Gumtree has stricken my wallet and I again, as last week I actually managed to find some Mega Drive games that weren't more expensive than a six pack of booze.
In fact, I've only managed to add a couple of MD games to my collection since I picked up an actual Mega Drive
months and months ago. I don't know why they're so hard to find, but when I do come across them the prices aren't right.
The other week I found a copy of PGA Tour Golf II in an op-shop for $4 boxed, and bought it
just because I wanted something else to play on the MD. Do I like golf games? Absolutely not. I was just getting desperate.
I should of held my breath a little bit longer though as only a few days later I was browsing Gumtree, and came across this chap selling a whole bunch of MD games for $5 each. Perfect.
I selected the four I wanted out of his list, but I got chatting to him over SMS. Out of chance I asked him if he was also selling Road Rash (a game I've been after for a while on the MD) and he said he had a copy. He wasn't planning on selling it originally but would sell it to me for $5 regardless. Awesome.
All the games worked first try, so expect a lot of MD reviews in the coming months. It's a fantastic console that I haven't given much loving yet, but that's about to change.
I have also been out and about buying other games too quite a bit, but haven't been posting about them. I've been buying too many, and it would just be too much to post about. Over that, I wouldn't consider it particularly enthralling reading, but none the less here are some games I've picked up just over the last two days.
The only game I bought out of that lot yesterday was Jungle Strike on the... you guessed it, the Mega Drive! "The sequel to Desert Strike".
Out of nowhere my MD collection is booming, which is by all means a fantastic thing. That cost nearly $8, because I'm super suave and saved myself seventy whole cents. How did I do that? Well, I just said: It was my super suaveness.
I went into a local pawn store which, let's just say, I'm not that much a fan of. Why do I keep going back? Well, curiosity I guess. I have had some hits previously, but they're far apart. The shop is on a road I travel regularly you see, so sometimes I just can't resist the urge to check it out. The shop has a great selection, but everything is so damn overpriced. The stock doesn't seem to move either, every now and again I pick up something reasonably priced but otherwise the stock there always stays the same.
Anyway, this is one of those classy joints that has a $10 Eftpos minimum. I'm not a cash guy at heart, so when I come across that it makes my cringe. Sure I can see it being feasible if it's a small store, but this place is huge. The only reason they would have an Eftpos minimum is because they want you to spend more money, that's plain and clear. Anyway (again), I'm getting off track. I only had $7 and 30 cents on me in cash, and there was absolutely nothing else in that store which was at a price I was comfortable with paying ($130 N64's anyone?). Since I know the gaming stock in there isn't moving that much anyway, I thought they would have no problem marking a game down a measly seventy cents.
Well, turns out they did, so I had to put on the best poor student face that I could as to not buy something else and bring the transaction over $10. Cheap bastards.
So yeah, my opinion of that places lowers every time I go there.
Why the hell do I go there though? Who knows, collectors urge I guess.
Today I had a bit more luck and checked out a few places near to my college which I hadn't been to before.
First off, I went to the local friendly Cash Converters and picked up Top Spin on the Xbox and Wave Race on the N64 for $5 each. Is $5 too much to pay for an Xbox game in this day and age? You'll have to
read this post to find out. ;)
Wave Race is a game that's interested me for a while, so I was happy to find that for $5.
Just down the road were both a Salvo's and a Good Sammy's right next to each other, which was cool because they were both larger format stores. The Salvo's was mostly full of furniture and clothes though, no games, but I had a bit more luck in the Good Sammy's next door.
Again, mostly larger items but I came across those three PSone games you see in the photo for $4 each. You might be squinting and wondering what Station 7 is. I was too, and strangely couldn't find anything about it on my phone at the time so I bought it out of pure curiosity. Turns out it's a demo disk.
I paid actual real life money for a demo disk. Oh well.
There really isn't much of note to write about the other two games apart from the fact that A Bugs Life has no scratches on it whatsoever. I've never seen that on a pre-owned kids game before, and will likely never again.
