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Chi-Style Drunksaling Season Four, Week One - The sales still burn.

June 1, 2005 By Glenn Turner

Unitdaisy and I were so inspired by the (now defunct) drunkgamers.com's garagesaling adventures that we went out about Chicago, scrounging for games, and forced others to relive our experience.

For those unfamiliar with the term drunksaling, it's simple: It's garage saling for videogames, executed with the intention to drink. How else can one bear this sort of social interaction? The following excursion took place on May 21st, 2005.

Hooray, we're back on the road! Due to multifaceted sets of circumstances, unitdaisy and I were unable to partake of any garage saling together last year, and thanks to my slothful attitude I only made it out a handful of times. Well, we're back, and this time we have a car!

G. Turner: No more waiting an hour for the bus! Now I feel like a real garagesaler!

unitdaisy: I love my shiny red car.

G. Turner: Our first sale and we're already a bit confused:

G. Turner: Be there! You're here! Thank heavens.

unitdaisy: The dual marker coloring shows a dedication to quality salesmanship. Too bad they didn't have a thing worth buying.

G. Turner: This is a church sale. It wasn't advertised as a church sale, but there you go. Church sales are notoriously disappointing, and I've never found anything actually worth buying at one of these events but we took all this time out to follow their damned road signs, so ... no turning back.

unitdaisy: I found the Ann Sathers cinnamon roll worth buying. I like garage sales with refeshments.

G. Turner: Flight Simulator! That's almost pious...

G. Turner: What a Smorgasbord!

unitdaisy: At least the price is fair.

G. Turner: And we can't forget Virtuoso!

unitdaisy: That's a religious game, right?

G. Turner: Leatherbear!

unitdaisy: The fact that they leathered the bottom of his feet is really disturbing, not shoes, just stitched it right to his tender little foot pads, how cruel is humanity!

G. Turner: An Atari 20-in-1, roaming frere about the tables. Eh, I'll pass.

unitdaisy: But we don't haaave one!

G. Turner: It's been a while since I've had a Furby's soulless eyes stare through me.

unitdaisy: Furbys, Cabbage Patch Kids, Tickle-Me Elmos, Beanie Babies, is there some bar they all go to now? I'd like to go...

G. Turner: It's The Wicker Angel!

unitdaisy: Maybe it's for burning Furbys.

G. Turner: Moving along far, far away from the church we hit up a sale with some surprisingly decent taste:

G. Turner: Silent Hill 2, Enter the Matrix, Rygar, Splinter Cell (1) for the PS2, and Vampire Night all for $3 a piece. I didn't bother with any of them, mostly since I don't need Splinter Cell on my PS2, I already have Silent Hill 2 and if I'm gonna buy it again, it'll be for the Xbox, and the Rygar remake didn't thrill me. The other titles should be self-evident.

unitdaisy: I wanted to buy and resell them but my $10 allowance doesn't allow for frivolous purchases.

G. Turner: Here comes the fun stuff!

G. Turner: Mr. Riley's favorite:

G. Turner: And an extremely surprising find:

G. Turner: The soul still burns, and only for $2!

unitdaisy: Although Mr. Turner tried to convince the woman taking money it was only 50 cents, thank goodness we cleared it up before the owner beat us up.

G. Turner: Some of the PSOne titles left behind for another soul were: Final Fantasy VIII, Tekken 3, Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, Heart of Darkness (I have a feeling it's not based on the Conrad text). The host of the sale convinced me to pick up Broken Helix, a choice that I'm pretty sure I'll regret.

G. Turner: unitdaisy went nuts and purchased 50,000 George R.R. Martin-related books.

unitdaisy: Anything with Martin's name on it is worth buying, even those episodes he wrote for Beauty and the Beast!

G. Turner: Okay, those episodes are certainly not allowed in the house.

unitdaisy: Toy boat! Toy boat!

G. Turner: Finally, I can make my own McFlurry at home.

unitdaisy: Finally you can make me a McFlurry at home.

G. Turner: Toot toot!

G. Turner: "Chearliding stinks! My opinion! By Annabell" Ahh the streets of Chicago.

unitdaisy: Poor child. She either didn't make the squad or her parents were eaten by a band of rabid cheerleaders. Look for her oped piece in the Tribune.

G. Turner: I wonder if there's wedding cake for sale too.

unitdaisy: I love cake! (it's much better than pie)

unitdaisy: Oooo little full price Japanese cuddlies!

G. Turner: We only had time to swing by one of our local thrift stores this week, and what they had was ..weak.

G. Turner: But there's always time for monkeys, even if they are creepy.

unitdaisy: I wish he'd come home with us.

G. Turner: Even I don't need a Super Mario 64 shower radio.

unitdaisy: But we have no radio in the shower, how else am I supposed to keep up on the lastest sporting news?

G. Turner: Whoever was running this sale (I'm guessing it was the snippy individual who threw some quips at us about photographing the wares) certainly didn't acquire this sign by any legitimate means.

unitdaisy: Yeah the only banner I have we acquired by a dorm organized sting operation. Thankfully I got to be look out and didin't have to climb the light post.

G. Turner: Yet another dark secret about your past comes to light.

G. Turner: You betcha.

unitdaisy: Watch it, mister!

G. Turner: $15 a game? That's a cold shower compared to the buyer-friendly $3 PS2 games we saw earlier. No thanks.

G. Turner: Well, it's something. They also had a copy of Cod that I promptly put back after I realized it was sticking to my hand.

unitdaisy: Every one should read Cod and stop eating fish and chips, that means you the entire empire of Great Britain!

G. Turner: As I recall, it was your idea to go to The Duke of Perth for unlimited fish & chips before we went to see Oldboy.

G. Turner: Ahh, a plethora of outdated hardware. I have enough already, thanks.

G. Turner: I don't, but unitdaisy does.

unitdaisy: Beep! Beep!

G. Turner: That may look like a guinea pig, but it's not.

G. Turner: Lastly, unitdaisy forced us to revisit the same location that popped our garage saling cherry: a very large community rummage sale at a Lincoln Park school. You may remember it as 'that place with the Tivo stuffed toy'. At least that's the way she remembers it, as she spent a good half hour looking for it. And we don't even have a Tivo!

unitdaisy: We should have kept looking - I know it was there.

G. Turner: I don't know what scares me more: That it's a rappin' rabbi (as seen on ABC's The Critic!) or that unitdaisy is terribly familiar with it.

unitdaisy: I was going to buy one for my mom.

G. Turner: The Eiffel Tower doesn't wink.

G. Turner: I don't care what look you give me, it still doesn't wink.

unitdaisy: But I've been to Paris with my friend Kate Walker, it does, it does!

G. Turner: The most cutting edge piece of hardware we spied all week.

G. Turner: Another wicker angel! I smell something burning!

unitdaisy: Mmmm someone get the marshmallows...

G. Turner: Ah, our obligatory Sims find.

G. Turner: Crisis in the Kremlin! It predicted the downfall of the USSR! Behold the power of videogames!

G. Turner: Oh Lucy, where will you end up next?

G. Turner: My new favorite packaging ever. RAKETAPISZTOLY!

G. Turner: Two Draculas for the price of one! What a deal!

unitdaisy: 2 scary 2 die.

G. Turner: And so we walked away emptyhanded from the place that previously housed such nuggets of gold as a broken 'Marv' electrocution figurine, and a second-hand Rifts book. Oh how times change.

Find of the week: Soul Blade! Ah, the genesis of the Soul Calibur franchise. While I'm sure it won't supplant Soul Calibur 1 as our fighter of choice, it certainly was a welcome find.

Lesson of the week: A Cubs fan late to arriving at the stadium informed us through profanities that, apparently, there's a new city ordinance that dictates we cannot park anywhere in Chicago. Your car cannot stop moving at any time, and if it does, the fine is death. Or a stern cuss.

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#1 R. LeFeuvre Jun 2, 2005 03:54am

LEGO Soccer: Woo!

Leatherbear: ...

Enter the Matrix: Poor fellow... I know his pain.

Soulblade: Woo!

Broken Helix: I actually "rented" that when I worked at Software Etc. For the three days I had it on loan it was fun... well... at least interesting.

NES Ice Hockey: YOU DIDNT BUY IT!? I don't see a damn bolt.... what's the deal!?

Also, I accelerate for unicorns and rakétapisztoly does, in fact, have wicked slick packaging.

#2 D. Riley Jun 2, 2005 03:44pm

Anyone who doesn't buy NES Ice Hockey, in any condition, is a jerk.

In fact, the only person who I could think of as more jerk-ish is the one that wouldn't buy Gaiares.

...what was his name again? :(

#3 Jman Jun 3, 2005 04:20pm

You passed on quite possibly the best Hockey gaame of all time...

#4 Glenn Turner Jun 3, 2005 04:45pm

That's pretty fitting, as I don't like hockey! And yes, I remember playing the NES game as a kid. It's certainly a game I can live without!

I'm starting to think I need to start buying everything I photograph, and just sell it if I don't want it. UD found out that the Rakétapisztoly toy gun commands a decent price, if in good condition.

#5 R. LeFeuvre Jun 3, 2005 06:57pm

#6 hobbie Jun 3, 2005 11:56pm

I have crappy garage sales in my area of the state.

Boo

#7 Namons Jun 4, 2005 02:24pm

Ahem... *clears throat*

*clears throat s'more*

AHEM... I guess I'd better get to work or something.

Not buying Ice Hockey... what were you thinking? Karma Karma Karma....

#8 Dublyner Jun 13, 2005 03:40am

rakétapisztoly: image saved.

So it was a toy raygun?