mario Kart DD, Luigi’s Mansion, Sonic Mega Collection, Namco Museum 50th, and Wario Ware (empty box).
saw my city on the goodwill map and got unreasonably excited
"Sometimes they wider then deep and sometimes there deeper then wide" wise words
That family guy game is actually worth a 30-40 dollars depending on if it has its Manuel or not
Now let’s go look for some damn games.
I love this video so
Much. Makes me feel so much better about my shitty luck at stores.
Lol you hit one of my old hunting stores from when I was I kid. I live in a new state now and honestly the last year I have found some bangers at Goodwill, including darkness requiem, f zero gx, and time splitters 2 for Gc $5 each. Every now and then I stock up on controllers for repair when they go on sale. Though the last 6 months hasn't been as good for Goodwill cause most everything gets sent to their online store now
Long form thrifting content? HELL YEAH!
All those games were wasted money. Even though taxpayers bought them for him
It baffles me to this day that pre 2020, I walked into my local goodwill and impulse bought a PS2 with two original controllers for less than $50. That feels unheard of today.
9:54 Camera perspective really got me there!
LittleBigPlanet was a pretty goated find, one of the most charming platformers of its era and some really good level design
47:20 that's a Gaming laptop cooling pad I have one for my gaming laptop a MUST have when you're playing a game to help keep it cool by making sure it's lifted enough or air intake and the fans are just to give additional flow
i used to go t oa good will computer store in NC i got most of my stuff from there for cheap. but in 2009 they closed it and opened the grid (the replacement store) prices went way up and the fun or going there was no longer there. i might as well got them off ebay
Absolutely Wild to visit this many goodwills and only like 30% actually had something worth getting. 2 weeks and a crying wallet later. A journey of epic proportions!
That Bird Scooter for $80 is an absolute steal those aren’t cheap and are actually a lot of fun. I rent them all the time in Arizona.
I died a bit when you put the sonic unleashed disc back on the shelf because it wasn't oblivion
To me seeing a game like that in a goodwill is kinda crazy
When it comes to games from Goodwill, the best I got was Titanfall 360 for $3 last year. Sadly Goodwill sells the fun stuff online basically exclusively now a days. Tbh my favorite thing I bought from Goodwill was a brand new "Libman Microfiber Freedom Spray Mop" for $7. They normally go for $24 at Walmart, so that was rad. Other than that I usually shop at Goodwill looking for seasonal decor. That's like my local store's favorite thing to sell lol
"Mockabray mysteries" 😂 22:44
this is way too cool to watch... i live out in saint cloud where you did store #46 in the video. i also visit the shopping center that has the goodwill in kissimmee with all those other stores very regularly. there's a dope ass game store to the right of it that's fun to check out. was surreal seeing a place i visit at least monthly in a youtube video >.
You nailed it with the question of what they do with all the donated video games. They're all listed for auction on their online site.
The Dollar General I frequent the most had a single copy of Titanfall for the Xbox 360 sitting on display behind the counter until I wanna say around 2022 or 2023. Its presence bought me a certain comfort all those years, and now my life is in shambles.
Empires Dawn of the Modern world is a crazy good RTS game. I played it all the time growing up
It was funny, you missed so many stores in my area when you went through the Bradenton and Sarasota area. There actually are more then a few places I knew you would have found games.
Funny that a Sims 3 expansion was in one of the Bioshock games...imagine a kid wanting that game, and they check it out, but see that when they get home
22:18 technically wouldn’t consider that Cape Coral, that’s North Fort Myers. Funny seeing goodwills that I’ve been to in this video.
Never round up, sucker. It goes straight into the CEO's pocket.
Proof of this?
33:20 ain't no way bro put away the peakest sonic game
I want to be the first to congratulate you on 10k subs! Ya did it buddy! I waited up and watched it tick over.
12:29 I'm cracking up 😂😂
It's always good to see a Florida RUclipsr, I'll always stick around for channels that are in my state. Subscribing from South Florida, love from Deerfield Beach 🍺🍺🍺