First up is the four foam crates. These creates are filled with old video game magazines, ranging from Hyper [an Australian gaming magazine which still runs to this day], to Electronic Gaming Monthly [some awesome issues for Zelda: LTTP and Super Mario World], to Computer & Video Games [Ranging from early 100's to 170's], and Mean Machine issues, before becoming Mean Machines SEGA Magazine. A few straggler mags [APC, Games Master], but most derive from those other mags.
Creepiest cover ever?
Some are really awesome, early mags involving Sonic 1 or Amiga software. The EGM Zelda issue's Zelda coverage involves a third of a page with a couple of small shots, which just seems ridiculous. Who said they liked old EGM and not new EGM?
I got all these magazines for $5AU. The poor guy was moving and just didn't have the space left for them, so he had to let them all go. Looks like he picked them up from the local second hand store over the years for a buck or two each. Some of these are worth a bit to collectors, the problem is that they weigh so much! 3 EGMs is a kilogram, and CVG mags are even bigger. I'd like to keep them all, but I've no room for them at all - a damn shame.
The same guy was also selling 3 Amiga 500 computers, with an AV commodore monitor to play them on. I've gone through each, and they all work flawlessly. Each console includes a Mouse, Joystick, all the cables, and the weird A520 adaptor which allows you to plug the system into the AV connection of a television. It also came with a huge amount of games, most of them pirated [complete with trainer cheats], but all of them seemed to work. Two of the three also have the 512kb RAM expansion plugged into the bottom of the console, which is pretty cool.
All of them for 10AU, which is a great deal. I'll probably end up keeping one of them for collections sake, it's a shame he didn't have a secondary drive unit which a lot of Amiga owners tend to have. Trying to play Ninja Turtles with one drive is torture - it wants you to keep changing disks from disk 1 to 2 over and over again - it's very frustrating.
Brrrrrrrrt, tick tick, Brrrrrrrrt
I'm a little confused as to just how I'm going to sell them. Amiga systems on eBay tend to be loaded with a lot of crazy stuff, like extra disks and the monitors. These tend to be pickup only auctions - my packages tend to be something that could actually be sent through the mail. Also, the A520 plug seems to go for a lot by itself - I wonder if I should be a bit evil and separate it from the rest..
What a pain in the arse this box would have been to make.
And lastly, the guy chucked in a boxed copy of Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow of the Flame for free. Such an obscure box shape - pretty standard for the time, I suppose. Old games with these kind of boxes are hard to come by sometimes.
So let's tally - up till this point, I've spent 72 Aussie bucks on all this stuff. Seems like a lot, but we'll see how this goes. I hope I end up making more than I buy..
