The dream is over.

Dreamcast.

Dreamcast carboot.

I've now sold every retro console I owned, my last Saturn and dreamcast were sold last weekend at a car boot in shoreham, west Sussex.

The whole lot went to a man who took the consoles, pads and all the games (mostly originals but some copies as well) i hope he gets as much out of them as i have.

Now i have no more collection and nothing else to write on the subject i will not be adding to this blog any more, I've enjoyed writing this and sharing my thoughts and feelings on it.

If i ever start over i may continue anew.

Fractalus/Invader13

War craft is hell

Its been one year since Rachel signed into WOW to "use up my remaining credit and she is still bloody playing the thing (no, not 24/7 for 12 months, she would be dead by now).

Shes now a level 68 mage and is about to embark to Northrend, looks like i was wrong about her getting bored of it.

We now both have accounts and play together (yes i was drawn back in) and i have a lvl 80 rogue, a lvl 68 death knight and a new lvl 20 Paladin.

I will probably get bored and quite again at some point, but i will no doubt lapse back again as always. maybe crack would be less addictive.

Bleeding the second hand market

If you bought a second hand car, lets say a Toyota, would it piss you off if Toyota demanded you pay them to use the air con even though you bought it from a private seller and not from them?

Well that's what EA just did to me, i bought Mass effect 2, no sooner had i started the game then the title screen tells me i have to pay to use features that are already on the disk! This is a very under hand way of screwing customers, i buy new games and second hand and this nasty cheap tactic is in place to limit my options, just the idea of being punished in these days of recession for trying to save money and not paying the over inflated prices of new games (i mean £50 for a game EA? is it 1995 again? F%#K you!) makes me sick.

Retro re-boot (sale)

Good weekends profit from the local shoreham carboot sale.

Sold 3 old display cards, 1 sound cards, 5 old pc games inc sam and max, call of duty and broken sword.

Along with these choice items i also flogged a load of old bits and bobs from several old consoles and computers, all junk and stuff that was taking up space (the wife hates that) and i netted myself 45 quide! goodtimes!

If at first you dont suceed

Having ordered my DSI XL from a well known catalogue in early march i was prepared to wait a bit for its arrival, it was March the 3rd and the expected delivery date was the 23rd of that month.

Well that date came and went and still not slip through my door to tell me id missed the delivery (as i work odd hours i am rarely home for deliveries), each time i arrive home i excitedly checked the recycling bin (for some reason best know to him self out local delivery man puts the packages in there when he can get an answer and no amount of letter of complaint can seem to stop him doing so)  but i was met with disappointment.

I called them again and again and got the same lines i always get from the residence of 118 land, "it is on order and will be there soon" or my fav "are you sure your address is correct on out system" well its your f ing system, you tell me!!!

well i got bored of this, called them and cancelled the order and wrote a lovely cheerful fuck you letter to their customer service dept, Ive now bought one in a proper shop and will open it tonight, yay!!!

Losing all interest

Been a while since i last added anything to this blog.
Its not that ive not had time, or that ive been busy with another one, it's just that ive stopped playing.
Ive bought a few modern titles, Bayonetta, AVP and Mass effect 2, none have sparked my interest in any way.

Ive gone back to some old ones as well, Fable 2 has been played to death, as has the 3 DLC packs released, burnout paradise has still got a few races yet to be won but i'm not really up for them, but it does also have some DLC avalible as well.

Maybe DLC is the way to go, so downloaded the tantooine mission pack for force unleashed, what a let down, it lasted about as long as it took to download it, it cost more that the actual game now costs to buy new and it takes the whole game into some alternative starwars universe where alec guinness now plays obee wan and is now usless at fighting. i fell ripped off.

So this may be it, heavy rain is just a long and slightly pervy interactive movie, god of war is nowhere near as good as the last one and mass effect has had any degree of complexity sucked out of it so now its just gears of war with less blood, what is there to look forward to?

I think i will just stick with world of warcraft, at least blizzard know how to keep us entertained, and who knows, maybe diablo 3 will be as amazing as the 2nd one.

Well heres hopeing

Here there were tigers

Maps, whether they are level maps, item placement locations or the free A3 sheet you got when you bought the special edition of killbot 9, maps are everywhere in gaming.

I've been clearing out some old plastic boxes I've had lying about for years, they are where i put the art books, plastic figures and tat I get tucked inside the covers and boxes of the various special editions of games and software.

I have been slowly filling them up each time I buy one, the shops and retailers i sell games onto don't seem to care if the box has the full colour map of liberty city or the destroyed beauty book of art from inside gears of war, just as long as it has the tin box and the discs inside.





I still have the metal safety deposit box for GTA 4 long after the actual game was traded in gamestation (other game stores are available) .





The maps of champions online are still there, even though the 30 day subscription was never renewed, crack Downs islands are still blue tacked to the lid of one of the boxes even though i no longer leap its buildings in a single bound.





All these reminders of virtual, open and vibrant worlds i no longer live in or even visit, In fact some of them don't even exist any more, not that they ever did in a real sense, what I mean is that the servers they ran on and lived through are no longer active, they did not get the awe and power of a super nova to mark their passing, they were not sucker into a black hole and swallowed up by dark matter, they were simply switched off.

Phantasy star online is no longer online, Hellgate; London is now hellgate nowhere and tablo rasha is Mort.

How long before my World of warcraft Atlas is all that remains of Azeroth? when will oblivion's map of Tamrael and its free spetim coin be my only reminder of the 200 odd hours of play over the last 4 years?

I've searched over the web and located several sites dedicated to these maps of nowhere, so at least as long as they keep these archives up then at least some of these lost continents will be remembered.

Mapping the past

Maps, whether they are level maps, item placement locations or the free A3 sheet you got when you bought the special edition of killbot 9, maps are everywhere in gaming.

I've been clearing out some old plastic boxes I've had lying about for years, they are where i put the art books, plastic figures and tat I get with the special editions

Saturn shatern

After several months of good luck on eBay and other auction sites I've finally hit a brick wall.

The boxed US boxed SEGA Saturn i picked up last year (November) refuses to sell at even the low price of £25 with 4 games and 2 pads included!!

Having sold 3 in the last 12 months, all 3 boxed and in the same condition (good, slightly worn box corners) i thought this last one would sell, but it appears i was wrong.

I had good feed back from my other buyers and I'm a 100% seller with over 1000 consoles sold.

So whats the problem?

Will try it one more time, maybe adding need for speed to the games offered will tempt a buyer, hopefully one of the 20 or so watchers i get will actually bid this time.