The Retro boom

Had a week off work this week so I hit the thrift hard and turfing up at all my usual haunts, The first day was a total bust I didn't find anything,  That rarely happens on the thrift sometimes you will come back with only say one or two things but to find nothing is very disconcerting indeed.



By the second day all faith was restored finding lots of PS2 and PSP in the First Dove house, The welcome sight of wrath of cortex, reassuring me that the thrift was back on track, That and a few rarer titles on PSP, Frogger Helmet Chaos is a Uncommon game and monster hunter freedom unite, As well as the other Crash games that accompanied wrath of cortex and all the other PS2 and PSP fair I found that day.


Later on that day I saw a Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2 in the box, They wanted £70 for it! Whether or not this is a good price is somewhat objective, If you a collector that rip on the box is sure to spoil what is console in pretty tidy con, Resale it would be more of a gamble if you was going to try and flip it, £70 is just a bit to high, Some speccys in good order can go for that sort of money if they're Packed in with lots of software and other goodies, But really the price of these consoles in good con it's more round the £40-£50 price range, If the box was to make any difference to the price it would have to be mint.

I did find a deal in this charity shop, Lego Marvel Superheroes on 360 for £1.99, CEX Still sell this one for £22, Trade £18 Cash £11, so a total bargin.


In the main Cash Converters and Spot some SNES games TIME and SUPER MARIO WORLD, both at £14.99 each, Meh! See I get that mario is sort after and Time is uncommon but at this price its pretty much on par with what they sell for on ebay, A website that 354 million people in the UK alone visited in the month of January this year, 
I am guessing that the foot fall in the town centre is lower than this, It stands to reason that if someone is out and about looking for a deal at retail that the price should be lower than ebay, Just sweeten the deal a bit anyone can just buy this game online at any time for that price, Knocking £5 off the going rate or something, The Retro boom has made shops like this kind of Greedy when it comes to pricing up Retro, Especially in the Town Centre ones, My advice for anyone looking to hunt down some Video games now days is look for shops off the beaten track on the outskirts of where you live chances are they will be a lot cheaper.

The last few bits I found where in places like that The Lego Star wars C3PO watch was complete and only £1, they sell around the £10 mark, I found a Charger for SP/DS always pick these up when I see them, In the Same shop was some PS1 games I didn't have and Transforms on DS for £1, CEX still sell this for £5 so why not.
And Lego Football mania sealed up for £2.
This week's Game footage is Habitrail hamster ball on PS2, This looked completely naff so I had to pick it up.
The game is just a Super monkey ball rip off, on behalf of the Hagen Company, The whole game is a advert for there Habitrail range of hamster products, To be fair to the game it doesn't do a bad job of ripping of monkey ball, The almost resident evil style warning at the start of the game Telling people not to treat real hamsters like this made me laugh, There is even a short menu on how to get started keeping a hamster of your own, You even win Habitrail products at the end of each track, The controls are a bit batshit crazy, £1 for this game and I am pretty sure I have just had at least £2.70 Worth of enjoyment, It falls in the strange category of Advertisement Ware along side games like Pepsi man and M & M Shell Shocked

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