Summer of Retro, Weekend of Sega
July 9, 2012 Tags: atari 7800, game boy, game boy advance sp, nes, retro, retro gaming, sega, sega dreamcast, sega genesis, sega saturn, summer of retro
Category: Summer of Retro 2012 4 Comments 
SAYYYYY-GAAAAAAAA!!!!
Oh goodness, folks, what a week it was in the Summer of Retro. When you last left your hero, who I am assuming is me, I had found the XBox and had some interesting prospects and leads. Almost the second after I hit “publish” on the last blog, things started getting nuts. First, my father texted me to let me know that he had found his Game Boy Advance SP. I offered to buy it from him but he instead is donating it to my cause with 7 games. A few texts later, he had found an Atari 2600 box. Inside the box though was an Atari 7800. He also found 21 games for it. Also donated to the cause. Now I know I have mentioned quite a few times that my old NES is somewhere in the confines of the house. Sadly the search for the NES turned up fruitless. Almost. He found all of the NES games but oddly, almost inexplicably, the console is still MIA. Still though, I’ll have an easier time replacing the console than the games so I’m happy with that haul.
If that wasn’t enough, Saturday I was at a co-worker’s home doing some computer maintenance for him and I told him about the Summer of Retro. He told me about his Sega Dreamcast that was collecting dust. He gave me that Dreamcast, 35 games, and a driving wheel in exchange for the computer work. I was ecstatic. Then today, I stopped into Play N Trade and they had Sega Saturn. $40 was the price which I guess was fair but it turned out that they couldn’t find the controllers. I negotiated them down to $25 and now I have a Saturn. So we started this journey 1 week ago and now here I sit, 6 consoles richer. With all of that said, I am now running into storage and display issues I am working on a solution for. Here is the updated hitlist:
- Atari 2600
Atari 7800- Commodore 64
- Famicom
- NES
- Sega Master System
Sega GenesisSega Saturn- SNES
- PS1
Dreamcast- Gamecube
Original Xbox- PS2
Game Boy Advance SP- Sega Game Gear
As always, if you have anything that is on the hitlist, email me!
No N64 on the list or do you already have it?
I do already have the N64. It’s the only console that I have always kept in my possession since the day I got it. I should probably add it to the list though with the strikethough.
Nice work! There are like a thousand Gamecubes at the Goodwill in Valrico. Ok maybe it was 5, but they were there two weeks ago. I’m trying to snare a NES and a Virtua Boy myself. Got a good lead on the NES. Finding a Virtua Boy for a sane price is the Great White Buffalo. I’d also like to get a Sega CD but that’s low priority (only for Lunar, one of my Top 5).
I do have a lead on a GameCube with the Game Boy Advance attachment but I also plan on doing a Goodwill/ Salvation Army run here shortly to see what treasures lie there. Probably the most common question I get is why the Sega CD and 32X aren’t on this list. Answer: they were just awful and I don’t want to have to find room for 3 giant plugs for essentially the same unit. That being said, if I found them for a good price, I’d probably still grab them. I’m weak lol.