Buyer's Remorse #37 - Nesturbation

Welcome back my 8-bit brothers and sisters! 

So much for a game collecting famine! I went a little insane on game shopping this week and have been buried under an avalanche of new things to alphabetize and put on the shelf without playing. I've been removing stickers and rearranging the game cave tonight to make room for the new scores. Also, I'm drinking beer. Alone. 

Before anyone panics and tries to lecture me on the dangers of beer addiction, this is not a regular occurrence. I just needed some frosty pops to celebrate my game collecting victories this week. You wanna see some of the shit I got? You don't? Well, get bent assface, cause I'm gonna show you anyways. 

The first sexy score was one of my best Kijiji lots in a long time. The wife calls me "Kijiggolo" because I have a knack for using my charms on female Kijiji sellers to score their games. Never wear your wedding ring to a Kijiji pickup if you want to get the best deal. Basically it was a massive PS1 lot with some other odds and ends priced at $25.00 for everything. She flat out asked me if she should have charged more and I told her yes. Then I gave her 25 bucks, kissed her gently on the forehead and swished off to my car like Zorro. 

 

I also snagged a few things at a garage sale and finally put Ridge Racer Type-4 to bed. I've been trying to complete my set of the Ridge Racer games for a while. I just need a few of the hand held ones now, but they probably kinda suck.

 

The tiny N64 tells time. It tells you it's time to buy a PS1 instead.

Double Duke Denzel!

After looking at that big PS1 score and the other fodder I brought home, you must be thinking that I took some time off chasing for games and enjoyed my collection. I tried that, but then I looked on Kijiji again (It's like a porn addiction) and saw that a local collectibles store was having a 50% off sale. Usually that means "select crappy items are on sale" and everything else is regular retail price, but in this case the owner has had a serious health issue and his friends and family are liquidating a lot of stuff to help with his care. Everything in the store was half off and I went a little crazy on NES. Did I take advantage of a retail seller when he was dealing with a tragic heath scare? 

I could not pass up some vintage toys on sale! Hiss Tank!!

After this giant pile of mostly $5.00 NES scores, I'm nearing 250 NES games in my collection! Not as insane as Hitman Tommy, but pretty respectable. The other awesome news is that after some trial and error, Tommy and I got Cadash switched into my arcade! I now have my favorite arcade game in my basement. Life is titty! Here's a Cadash pic as well as some other scores. The TMNT NES games were already in my collection, but I traded with a local collector to land the boxes for TMNT II and Manhattan Project. I just had to pose them together for some Ninja Turtle trilogy action. 

 

 

So many wins! I did have one small fail is that the Jamma board I bought that I thought was WWF Wrestlefest was actually Wrestlemania The Arcade Game instead and since my arcade only supports three buttons, I can't play it. You'd think that "1995 Midway" on the board would have clued me in. 

That's all for now folks! Thanks to everyone who has been checking out the blog and listening to the Two Crude Dudes podcast lately! We've been reaching a wider audience and it's motivating us to actually provide some content instead of just procrastinating like lazy bums. You will see a lot more action on the You Tube channel and hopefully a new episode of TCD by the first weekend in August!  Until then, stay thirsty my friends! 

Super Robot Tyson