I found a 1960s Jeopardy! home game at the St. Vincent dePaul in Marquette, Michigan, but I didn\'t feel like spending $20 on it. Found a 1970s Family Feud at a garage sale once, and I have several old Wheel board games from the 80s somewhere. I also have Jeopardy! for the NES, which I bought when I was about 10.
I\'m actually not overly interested in old home games, and it doesn\'t help that the stores around here tend to have very few of them.
What I like to find most at thrift shops are:
1.) Old VHSes and DVDs of obscure or hard-to-find cartoons. Some (The Little Fox) are treasures; some (Bonkers) are vague childhood memories; some (Butt-Ugly Martians) are probably crap, but at least seem like they\'d be fun to mock.
2.) Obscure CDs, usually country. One good find was a country music sampler disc that RCA packaged with Maxwell House coffee in 1996 — at least one of the songs on it was from an album that never had a physical release. I\'ve also found at least two advance copies of albums that never had \"real\" releases, and one of the albums that Hunter Hayes did back when he was still a child.
3.) Books that look interesting in one way or another. Sometimes the title is enough to draw me in — I Don\'t Remember Dropping the Skunk, but I Do Remember Trying to Breathe is one of the best titles I\'ve ever heard, even if it\'s a Christian life lessons book for teenagers.
If a store has homemade VHS recordings, then I will frequently check the labels in the off-chance that any have old game shows. So far, the best I\'ve done is the credits to Classic Concentration on a tape I found at a senior center.
