User blog comment:Urkelbot666/Experiments./@comment-5934310-20140707204457/@comment-5934310-20140708044854

Finding yard sales selling console games is pretty rare, and when you do, it's usually something like a version of Madden from a decade ago with an asking price over ten dollars, because GameStop only offered them twenty cents for it. You're far more likely to see the consoles themselves (usually with no games) at yard sales. Actually, I'd go so far as to say that Wiis being sold at yard sales is a pretty ripe topic for a creepypasta.

"It was 2006, Ellen DeGeneres was playing Wii on tv, everyone wanted one. I got one for the kids and grandma, but the kids got tired of it and grandma broke her hip. Why is it icy to the touch when we're outside in a Florida summer? Well my living room was build on an ancient Indian burial ground, but we got a priest to banish the spirits. Never did figure out where they went. Anyway, I'm asking ten dollars."

There actually is a nice believable way to use a yard sale as the origin for a game, if you want: go PC. So many PC game creepypastas have file downloads from shady sites, but every yard sale you go to will have a little stack of computer games somewhere.

The scenario of having a game but not rememberiing where you got it is also pretty believable. I have Pokemon Stadium and Donkey Kong 64, and I'm not sure where either came from. It's possible that DK64 belonged to a friend and they either lent it to me or left it at my house or something, but I have no memory of ever playing it before I owned it. Pokemon Stadium is a complete mystery. Maybe I picked it up at a yard sale, and the old man who sold it to me was so creepy that I repressed the experience.