Retro Shops/Bargains/Auction Links

Augmerson

Saw these in one of the Charity shops on Camden street, was either Enable Ireland or Cancer Society of Ireland (They are right beside each other, just beside Right Click Solutions.



I asked, they had already sold the Atari ST machine, which was a bummer, I always wanted to have a go of one of those, but as you can see, still plenty of games left, some good ones too, and the boxes are in good condition too.

Pyongyang

Push Over is an amazing game. That bundle is worth it for that and Turrican II alone.

valleyoftheunos

Augmerson wrote: »

Saw these in one of the Charity shops on Camden street, was either Enable Ireland or Cancer Society of Ireland (They are right beside each other, just beside Right Click Solutions.



I asked, they had already sold the Atari ST machine, which was a bummer, I always wanted to have a go of one of those, but as you can see, still plenty of games left, some good ones too, and the boxes are in good condition too.

Some great games there, bringing back many memories of playing my mate's Brother's ST on the sly of a Saturday Morning.

Who would buy the ST but leave that lot behind?

Augmerson

valleyoftheunos wrote: »

Who would buy the ST but leave that lot behind?

I know, kind of annoying really.

Atavan-Halen

I did tell yous about that ST weeks ago so you had your chance!

Augmerson

atavan-halen wrote: »

I did tell yous about that ST weeks ago so you had your chance!

Ack wasn't paying attention :v/

RNB

Meanwhile, on eBay...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Zelda-Gold-Pack-A-Link-to-the-Past-Big-Box-Game-SNES-SWE-Pal-/140781720748?pt=UK_PC_Video_Games_Video_Games_JS&hash=item20c73e94ac#ht_504wt_1344

...things are getting out of control!

Retr0gamer

It's not VGA graded :P

CiDeRmAn

So tired, just spent 2 nights in a converted camper van and I'm all stiff, and not in a hot way!

So, got about 15 minutes on Gradius 4 before I was dragged away
But it's a quality 15 minutes!

Pyongyang

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I'm all stiff

Seen any good films lately? :pac:

a5y

RNB wrote: »

Meanwhile, on eBay...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Zelda-Gold-Pack-A-Link-to-the-Past-Big-Box-Game-SNES-SWE-Pal-/140781720748?pt=UK_PC_Video_Games_Video_Games_JS&hash=item20c73e94ac#ht_504wt_1344

...things are getting out of control!

I think for £3,555 you could get a rather spectacular gold plated Triforce made. And there'd be no problem with it running in 50Hz either...

CiDeRmAn

Pyongyang wrote: »

Seen any good films lately? :pac:

Well, now that you mention it I was at a film with Dinorex......

Hey, wait a minute!
What's the big idea?
You thinking smutty thoughts at the mention of a word like "Stiff"?
Just say it now....
Go on!
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..
...

"Stiff"

Filthy minded bugger!

Steve X2

A job lot so a slight risk but I've bought job lots from this crowd before and they usually turn out well worthwhile.

170 Famicom games.



http://www.ebay.ie/itm/WHOLE-SALE-FAMICOM-170-GREAT-LOT-JP-IMPORT-/330756018426?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d029850fa

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70 Super Famicom games.



http://www.ebay.ie/itm/WHOLE-SALE-BOX-SUPER-FAMICOM-SNES-70-GREAT-LOT-JP-/320934789396?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ab9344114

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Atavan-Halen

If you're unloading any of the famicom doubles, sorry triples let me know!

Atavan-Halen

Derp, just realised that this wasn't the something new thread.

Steve X2

Yeah, I'm skipping this lot as I've already got a few job lots to deal with at the moment.

The Last Bandit

Had a few hours to kill in town yesterday so popped in to Rage to see what the fuss was all about. Stock seemed fairly ordinary to be honest, just bought a couple of everdrive donor carts from the 95c bin.

o1s1n

I was in there yesterday myself - nothing to buy at all.

There was a guy at the counter asking if they had Gamegears and how much they cost - The lad behind the counter said they're rare to come across and they had none on stock. But if they ever do, 50 euro........!!!!

I was tempted to ask him if they replace the capacitors.

valleyoftheunos

o1s1n wrote: »

I was in there yesterday myself - nothing to buy at all.

There was a guy at the counter asking if they had Gamegears and how much they cost - The lad behind the counter said they're rare to come across and they had none on stock. But if they ever do, 50 euro........!!!!

I was tempted to ask him if they replace the capacitors.

they don't so much as wipe the casing down.

Retr0gamer

I went in looking for a gameboy colour before from them. Tried to sell me one for 50 euros. The battery cover was missing and the screen was scratched to bits. Told me they were rare and that it was impossible to find one with a perfect screen. Well Rage I picked up one with a perfect screen (in pink but for some reason all the handhelds I buy these days are pink) for $30 delivered and the seller threw in a free pokemon carry case. Even then I'm sure you can get one much cheaper.

o1s1n

They seem to be getting a bit cheeky with their prices alright.

Even with rent to pay, they should be costing 40 euro max. And that's even being generous. You should be able to get a mint condition Gameboy for about 30 euro.

If the price point is 50 euro they'd want to be importing replacement screens & battery covers to include with them.

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

They seem to be getting a bit cheeky with their prices alright.

Even with rent to pay, they should be costing 40 euro max. And that's even being generous. You should be able to get a mint condition Gameboy for about 30 euro.

If the price point is 50 euro they'd want to be importing replacement screens & battery covers to include with them.

Yeah but your forgetting, they're R@RE!!!

valleyoftheunos

I've said before that I don't expect to pay ebay prices in Rage but the randomness of the pricing really annoys me, identical copies of a game can often be labeled differently with 5 or even 10 euro in the difference. Which kinda shows that they just make em up as they go along.

I asked about the Neo Geo Pocket they had a while back, extremely rare he told me and €85 please and thanks. I don't know an awful lot about them but I know that they aren't hard to find online and that they don't go for anything like €85. For a reasonable price I would have considered buying from him but at that money I didn't even bother haggling.

o1s1n

It's shows you the level of videogame knowledge when people consider NGPs to be rare.

I saw a copy of Gunstar Heroes in there yesterday. There was a stamped price on it (something like 9.99) and then a handwritten '3' in front of it. Obviously one of the staff had been flicking through the games and noticed someone undervalued one of their 'rare' titles.

Anyone else notice that they actually write 'rare' on the tags for some of the pricey games?

MrVestek

EnterNow wrote: »

o1s1n wrote: »

They seem to be getting a bit cheeky with their prices alright.

Even with rent to pay, they should be costing 40 euro max. And that's even being generous. You should be able to get a mint condition Gameboy for about 30 euro.

If the price point is 50 euro they'd want to be importing replacement screens & battery covers to include with them.

Yeah but your forgetting, they're R@RE!!!

In fairness to them they never usually pull that kinda ****e. There's one bloke in there that knows his **** when it comes to retro stuff... And wether something is rare or not...

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

Anyone else notice that they actually write 'rare' on the tags for some of the pricey games?

Instant put off for me.

Retr0gamer

valleyoftheunos wrote: »

I don't know an awful lot about them but I know that they aren't hard to find online and that they don't go for anything like €85.

I got mine for 15 euros... including shipping.

o1s1n wrote: »

Anyone else notice that they actually write 'rare' on the tags for some of the pricey games?

Yeah they have rare written on two copies of Paper Mario 2 that have been there unshifted for months now. You know they'd make more sales if they priced things properly.

The Premiums on the very common games that the lads happen to like is even worse.

valleyoftheunos

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I got mine for 15 euros... including shipping.

ebay? Japanesse seller?

o1s1n

Achilles wrote: »

In fairness to them they never usually pull that kinda ****e. There's one bloke in there that knows his **** when it comes to retro stuff... And wether something is rare or not...

You reckon? When they first opened it was like a little jewel, selling games because they loved games.

However I was a little shocked yesterday and it's been a while since I was in.

I can't help but get the impression they've jumped on the 'retrogames are cool!' hipster bandwagon. Would explain why 'rare' is written all over the place anyway.

EnterNow wrote: »

Instant put off for me.

Me too. It instantly makes me roll my eyes and think of the lunatics on adverts.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Yeah they have rare written on two copies of Paper Mario 2 that have been there unshifted for months now. You know they'd make more sales if they priced things properly..

Funny that you mention it as Papermario is the first game I saw it on. I was going to buy it but then I saw the price, and then I saw the 'rare' bit and I put it back pretty damn quick.

Retr0gamer

valleyoftheunos wrote: »

ebay? Japanesse seller?

Yup. I was on the dole at the time and managed to collect every game I wanted on the system and the system itself within 2 months. A very easy and cheap console to collect for and the games are excellent to boot.

Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Yup. I was on the dole at the time and managed to collect every game I wanted on the system and the system itself within 2 months. A very easy and cheap console to collect for and the games are excellent to boot.

What system is that?

Retr0gamer

EnterNow wrote: »

What system is that?

Neo Geo AES

Neo Geo Pocket :P

Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Neo Geo AES

Neo Geo Pocket :P

Ah the NGP, a bandwagon I have yet to board I know nothing about it, are there different versions of the console & which one is considered the best?

o1s1n

Neo Geo pocket colour comes in loads of different colour versions. But the hardware is all the same.

Well, as long as you make sure to get a colour screened one and not one of the black and white units!

Interesting fact about the monochrome console, it's a forward compatible system - in that most of the colour games still work on it, just in black and white.

Just make sure if you are building up a collection that you get the games complete in box. They're the nicest handheld boxes ever made.

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

Neo Geo pocket colour comes in loads of different colour versions. But the hardware is all the same.

Well, as long as you make sure to get a colour screened one and not one of the black and white units!

Interesting fact about the monochrome console, it's a forward compatible system - in that most of the colour games still work on it, just in black and white.

Just make sure if you are building up a collection that you get the games complete in box. They're the nicest handheld boxes ever made.

Cheers man, any suggested game to be looking at first?

Retr0gamer

EnterNow wrote: »

Ah the NGP, a bandwagon I have yet to board I know nothing about it, are there different versions of the console & which one is considered the best?

There's a black and white version and a colour version, colour is the one to get. I heard that later models might have a better screen but can't be sure. It's better easy to find information about the games on the system and there's a seller on ebay that last time I looked was selling a good portion of the best games on the system as a lot that comes to about 4 euros a game. It's a seriously great system, not many games on it but the quality to dross ratio is extremely high. If you are going for unboxed games it's a very cheap console to collect for. If you go for boxed games then the PAL releases come in gorgeous mini AES cases, very collectible and they look great.

Andrew76

EnterNow wrote: »

Cheers man, any suggested game to be looking at first?

Sonic, Metal Slug 1&2, Neo Turf Masters, Pac-Man. Excellent little handheld only (slightly) let down by no backlight. Thumb stick on it is awesome.

Myrddin

Cheers dudes, I take it a JP/US model will play the PAL games [no region locks etc]?

o1s1n

No region locking, nope. SNK can get it correct years ago, yet Nintendo can't get their contemporary handheld models up to scratch

o1s1n

Andrew76 wrote: »

Sonic, Metal Slug 1&2, Neo Turf Masters, Pac-Man. Excellent little handheld only (slightly) let down by no backlight. Thumb stick on it is awesome.

Good list.

I'd also add the following -

SNK vs Capcom - Match of the Millenium
The Last Blade
Samurai Showdown 2
Puzzle Bobble
Magical Drop
Faselei! (expensive if you want it in English, cart only is affordable sometimes)

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

No region locking, nope. SNK can get it correct years ago, yet Nintendo can't get their contemporary handheld models up to scratch

Cool, they seem to run in about €60/70 from the UK..ones from Japan seem more affordable but the postage prob balances it out...is there any region one thats preferable?

o1s1n

eeek, don't be paying that much. I'll find a cheaper one for ya!

Here's a junk one, but the only problem might just be the mark on the screen?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEO-GEO-POCKET-JUNK-Console-System-Black-Import-JAPAN-/360466507219?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53ed7a65d3

Much better price than the UK ones

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SNK-NEOGEO-POCKET-COLOR-CONSOLE-Blue-Edition-W-game-USED-WORKS-JAPAN-/180916379685?pt=Video_Games&hash=item2a1f74e025

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

eeek, don't be paying that much. I'll find a cheaper one for ya!

Here's a junk one, but the only problem might just be the mark on the screen?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEO-GEO-POCKET-JUNK-Console-System-Black-Import-JAPAN-/360466507219?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53ed7a65d3

Much better price than the UK ones

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SNK-NEOGEO-POCKET-COLOR-CONSOLE-Blue-Edition-W-game-USED-WORKS-JAPAN-/180916379685?pt=Video_Games&hash=item2a1f74e025

Ah yeah, much better value buying from JP. That carbon one is very nice I must say...

Optimus Prime

I only sold off a boxed one i got off Steve ages ago in great condition with samurai showdown 2 last week

Retr0gamer

You should just pick up all the SNK fighters on it, they're all very high quality. Postage from japan is almost always more reasonable than from the usual rip off merchants in the US and Europe.

Gal Fighters is pretty damn good and biomotor unitron is a decent RPG. Dark Arms is a great sort of zelda game as well.

I can't believe nobody recommended Card Fighters Clash, it's one of the best reasons to own a NGPC.

This is the guy with the lot I was talking about, this one here is good but not as good value as the previous one I got. All the games in it are must haves really but you only really need one version of card fighters.

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/NEO-GEO-POCKET-COLOR-GAMES-4-EACH-PICK-YOUR-OWN-LOT-/251087999240?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item3a7602d108

Two other good lots:

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/9-LOT-SNK-NEO-GEO-POCKET-COLOR-GAMES-KING-FIGHTERS-/310325033923?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item4840d03bc3

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/9-LOT-Neo-Geo-Pocket-Color-games-Fatal-King-Fighters-/390323525644?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item5ae118580c

Myrddin

I could be stung for customs though buying from JP couldn't I? Might be worth a chance though

o1s1n

You won't be stung by customs for something that low in price. The low end threshold was somewhere around 75 last time I checked. If anything, I think it may have gone up.

Retr0gamer

Yeah it's well below the threshold. I got the special edition of Catherine and a boxed 3DS through customs. The secret of my success?? Customs don't bother checking anything that comes through normal post. As long as you don't use a courier like UPS you'll be fine.

Pyongyang

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Customs don't bother checking anything that comes through normal post.

I got a SAL parcel stopped once.

o1s1n

EMS also doesn't usually get stopped.

Stay miles away from DHL and Fedex.