I just thought of this...A while back I saw a bunch of N64 carts under a glass case in a thrift store. I asked the old lady if I could see them. She said, "Oh, you mean those playboy games?" Just that hilarious blend of Playstation and Gameboy and the games not even being either of the two... :D :D :D
Oh yeah, and at a pawn shop, there was a guy who was trying to pawn something and the owner wouldn't take it so he pulled out a gun...then he said 'how much for this gun...' It was my mom who actually saw him do it. Kinda freaky...
Anyway, other funny buying stories???
this isnt that funny but the day tony hawks american wastleland came out it was retailed for 50.00 and i got it for 30% off
at pinkgodzilla when i told the guy working there that their prices are whack ;D
@sumguy - My gosh that is some crazy stuff right there. I have never seen anything remotely like that.
Every time I go into this game store that has crazy prices, I always ask the clerk to test his nes. He lugs it all out from the back room, then the blinking begins. Shake shake wobble wobble smack shake. When it's all working, i want to see his dreamcast. but halfway through, I change my mind, and want the NES again. I do this just to get him mad. :P
"at pinkgodzilla when i told the guy working there that their prices are whack Grin"
Yeah, they are a bit on the high side. Also have to bear in mind their overhead, and whatnot though. Still, though I like the store, I only buy from them if they have something I *really* want, or if they have something that I have not found somewhere else (like filling holes in the collection). Generally I only go there once in a very great while.
I have 2 and both take place in Chicago where I no longer live.
For a while I was posting on CraigsList buying old video games. One day last winter I made a deal with someone to buy their old NES games. It had just snowed real bad so I wanted to go another day but the person said this was the only time they were going to be home during the day. So I drove across the city, drove around and found their house. Got the games when I try to leave I was stuck in the snow. I had to go back up to their apartment get a shovel. Then try to dig my car out. They were so annoyed that I was stuck. Then a cop saw me stuck and came and tried to help me. About 30 minutes later I got unstuck. The person who I bought the games off of was rude, annoyed that I was stuck and had to use their snow shovel, and refused to come help. So I ended up just leaving the shovel in the middle of the road and I left. \
Another time I had made a deal to buy someones games off of them on CraigsList. I drove over to their apartment, which was kind of crummy, I knocked on their door. "Who is it?" I hear from behind it. I tell them who I am. They crack the door but leave the chain lock on it. She slid the 7-10 NES carts through the door. I gave her the money and she slammed it shut. It was so sketchy and weird. Like a drug deal just went down.
I sometimes buy crappy cheap games for repro fodder. When you buy like 3 nes footballs the pawn shop guy is taken aback for a minute and you can tell he's wondering if he is way undercharging and wonders if somehow this is a rare game... Then next time when you buy a bunch of nes golf, he's looking at you like you must have some kind of compulsion disorder.
Not too interesting, but once I was strolling though a nearly empty video store and I came across a bin of SNES titles and a sign saying "two for $4." I looked though this bin and of course, it was all junk. Football, baseball, all the boring sports games nobody wants to play. Well, there just happened to be just two carts in there that were different, so I picked them up. First one was Top Gear, and the other was MTV's Bevis and Butthead. I was like: "alright, I might as well buy this junk". So I do and as I exit, the employee literally yells "Oh my god I thought I was NEVER going to sell bevis and butthead!"
Apparently this isn't a popular game, and I could see why after going home and playing it.
Yeah, the Genesis version looks better - I kinda want to get that now after beating the SNES one & seeing gameplay vids of the other one.
And seriously, sports games - new & old seem to have the same fate. Can our companies evolve enough to stop releasing the same games every year with updated rosters & just implement some kind of roster update via download package on the internet? Every console has those capabilities.
The only sports games I bought on the N64 were by Midway. :P
The only Sports games I ever bought were to be used as donor carts for homebrew/hack games. Need to still send them off for the conversion process, but that is the ONLY reason I got them. I actually have few sports titles... mostly Winter/California games, and Blades of Steel. That's it really. One day I may get the sports titles just to fill gaps in the NES collection, but not for play value.
Quote from: Jedi QuestMaster on January 13, 2010, 11:13:00 pm
Can our companies evolve enough to stop releasing the same games every year with updated rosters & just implement some kind of roster update via download package on the internet? Every console has those capabilities.
They
could, sure, but they'd lose tons of money. People will buy the newest sports games at $60 a pop, no questions asked. Try offering some $60 DLC and the results will be less than satisfactory, I'm sure.
One time at the flea market I got to this shop and the guy had a gameboy and I asked how much and he said ten dollars and I was like that's a lot! Then he had some snes games and I asked how much and he said five bucks each and i was like that sucks because all of them were sport crap games so fi ally o asked him if he had anymore games and he said yeah and took out chrono trigger for the snes and I asked how much and he said two dollars! My friend bought it and we had a good laugh afterwards
Well, for $2 it's a pretty good deal. Mind you Chrono Trigger is not rare at all. It's barely more than a common (I think something like R2). However, there is crazy high demand for it (though it has been ported over a bunch too). I would say that since Squaresoft is a pretty mainstream company, their releases are pretty mainstream, and aren't really lacking in production numbers. Funny, I only care about Square's releases on the NES and SNES.
Good choice on picking square releases kind sir.
phoning a used game store that sells everything, I asksd if they had a Turbografx16 a year ago, and the lady said it's too old even though they have NES games there and consoles...
when i found my sakura taisen in saturn and beside it was a hentai dvd. ehehe
i said "its truely a new find. wtf" :D :D :D
If we want to turn this into grossest thing when buying games--I once found a used condom inside a nes at thrift store. Before that, I had always checked for a rare game left in a nes...
What?!? I've heard stories of geckos inside NESes but a used condom?!?
What??? You guys don't use condoms when having sex with your NES? Do you know how many diseases you could get? Be safe guys, geez.
I didn't have a camera with me, nor would I have thought to take a picture if I did, but it was there--dried up and shriveled.
I wouldn't buy a used keyboard--and I don't buy neses from that store.
Damn, that's really gross. *ugh* :-\
At least it wasn't inside a Famicom.
I was at gamestop the other day, and some angry mom came in freaking at the store managers that her 2 year old childs DS games that they bought there are not kid friendly. Apparently they involved reading which her kid couldn't do. Why does she have her 2 year old kid playing games at all?
When people put "cleaned & tested" on NES games on eBay. It sounds like what you'd say about someone going through a detox facility. :D
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I hate it when it says "Cleaned & Tested" and when you get it, it's dirty and the game doesn't boot.
Instant negative feedback.