Despite the weather, some car boot sales were on. Here's what I got:

Most of the PlayStation games are copies and will be binned, but there are five originals in there.

The rest of the Amstrad stuff is from the same seller that almost all of my previous Amstrad stuff was purchased - this is apparently the last of it. Sort of...

There wasn't much at this Saturday's car boot sale (although it was bigger than last time). Still, just as I was leaving, I noticed this:

A model two Saturn with a bunch of games; some good (Shinobi X) and some not so good (the EA sports titles). Most are complete, but they are clearly "well used".

This may be the only update this weekend, since there's heavy rain forecast for tomorrow. :/

The car boot sale we were looking forward too the most on this bank holiday Monday was cancelled (thankfully, we found out last night), which left us with three others to choose from. Two were small (we'd investigated them on Saturday and Sunday respectively), and we didn't think the third one would exist.

My co-pilot was mysteriously unavailable, so I went it alone - deciding to investigate the probably-non-existent car boot sale. It turned out to be a good move:

Not as dry as we were hoping, but the car boots were still on - we even went to two car boots today. Still, not a huge haul, but pleasing nevertheless.

The first update in a few weeks, owing to the weather; we've had nothing but rain nearly every day for over two weeks. To compensate for this, we've taken to visiting car boot sales which are held on Saturdays.

Here's what we got from the first of out Saturday car boot excursions:

A BBC Model B with 5.25" floppy drive. I've actually already got one (it was my very first computer!), but I couldn't resist another. Great machines.

The Sega Master System easily accounts for the largest part of my collection, so why has there been so little SMS stuff added recently? It's getting harder to find things I don't have... Sure, I'm not even close to having a collection as awesome as Rupert or Bock, but it is certainly no longer the case of buying a bulk lot and finding games that I don't have.

Here's an interesting story: We had gotten around most of the car boot and bought nothing but a Dreamcast with a bunch of pirated games (it was a fiver and my old Dreamcast has the annoying reset issue). Then I spied a table covered in Amstrad tapes and 3.5" disks.

"Weren't you here last week?", enquired a voice. I looked up and noticed that it was the child who sold me the Amstrad CPC6128. "Didn't you buy the keyboard?", he continued. "The Amstrad? I did indeed", I replied. "This is the rest of the stuff to go with it - I forgot it last time", came his response.

Ninjabearhug is a fellow member of the great Sega8bit forums, and he had decided to get rid of some of his old and duplicate systems. Having heard me complain about my need for a Commodore 64 following the Retro Fusion '08 event, he offered me one he was getting rid of. Then he asked if there was anything else I wanted...

Nothing too impressive this week, but there's still a decent amount of stuff:

A pirate Sonic The Hedgehog cart for the Mega Drive (Japanese) for 20p, Blockout (also for the Mega Drive) £1 - the rest of the Mega Drive stuff was a bundle costing £4.50. The few PlayStation 2 games were £2 or £3 each - not bargains, but they look to be decent games.

After the car boot (see below), we headed straight to the second day of the Retro Fusion '08 event.

We had already picked up a bunch of games and consoles the previous day - sadly arriving too late to pick up the Amstrad GX4000 (£20) and Amiga CD32 (£15)! Still, what we did buy was cool and we had fun playing around on the various systems.