Retro console and games thread

Kitchster_uk · 7 Aug 2006 at 23:42

You evil people made me buy a CD32

Always wanted one and now I have her. Just need an SX-1/SX32 board for it...hmmm...

ONESHOTKILL · 10 Aug 2006 at 12:35

i have been down my local market again and picked up some more bargains,I picked up a old atari cx-2600 for £5 and its got its box even tho its abit tatty,And i spotted a dreamcast so i thought i bet the seller wants around £10 for it so i asked.The guy said £3 :O i nearly took his hand off lol.I got them home checked the atari and its got 5 games and a extra bonus it inside the atari box there is the boxes flattened for the games.The atari and the dreamcast work aswell lol.

atari
2 sticks
2 paddles
all the leads
ms pacman
space invaders
slot racer
combat
championship soccer

dreamcast
leads
1 pad
1 memcard

i just noticed i need to clean my floor and my fridge

ONESHOTKILL · 17 Aug 2006 at 13:45

i picked up a super nintendo with 7 games for £8 today.I love the snes best console i have ever owned.I had to buy this especialy with the games i got bundled in with it,deffinitly worth £8.There is no yellowing on the console aswell,its all in pretty good nick.

games are

Castlevania iv
super mario world
super mario allstars+mario world
Doom
Donkey kong country 1
Donkey kong country 2
Super Air Diver

doom/mario/donkey kongs/castlevania all sell for £5 and upwards each on the bay.

johntmanic · 17 Aug 2006 at 14:24

ONESHOTKILL said:
i picked up a super nintendo with 7 games for £8 today.I love the snes best console i have ever owned.I had to buy this especialy with the games i got bundled in with it,deffinitly worth £8.There is no yellowing on the console aswell,its all in pretty good nick.

games are

Castlevania iv
super mario world
super mario allstars+mario world
Doom
Donkey kong country 1
Donkey kong country 2
Super Air Diver

doom/mario/donkey kongs/castlevania all sell for £5 and upwards each on the bay.

What a bargain youve got there! Castlevania on its own is worth a tenner

Ive never heard of Super Air Diver before though?

melchy · 17 Aug 2006 at 15:38

Kitchster_uk said:
You evil people made me buy a CD32 Always wanted one and now I have her. Just need an SX-1/SX32 board for it...hmmm...

You'll need to pick up Super Stardust, Pinball Illusions and Roadkill as well as the Chaos Engine if you dont already have them. Super Stardust really is great

ONESHOTKILL · 24 Aug 2006 at 15:04

Montario said:
Check what crazy words a jap megadrive has round the ring, not my pic ofcos, sold mine ages ago, with much regret. was MINT.... Impossible to find something like that again.

I just picked one of these up today on bootsale for £2 there was loads of jap games aswell but i never got them.I wished i bought the games now,quackshots,indiana jones,splatter house 2.

Sanchez · 24 Aug 2006 at 16:59

That's it, I'm off to the car boot on Sunday to get myself some more retro goodness! Managed to get HOTD2 + Gun box set for £10 off ebay the other day. Think I'm going to look out for a boxed MD though as I've never owned one before :confused:

ONESHOTKILL · 24 Aug 2006 at 18:14

there is always sega stuff on my local bootsales but i am not realy a fan of sega i prefer picking up nintendo stuff.I have seen boxed mega drives on the bootsale for £10 but there is a guy that goes around my local bootsales and he buys up all the old consoles.

Steve09 · 25 Aug 2006 at 23:18

I have looked through, and I cant see one of those Super Nintendo's, which took the cartridges about half the size of A4 paper!

Steve

egg · 26 Aug 2006 at 11:18

just been on a course with a guy who used to work for Rare studios (now owned by microsoft) and he is always knocking out stuff on ebay as well as building up a bit of a "private collection" for the future. he is lucky that he is good with electronics so that he can fix most broken kit. he sends his wife into the car boot sales and tells her to buy anything working or not and then refurbs it and knocks it out on ebay

some people of cause have no shame....

tb2000 · 26 Aug 2006 at 14:25

ONESHOTKILL said:
Montario said:

Check what crazy words a jap megadrive has round the ring, not my pic ofcos, sold mine ages ago, with much regret. was MINT.... Impossible to find something like that again.

I just picked one of these up today on bootsale for £2 there was loads of jap games aswell but i never got them.I wished i bought the games now,quackshots,indiana jones,splatter house 2.

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I've got one of them, must still be up in the loft somewhere. Unfortunately, like a complete wally, and for some reason I can no longer remember, I tried running it off of a non-standard PSU once, and after that it developed a problem! Something went wrong with a voltage regulator I think as the screen used to have problems holding sync, although one or two games (one of which was Streetfighter 2) ran perfectly. Must've been something to do with the screen resolution now I come to think of it.
These Megadrives were good in that they ran any game from anywhere in the world, Jap, USA, Europe, whatever!

daz · 26 Aug 2006 at 14:38

stevechapman said:
I have looked through, and I cant see one of those Super Nintendo's, which took the cartridges about half the size of A4 paper!

No such thing? The US SNES had square shaped cartridges, whilst European and Japanese models were more rounded, but they were roughly the same size.

Baine · 26 Aug 2006 at 22:02

He is proberly getting mixed up with a NEO GEO

Paulj · 26 Aug 2006 at 22:40

Didnt the NES have huge cartridges?

ONESHOTKILL · 26 Aug 2006 at 23:30

yea the NES did have pretty big cartridges

Duouk2000 · 3 Sep 2006 at 01:40

I was always a console kiddie back in the day and rarely played games on any home computer. Bought an Amiga 500 with a "couple" of games for £20 off a mate from work today though (I'm too impulsive >.<), had to get another mate to drive me home because of this system (3 boxes in whole and yeah, the system box is massive O.O). A lot of the games are copies but a fair few of the gems are originals as well from the looks of it.

ONESHOTKILL · 3 Sep 2006 at 02:04

I managed to pick up a Sega megadrive Menacer scope for £5 today boxed with instructions and the 6 in 1 game.There is one problem with it which is that where the eye piece fits onto a piece of the plastic is snapped off

but it still fits on.

ONESHOTKILL · 3 Sep 2006 at 17:24

I got another Retro Treasure today from a local car boot for a price of £2 i got this little baby.It needs abit of a clean I have no batteries that fit either so not sure if it works but for £2 cant realy moan if it dont work.I also picked up a Grey gameboy the big one.Its abit tatty and the batteries clip is snapped but for £1 was a bargain.

tb2000 · 3 Sep 2006 at 18:32

ONESHOTKILL said:
I managed to pick up a Sega megadrive Menacer scope for £5 today boxed with instructions and the 6 in 1 game.There is one problem with it which is that where the eye piece fits onto a piece of the plastic is snapped off but it still fits on.

I've got one of these also! That's strange you say about the eye piece as one of the ones on mine is snapped off also. Must've been a weak spot or something.

tb2000 · 3 Sep 2006 at 18:33

ONESHOTKILL said:
I got another Retro Treasure today from a local car boot for a price of £2 i got this little baby.It needs abit of a clean I have no batteries that fit either so not sure if it works but for £2 cant realy moan if it dont work.I also picked up a Grey gameboy the big one.Its abit tatty and the batteries clip is snapped but for £1 was a bargain.

I've got one of these, up in the loft somewhere I think! Worked last time I used it, although that was many many years ago. I took the batteries out so theres no reason why it shouldn't work again if I tried it!