I took an entire rental store's stock of TG-16 stuff. I paid maybe... $50 total for it? Some of it never rented. It was moved into a back room. I asked where it was, they told me where. Long story to it, at first the games were priced for me at $5 a pieces, maybe $3 for 10. Now, these games were complete, with cardboard box (You'd take that off the shelf and exchange at the counter for the game), etc.
Later, after a while, doing odd jobs for the video store, such as plastering coupons on cars for TG-16 games, the owner just told me, as a gift, to take the last 50-60 of these old games for free, as a gift.
It was awesome.
I can't recall the exact number, but probably 80-100 boxed games. I also got a rental case, some spare hucard cases, rental tg-16 system, a controller, and a tap.
This was in the mid-late 90s. Best time to pick up discontinued stuff, when it is freshly discontinued.
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Shut the f@ck up. That is amazing. f*ck all of y@u.
What was amazing, is I thought to ask. I hadn't seen them for rent in a while, they were removed when it went under new ownership. So, I hadn't seen the games in maybe 6 months, a year? I asked the owner, and he told he took it off the shelves since it wasn't renting, and put them in the back. The TG-16 stuff was wasting real estate where stuff that rented could be.
Sometime during that time, the boxes were thrown out for the NES games. They were still for rent, since a few people still rented the NES games, but the price was lowered, and they were set out, spine first in their rental cases. I guess he didn't care too much if and NES game was stolen.
I still recall spending time, looking through the games, trying to figure out which ones to buy, reading the descriptions, etc. I spent a long time, that first time seeing the boxes of the games, just looking through them that summer day.
I was into movies at the time, and the guy got along with me. I rented stuff, sometimes got free rentals, plastered coupons for him, I figure, he thought after I bought so many, f*ckit, Merry X-mas, take the last of this non-renting stuff from my store's back room!
I also recall that's how I found out about the movie Mallrats. Back then, video rental places held onto demo/preview VHS tapes, in case the studio contacted them for them to be returned. So, shitloads were back there. I saw Mallrats. The VHS preview cover was mostly a Magic Eye image, with a blurb in the corner or something. I have to search on ebay, that may be the VHS poster art... yeah, it looked like the Advance poster art. I no longer have that Demo VHS, though. I grabbed that, and others, sometimes. I recall first viewing that movie around the same time as that TG-16 haul, and finding it really funny, but not knowing many other people who had seen it or even heard of it. Now, well, it's different.
