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Post here every time you get something new!

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I saw this idea on another forum and thought to give it a go here. Title says it all. - Any time you buy some new arcade or retro goodies post about it here so we can all admire/drool in jealousy.... (And plan to raid your house :pac:)

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Dr Bob

Thats pretty cool , by 91'ish I'd switched over to the sms/ meg so that passed me by
system 3 were great though , Last Ninja(1-3), Flimbos Quest, Myth...

Retr0gamer

I hadmy C64 for way too long so remember some very late games, some were really impressive such as turbo charge.

safetyboy

Just picked up an N64 with Mario Cart for 3€ in eastwall car boot

CiDeRmAn

Nice one, Mario Kart too! Now all you need are some good games for it! Ha ha

sparkthatbled

Just had an epic carboot haul...

Started off with this for €10

Then picked up a few more bits and pieces. GBA for 3, Gamecube for 8. All will be in the last pic.

As we walked around for a last quick look we came across someone we had missed who was having an everything-must-go sale and he sold us everything in this picture for €3.50 (not a typo, 3 euro 50 cents)

In total we spent about 40 and ended up with this haul:

The monopoly might not be arcade but it is retro and they go on ebay for 50, we paid 2.

Oh and during the week my OH snapped this up off adverts for 25: http://www.adverts.ie/other-consoles-games/spectra-video-sv-318-computer/402678

Today was full of win, now time to clean it all up and test it.

CiDeRmAn

Well done you!
Which market was it?
I frequent the Balbriggan market on a Sunday myself, often they have something interesting although I'm not buying any more N64s or Ps1 consoles! Having a hard time selling them on.
Snes and Megadrive, they sell very well.

sparkthatbled

Forgot to mention the ps1 is an audiophile one. It was somewhere in tallaght, near jacobs. went to Balbriggan a couple of times, never really found much worth getting there. Got a SNES once for 25 and a megadrive 2 for a tenner which turned out to be faulty. I suppose you just have to be lucky with when you go to these things...

pdbhp

sparkthatbled wrote: »

Forgot to mention the ps1 is an audiophile one. It was somewhere in tallaght, near jacobs. went to Balbriggan a couple of times, never really found much worth getting there. Got a SNES once for 25 and a megadrive 2 for a tenner which turned out to be faulty. I suppose you just have to be lucky with when you go to these things...

Damn you to hell, you must have got to the market before me and cleaned them out cod they had feck all when I got there:(

80s Synth Pop

sparkthatbled wrote: »

Forgot to mention the ps1 is an audiophile one. It was somewhere in tallaght, near jacobs. went to Balbriggan a couple of times, never really found much worth getting there. Got a SNES once for 25 and a megadrive 2 for a tenner which turned out to be faulty. I suppose you just have to be lucky with when you go to these things...

huh? I go to the Market there in the stadium on the Saturday http://www.irishcarboot.ie/venues/tallaght.php. Didn't know it was on Sunday's now as well..

Good haul you got there!

Pyongyang

Well done on the haul, can't believe that lot was €3.50! :eek:

Glad that Spectravideo got snapped up. I was tempted to go look at that myself, never got round to it. Does it all work?

SdoowSirhc

I got 3 GBA games for free:cool:
but 2 of them are does 2-in-1 crappy ones

but the other one is Donkey Kong!:D

sparkthatbled

Pyongyang wrote: »

Well done on the haul, can't believe that lot was €3.50! :eek:

Glad that Spectravideo got snapped up. I was tempted to go look at that myself, never got round to it. Does it all work?

Yeah works perfect (and there's a more common NTSC one with less peripherals and no power adaptor (so untested) on ebay for €500 right now), as does the NES that came free with it! Just finishing up cleaning up everything and discovered the joystick with red buttons we got with the megadrive is for the spectra video. What are the odds?

I probably wont be back to that market again anytime soon. I was just passing and popped in and the guy with all the stuff for 3.50 said it was garage-clearance stuff for a friend who is emigrating. Looks like pure fluke for me.

Pyongyang

Glad to hear it all works.

The Spectravideo computers are sort-of rare but, forgive me if I'm wrong, if you're looking to flip it I doubt you'll get £500 for it, though I know nothing about those systems and their rarity aside from they were something to do with MSX systems in Europe which, as you probably know, MSX systems command a few bob these days.

I'd certainly recommend putting it up for sale in specialist areas though as you'd probably not garner much interest elsewhere. Either way, if it's a flip, you'll certainly make a few bob so fair play to you for taking the chance on it.

edit: Wait a sec, you got a FREE NES with the Spectravideo? Nice one!

CiDeRmAn

Damn, was considering making the trip next Saturday to check out the retro goodness...
I'll just sit in and weep like usual instead.

But I'd have to wonder, what else s there that I'm likely to want at the market?
I dont think there is likely to be any consoles I don't already have.
Maybe some games?
We will see, MD and Snes games are becoming hard to find, lots of PS2 though.

sparkthatbled

The NES was in the pics on the ad, asked the guy if everything in the picture was included and he said yeah. I think he thought it was a peripheral because it was roughly the same size, shape and colour scheme as the tape deck. Feel a bit guilty for keeping my mouth shut on that but i doubt he would have cared, it was his brothers old stuff, not his!

@Ciderman: I was at the same market in Tallaght once before and it was dreadful, there was one person selling ps1 games and wanting 10 each for them. So you might get lucky, you might not.

All tested working now except the megadrive in the 3.50 lot which powers on but no picture.

Dr Bob

I was passing Rage today so..

seeing as sparks has been talking about the 8 bit micro versions lately I kinda had to

alpahaeagle

I was in line to buy the Spectravideo system but when I did get in contact with the guy, the only time we could meet was Friday @ 17:30...I was unable to meet as we had a system failure here in work...Darn it to hell and all.... Good luck with the system........;)

Hope you enjoy........

Good week all round......

Just bought a couple of systems.......:p

Photo' as soon as I get them........

Could buy 3 other systems going cheap......have to see what I have left.....Good side is I don't have a credit card....so no Buy now and pay later.....:)

Going to put a bread bin Commodore 64 up in trade section if anyone interested......:rolleyes:

CiDeRmAn

Got another PSone, no screen this time...
Got a bunch of games with it too, only a fiver.
Gonna see if I can find an official screen and then sell it for a profit.
Not buying too many more PS1/one or N64s, they are starting to pile up, unwanted

Oh, picked up a HP Touchpad in Harvey Norman this morning for €129, that's the 32gb model.
The interface is muck, the response times are poor and it's a second rate tablet really, but....
They are working on an Android, Gingerbread, replacement OS and that'll take care of all that sh1te and let me access to all the apps I want on a pretty fast and well featured device.
Yesterday it was €579 and today €129!
The 16gb version is €99!
Don't know when or if the other vendors are dropping their prices, Pc World, Currys, Komplett etc, have to wait and see, but they are probably sold out at Harvey Norman already.

safetyboy

alpahaeagle wrote: »

Going to put a bread bin Commodore 64 up in trade section if anyone interested......:rolleyes:

What kind of price?

Pyongyang

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Oh, picked up a HP Touchpad in Harvey Norman this morning for €129, that's the 32gb model.

Happy with my iPad but for €129 it's hard to shy away. Might try to get down there this week and snap one up. Probably gone though.

edit: It's €399 at Currys and PC World for the 16gb version.

edit 2: Which Harvey Norman by the way? Reckon the one on O'Connell Street would have some in?

Steve X2

Hmm, might grab me one of those touchpads for that price.

I mean at that price I can come up with something to use it for.

Pyongyang

Steve SI wrote: »

I mean at that price I can come up with something to use it for.

K.O.Kiki

sparkthatbled wrote: »

What make/model/console is that grey 6-button pad?

Also, jealous as all hell

Pyongyang

Received these today:

CiDeRmAn

You're just showing off now!

Pyongyang

Ah no, there's a few faves in there. Espagaluda for a start, the original.

Omega Boost I've never played but it looks unreal. The copy I managed to get is in absolute mint condition too, looks like it was unwrapped and never played or opened.

As for Bing! Bing! Bingo!, well, that's one of my fave Super Famicom games of all time. So is Cosmo Gang: The Video. The Bomberman tin was a must, I've never seen those little tins before.

sparkthatbled

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

What make/model/console is that grey 6-button pad?

Also, jealous as all hell

It's a third party saturn controller and works much better than the official ones.

Retr0gamer

sparkthatbled wrote: »

It's a third party saturn controller and works much better than the official ones.

Looks like the absolutely appalling MK1 western pads that were discontinued and replaced with japanese style pads because they were so terrible while the japanese ones were so great.

Spacedog

Apex classics re-release disk editions and C64 full public domain archive CD...

got 'em from here:

http://www.binaryzone.org/retrostore/

Sparks43

luas_dublin wrote: »

I was passing Rage today so..

seeing as sparks has been talking about the 8 bit micro versions lately I kinda had to

Dont normally end up in this thread but fair play on getting the Nes Boulder Dash

How much did it cost my guess would be €12.95?

I will be honest i gave that game a dogs life in my views towards it but it has grown on me a little bit and well done on owning it

Need to get my own copy back soon (Might be hard as its in Jersey lol)