teh "what did you buy today"-thread

[geepee16]

i scored big this summer but over the last two days, i got the following goodies:

Shanghai: The Great Wall (FINALLY)
Cutey Honey FX

and the following extras:

Return to Zork
Boundary Gate
Anime Freak vol. 4
Anime Freak vol. 1

and the first five Deep Spance Nine novels in japanese which i did not know even existed.  there are very few trek books in japanese and all were quickly discontinued. 

congrats on the Dreamcast buy DJLobo.  i love the fx, saturn and pc engine dearly but there are LOADS of great titles for the DC too.  enjoy enjoy enjoy. you are going to have a blast with those games.

[Turbo D]

I bought 9 laserdisc movies and like 5 vhs tapes for 1.50 each. You simply cannot beat the quality of the laserdisc! Its like a freaking blu-ray disc dudes! No Bull!

[geepee16]

Turbo D-  very interseted in your post here.  this summer, i bought about 25 japanese LDs ranging from labyrinth  willow and the never ending story to batman, alien and various opera performances. never had LDs before and i CAN'T wait to get a player when i get home to try them out.  i have always been so intrigued by LDs.  am i correct in assuming that japanese LDs will work on US players?  i don't have  aplayer yet but plan to get one soon. thanks (sorry for gonig off topic)

[Michael Helgeson]

For the most part they are region free other then the Pal players. There are a few Pal based players that will play NTSC stuff. Depending on where home is you should hit ebay if you get a chance,browse the players, and nab one. Research it first. The video quality isn't cut and dry/same on each one. There are some very sucky players out there.

You can use http://www.laserdiscarchive.co.uk/ to help research a player that has caught your eye. Your best bet is to nab a player with s-video,and make sure its a player with at least 49dB video s/n, otherwise your picture quality will really suffer and you wont be pleased. Anything with s-video typically has a 2-3 line comb filter too, but if your TV has a better comb filter then that then I recommend trying both s-video and composite on the player you get to see which output will result in a better picture on your display. You will also have to save separate picture settings typically for your LD player,as the contrast and brightness levels for LD are a tad different then DVD.

I highly recommend that if your going to get into this to make sure you have  a good SDTV. HDTV doesn't work well with LD typically unless you purchase a video scaler and deinterlacer to help prepare the video output to better suit the HDTV display. This kind of equipment can cost good money at times,so it ends up being cheaper to simply hit the store for a good SDTV instead.



Anyway,enough LD talk. This is what I paid for today
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=280258434401&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=018
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=380058255064&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=025

[Sparky]

i bought Ninja Assault and Dual Hearts for the PS2... Ninja Assault being a gun game which i am lining up to play today, as for me there is nothing like wielding 2 namco light guns for good times 

[Tom Phobos]

We had a large fleamarket today in town. Here what i bought:







Also the power supplies for laptop and game gear, Galage '91 and Ninja Gaiden for Game Gear (carts only).

The laptop is a Panasonic Toughbook CF-71 with a PII 300, 128MB RAM and 6GB HDD. Bought it for 35 EUR (about $50)

[Joe Redifer]

Hell yeah!  Great find!! Space Harrier 2!!!

[guyjin]

I keep meaning to pick up Space Harrier 2, but I never see it anywhere.

[drdre]

Today?  Alien Soldier for the Megadrive, and the final two figures to complete Fin Fang Foom from the Hulk Legends figure series.  Tomorrow?  Nothing, because I spent all my damn money on toys and games (a little  and a lot  )

[mossman43]

Just bought my second copy of Chi No Rondo and a PC Engine Duo. Also got a Sega CD/ Genesis 2 at the flea market this past weekend for $10. The real steal was a complete copy of the SNES version of Drac X for $8. He wanted $10 and I would have happily paid that, but I offered $8 and he took it!!

[MotoRoaderMike]

Today I bought:

The Beatles Anthology 1 used
A Speed Racer poster
Airwolf (NES)
Flashback (Genesis and Sega CD)
Make My Video:Kris Kross (Sega CD)
PGA Tour Golf (Genesis)
The Masked Rider:Kamen Rider Zo (Sega CD)
A new 72 pin connector for my NES
Kris Kross-Totally Crossed Out (no thanks to that hysterically bad Sega CD game for getting that damn song stuck in my head, ugh)

[ceti alpha]

i scored big this summer but over the last two days, i got the following goodies:

Shanghai: The Great Wall (FINALLY)
Cutey Honey FX

and the following extras:

Return to Zork
Boundary Gate
Anime Freak vol. 4
Anime Freak vol. 1

and the first five Deep Spance Nine novels in japanese which i did not know even existed.  there are very few trek books in japanese and all were quickly discontinued. 

congrats on the Dreamcast buy DJLobo.  i love the fx, saturn and pc engine dearly but there are LOADS of great titles for the DC too.  enjoy enjoy enjoy. you are going to have a blast with those games.

Geepee, I just noticed that you picked up the first five Deep Space Nine novels in Japanese. Very nice. Are these novelizations of the TV series, or original stories. Something tells me the first few DS9 novels were not original stories. Anyways, good to see another DS9 fan here and nice buys. 

[Nintega Turbine Trio-CBS]

Langrisser (SCD)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=220260281635&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=012

[ooPo]

I bought a 1.0 system card today. Now I have to find a TG16 CD unit.

[MissaFX]

A 180 dollar de-humidifier for my RV and Anime Freak 2 which arrived in the mail from geepee!