Christmas Limbo

Thrifting comes to a bit of a stand still at this time of year nearly all shops that have retro in them are shut over the holiday's I did get out just before on the 23rd lets see what I picked up on the last thrift before Christmas.

This year has been unprecedented for finding retro systems and this master system 2 in the box with 2 games and controller caps it off nicely for £10 from market.

2013 has been a great year finding lots of consoles, Megadrive,Snes,Nes,C64,Amiga,Pong consoles, and just as the years nearly out I find one more 8 bit machine that is totally awesome.

Still had the leaflet for all the games out for Sega master system, It great when they have these posters still in the box when you find them, Makes for some sweet retro art work to slap on your games room wall pride of place next to the similar NES one I found.

Bust a move 3 DX, No mind blowing resale in this, Picking it up to play, Sometimes when buying games If you try to haggle with People they get all pissed off? You work in a Tat shop and you get mad when people try and cut a deal WTF?

Sheep, Dog 'N' Wolf, Great game for PS1 49p is a great price.

Another Sweet find in a British heart foundation for £1.99 for Monster Hunter in really good con, About a £10 game on a good day.

So I go to work Making some room for the master system and to see what I am going to tune it into with it only having RF, I wasn't Getting any Joy tuning it to the VCR so I try going Direct into my Modern LCD.

This had a mad knock on effect, Instead of the Analogue tuner picking up the game Signal, The Master system was Acting Like a Powered UHF Freeview Ariel, It ended up picking up all the channels, I wouldn't mine the Ariel I have is rubbish this did a better job.


Finally sorted it and got it working on a old CRT, Worth thing about if you find yourself without a TV signal just plug a old console into the RF.




Fighters Megamix For Sega Saturn Out in the wild? for 99p? Saturn games don't really turn up in hull when they do its always Vitura fighter and sports games.

Picked Up Aztec Adventure For £2 There is a Great shop in hull called sparks that had lots of retro at reasonable prices, Whenever I find a new Retro console I know its a safe bet this shop will have at the very least a few loose carts I can pick up for it.


Tokobot Plus, This is a good example of Game that looks the part and ticks all the it looks rare boxes but only £3-5 at a push I piced it up because it was 49p and not a sport game.

Duke Nukem Give this one a wipe over before I tried it out, Looked a bit grubby but after a Clean it works great Duke Nukem is a total nostalgia trip for me so It is well worth £1.

So Gran turismo 6 coming out on PS3 at the same time as the Next Gen is getting up and running the question is easy, Is it better then Forza 5?

The Answer is an unequivocal yes, Forza 5 isn't even better then Forza 3, and 4, Don't Get me wrong the presentation on Forza 5 is spot on and the Graphics although not a giant leap forward are the best for a racing game so far, So why is GT6 better?

Tha gameplay is so much better in Gran Turismo 6, In forza I was offend Board and frustrated with the way the cars handle and that pooled with the bear bones feel of the whole game, The same track over and over again, paired with GT6 where every race seems to be a joy to play, and the variety of cars and tracks much more, Even comparing the two games graphically of course forza has much higher textures, But you can't help but be impressed by GT6's attention to detail squeezing every last drop of juice out of the last generation.

In summary If you want something pretty to look at then jump on the next gen, But if you are after a Flagship experience with lots of content then the games coming out on the last gen will have way more longevity.

So Christmas I got a Tesco Hudl, For the longest time Shops and stores have try to get a piece of the Android tablet market, Following the Kindles popularity, But the thing with all the cheap entry level tablets is that that pants and don't run anything.

The Hudl How ever is Great for £119 or £60 in you have club card points, Is advertised as Quadcore 1.5ghz underselling it, its is in fact 1.6ghz, With 1gam of ram on Jellybean, 
Once all the Tesco crap is uninstalled you are left with a tablet that's performance is some where between Samsung Galaxy 3 and 4, There seem to be nothing currently on the Play store this can't run and the Emulation possibility are endless a Fantastic device and totally worth the price even if your paying cash.