Post here every time you get something new!

USA shipping seems to be super speedy these days (needs to be when you need to sell a kidney to pay for the shipping of a single Swan Vesta match to Ireland from the USA).

Same goes for shipping from Japan, although that's more of a mixed bag. Some SAL arrives in a week, other SAL parcels take forever and a day.

Steve SI wrote: »

A few deliveries in work for me today.

Getting stuff delivered to work is a Godsend, especially when your assistant starts rolling your parcels in on a trolley. Toying with getting a candy cab delivered and watching the reactions.

Or go one better and get a Galaxian 3 theatre delivered for the craic.

Andrew76 wrote: »

Working from home is cool too, my "assistant" makes my lunch aswell. (Nah she doesn't use boards thankfully). It has it's downside though, when you're expecting a parcel and you see the postie walk right past your house.

I refuse a phone injector in my gaf. No thanks! If I worked from home I'd have to make my own lunch which my dog would scoff when I'm at the door signing for a parcel.

I'll stick with the commute and the joy of the day 48 player Galaxian 3 shows up at my place of work.

I went up to that RAGE shop today for a nose. I have to say I was impressed at the sheer amount of stuff the guy had. I found two games that I wanted - Snowboard Kids for the N64, which had a mint box, and a similarly shod copy of the excellent Wario Land 3 for the GBC. The former was a tenner, the latter just €12.99. VERY reasonably priced, but... when I opened both up at the counter, the "guts" didn't reflect the tidy outer packaging.

Wario's manual had, what looked like, a big drop of gravy on it from ten years ago. The cartridge for Snowboard Kids was in very bad condition. I got the impression that the cart didn't belong to the box. It looked like it was a loose cart that had been put into the box at a later point. Disappointing, but RAGE is quite an interesting place to go for a look for sure. I will return. He could improve some things though....

A lot of his stuff needs, to be quite frank, a good clean to begin with. All that dust on the Mega Drive games is very off-putting to the customer. The way the games are laid out could be a little better too. But..... there is potential there for a very nice little place to buy games from. Hopefully people will support the shop and he can continue to reinvest in more stock in the future. The guy seems to be charging fair prices too, which is vital for his long term success for the business.


I had a wander into Dr Quirky's a while after leaving RAGE. Amongst the sad cases gambling away their social welfare, I found just two "proper" stand-up cabinets with joysticks. Both Lindbergs, one with Virtua Fighter 5 and the other a Virtua Tennis variant of one kind or another - possibly 3. Sat down at Virtua Fighter, threw in a coin and selected (with a worryingly loose joystick) my man Wolf. Upon starting up I didn't seem to be able to pull off my usual opener, nor my favourite grapple - I suppose I just needed to get used to these new controls perhaps? After another moment or two I thought I'd see if the controls were set up like how they should be. Upon trying each button out of the three independently, I found to my horror that block and kick weren't effing working! So basically I played through a few matches just punching

As I sat there, punching high, low and overhead a little Asian boy climbed up onto the Virtua Tennis cab to my right. He started banging the buttons on it like he was playing whilst holding a chocolate bar. There, sat beside me, was the very possible reason the punch and kick buttons weren't working on my cabinet then! I turned around to see where his parents were and saw nothing. The kid was about three years of age!

Even with the bogey stick and the buggered buttons, the platform in which to play the game was really firm. That to me is why I want an arcade cabinet so much - the nice stable heavy platform that stays steady as you strongly input the motions on the stick feels so good. An arcade stick stuck on your lap or sat on a table just cannot replicate the feel of the cabinet set-up. Lovely.

Having poked around in ever game shop in town today, even that quite rubbish new "3D Games" shop on Grafton St, I ended up buying nothing but a new, sealed copy of Crysis 2 for the Xbox 360 for €30. I have been wanting that for a while, and was happy to get in sealed for such a good price. Should keep me busy for a while hopefully.