Sealed. PS1. Game. Three words I never thought I’d mutter the likes of outside the 90s and hugely expensive eBay auctions.

But no. In a field just outside of York, UK, a lovely young lady - whom presumably was too classy for the likes of RoadRunner - provided just about the best car boot buy I’ve ever had. A sealed PS1 game! To be honest, who cares what game it was, it’s a brand new sealed game over a decade old, and I wasn’t ever going to say no.

That said, it has pedegree too, Sheep Dog ‘N’ Wolf (aka. Sheep Raider for you yanks) is a far-too-good-looking-for-the-ps1 PS1 3D platform puzzley type game; you play Warner Bros’ Ralf Wolf and have to hoard sheep, moving them through a 3D level by making use of all manner of sheep-removeal tools whilst avoiding the disturbal of sheep dog dude lest he chase or twat you with an ACME branded anvil. I had a used copy a while back to sell on, but this I may just keep. For £2.00 it’s not gonna go down in value, at least not afai’m concerned.

Ok well, the rest, was pretty damn classy too. Shots below, read more for highlights though as there’s some pretty nice stuff e.g. almost new SF Anniversary Ltd PS2 control pad for £4! Namco PS1 Tekken joystick, boxed, £1! Darth Tater’s winkie, priceless!

First up, a couple PS2 bags, picked the left one up from the same girl with Sheep Dog n Wolf. Very nice quality, much better than the second one though it was 6 times cheaper. Also a see-through Dual Shock 1 revision A for £1. Apparently, they’re quite sought after, something to do with modability. Like I’d know though, jesus I just take the things appart to clean and fix them, takes long enough just doing that, I’m hardly likely to turn it in to an RoV controller like some. Hopefully not in need of fixing is the very nice looking Street Fighter Anniversary controller I picked up with some knock-off GameBoy Advace games and funcky Evolution Max handheld thing (see later). It’s almost new, with sealed manual / stickers etc, almost missed it as it was hidden under a load of other boxes, but twas only £4, and got the lady down to £3 as I’d bought half the rest of her stall by the time I saw it .

N64 Super Smash Bros was silly cheap, and the last thing I bought all day. Sadly the lady selling it only had the one, and said she’d sold a load others earlier. TBH, the fact the worth ~£10 SSB was still there for an amount ending in “pence”, well… I just hope the other guy took home Fifa x10.

Nvidia 8400 GS for ~£10. What it’s worth, but I needed something to test out my PC as something graphicy is messing up and I’ve no idea if it’s mobo, RAM, GC RAM, GC, PCI or CPU related, but I’m sure this’ll help.

Then the neat little handheld stuff - a little McDonald’s SEGA sonic basketball game for 20p, Wooglie virtual pet monster thing for 50p (kid selling it said I could have it reduced from £1 “cos I look cool”. Man, that comment alone was worth a fiver… but I’d already handed over the money), and the most amazing very feminine Kidz Delight Evolution Max “for girls” poket educational gaming touch-screen-with-stylus lcd game thing for £3! THREE POUNDS people! In my day we had monocrome screens with two buttons, and you’d be lucky if it was branded Tamagotchi and not some cheap chinese knock-off. Now they have frickin touch screens! In colour! Lucky so**…

Speaking of touch screens, there’s also a Sony Clio PEG-N770C in there. No, I’ve no idea either. I just knew it had no cable, no charge, and a load of crap behind the screen. But it also had standard philips screw heads, so I figure a nice way to spend £4 figuring out how to take appart touch screens on small hand held devices. Good practice for when I inevitably mess up my iPhone’s screen. When I inevitably get one.

Oh and, thanks to Alex, I knew the Turtles GBA game was a fake before I bought it. Why’d I bother then, you ask? Well, Alex’s amazement at China’s willingness to create brand new knock-off game artwork should be well surpassed by this - they created a brand new knock-off manual! Jesus the attention to detail kills me. Ok, it’s basically a review site’s review and screen shots put together in what can barely be called a manual, but physically, my god the fact they actually even put page numbers in! Amazing. Ok, next…

Xbox dance mats and game. And I *still* have no damn controllers for the things. Oh well, hopefully someone’s better with their feet than hands. £2.00 for both plus game, ace. Same price for the two HP Laptop docks, I figured at least one would be worth something, and it is, cept I didn’t figure they both need power cables. Which cost just as much as the profit to be made off them. Oh wells. Win some, loose some. Maybe I can take these apart too and use the sockets for something…

Ok, the moment you’ve been waiting for, Darth’s winkie! Yes, this is *exactly* how I found him, sat on a stall. I’d already passed at £3 earlier in the day, but for £2 and that inapropriately placed ear piece (purely coincidence, I’m sure), I couldn’t resist. For this photo alone, he’s worth it.

And the PS2 lot. Too much to list but, a nice slimline, boxed with manuals, 2 controllers, official memory… £12.50. If this one actually works, it’ll make a nice bundle with another dance mat no doubt.

Buzz Music + buzzers? £3. HSM Sing it + mics? £3. Singstar Anthems + mics? £5. I recon one set of mics alone should cover all of that lot. Plus an official Dualshock 2 for 50p, though I’ve no doubt it’ll be in pieces on my desk in no time being repaired, it’s not like 10 others haven’t been.

Ape Escape 2, Turtles Melee and 3 others I picked up for £8, gambing on the hope Ape Escape and Melee were worth some - I’d checked the price on Melee a couple weeks ago but forgot, and Ape Escape’s just cool. Turns out I was right, mostly, though not on Shadow Of Memories. Damn you, Konami, creating subvertively expensive-looking cheap games. Got me last month with 7 Blades and you do it again with this thing… meh…

Oh and that’s Street Fighter Revival for GBA in there somewhere, hopefully not a pirate either, as half the GBA games I saw today likely were… And a Pokemon disc holder. Cos apparently “Pokemon people are hardcore”, purchase power wise. Should help with the Pokemon Pinball GB and weird square Pokemon Charmander PC CD in the first hoard pic then. If not, at least I have another AAA battery spare.