totaly, they are going for £40 to £50+ or so in my areas. and ya missed the 'harvest moon' game he had (lol) those are harder to get outside the net here in the uk (tho you gota be a hm fan to be honest, to want them, like me)
The neat thing about the wartime sets, is some also had escape route maps/etc hidden in them for the POW's that they were given to. There is often a subtle printed clues to whether or not it conceals secrets, but they are pretty rare.
6:42 ... it's a Hod-dudududu-dur! And 20p for a working keyboard is steal, always good to have a spare... and £5 just for the PC case would have been alright, so good grab there. Can't believe that someone's managing to run a kickstarter for a "modern" teasmade... you can still just buy the damn things from Argos and the like, probably even with iphone docks and so-on built in. There's one I saw in Lidl that'll even cook beans and a poached egg at the same time.
Love the Thrifts and please do more. With Corona going around we can vicariously thrift through videos. Would be nice to have more wide view shots just to establish the sheer amount of crap needed to be search through for a gem. I really love the odd items you zoom in on even if we are all here for the rare tech you find. It gives it personality and excitement. I hope for more videos soon.
I had that Wallace and gromit alarm clock! It's at 9:01, back of the stall. You pressed the slippers to snooze. Served me up until I got a high with an alarm clock function. Used to wake up to R.E.M.'s Radio Song every morning, the first song on Out Of Time - a cd that had been in my dad's van for years
I love these thrift videos. when I go to car-boots for retro stuff, I find that some group of pikeys have already approached every seller as they turned up and snatched the bargains.
That shit has ruined some of our best boot sales, where I live in Dundee we have two huge boot sales within 15 miles at Crail and Errol that are 100+ cars in size and would always be bargains galore but now they are frequented by "professional boot sellers" who go around the other stalls snapping shit up to put on their own stalls. Few great things ever last long and where a parasite sees an opportunity they pounce :/
There's a very good chance the motherboard in the PC you bought would support dual-core Athlons and such. Possibly even quad cores. Getting hold of one would likely be very inexpensive and a worthwhile upgrade!
Doubtful, but it Would be nice to know what the socket type was to be sure. Judging on that sticker alone, it's between 754 & 939. Most were single core, but I did come across some dual core 939's once and they were selling like hot cakes. Come to think of it, I'm sure I own a system with a dual core 939 cpu, it's one of my old XP machines. My quads are all AM2 though.
Grape Escape is a great find! My mom found my old one recently so I had the kids and their cousins try it out; they seemed to really like it with some fresh Play-doh
That Ross "Talking Alarm Clock" bought back some 80s memories. I was quite obsessed with things like voice synths back then, and I still have the voice synth box that we used with our Amstrad CPC 6128 in the late 80s. That was the very same 6128 my Dad used to book my first holiday abroad (to Mallorca), via modem, and an ABTA numbered "borrowed" from the monitor of a local travel agent. lol Cut out the middle-man, hence the travel agent fees, WAY ahead of the World Wide Web, as this was around 1988. :p
I had a tea's maid just like that one. It made tea that for some reason always lacked sugar, regardless of how much sugar I put in. Untill one day as the alarm was going off, I saw the tail end of our poodle leaving my room. So now I knew I was drinking tea our poodle had licked out the sugar, yuk!
car boot sales always sounded more fun than flea markets. there is definitely a lot of rubbish at either, but when you find a real gem, and get it for a song, it's all worth while. :)
I own a VistaScreen 3D Viewer as shown at 1:38. The box for mine is more tatty, though. Seeing the Star Trek Encyclopedia at 8:01 reminded me that it is in a box of books I have yet to take round to a local charity shop. .. The black quasi-pyramidal clock for £3 on the right of screen at 9:04 & 9:12 - I had one of those, too. Mine was white with a black button, and it spoke the time when the button was pressed. I am going to have to watch more of these videos!
Boot Markets at great, I miss going to them. So many gems to find. Even if not to buy, it brings back so many memories just seeing some of these things. Like those Mighty Max toys at 4:25 , I collected those as a kid
Hey man - really enjoyed the final section where you looked through the products, thought it was a brilliant addition and hope you continue with that in future episodes - keep up the good work :)
At one of these things recently I got a full boxed copy of travel monopoly that is so old it still has pound notes in it. Consider that this is in Australia where we changed to dollars in about 1963.
I was thinking it was a skateboard at first, a definite fantastic addition to a teenage lad's bedroom, unless they knew nothing of Tank Girl which would be a perfect opportunity for an impromptu education lesson.
Those "Upgrading and Repairing PCs" books are actually pretty good, you can get a good sampling on what was up with PCs since the early 80's just by choosing the right edition. That is from 2003 so P4/Athlon era I suspect. I only have the latest two editions in the flesh but "found" most of the others as PDFs.
I have that very same stereo, in that colour, somewhere in my loft. I bought it in 1999 from, I think, Comet when I first got my own place. As I recall it was a display unit that was on sale at the time.
Awesome finds, especially that PC! I found a fully working Power Mac G4 for $20 at a garage sale earlier this summer, they were also selling a PC for $15, but I chose the Mac. :)
Car boot sales are an adventure in Britain, folks in other countries go to the beach or take their family to a neighbouring country for sausages and coffee. But here we pack the family in to the car and travel for hours just to buy other people's shit at the end of it :)
That Aled jones Record in the background 06:23 There is always a bag or box of old soldiers, at every car boot, if i was 8 i wold have snatched them up, i think most of my toy soldiers came from car boots, in the 80's. Nice Video mate :o)
The monopoly set is like my Grans set, she told me that the pieces were not metal because of the war effort. Don't know how true that is but it was fun to play with.
Dumb question, but is there any call out there for those late 1990s beige mid tower style cases for use in retro PCs? I have a few just like the one in the video. They were not fun to work in, they are smaller and much more cramped than enthusiast cases of today, do not fit modern long video cards, and have lots of sharp edges... but maybe some want that retro authenticity?
If you are building a retro system then you will use retro hardware, an old AT case is fine for an old AT motherboard and an old cirrus logic or early voodoo graphics card. You don't need the mammoth 13" long graphics cards of today if you are building a DOS/Windows 95/98 gaming machine, hardware was smaller :)
Just spent an hour and a half looking back at this playlist! I guess you're not into your record collecting as much as me, as that's my primary reason for visiting charity shops. The best idea is to go for little local charities as the old dears are often clueless about pricing. I picked up the series 9 Doctor Who boxset for £3.50 the other week, for example!
Last year I got a TIME pc with CRT/KB/Mouse for £5. thought the £5 was just for the tower, started walking off with it and the bloke was like "are you taking the rest of it mate?" Athlon xp 1800, 512mb ram,. built in GPU but I stuck a 9600pro in it I had lying around and now its a quality little XP machine.
I went to a once-a-year boot sale in Osaka, one couple had an "everything for ￥300" box. I got a Playstation controller. The next day I went back with an evil idea. I got a dreamcast, plugged in two controllers and the video lead and wrapped the cables round it, ￥300 the lot! ...would have been nice if it worked, oh well.
I used to go to Arminghall every week a few years ago, then I realised more often than not I was coming home empty handed. There are so many people who go there and hoover up anything gaming related, even if you've already bought it - this one dude tried to offer me £5 for a FF7 I picked up. Car boots used to be fun, now it seems so cutthroat if you're not willing to be in the back of someones boot as they arrive you miss out most of the time. Still pretty good for boxed PC stuff though, vultures never quite caught on to those.
Bargain PC! That stereo would be great for in a bedroom, and I can't believe the price. That monopoly set is most likely worth a bit of money. You could try that drive in that PC.
that Monopoly set is from WWII, when rationing made them have to make the pieces from cardboard. They also cut down on te print colours, and the paper the chance cards and money are made of are also poorer quality. That's very rare and collectible ;)
watching this channel and LGR simultaneously is so weird, like it's the same dude switching accents, make a video where you do the duke nukem voice please
> AMD Sempron > 80gb IDE drive > 512mb RAM (probably DDR266 or something depressingly slow like that) > Utterly generic optical drive that doesn't have any logos on so may well be just a CDROM > Integrated chipset only > XP Home > Documents from 2004 Eech, that thing wouldn't even have been expensive when it was originally bought. It's barely above generic corporate workstation level, and putting that barebones stuff into a full tower case is almost insulting. It really is super clean for something that was 13+ years old when you picked it up. Wonder if it belonged to some elderly relative who found themselves unable to keep using the computer soon after buying it, maybe...? The documents folder isn't exactly heaving. Still, for a fiver, can't really complain at all.
Oh God, no...... I saw that Bart Simpson alarm clock @ 9:10 and had a sudden intake of breath! My sister had that......thing... when we were kids, and I later got palmed off with it when she got annoyed with it and got a new alarm. You do not know the hell of waking up every morning to Nancy Cartwright screaming "Hey man, it's time to wake up and get out of bed!" "Hey man, it's time to wake up and get out of bed!" "Hey man, it's time to wake up and get out of bed!" "Hey man, it's time to wake up and get out of bed!" I HATED that thing lol
I have watched all of these. I look on in morbid curiosity and horror as you spend so much on things worth so little D: why cant i stop? (Well i have to now)
I managed to get a game gear with a Japanese copy of lucky dime caper, Batman returns and Columns at Arminghall a couple of years ago. I think the whole lot cost me about a fiver
Lol, I never have any luck here in northern Sweden either. Must have been to 15-20 of these the last few years and almost never find anything cool gaming or computer related. Even when I do find something, it's totally overpriced because tabloids run these damn "You old video game could be worth thousands!"-articles alI the time now... I do wish I did a lot more of this 10-15 years ago tho, got a mint NES with 2 Mario games back then for like 20kr(2€). Pretty sure I found a stack of NES games later too, also dirt cheap. And lots of stuff I passed on...
That thunderbirds alarm clock isn't new, unless they've re-released them. My dad has one which he's had for literally my entire life, so almost 30 years.
Crystal Warriors (and it's sequel Royal Stone) are up there in my top Game Gear games of all time. It's a turn based war and magic strategy RPG and pits you as Princess Iris (coincidentally my grandma's name) against some real bad wizard dudes who plan to take your kingdom away from you. I love that you can befriend wild monsters (doggies!) by taming them with defeat, a bit like winning friends in the pub by arm wrestling strangers. There's a whole water beats fire, beats earth thing going on in there, and you sort of recruit people and try not to let them die along the way. In between every two slices of level, you get to visit a town where people talk to you and provide you with a few different ways to burn money. Well, I suppose that makes the game one big multi-levelled sandwich. It is also available on the 3DS shop in some sort of 3D. As sandwiches go, Crystal Warriors is a tasty one. It's a nice find for Mr Nostalgia Nerd. I hope he enjoys it very much. I really hate car boot sales though. It's like turning a landfill into a festival where people spend their children's university fund on the contents of each other's bins. I was only half watching the video in the background until nostalgia grabbed me by the senses when I saw the poor old sun bleached Crystal Warriors cartridge. I suppose car boot sales are good really, since it's recycling what would have otherwise been thrown away. So really, you're saving the planet. I love car boot sales now. You're a Planeteer. We can be one too. Saving the planet is the thing to do. (clap clap). Looting and polluting is not the way. Here's what Captain Planet has to say. "The planet is yours!" Incidentally, if you could choose which captain planet ring you could own, which would it be? There was earth, water, wind, fire and heart. I think I'd choose fire for cooking with mainly.
That game cube was a good deal. The box looked mint!
It was. I'm regretting it already.
totaly, they are going for £40 to £50+ or so in my areas. and ya missed the 'harvest moon' game he had (lol) those are harder to get outside the net here in the uk (tho you gota be a hm fan to be honest, to want them, like me)
Go back to this car boot sale next week/month/when ever it is on again and buy the game cube.
If the same people show. Some just offload there stuff once and either keep whats left or send it to recycling
people store boxes somewhere in the attic, the console could be wrecked for all you know, box doesn't say jack shit
The monopoly is one of the austerity sets after the war when resources were low hence no outer box
Ahhhhhhh, interesting!
YOUR TELLING ME THAT THERE WAS A NINTENDO GAMECUBE =D
Can't tell if it says Pat or Po1 on that box above the year. If it's Po1 that's a board belonging to a commonwealth countries sailor
But the one he bought did have the dices.
The neat thing about the wartime sets, is some also had escape route maps/etc hidden in them for the POW's that they were given to. There is often a subtle printed clues to whether or not it conceals secrets, but they are pretty rare.
HA! Dude, your narration had me cracking up! I've never seen one of your thhrifting episodes before. I have to watch the rest now.
Great series and channel. Love seeing thrifting elsewhere. Thanks from USA - TN.
@5:00 Having the Army Men next to "Minerva" (Roman Goddess of Warfare) was brilliant on their part! Your PTSD joke was pretty good too. Ish.
6:42 ... it's a Hod-dudududu-dur!
And 20p for a working keyboard is steal, always good to have a spare... and £5 just for the PC case would have been alright, so good grab there.
Can't believe that someone's managing to run a kickstarter for a "modern" teasmade... you can still just buy the damn things from Argos and the like, probably even with iphone docks and so-on built in. There's one I saw in Lidl that'll even cook beans and a poached egg at the same time.
@1:46 i want the jelly mould!
Yay a English version of LGR Thrifts ... no Goodwills here in the UK so we needed an alternative
Love the Thrifts and please do more. With Corona going around we can vicariously thrift through videos. Would be nice to have more wide view shots just to establish the sheer amount of crap needed to be search through for a gem. I really love the odd items you zoom in on even if we are all here for the rare tech you find. It gives it personality and excitement. I hope for more videos soon.
00:51 I had one of those Qwik Tune tuners in the 90s.
I've still got one. Pretty good.
I had that Wallace and gromit alarm clock! It's at 9:01, back of the stall. You pressed the slippers to snooze. Served me up until I got a high with an alarm clock function. Used to wake up to R.E.M.'s Radio Song every morning, the first song on Out Of Time - a cd that had been in my dad's van for years
I love these thrift videos. when I go to car-boots for retro stuff, I find that some group of pikeys have already approached every seller as they turned up and snatched the bargains.
That shit has ruined some of our best boot sales, where I live in Dundee we have two huge boot sales within 15 miles at Crail and Errol that are 100+ cars in size and would always be bargains galore but now they are frequented by "professional boot sellers" who go around the other stalls snapping shit up to put on their own stalls.
Few great things ever last long and where a parasite sees an opportunity they pounce :/
4:39 Mighty Max toys! Now that's nostalgia for me!
There's a very good chance the motherboard in the PC you bought would support dual-core Athlons and such. Possibly even quad cores. Getting hold of one would likely be very inexpensive and a worthwhile upgrade!
Doubtful, but it Would be nice to know what the socket type was to be sure. Judging on that sticker alone, it's between 754 & 939. Most were single core, but I did come across some dual core 939's once and they were selling like hot cakes. Come to think of it, I'm sure I own a system with a dual core 939 cpu, it's one of my old XP machines.
My quads are all AM2 though.
Rock and Roll Maze! That was my absolute best Christmas present ever.
Grape Escape is a great find! My mom found my old one recently so I had the kids and their cousins try it out; they seemed to really like it with some fresh Play-doh
That Ross "Talking Alarm Clock" bought back some 80s memories.
I was quite obsessed with things like voice synths back then, and I still have the voice synth box that we used with our Amstrad CPC 6128 in the late 80s.
That was the very same 6128 my Dad used to book my first holiday abroad (to Mallorca), via modem, and an ABTA numbered "borrowed" from the monitor of a local travel agent. lol
Cut out the middle-man, hence the travel agent fees, WAY ahead of the World Wide Web, as this was around 1988. :p
I had a tea's maid just like that one.
It made tea that for some reason always lacked sugar, regardless of how much sugar I put in.
Untill one day as the alarm was going off, I saw the tail end of our poodle leaving my room.
So now I knew I was drinking tea our poodle had licked out the sugar, yuk!
car boot sales always sounded more fun than flea markets. there is definitely a lot of rubbish at either, but when you find a real gem, and get it for a song, it's all worth while. :)
That last bit of footage with the planetarium tape and the demo. Whew. That was great. Truly a good moment to capture.
I own a VistaScreen 3D Viewer as shown at 1:38. The box for mine is more tatty, though.
Seeing the Star Trek Encyclopedia at 8:01 reminded me that it is in a box of books I have yet to take round to a local charity shop.
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The black quasi-pyramidal clock for £3 on the right of screen at 9:04 & 9:12 - I had one of those, too. Mine was white with a black button, and it spoke the time when the button was pressed.
I am going to have to watch more of these videos!
Great episode, I'm spending my afternoon watching all your videos
THE WARRIORS! Greatest ... movie ... EVER
Warriorssss.. come out to play-eee-ay...
Boot Markets at great, I miss going to them. So many gems to find. Even if not to buy, it brings back so many memories just seeing some of these things. Like those Mighty Max toys at 4:25 , I collected those as a kid
I would definitely have gotten both the Xbox and the GameCube because they were boxed and they are two of my favourite non cartridge based consoles.
Lolzperzniac I have both systems also just don't have them boxed yet.
Nerd likely has 2 or 3 of both console.
Hey man - really enjoyed the final section where you looked through the products, thought it was a brilliant addition and hope you continue with that in future episodes - keep up the good work :)
At one of these things recently I got a full boxed copy of travel monopoly that is so old it still has pound notes in it. Consider that this is in Australia where we changed to dollars in about 1963.
also. if you go back and that tank girl artwork is still there grab it for me iv live in Norwich...
you can dropp into my pub in the city
Which pub?
the owl sanctuary , across the road from the murders
I'll give them to Chip.
chip never comes in since dan left
I was thinking it was a skateboard at first, a definite fantastic addition to a teenage lad's bedroom, unless they knew nothing of Tank Girl which would be a perfect opportunity for an impromptu education lesson.
Those "Upgrading and Repairing PCs" books are actually pretty good, you can get a good sampling on what was up with PCs since the early 80's just by choosing the right edition. That is from 2003 so P4/Athlon era I suspect. I only have the latest two editions in the flesh but "found" most of the others as PDFs.
I have that very same stereo, in that colour, somewhere in my loft. I bought it in 1999 from, I think, Comet when I first got my own place. As I recall it was a display unit that was on sale at the time.
Awesome finds, especially that PC!
I found a fully working Power Mac G4 for $20 at a garage sale earlier this summer, they were also selling a PC for $15, but I chose the Mac. :)
Man, if only I had access to a sale like that... Even stuff like that Gamecube woulda been a huge score.
Car boot sales are an adventure in Britain, folks in other countries go to the beach or take their family to a neighbouring country for sausages and coffee. But here we pack the family in to the car and travel for hours just to buy other people's shit at the end of it :)
Any more of these coming by chance? Absolutely love these.
heh 8:15 "Giant dinosaur" the gameboy ripoff made me chuckle.
The most honest, self-descriptive name for a game even without playing the game :D
@ 7:56 I still have the star trek encylopedia
I was at Arminghall carboot last weekend. Wow.
omg that tiger 2-XL, the nostalgia is overflowing
Wait, you live in Norwich? The same city as Ashens??
Love it! The uk LGR thrifts. Checked out. Couple of local charity shops myself and have some items that re on the “will check it out soon” list. Mmmm
Space lines is awesome. 3d connect four basically. Something else my parents have
ah the carpet cleaner..we called it the 'fudda dudda' as that's the noise it made when you pushed it back and forth
I got a Coronation Street vinyl record last time I went there. I'm sure you're sick with jealousy.
That Aled jones Record in the background 06:23
There is always a bag or box of old soldiers, at every car boot, if i was 8 i wold have snatched them up, i think most of my toy soldiers came from car boots, in the 80's.
Nice Video mate :o)
The monopoly set is like my Grans set, she told me that the pieces were not metal because of the war effort.
Don't know how true that is but it was fun to play with.
You don't know how true it is that she told you that?
Dumb question, but is there any call out there for those late 1990s beige mid tower style cases for use in retro PCs? I have a few just like the one in the video. They were not fun to work in, they are smaller and much more cramped than enthusiast cases of today, do not fit modern long video cards, and have lots of sharp edges... but maybe some want that retro authenticity?
If you are building a retro system then you will use retro hardware, an old AT case is fine for an old AT motherboard and an old cirrus logic or early voodoo graphics card. You don't need the mammoth 13" long graphics cards of today if you are building a DOS/Windows 95/98 gaming machine, hardware was smaller :)
That monopoly would have been a must for me also and so cool to find one so old.
Just spent an hour and a half looking back at this playlist! I guess you're not into your record collecting as much as me, as that's my primary reason for visiting charity shops. The best idea is to go for little local charities as the old dears are often clueless about pricing. I picked up the series 9 Doctor Who boxset for £3.50 the other week, for example!
Last year I got a TIME pc with CRT/KB/Mouse for £5. thought the £5 was just for the tower, started walking off with it and the bloke was like "are you taking the rest of it mate?"
Athlon xp 1800, 512mb ram,. built in GPU but I stuck a 9600pro in it I had lying around and now its a quality little XP machine.
I went to a once-a-year boot sale in Osaka, one couple had an "everything for ￥300" box. I got a Playstation controller. The next day I went back with an evil idea. I got a dreamcast, plugged in two controllers and the video lead and wrapped the cables round it, ￥300 the lot!
...would have been nice if it worked, oh well.
That robot looks cool.
The two blue joypads near the end are a NES plug n play clone with built in light gun ;)
I used to go to Arminghall every week a few years ago, then I realised more often than not I was coming home empty handed. There are so many people who go there and hoover up anything gaming related, even if you've already bought it - this one dude tried to offer me £5 for a FF7 I picked up. Car boots used to be fun, now it seems so cutthroat if you're not willing to be in the back of someones boot as they arrive you miss out most of the time. Still pretty good for boxed PC stuff though, vultures never quite caught on to those.
I used to have a 'rock and role maze' I got it for Christmas one year when I really wanted a 'Screwball Scramble'.
The Norwich city board game...where you the player take on the role of Delia Smith ..."let's be 'avin ya"
The monopoly was a war time edition, my gran had one. Metal was scarce so they used paper and wooden blocks.
Bargain PC! That stereo would be great for in a bedroom, and I can't believe the price. That monopoly set is most likely worth a bit of money. You could try that drive in that PC.
I prefer the 2150w system that’s in my bedroom but each to their own I guess, LOL
that Monopoly set is from WWII, when rationing made them have to make the pieces from cardboard. They also cut down on te print colours, and the paper the chance cards and money are made of are also poorer quality. That's very rare and collectible ;)
6:22 I showed my American mate the 'I could do with a D' advert ... they pissed themselves laughing.
Good video what camera was you using when thrifting ??
You have the war time Monopoly pack
is there any chance of this series returning in the future?
Great job on the Monopoly set and USR modem.
So, what do you want for those Casio watches?
watching this channel and LGR simultaneously is so weird, like it's the same dude switching accents, make a video where you do the duke nukem voice please
That tea mate thing is so awesome and I would have bought it just for the kettle.
YES! That modem is totally worth it for the classic greatness.
Bacon420 That USR design was cheap and tacky with its snap together case
Just now found your channel. Your narration is excellent! (I exclaimed with glee)
> AMD Sempron
> 80gb IDE drive
> 512mb RAM (probably DDR266 or something depressingly slow like that)
> Utterly generic optical drive that doesn't have any logos on so may well be just a CDROM
> Integrated chipset only
> XP Home
> Documents from 2004
Eech, that thing wouldn't even have been expensive when it was originally bought. It's barely above generic corporate workstation level, and putting that barebones stuff into a full tower case is almost insulting. It really is super clean for something that was 13+ years old when you picked it up. Wonder if it belonged to some elderly relative who found themselves unable to keep using the computer soon after buying it, maybe...? The documents folder isn't exactly heaving.
Still, for a fiver, can't really complain at all.
Oh God, no...... I saw that Bart Simpson alarm clock @ 9:10 and had a sudden intake of breath! My sister had that......thing... when we were kids, and I later got palmed off with it when she got annoyed with it and got a new alarm.
You do not know the hell of waking up every morning to Nancy Cartwright screaming
"Hey man, it's time to wake up and get out of bed!"
"Hey man, it's time to wake up and get out of bed!"
"Hey man, it's time to wake up and get out of bed!"
"Hey man, it's time to wake up and get out of bed!"
I HATED that thing lol
Nice pick ups and loving the Star Viewer haha ;)
I love my local carboot sale, on average I manage to find at-least 1 big boxed PC game or a random pong machine.
We call this type of thing a flea market where I live in northeast United States. They seem to be disappearing, at least near me.
I have watched all of these. I look on in morbid curiosity and horror as you spend so much on things worth so little D: why cant i stop? (Well i have to now)
I got a PC for £5 too! also came with a CRT. Nice big beige tower with 1ghz athlon, 256mb of ram and a geforce 4.
I do love a man who loves the word - fiend. Delicious fiend!!
Rod Stewart's got a good unique voice tho... Bloody fiend!
Where are you from? I saw the Norwich City board game.... Norwich is my home city.
Wow, that's one tiny bicycle repairman if his outfit fits in that Altoids tin.
I keep looking for Meccano pieces for Arduino projects, but even at car boot sales it's damn expensive.
Did the 200 gb hd work?
I'll keep you updated.... not just you personally, but everyone.
would be interesting to see what's on it, if the previous owner wasn't smart enough to format it before selling.
I hope you wiped the 80GB HDD in the PC to protect the previous owners privacy.
I hope you checked both of them for the obvious and worked out some masterful and cunning blackmail plot!
They should have done that themselves.
I managed to get a game gear with a Japanese copy of lucky dime caper, Batman returns and Columns at Arminghall a couple of years ago. I think the whole lot cost me about a fiver
Didn't even mention the Mighty Max collection. Walked right by it.
They don't hold much nostalgic value for me. If they'd have been released 5 years earlier, I'm sure I'd have been all over them.
Was thinking the same thing.
I'm glad you sort through this tat and bring it back to your house, so that I don't have to :)
Wait your In Norfolk? I used to like there
this is truly a british LGR thrifts, i enjoy more because of that
Lol, I never have any luck here in northern Sweden either. Must have been to 15-20 of these the last few years and almost never find anything cool gaming or computer related. Even when I do find something, it's totally overpriced because tabloids run these damn "You old video game could be worth thousands!"-articles alI the time now...
I do wish I did a lot more of this 10-15 years ago tho, got a mint NES with 2 Mario games back then for like 20kr(2€). Pretty sure I found a stack of NES games later too, also dirt cheap. And lots of stuff I passed on...
Well, either such stuff go to the dump because mom & dad springclean the attic and doesnt care or its gets overpriced and put on ebay.
I remember linkits, thanks for the memory jump start. oh yeah and 2XL.
Great finds. Your local car boots are far better than what we have up here :(
4:15 Am I the only one OCD triggered by not putting box back aligned with the other box like it was before?
That thunderbirds alarm clock isn't new, unless they've re-released them. My dad has one which he's had for literally my entire life, so almost 30 years.
The robot voice sounds a lot like Lewis Black. ;) 12:06
Casio still makes those same watches, and they're cheap too. Check on Amazon.
Crystal Warriors (and it's sequel Royal Stone) are up there in my top Game Gear games of all time. It's a turn based war and magic strategy RPG and pits you as Princess Iris (coincidentally my grandma's name) against some real bad wizard dudes who plan to take your kingdom away from you. I love that you can befriend wild monsters (doggies!) by taming them with defeat, a bit like winning friends in the pub by arm wrestling strangers. There's a whole water beats fire, beats earth thing going on in there, and you sort of recruit people and try not to let them die along the way. In between every two slices of level, you get to visit a town where people talk to you and provide you with a few different ways to burn money. Well, I suppose that makes the game one big multi-levelled sandwich. It is also available on the 3DS shop in some sort of 3D. As sandwiches go, Crystal Warriors is a tasty one. It's a nice find for Mr Nostalgia Nerd. I hope he enjoys it very much. I really hate car boot sales though. It's like turning a landfill into a festival where people spend their children's university fund on the contents of each other's bins. I was only half watching the video in the background until nostalgia grabbed me by the senses when I saw the poor old sun bleached Crystal Warriors cartridge. I suppose car boot sales are good really, since it's recycling what would have otherwise been thrown away. So really, you're saving the planet. I love car boot sales now. You're a Planeteer. We can be one too. Saving the planet is the thing to do. (clap clap). Looting and polluting is not the way. Here's what Captain Planet has to say. "The planet is yours!" Incidentally, if you could choose which captain planet ring you could own, which would it be? There was earth, water, wind, fire and heart. I think I'd choose fire for cooking with mainly.
I have a strong suspicion we're getting X-Files trading cards in the retro box :)
no way! ive been quietly watching your videos for a LONG time.. and just heard you say "norfolk"... im in norfolk myself :D
Bargains, good lord lol. Now, that what I like to see educating your children of the pre-net life :)
I don't know why these are so compelling but they are.
Goodbye, Norfolk!
For honour of the crown we will die!
Goodbye, Norfolk!
There is no place in paradise for us!
OMG I had that captain scarlet alarm clock when I was a nipper. I would totally have bought that
4:30 You skipped over Mighty Max!?
Nice CD! What the heck are you doing with your hands in the reflection when you play the cassette?