Today’s story is… it’s Saturday and there’s actually a car boot on, even though they’re predominately a Sunday activity . Still, for a charity school “no-electricals allowed” sale, you couldn’t expect much. And the only video games even there with a platinum Pro Evo 4 and Tiger Woods 2004, both PS2 and disc only, and the only boxed game in the entire 50 car sale was Happy Feet. For £1. It didn’t stay long .

After quickly scouring for any games, I went round again for more interesting stuff, and quickly noticed the SuperPlexus ball maze thing. Now I saw one of these on BoingBoing a while back, and being a mazey board gamey loving kinda guy was well impressed, checked it out on Wikipedia and quickly saw noticed two things. 1) it’s no longer in production (which it may be again, or may not be, or may have been and stopped…). And 2) Unworking balls were selling on eBay for $25. So again, that thing was gone as soon as I noticed a clear plastic ball with a maze like thing inside. Hell, I even forget how much it was, £1 or 2. But if you think it’s being sold before I finish it you’ve got another thing coming . Oh and, if like myself you thought they were small tennis ball size things, they’re actually massive, football style. Yay.

The N64 isn’t actually from the car boot, it’s an eBay puchase which came with a few games, currently up on eBay with the load I got at a car boot a couple weeks ago. Strangely, after searching for a year for one at a decent price, in the space of a week and a half I’ve aquired one at a car boot, one of eBay, and a third I should be collecting today. Now if only a Sega Saturn and Dreamcast would do the same .

Update: It’s gonna be a loooong week of listing As promised, one boxed N64 plus controller, controller pak (aka memory card), and memory expansion pak which I didn’t know existed until a few days ago, all for £5. But who knew consoles would get in to the RAM upgrading game. I should go play Quake II again and see what the difference is…

For games, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle and Shadow Of Rome were found for only £1.99, while Jurrasic Park Operation Genesis (a particularly rare Xbox game but here in PS2 format), Time Crisis 3 (expect it bundled with 2 and a gun, and maybe a console) and Eye Toy Astro Zoo (the cover just looked cool) were a multibuy coming out at £1.67 each. Now I’m off to clean em all. What fun.