Thriftmas Time, Don't Let the Game End.

Festive scenes captured in hull hours before the city was flooded by the incoming storm surge tide, Lots of homes where flooded that day, In the media it always seems that news on Hull is always thin on the ground, Even with the attention of the city of culture bid a few weeks ago nothing seemed to chance, And the BBC not really reporting from here but covering other cites north and south of this region. 
Is TV just an outdated media? Is its a old fashioned concept to go for the remote for an update? I Think it mite be with Facebook been a more tailored means to find out what was happening locally, People using Facebook to slap up a video of Hessle road flooding is miles better and informed offering then the BBC can dish out.

So The Thrift starts back up after a bit of a hiatus and the first lot of picks are 
Silent hill origins £2.99
Ultimate ghosts n goblins £5.99
Crash nitro kart 99p

 
These where all in cash converters, There was a fair amount of PSP in there that was worth having but the pricing was all over the place, common titles with £4.99 on them and then Silent hill for £2.99, I pick the best of the bunch, Paying more then I would of likes for Ghosts n goblins but a game I have been on the look out and one not likely to turn back up for a while.

I often get credit note back from big trade ins for the odd amounts like £1.30 or 40p So I save them up and the other day they added up to me getting Persona 3 portable from there, And they 
last for nearly a 1000 years the date on all cex credit notes is 3013? lol

 
Going though my storage boxes the other day I pulled out a crap ton of PS1 games, All theses I picked up years before thrift bytes, Lots of them where games that where so-so and common a few years ago but now you would struggle to find most of these titles. The Delcine in second hand PS1 has made me glad I kept hold of, 
a lot of these Pick ups been the last time I saw them in the wild. 




Gone of the days you would go into game-station or a 5 for £10 job or just walking into a British heart foundation and come out with black label Final fantasy 7,8,9 for £1.99 each, Really good PSX games where everywhere at one point about 2005-2011Thrifting was PS1 game hunting.
The Reason The PS1 had such a long tale in its life span has a few factors giving rise to the availability of Pre owned PS1 games.
The thing is that the PlayStation back catalog is massive 2,418 and was easy to get chipped to play copy's. So every one was Trading up there Originals giving the shops plenty of choice in games that are still kicking a round in the charity shops now with 15 year old game-station stickers still in place.
Its like the wii is today a console with similar trace, There is about 1,222 games out for it, Its easy to mod and play copy's so these always loads of Wii games kicking about and the console sells for about £24.99 or cheaper. Worth keeping an eye on wii games since the next gen is now the current gen. 
PS2 at the moment is way out ahead with 3,870 games, What ever you find out in the wild on any other format will be propped up on the shelf next to a PS1 game there still a few kicking around even now.

Like This black label Spyro 2 gateway to glimmer for 49p at cash converters, The guy in shop knows I like a bit of retro and showed me some other stuff he had in the back this was with that stuff. Nice to see someone going that extra mile to get a customer a deal.




And Croc Legends of the gobos £1 in age uk, Complete and in really good con.

Christmas time in Cottingham with all the lights on, Hoping there is some Thrifty Presents to discover in the shops.

Well they know what I like to see, Battlefront 1 and 2 or 99p each, Now the value of these two games is in decline but bunching both of them together on ebay you can still make a few quid on them and feed the feedback.

99p for Prince of persia Trilogy this game has been surpassed by the HD collection on PS3, But 99p for 3 games in a nice chunky PS2 box is still a great deal.

And yes a Original xbox version of Crash 5 £1, Still some out there, No CEX job for this one, Ebay all the way for the Gamecube and Xbox versions Still £2 and £3 trade on the ps2, They sell the xbox one for £8 and only give you 40p cash or £1.60 trade so eBay all the way.

Blockbuster all closed down and shut, Looks like the one out of south park that everyone thinks is haunted, The last look at this place before it turns into an Iceland, Cant see Pick ups from Iceland be as interesting, O well there is always Internet Piracy and old VHS tapes if you want to watch something.

Epic stash of Original game boy games in Cash converters, 

Super Mario land 1 and 2, Ms pacman, WWF superstars and disney's pinocchio.

99p is a Great price for any half decent gameboy game lots of them on there own on ebay go for around the £5 mark so 99p each is sweet.

And Finally the eBay account I have Used to sell all the games on Thrift bytes was looking to fall short of 500 feedback this year, so I have been selling more games a week to make it 500 before the year was out, and I finally made it today 500 games sold!