GRcade Retro Gaming Chat 2.0

Ordered what was supposed to be a loose cart of Tennis for the original Gameboy for £2 including postage it arrived today and it's a boxed copy with cart, plastic case, manual and registration card all it's missing is the inner box. I am very happy with it.

kerr9000 wrote:Ordered what was supposed to be a loose cart of Tennis for the original Gameboy for £2 including postage it arrived today and it's a boxed copy with cart, plastic case, manual and registration card all it's missing is the inner box. I am very happy with it.

Nice, i still have the cartridge of that one but not the box sadly.

Vermilion wrote:

kerr9000 wrote:Ordered what was supposed to be a loose cart of Tennis for the original Gameboy for £2 including postage it arrived today and it's a boxed copy with cart, plastic case, manual and registration card all it's missing is the inner box. I am very happy with it.

Nice, i still have the cartridge of that one but not the box sadly.

In honesty I have very very few original Gameboy boxed games, all of the ones I had as a kid I think were gotten second hand so never had boxes and I havent picked up many with boxes only thing boxed I have from childhood would be one of the pokemons and I bet the box to that is all crushed. I find it more amazing than anythging that when there made of card that there are any like 8 out of 10 or better boxes left.

A prototype for a lost Dreamcast Castlevania game has been found and released online.

https://screenrant.com/castlevania-dreamcast-prototype-game-found/amp/

Just noticed those 2 Namco NES/famicom game collections were £3.99 each on the Switch's Eshop so decided to buy them, got the first one then went to get the second one and it only charged me 19pence for it, not sure if this was a mistake or not but I have checked my bank and checked it works so happy days I guess.

I grabbed a ps2 game yesterday for £1 a game called Whiplash its pretty decent

kerr9000 wrote:Just noticed those 2 Namco NES/famicom game collections were £3.99 each on the Switch's Eshop so decided to buy them, got the first one then went to get the second one and it only charged me 19pence for it, not sure if this was a mistake or not but I have checked my bank and checked it works so happy days I guess.

I grabbed a ps2 game yesterday for £1 a game called Whiplash its pretty decent

Whiplash is a cool game, I had it on XBOX. Spanx the weasel was a character from XBOX launch game Mad Dash Racing too.

kerr9000 wrote:Just noticed those 2 Namco NES/famicom game collections were £3.99 each on the Switch's Eshop so decided to buy them, got the first one then went to get the second one and it only charged me 19pence for it, not sure if this was a mistake or not but I have checked my bank and checked it works so happy days I guess.

I grabbed a ps2 game yesterday for £1 a game called Whiplash its pretty decent

Maybe it gives you a big % off one if you buy the other and they let it stack during the sale?

But you may also have got a discount using gold coins you had racked up. Might check this out myself... Arcade games (80s era)I find a little thin compared to 16bit era equivalents I grew up with (megadrive etc) but 4.20 is very low.

Just got a 128GB card and have already filled it day 1 of putting it in, I've bought so much

Green Gecko wrote:

kerr9000 wrote:Just noticed those 2 Namco NES/famicom game collections were £3.99 each on the Switch's Eshop so decided to buy them, got the first one then went to get the second one and it only charged me 19pence for it, not sure if this was a mistake or not but I have checked my bank and checked it works so happy days I guess.

I grabbed a ps2 game yesterday for £1 a game called Whiplash its pretty decent

Maybe it gives you a big % off one if you buy the other and they let it stack during the sale?

But you may also have got a discount using gold coins you had racked up. Might check this out myself... Arcade games (80s era)I find a little thin compared to 16bit era equivalents I grew up with (megadrive etc) but 4.20 is very low.

Just got a 128GB card and have already filled it day 1 of putting it in, I've bought so much

I know it wasn't gold coins as I only had about 20pence worth so maybe a discount for getting the first one. My switch has a 256mb card in it and it's full to the hilt, if memory was cheaper I'd buy more games, I tend to buy a lot more Xbox stuff because of this.

My switch has a lot of old stuff on it , the Megadrive collection, banco arcade collection, Castlevania collection, Capcom brawlers collection. I find this stuff a lot easier to just dip in and out of.

Yeah switch is perfect for retro and indie stuff.

got a few bits for the original Xbox today

Shark Tale complete for 50pence
The Incredibles complete for 50pence
and Shrek 2 boxed missing manual for 50pence

Not the most exciting stuff but I enjoy finding bits and pieces.

I grabbed a bunch of bits and pieces today

F1 World Grand Prix for N64 Cart only for £2

Waialae Country Club True golf classics for N64 Cart only for £2

Jurrasic Park Gameboy cart only for £4

Pocket Bomberman Gameboy Color cart only for £4

A Gameboy Color bootleg 7 in 1 Cart for £1

Blockout for the Megadrive Japanse cart and box missing manual for £4

I forgot I also got a boxed but rough copy of Super Mario Land 2 for £6

I had jurassic Park for GB and it comes with one of the most infuriating twat kid stories. I lent it to someone who then claimed a teacher had confiscated it. Just the cartridge. I asked the teacher and they had no idea what I was talking about. They'd just strawberry floating lied to keep it.

It's identical to the NES game which I have boxed now though.

I grabbed a loose cart of True Lies for Gameboy for £5
and a loose cart of Donkey Kong Land 2 for Gameboy for £5 today.

I am really enjoying pumping my Gameboy cart collection up a bit

Where do you pick up your games Kerr?

coldspice wrote:Where do you pick up your games Kerr?

True Lies came from this really cruddy mobile phone shop they just randomly had like 8 Gameboy carts in the window, this was the only one that was a decent price.

Donkey Kong land 2 was from a retro game shop where most things were massively over priced an NTSC loose SNES cart of street fighter 2 World Warrior was £25 for example, but I went through everything looking for something decently priced.

I go to lots of Pawn stores, Indy game stores, charity shops and just look for weird shops that strangely happen to have games. I am autistic and suffer from PTSD and anxiety and hunting for cheap games is something that seems to calm me down, it's a bit of an adiction but I guess I could be doing worse things like shooting crack lol

kerr9000 wrote:

coldspice wrote:Where do you pick up your games Kerr?

True Lies came from this really cruddy mobile phone shop they just randomly had like 8 Gameboy carts in the window, this was the only one that was a decent price.

Donkey Kong land 2 was from a retro game shop where most things were massively over priced an NTSC loose SNES cart of street fighter 2 World Warrior was £25 for example, but I went through everything looking for something decently priced.

I go to lots of Pawn stores, Indy game stores, charity shops and just look for weird shops that strangely happen to have games. I am autistic and suffer from PTSD and anxiety and hunting for cheap games is something that seems to calm me down, it's a bit of an adiction but I guess I could be doing worse things like shooting crack lol

You're in Hucknall aren't you? Do you know anywhere decent in Nottingham for the next time I'm there?

coldspice wrote:

kerr9000 wrote:

coldspice wrote:Where do you pick up your games Kerr?

True Lies came from this really cruddy mobile phone shop they just randomly had like 8 Gameboy carts in the window, this was the only one that was a decent price.

Donkey Kong land 2 was from a retro game shop where most things were massively over priced an NTSC loose SNES cart of street fighter 2 World Warrior was £25 for example, but I went through everything looking for something decently priced.

I go to lots of Pawn stores, Indy game stores, charity shops and just look for weird shops that strangely happen to have games. I am autistic and suffer from PTSD and anxiety and hunting for cheap games is something that seems to calm me down, it's a bit of an adiction but I guess I could be doing worse things like shooting crack lol

You're in Hucknall aren't you? Do you know anywhere decent in Nottingham for the next time I'm there?

There is a games shop the name of which escapes me which is down a tiny out of the way road, I will check next time I'm in town he has lots of stuff the prices vary but he is often open to offers (it's like 5 minutes from the Victoria center).if your willing to stray a bit and take a bus if you go to Kirkby via the number 3 bus there's a really cool toy and game shop on there main shopping street. Other than that it's just the usual CEX's and charity shops. Nottingham used to have a lot more game shops but they have all died in the last 5 years or so, even the best one in bout near neighbour Derby has died only leaving one which tends to be mega expensive for most things.

kerr9000 wrote:

coldspice wrote:

kerr9000 wrote:

coldspice wrote:Where do you pick up your games Kerr?

True Lies came from this really cruddy mobile phone shop they just randomly had like 8 Gameboy carts in the window, this was the only one that was a decent price.

Donkey Kong land 2 was from a retro game shop where most things were massively over priced an NTSC loose SNES cart of street fighter 2 World Warrior was £25 for example, but I went through everything looking for something decently priced.

I go to lots of Pawn stores, Indy game stores, charity shops and just look for weird shops that strangely happen to have games. I am autistic and suffer from PTSD and anxiety and hunting for cheap games is something that seems to calm me down, it's a bit of an adiction but I guess I could be doing worse things like shooting crack lol

You're in Hucknall aren't you? Do you know anywhere decent in Nottingham for the next time I'm there?

There is a games shop the name of which escapes me which is down a tiny out of the way road, I will check next time I'm in town he has lots of stuff the prices vary but he is often open to offers (it's like 5 minutes from the Victoria center).if your willing to stray a bit and take a bus if you go to Kirkby via the number 3 bus there's a really cool toy and game shop on there main shopping street. Other than that it's just the usual CEX's and charity shops. Nottingham used to have a lot more game shops but they have all died in the last 5 years or so, even the best one in bout near neighbour Derby has died only leaving one which tends to be mega expensive for most things.

Didn't know about the one in Kirkby, I'll check it out next time I'm in the Mansfield area, thanks!

kerr9000 wrote:

coldspice wrote:

kerr9000 wrote:

coldspice wrote:Where do you pick up your games Kerr?

True Lies came from this really cruddy mobile phone shop they just randomly had like 8 Gameboy carts in the window, this was the only one that was a decent price.

Donkey Kong land 2 was from a retro game shop where most things were massively over priced an NTSC loose SNES cart of street fighter 2 World Warrior was £25 for example, but I went through everything looking for something decently priced.

I go to lots of Pawn stores, Indy game stores, charity shops and just look for weird shops that strangely happen to have games. I am autistic and suffer from PTSD and anxiety and hunting for cheap games is something that seems to calm me down, it's a bit of an adiction but I guess I could be doing worse things like shooting crack lol

You're in Hucknall aren't you? Do you know anywhere decent in Nottingham for the next time I'm there?

There is a games shop the name of which escapes me which is down a tiny out of the way road, I will check next time I'm in town he has lots of stuff the prices vary but he is often open to offers (it's like 5 minutes from the Victoria center).if your willing to stray a bit and take a bus if you go to Kirkby via the number 3 bus there's a really cool toy and game shop on there main shopping street. Other than that it's just the usual CEX's and charity shops. Nottingham used to have a lot more game shops but they have all died in the last 5 years or so, even the best one in bout near neighbour Derby has died only leaving one which tends to be mega expensive for most things.

Not aware of the Notts one you're talking about so if it comes back to you then let me know, I'd be interested in a wander round it.

There would have to be some stunning bargains to get me to go to Kirkby though.