This might be my luckiest find I’ll ever have.
(This paragraph is a bit of fun backstory, skip to the next for the actual find if you don’t care.) Years ago I was vacationing with my family in the Smoky Mountains, and we visited an antique store. In that store they had loose Odyssey 2 carts. I was intrigued by the form factor of these carts so I did some googling and was fascinated by the system. I love the box art and the cartridges, so when I got home from that trip I ordered a boxed console online and I’ve slowly been building my collecting since. It’s the only console I feel compelled to collect a complete set of. For now anyway.
Fast forward to now: I live close to the Smoky Mountains, and besides game collecting, one of my hobbies is general thrifting and antiquing. There are a lot of these stores all around the area, so I often check them when I have a free day to do so. I went to one of the stores and I saw a Magnavox Odyssey 2 console and some boxed games. I already have a boxed console and most of the games so I shrugged it off until I saw Power Lords. Complete with box and manual. I did a double take and then asked the owner of the booth what they wanted for it and I walked away with it for $15. It’s not mint by any means, but not too rough either. It’s my best find to date, probably ever, and with some serendipity I found it on the same road that I initially was intrigued by the system years prior.
EDIT: I thought I had attached photos. I'm still figuring this stuff out.
Edited: 05/30/2019
at 03:12 PM
by The Strangest