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o1s1n · 31-05-2011 03:14PM

Oh really? Did you pick that up on ebay or did you happen to come across it somewhere in Ireland?

johnny_ultimate · 31-05-2011 04:20PM

Yay! Just grabbed a new copy of Sin & Punishment 2 for a tenner in Gamestop Bray. Gamestop aren't always useless, just most of the time :P

Moral of the story: stubbornly refusing to pay for a low print niche game you really want until it gets cheaper does pay dividends infrequently. Now, to begin the dangerous waiting game for Dragon Quest VI to drop in price.

Retr0gamer · 31-05-2011 04:34PM

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Yay! Just grabbed a new copy of Sin & Punishment 2 for a tenner in Gamestop Bray. Gamestop aren't always useless, just most of the time :P

Moral of the story: stubbornly refusing to pay for a low print niche game you really want until it gets cheaper does pay dividends infrequently. Now, to begin the dangerous waiting game for Dragon Quest VI to drop in price.

You're playing with fire!

johnny_ultimate · 31-05-2011 04:41PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

You're playing with fire!

*laughs manically*

I am taken aback how many copies of DQVI I've seen in shops though!

Pyongyang · 31-05-2011 04:44PM

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

*laughs manically*

I am taken aback how many copies of DQVI I've seen in shops though!

This was the game Jedward were advertising right?

I love, love, LOVE Jedward the DQ games, will have to pick this one up at some point when I start hitting the salary-swallowing SHMUP purchases and the good woman can handle no more of this retro niche lunacy!

Retr0gamer · 31-05-2011 04:44PM

I think it's because nintendo are publishing it and the fact that DQ5 had a massive reprint in the states due to demand for the game that they are putting out a few more copies. I have my american version already though.

ghostchant · 31-05-2011 04:48PM

I jumped on DQ6 when I saw it, it completes the DQ series on the DS for me (excluding spin-offs, though I do have Rocket Slime). Now to find the ridiculous amount of hours I need to plow into them and the persona games.

Retr0gamer · 31-05-2011 04:50PM

I wish we got the other 2 rocket slime games

CiDeRmAn · 31-05-2011 06:07PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Oh really? Did you pick that up on ebay or did you happen to come across it somewhere in Ireland?

Oh, eBay of course, and its casing is a little rough plus missing the battery cover

But then, that's why I got it for about 25 or so.

Pyongyang · 31-05-2011 09:17PM

...and another SHMUP. This time I nabbed an NTSC-J copy of Gradius III & IV for the princely sum of 13 European magic beans, delivered.

Atavan-Halen · 01-06-2011 02:53PM

Picked up Naruto on the cube for just under €7 posted from Japan. Had to use up the leftover few euro on the o2 money card :P

Pyongyang · 01-06-2011 02:57PM

atavan-halen wrote: »

o2 money card :P

What is this O2 money card you speaketh?

Atavan-Halen · 01-06-2011 02:59PM

Like a 3v card but you don't get a separate number everytime you put money onn it and you can use it in shops too. It's basically a visa debit card!

http://www.o2online.ie/o2/o2-money/

Pyongyang · 01-06-2011 03:10PM

Ah OK, don't think I've a use for one of those. Cool idea though, thanks for the info.

Atavan-Halen · 01-06-2011 03:12PM

I don't trust myself at all with a proper credit card so it's useful for me :P

Pyongyang · 01-06-2011 03:19PM

atavan-halen wrote: »

I don't trust myself at all with a proper credit card so it's useful for me :P

I'm of the same school of thought except the good woman kicks me in to touch if I step out of line!

Which is why I haven't loaded myself to the hilt with a PC Engine Duo-R, a PC Engine LT and an assortment of HU's and CD's topped off with a Neo Geo AES and a stack of AES carts!

o1s1n · 01-06-2011 03:31PM

I get paid monthly so tend to think at the start of the month that I'm rich and can afford extravagant things. Credit cards can make it so much worse as it can be hard to keep track of your spending until the bill comes and slaps you in the face.

It went like this until I copped on -

Get paid on the 28th. I now think I'm rich so I go nuts on ebay.

About a week later the horror of what I've done starts to gradually appear on my online banking. I don't think it's going to be too bad, so keep buying.

The bill suddenly grows bigger. Ah! Shouldn't have bought that bloody Amiga/Megadrive prototype/Neo Geo/Arcade machine/insert other item which faux rich Oisin thinks he can afford.

So I stop going nuts on ebay and live like a pauper for the remainder of the month.

The next 28th comes and I've to pay off a massive credit card bill.

But on the flip side, I've now just been paid! So once again, rich Oisin reaches for his top hat, monocle, cane and is transported off to the dream land of ebay to blow his fortune quicker than a gambling addict in Reno.

Pyongyang · 01-06-2011 03:43PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Oisin reaches for his top hat, monocle, cane and is transported off to the dream land of ebay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L7h_sho7TQ

7sr2z3fely84g5 · 01-06-2011 03:44PM

i question my own sanity at times owning all that sh1t.

o1s1n · 01-06-2011 03:52PM

Easy solution - sell it all off. If you miss it, then you'll realize it wasn't **** and you should have hung on to it all.

By the way, when are you getting a Vectrex? :P

7sr2z3fely84g5 · 01-06-2011 04:08PM

never,doesn't interest me

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o1s1n · 01-06-2011 04:13PM

Have you seen one in person? I was the same, had no real interest in it. Then saw Ciderman's one and have never had something change my mind so rapidly.

7sr2z3fely84g5 · 01-06-2011 04:18PM

No,just games in particular,nothing really catches the taste,most 82 era,looking at speccy released in same year it went into 90s.

While at it heres some prototypes for the veccy owners-

colour vectrex-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/81896129@N00/969307370/

Screenshots- http://home.earthlink.net/~jmorg/vectrex/VecColorLives.htm

Unreleased games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vectrex_games#Unreleased_prototypes

o1s1n · 01-06-2011 04:24PM

Kailyn Beautiful Technique wrote: »

No,just games in particular,nothing really catches the taste,most 82 era,looking at speccy released in same year it went into 90s.

While at it heres some prototypes for the veccy owners-

colour vectrex-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/81896129@N00/969307370/

Screenshots- http://home.earthlink.net/~jmorg/vectrex/VecColorLives.htm

Unreleased games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vectrex_games#Unreleased_prototypes

Ooooh, didn't know there was a colour Vectrex prototype. That would have been interesting. I wonder would all the vector lines need to be the same colour or could you have different ones?

Retr0gamer · 01-06-2011 05:51PM

There was a problem with the colour vectrex because the higher energy colours (blue in other words) needed so much energy that they burnt out the phosphorous so it never got out of prototype.

Atavan-Halen · 01-06-2011 08:39PM

Just picked this up from RedXIV

Can't wait to get stuck into it. Been wanting to play it for forever :P Thanks again dude!!

Wow, it's like christmas for me these days with all my pickups

Pyongyang · 02-06-2011 07:46AM

atavan-halen wrote: »

Wow, it's like christmas for me these days with all my pickups

I'm with you on that one, I'm off to the UK next week and bringing back copious amounts of stuff (some I've not posted about here yet) I had sent there to avoid scandalous postage rates to Eire.

Can't wait! Congrats on Shenmue too, I've that game too but not played it yet. Why is it so popular? Don't know much about it, even when it was originally released.

CiDeRmAn · 02-06-2011 08:59AM

Re: colour Veccy, would've been cool if, by 1984/85 we had seen a colour followup to the Vectrex, imagine officially licenced Star Wars, Gravitar etc.
I think the Nes would have killed it off sharpish though, as the 80's drew on the Vector graphic display became rarer and rarer in arcades.
Just a pity that dirty tricks from Atari had to put an end to the Vectrex' promise, just as they did to the Colecovision.

batari · 02-06-2011 10:00AM

Well you could argue that Nintendo did the same to Atari when the Nes arrived, making sure certain game companies would only release their games for Nintendo for a certain time-frame to top sales.
Helped knock the 7800 out of competition with them, not that it would have made a difference regardless imo.

Swings and roundabouts.

Pyongyang · 02-06-2011 10:08AM

batari wrote: »

Swings and roundabouts.

I wonder if this applies to Sony with the PS3? :rolleyes:

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