Retro Collecting

teddysmum

joeypesci wrote: »

Does anyone collect retro games and consoles here?

I've been looking at Cash Converters where I got a few good things from in the past. A new mint Game Cube if I remember right and special edition.

I've been wondering round the site today and noticed loads of boxed SNES games, all in the one store (Acton). Then it got me thinking, that's normally rare to find loads in one go in one stored, boxed. So either someone needed the money and sold their small collection or they are stolen. How would you go about checking? They are all overpriced anyway, much like all the other Cash Converter type stores (yet I bet they only paid £5 for each box). But curious how good their checks our on stolen goods.

They don't check anything.


Some years ago our teenage son loaned (without permission) our little portable tv/radio.cassette player to a lad who turned out to be a drug addict ,to use while decorating a house.


He refused to return it, denying all knowledge of having it and then disappeared.


Just afterwards a very similar machine appeared at our local branch. Now it had broken aerial (just like ours), was the same model and very unusual, had paint splatter all over it and had a blemish in the same place as ours had one.


Unfortunately we had thrown away the paperwork and box, having decided we wouldn't see the item again, so couldn't quote the serial number , which the shop said would get us our goods returned.

facade

teddysmum wrote: »

They don't check anything.

How can they?

You would think that in the 21st century there would be a website somewhere where you could register stolen items, make model serial etc.
There is one for stolen bicycles, but it is hard to find.

How about pay 50p and get a reg. code so someone who "found" your item could contact you to return it.
Any shop could then refuse to buy it.

Obvious really............:o

Retrogamer

I've been collecting games consoles most of my life now. Only ever sold one console i've owned and regretted it.

Current collection is

2 x NES. Both boxed but one box is rough and the other is mint. Both with light guns
2 x SNES. One boxed and with bazooka
2 x Megadrive originals
2 x Megadrive II
1 x Master System II
1 x Game Gear
1 x Game Boy Advance
1 x Game Boy Advance SP
2 x Commodore Amiga 1200. 1 is boxed with original manuals and work bench disks.
1 x Game Cube.
2 x N64. One is transparent red with game boy converter.
1 x Dreamcast
1 x Gaming desktop PC
1 x Gaming laptop PC
1 x PS3 Slim
1 x 360 Elite
1 x PS4 in white
1 x Playstation - modded with viper chip, transparent red case and VCD player adaptor.
1 x Xbox original in transparent case (crystal edition) with Xecutor III front panel and chip and 120GB PC hard drive installed with XBMC, Linux and 40GB of emulators / ROMs

Mostly only touch the gaming desktop PC these days but still love my emulators and retro gaming.

joeypesci

Finally got a 1st gen MegaCD and Night Trap. The game I always wanted in the 90s and would read about in Sega Power over an over.

Both turn out to be crap but good to have.

Had a local pawn shop that had loads of PSP games and DS games but the idiots put stupid price stickers on the spins ruining all the cases. They wanted to get rid of the PSP games so asked if I wanted to do a deal but I declined. I should of said it's because they keep and still do, ruining the cases with their crappy stickers.

Brock_and_Roll

In my garage somewhere.....
Atari VS
ZX81
Spectrum 48k
BBC Micro
Commodore 64
Atari ST


....ahhh happy days!

DKLS

I gave the majority of my console collection to the local hospice a while back but did keep my Super Famicom and SNK Neo Geo.

FutureGirl

I go to ComiCon in London twice a year, they have a pretty good Retro Games stall there which has most of the old consoles and games in good condition.

I'm hoping to get my hands on a NES and TMHT next weekend!

lauriemac

Retrogamer wrote: »

Only ever sold one console i've owned and regretted it.

Same here. Original Gameboy, sold on to fund a Gameboy Colour (as an impoverished teen). Genuinely miss it at times, and irritatingly my fondest gaming memories are on that console. The 3DS Virtual Console is nice retro hit, but not the same as the real thing.


Anyway, my collection is;


NES
SNES
Gameboy Colour
Gameboy Advance
Megadrive
Dreamcast
N64
Gamecube
Xbox
Wii
Xbox 360
DS
3DS XL
Xbox One

DaveTheGeordie

Good thread. Came here to check if someone had posted something like just this topic. The past couple of weeks I've been through my parents entire house, including an attic filled with old stuff and after 8 hours of taking everything out and putting it back in, I finally came to one last old carrier bag. As I picked it up it literally fell apart. Out spilled 21 (unboxed) SNES games, 2 boxed NES games and an empty NES box, and 5 megadrive games (four boxed). Jackpot!

I have everything piled up that I could find. We have 2 N64's, 3 SNES's, 2 NES's, a megadrive 2, an xbox (original), a 360, Wii, original gameboy, gb advance, gb advance sp, commodore 64, ds lite, ps one, ps2. Had a ps3 and a master system in the past but they are gone. I'm pretty sure one NES is just broken. Dead and the other one is half broken as in black/green screen of death every other attempt but will play cartridges with enough dust blowing. One SNES was broke, one used to work well and the one I've grabbed and used a few times the last few days is now temperamental so I'm hoping that is the third one and one still works but I fear it's the one that worked well getting old.

So I ordered some of those Nintendo security screwdrivers for £2something or other from ebay, and back to what I was saying earlier, I've never taken apart any of my old consoles in my life. I think it's well worth doing so to give them an inside air clean, and apparently a common problem causing the old NES's to break was some part corroding which is sometimes fixable. Can clean the outside too this way by soaking and scrubbing, sine the shell is taken off.

My plan is to do this to everything. Cartridges too. I have 2 copies of some games too. Will sell those on ebay. Might sell some consoles where I have 2 or 3 too. My plan is to put this money back into the hobby: mostly buying boxed consoles. I could just buy the boxes themselves but the older the console, the harder this will be I think. Will be hard to find just a NES box (and inserts etc).

Was gardening a couple of years ago and looked into a medium sized plant pot and saw smashed up polystyrene and a picture of Fulgore... my dad had ripped up my old N64 console box grr. = / and I kept my original xbox one box on top of my wardrobe in my old room for years. Ripped that up and binned it, all pee'd off because he decided to paint one day and got paint all over it. LOL. Oh well.

I'm going to be hitting boot sales early every Saturday and Sunday now through the summer until they quieten down. Have looked in charity shops etc. Haven't seen that many 80's/90's era cartridge games. I'm sure some will turn up soon. Would like to be able to flip a bit myself so the hobby slowly pays for itself. Use local boards like Gumtree. Have bought a couple of Wii's and 5 ds lites to sell. Adding just 2 or 3 quid on. Only sold one so far but I figure even if it took 6 months to sell that's better than money sitting in an ISA. And it's a bit of fun.

RichL74

I'm after Zzap 64! magazines but eBay prices are a total rip off - if anyone on here has some they are looking to get shut of, at reasonable prices, please let me know.


Before you think 'rip off prices on eBay cool, I'll list mine too' nobody's buying them, its the same ones re-listed over and over. Occasionally a bargain comes up from a new lister, but very few and far between.