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Drunksaling Epidemic In Chicago, Again

http://www.gamesetwatch.com/fester.jpg If you're The New Gamer website, then the garage/thrift store hunting never ends, and the 'Chi-Style Drunksaling: Vol. 5.3 - Family Matters' edition is up now - we previously covered these guys' thrift game stylings.

This time, the depressing intro starts: "According to the classifieds, this week looked not-so-promising. In fact, there was a distinct lack of electronics in all of the week's listed sales, with the exception of one sale far, far, far out west in the outskirts of 'Chicagoland', in an area that neighbors Chicago but is much too far to be considered part of the city-proper. Yeah, we aren't driving that far for anything less than a guaranteed Turbo-Grafx 16."

But find stuff they did: "Buried away in this desk was a complete NES and a number of games, including Castlevania III, Zelda 2, Bubble Bobble, Ghosts 'n Goblins. Of particular interest was a copy of Fester's Quest, which also came with a dog-eared copy of Nintendo Power opened to a walkthrough for Fester's." All were grabbed for $20, and let me just say that the Bay Area is abysmal for sales like this, thanks to the surfeit of video game geeks cruising for bargains, damn them.

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