 Well, hey everybody as you could tell I'm here in what I like to call white lightning, and that's my beautiful 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis and that means today We're gonna be going on a little bit of a road trip first just so you know We are in Tennessee back in my old stomping grounds just north of Nashville, Tennessee And today we're gonna go around and check out some of the old places that I used to go to try to find Retro tech video games anything like that some of you guys may have Remembered from the past that I've gone to this Goodwill near my old house again in Tennessee And it was basically a honey hole you could go in there sometimes and find a thousand dollar Video game collection that had been just turned in and nobody there really cared enough to research the value on the things So they would just put it out with pretty much any other item First we're gonna go to the best Goodwill That is in the city of Gallatin and we're gonna check this out and see if there's anything there I haven't been there in probably three months. So hopefully Some stuff stacked up or maybe somebody else has taken my place and just buying everything But we'll find out first. We're gonna go there Then I will have some other spots in the Nashville and outside of Nashville area We're gonna go to but hey enough of this stuff Let's go ahead now and head to that first Goodwill and see what we can find There's the actual store. Okay, so you guys ever get in the Gallatin area and want to come check this place out We're good opportunity Possibly get some good deals on something You know the good thing about modern technology and Bluetooth stuff is you can sit here and talk to yourself And people don't think you're crazy anymore Anyway, what's going inside here? First thing we do is check these cases. Anything exciting? Nah Not your rubbish Well, I'm not sure what light seeker is the awakening is but a ton of those things Monster LED lights not a good deal bicycles Decided to come about an hour after they opened on a Saturday. So it wouldn't be too busy today. Hopefully. Oh Yeah, we're gonna go back here And first look at our home goods section Which does have some electronics in it Sit weird. Let's check out this thing. These things are cool. This is a Old-school search protector that you'd sit your CRT monitor on Then you could cycle through power for monitor computer Printer auxiliary. This looks to be a knockoff one. Let's see. Yeah, this is not a Branded one, but it's a cool little power supply There you go. These things are nice too, right? This is a battery backup These usually if they work will sell for a lot more than five bucks anymore because you can mod them I think to make like a backup. That's trash Professional pen tablet. Look at this inbox. What's yours this from? Good deal Maybe oh, here's some LCDs This is an Emerson TV HDMI support Oh got even RGB in on this thing LD 19 OEM 2 so this is a 19 inch television Over here. We have a 4 by 3 Toshiba. This might actually be a little bit nicer if you wanted a 4 by 3 component video built-in DVD 4 by 3 oh Not not anything that is exciting. There's always these stupid we fit accessories The we fit like anybody who's gonna actually exercise on the way. Oh Here's the exciting section Yes, let's see Yeah, get the rights complete Just seeing these idiots on Twitter saying that you could Get water to grade this crappy game and then Sell it for $800 people are idiots VHS All right, let's check out the second media section generally just a mix of DVDs. You'll get some Connect training like this one's still sealed too bad somebody bit it where you could send that to water I make a million dollars Madden 06 Sometimes I do look for DVDs if there's something, you know good like I Don't know maybe Big trouble little China always looking for John Carpenter stuff and nobody ever turns that in because I guess they're smarter All right, I don't see really anything over here. Oh How about this brand new See stuff like this. What is this? Look at Reba. She's she's got some firepower there. Don't she oh Man, I might have to get this Good fellas rip off. Is this supposed to be a spoof? Oh, I don't think so And I did a miniseries neon Empire ever heard of it. So quick look at this VCR here If you want to give VCRs, this is the first place you should look $8 plus you get to test it. All right five four head RCA Goodness, of course the jerk didn't remind it. Let's see. Oh Yeah Mmm, it's no good I have my first round of pickups from that Goodwill. There's a close great stuff in there first off this Unbelievable complete box in two ohs five touch professional pen tablet. This thing's in almost new condition internally Of course, it's older Compatible all the way down with Windows 7 but this set up Still sells I mean I saw one that had an actual bid on it where it was all the way up to just about a hundred dollars So for four dollars, it's definitely worth it. Maybe we can get this to work on On one of my machines and test it out and see if we can draw anything Maybe some new retro tech logos who knows so that's that's the big item from from that store But I also got a brand-new inbox Tripod for six dollars. I always buy this stuff when I see it just because I obviously need it and Now on to the smaller items I only bought one game. It was complete manual pretty good condition Lord of the Rings The two towers I may already have this game for PlayStation 2. I'm not entirely sure of course. It was six dollars Which is a decent deal. These will sell for 15 to 20 bucks on eBay right now for a complete copy And so I'll just throw that in my stash and wait for it to get a little bit more valuable than that down the road now this It's maybe my one of my personal favorite things. I found I didn't show it to you I have to clean it up, but check out this awesome bad-ass album cover It's I'm not even sure what this exactly is. It looks like it's just musical themes Conducted but look how cool that cover is with all those CRT televisions and on the back We've got some more so I thought that was too cool to let go for 99 cents and then for 25 cents We picked up The gambler returns VHS. I mean Seriously, I gotta know I gotta know first. You got Kenny Rogers up there Looks like he's in a death situation is Reba gonna get the Gatling gun out and save his ass I'm ready to see all right. Let's stop number two This is another goodwill and this one is in the city next to me in Gallatin That would be called Hendersonville, Tennessee, and that's getting closer towards the Nashville area this is all north of Nashville if you're actually interested in geography of this place and This goodwill is a bit newer. I want to say it's only like three or four years old And the bad thing is is this is not nearly as good of a honey hole usually as the last place It will be a lot cleaner inside. You're gonna see a lot of you know It's gonna look nicer inside But the stuff that's turned in here never seems to be as good as the other goodwill So let's just go in now and check out goodwill number two All right. Here's a look at the front of the building again. If you ever are in this area It's pretty standard-looking goodwill just a little bit newer All right guys, so one of the reasons you want to come in January especially December Two goodwill stores as people tend to throw out their stuff at the end of the year Especially in America They make room for new junk for Christmas Some appliances furniture Blarty blart nothing we really want to Have any interest in stuff got to keep stuff small because I got to travel back with it Some of these things are not going to come. Look at this Is that scepter Is this a monitor? It is awfully thin Wow $40. I bet this is like a 1080 monitor 40 bucks a little bit high and that's the problem some of these places charge just too much for their junk Here's a CRT karaoke machine Got a little tube in it See I mean you could just hook up anything to this so Can't find a CRT in here Ethernet cables charging cables Old iPad chargers jam boxes these are the jam boxes nobody wants yet Although they do have cassette players in them. So if you want something like that, it's a good idea Baby, let's make chocolate fondue and have a party to look at all these fondue makers Stereo system that looks like garbage Media section Tons of CDs sometimes you can again find things like PlayStation one games hiding in here. I've found those before Silver buckle stables. You might need to get this for Bob. You know, he loves horses Oh goodness. I might have to or Wee workout It's a popular thing, isn't it? Thrift stores the wee workouts Maybe we should get these from Mike. Gee mr. Mrs. Retro tank here Oh gosh, those are not cute at all. These are late nightmare fuel Well, unfortunately that was kind of the typical goodwill experience especially to anybody that knows And tries to go shopping at goodwill most of the time You're just not going to find anything really worth buying And especially if there's a line and that horse game is really not worth Anything, I mean if you look it up online it sells for less than $10 It's not rare. I've never seen it before but I just thought it would have been funny to send to Bob But since there's such a long line, I'll just have to wait till next time But yeah, that's a good example of why people complain about goodwill And uh, but you do have to remain consistent honestly because sometimes things will show up here I'm sure they're good, but if you're not here probably when it gets put out on the shelf And uh, if you don't stop by these stores more regularly, you're not going to get the chance to Actually land one of these great items. The next store we're going to go into is called the Great Escape Now this is a legendary store in the Nashville area And if you're from anywhere in the Nashville area, you will know The name the Great Escape probably if you collect comic books ball cards pokemon stuff video games It's kind of like a place where all this stuff goes including albums music a lot of that kind of stuff videos media And of course video games and old retro stuff Now the problem with their store is they are retail kind of store small business, but they are a small chain I think there's four of them around the area So that means we're not going to get probably big price drops or you know great deals on anything What you can get good deals on here are Broken consoles that are turned in sometimes they have stacks of those and also Like adapter plugs and used power supplies They tend to have those in bargain bins for a dollar or two. So I always love to look through those It's going to be a little bit more of a retail store and not so much of a goodwill. So I'll try to get as much great footage for you as I can So let's just go now go inside to the Great Escape going into the Great Escape Good place here The Great Escape is a cool store filled with random stuff You can pretty much find all types of collectibles in this store and they will buy things from you The staff did not really seem to like the idea of me filming but thankfully I was able to sneak some footage out. So we'll breeze through the game sections They have the high priced items in the display cases Some of the shelves had common nintendo 64 and super nintendo games But not really much to choose from here Most of these games were priced under $10 and Just nothing really that exciting They did have a pretty good inventory of disc games Everything from playstation to modern games had some selection And I found a copy of a complete 18 wheeler American trucker for the gamecube for $8 and of course I bought it I don't have this game and I love getting decent stuff on the gamecube Here's some odyssey stuff The next display case has most of the consoles and more expensive accessories inside of it Most of the items in the case right now are pretty much modern consoles and other accessories There was a SNES And they were nice enough to write the serial number on the outside I bet they get asked a lot about the one chip question They also had a silver gamecube console down at the bottom Now on to these bargain bins These tubs are separated based on well nothing really anymore They just seem to be filled with mostly random useless junk There were some knockoff controller sets and some decent power supplies for the Wii And the xbox 360 if you need one But unfortunately just not a lot to choose from here A couple of knockoff multi taps and other things just nothing really I'm looking for We got what looks like one og xbox controller But goodness gracious $17 just for the controller now They did have some broken consoles They had a $5 xbox 360 and then some $50 xboxes That all didn't power on Then there was a ps3 that was listed as backwards compatible for $50 But that sounds like a headache and it's filthy I did buy one more item that was not on film in the store That was the nintendo z bag It cost me three dollars, but it's filthy It's in pretty good shape outside of the awful stains on the exterior I may clean this up and have a twitter post about it I still feel like it was a bargain at three dollars Now on to our final stop of the video Last stop for this trip is going to be a place called smashville. I hope you enjoy some of the local shenanigans Space invaders too bad they had a crappy lcd panel in there. What's wrong with this picture? Centipede millipede Come on fellas come on breads. We need to get you some crt's in here And then back here in the corner pac-man What you think lcd And I also would have talked over to this silly acdc song so these guys don't try to Sit there and not copyright over two seconds of this video guys. Unfortunately the predator's lost But that's okay. It's hockey that happens a long season Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this retro vlog slash road trip slash Hockey game, whatever you want to call this. It's been a wonderful week And I can't wait to get back into the crt bunker and get working on some wonderful machines again I'll see you guys soon