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  Following from one of my previous posts 'Vintage Star Wars Collectables'. I have looked at some of the vehicles that were a massive part of the original trilogy of film and have looked into how much those classic toys are worth. The toy makers who linked up with the original trilogy managed to bring a large amount of the ships and futuristic vehicle to an audience who could not get enough of the merchandise.  The Millennium Falcon... Upon a recent visit to an antique shop in the north east of England I came across one of the first Millennium Falcon toys without its box. Although the toy was in good condition, the seller wanted over £200( roughly $250) for the vintage toy. The Millennium Falcon was in a display box, so I could not check its true age and condition. The fact that it was not boxed was disappointing as some markets still sell the boxed version of the Millennium Falcon for a similar price. To find a mint condition vintage Millennium Falco...

Sensible Soccer was possibly one of the most addictive and playable football games of the 1990's. It was developed by Sensible Software, who were the same team that created the 'shoot em up' game Cannon Fodder. The Amiga Version of Sensible Soccer. Long before the rise of the Electronic Art's FIFA and the Pro Evolution series of games. Sensible Soccer was the computer game that most followers of football tended to play. The game was massive on the home computer market. It was a huge hit on PC, Amiga and the Atari systems. It was also released on the Nintendo and Sega consoles. The Game Boy version proved to be very popular as the simplicity of the controls worked well on a hand held device.  On the home computers, the game was often played using the joystick and it was a game that was incredibly easy to pick up. The game did not need detailed graphics or motion capturing. It was a bird's eye view kick about with the ability to customize teams to yo...

  Addiction has a name and its name is Tetris. Vintage Classic Tetris. Tetris is a game that has been around for over three decades. It has spread from the hand held consoles of the mid 1990's into becoming a staple of everyone's mobile phones. The first version of the game surfaced in 1984. It was developed at a Russian Science Centre by Alexey Pajitnov and Vladimir Pokhilko. Alexey Pajitnov made very little money from the game as he signed over the rights to the product to the then Soviet Government for ten years. Tetris was one of the first computer exported to the USA from the Soviet Union. The game's aim is to sort the seven geometric shapes into perfect lines that will disappear and award you points. If the lines are broken, they remain where they are and stack up until they reach the cut off line that signifies the end of the game. It is estimated that over 50,000,000 physical units of the game have been sold across numerous game platform...

The trans-state motorcycle racing game Road Rash was very successful on the Sega Mega Drive and was a popular game across many other game systems.  This type of game has an endless appeal and the basic game style will appeal to most modern video gamers. I think that motorcycle enthusiasts and the " Grand Theft Auto " generation would still find a certain charm in its enduring content. With online competition and a gripping multi player mode, this would be a great hit with today's current players. In the second game of the series,  Road Rash 2  (which I personally preferred )The racing took place in through much of the United States. One of the major changes that I can recall from the original was that the races could only be won by placing first, second, or third in each race. ( In the first game, it would still allow you a placing by finishing in fourth). After all five tracks were won, the player would advance to the next level, where more money was at stake...

Have you seen how much the vintage Star Wars figures go for? I am pretty sure that most would happily have to sacrifice their right arm for some of those figures. For those whose early childhood was dominated by the original trilogy, playing with those figures with friends in the backyard is a purely happy memory. I myself lost a couple of storm troopers, buried under the muddy soil of a good friends garden feature. Whether or not the mud was a good substitution for that of the forest moon of Endor? - I don't know. But at the age I was then, authenticity was never going to be a pressing concern. When I looked through the value of some of the Vintage Star Wars Collectables and saw their prices a good forty years later- I was genuinely shocked. There has always been a thriving market for vintage Star Wars collectables in mint condition. But I was really surprised by how much the worth of  Vintage Star Wars Figures had increased over time. Of course those rare figures or tho...