The Revenge of the Post Here When You Get Something New thread

MrVestek

keithgeo wrote: »

yep, i dunno if everyone is jumping on the band wagon or what but the prices have gone mad.

A lot of people here (myself included) have put that down to shows like gamer chasers, pickers and stuff like that.

They make for great TV shows but then anybody will pick anything up no matter how rare or unrare it is and try and sell it for a lot of cash thinking that they can make a massive return on it.

Pyongyang

Achilles wrote: »

but then anybody will pick anything up no matter how rare or unrare it is and try and sell it for a lot of cash thinking that they can make a massive return on it.

Until they price themselves out of the market and people stop buying and/or lose interest in retro games...

...and we'll all be there, pickin' up the pieces. Aww yeah... :cool:

the groutch

said it before (and I'll say it again), the likes of Amazon Marketplace and PlayTrade are the problem, people see a price there and assume that's what it's worth, but forget that it's still there because nobody wants to pay that price.

o1s1n

IKEA-Ruga!





Finally found a VGA cable and got the DC hooked up. The viewing angle horizontal wasn't the best, but it's absolutely perfect vertical. To be honest I'm kind of shocked as to how perfect the image looks. I was expecting a small improvement but this is amazing.



There's something very relaxing about having a demo loop run on a screen which is on a flat surface. I think I'll just leave it running all the time

Photos don't really do it justice unfortunately. You'll have to take my word on it!

Pyongyang

NICE! I didn't know you had Ikaruga? You should get the model kits to complement it.

I hope for your sake Pantrylad those games are NTSC-J! :mad:

o1s1n

Unfortunately my Ikaruga is NTSC-J-CDR

The only official shmups I have for that console are Karous and Last Hope. Can't bring myself to be spending money on them when they're so easily CDR-able!

Pyongyang

I love Karous, glad someone else has it too. I have the telephone card that came with some copies too, did yours come with it? It looks like the cover art on it.

o1s1n

It came with a telephone card? mad! That's a really weird thing to have as a promotion. Are they big into that over in Japan or was it just an oddity?

I got my one second hand from an Irish ebay seller, so no card for me!

Pyongyang

Yep, it's super rare to have the matching card. Oddly enough I sourced my copy of the game from my home town about a year ago. Small world!

The phone card was packed in with very few copies afaik. Mine is still sealed (because I have loads of calls to make...)

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

I got Half Minute Hero for $12 including postage with Heavenly Guardian sealed for free.
Atavan ever so kindly got me Obscure on PS2, I only had it on PC

safetyboy

Pyongyang

Heavy Unit. Awesome game.

GameBeaker000

Hmm... Best retro game... Oh! OH!!! I know! Space Invaders. Just buy the Sims 2 DS and you can play it there.

Myrddin

GameBeaker000 wrote: »

ust buy the Sims 2 DS and you can play it there.

O...k

CiDeRmAn

Hmm, my Sims 2 DS "usting" days are well behind me too!

I wonder what he/she/it meant.

Typically posts that need to be decrypted come from Atavan when he's been drunk posting on A&R, this is a new phenomenon.

Initially I thought that it really was Atavan, but then realised that it was too early for him to be quite that plastered!

The Last Bandit

Few recent acquisitions.



I've wanted an Atari ST since the mid-eighties. Used to oogle over the adverts in the back of CnVG while my Amstard eeeee'd & awww'd its way thru another tape loading session. They seemed to be a young kids computing nirvana, even sent off for the brochures just to torment myself further..

So now I can play ports of those poxy Amstard 8-bit games in glorious 16-bit colour This one is the 512KB but the mobo can be upgraded of 1MB - although the cost of RAM chips is more than what I paid for the system itself...

NES controller is great

Steve X2

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Few recent acquisitions.



I've wanted an Atari ST since the mid-eighties. Used to oogle over the adverts in the back of CnVG while my Amstard eeeee'd & awww'd its way thru another tape loading session. They seemed to be a young kids computing nirvana, even sent off for the brochures just to torment myself further..

So now I can play ports of those poxy Amstard 8-bit games in glorious 16-bit colour This one is the 512KB but the mobo can be upgraded of 1MB - although the cost of RAM chips is more than what I paid for the system itself...

NES controller is great

Sounds familiar

Also, you know you want to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6dBTyfPrkg

ahyeahok

Picked up a few bits recently

Some more SMS & MD games picked up cheap at a few car boot sales




A yellow but cheap C64 at another car boot. (boxed)


& finally a mint Neo Geo Pocket Color via adverts

unky chop chop

Where abouts are these car boot sales pray tell... a magical land of make believe!!
Fill me in on what sales you came upon these cause that is some find my friend if you got all those in a few lots.fair bloody play..are u part of game chasers.

MD quack shot,james pond and alien storm are classics.
C64 and crearures.!!!
C64 looks like you'd get cancer from touching it

Optimus Prime

I believe that NeoGeo pocket colour came via Steve to me, then from me to some lad on adverts to yourself. if it had Boxed Saumari showdown with it?

o1s1n

Just got a SLG3000 with a clear case. Pretty expensive in the end, but the case really finishes it off -



This is going straight into that IKEA cab. Vertical shmup loveliness with scanlines. I cannot wait.

Steve X2

keithgeo wrote: »

I believe that NeoGeo pocket colour came via Steve to me, then from me to some lad on adverts to yourself. if it had Boxed Saumari showdown with it?

I thought it looked familiar

ahyeahok

unky chop chop wrote: »

Where abouts are these car boot sales pray tell... a magical land of make believe!!
Fill me in on what sales you came upon these cause that is some find my friend if you got all those in a few lots.fair bloody play..are u part of game chasers.

MD quack shot,james pond and alien storm are classics.
C64 and crearures.!!!
C64 looks like you'd get cancer from touching it

MD & SMS games I got in 2 different car boot sales up North when I was up there a couple weeks ago.

Thats the first C64 I've seen in the flesh anywhere in the last couple of years or so. Its a bit more yellowed than anyone would want but at the price I got it for it was well worth it.

ahyeahok

keithgeo wrote: »

I believe that NeoGeo pocket colour came via Steve to me, then from me to some lad on adverts to yourself. if it had Boxed Saumari showdown with it?

Steve SI wrote: »

I thought it looked familiar

Yup, I kinda thought you guys would notice, i only realised it had done the rounds after I bought it.
He had it up for a crazy price considering what he paid for it but he was local so I put it on my watchlist and waited for the price to come down.
After 2 price reductions I offered what it was worth really.

unky chop chop

o1s1n wrote: »

Just got a SLG3000 with a clear case. Pretty expensive in the end, but the case really finishes it off -


This is going straight into that IKEA cab. Vertical shmup loveliness with scanlines. I cannot wait.

I saw u posting that cab on some other thread recentley.looks great and that bad boy is essential for an LCD screen
I really want a table top more than ever now...pics please.
Remember some dude that did one with mirror glass for a finish.Girlfriend friendly table:)


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Professey Chin

The Last Bandit wrote: »

The Atari ST. 1st computer to come into our house.
/sniff. Memories.
I want one again SainT just isnt the same

Pyongyang

A lad I once knew who's face looked like a footpump had an Atari ST. He always used to say Rick Dangerous was his favourite game, but he hated Rick Dangerous 2...

o1s1n

unky chop chop wrote: »

I saw u posting that cab on some other thread recentley.looks great and that bad boy is essential for an LCD screen
I really want a table top more than ever now...pics please.
Remember some dude that did one with mirror glass for a finish.Girlfriend friendly table:)


.

I'll definitely be sticking up loads of scanline goodness as soon as it arrives!

Switched out the computer in it last night. Stuck in a Samsung NC10 which is running everything better. Only annoying thing about it is that netbook won't boot when the lid is closed. You need to keep it open about 3/4 of an inch. So it was a bit of a head melter trying to figure that out. Did it in the end though.

I tried settings Hyperspin and Mala, but couldn't get either of them to work for some reason. Might just leave it as a desktop PC and have all the emus as shortcuts. Have Windows displaying in portrait and it's actually really cool for some other programs like Comic book reader. Whole tabletop becomes a comic page. I also think it'd be pretty great for things like Google maps. Like you'd have a map laid out on a table for you!

OwaynOTT

Just been sniffing some NTSC goodness for last few minutes.
Pissed that I can't play it yet.

CosmicSmash

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Just been sniffing some NTSC goodness for last few minutes.
Pissed that I can't play it yet.

Hope it's of the J variety;)