Man, who knew actually going outside of Orlando could've been so great for finding retro games? I went to a few Video Game Trader stores (Orange City and Port Orange), as well as a place near South Daytona called "Blue Dragon Videogames". There was a lot of goodies to find. I've found some rare Atari 2600 games (Track & Field, Congo Bongo, Gorf, Steeplechase) all for a dollar a piece (and in the case of T&F and Steeplechase, I felt like I stole the games for how cheap they were sold). Plus some stores had some rather nice finds (Blue Dragon had numerous boxed TG16 games, and four Wico Command Control sticks for the Colecovision).
Though the pricing varied wildly on a lot of items (like a 4-port woodgrain Sears 2600 going for almost $50, and a loose Roller Controller with two Adam controllers going for the same price), some other items were sold for far less than their actual value (Three dollars for the NES version of Pac-Mania? Sold!). Two of the VGT stores I've been to even had Colecovision systems modded for composite out (though the Orange City store made me feel uneasy when the modder on staff said he wanted to reverse-engineer LHE's s-video mod for the 2600). It was pretty wild.
Overall, I'd say it was very much worth a trip to the beach and then some for some awesome finds. Definitely need to budget a hundred dollars every trip for games.
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