The Wife and I went game shopping this weekend, got lost and ended up here.
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Finally made it to Classic's and Oddities in Kelso Washington. The owner always has a booth at the local game show/expo things I go to. We've gotten to the point were we always chat for a little bit and I try to buy stuff from him 'cause he's a good guy and has cool stuff. So we get to his store and he immediately stops talking to some other customer to welcome my wife and I
We look around a bit and he invites me to his backroom/storage, shows us how things are sorted and just leaves us to look around while he goes back to helping the
regular customers. Remember how people are always saying it's good to become friends with retro game store owners?
So what did I get from him?
Firstly, I am now part of the problem.
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Picked up a bunch of INTV stuff, which is funny because some other INTV stuff came in the mail, which you'll see further on.
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Working on the SMS collection too. I've decided to pass on loose SMS carts for a bit to see how many I can get CIB. Picked up the Saturn game just because I hadn't gotten a new one in awhile. Found a card at the front counter advertising the Portland show this October, you're all coming right? I don't normally show off all the books we come home with and would have left these out but they helped frame the picture so well
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More laser discs! Last weekend we had some friends over, one of them had never seen Back to the Future and we realized we didn't own it. They have already been invited back for seeing it on the best format. (The Wife chose Xanadu BTW)
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Tynstar sent this to me! Such a good guy he is. Helping me with both the INTV and 2600 collecting.
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You might notice that there is some overlap with the INTV games from above, it's mostly because they were just being given to me as a group at the store rather than me picking out only what I had. In fact he tried to get me to take more, haha. But that's why there are even two copies of Lock N Chase from there.
Finally, the 3rd issue of RETRO came in the mail.
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MJR made a video a couple years ago where he went to the store I went to. It's the first part to a classic series from him and you should watch the whole thing but the part with the store starts a little after the 6 minute mark:
Oh, and this was another "pre-cleaning" episode of small scores for those of you keeping track at home.
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