Chart Market Economy 30th January 2009
I’m feeling a bit Fifa. Or perhaps Pro Evo. Same thing with minor updates each time. I’m thinking I’m totally stuck in a rut right now. Could this possibly point to why I never went for any kind of life in writing. I’m not going anywhere with my FME productions either. So what can be done to revitalise what is already becoming a bit stale? I know I’ll cut my hair a funny shape and go and sulk in a corner for a bit! That’s got it! Commence the Chart Market Emoconomy!
10. Competitions Involving Dungeons and Dragons Stormreach
Hardly anyone bothered entering. This further proves I’m worthless and unwanted. No one understands me. I’m probably the least liked feature of OLL. I’m going to go cut myself.
09. Splinter Cell – Xbox £2.99
I like this game lots. It’s all about hiding in dark places. It reminds me of all the dark places within my soul. You can feel Sam Fisher’s inner despair at killing all those terrorists. He has to kill them, it’s his job but you know he has to feel sad that someone has died.
08. Need For Speed Underground - PS2 £4.99
Takes place all at night. Vampires come out at night too. It would be totally cool to be a vampire. To stay forever young and live outside of society’s rules. You’d get to be totally free and it wouldn’t matter that everyone hates you because you’re like so much more awesome. Though you live forever and stuff. But that might make life a bit poring. You’d probably get depressed and probably drive a stake through your own heart after a while.
07. Hot Wheels Stunt Track Challenge – PS2 £6.99
Never mind hot wheels. Hot Topic is what you want. Have you seen the awesome stuff they have on their website? I bet My Bloody Valentine shop there. They have the most awesome lipstick colours too.
06. Medal of Honour European Assault – PS2 £9.99
I’m bored of that whole emo gimmick. It was perhaps not a terribly clever or original idea. Still that’s never stopped me before. All my words are secondhand and useless in the face of this. But I digress. I’m still constantly amazed that the terrible terrible Medal of Honour games sell for so much money. Older gamers tend to like them most but they seem to sell to pretty much everyone anyway. I wonder what I’ll get for Vanguard..
05. Burnout Paradise – Xbox 360 £15
A fine game with lots of fun. A worthy investment considering how much potential fun there is on offer in its online world. Quite a lot of downloadable content to get from first off though. Hence them releasing that updated version. I wonder how many people are now driving around in the Delorean from Back to the Future now..
04. Mirror’s Edge – Xbox 360 £17
I’m still playing myself. I still like it. But I’m still faced with the problem that I can’t play it for that long before it makes me feel very ill. It is incredibly frustrating though when you don’t know where to go and it just points up. Unlike some people, I find it often works best when it’s slow. Taking your time and puzzling it out as to how to get to different places. But then it goes and throws time limits in sometimes. I play it without shooting people because I’m soft.
03. Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts – Xbox 360 £25
It’s not a seller from the stall though I did get asked for it once this week. They wouldn’t have bought it though. I know these things. You get to know your customers and this one was clearly a useless timewaster. I had intended to give this game another go with it being rated so highly. I just found it a bit annoying first time. It’ll come in again in the future when it’s worth less. Or worthless.
02. Left4Dead - Xbox 360 £32.99
An online sale admittedly but it sold fast and I don’t see this around much. And it’s not that new out. I tried playing it last night, not realising that it was an FPS. I can cope with Mirror’s Edge because it’s mostly open spaces and I can often take it slow. This seems to feature fairly faced paced rushing about in enclosed spaces. To start with anyway. This is guaranteed to make me feel very ill very quickly. Why does it take so long to load things though? It took ages to load to the menu. Far longer than a lot of games. It’s unusual to see such progress bars these days. Wish I could play it and see what it is that’s making everyone, including OLL superguests, love it so much.
01. Samurai Warriors 2 Empires – Xbox 360 £9,000
That’s the estimated worth of the game of course. It’s been totally gobbling up my free time. It’s exciting and tactical and just generally brilliant. You should really get it if you know what’s good for you.
So that’s it. You’ve still got time to enter the D&D compo. I’ve got two left! Do I have to start offering money as well or something? PLEASE GET THEM AWAY FROM MY STALL!!
One Life Left — s04e19 — #91 — Bond Life
“Goldeneye,” sang Tina Turner. “I found his weakness. Goldeneye, he’ll do what I please.” She wasn’t singing about One Life Left, but she might as well have been. We’re weak, he’s pleasing: it’s this week’s special guest, Martin Hollis, Producer and Director of N64 classic Goldeneye!
Why’s Martin on the show? Well, listen and you’ll find out, doofus. But if you’re impatient, here’s the précis. It’s to fend off questions about his current projects. What does Martin think about working with the next generation of videogame hardware? Is it true Nintendo are thinking about porting Facebook to the DS? And is he really working on the spiritual successor to Goldeneye right now?
Elsewhere, in a minor news coup, Ann reveals the exact launch year of the PS4 and the Xbox-wait-a-minute-I-can-do-this, Derek complains there aren’t enough games for him to sell in January and The Rage is missing, presumed poached. There’s also some excellent music, a triplet of reviews and plenty of unprofessional bickering.
One Life Left! No time for sweetness — but a bitter kiss will bring us to our knees. Thanks, Tina.
Music on #91:
How To Kill a Man From Outer Space // SAVESTATES
Arctic // CFCF
Glitch Test // Vastik Root
Download the episode as an MP3 from here. See you next week. And join our Twitter feed at /onelifeleft. Go!
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Chart Market Economy 23rd January 2009
I know you must be thinking it’s a bit like I’m Little Boots as after only a few weeks of doing this it seems like I’m stuck on repeat (Oh ho! Cunning pop culture reference, eh?). But then isn’t that the nature of charts? What can you do other than list what has sold and waffle on about them to some extent? We all know how it works now and my comments on games vary little. Still Little Britain has been a huge success by repeating the exact same jokes every week so why shouldn’t it work for me as well?
10. Pinball Classics – PSP £4.99
Typical isn’t it? I decided this week I was absolutely sick of PSP games taking up rather a lot of space on my stall and listed pretty much all of them for sale on Amazon. It’s only then that I get people enquiring about them. They even took a UMD movie with it. Kiss of the Dragon I think it was. I hadn’t really sold any for ages until selling these. PSP is rubbish. I never use mine anymore. Though I did love the Ridge Racer games on it. Was a good emulation machine too. Is. Whatever.
09. Urbz: Sims in the City – PS2 £4.99
It’s the Sims! But in a city! With a soundtrack by The Black Eyed Peas! Now you too can emulate the life of the plebs that hang around in bus stations. Except these ones generally look more spectacular and have even less point to them.
08. Football Manager 2007 – 360 £4.99
No one bought any from me during 2008 but in 2009 two have gone in the same month. In the same week even. Why the sudden interest? I don’t care. I’m just glad to see the back of such junk.
07. Mario Kart – DS £15
I really don’t get Mario Kart. I never have. The Snes one was rubbish, the N64 one was terrible, Gamecube version shocking, arcade abysmal, Wii dull. Yet people fawn over them like they’re some kind of genius creation. I’m sure if it wasn’t for those loveable Nintendo characters, no one would ever pay them any attention. Still at least on the DS you can play link up games from one cart which is quite a nice generous feature. Maybe that accounts for why it continues to sell.
06. Guitar Hero Aerosmith – PS3 £19.99
The only Guitar Hero I haven’t played. Which is of course because I don’t like Aerosmith. Or any of the other tracks on there. And Guitar Hero 3 was (really good and a game that everyone should buy brand new with it being astonishingly good value for money. Stunning playability and expertly created note patterns make it a real joy to play by providing the perfect balance between being fun and challenging. – Simon)
05. Pokemon Emerald – Gameboy Advance £19.99
Still great sellers. This one was a little bit tatty and didn’t have instructions but having any kind of box for them is very rare. If it was better cond I’d have charged £25 for it. Possibly up to £30. This one I’d had for around two weeks on display. Which is pretty long for any GBA Pokemon. But with games being discontinued so quickly by publishers and Pokemon being such a successful series it’s little wonder the price is rising so much.
04. Nintendogs – Dalmations Version - DS £19.99
The game that shifted DSes by the truckload has gone through a bit of a dry period for a while. This one has always been the best seller of the lot. Why do people like Dalmations so much? Is it just because of the Disney film? The Daschund one is the worst seller. Even the Chihuahua one sells better despite them being the most hideous of the hideous. In terms of Nintendogs games anyway. Or Nintendodogs as most people call it. Because they are idiots. Still preferable to real dogs because it won’t smell and piddle all over the kitchen floor. Still neither will cats so that’s the problem solved. Get a cat instead.
03, Need For Speed Undercover – 360 £22
Sold to a regular Polish customer of mine who likes a good bit of bargaining. He traded in Assassin’s Creed for it. It’s always quite fun playing the haggling game with him. At the stall like. Not a game on the 360 or anything. That would be strange. As David Dickinson would undoubtedly say, it was the ‘real deal’ on the day. I actually sold a bunch of Need for Speeds on PS2 as well but I haven’t featured them in this chart because I forgot. Maybe I can change that though by them in next. Does it count if they’re all different games? I’m not sure.
02. Ace Combat 6 - 360 £23
Decided I didn’t have room for the Need For Speed games. Featuring one is pretty much too many. Anyway Ace Combat then. I had hoped to take it home and play it. I dare say the combat is a case of get missile lock on a dot, press fire. Dot vanishes. I’d had a lot of interest in it earlier in the week but no one bit at £25 which I had it at originally. Just a £2 discount and it’s sold. I played on on the PS2 once but I couldn’t figure out what the hell I was supposed to do on it. They’ve always had a pretty loyal following though these games and I have never sold one for less than £13. I remember the days when Distant Thunder was really sought after and would sell for £30. Good times those.
01. Competitions involving Dungeons and Dragons Stormreach
Due to the stunning response to the last time I had a Dungeons and Dragons Stormreach competition I’ve decided that I’ll run another one this week. However, you’ve got to work a lot harder to earn one this week! I want you to think very carefully about this question.
Q: What is your name and address?
Send your answers to derek at onelifeleft.com and 5 (I think) lucky winners will get a copy of this thoroughly exciting life changing WOW beating MMORPG!
(You only got the one entry from uglifruit didn’t you? – Everyone)
One Life Left — s04e18 — #90 — Lee Way
Following #89 was never going to be easy. If we could stop time we would but with all the crushing inevitability of a discrete, week-based counting system episode ninety of One Life Left arrives. The only solution? Another OLL Superguest. This week, we introduce our brand new comedy correspondent: it’s Iain Lee, from off the telly! And the radio! And the internet!
And now our bit of the radio and the internet, too (our TV show’s still at the pilot stage). Iain joins us to chat about how you make show about videogames for television and to help us demonstrate one way of making one for radio: don’t talk about games very much. It’s what OLL does best!
But don’t worry, secret gamers; there’s lots of chat about your super shameful hobby, too. Alongside news and reviews we have Mathew Kumar delivering another Best Worst Game, while Odds On guides you gently through another way gambling relates to gaming. And sound the NEW FEATURE siren! Give your warmest welcome to Game for a Laugh, OLL’s new, regular phone-based quest.
There’s also the return of the One Life Left Game Show. It’s Ann vs Iain, of course. Who wins? Listen to #90 now to find out.
Music this episode:
Chiptune Superstar // She
Arcade Catastrophe // ZibraZibra (thanks, Hikari!)
Sorry Slash I Love You // ChippedTeethSnappedElbows
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Chart Market Economy 16th January 2009
Cripes. It’s that time again. I’ve got to do one of them chart thingies. But what games have I sold this week? Barely any. That makes it a bit difficult then. These are hard times. Don’t people know it’s important to spend money with a free market economist for life and not just at christmas? This neglect and disloyalty should not go unpunished. Just as soon as I can figure out some way in which I can punish my customers without punishing myself.
10. X-Files – Playstation £5
It’s one which has often been lurking around just outside the chart. It’s a game that often goes on the old Playstation. I don’t really know why though as it’s quite rubbish. But then there’s not many reviews around for these days now. Playstation is just yet another retro console now. It often gets returned amid claims of it not working but in actual fact it’s just that they’re stuck one of the many ridiculous and obtuse puzzles in the game.
9. Final Fight Streetwise - PS2 £6.99
Why on earth would someone want this disgrace to a once great arcade game? The customer informed me that it has a ‘great story’ too. Fool. Even the original didn’t have a great story. Admittedly you don’t get many walk-along beat em ups these days. But when you do they’re all rubbish. This is a rubbish beat-em-up given made even worse by being made all gangsta/urban/street. Ugh. It disgusts me. So much in fact I decided I didn’t want anyone to actually have it and pretended it got lost. Instead I made him buy..
8. Resident Evil 4 – PS2 £10
Always worth having in. I always buy it when it’s offered but I never seem to have more than two copies in stock at any one time. This version was the special tin edition. Like that makes much difference. I bet the tin is a size just slightly too big to fit in a DVD rack or something. Or maybe slightly too small. Like HD DVD and Blu-Ray. Grrr.
7. The Punisher – PC £10
The game so shockingly violent they had to make the torture scenes black and white. Hmm. Yes well that really helps doesn’t it. So it’s okay to cut people up and twist their arms off and stuff just so long as it’s not in colour. Maybe it hurts less in black & white or something so it’s not so bad. I’ll have to try it next time I get an awkward customer.
6. Surf’s Up – Wii £15
Undoubtedly parent buying for absent child situation. Absent at time of purchase anyway. While I haven’t played it, I’m sure it’s a mixture of tedious ‘party game’ modes and tedious inept platforming which is just enough to keep the kids amused I guess. Lokit da funny pengwins!
5. Tiger Woods 09 – Xbox 360 £22.49
I can’t get rid of them from the stall but it goes online. I’ve had it on the stall at £19.99 for around 6 months now but no interest. They used to be all the rage in the PS2 era. But then if you’ve been playing the same game on the same courses for all this time, it’s bound to lose some appeal. After all, the actual golf courses don’t get yearly updates do they? Or do they? I don’t know I don’t watch golf so don’t ask me.
4. Motorstorm Pacific Rift - PS3 £28.92
Which is a bit odd as I only listed it for sale online at £24.99. Still I’m not complaining. I knew I had to get rid of this quick. It’s not a really major racing game and thus it’s a shelf sitter. Motorstorm didn’t do so well and no one has been asking me for the sequel. Did ANYONE ask for a sequel?
3. Improved Weather
It’s not quite as cold as it was. Therefor my working conditions are less hostile. I’m still haivng several pints of coffee to keep warm though. Sadly my stall can’t support the power requirements of any electric heaters. It just trips the power all time.
2. Samurai Warriors 2 Empires – 360 £2,000
It’s not quite Dynasty Warriors 6 or Samurai Warriors 2 but it’s still pretty great. The extra strategic elements are great stuff but there are certain unfortunate problems with the main battle system. The unreliable nature of base output making it hard to find somewhere to regain health. Most of the time it’s only dropped by defeated officers. Still building up a small force into one that can conquer all of Japan is terribly exciting, especially now there’s added little bits like getting your officers to do a tea ceremony together and.. (Snip! – Ste)
1. Competitions involving Dungeons and Dragons Stormreach!
I have five copies of Dungeons and Dragons Stormreach MMORPG to give away. It’s the deluxe version but without a box and also without any figures. So it’s more a slightly above average version than deluxe. It’s got a pretty map with it and you’ll get 30 days free play but after that it’s going to cost you about £9 a month.
So if you want to get yourself a copy tell me what would be the best competition idea for a Dungeons and Dragons Stormreach giveaway. Best five answers get a copy.
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One Life Left — s04e17 — #89 — Yo Joe
It begins with an interview because, hey, we don’t let just anyone guest on One Life Left, much less give them the coveted title of OLL’s Resident Film Expert. It’s a formality, though, and post-theme we welcome our new colleague: spoiler warning! It’s Joe Cornish, the tall half of TV / Radio / Multimedia’s Adam & Joe. O. M. G!
Aside from the special guest star it’s business as usual this week — music, news, reviews, and one brand new feature that seems to work out pretty well. It’s probably best you just listen, really. Oh! And if this is your first One Life Left here are some primer notes (there’s a more detailed history in the About section).
– We broadcast across London on the brilliant Resonance FM live every Monday evening, then we podcast the show the day after. We are Ste, Simon and Ann. Hi!
– We’re a radio show about videogames but not like that. You should be able to enjoy One Life Left even if you haven’t picked up a joypad in weeks, months, years or ever. Um, that’s our intention, anyway.
– We mix inane chat with music that sounds like videogames and features from brilliant regular contributors, including Craig ‘The Rage’ McClellan (our resident gaming poet) and Derek Williams (a market-stall trader in Doncaster who plays a synth and tells us what’s been selling this week).
– We’ve been doing this for nearly three years, we welcome (and encourage) listener contributions. You can join our growing guerilla army in our Facebook group, on our forum, or by subscribing to our podcast on iTunes for free. Please do that.
Here’s a link to the start of Season 4 so you can catch up.
Music in #89:
Tetra Star — Robots Need Love Too
MC Chris — Nrrrd Grrrl (Schizmo’s Chiptune Remix)
Nullsleep — Salvation for a Broken Heart
and Taliah, of course.
Download the MP3 of #89 directly here. And see you next week when we’ll be joined by another brilliant guest. Who? There’s a clue in the show. Jeu Fini!
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Chart Market Economy 9th January 2009
So it’s time for the first chart of the year. How terribly exciting. I know I have such a great reputation of being the internet’s only truly reliable source of games charts without interference from THE MAN. No big games companies interfere with my chart. This information is direct from source. But will it be a chart of top trade ins or a chart of the biggest games of the previous year? Maybe a chart of the biggest failures last year? There are so many options as to what to do I barely know where to begin (Try the start of the chart – Ed). Hey I’ve got a great idea, why don’t I make it a chart of last week’s sales? Man, what a great idea!
10. Zelda – Link’s Awakening (Gameboy £6.99)
Despite having been re-released about five thousand times with almost as many suffixes as a Street Fighter 2 variant that’s married a Tom Clancy game, it’s still a seller for decent money. I also happen to be pretty much the only person left in Doncaster with any stock of such retro games. As such I can pretty much get away with charging what I want. As I clearly have here. £7 for an ancient black + white gameboy game? Snigger.
09. Need For Speed Pro Street (PS2 £8)
Was up for £9.99 but the customer only had £8 on them. It was another brutal cold start to the day and it looks like it was going to be pretty quiet. It had sat on the shelf a while. Why not take the £8 that was all he had on him. So he said. To me it looked like he had much more on him. Like clothes and stuff! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
08. Something (on a console probably £ and Pence undoubtedly)
I really should have done this chart at work where I have it actually there in front of me what I’ve sold rather than doing it from memory. But I was busy with things this morning and the internet was playing up. So I’m having to do all this from home. Right now I’m just waiting for QI to come on at 9. I like QI. It is most amusing. There’s an interactive DVD game of it. I bet it’s rubbish.
07. Three Dreamcast Games – Racing Simulation/MSR/Tomb Raider Last Revelation £10
Technically it shouldn’t be this high in the charts but I remembered selling them earlier today and selling Dreamcast games always gives you that warm feeling inside. To know there’s still someone out there cherishing that lovely little console, poor thing. How could people not see the delights of that beautiful little machine. So what if the up to 10 billion players claim wasn’t exactly true. It would have been true if everyone had bought a Dreamcast. And everyone had an internet connection for it. And there was an infinite amount of money around to pay for the immense phone bills. These games aren’t exactly the best example of quality on the machine but consider it an entry level to get onto bigger and better things (Isn’t that what Escom said about putting Whizz and Pinball Magic in with the Amiga except that only served to kill it? – Amiga Power). Actually maybe I’m just like some dodgy drug dealer selling ecstacy mixed with rat poison or something. Shame on me.
06. Cooking Mama – Wii £15
The Wii has continued to sell a few games reasonably well since Christmas. It’s still doing vastly better than the PS3. I sold at least two Wii games for over £15 with customers just asking to buy said game. Maybe a Wii is for life and not just to be left abandonned in a dark cupboard until your gran comes round to beat you at Wii Bowling again and you to then sulk in a corner all afternoon moaning about how it’s obviously geared to compensate for people with lower skill so it was obviously much harder for you.
05. Zelda Twilight Princess – Wii £25
It’s typical Nintendo sales patterns again. Zelda/Mario/Pokemon. That stuff just never seems to drop in price. I might have only sold one copy of this but I could probably have sold 15 or more. It’s supposed to be one of the weakest of the Zelda series despite looking more realistically pretty than the cartoony Wind Waker which angered all the fanboys because they didn’t want to be seen playing a game that was for kids. Oh the irony..
04. Grand Theft Auto Ivy - Xbox 360 £?
Must be a new release or something as it’s here on requests alone. If I’ve been asked for it once today then I’ve er.. been asked for it once today but it was actually about 3 times this morning I was asked for it. Might be Rockstar’s biggest hit yet considering the number of people after it. Strange thing is, the only new GTA I know if is supposed to be the Mail Bait that is Chinatown Wars on the DS. The internet doesn’t seem to know anything about it either. Very odd.
03. Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (Xbox £15)
Sold two in about an hour. It’s always pretty bankable. You have to wait a bit sometimes but you can guarantee at least £15 for it. It’s pretty rare after all. And it works on the 360. I wonder if the people who are buying it are ones who had it but hated IV or they bought IV and wanted more. No I don’t. All I care is I get their money from them. Who am I kidding?
02. Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360 £32.99)
I had this for about two weeks before christmas but no one was interested. I swapped it in for something like Far Cry 2 I think. I didn’t want to do a free swap on it but the custmer demanded it and eventually I decided that this one would be the better seller. Could have been FIFA 09 actually. Does it really matter? WHY IS THIS SO IMPORTANT TO YOU?? LEAVE ME ALONE!! IT WAS AGES AGO!!
01. Rock Band 2 - Xbox 360 £Varies depending on if you buy instruments with it or not
Dynasty Warriors is on holiday. I miss it. Rock Band 2 has made many improvements over the first one in terms of its organisation and allowing for more party fun but it can’t fill that void that Dynasty Warriors leaves. Come back soon!
And that’s it for this week, a little later than usual perhaps but it’s here. Hopefully I’ll be a little bit less busy next friday morning and can give you what you want. And I’ll do another chart run down. Oh ho!
One Life Left — s04e16 — #88 — Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad
It’s a reasonably Happy New Year as two-thirds of One Life Left mark their first day back in the office with resolutions, chat, songs, mistakes and one off-the-cuff comment we regret (cut from this podcast; you really should try and listen live).
Yes, OLL is back with a bang, though not as big a bang as it would be had Ste returned from his holidays in time. He’s stuck in Lapland, arguing with Father Christmas about the existence of Peter Molyneux.
So cue emergency call to I’m Dave Green, who ably fills Simon’s shoes whilst Simon occupies Ste’s red high heels and pretty dress.
This week’s show is filled to the brim with actual gaming chat about games, a special “best-of” 2008’s news special with Ann (who’s ill), a special Derek Williams’ Free Market Economy with Derek Williams (who’s poorly), a very special Craig “The Rage” McClellan with Craig “The Rage” McClellan (who’s sick), a distraught Taliah, and, well, spoilers etc.
One thing we’re certainly not spoilerising is the identity of our incredibly incredible special guest next week, who’s reasonably certain he’ll make it. A few clues inside; join the speculation on the forum, but whatever you do, do send us stuff to ask him or her (it’s him).
Music this week is:
• An excellent Super Shinobi/Madonna mashup by Brian Flanagan (cut short on the show: download the full version from the site shortly)
• Fever, by show-saver Spencer Lee
• The loading music to a classic C64 s-s-s-shmup by Rob Hubbard.
Apologies to those who sent musical contributions (and we’re unsure of whether we can name); we should have played your songs, but Simon panicked at the desk and forgot his running order. They’re in the bank, so to speak.
Normal service will be resumed next week, when Stephen! returns, just in time to welcome (hopefully!) our very, very, very special guest.
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