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This week's pick ups, Nothing much about but what I did find was pretty spiffing, Virtua Racing J-ntsc we will cover in a sec, So let's move on to Men in black a game I was discussing at length with friends a few weeks ago, To the point we were all sat around drunk watching a lets play of it, So seeing the PS1 version for £2.99 I had no trouble adding that one to my collection, Then Taz mania for £3.99, that I was talking about with one of the same friends just 2 days before I found it, The gist of the conversation being how we both felt short changed having rented it in the 90s over the weekend and both getting stuck on taz mania before we had to take it back to ritz on hessle road.

Speaking of games I rented from ritz, I picked up norms beach babe-o-rama on ebay for £7 cart only, This is a game I have wanted to revisit for a long time and the price only seems to go up so I bagged it at £7.

So blurays, Seen in the picture above, Katy perry the movie is pride of place, Now how much is a good price for a second hand bluray? The answer is £2 or under, Blurays are dirt cheap now, No one is buying them so unless is fairly new or a box set, or something sort after, Every bog standard bluray out should be cheap, See them at £5, £3.99, Someone in dove house is stuck in 2011 doing the pricing thinking bluray is something new,  

So why did I buy katy Perry the movie? Cex sell it for £3, Cash 70p Trade £1.20, I bought this for a whopping 25p, So I guess that settles it then the best price for a second hand bluray is 25p.

So on to the best thing I found on the the thrift this time, Virtua Racing, Japanese version, This doesn't really make any difference to the game compared to the pal version, Only the Cart and box are a grey colour instead of black, Just makes it look cooler/different depending on you opinion, I had seen the pal version in a cash converters previously priced up at £9.99 it less then great shape the box was pretty dinged up.

This one however was close to mint con, and for only £8, So I popped on this, I checked ebay and this version runs around £16, So even at £8 I got a deal and its Virtua racing J-NSTC, It's made by yu suzuki its so coooool!




I have had Virtua Racing on the Sega Saturn for a While, So I thought it would be cool to try my hand at a comparison video, So I pitted the Megadrive against the Saturn Side by Side, The Reason the Mega drive can handle the 3D Graphics is the SVP chip that sega has in the cartridge, I have heard it is similar tech that was used in the 32X, Still we are dealing with a 16 bit machine that is totally pulling its weight next to a 32 bit machine, It is all mighty impressive stuff.