Your Sinclair Chance

Everyone in the world wants a ZX Spectrum. Especially those that don't actually own one yet, care for a boxed specimen, don't want to overspend and would rather pay low worldwide shipping costs. That's why this ZX Spectrum eBay auction seems so sweet. 'ave a look. It even comes with a few tapes to get you started.

Boxed Lynx mk. 1 & 15 games

Pretty self explanatory them pics from a certain lovely Atari Lynx I & 15 games eBay auction, aren't they? Oh, and guess you should also know that the seller ships worldwide, that average Lynx prices start at 20£, 30$ or 22 euros (meaning this one should go for quite a bit more), while the average boxed Lynx game goes for 5£, and that you can always emulate the thing for free.

Sega Mega Drive 2 & Sonic 2

It's boxed, shiny, black, 16-bit, PAL and comes with what many consider to be the best Sonic game ever: it's an excellent Sega Mega Drive 2 @ eBay. Seller ships worldwide.

Metal Slug 5 Neo Geo MVS kit

An excellent run and gun game that comes complete with everything you need to turn your MVS into a proper Metal Slug 5 arcade cabinet? Yes, please! It's Metal Slug 5 MVS @ eBay in its complete and very mint form. Seller ships worldwide and, besides the cart, you'll also be getting cabinet stickers, flyers, a marquee banner (!) etc.

Acorn Archimedes A3000

It might not have been as successful as the BBC Micro, but the Acorn Archimedes A3000 was a true -and almost affordable- dream machine. It was released back in 1989, came with at least 1MB of (expandable) RAM, offered simple hard drive support, was fairly powerful in 3D, had high resolution 4096 colour graphics, featured a good sound chip, and above all sported that amazingly powerful and innovative RISC technology ARM CPU. It actually was way more powerful than the Amiga and even had the best version of Elite ever.

Find out more about the A3000 here, here or here. For your emulation needs either try the seemingly impressive and quite commercial Virtual Acorn or the freeware Red Squirrel.

Now, why not have a look at this fantastic Acorn Archimedes A3000 eBay auction? Seller ships worldwide, and you'll be getting a truly complete machine with hard disk, 4MB of RAM, tons of software, a mouse, DOS emulator, manuals, cables and a selection of other lovely bits. Paying anything less than 40£, 60$ or 45€ should be considered a great chance at a bargain.

Timex Sinclair 1000 and Timex printer

The Timex Sinclair 1000 is the American version of the Sinclair ZX81; the two machines are nearly identical, though the Timex did ship with a whole extra kilobyte of RAM! Imagine that. Anyway. Find out more about the Timex Sinclair here and have a look at a free online emulator here. Also do have a look at this Timex Sinclair 1000 & Personal Printer eBay auction. Seller only ships to US and Canadian addresses.

Saturn Bargain Time

With a Buy It Now price of only 15£ this Sega Saturn (PAL) console is a fantastic bargain, though one available for UK residents only. And it even comes complete with two controllers and everyone's favourite racer SEGA Rally. Be fast.

Julian Rignall's All Time Top 10 (C64)

Apparently the legendary games journalist is a man of great taste and has always been one. I mean, have a look at his alleged top 10 Commodore 64 games: Mega Apocalypse, Lords Of Midnight, Split Personalities, Guardian 2, Dan Dare, Driller, Cauldron 2, Barbarian 2, Delta and Zoids. Grab them all via this fantastic Rignall C64 boxed collection.

A fantastic Atari 400 bundle

Released back in 1979 the Atari 400 was a truly impressive and quite pricey home computer. It was powerful, it was expandable, it sported amazing colour graphics, it was built to last and it cost something around 600$. Happily you can nowadays actually get your hands on one via this lovely Atari 400 bundle that appeared on eBay for much less. Seller ships only within the US, and is kind enough to include 12 cartridges, 4 controllers, a trackball (!), the datasette and a fantastic selection of manuals, books and, err, bits.

SNES & 5 Games (NTSC/US)

If you're looking for a well priced Nintendo 16-bit console with all necessary bits, you should really try this Nintendo SNES (US) eBay auction. It comes with 5 games and two controllers. Seller ships worldwide.

Bandai Atmark Pippin by Apple

The (Apple, Bandai, Atmark etc) Pippin is a rare and sleek beast, that was -in part- the result of Apple's attempt to invade the console market, utilizing the then-impressive PowerPC 603 processor, a CD-ROM, an ultra slow modem and a stripped down version of the Mac operating system. Obviously, it flopped impressively and has turned itself into an expensive and rare collector's item. You can find out more about it here and here.

On the other hand you can have a look at this fantastic boxed and apparently mint Bandai Atmark Pippin @ eBay that dear reader Boris discovered. The seller ships only within Europe and includes a pretty impressive software selection, the rare memory card and that odd joypad everyone would like to try. Mind you, I've seen Pippin consoles sell for over 500 euros...

Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist

If you ask me (which you should) Freddy Pharkas is the best game Al Lowe of Leisure Suit Larry ever created. It's funny, smart, beautiful, original, innovative and sports great puzzles, graphics and music. The game was released by Sierra back during the adventure golden era in 1993. You can read a review here and find out more about it from Al Lowe himself. And do grab a boxed copy of the PC version via this Freddy Pharkas eBay auction. Seller ships worldwide.