Car Boot Sale

in Hive Gaming2 days ago

Today, me, Kaleb and Aimee's dad went out to Inch Market, which is essentially a bit of a Saturday morning ritual for us.

Poor Ollie couldn't make it today because he's not feeling well.


Sega Mega Drive Games

One of the first stalls I stopped at had these games, and I actually knelt down to look at 2 Xbox 360 games and asked her how much she wanted for the games.

Then I noticed these Sega games.

I don't know much about Sega games off the top of my head, and neither did she, but I told her that me and my dad recently bought a Sega Mega Drive but don't have many games for it.

She said she'd be happy with €20 for the lot, so I took her up on that.

I wasn't too interested, considering they were sports games, but for €4 each, I couldn't say no.

She also threw in a couple of children's books for free, which was really nice of her.

When I got back to the car, I looked up the games online and found that they are worth about €90+, so that was a bargain.


Mixed Games Bundle

I saw San Andreas for the 360, which is so weird, because just last night I told myself that I wanted to buy that.

The main reason for wanting to buy it is that the recent remaster of the game is missing a lot of the original songs due to licensing issues, whereas this 360 port still has the original music.

He only wanted €2 each for the boxed games, but then I noticed that San Andreas was missing the disc (always check before walking away)

So, he gave me all the loose ones for free. Some decent titles here, no heavy hitters, but I can't argue with free games.

I have a case of loose discs, and eventually, I am going to sell them as a large bundle. I have one each for Xbox 360 titles, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3.

Buying bulk lots sometimes means loose discs come in the bundle, so I figured selling them as a large lot would be much better than selling loose discs individually.


Wii Controllers and Nunchuk's

I saw these and decided to buy them as well, and since they were untested, they were really cheap.

Since they may or may not be working, I thought I'd buy two in the hopes that one of them is working.

The reason I picked these up is that I bought a Wii U console recently, and need a Wii controller and Nunchuk to play the old Wii titles on it.

Wish me luck, everybody.


As well as this stuff, Kaleb got a tractor, iron man figure, a dinosaur and 2 books.

I spent, in total, about €34, and if I were to sell this stuff, I could probably make €120-ish, but for the time being, I am going to hang onto everything.

I'm hoping to purchase a copy of San Andreas (Disc Only) since I have the box and map, so hopefully I am able to find a cheap copy of that.

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I think that some of 2K basketball games were the only sports games I played. It was fun for a while but I prefer watching real basketball games than playing basketball games.

Speaking about bargains right now Disco Elysium is just 3,79€ on steam. I believe that when I bought it also had such sale and for me it was probably the best 3,79 I ever spent. For multiple reasons. I bought an awesome game. Also from what I understand most of lead creators of Disco Elysium were tricked and kicked out by some greedy investor(?). I am not entirely sure about that drama behind the game. I just heard that the game was stolen from it's creators in some way. So getting the game legally but paying the least amount possible seemed like a decent way to give only minimum support to the people who now control the company. I think that original creators would still want gamers to play and experience their masterpiece so not buying the game at all seemed like worst option. I asked google and it said that some creators of the Disco are still working in that company. So I will likely buy their new game Zero Parades For Dead Spies as well. Just not sure if I will wait for sale or buy at full price...

No way, that's terrible, but paying the least amount possible is a really good idea.

It's such a shame that the games industry is the way it is, there is too much greed, and it usually ruins great ideas.

I bought a humble bundle course on game design and another course on creating digital assets. Both courses are great, and my intention is to create a small scale game of some sort. I have a few ideas floating around, but I'm still learning.

I would love to gather a small team for a small project and all learn together. I write, and have tons of story ideas

Lucky you, I never see Megadrive games now on junk markets. Gone are the good old days of finding that stuff, sports or not.

Its the first time I have ever seen any out there, typically at that market its as if the sellers just tipped the contents of a wheelie bin out on the table.

I have found a few decent things, of course, but I think today is the best haul so far

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