Ten thousand hours felt like ten thousand Games

Video game hunting hasn't been this plenty full since about 2010 before I was writing thrift bytes, 2013 will go down as one of the best years I have had for the amount of stuff that has turned up.

Just as where saying goodbye to a phenomenal year for the thrifting, I take one last stroll out to a very spars bear bones Sunday Market.

And Land myself with the box Full of Amiga Games, I grabbed the box and ask the guy what he wanted for them, I said I would buy them all, He said £5, I snapped it up, I had Checked over monkey Island just before I ask him and that was all there, So even if the rest where empty boxes it would of been worth £5.

So Lets Check out what was in the box, and have a run down, Great thing finding all these Amiga game not really got many for my Amiga A600  I found this year at the same market for £2.

Monkey Island 2 LeChucks revenge, A prime Example of Witty writing and solid point and click game play, Resale is high on this game and Its only going to go up with Lucas arts been closed earlier this year.


I have Play Roberta Williams king quest games, But I have never played a Space Quest game Sierra's Sci fi counterpart to the Kings Quest series, In the box complete again Resale is high, but so is the desire to keep it.

Lure of the temptress is another point and click game, The first to use the Virtual Theatre engine The same Engine Used on such games as Beneath a steel Sky and Broken Sword 1 and 2, Giving Lucas arts Scumm Engine a run for its money.
 

The French Mistress, Sounds like virtual Whore sim, Turns out its a Educational Game To teach French to kids, So no 16bit knockers here, booo.



 
Original Populous From 1989, Back when E.A wasn't Quite so evil, In the Shapes and yellow tag Era of E.A, Surprised When I put the Disk in the Amiga That some guys it suits Didn't smash though the window put me to the ground and check if there was a green light on my router before I played it.

Another E.A product, Print 2, Its a Graphics package for making Charts and Certificates and the like, Haven't the printer for Amiga to try it guess that will be on the Thrift 2014 wish list
 


Winter Games, by EPYX legendary company that made so many classics for the 8bit home computers and where still going strong on the Amiga, This game is stander fair all you would expected from a Sports sim.

Some sort of Anti Virus box for Amiga there was no disk in it,  Its crazy how we forget Disk swapping and lending still had a viral threat before the internet, And Amiga's had modems and online access later in there lifespan.

I did End up with a new peace of Hardware for The Amiga With this master sound, Its a adaptor for a 3.5 jack input so you can record CD samples to the Amiga Comes with the software too, Sweet!

Leatherneck, This is a top down shooter, Looks a bit like Rambo or ikari warriors, Not bad game and four player support.

 More music editing software, This would of been the music 2000 of the amiga I guess, Something I think a Amiga 1000 2000 would be able to get more out of, Only having the consolised 600.

European Challenge Kick Off 3, Of course there was going to be some sports titles mixed up in the box this has a free book inside on the season 93 so a bit more then the standard fifa 94 has to offer in terms of nostalgia.

England Championship Special another bog standard football Game, With some nice old school Art work on the box.

And Last up, The game of the hour for me, Menace by DMA Design, This is a Side scrolling Shooter, The thing that make it so bad ass is the music is awesome mood setting Chip tune.

So all you Grand Theft Auto fans out that take heed this was the humble beginnings of that franchise DMA Design changed there name to Rockstar in the mid 90s.

Hellgate london for 99p it seems the multiplayer will not be playable but 99p for a go its aright.

Streets of Sim City for 50p This game is awesome, How would you like to Drive round your Cities on Sim City 2000 in cars out of twisted metal? buggy as hell with rubbish controls but so fun you will over look it.

The Last Remnant on PC, This could Turn out to be a coaster it did skip over some sort of steam reregistration but it wasn't worded the same as it usually is so I give 99p to British heart foundation to find out havn't tested it yet will keep you posted. 

99p for Monkey Island 4, Can of the black sheep of the series, Still find it very playable and finding number 2 made me want to pick up some more monkey island games and this was in cash convertors.




Dragon Quest Monster joker for DS for 99p unboxed but out square and rpg is worth 99p.

Classic diablo 2, Always want to play this game again after playing number 3 on ps3 it just made me want to go back to this and on the disc in a tidy con 99p is ok with me.


Dreamcast games! yes it is a very rare sight to find any Dreamcast games in the box in Hull now so any of them for 50p each is great, Just a bonus that two of these are playable that been Quake 3 and worms world party.



So there you have it the last thrift of 2013 what a great year for Finds, All the best to you and yours and all that jazz and I will see you all in the new year for another epic 365 days of video game hunting.