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.
45:00 $50 for a French horn bro 💀. used beat up beginner horns, granted with mouthpieces, go for $300+. Get a higher end mouthpiece for $109 and you got yourself a solid horn and just need a case. Absolute insane deal, even if it isn’t a double horn
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.
I feel like gog gives a better experience than trying to maintain disks, you can just write those installers to a disk if you really care about them being physical media, and there is a box art website if I can find it again for making your own cases
31:11 hurt similarly but just because I love that CSI PC game series. Couldn't figure out why it was such a good series, turns out Telltale was making the series. They still hold up and are pretty fun to play through and easily available online with some fixes for new versions of Windows if you know where to look. But he's just not a PC game collector so! More for us! hooray! EDIT: He is redeemed for picking up one of the Wii variants of the game, I'll give him that-
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 remember when bird scooters came to my small city, they only lasted a month as the local bored kids kept throwing them into the major river running through most of the city lol
As someone who's never been in a Goodwill thank you for providing me a lifetime of visits without having to leave the house. You really have me looking forward to the Wii Balance Board price checks. This was a super high effort, nice job bud 👍And freakin' awesome shirt!
I always like watching these videos and seeing people nerd out about other stuff they find interesting while shopping because it gives you a glimpse into their life. Like now I know that not only do you enjoy playing video games and making RUclips videos, but you also play basketball enough to have a favorite brand.
Seeing him pass up on things I'd get and buy things I wouldn't was so neat actually. Like he likes basketball enough to play the NBA games, which I would never purchase or play
Seeing that haul out of 104 goodwills worth of stuff is so sad to see. 10 years ago those stores would have been chock full of older games with actual value. The smart phone era mixed with pure greed has truly destroyed goodwill and any reason anyone ever had to go to goodwill.
we're all just looking for good deals. This guy is doing exactly what you're complaining about. People like him went to good wills and bought everything worth anything and sold it online, or kept it for their personal collection.
I actually considered building a fort with em once! Two story mind you but the prices were not that great, my pawnshop I visit sells em noticeably cheaper though they don't have nor get near as many, bummer!
Cool video! Something I learned about goodwill is that if they have a particular type of thing or media (for example, cassette tapes) that isn't donated as often, they will ship all those items to one specific store in a county no matter which one they were donated to. So if you're visiting multiple stores in one close proximity and only one of them has a bunch of video games and the others have nothing, that might be the case! They probably just aren't getting enough donations to warrant a dedicated shelf at more than one local store.
It's never been so over for game thrifting! You used to be able to find a Genesis with controllers, cables and a couple games without really trying a decade ago. I can't image stumbling across that anymore.
I'm pretty sure anything remotely decent related to gaming is sold on their auction site, where it will get bid up to or beyond FMV. The GW Computer Works near me used to have Wiis for $20, which wasn't too bad, but I think COVID turned it into a donation-only center.
So real. Went a few months ago and their "boutique" cabinet had a beat up and scratched GameCube priced at $189.99, and was still there like a month later too. What a joke
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.
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
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.
Goodwill is great for finding older games from gen 6 consoles to gen 8 consoles as long as they haven't been cleaned out by resellers. Your best bet is to try and visit them as soon as they restock in the morning on certain days of the week or month.
Hearing how you pronounced macabre did a little psychic damage to me but the whole premise of the video saved it and makes me want to go to my somewhat local Goodwill just to see if any games are there.
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.
Looks like this and your Sears video are your recent top performers. You are officially a "Visiting measurable percentages of physical stores" guy. Time to hit all the Goodwills in another state!
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.
My fiancee and I used to frequent the last Goodwill on the list, she pointed at the tv and said, "I touched that Little Big Planet!" when you picked it up. Nice pickups dude 👍
I actually have an Inversion Table. It did wonders for my back for first 2 weeks or so, then I found it's effectiveness wore off over time, but still use it occasionally if I feel jammed up. Might be worth trying if you can get a 3 minute hang in before they kick you out of Goodwill.
Oh man there was nothing more fun that going to Goodwill in the early to mid 90s digging through the mountain of 80s tech detritus and coming home with a bunch of old Atari/Coleco/Commodore/Apple consoles or computer that worked maybe one out of ten times. But hey they were usually less than $5 most of the time.
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.
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 bought a used copy of Skyrim for windows about 13-14 years ago, if your pc has a disc drive it’ll load and the play the game not entering a key, personally running the disc generated a license for it and has been on my steam account ever since, but yes there is also a product key in the box, pretty sure it was for people who didn’t have a optical drive built into their pc/ or an external one available. But from my personal experience running the disc installs the exe to desktop and to steam, and then you can take the disc out, unsure if it’s still the same or not but personally having and displaying physical copies of old pc games, goes hard
I don't know what you do for a living but you're a great storyteller. I don't know how I found this but I sat here and laughed at your commentary for an hour and 11 minutes. God bless you sir. I wish you well.
You totally should have gotten that tv, flashlight, and radio combo…. Not because it was epic and could have been nice for a video… but because it was an emergency combo item. It’s a Weather Radio and TV. My mom bought radio versions for my sister and I recently. Since you live in Florida, it would be good for you to have in case a hurricane did severe damage and you needed something to get information for help. The crank on the side allows you to manually power it. I live in Kentucky and a whole section of my city was destroyed by a Tornado in 2021 and I wish I had one then. Whole week without internet, tv, or radio. Just lucky I wasn’t in Mayfield which was far worse.
Most of the TV tuner style things don't work anymore, because of the transition from analog to digital over the air signals. Generally speaking any portable TV from before 2010 won't work.
I was at a local thrift store yesterday and found something similar, it was a portable television, flashlight, compass combo sort of thing (I don't think it had radio). It was $8 but I didn't pick it up because it had no video input.
That's crazy, half the trees in my yard got ripped out by that very tornado and we were without power too. Funny seeing someone from so close by on this random video.
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!
Watched this on 2x before I passed out last night. Brought back memories of watching "Goodwill Hunters" with the "Fluffy Gamer" years ago, except other than Smash Bros you couldn't find almost anything of quality (not into call of duty).
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.
Nice finds! I really enjoyed this as the state I've moved to has limited thrift stores. I've really gotta plan a day to go out of town to see multiple different ones. Also, I loved hearing the SA2 soundtrack 💙
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.
42:14 is my hometown Goodwill! Very cool to see you hit this one up... yet equally frustrating that you had about as much luck as I usually do. Though it looks like you didn't notice rack they have near the front registers that usually have the games separated there. Granted, that was a pretty recent change and I'm assuming you recorded this before it happened.
I live in an area where Goodwill started selling all their cool stuff online, and charging MSRP or damn near for stuff like used clothes and shoes… really sucks, I used to buy most of my jeans and shoes from them, but now they want like $20-$30. Might as well just buy stuff new when on sale. Glad you still have some good stores in your state, I like living vicariously through it. Really enjoyed the video!
@@DS-us8sci'm french and the best way i would write the pronunciation in english is ma-cash-bruh or something LOL just look up how to pronounce macabre the e in french isn't an ay sound
The best game I ever found while shopping at a Goodwill was Spyro 3 back in 2014 for $5... Didn't realize how much of a rarity that apparently was. lol
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.
I can’t believe you went to my hometown ones!! I actually did a similar trip in Indiana and it was exhausting. I hope you had so much fun doing this. ❤️❤️
I live in Florida and i went to a few goodwills but I never knew about the computer and games store, this video is very useful to know where to go. keep doing what you're doing, it was a great watch!!
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! 🤝🍻💥🍻
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 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.
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!
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 worked at an ecommerce location in Pittsburgh and essentially every store in the area would send anything of higher value to us to put on Goodwill's E-commerce Site and essentially it killed most goodwill deals on video games because they will send essentially anything tech related to there and it sucks that its like that now since you could get so much in the past but I would say its worth it to check it out cause you can get some decent deals there every now and again
As someone who lives in Fort Myers I literally never ever realized the region thing and have never found a video game at any of my goodwills so thanks for clearing that up lol
Alright, so a couple of times I chuckled throughout the video until the gag with the camera from stop #80. Take my Like and Sub, dangit! Too funny... 😆
In my area, the Goodwill, Salvation Army, and Community Aid stores ALL got rid of all their electronics about 8 years ago. You cannot buy them there. Kitchen stuff (toasters and electric burners), yeah. But you won't find monitors, keyboards, surge protectors, etc.
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 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.
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
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!
The Goodwill at 22:00 is actually a bins location to buy stuff. The Goodwill bookstore at 22:10 actually has a huge DVD and Video Game section right in the front. But it appears you didn't bother looking in the store when you saw the books lol
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!
Goodwill to my knowledge will take any high priced item that comes in and will either A. sent to a specific Goodwill to be sold or B. which is the most likely outcome, it goes to that specific Goodwill to be sold online. When I worked at Goodwill for a brief stint, any high priced item would either go into the front store cases, or, if it was an extremely high priced item, it would be saved to be sent out to a different Goodwill to be sold online. Although it can be somewhat safe to assume some valuable items will slip through the cracks, but if any sort of manager catches said item, it will go through that process. Or just be pocketed.
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).
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.
12:44 Are those things common at Goodwill? I recently went to one for the first time and it had one of those in there. My Goodwill was across the country from that one, so it couldn't have been the same location.
44:00 I use to live in an apartment complex and one day i went to take out the trash, and there was this box sitting next to the dumpster, when i looked inside there was an Xbox 360!
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 🍺🍺🍺
8:24 That ain't just a surge protector, it's actually a UPS or Uninterruptible Power Supply. Essentially a small battery backup so you can safely shutdown your computer during a power outage. Though there's a chance the battery was shot which could be why it ended up at Goodwill
I am homeless and I can't still get in.. it is always close or they have an excuse for me to not go in... They have salvation army for homeless shelter but they always say " it is for elderly and veterans" but they say anyone can go in by lying, they don't even give.me.a.chance to explain myself on why I want to go in
That sucks. That honesty really sucks. How are people supposed to pick themselves up and improve, when the store literally created to help poor/homeless people kicks them out. Corporate America’s literally the worst.
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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
the fact tht you didnt go crazy driving around FL is amazing
The fact that he’s still alive is amazing.
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@@Pluralofvinylisvinylswha? Delusional
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.
45:00 $50 for a French horn bro 💀. used beat up beginner horns, granted with mouthpieces, go for $300+. Get a higher end mouthpiece for $109 and you got yourself a solid horn and just need a case. Absolute insane deal, even if it isn’t a double horn
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?
I know you aren’t a pc person but the amount of sims games/packs I saw throughout this video made me so excited 😂
31:51 As a PC game collector, seeing Spore, AOE3, Farcry 2 and others being passed by hurts
I feel like gog gives a better experience than trying to maintain disks, you can just write those installers to a disk if you really care about them being physical media, and there is a box art website if I can find it again for making your own cases
this guy HATES good games...
Ouch
Same here Being a pc gamer this video sucks ass lol
31:11 hurt similarly but just because I love that CSI PC game series. Couldn't figure out why it was such a good series, turns out Telltale was making the series. They still hold up and are pretty fun to play through and easily available online with some fixes for new versions of Windows if you know where to look. But he's just not a PC game collector so! More for us! hooray! EDIT: He is redeemed for picking up one of the Wii variants of the game, I'll give him that-
comfy format, feels like semi-old youtube
This is a goodwill ad
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.
i remember when bird scooters came to my small city, they only lasted a month as the local bored kids kept throwing them into the major river running through most of the city lol
@@MissAkashiya Same there was a bunch that ended up in the Mississippi River. St. Louis cannot have nice things.
As someone who's never been in a Goodwill thank you for providing me a lifetime of visits without having to leave the house. You really have me looking forward to the Wii Balance Board price checks. This was a super high effort, nice job bud 👍And freakin' awesome shirt!
I always like watching these videos and seeing people nerd out about other stuff they find interesting while shopping because it gives you a glimpse into their life. Like now I know that not only do you enjoy playing video games and making RUclips videos, but you also play basketball enough to have a favorite brand.
Seeing him pass up on things I'd get and buy things I wouldn't was so neat actually. Like he likes basketball enough to play the NBA games, which I would never purchase or play
Seeing that haul out of 104 goodwills worth of stuff is so sad to see.
10 years ago those stores would have been chock full of older games with actual value. The smart phone era mixed with pure greed has truly destroyed goodwill and any reason anyone ever had to go to goodwill.
Goodwill lists anything worth a fuck on their auction site.
we're all just looking for good deals. This guy is doing exactly what you're complaining about. People like him went to good wills and bought everything worth anything and sold it online, or kept it for their personal collection.
you just left Titanfall 2...sitting there. How could you? Im in shambles.
I hope someone else picks that gem up.
Thank God I wasn't the only one that clutched my heart in pain at that.
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@@archytype.mp3 HE ALREADY HAS TITANFALL 2 >:(((((
Not every one can be smart
Jesus, you can never escape the Wii Balance Boards going shopping at these Goodwill's lol
I worked at a goodwill, and you genuinely see them like every day. Everyone has a balance board to donate
I actually considered building a fort with em once! Two story mind you but the prices were not that great, my pawnshop I visit sells em noticeably cheaper though they don't have nor get near as many, bummer!
That's hilarious because I was looking for one for months before I finally found one at a goodwill lol
Cool video! Something I learned about goodwill is that if they have a particular type of thing or media (for example, cassette tapes) that isn't donated as often, they will ship all those items to one specific store in a county no matter which one they were donated to. So if you're visiting multiple stores in one close proximity and only one of them has a bunch of video games and the others have nothing, that might be the case! They probably just aren't getting enough donations to warrant a dedicated shelf at more than one local store.
It's never been so over for game thrifting! You used to be able to find a Genesis with controllers, cables and a couple games without really trying a decade ago. I can't image stumbling across that anymore.
I'm pretty sure anything remotely decent related to gaming is sold on their auction site, where it will get bid up to or beyond FMV. The GW Computer Works near me used to have Wiis for $20, which wasn't too bad, but I think COVID turned it into a donation-only center.
That era really is dead. You can't even get good deals on their online auctions because they charge ridiculous service fees and shipping costs.
blame scalpers, ebay, and idiots with way too much money.
I have a NES and SNES complete in box that I got from Good Will back in the day. It's crazy and sad to see it now.
So real. Went a few months ago and their "boutique" cabinet had a beat up and scratched GameCube priced at $189.99, and was still there like a month later too. What a joke
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.
Dang that is awesome :)
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
Only sims 2 though, and it’s always the H&M stuff pack!
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.
Goodwill is great for finding older games from gen 6 consoles to gen 8 consoles as long as they haven't been cleaned out by resellers. Your best bet is to try and visit them as soon as they restock in the morning on certain days of the week or month.
Hearing how you pronounced macabre did a little psychic damage to me but the whole premise of the video saved it and makes me want to go to my somewhat local Goodwill just to see if any games are there.
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.
Looks like this and your Sears video are your recent top performers. You are officially a "Visiting measurable percentages of physical stores" guy. Time to hit all the Goodwills in another state!
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.
My fiancee and I used to frequent the last Goodwill on the list, she pointed at the tv and said, "I touched that Little Big Planet!" when you picked it up.
Nice pickups dude 👍
I actually have an Inversion Table. It did wonders for my back for first 2 weeks or so, then I found it's effectiveness wore off over time, but still use it occasionally if I feel jammed up. Might be worth trying if you can get a 3 minute hang in before they kick you out of Goodwill.
Oh man there was nothing more fun that going to Goodwill in the early to mid 90s digging through the mountain of 80s tech detritus and coming home with a bunch of old Atari/Coleco/Commodore/Apple consoles or computer that worked maybe one out of ten times. But hey they were usually less than $5 most of the time.
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
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.
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.
You passed on a physical copy of left for dead 2 on PC??? I think it’s safe to say pc physical copies of popular bangers are so rare to find
Aren't physical PC games of that era usually a steam key (which would have been used) plus a disc with barely nothing on it?
@ I bought a used copy of Skyrim for windows about 13-14 years ago, if your pc has a disc drive it’ll load and the play the game not entering a key, personally running the disc generated a license for it and has been on my steam account ever since, but yes there is also a product key in the box, pretty sure it was for people who didn’t have a optical drive built into their pc/ or an external one available. But from my personal experience running the disc installs the exe to desktop and to steam, and then you can take the disc out, unsure if it’s still the same or not but personally having and displaying physical copies of old pc games, goes hard
Awesome to see HPRshredder! I just discovered his channel this year, great stuff.
I don't know what you do for a living but you're a great storyteller. I don't know how I found this but I sat here and laughed at your commentary for an hour and 11 minutes. God bless you sir. I wish you well.
I once saw a red cart of Maximum Carnage for Sega Genesis. I passed on it and I'm still kicking myself for it to this day.
They weren't all red cartridges like they were on the SNES?
this video felt like pretty early 2010s youtube and i love it. subscribed
You totally should have gotten that tv, flashlight, and radio combo…. Not because it was epic and could have been nice for a video… but because it was an emergency combo item. It’s a Weather Radio and TV. My mom bought radio versions for my sister and I recently. Since you live in Florida, it would be good for you to have in case a hurricane did severe damage and you needed something to get information for help. The crank on the side allows you to manually power it. I live in Kentucky and a whole section of my city was destroyed by a Tornado in 2021 and I wish I had one then. Whole week without internet, tv, or radio. Just lucky I wasn’t in Mayfield which was far worse.
Most of the TV tuner style things don't work anymore, because of the transition from analog to digital over the air signals. Generally speaking any portable TV from before 2010 won't work.
@@fargoretro That's a fair point... Still. A Weather Radio is still a good investment, even if you need to buy a brand new one.
I was at a local thrift store yesterday and found something similar, it was a portable television, flashlight, compass combo sort of thing (I don't think it had radio). It was $8 but I didn't pick it up because it had no video input.
That's crazy, half the trees in my yard got ripped out by that very tornado and we were without power too. Funny seeing someone from so close by on this random video.
@@fargoretro 2007 was the conversion date
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!
Watched this on 2x before I passed out last night. Brought back memories of watching "Goodwill Hunters" with the "Fluffy Gamer" years ago, except other than Smash Bros you couldn't find almost anything of quality (not into call of duty).
Didn't know about Wilson evolution until now and wow. What a steal
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
Nice finds! I really enjoyed this as the state I've moved to has limited thrift stores. I've really gotta plan a day to go out of town to see multiple different ones. Also, I loved hearing the SA2 soundtrack 💙
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 😅
This was actually an extremely underrated channel and video in itself, I unironically watched the whole hour and ten minutes of the video :-)
42:14 is my hometown Goodwill! Very cool to see you hit this one up... yet equally frustrating that you had about as much luck as I usually do. Though it looks like you didn't notice rack they have near the front registers that usually have the games separated there. Granted, that was a pretty recent change and I'm assuming you recorded this before it happened.
I live in an area where Goodwill started selling all their cool stuff online, and charging MSRP or damn near for stuff like used clothes and shoes… really sucks, I used to buy most of my jeans and shoes from them, but now they want like $20-$30. Might as well just buy stuff new when on sale.
Glad you still have some good stores in your state, I like living vicariously through it. Really enjoyed the video!
Mac-a-bray is certainly a way to pronounce macabre
Who do you say it
@@DS-us8sci'm french and the best way i would write the pronunciation in english is ma-cash-bruh or something LOL just look up how to pronounce macabre the e in french isn't an ay sound
@@DS-us8scMost americans say it like "Muh-Kob" in my experience
@@squmulonimbusYou are correct. You get a gold sticker for the day.
the goodwill bookstore (sarasota, FL) 22:07 was my happy place when I lived there. Glad to see it's still alive
It was totally worth it my man, I sat an watched this whole thing. And now I'm gonna be a subscriber
The best game I ever found while shopping at a Goodwill was Spyro 3 back in 2014 for $5... Didn't realize how much of a rarity that apparently was. lol
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.
I can’t believe you went to my hometown ones!! I actually did a similar trip in Indiana and it was exhausting. I hope you had so much fun doing this. ❤️❤️
I live in Florida and i went to a few goodwills but I never knew about the computer and games store, this video is very useful to know where to go. keep doing what you're doing, it was a great watch!!
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! 🤝🍻💥🍻
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 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 😞
This was a really cool video. Over an hour and I watched the whole thing. Thank you for making this.
Great video, I would love to see more content like this. Salvation Army?
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!
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 worked at an ecommerce location in Pittsburgh and essentially every store in the area would send anything of higher value to us to put on Goodwill's E-commerce Site and essentially it killed most goodwill deals on video games because they will send essentially anything tech related to there and it sucks that its like that now since you could get so much in the past but I would say its worth it to check it out cause you can get some decent deals there every now and again
As someone who lives in Fort Myers I literally never ever realized the region thing and have never found a video game at any of my goodwills so thanks for clearing that up lol
Came here for the games, stayed for the entire SA2 soundtrack
Alright, so a couple of times I chuckled throughout the video until the gag with the camera from stop #80. Take my Like and Sub, dangit! Too funny... 😆
In my area, the Goodwill, Salvation Army, and Community Aid stores ALL got rid of all their electronics about 8 years ago. You cannot buy them there. Kitchen stuff (toasters and electric burners), yeah. But you won't find monitors, keyboards, surge protectors, etc.
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 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.
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
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!
This video has to get a whole lot more views, the dedication is off the charts
I was thinking the same thing!
Maybe the real Good was the Wills we made along the way
Putting the Bioshock game into the Madden case was hilarious!
Dude, I've missed the channel. I rang the bell and subscribed. Kudos to you and the 104 goodwill. *salutes*
Major props to you, Florida is a massive state.
I can't belive you left Minecraft Storymode there, that's such a gem!! Nice finds by the way! Even though I'm very late on the video.
Fun video. The DJ Hero board was specifically a DJ Hero Renegade edition board, so it's worth a bit more!
Dude...I've often thought about doing something like this to look for electronics in general... Thank you for dispelling the impulse for me bro. lol
If your goodwills are anything like mine I imagine you found exactly one (1) distressingly stained SpongeBob Plug n Play console.
The Goodwill at 22:00 is actually a bins location to buy stuff.
The Goodwill bookstore at 22:10 actually has a huge DVD and Video Game section right in the front. But it appears you didn't bother looking in the store when you saw the books lol
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!
Goodwill to my knowledge will take any high priced item that comes in and will either A. sent to a specific Goodwill to be sold or B. which is the most likely outcome, it goes to that specific Goodwill to be sold online. When I worked at Goodwill for a brief stint, any high priced item would either go into the front store cases, or, if it was an extremely high priced item, it would be saved to be sent out to a different Goodwill to be sold online. Although it can be somewhat safe to assume some valuable items will slip through the cracks, but if any sort of manager catches said item, it will go through that process. Or just be pocketed.
Man, good call on grabbing The Munchables on Wii. Definitely a hidden gem. Its like Katamari Damaci.
Love the fist pump when you opened a game to check to make sure the disc was in the case, and it wasn't. LOL
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).
I think the best pickups were the sealed Heavy Rain the family guy game and the Smash Bros you found in the random game case. Awesome video bro.
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.
12:44 Are those things common at Goodwill? I recently went to one for the first time and it had one of those in there. My Goodwill was across the country from that one, so it couldn't have been the same location.
Brah, that sounds like a dream vacation. Totally jelly.
HE ALREADY HAS TITANFALL 2 >:(((((
44:00 I use to live in an apartment complex and one day i went to take out the trash, and there was this box sitting next to the dumpster, when i looked inside there was an Xbox 360!
Appreciate your effort and hard work
52:00 i go to that goodwill and i can vouch and say the electronics were dry when you went because I've found some pretty cool stuff there before
Dang, Tallahassee really was the coolest store for electronics and games!
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 🍺🍺🍺
No shot you found a random Kamen rider game that's amazing
But it's based on the american adaption of the 2002 show
8:24 That ain't just a surge protector, it's actually a UPS or Uninterruptible Power Supply. Essentially a small battery backup so you can safely shutdown your computer during a power outage.
Though there's a chance the battery was shot which could be why it ended up at Goodwill
shout-out to grandma PS. What's on the mem card?
Have to subscribe and wait until next time ;)
I am homeless and I can't still get in.. it is always close or they have an excuse for me to not go in... They have salvation army for homeless shelter but they always say " it is for elderly and veterans" but they say anyone can go in by lying, they don't even give.me.a.chance to explain myself on why I want to go in
That sucks. That honesty really sucks. How are people supposed to pick themselves up and improve, when the store literally created to help poor/homeless people kicks them out. Corporate America’s literally the worst.