ThriftEX expedition

This thrift started with Clerks on DVD, I see the Pal version Clerks X all the time for around £3.99, This is the Canadian NSTC version, It has different audio commentary and a alternative cover, different enough for 99p and a cracking movie.
Dragon Quest 8 for £1.99, This really has sky rocketed in value on eBay of late, never used to sell for more then a few pounds now its anywhere from £9-£18 on eBay, The retail in places like cex is still only £10 and can be found for a lot lower still.

£2.50 for a DC super heroes Bat mobile, Lego is a bit of a no no on the thrift, If unsealed no way to tell if its complete combined with the overpricing that will likely be on Lego in charity shops, This was sealed and cheap so it ticks all the boxes.

Another cool find in scope, A porsche 944 turbo matchbox car from 1990 in the box in good con for £1.50, Matchbox cars have up and down resale this one worth about £5 other models can go for a lot more, So £1.50 in the box was worth the gamble.

California games for the Atari 2600, A Great game, I had this for mega drive in the 90's, This version is really graphicly striking for the 2600 it looks amazing for the hardware, It mite be I am using a 7800, But I think this is standard on all atari.

More PSone for the Ps1 collection I am slowly adding to, Re volt Kotobuki grand prix mulan story studio all 39p each, Turned out I already have re volt but 39p worth it to upgrade the copy I had that was missing the book and front cover.

In cash express, Final fantasy Ring of fates for Nintendo DS, CEX sell this for £7, Cash £3, Trade £4, I paid £3, This will happen a lot in pawn shops the will most likey sell the games at the CEX cash price.

The Type of the dead for PC, I have looked all over the web for a pal ISO for the dreamcast version of this game to use the dreamcast keyboard, The window version can sell on eBay for upto £20.

Warriors legend of troy for £4, CEX sell this for £8, Its by the koei who make the dynasty warriors games, This is in a similar vein but with greek mythology.





Uncharted 2 in the tin for £2, This is a great game one of the best of the last gen and for £2 in the limed edition box its a total bargain.

Colony wars vengeance, I have the first colony wars still missing red sun, These games are some awesome space combat action for PS1 and well worth picking up for £1 in Scope.

£2 each for These N-gage games, First time I have seen N-gage games worth picking up, Tony hawks and tomb raider are PS1 ports with the full game in 3D on a phone in 2004, I was looking at the shape of the Carts and it looked SD card shaped.

It shows up as a MMC card in my multi card reader, You can view all the files, I am pretty sure this would be a thing tho I have never looked into N-gage stuff much I read this can be used for softmoding and or changing the game on the cart.

Pick up an old Timex on eBay for £22, I have been looking for a similar model to the one featured in Shenmue, there are lot of Timex expedition's that looks like the shenmue watch the one above The same watch only a cream dial not black.

Here on thrift bytes we can appreciated the ability to drink a beer and play games at the same time, So what can you do if you want a refreshing Corona and a to player game on the PS3?
You can achieved this feet using 2 PlayStation nav controllers, Tested it on mk Trilogy the only draw back is only have X and O, But fun all the same, This will work with any two player game with some games better then others depending on the use of X and O, Or if the controller mapping can let you change the button order to something more appropriate.

More N-gage stuff with the somewhat ground breaking for its time Pocket kingdom  £3.50 for this on eBay, A seller had loads of them sealed and they where selling fast at that price, Feel like an N-gage console is just round the corner, Hopefully I can find one out in the wild.

My girlfriend picked me up this Pinball game, I hate the way they want you to buy tables on most of these pinball games, I've being sucked in before, But this is miles better to have it all on the disc from the get go, No dlc micro transitions here.

 Some decent fines off that's entertainment, Tekken 5, Super dragon ball z Onimusha blade warriors, Star wars KOTOR 2, Star war battle front 2 Resi evil outbreak 2 and capcom classics collection all for £1.99 each of the web site with free postage.

Seen Lemmings £7.50 above for Ibm and a Wii for £20, pass on these, Hit up Cex to trade the order in, Got Both Jedi knight games on xbox, Republic commando and Onimusha 4 (finally) for only £4 in cex.

Some real value in cash express 39p for Sonic mega collections plus.

 Now in cash generator and 39p each for Moto racer 1 and 2, Then a bit down the road I find Virtual Pool for 29p, Great prices on these Common games, and Great for cracking on with my PS1 collecting.

Few more Ok titles for £1.99 each king of fighters maximum impact and Darkwatch, Gothic first person shooter and the first king of fighters to Use 3D models.

 
 And the bulk of my Credit note ended up going on Sunset overdrive, I played the first bit and I have to say I am impressed with what I have seen so far, Non of the reviews I saw at the time this was out even mentioned there was a create a character, I was lead to believe the guy on the front was the main protagonist, And that in turn put me off it a bit, Anyways compared to anything else out on the current gen this is the game to be playing, and the Polar opposite of the order 1886, With it having bright colours and fun as apposed to Dull and boring and a niggling feeling that the trade value just plummeted down to £22 cash and its not even being out a month.

So another thrift done, hope to really push on the PS1 front, It feels like this is a good time to buy PS1, Its in the same grove that NES stuff was in about 2005/2006 Just before it was cool again, NES now the prices are just levelling out, I feel like PS1 is sat there now in the sweet spot where no one wants them and no one thinks there worth anything, Anyways until next time, I am off to make low ball offers on PS1 bundles on ebay.