About a month ago, I got laid off from my job, so I haven't been able to really get a lot of exciting new game stuff. I did manage to get a few things before the layoff and some small stuff afterwards too. Let's get on with it.
Around this time, I was still pretty upset about the job loss, and I decided to go back to Half-Price Books and get a few of the cheap PS1 games. When I got there, I found the games gone but a sale going on. For some reason, I did not get the coupons in the mail, but my grandmother did. We went back a few times, and I was able to get all of these games and some books like the one above that stares right at you using the coupons that she did not want anyway. I was glad to get these uncommon Atari 2600 games at 40%-50% off.
Before I lost my job, I did snag a few cheap games - Spot: the Video Game and Kid Niki: Radical Ninja for NES and Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose for SNES. I've been collecting all the 7 Up Spot games recently, and I had the Genesis Tiny Toon Adventures game when I was little. I thought it might be fun to try the SNES game, which is similar in some ways but different in others. As for Kid Niki, it looks great. I read about it last year and have been looking for a clean copy. My friend Tyler is also really into this game and talks about it all day and all night.
I snagged these two games from Japan - Cu-On-Pa and Mojib Ribbon. The former is a Super Famicom puzzle game involving rolling a cube to match colored faces. The latter is a spin-off of Vib-Ribbon, Masaya Matsuura's post-Parappa rhythm game. I heard about Cu-On-Pa, and Buster Busts Loose, from SNESDrunk on YouTube.
SaGa Frontier 2 is a game that I got really interested in out of nowhere. I love the art style and am hoping to get started with this soon. The first one was a bit disappointing to me, so I am hoping this can live up to the great Final Fantasy 2.
I ended up going to Half-Price Books on a whim and found a bunch of $2 PS1 games. I had almost got Olympic Summer Games in the past but passed it up then, as I was not sure if I had it. Bass Rise was a game that I recently heard about in a PlayStation group on Facebook. Both look fun enough for $2. I like getting odd games if they are cheap. These games were especially enticing, as they appeared to be almost new despite being open. The other $2 PS1 clearance games were like that too. I planned to return for them once I was sure of which ones I did or did not have.
Mad Maestro looks kind of silly and fun, and it was cheap. I got it while I was submitting a job application after looking at it on eBay for several years. It was in good condition at the store and only like $3.
This PS2 memory card came from my local Goodwill. That store had a computer section until the last month. When it closed, they got rid of a lot of stuff cheap. This was 25 or 50¢. It cleaned up nice.
These Sega Genesis games came from my friend Brian. He was getting rid of some stuff for spring cleaning. I had some of these already, including Taz in Escape from Mars, the first video game that I ever owned as a bundle with my Sega Genesis. I was happy to get these from him - even a small gift is nice to get.
These games came from a local store after I finished doing an interview for a job that seems pretty cool. I was thinking about Skate or Die! a lot recently. I have never really played it but always thought the name was amusing. This is the second game, as the store did not have a nice copy of the first game. Shamus is an old arcade game modeled after Berzerk.
Finally, the other day I found this F-Zero GX strategy guide from Nintendo Power at the same Goodwill that closed the computer store. My girlfriend wanted to go and get a chair and a bookshelf forms the store, but both were gone when we got there. My friend Jim had also informed me that the store had Darwin's World, a D20 Modern post-apocalyptic sourcebook that I thought might be cool. The book was huge but did not seem that interesting; I was hoping to just use some ideas from it without the baggage of D20 rules. I was happy when I found this guide instead, as F-Zero is one of my favorite game series. It even had the poster inside! That's awesome!
Everything isn't hopeless for me in terms of employment. I have unemployment coming and there are some good job prospects on the horizon too. I am not afraid about the future, and finding small deals like these helps brighten my days always. I hope you find some cool stuff in your own special places wherever you are!
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