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Hi Akuza, glad to meet you

Good to meet you Darren

Great to meet you. Fantastic looking games too, can't wait to try them out 

Well about four months ago I bought a bundle of 100 Speccy games off e-Bay for £27 including postage which was a good deal but even so, I normally have only had to pay about that price for bundles of the size that he is selling. And with better games to be honest.

I know prices are steadily rising for speccy games but this one takes the biscuit. Would you pay that amount for a bundle of games that may not even load?

 Spectrum games

I've been working my way through Nethergate: Resurrection which, to be honest, even though it's a Steam re-boot for newer PCs is just as hard as when I played it twelve years ago. An absolute sod of a game but if you are a fan of old isometric RPGs it's well worth the £3.99 on Steam.

There is a fairly new arcade/pool hall that has opened in Southend on Sea town centre called Astro City. They have a mixture of retro and more modern machines as well as fruit machines and a couple of pusher machines. 

They also run the occasional retro all-nighter, Nintendo Street Pass events, Rhythm gamming events (Dance Dance Revolution etc..). There is also a café/bar selling refreshments and a Jukebox.

Astro City

Here is a list of some of the retro arcade machines that they have.

Gauntlet
Pac Man
Donkey Kong
Street Fighter 2
Street Fighter: Third Strike
Pac-Land
Gauntlet Legends
The Simpsons (2 player Jamma cab)
Super Mario Bros.
WWF Wrestlemania
House of the Dead 3
Fighting Mania
Daytona USA

There are also some Japanese bullet hell shoot 'em up's in Naomi Cabinets but I'm not sure of the names.
Anyway, this is a great little addition to the existing arcades in Southend so please visit them.

Although the seller has invited offers and there are a couple of games that fetch fairly high prices, I'm not 100% convinced that the buy it now price should be so high especially since the two more expensive games (Death and Return of Superman and TMNT: Hyperstone Heist) are missing manuals.

 Massive rare Megadrive bundle

Great collection of games to play

Seeing as I can't make my mind up on one individual I'm going to go with a top twenty of my favourite ones.

1) Chuckie Egg - Spectrum
2) Load Runner - Spectrum
3) Solomon's Key - Arcade
4) Psycho Fox - Master System
5) Contra - Arcade
6) Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Megadrive
7) Flink - Mega CD
Cobra (Stallone's) - Spectrum
9) Ghosts and Goblins - Arcade
10) Earthworm Jim Special Edition - Mega CD
11) Jet Set Willy - Spectrum
12) Manic Miner - Spectrum
13) Burger Time - Intellivision
14) Frak! - BBC Micro
15) Brian Bloodaxe - C64
16) Rayman - PS1
17) Kangaroo - Atari 2600
18) Bonze Adventure - Arcade
19) Revenge of Shinobi - Megadrive
20) Bubble Bobble - Arcade

As usual there are so many others that I would have liked to add on but I'll save them for another list.

All changed now.

Processor: N64
Graphics: Dreamcast
Sound: Commodore 64gs
Design: Atari 2600Jr
Controller: intellivision
Games Library: ZX Spectrum
Peripherals:  light gun

Then the following can be whatever you like!

Category: 32 bit
Storage Medium:  cartridge
Name: REMUS (Retro Emulation Mutiple Unit System)

Here are the rest 

Seeing as i've not posted much recently i thought i would put up my purchases from last month or so.
All of these have been brought from charity shops and boot sales.
More to come on the next post too.

I've only played the Spectrum version, which I spent many hours on. I have to admit though, the graphics on the NES version are nice but I get the feeling that the scrolling would really get on my nerves.