This was/is my line of thinking. I gave my games away because someone else wanted them and was going to enjoy them, and I hadn't touched them in forever because any time I wanted to play I would just load up an emulator instead of dragging that crap out of a closet and trying to hook it up.Quote:
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How many times are we going to have that conversation?
Everyone knows everyone else's stance on it. No point in taking the thread in that direction.
Everyone knows you like Transformers figures. No point in taking the thread in that direction.
5th grade i traded my genesis, for a turbografix that turns out barely worked. ruined a friendship.
My dumb purchases were mostly situations where I bought one thing and really should have bought another. Particularly with the Saturn, strangely enough. I bought all the fighting games, and most of the Sega games, but despite my local EB having it for a LONG time, I never picked up Panzer Dragoon Saga or Burning Rangers. I knew about them, and I really wanted Saga. I'll get it next time, I can pick up 3 used games for that $50!
A little later, I discovered that Buy Rite had a retail store about an hour away, and since I didn't have a credit/debit card yet it was my only source of imports. I'd go in, look at the wall and they had pretty much everything. I remember one time I saw they had Radiant Silvergun, and I heard it was good, but I bought Real Bout FF instead. Later, I had it in my hands looking at it, and they were clearing it out for $30. I bought the KOF collection instead. Those SNK ports are both worthless for resale now, and I don't particularly care for the ports now that I have real Neo systems. Now I want all those shooters and the pricing is ridiculous.
Oh jesus, I remember Buy-Wrong!
Never Been to the store, but I used to buy stuff from there a lot in the early days of internet. I recall huge threads complaining about them, but I never had an issue, that I can remember anyway.
Man, I miss the days of looking through VGLQ, Game Cave, Buy Rite, and VGD almost daily. Wolfgames and The West Exit as well. And Chris at Superfami.com . Ah, memories.
Same place all the brand new SNES/NES games are. They don't make them anymore.Quote:
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The retail store wasn't bad, but their pricing structure sucked.
I come in, grab display copy of game. I take it and ask how much it cost, as there aren't price tags on anything except for specials. The clerk goes in the back to ask, and I'm pretty sure what they're doing is discussing how much they think they can get away with charging me. This happened every single time. I usually paid a $10-15 premium over internet pricing, and once I got a checking account and debit card I never went back.
But hell, I can't hate on them too much, they're the reason I had a Dreamcast and all the good games way before the US release date.
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Vultures.
I can has Battletoads?