Destination: Aldershot (round 2)

The next day Tachiko mentioned seeing a copy of Timesplitters for the Gamecube in Kart Klub that he wished he'd picked up so what choice did we have but to head back to Aldershot!!

I couldn't leave Kart Klub empty handed so I picked up a copy of Aladdin for the Mega Drive. 

Purely for nostalgic reasons, growing up one of my friends had a megadrive and as far as I can remember this was the only game we ever played!

We were just about to leave when Tachiko spotted an official Gamecube Scart cable in the display cabinet, I'd been complaining to him that the picture quality through my 3rd party scart was terrible compared with his official one so of course I had to buy it (no picture of this I'm afraid as it's being used as I type!

After leaving Kart Klub we decided to have another look in Game as the day before we'd been kind of rushed as it was almost closing time. This time we both managed to find another 3 games each in the promo offer (except I bought 4...)

mine :) I've been after Okami for AGES!!

for some reason Tachiko's photographed Trama Centre New Blood when he actually picked up Trama Centre Second Opinion the same as I did....oh well.

Thats all for this round of Pick Ups, next time:

Patent Pending Presents: Mario & The Brick Breakers!!

September 16th Pickups

GmrGrl here with another exciting batch of pickups!

This time our pickups came from Cowley Road on the outskirts of Oxford and all bar one came from Charity Shops!

First up Tachiko picked up this super sweet deal in Age Concern. A boxed Crystal GBA & 3 boxed games!

 

Tony Hawk's Underground has seen some better days in terms of the packaging but Mario Kart is almost mint :)

 

This little lot was orginally marked up at £20 which was a bargain in itself but the lady behind the counter said we could have it for £10 as it had been in store for a while. It was orginally all bundled up in brown tape but luckily we managed to get it all off without causing any damage to the boxes!

Next we found an original Playstation, a Gamecube and a Mario Dancemat in another Charity Shop 'Barnardos'.

 

 

The gamecube was a nice pickup, the box is in a nicer condition than the one I already have and when we opened the console we found a copy of Star Wars Rebel Strike. I already had this game but it made a nice addition to Tachiko's collection (photocopied the cover of mine to give it a temp cover)

 

Originally I thought the dancemat was a little overpriced at £18 but when I opened it up I found a complete copy of Dancing Stage Mario Mix hidden away at the bottom, the mat itself is in an amazing condition, no cracks or peeling plastic anywhere!

 

Also picked up Micro Maniacs for the Playstation for 99p and when we looked inside the console itself we found a copy of GTA2 :)

Tachiko also picked up a copy of Wipeout2097 on the Saturn from the local game exchange store for £5 but when we got home and looked at it closely the game inside was a demo version. We took it back the next day and the guys in the shop were happy for us to swap it for something else. Tachiko couldn't find anything that took his fancy so I picked up a complete copy of Micro Machines 2 Turbo Tournament for the Megadrive.

 

as you can see it included invitations to give your friends for a tornament  & certificates for the winners! The J Cart is pretty cool as well as it included the ports for players 3 & 4. 

Thats all for this post, next time: more boot sale pickups!

 

Why I bought a Megadrive (or how I got a Mega CD)

So back on the 20th I posted the pictures of my brother's collection on Facebook (easiest way of getting them off my phone and onto my laptop as I have no idea where my transfer cable is) when I received the following message from my friend Rhyd.

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  7/20, 4:53pm
  

  Rhydian Caines
  

  
  

  
  

  Hi Fiona!

  
  

  Sorry for the slightly random email out of the blue, but I was just scrolling through Facebook and your collection of retro games consoles came up (awesome work by the way:-)). The thing being, I have an original Sega Mega CD here (see photo), a relic of my childhood that's been sat here for some time and which I've not really known what to do with. I had thought to put it on eBay but I've got no way of establishing whether or not it actually works as I don't have a Mega Drive anymore. I also don't have a power supply for it, though I imagine it's possible to get something that will work with it off of Amazon or something.

  
  

  Anyway - I wondered if you wanted it!? It would look pretty ace as part of your collection, and if you're happy to cover the postage cost you can have it for free. I'd just be happy to see it going to a good home, and it helps me out with de-cluttering, as we're moving house in the forseeable future and it would be nice to not have to pack it! I'm sorry I can't make any guarantees right now about its working-ness but I'm hopeful you can figure that out - obviously if it's no good you're welcome to chuck it I have a very vague memory of white specks appearing on the screen sometimes when you turned it on from cold, but which disappeared after 10 minutes or so.

  
  

  There's a few games for it too which I can send as well - Sonic CD; Silpheed; Night Trap; Lethal Enforcers 2: Gunfighters; Cobra Command; and a 'Classics' compilation CD including the Mega Drive titles Golden Axe, Super Monaco GP, Streets of Rage, Columns, and Revenge of Shinobi. I've also got a box for Final Fight, but no disc - it might actually be in the Mega CD but like I say I can't power it up!

  Anyway as I say sorry that's all a bit random, but if it's of any interest let me know. If not, no worries at all! I hope everything is going well with you.

  All the best,

  Rhyd

Now how was I supposed to say No to that kind of offer?! Obviously I jumped at the chance of owning a Mega-CD and games for the cost of postage. (£7.19 btw) I figured I'd use my brother's megadrives to test it as the power cables are interchangeable and then buy my own at a later date.

So the Mega-Cd arrived on Wednesday and I dug out my brother's megadrive 1 & 2 to test it out when I found out that the power-cable for the Megadrive 2 has a different connecter and isn't backwards compatible! Luckily I had already caved and bought my own Megadrive 1 from eBay, all I had to do was wait for it to arrive....

Which it did a couple of days ago but due to work etc I've only just had time to plug it all in and test it out, obvious game for me to test it on was Sonic CD, I love me some Sonic!!

Safe to say I think it still works!! 

In keeping with my Sonic Obsession I bought this job-lot of Sonic games from eBay including Sonic & Knuckles (which someone on YouTube affectionately referred to at the original DLC!) Sonic 2 even included the original promo poster.

Definitely gonna be framing this bad boy alongside my Sonic print :)