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In article <grjt41l2uj13a7bb7etq64n9skt8tlkrbo@4ax.com>,
Didimo <didimo@SPAMMATUAMAMMAsbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Actually, I do live in St. Louis! Central West End, BTW, work at SLU.
> But my Vctx find dates back to... ohmy, six years ago, when I was
> still living in Connecticut.
As I said, most locally seen veccies are imports.
> Here in the STL area, instead, besides the Famicom + Disk System & 2
> games at the Game Trader last year and a few rare SegaCD, 32X, 3D0,
> Turbographx and Intellivision @ Slackers, it pretty much feels like a
> collector's desert.
Up until about the time I moved from my apt. to my house, StL was sweet,
save for Veccies and Neo-Geos. Back in the day, there were several
stores that brought the rarest of the rare to the streets when they were
new. Instant Replay, AVC and Back to Basics were Atari, Inty and CV
havens. Doy TV brought everything Odyssey except Power Lords. Styx,
Baer and Fuller helped with the O^2 until around the time of the MS
Series games, but Sears stepped in, as did Roger Hornsby for a short
window of time. Gene Love TV brought the Stu2 and later the CDi.
Software Etc and Babbages were originators and kingpins for 3DO. And
many local (and now defunct) video clubs also sold NES games such that
all but Panesian were easily accessed. Strangely, I cannot tell you
where SMS's were sold, but the supply of CIB SMS carts was nearly
boundless.
> Incidentally, I was also quickly informed that it
> would be pointless to cruise thrifts and fleas because SumGuy (you? :
> )] would runsack them on a regular basis
Thrifts dried up when the post printed an article on how some games were
pulling big bux on ePay. That spawned several sumguys, including one
bastard I only knew as the Fat Man. He would badger garage sellers in
No. county and NW county into selling him the good stuff cheap, and the
bastard could move, frequently beating me to many a potential find. But
he seems to have dropped off the radar in the last year, as I have found
occasional finds that I have passed on at one particular thrift has sat
untouched for up to a few weeks. But I know the employees at this one,
and they let me know whenever anything hits the shelf, and if I messed
it, they frequently can tell me by description who bought it. A recent
package of a loose 4-sw with 50 carts (OC, C and U with one boarderline
R, all of which I already have) plus a CIB Stunt Cycle missing the
battery cover and with damage to the battery neg terminal spring sold
for $175, and the guy buying it was giggling about how he was going to
sell it for a profit on eBay (which I seriously doubt he can). But that
package sat on the secured display shelf for almost three months before
he bought it. These days, Unique gets so little it makes me almost want
to cry.
> Well, I already got most of my Holy Grails in CT or back home in
> Italy, and in France... Ah, and I almost forgot: STL did give me a
> most sought-after Arcadia 2001 + games at a very reasonable price...
> And an extra Radiant Silvergun for SS for just $15 4 years ago : ).
There are still treasures to be found, but it takes
persistence and getting out early every saturday. and getting lucky
enough to go to the right part of town to stumble on it.
jt
/www.GodsLabRat.com
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