Is there anything written on the back? I have found a handful of pictures at thrift shops with a presentation inscription on the back. These inscriptions makes a piece even more interesting.
your collection is really nice! i particularly like the vaporwave floppys and the arizona's dead mall gold vhs. also the picture of the mall under construction was an awesome find!
Really enjoy seeing the Lazer tag Starlite gun in your collection. I still have 4 complete Lazer tag sets and the TSR Lazer tag game book. Found it all at a garage sale in the bay area California about 20 years ago. I miss the 80s so badly.
The VHS at 5:14 is in Greek. I cannot make out all the words, but I can make out: Line 1: Greek dance Blue text: Theatre (then the name of a play?) Line 2: and songs
There's something about going to places at night time that makes me feel good. It's a time of of mystery, and you'll never know what you'll find at the thrift store.
wow you'd think they'd check those VHS tapes before they put them out there?! no doubt you find the weirdest crap at thrift stores, for sure. but I suppose you find as much treasure, like that sweet octagonal coffee table! shout-out to the retro game rooms, some massively epic setups in the house there.
I love the ToeJam and Earl music in the background! That was my favorite game growing up. Also that coffee table is absolutely perfect for that space! Such a great find.
I have an Expert Software release of Sonic CD, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, and Sonic R. Found a similar cassette tape briefcase last time I was out thrifting. Tape cases make for good Gameboy game cases too. I’m astounded they had black tapes, almost all Goodwills I’ve seen throw them out specifically because who knows what they have on them. I love exploring Tivo “sold as blank” tapes. Most don’t even have commercial tapes when I go to them any more.
That picture of the mall was a awesome find as with the end table ! You always find cool stuff. Don't regret leaving behind the CD holder behind, those usually always break. That trash gave me 80s Wendy's vibe, ours had a bunch of wood decor.
Great video!!! As I watch your thrifting videos, I always thought that your house might look like something out an episode of hoarders!!! SO WRONG!! You have everything displayed in a very neat and classic way!!! I have my own little collection of vintage video games. Just in a cabinet, not enough to display. However my GREAT passion in life is world travel. I just surpassed my 60th county in September. And much like you r game room I have an “art” gallery in my basement where I display all my favorite pictures from my travels. So as my “special” room is not videos games, I can still appreciate your passion for something that brings you so much happiness as video games and thrifting as travel brings to me!!!
A good chunk of the fun for me in going to thrift stores is to just look at the cool, weird, and funny things I find. I don't need to actually buy anything for it to be a fun trip 🙂 I also like to have friends over to enjoy my collection with and play old games. I can't do that if the house is overflowing with crap lol. My new place is great because it makes it easy to split it up with the retro stuff upstairs while downstairs it's nice and modern.
Thanks for showing the retro room, I recognized many nice looking vintage pieces. Well done, I don’t have a collection, but I really like what you’ve done there, it’s makers sense. The coffee table with dark glass looks awesome.
That coffee table actually looks cool! Poor Sega Genesis, getting banged in every hole. (I can laugh as an original owner of a model 1 Genesis, model 2 Sega CD, and 32X, with an official Sega power strip for the three power bricks.)
I am a bit jealous of the sony alarm clock and the mall art work. Love your little man cave. You might enjoy my recent living room tour I did. My entire living room is a man cave w/ pinball machines, jukeboxes, pachinko machine and a mega touch arcade!
My friend owns the oldest (still operational) RadioShack in the country. If you want to know more about Tandy he would be the guy to talk to. Considering he has been in the electronics business for so long I am sure he could tell you a LOT about old electronics.
6:07 -- A friend of mine had that modem ca. 1990 when he was studying Computer Science at University. Rather than buy a PC (or any other computer), he scrounged a surplus terminal from somewhere and paired it with that 300 baud modem to do his homework on the mainframe. It was on clearance when he bought it, so it presumably came out several years prior. ETA: The 4-pin DIN connector is for the Coco; the other port was for the Model I/III and other systems.
11:36 ❤️ how you have Wario 'n them facing the arcade games like they're playing. 😄 Great table find; woulda totally picked that up, too since it matches my decor!
I just love your retro loft gaming room and that retro table was an awesome find - pristine condition too - your game room is cleaner and more organized that my freaking house...LOL thanx for giving us a tour! ♥
Man, I am so jealous. My local GW never has anything cool, not sure why. The cheese cutter was made in the USA! Your retro collection is great, very impressive! Nice to see the mall plant still kickin' it.
If you’re a fan of “sold as blank” VHS tapes I recommend watching a channel called Brutalmoose. He has a series where he gets old VHS tapes and chronicles what he find (mostly old commercials)
My parents had a code a phone answering machine. It had a remote that made a beep noise you'd play through the phone to get your messages. As kids we'd use it while pretending to swear like they bleep in movies
I have that Sony alarm clock as my nightstand clock. It's awesome. The projector feature is a little goofy but the dual alarm is nice and I much prefer waking up to the sound of rain and ocean waves than a buzzer.
This is an older video but I just wanted to say TH-cam randomly recommended me one of your videos and I watched it on a whim, and since then I’ve started binging the videos on your channel, haha. I was born in the late 80s and I have older siblings who are 10+ years older than me, so a lot of the stuff you feature and talk about is extremely nostalgic for me, and the videos are oddly comforting and cozy. Finally decided to subscribe recently and will continue enjoying all the other vids on your channel. Awesome stuff!
Great video! The music in the first part totally reminded me of the soundtrack of one of my favorite game franchises of all time...Toe Jam and Earl on the Sega Genesis. So fun!
That is a nice looking mini table. It feels weird to think that not only VHS collecting a thing but it's seen as retro relics from the past. I still remember when my dad hated DVDs because he saw them as a downgrade to VHS tapes.
Wow, I had that exact same Toshiba boom box when I was a kid. And Im all the way over the other side of the world in Australia. That just gave me the ridiculous nostalgia vibes. I used to use that thing to record songs off the radio, then annoy the crap out of my dad by playing punk full bore until midnight. I was a little prick.
Just a thought about the mall picture...I think you're on point with it coming from the mall but architecture and engineering firms often take pics like this for their offices especially when portfolios weren't something available online... I'm always on the hunt for these esp 50s to late 70s because their perspective is from the design and engineering view... really enjoy your thrifting videos and greetings from northern Ontario Canada
1:53 i had that same stereo when i was a young teen!!! My dad was a preacher and my mom super religious. I remember being like 13 listening to rap music on the radio in my closet hiding with that giant thing, then my brother would tell on me XD
My mom had that exact same VHS player when I was growing up. It stopped working a while ago but she just used it a s clock for years until she go a 'new' one
I had the version of that Sony alarm clock without the projector on it. And it was one of the worst time keeping devices I've ever had, constantly falling behind. On occasion it even missed alarms.
I used to have 2 large cassette cases that looked like that. One was double sided. I threw them and all my tapes away around 2012. I wish I still had them. Would be neat if you could get that newer pic of the mall and mount them side by side. Also I wonder if you could put a projector in that coffee table and project stuff onto the glass from the bottom. I miss the days of the SNES and Genesis. I had SO much fun back then. Genesis will always be my favorite. Ha! You have a Micron case. Pre computer so pre 1994 I used to read all the magazine wanting a PC SO bad. Back then it was a toss up between Dell and Micron and I wanted a Micron. Never got either funny enough....ended up wit ha great AST. Not a single thrift store or Goodwill in my town has electronics or video games. Used to but the employees always snagged stuff before putting it out so they stopped it all.
Those are some cool finds! I work at a Goodwill and I try to pick out old CD-Roms when I can. Sadly we don't put out a lot of them and we stopped putting out VHS tapes all together...
You are lucky you didn't get those CD holders.. the clip that holds them in fails quickly. I have 3 and all 3 have failed and it's hard to keep them in
I'd like to report another dead mall the former mall of garden city south Carolina as it seems most of the stores are dead with a few being seasonal but the only places still active are a belks and planet fitness
I used to have cassette cases like that black one but ours were huge and double sided. Love the under construction pic. You're alright..you have a Jambi wallpaper on your screen.
Scottsdale Fashion Square just announced they’re gonna renovate the south wing from the food court to Nordstrom. Renders look similar to the luxury wing.
Man that Zip drive! I still have my old one with an ACTUAL Parallel port. Don't think I'll ever get rid of it, and probably won't have any way to hook it up again
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If you ever come across used home VHS tapes over here in the wild, 90% of them will be recordings of Princess Diana's funeral on them!
Shutuplarry.......
That’s so interesting!
Retro room looking nice. That mall construction photo is such a weird thing to see in a Goodwill but it feels like it was meant for you to find it.
Is there anything written on the back? I have found a handful of pictures at thrift shops with a presentation inscription on the back. These inscriptions makes a piece even more interesting.
Nothing on the back unfortunately.
Totally, it was like he was meant to find it, Lol.
@@RetailArchaeology Great video Retail I can't wait if you do more goodwill in surprise there's a bunch out here now lol
Thrifting Time is Always the best time, especially after dark.
I wish LGR still made them but sadly he does not.
In a word, your retro game room is trippy. Nice to see the mall plant’s doing pretty well too!
Since LGR pretty much scraped the barrel of his Thrifts series, I've gotten my thrifting fix from Retail Archaeology. Thanks for filling the gap.
Wow! That mall photo was a really incredible find! I love your whole retro gaming loft too. The decor is so nostalgic and satisfying to look at. 😊🌴
Oh wow, that Superstition Springs photo! What a find
The retro gaming loft is awesome.
your collection is really nice! i particularly like the vaporwave floppys and the arizona's dead mall gold vhs. also the picture of the mall under construction was an awesome find!
Really enjoy seeing the Lazer tag Starlite gun in your collection. I still have 4 complete Lazer tag sets and the TSR Lazer tag game book. Found it all at a garage sale in the bay area California about 20 years ago. I miss the 80s so badly.
I think it's one of the coolest looking sci-fi guns ever and it has an awesome name.
@@RetailArchaeology definitely 100% agree. 👍
The VHS at 5:14 is in Greek. I cannot make out all the words, but I can make out:
Line 1: Greek dance
Blue text: Theatre (then the name of a play?)
Line 2: and songs
I feel like you were the one and only person who was perfect for that framed photo 😂
Your retro loft is missing one of those faux potted flowers that dance from sound activation :D
My husband would kill for a room like that!
mall plant update was a pleasant surprise haha
You're probably the perfect person to find that mall photo
There's something about going to places at night time that makes me feel good. It's a time of of mystery, and you'll never know what you'll find at the thrift store.
Where I live everything is closed by 8pm expect for a few places.
And most thrift stores close at 6pm.
wow you'd think they'd check those VHS tapes before they put them out there?! no doubt you find the weirdest crap at thrift stores, for sure. but I suppose you find as much treasure, like that sweet octagonal coffee table! shout-out to the retro game rooms, some massively epic setups in the house there.
That is the reason I don’t sell unlabeled or home made vhs tapes. I don’t want to get put on blast by Facebook moms
People have found guns left in clothes pockets there so I don't think they'd care that much about what is on the tapes
I got a blank vhs tape from my local thrift store once but it just had recordings of early 00s shows
Your place is a museum for dead electronic formats!
Love the glass table reflecting the glass CRT screen. Relics of a more civilised age.
Wow that's insane, 3:55 didn't expect to see my City on that box. We don't even have any manufacturing places/ Warehouses
Ha, ToeJam & Earl music!!! BTW the new ToeJam & Earl is the free game on the Epic store best week!
I love the ToeJam and Earl music in the background! That was my favorite game growing up. Also that coffee table is absolutely perfect for that space! Such a great find.
Retro room looking good! I do agree that the table cleaned up well and looks good in the room.
My dad had one of those leather cassette tape carriers. His was brown but I recognized it immediately.
I have an Expert Software release of Sonic CD, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, and Sonic R.
Found a similar cassette tape briefcase last time I was out thrifting. Tape cases make for good Gameboy game cases too.
I’m astounded they had black tapes, almost all Goodwills I’ve seen throw them out specifically because who knows what they have on them. I love exploring Tivo “sold as blank” tapes. Most don’t even have commercial tapes when I go to them any more.
That picture of the mall was a awesome find as with the end table ! You always find cool stuff. Don't regret leaving behind the CD holder behind, those usually always break. That trash gave me 80s Wendy's vibe, ours had a bunch of wood decor.
Great video!!! As I watch your thrifting videos, I always thought that your house might look like something out an episode of hoarders!!! SO WRONG!! You have everything displayed in a very neat and classic way!!! I have my own little collection of vintage video games. Just in a cabinet, not enough to display. However my GREAT passion in life is world travel. I just surpassed my 60th county in September. And much like you r game room I have an “art” gallery in my basement where I display all my favorite pictures from my travels. So as my “special” room is not videos games, I can still appreciate your passion for something that brings you so much happiness as video games and thrifting as travel brings to me!!!
A good chunk of the fun for me in going to thrift stores is to just look at the cool, weird, and funny things I find. I don't need to actually buy anything for it to be a fun trip 🙂 I also like to have friends over to enjoy my collection with and play old games. I can't do that if the house is overflowing with crap lol. My new place is great because it makes it easy to split it up with the retro stuff upstairs while downstairs it's nice and modern.
Thanks for showing the retro room, I recognized many nice looking vintage pieces. Well done, I don’t have a collection, but I really like what you’ve done there, it’s makers sense.
The coffee table with dark glass looks awesome.
That coffee table actually looks cool! Poor Sega Genesis, getting banged in every hole. (I can laugh as an original owner of a model 1 Genesis, model 2 Sega CD, and 32X, with an official Sega power strip for the three power bricks.)
You need some neat retro themed drink coasters now. I love that room, very cozy lookin.
My parents have that same exact hexagonal table! It currently sits in the front hall between the coat closet and doorway to the computer room.
10:04 My mom bought me something similar for my birthday one year. It was fun as long as you had a second person to play with.
Basically your retro loft is the office of my dreams! You have such a great collection and nice colors too (the lava lamp and the sofas!!!!)- 10/10 🤩.
I am a bit jealous of the sony alarm clock and the mall art work. Love your little man cave. You might enjoy my recent living room tour I did. My entire living room is a man cave w/ pinball machines, jukeboxes, pachinko machine and a mega touch arcade!
My friend owns the oldest (still operational) RadioShack in the country. If you want to know more about Tandy he would be the guy to talk to. Considering he has been in the electronics business for so long I am sure he could tell you a LOT about old electronics.
All that 90's nostalgic goodness😎. Looks awesome, now I have to redecorate my place.
Great Video! Awesome retro-room!
I loved the wooden trash can. It looked like a podium.
Keisha’s Lovers?? Bahahahahaha
Erik, this episode did not fail to entertain. Thanks for the laughs.
I was in that movie
Great retro set up love the green translucent N64 and the red iMac G3 I'm a big fan of Y2k aesthetic.
15:45 wasn't expecting to see Space Alien on the shelves, nice.
6:07 -- A friend of mine had that modem ca. 1990 when he was studying Computer Science at University. Rather than buy a PC (or any other computer), he scrounged a surplus terminal from somewhere and paired it with that 300 baud modem to do his homework on the mainframe. It was on clearance when he bought it, so it presumably came out several years prior.
ETA: The 4-pin DIN connector is for the Coco; the other port was for the Model I/III and other systems.
11:36 ❤️ how you have Wario 'n them facing the arcade games like they're playing. 😄 Great table find; woulda totally picked that up, too since it matches my decor!
Nice catch, that is so cute.
That hexagon table would make a great center-piece in some sort of weird bee themed room, paint it yellow and it's perfect.
You unlocked a memory of my mom's micro Cassette answering machine. I used to play with that thing alot.
The cassette tape holder works excellently for holding harmonica’s as well
I own that exact model of Hitachi VCR.
Amazing video quality for a VHS deck.
Nice sega collection and turbo grafix! Just waiting for the day I can afford to build a sega collection again.
Love the Lazer Tag in the retro room, but I gasped at the Captain Power jet in the office. I miss mine.
I just love your retro loft gaming room and that retro table was an awesome find - pristine condition too - your game room is cleaner and more organized that my freaking house...LOL thanx for giving us a tour! ♥
Such a cool retro set up, thanks for showing it off.
Tandy was our families first PC back in the day. We had that thing forever before upgrading.
That cheese slicer is legit! Had one for many years. Worked like a charm.
I love your retro room! That built in entertainment area is pretty cool.
I love the use of the Toejam and Earl music!
Awesome video, loved your retro game room...I swear these videos are some of the coziest videos around
I think I had that Expert astrology CD and/or a tarot CD. I remember it being so exciting to see everything created to be seen on a computer. 😄
I like the room. Nice Giger art.
Awesome and amazing and completely immersive journey! So happy always to move around the world with you!
Man, I am so jealous. My local GW never has anything cool, not sure why. The cheese cutter was made in the USA! Your retro collection is great, very impressive! Nice to see the mall plant still kickin' it.
I would have killed for this room in the 90's! It looks great!
If you’re a fan of “sold as blank” VHS tapes I recommend watching a channel called Brutalmoose. He has a series where he gets old VHS tapes and chronicles what he find (mostly old commercials)
I love Brutalmoose, I've been subscribed for years 🙂
My parents had a code a phone answering machine. It had a remote that made a beep noise you'd play through the phone to get your messages. As kids we'd use it while pretending to swear like they bleep in movies
I have that Sony alarm clock as my nightstand clock. It's awesome. The projector feature is a little goofy but the dual alarm is nice and I much prefer waking up to the sound of rain and ocean waves than a buzzer.
This is an older video but I just wanted to say TH-cam randomly recommended me one of your videos and I watched it on a whim, and since then I’ve started binging the videos on your channel, haha.
I was born in the late 80s and I have older siblings who are 10+ years older than me, so a lot of the stuff you feature and talk about is extremely nostalgic for me, and the videos are oddly comforting and cozy. Finally decided to subscribe recently and will continue enjoying all the other vids on your channel. Awesome stuff!
Thank you 😁
Great video! The music in the first part totally reminded me of the soundtrack of one of my favorite game franchises of all time...Toe Jam and Earl on the Sega Genesis. So fun!
The built-ins in your loft are so awesome!
I wore out my cassette copy of the Miami Vice soundtrack in high school while driving my Z28.
3:25 I thought that green Phillips device was a PDA but it’s a universal remote.
That is a nice looking mini table. It feels weird to think that not only VHS collecting a thing but it's seen as retro relics from the past. I still remember when my dad hated DVDs because he saw them as a downgrade to VHS tapes.
Wow, I had that exact same Toshiba boom box when I was a kid. And Im all the way over the other side of the world in Australia. That just gave me the ridiculous nostalgia vibes.
I used to use that thing to record songs off the radio, then annoy the crap out of my dad by playing punk full bore until midnight. I was a little prick.
Just a thought about the mall picture...I think you're on point with it coming from the mall but architecture and engineering firms often take pics like this for their offices especially when portfolios weren't something available online... I'm always on the hunt for these esp 50s to late 70s because their perspective is from the design and engineering view... really enjoy your thrifting videos and greetings from northern Ontario Canada
1:53 i had that same stereo when i was a young teen!!! My dad was a preacher and my mom super religious. I remember being like 13 listening to rap music on the radio in my closet hiding with that giant thing, then my brother would tell on me XD
Dude I'm blown away by your retro collection!
My mom had that exact same VHS player when I was growing up. It stopped working a while ago but she just used it a s clock for years until she go a 'new' one
Working VCRs are very hot items right now. There's definitely a market for a cheap modern version like the $40 turntables seen everywhere
I've still got an old Syquest drive from 1996 when I started my freelance graphic design. Good times
I had the version of that Sony alarm clock without the projector on it. And it was one of the worst time keeping devices I've ever had, constantly falling behind. On occasion it even missed alarms.
I used to have 2 large cassette cases that looked like that. One was double sided. I threw them and all my tapes away around 2012. I wish I still had them. Would be neat if you could get that newer pic of the mall and mount them side by side. Also I wonder if you could put a projector in that coffee table and project stuff onto the glass from the bottom.
I miss the days of the SNES and Genesis. I had SO much fun back then. Genesis will always be my favorite.
Ha! You have a Micron case. Pre computer so pre 1994 I used to read all the magazine wanting a PC SO bad. Back then it was a toss up between Dell and Micron and I wanted a Micron. Never got either funny enough....ended up wit ha great AST.
Not a single thrift store or Goodwill in my town has electronics or video games. Used to but the employees always snagged stuff before putting it out so they stopped it all.
5:51 Are you playing a Chess against Gandalf? 😂
Most the thrift stores around where I live have hours from 10am to 6pm. idk why? This only happened after the pandemic.
There's even 1 that's 10-4
absolutely love the room! so much fun.
Those are some cool finds! I work at a Goodwill and I try to pick out old CD-Roms when I can. Sadly we don't put out a lot of them and we stopped putting out VHS tapes all together...
my family had that cheese cutter back in the late 90s early aughts. many jokes about cutting the cheese.
Back in 1999 I started doing graphic design we used Zip drives a lot lol
The gaming loft is beautiful! Love that coffee table you found.
You are lucky you didn't get those CD holders.. the clip that holds them in fails quickly. I have 3 and all 3 have failed and it's hard to keep them in
Cool to see the nostalgia there, the ones near me usually don’t have cool stuff
I'd like to report another dead mall the former mall of garden city south Carolina as it seems most of the stores are dead with a few being seasonal but the only places still active are a belks and planet fitness
I can remember findin' a whole bunch of those Expert titles at Dollar Tree.
I used to have cassette cases like that black one but ours were huge and double sided. Love the under construction pic. You're alright..you have a Jambi wallpaper on your screen.
Scottsdale Fashion Square just announced they’re gonna renovate the south wing from the food court to Nordstrom. Renders look similar to the luxury wing.
You need some neon lights put up around your gaming room.
That would look so sick dude.
Your retro loft is awesome! Congrats. That mall picture is such a random find but it gives it that missing touch. Hope you enjoy the loft a lot!
The VHS tape sleeve that hid the porn looked a generic brand that was sold at Walgreens.
Your retro loft looks good.
Wow! Your retro loft is so cool! Thank you for sharing. Your videos are great! Keep up the good work!
Oh wow, cool retro room.
Man that Zip drive! I still have my old one with an ACTUAL Parallel port. Don't think I'll ever get rid of it, and probably won't have any way to hook it up again
Loving the retro loft room! Great taste!Going to have to film a full tour of mine eventually.