What games/consoles have you bought this week??

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Re: What games/consoles have you bought this week??

Postby bensonrad on Sat Mar 03, 2012 6:11 pm

Picked up Death and Return of Superman on the Snes today, it was priced at £8 but the guy in the shop let me have it for a fiver as I got my phone unlocked at the same time.
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Re: What games/consoles have you bought this week??

Postby speedlolita on Sun Mar 04, 2012 4:50 pm

Got Deadly Premonition today for £8 in CeX.

Also spotted a Tales of Vesperia in GAME today at £25. I didn't buy it though as it's not a game I wish to own. U mad?
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Re: What games/consoles have you bought this week??

Postby The Hardest of All Freds on Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:53 am

speedlolita wrote:Got Deadly Premonition today for £8 in CeX.

Also spotted a Tales of Vesperia in GAME today at £25. I didn't buy it though as it's not a game I wishSubject:

to own. U mad?

I have the case and the instructions to Tales of Vesperia, but no discs. I got it from a charity shop for a quid and it had Guitar Hero 3 disc in it instead.
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Re: What games/consoles have you bought this week??

Postby Alarm on Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:11 am

The Hardest of All Freds wrote:
speedlolita wrote:Got Deadly Premonition today for £8 in CeX.

Also spotted a Tales of Vesperia in GAME today at £25. I didn't buy it though as it's not a game I wishSubject:

to own. U mad?

I have the case and the instructions to Tales of Vesperia, but no discs. I got it from a charity shop for a quid and it had Guitar Hero 3 disc in it instead.

You should have purchased Guitar Hero 3 as well. :wink:
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Re: What games/consoles have you bought this week??

Postby greenberet79 on Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:15 pm

Yesterday I was stuck in A&E (missus's fractured thumb) for three hours, and out of boredom ended up on ebay mobile, buying Wii Mario Galaxy 1, Monster Hunter Tri and PES 2010. £20 all in (PES was 99p, which is why I bought it).
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Re: What games/consoles have you bought this week??

Postby hydr0x on Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:34 pm

tachi wrote:
speedlolita wrote:
tachi wrote:We have an antiques dealer in our village and they sell everything from chairs to games and today, as a means to get out of the house (due to being housebound for 2 weeks now after my op) I popped in to have a nosey.
Wasn't cheap, not by any means, but a good haul I think (even though I have some of them already lol)

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That Fire Red is a fake I'm afraid.



It's NTSC but how do you know it's fake?


Not only is the Fire Red definitely fake, the two Fire Emblem games most likely are fakes aswell. Hard to tell without a better photo but they look very very dodgy. Sorry. The Advance Wars 2 looks legit though.
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Re: What games/consoles have you bought this week??

Postby pratty on Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:42 pm

hydr0x wrote:
tachi wrote:It's NTSC but how do you know it's fake?


Not only is the Fire Red definitely fake, the two Fire Emblem games most likely are fakes aswell. Hard to tell without a better photo but they look very very dodgy. Sorry. The Advance Wars 2 looks legit though.


Tachi, you need to check the cart. Can you see Nintendo written on the board when you look where the pins (or whatever they're called) are? If you can see it then it should be legit, if not then I'm afraid they're knock-offs. (Also fake cartridges don't save properly.)

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You can see a picture of what I mean here:
http://crackedrabbitgaming.com/2006/06/03/a-counterfeit-gba-ring-operating-out-of-my-car-hole-er-ebay/

Checking DS games:
http://www.pokedit.com/view_news.php?id=62

Really hope you haven't been stung mate.
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Re: What games/consoles have you bought this week??

Postby gmintyfresh on Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:48 pm

AmidstStorm wrote:Pickups of the year so far. All shmups.
A few of the Indie PC titles like Bike Banditz, Crimzon Clover & Trouble Witches are getting pretty hard to impossible to find. Retro force is rarish PAL exclusive and doesn't appear all that often. Shame it's a bag of censored really.
Radirgy Noa on the Wii was limited print so is getting harder to find.
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You picked up Burai Fighter on the NES yet mate? Think I've got a spare copy if you want it.
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Re: What games/consoles have you bought this week??

Postby Liamh1982 on Mon Mar 05, 2012 2:16 pm

Man, it's getting hard to find decent DS games for cheap on the high street. Can't see this self-imposed £5 limit lasting long!
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Re: What games/consoles have you bought this week??

Postby jcdentont1000 on Mon Mar 05, 2012 4:17 pm

^^^^^^ that Wario game is the star there, Liam - not a bad little game for under a fiver :)
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Re: What games/consoles have you bought this week??

Postby The Hardest of All Freds on Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:14 pm

Alarm wrote:
The Hardest of All Freds wrote:
speedlolita wrote:Got Deadly Premonition today for £8 in CeX.

Also spotted a Tales of Vesperia in GAME today at £25. I didn't buy it though as it's not a game I wishSubject:

to own. U mad?

I have the case and the instructions to Tales of Vesperia, but no discs. I got it from a charity shop for a quid and it had Guitar Hero 3 disc in it instead.

You should have purchased Guitar Hero 3 as well. :wink:

I think someone already did :(
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Re: What games/consoles have you bought this week??

Postby Liamh1982 on Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:11 pm

jcdentont1000 wrote:^^^^^^ that Wario game is the star there, Liam - not a bad little game for under a fiver :)

I was a little surprised to see it cheap, the same place had it for £9 a fortnight ago.
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Re: What games/consoles have you bought this week??

Postby AmidstStorm on Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:23 pm

gmintyfresh wrote:You picked up Burai Fighter on the NES yet mate? Think I've got a spare copy if you want it.
Yeah already got a copy mate. Thanks for the offer. I've noticed the price of nes carts has rocketed though in the last few yrs. I've got a toploader so going to import all the nes shmups in large batches, works out alot cheaper than buying up PAL carts on ebay. Think i paid about $40 for 9 from the states. The package turned up opened though and 1 was missing sadly. I've found 104 shmups on the NES so far across all regions. I have 22, so nearly there :D
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Re: What games/consoles have you bought this week??

Postby nokgod on Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:19 pm

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Re: What games/consoles have you bought this week??

Postby Paulie on Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:24 am

I've been wanting to get an IGS PGM again for ages :D Got 4 more carts winging there way to me as I speak 8)

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