Category: Pickups

Pickups: 118 – Infared MD Controllers

The Dual Turbo Wireless Remote System is a set of 2 wireless 3-button control pads for the Sega Mega Drive manufactured by Acclaim. It also includes a receiver which connects to the front of the Mega Drive System across both controller ports. The controllers communicate wirelessly with the system via an infrared signal which requires…


Pickups: 117 – Cold Winter

Cold Winter – Playstation 2 (2005) In Cold Winter, you play the role of Andrew Sterling, a former member of MI6, the British secret intelligence service. Andrew is caught preparing to assassinate someone in China, and is thrown into prison. There he faces torture and imminent execution. But a former friend from his MI6 days…


Pickups: 116 – Mini CRT TV*

This is the Kingavon 14cm (5.5″) portable television. I got this as it was a small TV that I could quickly test consoles with. Unfortunately this is black and white and RF Only. I am on the lookout for a small factor portable colour TV for the same reasons I got this.


Pickups: 115 – Fathers Day Gifts

Here are my fathers Day gifts for this year. I’m a happy man. Alien Brigade – Atari 7800 (1990) Alien Brigade is a side scrolling shooter similar to Operation Wolf. Aliens have arrived on earth and have brainwashed both soldiers and civilians in order to take over the world. Your job is to stop them!…


Pickups: 114 – Spectrum Gifts

I was recently gifted 2 Micros from a friend. Both had no accessories or power cables with them. He wasn’t sure if they were working, so gave them to me. Luckily I had a power cable for the +3 and while I didn’t test it through a monitor/TV, it’s power indicator light lit up so…


Pickups: 113 – C64 Bundle

The Boggit: Bored Too (1986)- no manual After Bored of the Rings parodied JRR Tolkien’s classic Lord of the Rings series, Delta 4 did the same thing with its predecessor The Hobbit, preceding New Line Cinema’s identical sequence by 20 years. There is a logical 3-part structure to the adventure, but there are also jokes…


Pickups: 112 – Gamecube Bundle*

Enter the Matrix – Nintendo Gamecube (2003) In the war to save Zion, what part will you play? Enter The Matrix casts the player as Niobe or Ghost, captain and first mate of the rebel ship Logos, respectively. Niobe is a master combatant, capable of beating up everyone in her way. She is an excellent…


Pickups: 111 – SNES / WiiU

Splatoon – Nintendo WiiU (2015) Splatoon is a third-person shooter set in a colour world. Players control Inklings, characters that run around and shoot ink with a gun but can also transform into a squid to traverse through the ink. The game is controlled through the GamePad with the left analog stick for movement. Next…


Pickups: 110 – I’m On The Spectrum

Sinclair ZX Spectrum For more info please visit here Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2 For more info please visit here Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) The game consists of several actions parts linked together. All parts are different, each resembling typical games of the genre (for example: 1st level is like a side-view beat ’em up)….


Pickups: 109 – Oculus Development Kit*

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