Mid Week Pickups

GmrGrl here with yet another pickups post :)

As I mentioned two posts back Tachiko and I had last week off from work and decided to go to Aylesbury & Swindon as I had a lot of DVD's & CD's to trade into CeX. While we were there we visited the local Cash Converters as sometimes we find retro games that have been traded in. This time was no expection, Tachiko found a copy of Sega Rally for the Sega Saturn but they also had games for several other systems but there wasn't anything that we were interested in until we saw the Wii games, they were all priced at £3 but they were running an offer 'buy 5 for £7.50', how could we refuse??

 

We also picked up a couple of Wii & Gamecube games from CeX itself (after they spent over an hour scanning through all those DVD's...) and I picked up a second playstation controller from a charity shop for £1.99.

The Mario Kart Double Dash is actually a pretty cool copy as it includes a Zelda Collector's Edition disk as well. Neither one of us has seen this version of Double Dash before so if anyone knows where this version comes from please let us know!!

Next time I promise will be a post that isn't about pickups or an unboxing!!

Boot Sale Pickups

GmrGrl here with a very quick pickups post to show off some new additions to my Playstation collection.

I had last week off work as holiday so I headed over to my local boot sale to check it out (honestly I was hoping that retro collector would be back selling off the last of his stuff but sadly he wasn't) The boot sale season is winding down for the year now but I still found a couple of playstation games complete for £1 each.

 

Originally I thought that Spiderman was missing the manual but then I found it inside Spiderman 2 along with the manual for Spiderman 2 :) I'm not looking to get a big collection of Playstation Games as there are only a handful I really want, but when I see them for £1 each I'm not going to say no.

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!