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Inside Goodwill's game-filled tech thrift shop, The Grid
Thrift stores: better known for dusty shirts, potential Halloween costumes and used Jenga sets. Well, Goodwill wants to change that a bit with its recent launch of The Grid, a dedicated electronics and video game specialty shop located in North Carolina. The outfit tells IGN that not only will it sell video game hardware itself, but it's arranged a deal with vendors to supply each console (even retro units) with new power and A/V cables -- stuff that can often be a bear to source. Oh, and there's Raspberry Pi and a selection of flat-screens on offer too. But what if console gaming isn't your bag? The Grid also sells laptops and gaming PCs, and, as the video below shows, even has an Oculus Rift demo station set up.
Thrift store gaming haul; the thrill of the hunt
Game|Life's Chris Kohler details a pretty incredible thrift store haul in which he managed to snag ten or so mint, original prints of classic NES games (three of which contain the original Famicom boards jacked into an NES converter board) and a surprisingly rare Final Fight 3. As if his superhuman luck wasn't already apparent, he got them all for $2 each. As someone who has also spent a fair amount of time scouring thrift stores for everything from clothes to books to records, I've never found a video game treasure like this; at most a broken 2600, or an NES Zapper. But reading Kohler's tale is like reading about someone in your town hitting the lottery: it can happen... just not to me.My bad luck is well documented and irrefutable, but what about yours? Any Joystiqers ever strike it rich at the local thrift store?
