Gleaming the Cube

Thinking this maybe the last time I have all week to go thrifting regularly as I would like I was hoping it would go out with a bang, I mean I can still hunt for video games but not on the scale I have been since I left my last job and starting this new one so here it is the last big Thrift lets take a look.

First up is £10 for this gamecube with two pads and memory card, I have paid less for a cube in the passed, Cash convertors/Genatator type places charing £25 going rate its a fair price for Carboot.

After Cleaning it up, It came on and everything works, It gives that shelf at the bottom some nice continuity having it next to the NES SNES and N64, also giving me a chance to rock them donkey konga bongos.

The Game is pretty fun to play and it has real music the first song was supergrass, Its not the greatest outing for donkey kong I will have to track down Jungle beat that's a full platformer that uses the bongos to control him mite give this accessories a bit more longevity.

Same day at market I found this IBM pc game for £1, AD & D Eye of the beholder 2 complete I couldn't find one on ebay so no Idea on the resale of this item but it does look the part with the awesome box art.

Couple of Games I found on ebay for under £5 The Ottifants and Eternal champions Going to rock Eternal Champs with that six button arcade stick I have, Every time I pick up a game I know has a better version on Mega CD it make me want to give in and pay the £50 ebay price for the Mega CD.

 Had some CEX Credit to burn so I picked up some Game Cube games to play on the New system I picked up, Mario kart Double dash, I would play this one over the wii version it seems miles less random who comes in first place.

After looking this up the other week when I saw it for £12.50 in a charity shop I decided £5 is a right deal and picked it up Soul Calibur 2 with link as the bonus characters the best out of heihachi and Spawn.

£3.99 in cash converters rounds up all the game cube stuff I could get my hands on Rebl strike, It has rouge squadron 2 co op full game on the disc so it is worth having and one of the better starwars games for console.

I picked up Zero for wii last time so when I saw CEX had Resident Evil in I used the rest of the Credit I had for Trading in Tomb Raider Xbone, This has got to be up there has one of the best its a close call bewteen this and Resi DC/DS.

So if your rocking these gamecube ports on Wii Your not going to want to play them with the Wii remote so I pick up a classic controller, The black one had the grips but both do the job.

 The Back of my TV is getting a bit crowed, So to play my Wii games I have hooked the Wii U to the HDMI in of the Xbox one, The USA use this for TV functionality, That isn't really supported over here but hey having the option to snap between xbone and Wii u is great, Take a good look that's the nearest the Xbox one will get to having backwards compatibility.

IBM pc Rebel assault for £1 in Dove house, No matter what the resale on something like this is I will always pick up old big boxes there only going to get rarer and they look so damn cool, hopfully I will come across and old IBM pc out in the wild, Play them on the Real Deal without dosbox.

Metal Gear Solid 3 subsistence in cash convertors for £1, The price on this game is up and down since the HD realease but £1 is a total deal what ever the resale is, £1!

£10 at carboot got me a N64 controller a Rumble pack Supermario 64, Gaunlet legend, Turok Rage Wars and F-Zero X, Sweet to find these I had Just order some AV cables for the N64 and Wanted some more games for it.


Finally Found a GBA sp Charger, I bundle the last one I had with a DS I sold on Ebay not Relizing that was my only GBA plug, Give the GBA SP credit tho that was half a year ago and it still have a charge now and I have used it to test loads of game on it,
 

50p for This Tomy Turbo Car game, I had one of these when I was a kid and 50p is a seal these sell on ebay for around the £30 mark in good con. 

I was Joking last time about owning all the Different Versions of Street Racer, It turns out I own the SNES version already in the box and just forgot about it so £5 ebay job got me the mega drive one, Only the Amiga version to go!

Mega Massive box of Misc retro Stuff! Yeah at market again and Found a box full of awesomeness the guy wanted £20, I pulled out £16 and change and the deal was done, So what was in the box? A crap ton of C64 games A few Spectrum games a C64 tape deck and power cord a cheater joy stick and gun for C64 a C64 user manual and a Atari 2600 jr black with a 7800 joystick and centipede and pac-man on 2600 and some random wires.

Well that's my Sunday Afternoon taken Care of a big box of C64 games to go through, The Atari jr black (ireland) is one of the last ones they made in 92 in Ireland Its not common round these parts with the cables about £40 worth of console, Missing the power cable so It can wait for now, Lets dig into some of these C64 games.

No Real Trouble with tuning in the C64, The only system that gets a half decent picture tuned straight into a modern LCD tv, There was loads of game in the box hears Just a few I tried starting with International karate total classic.

Lots of Sega Ports in the box So I check them out, Afterburner not been the best I couldn't Really make out what was going on it seemed half playable if you spent the time to get used to the controllers.

So many games to tried out some of them not loading or glitchy but even back in the day games on tape where temperamental, Mostly ones with more then one game on the Tape like the one in the picture to the left looks like i will never know what little puff and wizard willy was like?


Escape from Singe's Castle, Part 2 of Dragons Lair on C64? nothing like the laser disc game lots of consoles and computers at the time had not quite dragons lair, dragons lair games for them.

Then There was the port of Golden Axe That apart from having a slow pace hardly any scrolling and only one button has the feel of the gameplay spot on and the music sounds epic coming out of the Cid Chip on the C64 impressed they got this much out of the C64.





As i finish Writing this I am still loading some C64 games up I will covers any of interest and hope to get a plug for the atari, But what a awesome run of finds great few weeks thrifting and hopefully many more to come.