Cowley Road pt 2

I couldn't wait till payday!! Mum and I headed back to Cowley road yesterday to pick up the games I wished I'd picked and I picked up some more gems!

Not only did I pick up Darkwing Duck & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (mouthful...) I also picked up McDonaldsland for the NES, Bubble Bobble for the Master System and TETRIS for the N64.

Heading down the road we popped into the charity shop where Tachiko found the memory card last week and found an unboxed  Starwars game for the Gameboy Color and an even better bargain was an unboxed copy of Lylat Wars for the N64 for £2!! Yes it has permanent marker on it but I've already used one coat of nail varnish remover on it in the photo below and it should fade more with another coat.

Tex24 (another exchange shop) also provided me with 4 more NES games for £20, I have no idea if they are any good or not but for £5 each I'm not gonna say no!!

Destination: Next Level Games

Next stop on our impromptu trip to Wales was Next Level Games in Pontypridd.

(of course we totally forgot to take a photo of the store both times we've visited and I can't find one on the net!)

This store seems tiny from the outside but it's like Aladdin's Cave when you get in there! Last time I was here I didn't buy much but this time I went a little mad, treating myself to my second console of the day, a turquoise crystal N64, Crash Dummies for the Master System, Echo the Dolphin on the Mega CD, Pokemon Colosseum for the Gamecube and a walkthrough guide for Animal crossing Wild World. I also got given a NES Zapper gun and a copy of Sonic for the Master System with a photocopied cover.

Tachiko also treated himself to a second home console, this time breaking away from the Nintendo franchise and heading into Sega territory with a Dreamcast, again in a stunning condition with minimal if any signs of aging! Following his love of Crystal consoles he also nabbed a clear Gameboy Pocket (the only handheld I am missing from my gameboy collection), a boxed copy of Flashback on the SNES, Soul Calibur 2 for the Gamecube and a free rumble pack for his new Dreamcast!

We were also given a few other freebies, an empty N64 controller box and a carrycase designed to fit a gameboy pocket pictured below with our other freebies.

Again we spent quite a bit of time chatting to the owners (again their names have escaped me sorry!) about our collections, eurogamer, midnight launch pickups back in the day and the trails of running a retro game store. 

To find out more about Next Level Games and to see what amazing things they'd got in stock check out their facebook page here: Next Level Games Facebook Page

Tachiko and I discussed the possibility of heading over to Newport to check out Toy Army but decided that given the time Toy Army would be closing by the time we got there so we decided to stay in Pontypridd for a little longer before heading for home, We popped into Game where I found a copy of Animal Crossing 'Let's go to the City' for the Wii and a walkthrough guide for Pokemon X&Y on sale! I also bought a couple of magazines from the newsagents :)

Before long it was time to head home but we thoroughly enjoyed every minute of our trip to Wales and that retro game retail therapy itch was well and truly scratched....or so we thought!!

The Master System I forgot to mention...

Hi guys it's GmrGrl again, we have lots of interesting stuff to show and tell you guys about including Eurogamer and our recent trip to Wales but first here is a quick post to tell you guys about the Master System I picked up at the same time as picking up Tachiko's Sega Saturn... Yes I know it was a while ago and yes it probably isn't really worth blogging about now but damnit I've already taken the pictures!

So just to paint a more detailed picture, I generally work Sunday's and so don't really get a chance to look around my local boot sale very often. A couple of weeks back I had a rare Sunday off work so decided to jump at the opportunity to go 'Game Hunting' and man am I glad I did!

I only wish that I'd had a lot more money on me as I found pretty much any mainstream console you care to mention. First stall I went to was selling a GBA & 30 games (unboxed) for £30, then I found a handfull of DS & Wii games for a couple of quid each! (picked up a few games but the GBA was too rich for my blood at the time)

 

Also picked up this 3rd party GBA carry case for £1! Had a bunch of bratz stickers on the inside but they came off with a little picking :)

Fits pretty much all my loose GBA cartridges, my GBA & my GB mini :)

Also saw the typical Xbox & PS2's for sale but nothing was that appealing until I came to the last row of cars, mid way down the row I saw a guy selling off his ENTIRE retro collection...why? Because his girlfriend was making him 'there's not enough room in our new house for all his junk' she said when I asked why he was selling!

Still his loss was our gain as I bought Tachiko's Sega Saturn for £20 and this Master System 2 (I think it has Alex Kidd built in as I vaugely remember the seller saying something along those lines) and 17 games (not 30 like I said in the video *doh!*) for £30 :)

 

please excuse the blurry picture, I took it in a bit of a hurry! Games are 

top row: Chuck Rock 2 son of chuck, Sonic, Sonic 2, Altered Beast, Cool Spot, Paperboy

middle row: world class leader board, kick off, soccer, parlour games, bank panic, teddy boy

bottom row: super monacco GP, global defence, master games 1, Olympic Games, Golden Axe Warrior

Next time: More Pickups!!