TechParadox
Shared on Tue, 01/30/2007 - 22:28A cute tidbit of rhyme, no? I got it from John Kovalic's Dork Tower comics, and I felt it was worth re-using, considering the things I'm in to these days.
On to the meat-and-potatoes:
Dropped in to Gamestop today. I was intending on buying a Tekken 5 deluxe pack they had sitting on the shelf that has been there for the last three or four months, priced to sell but there haven't been any takers. It includes Tekken 5, a slipcase to hold all the Tekken games, and a Tekken-branded arcade stick for use with the PS2. I've been meaning to pick up a joystick for my PS2 anyway, and I played the hell out of Tekken 3 back in the day, so it was a good fit for my tastes.
When I got there, I decided to browse the used games first, on a whim. Lo and behold, there in the used section, was a copy of Disgaea (the first one). I'd been looking for that game for bloody forever, so that immediately made it a must-buy. A little mental math told me I could still afford the Tekken pack, so I headed over to the rack where it still sat... and there beside it was a still-sealed copy of Beatmania, with the controller.
I'm a sucker for Bemani games, even if I do suck at them. And the local Gamestop didn't have any copies of the game in stock back at release. Where this one suddenly appeared from, I have no clue. My best guess would be that someone pre-ordered it, didn't pick it up, and they found it gathering dust back in the stockroom so they threw it on the shelf at a discount. Thirty bucks and it could be mine...
Needless to say, my plans to get the Tekken pack got shanghaied.
Oh well. There's always the next paycheck...
On to the meat-and-potatoes:
Dropped in to Gamestop today. I was intending on buying a Tekken 5 deluxe pack they had sitting on the shelf that has been there for the last three or four months, priced to sell but there haven't been any takers. It includes Tekken 5, a slipcase to hold all the Tekken games, and a Tekken-branded arcade stick for use with the PS2. I've been meaning to pick up a joystick for my PS2 anyway, and I played the hell out of Tekken 3 back in the day, so it was a good fit for my tastes.
When I got there, I decided to browse the used games first, on a whim. Lo and behold, there in the used section, was a copy of Disgaea (the first one). I'd been looking for that game for bloody forever, so that immediately made it a must-buy. A little mental math told me I could still afford the Tekken pack, so I headed over to the rack where it still sat... and there beside it was a still-sealed copy of Beatmania, with the controller.
I'm a sucker for Bemani games, even if I do suck at them. And the local Gamestop didn't have any copies of the game in stock back at release. Where this one suddenly appeared from, I have no clue. My best guess would be that someone pre-ordered it, didn't pick it up, and they found it gathering dust back in the stockroom so they threw it on the shelf at a discount. Thirty bucks and it could be mine...
Needless to say, my plans to get the Tekken pack got shanghaied.
Oh well. There's always the next paycheck...
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