Just a story I felt like sharing and maybe this will prevent somebody else from being careless like me.
I have a list of 10 or so games that I want to find locally. Real common stuff that pretty much isn't worth the shipping it would cost to get from ebay. This also gives me games to look out for at thrift and flea markets.
Anyway, one of those games was Atari 2600 River Raid. After about a year (maybe more) of searching around locally, I finally found one for $1 about a month ago. Great.
A couple weeks ago, I worked a flea market and set up a booth with a friend to get rid of some house stuff after a spring purge we did. I had a box of spare Atari stuff that I brought for the sale. One of the small 2600 consoles, some accessories, games I have in triplicate (at least), and some joysticks. This box has kind of been my "catch all" for any atari crap I got that I didn't want. Well, one day, I had put ALL of my joysticks in this box for some dumb reason. The box sold.
I went to play river raid today and realized I didn't have any joysticks.
I am usually very organized with my cords/AC's/controllers/etc. and I can't believe I didn't put two sticks aside.