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It survived the amazon circle of hell: Really nice bundle and surprisingly compact.

Will have to wait till Saturda, busy tonight and off to see Dune Tomorrow.

Christmas presents: Golden Sun from eBay, Hudson's Adventure Island from CeX: eShop sale buys:

Mario no Picross. £5 + p&p on eBay.

Let's go!

Heres my set up, bit messy but everything that can be connected by hdmi goes through a projector and played on the the wall. Retro on other wall.

Retro impulse got me again FF Tactics with box, manual and innards I think is a pretty good deal. It’s in pretty great condition, too Then Turok 2 was just sitting there. Not the best condition because it doesn’t have the inside cardboard just the cartridge and manual. But I think I only have the cartridge and it was £25 so I thought why not. I love Turok

Latest big box arrived. 😊 Also backed Broken Sword reforged Kick Starter.

Couple more pickups. Super Mario Wonder I think I'm in the mood to play pretty soon. Deadalus, despite the space themed cover, is actually a fps. Very cheap for the Japanese version, but it's called Robotica over here. The box art is cool though

GOBLINS!!!

^ nice one glad the unicorn stuff arrived. not posted in here in a while, this stuff is from the last few months

Picked these up for £3 each on a local gumtree listing

Got hit by some impulse in CEX

Time to dust off the PS5 etc.

JRPGs out the wazoo at the minute. Good times! Slight discount for these atm.

That's cool, they should do one every few years I bought a wireless Dreamcast controller called the Retro Fighters StrikerDC Wireless. It's a Bluetooth controller where the dongle goes in to the Dreamcast controller port and houses the VMU. It's got the same analogue technology as the Dreamcast pads so there's no stick drift. I think there's inbuilt vibration but I've only tested 1 game (Project Justice) and I didn't notice any Also pictured, the Shenmue duck and Streets of Rage badge that Spatular got me as a birthday present

This was my personal nonsensical expense at the end of the year. It's a collection of all currently available Annapurna games on Switch on a single cartridge, which is just a very cool idea I think. This might be something I only bought for the collection though because I already have the games that interested me. In the bigger box there's an Annapurna-branded carrying pouch for the Switch and a small plastic cartridge holder that I could have lived without but it was part of the deal.

£34.99 from Amazon

Recent haul.

New toy for the Switch. CRKD Nitro Deck limited edition purple which comes with a nice case, extra thumbstick toppers and braided 2.5m USB-C cable. It features hall effect thumbsticks (no drift), plugs in via the USB-C on bottom of Switch so works like a wired Pro controller (no lag), and has four remappable buttons on the back. Feels solid and well made, the sticks buttons and d-pad are all great although ZL/ZR are a little spongy.

New Bitmap Book. It’s a beast.

My First Xbox

Picked up these local for about 90quid with a system.

pikmin wooo! And thanks Ed for the heads up on ghost trick, saved quite a bit on postage getting it at the same time as batsugun, even though amazon shipped them separately in large boxes. (dodonpachi resurrection/daifukkatsu also pictured)

£37.99 in Argos after £5 voucher discount.

Been looking forward to this for a while. Also bought Balatro since it’s Payday and every fucker on podcasts keep going on about it.

Ooooooooooooh yeeeeeeeaaahh *Base kicks in*

Red Dead Showtime! and Princess Peach Redemption.

Got Shiren and Unicorn Overlord on Switch

My local CEX had Silent Hill 4 The Room for what seems to be a decent price, so I thought I'd buy it before the Silent Hill 2 remake comes out and makes the price jump back up In the bag next to it is a scart splitter, where it takes 1 output and sends it to two places. I'm thinking, coupled with a multi-scart adapter, then a scart to HDMI adapter, I could possibly use it to play lightgun games on a crt and capture them

I got Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth physical, and got Penny's Big Breakaway and What The Golf? for my Steam Deck

I had a bit extra at the end of the month after taking care of the boring, responsible adult stuff, so treated myself to a game and a couple of audiobooks.

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Bit of a warning to collectors: the Xbox version can't be played off the disc. I installed it offline but when I tried to play it forced me to go online and download a massive update. Had I known that in advance I'm not sure if I had bought it at full price.

First of my limited run pc big box titles has arrived. Bizarely was the last of the releases. Only been waiting a year. No other physical release format has ever beaten the big box format in my mind. Never played loom but always wanted to give it a try..

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I think that's reasonable for three games though. Plus you can bet the physical edition will keep some value in the future. Anyway, my latest purchases: I plan on buying significantly less this year and I think this is a good mix to keep me occupied for a few months (in addition to backlog stuff).

a couple of Saturn games to keep you warm. Panzer Dragoon Zwei is nonsensical enough that it being in English or Japanese is the same experience. Deep Fear is Sega's Resident Evil. My memory is that it was pretty good, and it's apparently playable in English even on the much, much cheaper Japanese release (the PAL one goes for over £100)

Picked this up for use on my retro sytem and ps5

£36 with employee discount

Japan haul so far, realised this pic doesn’t include Chef Pikachu though, probably some other bits.

Time to dive in

Went to Kiel in Germany over the weekend and picked up these 2 games, the book i ordered online. Didn't think to research if the Dragon Quest game was playable in english before i bought it but thankfully it was.

A tenner.