Autumn update

Good day to my blog readers and greetings from autumnal Finland!

New stuff have arrived to my collection! :)  First I want to show you my newcomer to my Commodore family: VIC-20

I exchange this beauty to some extra games that I had in stock. The condition of the both boxes, VIC-20 and Datassette, is really good!

The set included some cartridges: few games, memory expansion and programming carts. Some carts had also the manuals.

Some programming books and manuals. Some manuals were in Swedish, apparently the previous owner was Swedish speaker... 

Here is a pic of my CIB Commodore collection. I also have loose C-128 and first model of Commodore 64, but it's not included in the picture.

Here's some misc games that I have found from fleamarkets, bought from private sellers or from Ebay:

One of my friend exchange these original Xbox games for 3 beers... :)  Not bad deal at all...

And last but not least, some NES findings from Ebay and Galaxian, that I change with a fellow collector...

Flea market stuff and Mega Drive stuff

How-diddly-dildo!

Last weekend we had a flea market rally at our village. Lot's of people in a small village... :) I had some retro game sales at my mom's workspace. :) I did some sales, but not much. That's the problem when living in a small place...

My cat Marilyn gave some helping paw for putting the price tags for games... :D

Today I went to one crappy fleamarket, where I usually go once in a year, because there's not much change in a stuff and the whole place look's like a total disaster. Well what do you know!
Big bunch of PS2 games + couple PS3 games: total price of 20€. Alone the Genji and Forgotten Realms are little over 20€, so not bad finding at all...

Also the postman paid a visit and brought some Sega Mega Drive goodies. Whole lot cost 80€. All games were CIB. Alone the Herzog Zwei cost around 35-40€, so it's almost the half of the price of whole lot. :)

Second video + some updates

Howdy ho!

Second part of the Pixel & Paper interview is out, you can find the video here:

Pixel & Paper Interview part 2

Please leave some comments of the video or if you have some questions, please ask! I won't bite... Hard... :D


Then some additions and findings! :) My beloved wife found these figurines from flea market. Also these figurines were sold with the kids meal in that fast food restaurant, which has the golden M letter. I'm really surprised how good the quality of these figurines are...

At last Saturday I got a call from nice gentleman. He said, that he has 3 broken consoles: two Xboxes and Playstation. He said that if I want the consoles, I can pick them up for free, otherwise he will throw them to trashcan. Well I agreed to take them and in 10 minutes I was at the gentleman's yard to see what he have. This is all that I got:

- Xbox 360 Arcade with power supply and box
- Xbox 360 Pro (old model without HDMI-port)
- Xbox 360 20 GB & 120 GB hard drives
- Xbox 360 Hard Drive Transfer Kit
- Xbox 360 various cables (component, composite and vga cables)
- Xbox 360 wireless controller
- Playstation 2 Slim with power supply
- Playstation 1 controller
- Playstation various cables (2 rca-cables and rgb-cable)


Of course immediately I had to test these when I got back home. First I tested the PS2. Cables connected: CHECK! TV On: CHECK! Disc in: CHECK! Power on: CHECK!

And what do you know! The damn thing works like a charm! I tested with a game little while and it works! Not bad for a broken console... :)

Then the Xbox turn. Older Pro model I couldn't test, because it use different power supply than the Arcade model, so does it work, it remains as a mystery... With the other Xbox I did same procedures as with the PS2: CHECK! CHECK! CHECK! It loads perfectly to the dashboard. Let's try the game and hellll yeahhh, it also works like a charm!

So not bad for being a trash: at least 2 of 3 consoles works... :)

First video out!

Like I told yesterday about the video, now the first video is out! :)

Here's the link for the Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rahAR03-j4

I'll let you know when rest of the videos are out!
Thanks to Fer and Pixel & Paper! :)

Back in business! :)

Hi fellow collectors and blog viewers!

It's been 2 months since my last post to the blog. I've been on my summer holidays and damn I've been busy. I have made some facade renovations to my house and that took my whole summer holidays and not much time to write to the blog.

But I haven't forget the collecting in these past 2 months! :)
I've done some good findings from fleamarkets, frome private sellers and by some exchanging.

Let's see what I got:

These consoles I got by the privat sellers. Playstation 2 set had only Guitar Hero III and Band Hero games, but gladly they were CIB (complete in box). Xbox had mainly only some sports games, but atleast the price was cheap. :)

Here are the same Xbox games. Xbox 360 games I found flom fleamarket, whole set for 10€. Megadrive and N64 Clayfighter I got from private seller and NES games from Ebay.

Yayyy! Now I have CIB Gamecube! This beauty I exchanged with fellow collector to some NES games. 3DS games I bought from CDON.com discount sales and Mega Man 2 and Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts I bought from fellow collector from France.

And more fleamarket findings! All these I found in one fleamarket run: Commodore 128 with one module game was 30€. It has some problem with power connector that I will fix when I have more time. Miscellaneous PS2, WiiU and Xbox360 games was total of 10€. The Luigi figurine was sold with the kids meal in that fast food restaurant, which has the golden M letter...

These games I bought from a private seller by an ad in a local facebook fleamarket. Some good titles for PS1: Spyro games, Spider-Man, Rayman 2 and Crash Bandicoot 2.

My brother-in-law is visiting here in Finland and he's hosting a Youtube page called Pixel & Paper in Mexico. We have been filming a video about my collection and collecting + we also made a fleamarket special. Videos will be out in few parts and the first part should be out in few days, I will keep you posted. You can check the older videos at the page: Pixel & Paper 

Milestone of 1000 visitors!

First of all, I want to thank you all for reading my blog! I crossed now the milestone of 1000 visitors, yayyy!!! :)

I will now write my first post in English, because I have been receiving a lots of hits to my blog from foreign countries. I have received lots of pageviews from:

1. Mexico
2. United States
3. Portugal.

+ Some random pageviews from 6 other countries...

For Mexican pageviews, I have to thank my brother-in-law Fernando for promoting my page in Mexico. :) Thanks Fer!


So now it might be the turning point for my blog, should I start to write the blog in English?

Give me some thoughts and comments there below to the comment field, thanks! :)

Voivottelua ja päivittelyä

Hyvää kesän alkua kaikille!

Melkoista hiljaiseloa on ollut keräilyrintamalla. Muutama random peli on löytynyt kirppiksiltä, lähinnä PS2, PS3 ja Xbox360 pelejä.

Mutta jotain isompaakin ja mainitsemisen arvoista... :)

Netti-ilmoittelun kautta tuli tarjous Megadrive II - koneesta kahdella paskalla urheilupelillä 20€ hintaan. Meinasin jättää koko paketin väliin, kun molemmat pelit jo on hyllyntäytteenä, ja konsolikin on jo kokoelmissa. Onneksi en jättänyt... Kävin hakemassa koneen ja konetta myyvä nainen kysyi, että kiinnostaako minua vanha tietokone. Ajattelin, että tarjolla on joku vanha PC:n raato, mutta katotaan nyt ihan mielenkiinnosta. Nainen kävi kaivamassa komeroa ja tuli muovilaatikon kanssa, missä oli Commodore 64. Paketissa oli 1541-II levyasema, C2N kasettiasema, joystickkejä ja pelejä. Kasettipelit olivat vielä kaikki alkuperäisiä. 

Jostain nainen löi vielä samaan pakettiin parit PS3 ja Xbox pelit. Taisi nainen myydä miehensä/lapsensa pelikonsolit pois... :)

Ostoksia tutkiessa, sieltä löytyi tämä hieno Ultima V - kangaskartta

Vaihtohommia tuli myös tehtyä. Retropelifoorumilla näin myynti-ilmoituksen käyttämättömästä Segan Master Systemistä. Pahvit oli hieman kärsineet, mutta sisusta oli uutta ja priimaa. Kaikki oheislaitteet olivat edelleen vielä avaamattomissa muoveissa. Myyjän kanssa saatiin vaihtokuviot hierottua kuntoon ja kone vaihtoi omistajaa. Harvemmin sitä pääsee haistelemaan uutta 80-lukuista pelikonsolia... Haisee muuten eroottiskuvottavalle... :)