Post here every time you get something new!

o1s1n

It's like an alco falling off the wagon, isnt it? Same thing happened to me in January. I ended up spending a fortune. Had been good for months and months.

What you pick up anyway, anything tasty?

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

It's like an alco falling off the wagon, isnt it? Same thing happened to me in January. I ended up spending a fortune. Had been good for months and months.

What you pick up anyway, anything tasty?

Exactly like that

Nah nothing out of the ordinary, some cheap £1 2600 carts, snes, Mastersystem Zapper, Sonic Spinball [yes, Sonic Spinball] etc. Oh I got Aladdin on the snes, really loved that game.

o1s1n

Sonic Spinball?! Do you not remember the childhood trauma, no?

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

Sonic Spinball?! Do you not remember the childhood trauma, no?

I think it was £2 for a boxed copy...for the sake of completion and all

The discount code makes it ridiculously hard to talk yourself out of it

Retr0gamer

Something absolutely disgusting just arrived in the post today. I'm ashamed. I also lost something today, any shred of dignity anyone here had left for me.

I couldn't take a picute because just pointing the camera at this... thing melted it with pure evil so I'll use one stolen from google images:

Jack burton

well this has been a one of those weeks for me, lots of new things but nothing to show for it, car parts for a service and bills just to name some of the exciting things! I did get a new kick ass frying pan though!

Retr0gamer

Got nailed with car tax myself

Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Got nailed with car tax myself

Bastards

Jack burton

Well I bought some car parts, ok and tractor parts too...I am a farmer sure, that all came to like 150, not so bad right, but then there's was the classic line "And with the VAT that comes to...."

bastards!

o1s1n

Sometimes I really enjoy not having a car

The hour commute I'm about to embark on is not one of them

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

Sometimes I really enjoy not having a car

The hour commute I'm about to embark on is not one of them

Having a car is worth if, if nothing else, not to have to endure public transport.

Shudder.

Andrew76

Best thing I got this week is an email from MS confirming my cancellation of my xbox live sub. Hopefully no more email spam from them about it too. :pac:

Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Something absolutely disgusting just arrived in the post today. I'm ashamed. I also lost something today, any shred of dignity anyone here had left for me.

I couldn't take a picute because just pointing the camera at this... thing melted it with pure evil so I'll use one stolen from google images:

Jesus Christ, he fixed a CD-i & gets Superman 64 in as many days.

Retr0gamer

I know, I'll have to buy something legendary like Super Metroid or Link to the Past to counteract the pure ****tiness I've recieved.

Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I know, I'll have to buy something legendary like Super Metroid or Link to the Past to counteract the pure ****tiness I've recieved.

You seriously have to. There's a disturbance in the force.

o1s1n

EnterNow wrote: »

Having a car is worth if, if nothing else, not to have to endure public transport.

Shudder.

The worst part of it is waiting for a bus on Abbey street every day. Sometimes I think I've accidentally wandered into Raccoon City.

o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I know, I'll have to buy something legendary like Super Metroid or Link to the Past to counteract the pure ****tiness I've recieved.

Woah wait a minute.

You don't own Super Metroid or LTTP?

But you own Superman on the N64?

...

GTFO!

Retr0gamer

Once you get a car you'll never want to take a bus again. The lack of junkies and youths smoking 'adult cigarettes' at the back while playing **** RnB or 'dance' music on their phones is bliss.

Retr0gamer

I own both although LttP is the GBA version :P Have a PAL copy of Super Metroid and I stupidly bought it on virtual console as well.

Pyongyang

Todays goods:

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Something absolutely disgusting just arrived in the post today. I'm ashamed. I also lost something today, any shred of dignity anyone here had left for me.

I couldn't take a picute because just pointing the camera at this... thing melted it with pure evil so I'll use one stolen from google images:

I wasn't aware Sauron took a day off...
Learn something new everyday!

Steve X2

Pyongyang wrote: »

Todays goods:

Is that like a Kodak Photo CD disc player thingy for the Saturn?

.

Pyongyang

Steve SI wrote: »

Is that like a Kodak Photo CD disc player thingy for the Saturn?

Aye. A nice curio. There's a couple of official Photo CD's for the Saturn. I don't think there's any SHMUP smut though...

Steve X2

Pyongyang wrote: »

Aye. A nice curio. There's a couple of official Photo CD's for the Saturn. I don't think there's any SHMUP smut though...

Nice, I'm about to get serious with my Saturn collecting over the next 6 months. Any recommendations are welcome.

I plan to get a few different and rarer Saturn consoles and then start collecting the games properly.

Should be fun(and pricey).

.

Pyongyang

Steve SI wrote: »

Any recommendations are welcome.

I'll save typing and just give you this:

http://www.racketboy.com/retro/sega/saturn/sega-saturn-shmups-2d-shooters



Not sure what Saturn consoles you have, however I adore my Model 1 NTSC-J Saturn. If I was to buy another Saturn, I'd love a Victor Saturn.

Steve X2

Pyongyang wrote: »

I'll save typing and just give you this:

http://www.racketboy.com/retro/sega/saturn/sega-saturn-shmups-2d-shooters



Not sure what Saturn consoles you have, however I adore my Model 1 NTSC-J Saturn. If I was to buy another Saturn, I'd love a Victor Saturn.

Some nice stuff in there. I've got a couple of Saturns already, an NTSC-J one and a standard PAL one as well as a dead one. Have a good few games including the obligatory Radiant Silvergun X2(3500 yen each a few years ago in Tokyo, the games not rare by any standard over there) but haven't really done much in the way of collecting.
I did pick up Panzer Dragoon Saga last year.

.

Pyongyang

Steve SI wrote: »

I did pick up Panzer Dragoon Saga last year.

Isn't that the game Pantryboy got too? Definitely get a Victor Saturn if you are going to collect the consoles. I believe it's the Victor (aka JVC) console that has both the photo operator and VCD card built in.

It's more expensive than a standard Saturn, but it's very cool and looks great. I think Goldstar and Toshiba made Saturn consoles too.

o1s1n

I picked that up over the summer alright. As close to mint you can get it without it being VGA graded really. Had to after playing Retr0's copy, absolutely amazing game.

Pyongyang

I have Zwei but haven't played it yet. My Saturn is set up, yet I find myself playing RefRain Prism Memories instead...

Is Saga that rare across all regions?

o1s1n

Funnily enough, Zwei is the only one I don't have

It costs a bomb in English. The PAL version is by far the nicest. It's also the rarest. The Japanese one isn't too hard to find, but doesn't go for a lot like all Japanese RPGs.

The source code of the game was lost, so it aint ever going to see a rerelease. Only way to pay it is to shell out for an original english copy or get yourself a some dodgy pirate discs!

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Once you get a car you'll never want to take a bus again. The lack of junkies and youths smoking 'adult cigarettes' at the back while playing **** RnB or 'dance' music on their phones is bliss.

Everytime I say "I'm glad I don't have to take the bus ever again" within 48hrs I wind up on a bus to somewhere...
It's like the Ring except the Ring featured a place that was dank, damp, smelly and dangerous...
Actually, it's just like the Ring!

Pyongyang

Not gaming related, but I did just order about 16,000 of these cheeky scamps for my Krups!

Doge

Pyongyang wrote: »

Not gaming related, but I did just order about 16,000 of these cheeky scamps for my Krups!

GRRRRR!

Out of this thread Brit!






With all yer fancy coffee and tea and ****e from across the shore! :P

Or I'll be forced to throw me spuds and cabbages at ya!

Now be off with ya!

Myrddin

Tea, earl grey. Hot.

Doge

EnterNow wrote: »

Tea, earl grey. Hot.

AGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!


Here's the Bull McCabe after finding packets of Earl Grey washed up ashore,
when an English cargo ship crashed off our waters....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfqsAxZafKc#t=3m34s





























GO BACK!!!

CiDeRmAn

A bought a Philips Senseo coffee maker for the better half a year or so ago.
Pretty cool, takes pods and you also fill a milk tank, makes perfect Latte, Espresso, Cappuccino and Macchiato.

What can I say, I'm a great hubby!

I hate coffee though!

Myrddin

johnny_ultimate

I bought a cheeky Wispa Gold this week. And a few cinema tickets. And various other inane things that are neither arcade nor retro

Doge

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

A bought a "coffee maker" for the better half a 100 years or so ago.

Fixed!

ahyeahok

So popped into a charity shop today and found a promo copy of FFVII



My knowledge is inferior to ye guys on here but how rare are promo copies?
Cant go wrong for 2euro

CiDeRmAn

That's a really nice find, well done.

Now, if you find a rubbish copy of that crap game Panzer Dragoon Saga, be sure to let ole Uncle Ciderman dispose of it for you, no charge....

Dr Bob

here since someone once said we could post terry pratchett books here

tenner for 12 of em
oh yeah , tony hawks 3 and a wrasslin' game on the ps2 for a quid all in , happy days.

Retr0gamer

ahyeahok wrote: »

My knowledge is inferior to ye guys on here but how rare are promo copies?
Cant go wrong for 2euro

They're rarer but not worth much more than normal copies since they don't have nice artwork and sometimes no manual.

o1s1n

A Final Fantasy VII promo will be worth something, definitely.

Is it anything like this one? One dude in the thread said he's seen them sell for over €100

http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=473104#post473104

OwaynOTT

luas_dublin wrote: »

here since someone once said we could post terry pratchett books here

tenner for 12 of em
oh yeah , tony hawks 3 and a wrasslin' game on the ps2 for a quid all in , happy days.

Ah some great books in that haul. I can gradually see this forum become the arcade and retro and discworld forum.

I got an unseen university edition of sourcery from the US for like 40 dollars, which is a great price for it.
Boxed SNES games and Pratchett books. Why do I have to like expensive crap!

Dale Parish

So I finally got back from London with a Transit load of stuff. Left everything in my office except for my trusty IBM XT.
Flicked the massive-red-awesome toggle switch to power it on. Basically sounded like a jet taking off nearby.
Not great screens, still flicking through what's on the hard disk.


Some sort of rip off of space invaders? IBM have nothing on Atari...




And it came with a copy of IBM PS/2 tools...

Pyongyang

Blimey, you must have some storage in your gaf for all those computers! Very nice though I still think you are John Titor!

Your collection always reminds me of my quest to import an X68000 and/or a Fujitsu FM Towns. A Marty would be cheaper on shipping, but from opinions I've gathered from research of the Marty vs the FM Towns machines, the Marty is actually a very poorly made and unreliable machine. Same goes for the Car Marty. Sorry for going OT there!

Chances of spotting any of that stuff though, even in Japan, is very remote.

Good luck with your machines though, good to hear you got your haul back safe!

ahyeahok

o1s1n wrote: »

A Final Fantasy VII promo will be worth something, definitely.

Is it anything like this one? One dude in the thread said he's seen them sell for over €100

http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=473104#post473104

Mine is what ya see in my pic. 3 discs in a 4 disc box (no cover).
I see that link the cover says "DISPLAY PURPOSES ONLY". Wonder if that cover is off a retail display box, if it was the promo cover wouldn't it say promo only? The front of it looks like a standard cover.

Found it in a charity shop in a very small town... not what you would expect to find, I had found FFVI, FFVIII and FF anthology in the same shop a few weeks ago.
Must have been from the same lot but missed it the first time round.... actually didnt even notice it was a promo copy till i hopped into my car



edit: found this http://ff7-cloudloku.atspace.com/eng.html some FF collection this guys got.

Final Fantasy VII Promo Version: It is a very rare item. As can be noted by the words on the CD, it has never been sold in shops, but only sent to editors, to allow them playing the game in advance (before than the public) and write reviews on magazines and websites. It's a complete version, fully playable and perfectly working, but distributed in an anonymous case, without cover or manual.

CiDeRmAn

I had a few promo disks, sadly they are for sh1te games, Jet Rider, Star Wars: Masters of the muck fighting game, both for PS, also I have a lotus racing game promo for the ps2.

And as for A&R&Discworld forum, as a massive Pratchett fan I'd do it, sure you'd be cutting cutting your own throat not to! Sausage in a bun anyone?

Optimus Prime

ahyeahok wrote: »

edit: found this http://ff7-cloudloku.atspace.com/eng.html some FF collection this guys got.

I get these promo discs sent out to me the whole time, i dunno if they are considered collectable, hopefully they are, ill be rich in another 20 years haha..