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| 18 OCT 2002 at 9:54pm |
bleepnikPrivate Detective
Posts : 544
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | I went to a computer show recently, for the first time in several years. Normally I ignore the shelves full of games and software, as I usually think they're rubbish. I had a bit of time to kill this time, however, and couldn't resist; since I've gotten into collecting adventures, I'm now ever-hopeful that I'll find that one gem everyone else has overlooked.
I came away with:
The Last Express
Blade Runner
Inherent Evil: Haunted Hotel
and a couple of other non-adventures, for the extremely appealing price of US$4 each. The last two are in retail boxes, and in very good condition. The Last Express is retail-boxed, and shrinkwrapped to boot. I also picked up The Longest Journey for $10, which was really nice.
.gita
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| 18 OCT 2002 at 11:25pm |
dabomb765Space Cadet
Posts : 122
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I go Toonstruck at Toys R Us (complete) for $5. Fable at Eb for $3. Discworld 1 for $7. My friend gave me Blade Runner because he said it was stupid. Oh and probably the cheapest game I bought was King's quest 7 for 1/3 of a penny. Im serious. It came with three other games(earthsiege 2 and pro bass fishing or something like that) which were all together a penny.
Also bought Syberia and longest journey for a dollar........................................just kidding
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| 18 OCT 2002 at 11:37pm |
bistroSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 240
Joined: 15 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Not really a bargain bin, but I found a copy of Myst III Exile mismarked on the shelf for $8.95...you bet your sweet bippy I reminded the store about their policy on mismarked items....you pays what you sees on dee box.
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| 18 OCT 2002 at 11:44pm |
SirDaveGuild Master
Posts : 4940
Joined: 17 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | My standard rule now is that, if I see any Adventure game in a bargain bin eg. $9.99 or so, I buy it 'cause it seems that after stores sell them out, they don't re-order. So, now I have a stack of Dreamcatcher's games waiting to be played (they seem to often be in the bins for $9.99).
I get the impression that stores just don't know what to do with Adventure games- you'll see them filed in different places all over the store. Also, the pricing can be a crack-up. I'm sure a lot of you have seen Myst-Exile for $29.99 or even $39.99 sitting right beside Myst Trilogy for $39.99. (Of course, you can occasionally find Exile for as low as $14.99 at CostCo).
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 12:46am |
STooGE4444, EastCoastDoom...Schattenjger
Posts : 2099
Joined: 15 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Let's see here...I glued my shoe today, and now it doesn't squeak! Yes. Anyway
I got Journeyman 2 for $1, Stpuid Invaders and Rainbow Six together for 50cents, Dragon Lore $1, Max Payne two week after it came out for $15 (this price does not include any coupons), Dark Eye $12, ...There's more but I can't remember them.
I eat food...now,
SVT
~rbeeler SVT &&Name's STooGE$$$$ Valpurgius TNT; it's not PLURAL&&[img]http://www.riseaboverecords.com/sleep/image/sleepfront.gif[/img]&&151.Generally speaking Sludge Doomsters are Angry, Gothic doomsters are sad, funeral doomsters are barely breathing, death doomsters are dirty, drunk and dribbling, Stoner Doomsters don't care, drone doomsters are out of it and traditional Doomsters are permanently pissed off, mainly with other doomsters
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 2:10am |
The Terror of the Wolf part 3Schattenjger
Posts : 2391
Joined: 11 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I'm gonna get beaten around the head with a large trout for this....
But I found a copy of 'Sanitarium' for £5. That's about $7. This was.. last year, I think.
I -could- always make a copy of it for someone here, in exchange for a copy of 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream'. Fair trade? Let me know if interested
[url=http://www.justadventure.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1136331866/0#0]GAMES FOR TRADE!![/url]
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 2:16am |
HeidiIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 13
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | My best buy was GK1 for 1.99. I've played that game many times, and sure got my two dollars worth out of it.
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 3:44am |
SamSpadeIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 5
Joined: 15 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I got Faust Seven Games of the Soul for about 7.5 euros, about the same in dollars, together with a motorcycle game called Extreme 500 (that i never played).
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 7:18am |
DOOMZDAYIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 2
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | When I first started playing adventures I went to CompUSA and in the Bargin Bin was The Dark Eye for $5. They had tons of them and I only bought one because I had never heard of it. I kick myself every time I think about it. I also got Amber for $5 and Dracula Unleashed for $6.
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 8:22am |
AlpineSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 310
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Online | A couple years ago I found a copy of Gabriel Knight 2 (new, retail box) at the local E. B. for 99 cents! Unfortunately, I gave it to my sister-in-law (I already owned it) and I still don't think she's ever played it! > She must be punished... then again, being married to my brother is probably punishment-enough!
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 3:10pm |
itsgood2slideIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 35
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Almost all my adventures were at a bargain price...
Amerzone - £7.99 (PSX)
Broken Sword - £4.99
Broken Sword 2 - £4.99
Curse of Monkey Island - £12.99
Day of the Tentacle - £4.99
The Dig - part of £12.99 LucasArts Archives v3
Ecstatica 2 - £9.99
Escape From Monkey Island - £19.99 (PS2)
Full Throttle - part of £12.99 LucasArts Archives v3
Grim Fandango - £12.99
Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis - £9
The Last Express - £7.99
Little Big Adventure - £5 with LBA2
Little Big Adventure 2 - £5 with LBA
Monkey Island 2 : Lechuck's Revenge - part of £12.99 LucasArts Archives v3
Return to Zork - part of £9.99 Zork pack
Sam & Max Hit The Road - £9.99
The Secret of Monkey Island - part of £12.99 LucasArts Archives v3
Toonstruck - £4.99
Zork Grand Inquisitor - part of £9.99 Zork pack
Zork Nemesis - part of £9.99 Zork pack
I guess the best bargain would have to be my favourite game of all time for £7.99!
Ths sgntr hs n vwls.&&N Vwls? Hw ds t spll?&&Trrbl.
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 8:37pm |
bleepnikPrivate Detective
Posts : 544
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By itsgood2slide (19 OCT 2002 3:10pm)
Amerzone - £7.99 (PSX)
Amerzone was released for PSX?!!
*sigh* Does anyone know of a good resource that lists every game released for every gaming platform ever? A little blurb on the game would be cool too, but at this point, I'm willing to trudge through even a basic text file. Grr... I hate not knowing what's out for what, or that a different version of a game is available.
.gita
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 9:40pm |
nytimesguyPrivate Detective
Posts : 684
Joined: 14 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Two people mention they got bargain basement games at E.B. Excuse my ignorance, what does the E.B. stand for?
Charles - Game Theorist
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 9:48pm |
STooGE4444, EastCoastDoom...Schattenjger
Posts : 2099
Joined: 15 OCT 2002
Status : Online | HEy nytimesguy,
EB is Electronics Boutique www.ebworld.com. Also the same a Babbages or Software Etc. epends on where you are.
That's about it.
[glb]SVT RBs[/glb]
~rbeeler SVT &&Name's STooGE$$$$ Valpurgius TNT; it's not PLURAL&&[img]http://www.riseaboverecords.com/sleep/image/sleepfront.gif[/img]&&151.Generally speaking Sludge Doomsters are Angry, Gothic doomsters are sad, funeral doomsters are barely breathing, death doomsters are dirty, drunk and dribbling, Stoner Doomsters don't care, drone doomsters are out of it and traditional Doomsters are permanently pissed off, mainly with other doomsters
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 6:49am |
bleepnikPrivate Detective
Posts : 544
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By stooge4444 (19 OCT 2002 9:48pm)
HEy nytimesguy,
EB is Electronics Boutique www.ebworld.com. Also the same a Babbages or Software Etc. Depends on where you are.
Really? Hmm... I thought Babbage's, SoftwareEtc., PlanetX and Funcoland were all GameStop retail properties, and that EB was completely separate. Indeed, IIRC, EB was in direct competition with SoftwareEtc.
.gita
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 7:40am |
STooGE4444, EastCoastDoom...Schattenjger
Posts : 2099
Joined: 15 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Software Etc bought out Walden Software a long time ago. Then EB bought Software Etc and eventually changed all of their stores to EB. EB could have sold the name Soft Etc to them I'm not sure.
Anyway, what I basically meant was that EB is just like the others, a software/game store.
KNighters (That's night + ers not knit + ers)
~rbeeler SVT &&Name's STooGE$$$$ Valpurgius TNT; it's not PLURAL&&[img]http://www.riseaboverecords.com/sleep/image/sleepfront.gif[/img]&&151.Generally speaking Sludge Doomsters are Angry, Gothic doomsters are sad, funeral doomsters are barely breathing, death doomsters are dirty, drunk and dribbling, Stoner Doomsters don't care, drone doomsters are out of it and traditional Doomsters are permanently pissed off, mainly with other doomsters
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 11:11am |
JoYSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 208
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I think maybe upto 90% of my collection come from bargain bins, flea-markets, or something like that, so picking a favourite is a bit hard.
But I am very fond of the Myst Exile Digital Press Kit someone sold me at a flea-market for about $5. I guess because it is the kind of stuff I would normally never get my hands on!?!
Anyway, my advice is, allways be on the look out! rare games tend to pop up at the strangest places!
JoY
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 11:50am |
itsgood2slideIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 35
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | JustG - a good place to start would be http://www.gamefaqs.com
Ths sgntr hs n vwls.&&N Vwls? Hw ds t spll?&&Trrbl.
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 11:51pm |
| Deleted User | He he he... I bought Amerzone for $4.99 - that's Canadian dollars. I certainly got $4.99 of value out of that game. I also picked up several Dreamcatcher titles for $9.99.
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| 21 OCT 2002 at 1:21am |
overcomeSpace Cadet
Posts : 112
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Fick Fack,
In what store exactly did you find Amerzone so cheap? I'm a Sokyal fan and hope to find a copy. Was it Zellers??
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| 21 OCT 2002 at 4:57am |
Freddie_PharkasSpace Cadet
Posts : 114
Joined: 17 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Originally Posted By overcome (21 OCT 2002 1:20am)
Fick Fack,
In what store exactly did you find Amerzone so cheap? I'm a Sokyal fan and hope to find a copy. Was it Zellers??
I found my copy at an Electronics Boutique. Amazon.com has a few used copies as well, or at least they did a couple weeks ago. Hope you find one. A really fun game.
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| 21 OCT 2002 at 8:59am |
bleepnikPrivate Detective
Posts : 544
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By itsgood2slide (20 OCT 2002 11:49am)
JustG - a good place to start would be http://www.gamefaqs.com
Thanks!
.gita
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| 22 OCT 2002 at 12:17am |
josieIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 86
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I remember getting Serious Sam I think at CompUsa. It had been Mismarked $4.99 and was suppose to be $44.99, and we got it for the $4.99 price and we got two copies so it could be played Mulitplayer on the Network. They were none to happy but it was their fault.
Josie
JOSIE
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| 23 OCT 2002 at 8:54pm |
| Deleted User | I found Amerzone at Radio Shack, believe it or not. I've never seen it there before or since.
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