Buying Sega Mega Drive Gold at the London Gaming Market

The London Gaming Market is a retro gaming paradise. I went with the goal of making a big dent in my Sega Mega Drive full Pal collection. I also wanted to start looking out for Sega Genesis games so that I could start the MegaGen collection. It does not start well though.

Chapters.
00:00 Intro
02:06 Buying stunning Mega Drive variant
05:52 Rare Sega EA Pick-up, and buying all the best CIB games
15:04 One last big buy for the Sega collection
22:57 Sega Saturn wireless controller first look
25:57 Other Sega Mega Drive pickups
28:24 Final thoughts

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[goodallbay]

That was the very same mega drive I had as a kid. Mine had a red switch on underside, think it was for 50-60 hertz, Japanese games worked in it and PAL .

[ryuhoshu]

The amount of work you put into these restorations is amazing!!!

[blitzerblazinoah]

10/10 just for covering Deep Space Nine.

[dlp]

Thanks for giving my Mega CD2 a good home. Nice to see it all bagged up.

[Frogdoddofficial]

I just want to thank you for these videos. I am not in good health and it is great to be able to get lost in some retro game stuff, and travel and expos. ❤

[bundjohn]

Congrats on joining the MCD mark 2 club! If you’re after more games to play on it I’ve been converting US only games and sticking them on archive.

[videogamemusicrenditionsby]

Oh man I must pop in London at any time.. God knows how I miss those markets and car boot sales across UK ❤

[bobby]

Great Pick Ups, I Love how You take the Time to Clean Everything Up....

[jonathanwatkins]

Great video Mike and wow you cleaned those up lovely, see you in march 👍👍👍

[RetroConsolas_]

Great buys, amazing the Where is Carmen San Diego in time complete with the book. That boxed Mega CD 2 PAL region is great very cool. I think the screw is 8mm wide on the head, 5mm wide of the body and 10mm long.

[dukert]

You do really good restoration work. That’s awesome you remade bags and inserts. Love the progress of your collection been following for a long time.

[terencechan]

Thanks for sharing the ‘magical’ moments of collecting these gems at the fair. Your restoration skill is top-notch, what an eye treat!

[retromegabitsegadude]

I really enjoy seeing how you patch things up as best you can. I do this too, and even if we can't do a perfect job most times whatever we can do is a very nice improvement.
Forgotten Worlds is a great game. Not too hard, oozing with super cool sci-fi stuff and a lot of fun to play. I've been playing Forgotten Words recently on my Super Pocket, but unfortunately it's a real struggle because of the control layout of the Super Pocket. It will be a much better experience on the MD/Genesis.
I also love seeing Tanglewood in the background of your videos. That games deserves a lot of attention.

[ZonicMirage]

I believe the Asian PAL MD shipped with an RF box, like most of the western releases. Also it can indeed run games from any region, though there are two caveats:

1. It has a cartridge lock, so if you wanna insert a western game, you need to either a. open your machine and unscrew the assembly, or b. use pass-through adapter.
2. Obviously, it can only run PAL games without a mod. The ultimate lockout, really.

Personally prefer taking the machine apart and removing the lock. Looks much less awkward. Did that to my JP MD1 and had a hold-reset-button region mod installed. The LED isn't red anymore, but it otherwise looks factory.

[jawessome]

Great vid as always mate. Would love to get a glimpse of your cleaning and restoration processes if you haven’t shared them already.

[duncanmaccoll]

Great stuff, Ive sent you some pics of my Mega CD 2 box. Ironic to see Alan from Forgotten Worlds (His amazing store is near me in Stewarton Ayrshire). Then you had the game👍

[igorantunes]

Amazing pick ups dude 😊 That Izzy looks to be in very good shape 😊 I was able to pick myself a CIB copy with the multi language and Portuguese manual for 25€ on CeX 😁 lately some CeX have been putting the prices down on MD games here in Portugal 😊

[eyzmaster]

Pretty awesome Gaming Market you guys got over there! Sigh...
You were able to score some nice titles.

And I like having a look at the process restoring the games.
When it's just for myself, sometimes I ended up reprinting the cover art (not for stuff I'd resell ortrade).

I started grabbing some Japanese consoles and games once I felt ok with my general collection. Specially to get the oddities like the Mega Jet, the Multi-Mega, the Sega SG-1000 and SG-1000 Mark II.

Forgotten Worlds??? Man, I need to add this one!!

[arpi]

Wow, I also managed to get recently the big box Where in time is Carmen Sandiego? for the NES. But for the Mega Drive I've never even seen it before. Nice catch! :)

[sergeleon]

Awesome pickups and a great job on cleaning and restoring them. Maybe an idea to make a video displaying an entire clean and restoration process of some items, specially the old cardboard requires the most careful practices. Think it will make a good video and be helpful for the community and maybe others can share tips or idea's you might not have considered yet yourself as well.