Play N Trade FTW

Julia and I made a trip to North Augusta (about 20 or so miles from us in Aiken) today to hit up the Play N Trade that opened up a few weeks ago. Sadly they were closed for New Years Day. But the owner, staying in to take care of some last minute year-end paperwork, was kind enough to let us in and take a look around. He also offered to give us a good deal since its New Years and we drove a bit to get to his store. Would never happen at GameStop.

The newer pickings were kind of slim due to it being a new Play N Trade.....but they still had some good titles for decent prices, and some cool older titles stores dont carry anymore.

Our bounty included:
Super Paper Mario used (Wii) - $34.99
Lips w/Microphone used (X360) - $44.99
Dead Space used (X360) - originally $14.99, but given to us for free as a (buy 2 get 1 free incentive)
Super Mario Allstars used (SNES) - originally $24.99, he knocked $10 off making it $14.99.

Now another bonus. There had been a Play N Trade closer to us that we visited and did some trade-ins with. But they shut down...so we figured since all the stores are locally owned and not huge yet....they wouldn't have our account info. Sure enough. They did. So drop another $13 in store credit and All-Stars is practically free.

And to top it all off. All of the discs were in pristine, practically new condition and had their manuals. And the SNES cartridge had no marker smudges or label goop on it. Almost fresh from the box.

So all in all a great visit to a store that was supposed to be closed.

We finished our trip to North Augusta with a visit to our favorite little chinese restaraunt, Ming-Yat.

Great way to start off the New Year. Good games, good company and good food.

Here's hoping its gonna be better than 2009.

- Gat

P.S. They had a copy of Chrono Trigger for the SNES and the grey NES zelda cartridges. I may have to make another trip back soon and snag those for my collection. If they aren't ridiculous.