Thanks to listeners for alerting me. NO THANKS TO THE BIKE SHOW / EUROGAMER / SHADOWY SABOTEURS FOR MAKING THIS HAPPEN.

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)

Hey, new listeners! Please excuse the half-finished website and join us. There are some useful links in our episode blog below and others dotted around the site. The most important thing, though, is that we TOTALLY NEED YOU. To listen and subscribe, sure, but also to write and contribute. There are all kinds of things you can do and say. You know the address if you listen to the show; that goes straight to all of us. It will interrupt what we are doing. IT WILL POTENTIALLY CHANGE OUR LIVES. It probably won’t. But it’ll help us work out what to do in the next episode with our next awesome guest.

The other thing you can do is tell other people. Email, IM, blog, Twitter (we should totally have a Twitter, shouldn’t we? OMG I’ve just created one), whatever: we have no advertising budget, at least until the we work out how to monetize Ann, so the only way people hear about us is word of mouth. Which is what brought you here, right? So pass it on, pass it on.

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No guest because he’s dropped out with a hangover! But that will pressure us into using the phones for the first time this season! Possibly! Exclamations!

Also music, features, reviews, all on Resonance 104.4FM from 7PM (click there or here to listen live), and podcast a few hours after that.

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One Life Left Returns!

Europe’s favourite Videogame Radio Show begins Fourth Season tonight, promises music, laughter, vaguely-related videogame stuff

Listen up, lifers: One Life Left makes its eagerly anticipated return to air tonight, broadcasting live from 7PM on Resonance 104.4FM. Presented by Ste Curran (Creative Director at Zoë Mode), Simon Byron (Director at Barrington Harvey) and Ann Scantlebury (unemployed, looking), the publicly-acclaimed programme uses videogames as a starting point for discussion, debate and pretty awful puns, and mixes videogame music with specially recorded mini-features from the OLL cast of secret games industry contributors. The show’s return means new content from favourites like the doyouinverts, Craig ‘The Rage’ McClelland and Derek Williams’ Free Market Economy, as well as a host of brand new stars in the making too.

“We’re so excited to be back, and not just because that means we’ve finally settled last season’s lawsuits,” commented Ste Curran. “We’ve got the finest contributor line up we’ve ever had and a new, earlier timeslot in which to fail at avoiding swearing. Anyone with a radio in London should look forward to a new run of Monday evenings full of gaming gossip and mild technical incompetence!”

Listeners outside of London won’t have to wait too long for their next fix of the puerile threesome, either. The long running radio show is podcast the following day at www.onelifeleft.com, and regularly topped the iTunes rankings for downloads through Apple’s portal during its third season. Its online success brought a nomination for Best Broadcast at the Games Media Awards, an award the team are very excited about.

“We intend to win this award,” commented Simon Byron. “Please go to our site and vote for us. We have no problems with using Ann as a bribe.”

Finally, if digital interaction isn’t enough, fans will soon have another chance to party with One Life Left in real life. Following successful broadcasts from Develop, Nordic Game and the Edinburgh Festival, the team are planning something very special at Nottingham Game City.

“I’m confused and terrified,” commented Ann Scantlebury. “And my Xbox 360 Elite has stopped working sad smiley face.”

Details on that later; Curran, Scantlebury and Byron are all available for quotes / comments / interviews right now. Use the contact form on the One Life Left website and they’ll call you straight back.

More information about One Life Left: http://www.onelifeleft.com