GRcade Retro Gaming Chat 2.0

I went to visit a guy with an indy store today and splurged £95 on a bundle of games, some of its retro and some is new but thought id post it here , it was one of those keep slapping things on the counter and ill name my price deal so cant say what I paid for individual things.




Magical Taruruuto-kun Magic Adventure cart only for the SNES JAPANESE

Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 9 (Konami baseball) for GameCube complete JAPANESE (My first Japanese Gamecube game)

Arms complete for Switch
The Survivalists Complete for Switch
The Legend of Zelda Links awakening for Switch

Fire Pro Wrestling World complete for PS4

Everybodys Golf complete for PSP

Disney Planes for 3DS complete
Mensa Acadey for 3DS complete
Phonics fun Volume 1 for 3DS complete (going to give this my daughter as she's doing a teaching course and wants these)

Kirby's Pinball Land cart only for Gameboy
Dr Mario cart only for Gameboy
Pac Panic cart only for Gameboy

Its a good Job I don't do this kind of thing often
Magical Taruruuto-kun cart only for GameBoy JAPANESE
On the Tiles cart only for Gameboy

Well I grabbed another Wii today for £25



As can sort of be seen it included a balance board, 2 official Wii-motes, 4 official nunchucks , 2 official classic controllers, 1 official classic pro controller, the sensor , power supply, the standard TV lead, a better official composite lead, the sensor bar, the stand, a bunch of those silly attachments, a 2Gig SD card inside it, not in this picture are an unofficial stand complete with a charging dock in it with chargeable batteries for 2 Wii-motes.


I also got 6 Japanese Gamecube games



these are

Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen ,the disc the plastic case and manual no card cover
Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen 2 ,complete
Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen 3 ,the disc the plastic case and manual no card cover
Gash Bell!! Yuujou no Tag Battle ,the disc the plastic case and manual no card cover
Donkey Konga ,complete
Groove Adventure Rave: Fighting Live , complete

kerr9000 wrote:I went to visit a guy with an indy store today and splurged £95 on a bundle of games, some of its retro and some is new but thought id post it here , it was one of those keep slapping things on the counter and ill name my price deal so cant say what I paid for individual things.




Magical Taruruuto-kun Magic Adventure cart only for the SNES JAPANESE

Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 9 (Konami baseball) for GameCube complete JAPANESE (My first Japanese Gamecube game)

Arms complete for Switch
The Survivalists Complete for Switch
The Legend of Zelda Links awakening for Switch

Fire Pro Wrestling World complete for PS4

Everybodys Golf complete for PSP

Disney Planes for 3DS complete
Mensa Acadey for 3DS complete
Phonics fun Volume 1 for 3DS complete (going to give this my daughter as she's doing a teaching course and wants these)

Kirby's Pinball Land cart only for Gameboy
Dr Mario cart only for Gameboy
Pac Panic cart only for Gameboy

Its a good Job I don't do this kind of thing often
Magical Taruruuto-kun cart only for GameBoy JAPANESE

On the Tiles cart only for Gameboy

£95 seems reasonable for that many games

Ironhide wrote:

kerr9000 wrote:I went to visit a guy with an indy store today and splurged £95 on a bundle of games, some of its retro and some is new but thought id post it here , it was one of those keep slapping things on the counter and ill name my price deal so cant say what I paid for individual things.




Magical Taruruuto-kun Magic Adventure cart only for the SNES JAPANESE

Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 9 (Konami baseball) for GameCube complete JAPANESE (My first Japanese Gamecube game)

Arms complete for Switch
The Survivalists Complete for Switch
The Legend of Zelda Links awakening for Switch

Fire Pro Wrestling World complete for PS4

Everybodys Golf complete for PSP

Disney Planes for 3DS complete
Mensa Acadey for 3DS complete
Phonics fun Volume 1 for 3DS complete (going to give this my daughter as she's doing a teaching course and wants these)

Kirby's Pinball Land cart only for Gameboy
Dr Mario cart only for Gameboy
Pac Panic cart only for Gameboy

Its a good Job I don't do this kind of thing often
Magical Taruruuto-kun cart only for GameBoy JAPANESE

On the Tiles cart only for Gameboy

£95 seems reasonable for that many games

I knew the going CEX rate for the Switch games Zelda Links Awakening is £30, Arms is £22 and Survivalist is £15 so I kept that in mind at the time ... Fire Pro I am also thinking is about a tenner so knowing that I felt pretty confident it was a decent deal the chap offered me.

Been reading a pdf version (my brother bought the hardback and got a pdf version with it) of Bitmap Books' ?A Guide to Japanese Role Playing Games and I'm really impressed with the sheer amount of content and info about some of the more obscure stuff.

https://www.bitmapbooks.com/products/a-guide-to-japanese-role-playing-games

Great stuff.

Ironhide wrote:Been reading a pdf version (my brother bought the hardback and got a pdf version with it) of Bitmap Books' ?A Guide to Japanese Role Playing Games and I'm really impressed with the sheer amount of content and info about some of the more obscure stuff.

https://www.bitmapbooks.com/products/a-guide-to-japanese-role-playing-games

Great stuff.

Yeah, I'm a big admirer of the stuff that Bitmap Books have published, Ironhide. I have four books in the "visual compendium" series (Commodore 64, Spectrum, Amiga and Master System) and the Gremlin history (a popular game developer in the 80s and early 90s) and they're all super quality.

I'm excited about the Mega Drive / Genesis visual compendium due later this year .

I think I could be tempted to get the upcoming one about CRPGs and the illustrated version of H.G Wells' War of the Worlds but I'd only be able to read the included pdfs so maybe I'd use them as Christmas/birthday gifts (or just keep them as collectors items).

Ironhide wrote:I think I could be tempted to get the upcoming one about CRPGs and the illustrated version of H.G Wells' War of the Worlds but I'd only be able to read the included pdfs so maybe I'd use them as Christmas/birthday gifts (or just keep them as collectors items).

Dang, man, sorry that you can't use the book versions, Ironhide. As you say, they are nice collectibles and maybe you would be able to mainly view the PDFs and then occasionally look over the books if you had some assistance?

Got this Japanese Gamecube game complete today for £8 (Mystic Heroes)




Also got a joystick for the C64 Mini boxed for £5




It would also be cool for using to play games from that sort of age on my laptop C64 and Spectrum etc

I recently stumbled across a YouTube channel called retrosutra and they do fantastic comparison vids of games on differing systems. It's great to see how games were tailored to the strengths - and drawbacks! - of the formats, especially in the 80s and 90s where tech could really vary. Highly recommended!

Today was a day of buying a far bit of stuff



So these loose carts are Super Street fighter 2 American for £8 ,ECW hardcore for GBC for £1 , Stunt Race FX for £4, a Microsoft puzzle collection for £1, JaJa Maru for Famicom £3. I am sure the shop had priced Street Fighter wrong as they wanted £10 for a US copy of World Warrior.



Grabbed these 4 original xbox games for £1 each all of them have manuals, there in Ok condition could be better.



Grabbed these 4 ps3 games for £3 in total.



And I Grabbed these 3 games for £2 in total.

Did anyone ever own one of these for the original PlayStation?

My brother recently bought one in Kyoto and modded it to make music.

That's sick

I keep fawning over the mister project (fpga hardware emulation) but I just know I'm not sensitive enough to input lag to appreciate it over software emulation, nor do I have any CRT screens to take advantage of the RGB output. Very expensive once you add up all the parts as well, nevermind the fact that the main FPGA board is rarely in stock.

One day

I'm off to a local retro gaming event in a couple of weeks NERG (North East Retro Gaming). They have a mix of arcade cabinets, pinball machines and retro consoles to play on plus a gaming market. It's the first time the event has been held since 2019 and I'm really looking forward to it. Hoping to bag a couple of bargains for my XBOX collection although from experience prices tend to be a little higher at these kind of events over what you might pay in say CeX or Cash Generator.

Cumberdanes wrote:I'm off to a local retro gaming event in a couple of weeks NERG (North East Retro Gaming). They have a mix of arcade cabinets, pinball machines and retro consoles to play on plus a gaming market. It's the first time the event has been held since 2019 and I'm really looking forward to it. Hoping to bag a couple of bargains for my XBOX collection although from experience prices tend to be a little higher at these kind of events over what you might pay in say CeX or Cash Generator.

I went to something similar in Nottingham just before COVID and enjoyed it, the price for boxed stuff was high but various stalls had some great stuff in there bargain bins so worth looking at the stuff to the side of the table etc

Are you into SNES gaming? Check out this complete SNES game manual archive (English language). (Collection collated by Peebs)

I paid £2 including postage for two loose carts and they arrived like this



Action fighters the box and cart, Tennis Ace is box cart and manual

I then spent £20 to get the following



and

Holy gooseberry fool, Zero Tolerance has just been re-released on XB1/PS4/Switch! The first FPS I ever played, on the Mega Drive!

kerr9000 wrote:I paid £2 including postage for two loose carts and they arrived like this



Action fighters the box and cart, Tennis Ace is box cart and manual

Action Fighter is one of my favourite Master System games, having loved Spy Hunter in the arcades.