The Video Game Market - Mar 15 Leeds - Retro Games Sales Fai

[WiggyDiggyPoo]

I'll be there, brief shopping list:

A working Game Gear! - I'll be taking 3 x none working (2 x power, 1 x screen) that I'll be hoping someone will trade against a new one

An Amiga 1200! - Ive decided my old one is far too gone to repair, yellow cracked and held together with tape, The HDD/expansion works just needs transferring to new amiga.

Also I notice "Once the Video Game Market has finished, we'll be meeting up in the nearby pub Mr Foley's Cask Ale House for a good bit of gaming banter afterwards - so head on down at 7pm onwards to showcase what you picked up and chat to likeminded gamers. "

Mr Foleys is an excellent ale house and has some excellent brews on tap, and some er interesting 7/8/9% ciders lol

Cool, you from Leeds then?  You should check out Gear for Games stall then, he is taking lots of game gear stuff, he repairs them too, should be able to get a good deal with him.  Amiga wise you should be in luck too :-)  Few computer sellers there too.

Cracking cheers, I was hoping to get at least 2 fixed for purely nostalgia reasons  as they were mine and my brothers from new, the 3rd was a gift from an ex housemate before he went travelling.

Amigawise I'm actually hoping for the same now, get the innards of my A1200 tranferred to a new case and then discuss how best transfer my data from my 400mb (£125 in 1997 kids!) internal HDD to one of these new fangled flash cards.

Not in Leeds now but lived there for 8 years, still close enough that this would be rude to ignore!

[mainvein]

400mb hdd in an amiga, that means you must have been posh :-)  I only had an 80mb hdd :-)

if you want advice on doing that case swap and hdd to cf drive you would be best to sign up to amibay forum as loads of people on there could tell you or there is a chap who offers this service as well :-)

[WiggyDiggyPoo]

400mb hdd in an amiga, that means you must have been posh :-)  I only had an 80mb hdd :-)

if you want advice on doing that case swap and hdd to cf drive you would be best to sign up to amibay forum as loads of people on there could tell you or there is a chap who offers this service as well :-)

When I bought it it was the most money I had spent myself on anything, including the Amiga itself! I think the computer was £75ish second hand and the drive £125ish.

I'll check out amibay

[mainvein]

LESS THAN A WEEK TO GO!!

As well as the selling we will also be having Psychotic Psoftware's Xbox Live and PC game to play and also hoping everyone can vote for it on Steam Greenlight too :-)

[mainvein]

Another update, 3 cabs on freeplay courtesy of the lovely chaps from Nerg

[WiggyDiggyPoo]

Ooooh I fancy a crack at Daytona 

[mainvein]

ever since i found out we were getting it there i can't stop singing the theme tune!

[WiggyDiggyPoo]

Ive messaged 'Gear for Games' on eBay about getting my GGs fixed on the day, fingers crossed!

[guest4732]

Not posted in ages but thought I would come on and say I shall be at the market on Saturday and I really hope its a success and something that can grow and maybe turn into a bi-anually/quarterly or even monthly thing.

Ill be on the lookout for some virtual boy games (finally got a boxed one a couple of months ago), SNES stuff and maybe another gameboy

see you all there

[mainvein]

Hope to see you all there :-)

come and say hi too, we will be in retrocollect t shirts so will be easy to spot :-)

[flatapex]

wish i could make it, i;ll be watching maximo park in manc, why couldnt they play in leeds on that day?

[zapiy]

Same as mate, these things are always either to far away or when i just can not spare the time.. One day though lol..

[WiggyDiggyPoo]

Poor start here, arrived and I'm queuing to get in. I'm here to spend money but object to having to wait for the privilege>

[zapiy]

Hang on we had to queue at Eurogamer lol.

[WiggyDiggyPoo]

Yeah but that wasn't so I can give someone loads of money!

Mission accomplished anyway, got 2 x new game gears and 1 sent for repair. Also bought a BUG Joystick for my computer.

Got a contact for my Amstrad and Amiga needs - Rockrabilia