Thrifting go

This weeks thrift is up, Some ok stuff £4.99 bought me that Classic controller 64, A USB controller for PC the same mold as a N64 pad, Great because out of all the systems to emulate the N64 seems to have the most taken away from it in terms of using a different controller, So I will be trying this out with emulating might be a Awesomeware Video in this pad.

Some GBA games Lego star wars and Winnie the poo, And a DVI to HDMI lead, Sure this will come in handy at some point so £1.50 is a ok price.

The N64 games I picked up Blast corps Mischef makers and Quake 64 where all from CEX, I heard that other CEX stores had started carrying retro again, So it would seem the main store in my local area has two, All there is listed on the website is N64, Thats fine by me if I can trade up for something more retro, Natural I had a bunch of Credit on stand by so I pick out all the ones Price at £6, a fair price and even better when you consider the sort of tat I turn up with at CEX.

So I caught a Pidgeotto in my living room last night, Pokemon go in full swing due the everyone downloading the APK, Out of Two phones and a tablet I could not get this to work, So I resorted to lending my girl friends s6 to have a go.
The game is awesome its everything we thought a augmented reality pokemon game could be.

putting poke shops and gyms all over your map to spare you on to take a walk out the house for no particular reason really turns the lazy gamer stereotype on its head.

Going around catching pokemon in the real world is a concept that has rolled around in my mind since playing Blue and yellow on Gameboy,

A while back me and my mate made this facebook page Hull pokedex just shows you how much of a solid idea transfering pokemon into a real life setting was, That page has definitely has more attention since pokemon go came out.

The map based game play has a similar tone to hunting for video games when you think about it, Going Out just to see if there anything about, looking for Rare stuff, Since writing this Pokemon go has been officially released in the UK not that helps my situation with the game any with all my android junk.

That's the only dampener on the whole thing, they say it needs kitkat 4.4.4 when some phones and tablets that are more than capable of running the game only update to 4.4.2 and 4.4.3, Yeah there is odin and Firmware and stuff you can do to get around it, Just once tho I would like to not have to not dick about loads to get things to work, suppose that is the price you pay for not getting a contract and being 3 years behind on your android tech.

I am currently Eyeballing a Samsung Galaxy S5, This has the 2Gb of Ram and can be upgraded to lollipop 5.0.1 If anyone is looking for a good phone for some pokemon go action and don't want to pay the earth this model would be where its at priced up around £160 in CEX.



This week game footage comes from Quake 64, One of the N64 games I picked up from CEX, this isn't a bad version of Quake at all really, once you get used to strifing with the C buttons It do become quite playable.
Hopefully this will be the start of many lose N64 cart I end up getting from CEX, How brilliant would it be if they started doing some PS1 again.