Electricity pylons.... wondrous, appealing structures that provide the life blood for
our life style... in many ways, they're a lot life thrifting, and so it's therefore
pretty convenient that we find ourselves smack bang in the middle of Arminghall car boot
sale, with doughnuts and a small purse of valid currency.
The question is what shall we spend this currency on?
We've got the 1989 Batman board game, along with a Norwich City football club game of
some description, but today I'm hungry for something more exciting.
Something to get my nostalgia juices flowing like the Thames river, although hopefully
with less detritus.
At this point, 8 episodes in, I hardly need to tell you that the average British car boot
sale is filled with junk, acres of the stuff, and unfortunately, due to my burning desire
to purchase anything which I remember with fondness from my past, it means the currency
will dry up pretty quickly.
Even things I didn't actually own, but which appeal from a wistful point of view such as
this Michelin man appeal, although I didn't actually buy it, or the Super Girl and definitely
not, errr, that.
Jesus christ.
Welcome to Norfolk everyone.
Matchbox Linkits!
Megadrom.
Anyone remember those?
Nope, me either.
But there was lots of old, interesting things at this stall.
Check out this bicycle repair outfit, and this...
The VistaScreen 3D Viewer.
It's a bit like those carousel view master toys, but you've got one set of images which
you swap out.
It's actually a pretty good effect and that black and white bike certainly looked like
it was in three dimensions.
But I'm not about to start splashing 3D images about on a 2D screen like Tony Robinson, so
time to move on.
More board games, Head-ache, Go for Broke.
All good games to play around the dinner table after your after 8 mints.
But what have we here in this box of junkables?
Some kind of all in one game controller device.
Curious.
I probably could have picked it up for pence, but I don't have the room for any more crap!
I say, as I go in search for further crap.
Like this SCSI cable.
Mmmmmmmm.
SCSI.
Alright, onto better things, and first up is this PC maintenance book.
I always like flicking through these and getting my full nerd on.
Some console games there, but nah.
A bit further up, and what have we here?
A Nintendo Game cube, with some memory cards, boxed and looking in pretty decent shape and
rocking up right next to it, an Xbox.... ohhhhhhhhh, again boxed, with all the stuff you need to
rock.
The guy wanted £25 for each, and although sure, they're worth that, neither of these
machines held enough appeal for me to commit, so I'll let some other happy punter pick these
up.
I'll probably regret that when I come to do a system review of them, but frankly, I've
got loads of other machines to cover first.
He also had some PC games, but I'm getting bored of these DVD style cases.
Big box or nothing from here out.
And here IS a big box.
A big box containing a gaming chair.
What happened to sitting on the floor, with your Spectrum, getting neck strain?!
Kids these days.
Just behind that I found this little Grundig stereo CD unit.
I absolutely, 100% wasn't going to buy then.
But then the chap said £2, and my ears perked up like an aroused monkey.
It's got digital controls, a tape deck and a CD in the drive to boot!
A pleasure doing business with you sir.
Look at this chair.
I want a bigger version of this, to use with my laptop.
It would be perfect.
I also want this absolutely tacky Stratocaster CD rack, but not actually enough to purchase
it.
Now pay attention.
You see this guy to the right in his chair.
This is my kind of guy.
Carlsberg don't do car boot stalls, but if they did!
He's got an Xbox here, a copy of Rock and Roll maze under Acrobats, which I lusted over
as a child.
It felt like the thinking man's screwball scramble.
There's a game gear cartridge, and a couple of so very 80s Casio watches, and then down
here a Tiger 2XL robot, with the tapes included.
This is the 90s version of what was one of the first "Smart toys".
He can do memory games and the like, and I am definitely snapping him up, with the watches
and the Xbox and some other bits for a snip at £30.
I'll show you the other bits I picked up later on.
OK, at this point, funds were pretty much dry, I had £10 left to eek out, and given
we were only half way round, it was bound to mean disappointment, especially as there
were some good stalls to go.
Like this one, selling a little snooker table just like my brother had for Christmas 1987
- I think.
Check it out, a box of army men.
Probably all suffering from post traumatic stress by now.
The same as these Action men, I bet they've seen it all.
Grotty child hands, everything.
Now this Dandy car set I liked.
Big fan of Dandy back in the day, and this looked mint.
But I've really got no need for this, other than to put on one of my shelves, and honestly,
no.
Now this is more like it.
A box of 20p items.
We've got colour changing alarm clocks, and in fact, just lots of alarm clocks.
Either these people really love alarm clocks or they really hate them.
Look!
It's an arnie Terminator Genisys thing.
The other side of the isle we have a keyboard, albeit a Windows 95 keyed keyboard, which
doesn't interest me.
You can get these for a pound a tonne nowdays.
Below here, behind this tank girl artwork however, we have an EIDE hard drive.
It's 200Gigs and hopefully useful for a PC build I'm hoping to do soon.
It might not work, but for £2, it suited me sir.
Check out this Booke Bond D logo.
That gives me an instantly refreshing 90s feeling.
Although this is a wine rack.
Seems a bit strange for a tea brand, but what the heck.. and check out this vintage monopoly
set.
The pieces are so old, they're made of cardboard rather than metal.
No outer box, but the board is included and for £3 I had to pick this up.
I didn't pick up this floor cleaning, vacuum thing, but do you remember these, my nan had
one.
This is the sort of thing you're likely to find these days on a TV shopping channel,
trying to spin it off as a revolutionary light weight cleaning device.
Those marketing fiends.
Few more board games here.
Solitarie and Bug, and Pit.
Family classics perhaps?
I have no idea.
Oh look, more keyboards, fancy that.
These ones were going to 20p each.
Whilst over here, we have The Grape Escape going for £2.
This was one of those games I'd see in the Argos catalogue and not really pay attention
to.
But today, I feel like paying it attention, and indeed paying £2 for it, and grabbing
this Star Gazer as well as a freebie was a no brainer.
Where-ever I go, I can always expect to find a Star Wars stall.
All looking in middle to poor condition, but I have no idea how much this stuff is worth,
and also, I don't want it.
Over on this bric-a-brack stall, there were a few items of interest.
In particular this tower unit, mainly as it has a 3.5" floppy drive.
It's only got on board graphics and sound, but for £5 I snapped it up, if only for parts.
At this point I found myself with my last 50p, but there were still a few things worth
spying.
Space Lines looks like an incredibly early 80s game, and just down here we've got some
90s Simpsons toy things, suffocating in a bag.
Ahhh well, they're past their prime anyway.
This guy also had some interesting LCD games trying to pass off as Game boys, the blue
Speak and Spell, which he wanted £8 for and the 1989 batman car along with some other
handhelds, like that little sonic thing, all of which appealed, but no money, no problems.
Have you seen that recent kickstarter for a modern version of the teas-maid.
Well, here's one my mum had and I even used when I was about 13 to get up for my paper
rounds.
Seriously, if you want pre-made tea first thing in the morning, or you're just really
lazy in the middle of the day, then this thing is way cooler and cheaper than that kickstarter.
Hey guys, Guess what I SAW?...
Yup that's right.
A sign pointing to a French music festival.... which immediately blew over as I passed, so
I propped it back up again, much to the stall holder's glee.
Some more alarm clocks ahead.
These thunder birds models, which look fairly recent, along with a Voyager piece.
But really, me and alarm clocks just don't get along.
I don't really want to hear Janeway barking orders at me first thing in the morning.
Although, some people would probably quite like that I guess.
Now this Space Challenger "Computer Game" looked immense.
It had a multitude of games, and a wistful feeling of the 80s about it.
The man wanted £6 however and didn't seem convinced by my 50 pence offer.
There you go, you can see both him and I, walking off.
No deal.
But ultimately, I was quite happy with this because amid this mass of wires on the next
isle was this 56k US Robotics fax modem!
Really I was drawn in by this BT Wireplay logo, and if there's BT wireplay ANYTHING
inside, I'm having it.
The lady wanted £2, but the wind seemed on my side, blowing her clothes rail over, which
I helped rectify, and then she agreed to let me have it for 50p.
Splendid.
And that's the end of today's bargain hunting thrift session.
The total spend was £47 English pounds, which under today's conversion rates translates
to about $60 US dollars, and all in a little under an hour and a half.
A morning and cash well spent I feel.
I told you I'd show you the other bits I grabbed of that chap earlier.
The first is this complete pack of X-Files trading cards, which just intrigue me, I never
even saw these back in the 90s, but I do have a planned use for them.
The next is that Game Gear cartridge, never heard of the game, but it was like £1, so
I shall not complain.
Now, as a break with the norm I thought we could actually take a quick look at some of
these other items, and find out a) whether they work and b) what's lurking inside.
I'll start with this monopoly set.
It's actually got a date written on the inside box stating 1948, so this is one old game
of monopoly, and it really shows, take a look at those dice for instance.
Rock 'n' Roll Maze works perfectly.
The US Robotics modem does indeed have a BT CD and panflet inside, so I'll be interested
to find out what BT Wireplay related gems are lurking on that CD.
Unfortunately, I need to get some leads for the Xbox so that's off the cards for now,
but this stereo has a CD inside, so let's find out what that is...
Everything seems to be working just fine, and the CD is......
Well it's Rod frickin' Stewart isn't it?
That's a bit of a let down.
2XL comes with a variety of pretty cool looking tapes, and indeed he works just fine, although
his voice is a little more irritating than I remember.
He essentially works as an interactive quiz, a bit like the MB Omni Entertainment system
Techmoan demonstrated a few weeks ago.
I'll put a longer video of him in action up on my extra channel if you fancy listening
in all his glory.
So how about that computer?
Well, it's incredibly clean on the inside for one, suggesting it's either been used
very little, or kept in an incredibly clean environment..possibly both.
We've got an AMD Sempron processor, 80GB EIDE hard drive and 500MB of memory.
Nice!
So does it boot up?
Well, yes it does.
We've even got the profiles of the people who used it before, along with a few tax records..
remember to wipe your hard drives guys.
But also, think about this.
We now live in a time where I can purchase a fully working PC, that can play countless
classic games for FIVE POUNDS.
This thing has so much more power than my 486 did in the 90s and I had bags of fun with
that.
It's crazy, but also amazing.
Anyway, last but not least, check out the star projector, it's got a tape in this slot
at the bottom to play along as well.
So I'll leave that to sound the video out, playing on the £2 Grundig stereo.
Good times.
Thanks for watching, see you next time.
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