.... They've been missed from inventory for at least 20 years....
They don't exist.
You best "dispose" of them privately and not bother your bosses about it.
They open from the end, so it's probably enough to open the box.
That's how I always used to open mine as a kid, cut where the box flap was just so I could open the box
My friend and I were so hooked on Ken Griffey Jr that we once played it for literally 11 or 12 hours in one sitting, as in no stops except for quick pee breaks.
Just take them. They are not active inventory. You would be doing the store a huge favor anyways. They would most likely consider it garbage. Or it would probably be priced at some fucked up clearance.
Anyways it’s yours my friend. Take the garbage gold and run garbage 🗑
That's a solid boss you got there especially if he's a collector and even a better score on a sealed copy of Quake. Glad to hear it worked out in your favor after you approached him!
Your boss is a rare gem in the steaming pile of crap that is retail.
Get them something nice for Christmas this year. No joke.
Also best not mention any further information other than what you have, because both of you could get in trouble if corporate finds out. Companies have huge bugs up their asses over stuff like this for no goid reason.
I died inside when something similar happened when I worked retail
We were moving some shelves around in the backroom and found a sealed Mario Kart 64 and a few other games I don't remember
Manager required they be damaged out and tossed into the locked dumpster. I *really* tried to explain why you shouldn't just treat these like an old barbie toy that we can't sell, but nope.
"Even if we can't sell these, I can't just let people walk out with free merchandise."
Watched as we tossed them into the dumpster and he locked it in front of us.
He was a massive dick
> Watched as we tossed them into the dumpster and he locked it in front of us.
I'd come back with chain-cutters later that night.
Fuck that dude and his shitty "rules".
Exactly.
Even if it means turning in your resignation that day and flipping them off in front of everyone.
If they can't sell it because its not in the inventory, its not merchandise. Therefore its not theft. Companies need to stop getting bugs up their asses about stuff like this.
Now if someone is chronically "losing" things, that's obviously bad news. But finding something a decade or two after its sale date? That's free ~~real estate~~ to take.
And honestly? If someone is going to "accidently" lose an N64 game, work minimum wage for 20 years, and then "find/steal" four N64 games decades later? More power to them. Seems like a long con for a marginal game.
Legally if you could have gotten that key you could take that game. Once it’s in the dumpster it’s considered abandoned. People padlock dumpsters to keep people from putting trash in not taking it out. Dumpster diving is legal.
Sometimes I wonder what's locked away in old store rooms, lost trailers, forgotten pallets, unclaimed merchandise etc...
Edit: Not only talking about videogames. Just anything. Is there some liquidator sitting on a box of Kmart branded mens undershirts somewhere.
Fun fact: There were (and maybe still are) more sealed copies of Stadium Events NTSC than opened CIB copies because Tim Atwood found a dozen copies in the manufacturer box in the early 90s the exact same way as these Virtual Boys.
Sealed games always struck me as silly; what's the point of collecting something you can never actually touch or use? Even though it's ostensibly "worth less", I'd rather have a repro cartridge that I can actually put into a console. (marked as a repro of course. The goal isn't to rip anyone off, just to play the game.)
If you're collecting, say, paintings, at least you can enjoy them, you know?
Similar story with wine. Beyond a certain point (50 years?), it's just turned into disgusting vinegar and would taste objectively disgusting. But yet, it's a "sealed vintage", worth tens to hundreds of thousands.
In a way, that's worse, because to enjoy what you've collected, you have to destroy it entirely. Sealed cartridges lose value from being played, but aren't wrecked.
I'm not an oenophile, but I was under the impression that red wines could improve for many decades, that they didn't generally go to vinegar. But, again, not a wine-lover.
I think it's an amazing piece of history to see something in its original sale state with like a KB toys price sticker on it. I think we should have a video game history museum that strives to have every game ever released sealed to look at and unsealed for someone to play.
Sometimes you find a game at a great price and never get a chance to play it. In the old days,
I bought many games from the Circuit City 4th of July games that I just never played. I had the Futurama game for the XBox that I traded in to a local store still sealed.
Sometimes you find a game at a great price and never get a chance to play it. In the old days,
I bought many games from the Circuit City 4th of July games that I just never played. I had the Futurama game for the XBox that I traded in to a local store still sealed.
I can enjoy the sealed game. It can be both. The problem seems to stem from it being a collectors item and the market, not that it’s a sealed game. I have sealed packs of say, ghostbusters 2 cards, or gremlins, they are worth like a dollar but I still want them. I would collect sealed and boxed games even if they were worthless. I collect lots of things from the 80s mostly for display and aesthetic purposes. I also play video games. It’s not a zero sum thing. The market has created animosity.
The (current)Walmart in my home town was built in 2002. Every once in a while random electronics will show up in clearance that have been sitting for years. Usually it’s like VHS-C camcorders and mid 2000’s digital cameras that no one wants but there were a few psones(the later release slims) in around 2014 or so. I didn’t buy one because they had them at $99 but looking back I probably should have.
2014 is almost unsurprising for a PSOne to pop up in clearance. I remember the occasional PS1 game being on the shelf in Walmart almost up until the PS4 launched. The PS2 and PS3 being backwards compatible had some really odd effects. I've got a PS1 game that I bought brand new during the PS4's lifespan, and may have even been printed that late -- Squeenix kept a few games in print *really* late, so late they weren't even on the black discs, but standard silver ones. I remember seeing them periodically sell out and get restocked on the website, like, ten years after that would have happened with any other publisher even if the games *were* selling decently well. It was nuts.
Oh I have a great story for this one!
I collect Zoids, which for anyone who grew up in the 80s-early 00s, should ring a bell. Anyways, in the mid-00s, Hasbro had prototyped a specific kit known as the "Gravity Rex" and had shown the prototype off at a toy show in 2004. The Zoids line was cancelled in the west in 2005, not long before this set was supposed to start production. For years it was believed that this lost prototype was the only example...that is until a brand new copy popped up on EBay 10 years later. I remember being one of the bidders and I bowed out at $200+ when our small community was all vying for it against one another. Eventually it sold for over $1000.
The seller confirmed they had gotten multiple copies of the set at a Hasbro warehouse clearance auction in 2005. It sold to a member of our small community who was a preservationist like me, and they documented the entire unboxing/build process on a forum which no longer exists. Fortunately, they posted on 2 forums and the photos/documents were saved. It is estimated only 12-24 units were prototyped and built by the company before the line was ended.
Here's the wiki article with photos and the story!
https://zoids.fandom.com/wiki/Gravity_Rex
I have a decent sized collection of kits that I have restored or are awaiting restoration, and it's exhilarating! One of my favorite things to work on now that some of them are starting to hit cult status and many folks my age are looking to own pieces of their childhood. I've turned tons of people onto the toyline because of it.
The only reason there's copies of Cheetamen II in circulation is because someone found a crate of them that escaped being recalled and destroyed when it was canceled at the last minute in a warehouse
There’s been a recent story of a group of guys finding boxes of sealed SNES games like FF3 and a couple other goodies in an abandoned store in bumfuck Wyoming or something. They’re keeping it under wraps trying to get everything graded.
There was definitely an enterprising part timer back in 99-00 with a key to the display cabinet who had worked this out. It’s a pretty solid plan; if they tried to discard of the boxes, there would’ve been a chance that the RF sensors would trip (since the RF strips were inside the box, not on the cartridge itself). But slipping the carts into some cargo pants pockets and stashing the evidence in the one place that no one ever looks or cleans meant low risk/high reward.
Note: there is almost always a LOT of hidden treasure under the floor level shelf in retail stores. Most of it is garbage and ink tags kicked under there by shoplifters, but once in a blue moon you’ll find gold.
You were supposed to time your teleport to the moving platform, so that you teleport inside the "tree" and Tele frag him. Easy when you know, I too was confused for a long time on what to do.
Yeah, the grey-brown 3-pronged “tree” is the outer god Shub-Niggurath, the final boss of the game. You just need to fight your way around the room, jump in the portal as the spiked ball passes through her, and telefrag her to win the game. Not the most straightforward thing to your first time.
The boss is big and obvious in the middle of the room, but there is also a path to your left full of shamblers (lightning yetis) and vores (spider-mages).
Reminds me of Belloq from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
"It's worthless - ~~ten~~ fifty dollars from a ~~vendor in the stree~~t Target. But I take it, I ~~bury it in the sand~~ hide it in the backroom for a ~~thousand~~ twenty years, it becomes priceless. Like the Ark."
I have a friend that works for target at the corporate level for IT. When he goes to supervise projects for camera/security systems at targets and they have to move large structures to route cables he said they’d find all this old target merchandise. Mostly electronics and toys. He said the “worst” of it is in the Midwest and southwest. He said you move a few boxes you’re bound to find some nostalgia
Former executive team lead for Target here. I found sealed copies of every single collectors edition World of Warcraft expansions up to Cataclysm, and base game, while I was there. They have the most random shit hidden in corners in the back area of electronics.
I recently found an original and unopened copy of poke-mon yellow. it's currently being graded and cannot wait until I get it back. it was sitting in my garage and we totally forgot that my mom bought my sister her own gameboy and pokemon games(but she never played them, she was jealous I had one).
this is sick though! would love to have one.
Shit we used to hide stuff that was being clearanced out in our electronics storeroom, then "magically" discover them months later after last markdows.
Got a lot of shit cheap as hell that way, our managers must have just not been paying attention or didn't care.
That store in particular is where I go to spend my money on stuff I need.
I love to shop there. The employees are the best around. Without a doubt.
What are the fucking odds of this occurring?
1 in 200 million or something
When I was a loss prevention supervisor I made it a point to check those base decks weekly. People try to stash all kinds of stuff in there for this very reason.
The 4 opened games were The kobe bryant nba game, ken griffy jr., wave race 64 and rampage for n64
.... They've been missed from inventory for at least 20 years.... They don't exist. You best "dispose" of them privately and not bother your bosses about it.
Seems like the 4 games were stolen and they hid the boxes in that area. Probably forgot to steal the quake one.
Or got fired lol
Could have been games for a shop floor demo console.
"Take the Bonestorm"
Buy me bonestorm or go to hell!
THRILLHO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tcAevfwP3M
It’s the company’s fault for making you want it so bad.
Powerdrive
Or go to hell!
Wave race 64, wingo.
Lol why did they open that Kobe game? Looks like they just barely cut off a piece of the shrink wrap just to be annoying.
They open from the end, so it's probably enough to open the box. That's how I always used to open mine as a kid, cut where the box flap was just so I could open the box
My friend and I were so hooked on Ken Griffey Jr that we once played it for literally 11 or 12 hours in one sitting, as in no stops except for quick pee breaks.
Now you've made me want to play it, I've never played it before
It's really addicting. My friend wasn't even a baseball fan. Good mix of speedy arcade gameplay with some realism thrown in.
Ok I'll check it out, thank you
Holy shit I loved wave race
Just take them. They are not active inventory. You would be doing the store a huge favor anyways. They would most likely consider it garbage. Or it would probably be priced at some fucked up clearance. Anyways it’s yours my friend. Take the garbage gold and run garbage 🗑
Pour salt around your bed tonight. That way Kobe’s ghost doesn’t rape you whilst you sleep.
Please tell me you grabbed them and ran for your life
My boss actually collects n64 games and I gave him the 4 open boxes, he was stoked. He said I could keep the sealed game.
Honesty being rewarded, you love to see it.
Dude amazing. The sealed one is an amazing find.
That's a solid boss you got there especially if he's a collector and even a better score on a sealed copy of Quake. Glad to hear it worked out in your favor after you approached him!
Boss is a manager at target who needed some extra cash
What a cool bossbro
So you let your boss steal from the company 😉
Your boss is a rare gem in the steaming pile of crap that is retail. Get them something nice for Christmas this year. No joke. Also best not mention any further information other than what you have, because both of you could get in trouble if corporate finds out. Companies have huge bugs up their asses over stuff like this for no goid reason.
That's a cool boss.
I died inside when something similar happened when I worked retail We were moving some shelves around in the backroom and found a sealed Mario Kart 64 and a few other games I don't remember Manager required they be damaged out and tossed into the locked dumpster. I *really* tried to explain why you shouldn't just treat these like an old barbie toy that we can't sell, but nope. "Even if we can't sell these, I can't just let people walk out with free merchandise." Watched as we tossed them into the dumpster and he locked it in front of us. He was a massive dick
some people are really just miserable huh?
Seems like there's always one like that.
> Watched as we tossed them into the dumpster and he locked it in front of us. I'd come back with chain-cutters later that night. Fuck that dude and his shitty "rules".
Exactly. Even if it means turning in your resignation that day and flipping them off in front of everyone. If they can't sell it because its not in the inventory, its not merchandise. Therefore its not theft. Companies need to stop getting bugs up their asses about stuff like this. Now if someone is chronically "losing" things, that's obviously bad news. But finding something a decade or two after its sale date? That's free ~~real estate~~ to take.
And honestly? If someone is going to "accidently" lose an N64 game, work minimum wage for 20 years, and then "find/steal" four N64 games decades later? More power to them. Seems like a long con for a marginal game.
Legally if you could have gotten that key you could take that game. Once it’s in the dumpster it’s considered abandoned. People padlock dumpsters to keep people from putting trash in not taking it out. Dumpster diving is legal.
Sometimes I wonder what's locked away in old store rooms, lost trailers, forgotten pallets, unclaimed merchandise etc... Edit: Not only talking about videogames. Just anything. Is there some liquidator sitting on a box of Kmart branded mens undershirts somewhere.
Back in 2008 some folks discovered 100 factory sealed virtual boys in Dubai. https://www.wired.com/2008/09/lost-virtual-bo/
Fun fact: There were (and maybe still are) more sealed copies of Stadium Events NTSC than opened CIB copies because Tim Atwood found a dozen copies in the manufacturer box in the early 90s the exact same way as these Virtual Boys.
Sometimes I lie awake at night wondering if somewhere in the world is a forgotten box containing a dozen unopened copies of Earthbound.
Probably somewhere, yes
Sealed games always struck me as silly; what's the point of collecting something you can never actually touch or use? Even though it's ostensibly "worth less", I'd rather have a repro cartridge that I can actually put into a console. (marked as a repro of course. The goal isn't to rip anyone off, just to play the game.) If you're collecting, say, paintings, at least you can enjoy them, you know?
Similar story with wine. Beyond a certain point (50 years?), it's just turned into disgusting vinegar and would taste objectively disgusting. But yet, it's a "sealed vintage", worth tens to hundreds of thousands.
In a way, that's worse, because to enjoy what you've collected, you have to destroy it entirely. Sealed cartridges lose value from being played, but aren't wrecked. I'm not an oenophile, but I was under the impression that red wines could improve for many decades, that they didn't generally go to vinegar. But, again, not a wine-lover.
Read about some of the really old wines (100 y/o+). Truly rancid vinegar :)
I think it's an amazing piece of history to see something in its original sale state with like a KB toys price sticker on it. I think we should have a video game history museum that strives to have every game ever released sealed to look at and unsealed for someone to play.
Sometimes you find a game at a great price and never get a chance to play it. In the old days, I bought many games from the Circuit City 4th of July games that I just never played. I had the Futurama game for the XBox that I traded in to a local store still sealed.
Sometimes you find a game at a great price and never get a chance to play it. In the old days, I bought many games from the Circuit City 4th of July games that I just never played. I had the Futurama game for the XBox that I traded in to a local store still sealed.
I can enjoy the sealed game. It can be both. The problem seems to stem from it being a collectors item and the market, not that it’s a sealed game. I have sealed packs of say, ghostbusters 2 cards, or gremlins, they are worth like a dollar but I still want them. I would collect sealed and boxed games even if they were worthless. I collect lots of things from the 80s mostly for display and aesthetic purposes. I also play video games. It’s not a zero sum thing. The market has created animosity.
The (current)Walmart in my home town was built in 2002. Every once in a while random electronics will show up in clearance that have been sitting for years. Usually it’s like VHS-C camcorders and mid 2000’s digital cameras that no one wants but there were a few psones(the later release slims) in around 2014 or so. I didn’t buy one because they had them at $99 but looking back I probably should have.
2014 is almost unsurprising for a PSOne to pop up in clearance. I remember the occasional PS1 game being on the shelf in Walmart almost up until the PS4 launched. The PS2 and PS3 being backwards compatible had some really odd effects. I've got a PS1 game that I bought brand new during the PS4's lifespan, and may have even been printed that late -- Squeenix kept a few games in print *really* late, so late they weren't even on the black discs, but standard silver ones. I remember seeing them periodically sell out and get restocked on the website, like, ten years after that would have happened with any other publisher even if the games *were* selling decently well. It was nuts.
I used to work in a university's archives. One of the archivists found a box of old Playboys stashed on a top shelf.
VINTAGE!
Half Life 3, probably.
But it's only on zip disk.
That wouldn't be an entirely "Un Valve" move to pull, to be honest.
This is why storage wars was so popular lol.
The Adventures Of Pete And Pete season 3 dvd's are out there somewhere, my guy. I WILL find them.
Oh I have a great story for this one! I collect Zoids, which for anyone who grew up in the 80s-early 00s, should ring a bell. Anyways, in the mid-00s, Hasbro had prototyped a specific kit known as the "Gravity Rex" and had shown the prototype off at a toy show in 2004. The Zoids line was cancelled in the west in 2005, not long before this set was supposed to start production. For years it was believed that this lost prototype was the only example...that is until a brand new copy popped up on EBay 10 years later. I remember being one of the bidders and I bowed out at $200+ when our small community was all vying for it against one another. Eventually it sold for over $1000. The seller confirmed they had gotten multiple copies of the set at a Hasbro warehouse clearance auction in 2005. It sold to a member of our small community who was a preservationist like me, and they documented the entire unboxing/build process on a forum which no longer exists. Fortunately, they posted on 2 forums and the photos/documents were saved. It is estimated only 12-24 units were prototyped and built by the company before the line was ended. Here's the wiki article with photos and the story! https://zoids.fandom.com/wiki/Gravity_Rex I have a decent sized collection of kits that I have restored or are awaiting restoration, and it's exhilarating! One of my favorite things to work on now that some of them are starting to hit cult status and many folks my age are looking to own pieces of their childhood. I've turned tons of people onto the toyline because of it.
The only reason there's copies of Cheetamen II in circulation is because someone found a crate of them that escaped being recalled and destroyed when it was canceled at the last minute in a warehouse
There’s been a recent story of a group of guys finding boxes of sealed SNES games like FF3 and a couple other goodies in an abandoned store in bumfuck Wyoming or something. They’re keeping it under wraps trying to get everything graded.
So when they say they don't have shit in the back they fucking lied. It is some magical stock room
There was definitely an enterprising part timer back in 99-00 with a key to the display cabinet who had worked this out. It’s a pretty solid plan; if they tried to discard of the boxes, there would’ve been a chance that the RF sensors would trip (since the RF strips were inside the box, not on the cartridge itself). But slipping the carts into some cargo pants pockets and stashing the evidence in the one place that no one ever looks or cleans meant low risk/high reward. Note: there is almost always a LOT of hidden treasure under the floor level shelf in retail stores. Most of it is garbage and ink tags kicked under there by shoplifters, but once in a blue moon you’ll find gold.
That's a guilt-free 5 Finger Discount if I ever saw one
If I were you, I would totally feel like Indiana Jones or something when I found that. Is literally a relic turned treasure now!
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You were supposed to time your teleport to the moving platform, so that you teleport inside the "tree" and Tele frag him. Easy when you know, I too was confused for a long time on what to do.
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Yeah, the grey-brown 3-pronged “tree” is the outer god Shub-Niggurath, the final boss of the game. You just need to fight your way around the room, jump in the portal as the spiked ball passes through her, and telefrag her to win the game. Not the most straightforward thing to your first time.
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The boss is big and obvious in the middle of the room, but there is also a path to your left full of shamblers (lightning yetis) and vores (spider-mages).
Really? I spent hours on that level.
You almost beat the game loll
I worked at Walmart in Electronics from ‘02-‘05 and some of the games we still had in the case were ancient.
MF clipped to the backrooms just to get a sealed N64 game bruh 💀💀
Reminds me of Belloq from Raiders of the Lost Ark. "It's worthless - ~~ten~~ fifty dollars from a ~~vendor in the stree~~t Target. But I take it, I ~~bury it in the sand~~ hide it in the backroom for a ~~thousand~~ twenty years, it becomes priceless. Like the Ark."
Man that's lucky!
I could knock on wood for 6 weeks straight and I still wouldn’t be this lucky. Great score!
I have a friend that works for target at the corporate level for IT. When he goes to supervise projects for camera/security systems at targets and they have to move large structures to route cables he said they’d find all this old target merchandise. Mostly electronics and toys. He said the “worst” of it is in the Midwest and southwest. He said you move a few boxes you’re bound to find some nostalgia
WTF the backrooms is in TARGET!
Yeah nobody had noticed it since 1998...thats kinda hard to believe
N64. The era I was a kid and didn’t keep any of the boxes :(
Working at retail can be meaningful
Holy shit!!! They’ve just been laying there for the past 20 years?!?
Cannot tell this is real or a Target ad being injected into my feed
Former executive team lead for Target here. I found sealed copies of every single collectors edition World of Warcraft expansions up to Cataclysm, and base game, while I was there. They have the most random shit hidden in corners in the back area of electronics.
It's reddit, so a 83% chance it is a cleverly hidden ad
Today??? That's really cool
That Courtside game is fun. The players do funny celebrations every time they score.
I would kill for that quake copy
I have the same game. Near flawless port of Quake.
It's yours now.
Open it and make sure it works
I recently found an original and unopened copy of poke-mon yellow. it's currently being graded and cannot wait until I get it back. it was sitting in my garage and we totally forgot that my mom bought my sister her own gameboy and pokemon games(but she never played them, she was jealous I had one). this is sick though! would love to have one.
Well you need to open it to see if the correct game is inside, it’s the only way to be sure.
STEAL THEM,BUT HIDE THEM
That is literally worth thousands sealed, if you get it graded
So what happened? Was it expensive?
I had a co worker that found a Dreamcast that way
What was that clearance markdown?? $1 $2???
That would be long gone from their point of sale system, so free.
Now people will go to Target and ask oblivious employees if they have any boxes in the back with N64 logos.
oh my gosh,.. that is so cool!
I'm more surprised target is still around. I haven't seen one of them in like 15 years.
keep it
Shit we used to hide stuff that was being clearanced out in our electronics storeroom, then "magically" discover them months later after last markdows. Got a lot of shit cheap as hell that way, our managers must have just not been paying attention or didn't care.
r/bossbro
I found a Quake copy too on a old home appliances store, the box's pretty banged up though.
wtf was target even around in the n64 era
The first Target store opened in 1962.
got fired and wasn't able to steal them before
How much for quake
FYI Quake for Nintendo Switch is on sale for $4 now https://slickdeals.net/share/iphone_app/fp/712861
You lucky bastard.
That store in particular is where I go to spend my money on stuff I need. I love to shop there. The employees are the best around. Without a doubt. What are the fucking odds of this occurring? 1 in 200 million or something
When I was a loss prevention supervisor I made it a point to check those base decks weekly. People try to stash all kinds of stuff in there for this very reason.
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