So, what great stashes have you come across in the most unexpected places? For some strange reason I seem to just stumble across things. It's quite a talent actually
The greatest ever was a charity shop around Capel street. A friend of mine was going around to most of them in town, asking if they had any old consoles in their storerooms. He managed to find one that said to come back as they had a few upstairs.
I decided to go back with him as a matter of interest.
What we found was like nothing I have ever seen. I really wish I'd have had a camera.
The corner of the room upstairs was a huge pile of old electronic goods, all tangled up in wires. It must have taken years to accumilate.
To my happy suprise, about 40% of all the goods were consoles and games. You were literally lifting up cables and finding another console. I think I found 7 or 8 N64s alone. (To my delight, some of which had expansion paks!
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We spent about three hours going through it, untangling wires and trying to free up consoles. I'd lift up some random old electronic blender or sandwich maker, and there'd be a NES or a Megadrive sitting under it.
Sadly, by the time we were asked to leave, we had only really scratched the surface. God only knows what else was under there. There was what looked like some form of Amiga within the pile but I just couldn't get to it in time. My mate was hassling me to help him look for the cables needed to test out the consoles he wanted to buy :mad:
Other than that, there was my cash converters bonanza, about 20 n64 games marked at 2 euro each. (Priced wrong but he let me have them anyway)
My mint fully boxed NES in a Bray charity shop for €15.
My mam found a Snes in a bray charity shop with 25 games. Pretty much all the best games for the console. I actually couldnt believe the quality of the collection. Whoever had originally bought the games had really good taste. It even came with a region adapter, two controls, game geanie...all for 15 euro!
