My Retro Game Purchases for July 2019

So neither my blogging or my YouTubing have got off the ground yet again nor have I been taking photos of things either so once again there are going to be no pictures and in total honesty its not been that thrilling a month purchase wise. I am proberbly going to go a little more in to the real life stories of how I found the stuff I found mostly because people seem to find it strange that I actually find old games that are not like a bizzilion pounds but mostly because I just think that it will make this a more intresting read.

On July the 2nd I went in to a charty shop not to far from my house and I Paid £8 in total for a bunch of complete PS1 games. These games were Toca world touring cars, Toca 2, driver, driver 2 , smackdown, tomb raider the last revelation, die hard trilogy, syphon filter , syphon filter 2, and syphon filter 3 (platinum version). I had actually seen these games in this shop about a week ago but they were £4.99 each which I thought was a lot more than I wanted to pay especially for the Toca games. This day when I went in though I was buying some cheap dvd's to watch and the manager who knows im into old games mentioned that he thought the person who had put out the PS1 stuff had put it a bit high and it wasnt shifting, I said if it was less id have brought them already, next thing I know he tells me to bring them up and he would figure out a price he wanted for them and £8 was what he first said and I thought it was such a low amount he was asking for that it would be distastful to haggle any further.

Around the 6th I visited a small indy game shop and in a glass cabinet I noticed three 3rd party Dreamcast memory cards for £1 each one is a joytech 1mb, ones a joytech 4mb and the others an unnamed 4mb one. I figured this was a cheap asking price and so snapped them all up.

I didnt grab anything else then until the 25th, when I went in a charity shop near to my girlfriends house where there was a bunch of dirty looking copies of Fifa and stuff for one pound each but amongst them I saw a sealed copy of Tokyo Road Race for the PS2 for £1, not the most intresting retro purchase but one of not that many this month.

 

On the 27th I went on a overnight trip to Cottingham near Hull , which is about 90 miles away from me. I was there because my girlfriend was having an operation on her leg by a specialist surgeon. I went to visit her and as I wanted to see her more than one day I stayed over night in a shithole hotel about 5 miles from the hospital in what looked like a demilitarized zone. The hospital wouldn't let visitors in till 2 and I woke up at 9 and didnt want to spend one second more in the hotel than absolutly necesery so I spent like half a day busing and walking looking for charity shops to occupy myself and keep mind busy. I went in about 8 diffrent charity shops two in one area and 6 about another two miles closer to the hospital. It was in one of these that I found Spiderman for GameCube complete with a 3rd party memory card included in the box for £1, Dragonball z budokai boxed but missing manual for £1, Eighteen Wheeler boxed but missing manual for £1, and Rugrats Totally Angelica complete for PS1 for £3. 

 

 So all in all I only spent £18 this month on retro games which is pretty much an all time low for me. I am not dissapointed though I think that I got some decent stuff for my money and id rather spend a little and get decent stuff than over pay buying stuff just to be able to say that I have purchased something. Will I buy more in August who knows, it wouldnt be hard to spend more but then again I know that I am currently quiet busy so dont have quiet as much time to go looking for games, still lets see what the fates bring.