Probably a little more than they would have been at our local Goodwill, but someone else might have grabbed them before me, so I was very pleased with the price. Long story short, I was able to win both Pac-Man and Zaxxon for only $5 a piece. As it turns out, that’s what the others were after and were willing to pay for them! Most of those brought over $20 each! There were other older games in the stack – Leave it to Beaver, Huckleberry Hound and other 60’s-era games. I was concerned about the number of people hovering around the pile of board games though. Imagine my elation when upon arrival I discovered Zaxxon was also still in its original shrinkwrap and Pac-Man was complete and in great condition. Last year I found a sealed copy of Pooyan (another video-game-turned-board-game) at the same auction house, and it was then I decided that a small collection of video game related board games might be fun to own.
Among them were two I had already put on my virtual want list (and both based upon 80’s-era video games), Pac-Man and Zaxxon. At least three stacks of board games with many others strewn throughout the auction lots. Last Sunday I noticed some things in the photos I could not pass on. What we enjoy is that every week they take the time to post photos of what will be for sale that week, so we can decide whether or not to make the 45-minute drive to that rural part of Illinois. We’ve been going there for the better part of six years, usually a half dozen times per year. Almost every Sunday they hold some type of auction, either collectibles or estate, and regularly see their attendance figures top well over 300. There you will find Stenzel Auction, an auction service that has seemed to have cornered the market on quality auctions in our region of the state. Just outside of our Quad City metro area is the small town of Cambridge, IL.
I recall picking up an unplayed copy of Munchkin last year for a dollar and lost count of how many copies of Scrabble and Monopoly we saw sell in stacks of games for a buck or two. What I neglected to mention is that we are also huge fans of attending local estate auctions and regularly find deals up for bid. We’ve paid as little as a quarter to as high as $6.88 for ones we really wanted in our collection. Every Sunday for nearly the past two years we have brought to you a game we’ve found at a local thrift shop or yard sale.
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