Bargain or ripoff?

I picked what I believe to be a little bargain today, a virtual instant PSone collection.

Backtracking a little first.  I never got into the Playstation generation in the 90’s.  I stuck with the N64 and was never disappointed.  I once tried a PSone game at a Disney store and got hopelessly bored waiting for it to load the game and that set my mind forever.

What bothered me about the PSone was how it played to the this new casual market.  It was cheap to make games for and developers flooded the system with all these casual games like Barbie, Mary Kate & Ashley, Lego and kiddy cartoons galore.  They were taking the market in a new direction that was bothersome for us hardcore gamers, who stuck by Nintendo and Sega.  Unfortunately, Sony, with its casual market and cheap development strategy won.  As we know, Sony’s short term and desperate strategy to succedd destroyed the games market.

Eventually, I did get a PS2, late in its life and have enjoyed it a lot for RPG mainly.  Yet, apart from about 10 PSone games, I have still largely ignored it.  That was until I walked into a Bargain shop and there it was - instant PSone collection.  This is what I picked up for my $70Au ($45US - £31):

5 x PSone consoles (all working, with leads and power cords and all minis)

9 x genuine PSone controllers

8 x memory cards (2 genuine & 6 x 3rd party)

47 games:

A Bug’s Life

Actua Tennis

AFL ‘99  (Australian Rules Football)

Air Combat

Alien Trilogy

Ape Escape

Barbie’s Super Sport (oooh, casual gamers)

Big Bass Fishing

Championship ass

Chase the Express 

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six - Lone Wolf

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back

Croc: Legend of the Gobbos

CTR: Crash Team Racing

Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX

Formula One 2000

Gran Turismo

GTA

GTA 2

Hogs of War (2 copies)

Destruction Derby 2

Hot Wheels Extreme Racing

KKND Krossfire

Lego Racers

Mary Kate & Ashley Mystery Mall (oooh, more casual gamers)

Medal of Honour

Planet of the Apes

Porsche Challenge

Power Rangers: Time Force

Premier Manager ‘98

Rage Racer

Shane Warne Cricket ‘99

Shrek Treasure  Hunt

Soviet Strike

SpongeBob Squarepants Supersponge

Spyro 2: Gate to Glimmer

Spyro The Dragon

TOCA Touring Championship

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3

Total NBA ‘97

Triple Play Baseball 2000

UEFA Euro 2000

Wipeout

Yu Gi Oh: Forbidden Memories (2 copies)

Jet Rider 2

So my plan is to sell all but one system on e-bay, along with the reallly bad kid games and excess memory cards so that my outlay is neutral at worst.  Good lord, somebody offered me $15 for the Barbie and Mary Kate & Ashley games (together).  I can’t lose.