I'm gonna take a look back at pictures and stuff I've taken. I'm thinking I don't have more than 1 or 2 pickups to share as I barely left the house after March, so only mail calls, and even before March, I don't think I left but a couple of times.
I'll go chronological
1. Blaze twin shock home arcade stick. Limited Black edition.
- In one of the few instances of me checking Facebook/Craigslist I saw this listing for like $20 and knew that I wanted it. Contacted the guy and went to pick it up. Coincidentally, I've bought from this guy before. I think like 5 years ago I bought Yoshi's Island SNES and Zoids GCN for like $20.
2. JJgames closing down sale
- JJgames was shutting down and had a huge clearance sale, so I got a bunch of games for next to nothing.
3. Pre-lockdown game sale at a local shop
- Shop was doing B2G1 I think and I bought a ton of stuff
4. Watermelon red N64
- A seller I buy stuff from online frequently. I think all of my N64s except the ones from my childhood are from this guy. Randomly he'll get in N64s and sell them for like $50. He listed a watermelon red one, came with a plain red controller though, that was disappointing, but can't complain.
5 + 6. Tons of Japanese + European imports
- I went kinda crazy on imports during lockdown, bought stuff from Japan and Europe. There will be some other non import stuff in the picture coincidentally and some other stuff not pictured because I didn't want to share a pic of 5 games and only one being an import.
7 + 8 + 9 + 10. AC7 HOTAS controller, Tales of Vesperia SE, Holiday demo disc that formats memory cards, and Shantae Repro display box + more import.
- I got a really good deal on the Hotas controller, like half price. Tales of Vesperia SE was like half market rate too. After years of thinking I had the demo disc that formats memory cards, I went to test it and noticed my disc didn't have Viewtiful Joe 2 on it. Then I realized that Holiday 2004 PSM demo disc had 2 different releases, the OG disc with the bug and the replacement disk. Had to go out and re-buy the game, and it turned out that the format feature successfully formats otherwise unformattable corrupted memory cards, bringing them back to life. The Shantae Repro box is cool in that I paid like $25 total for two of them, second one not pictured.
11 + 12. Ringfit + Metal Gear Rex model kit
- I wouldn't have listed the Rex, but it's in the same picture and it was a great price. Ringfit was hard to come by at the time and since then I've lost 30 lbs.
13 + 14. My Detolf display cases
- Bought some display cases from IKEA, just a happy purchase. First case was murder to put together, second one not so bad.
15. My disgusting Dual Analog Joystick that I got on ebay for cheap
16. The arrival of my 1Print games order with Kero Blaster, Ittle Dew, and Death Squared.
17. More confetti than anyone rightfully should have
- Not pictured
18. Secret Santa gifts
- because if I'm going to mention the confetti, I should mention the gifts as well.
19. Sakura Wars PS2
- Not that I got a fantastic price on this, but I've been wanting it for so long [my love] and it was always selling for so much more than what VGPC suggested it should, managed to finally get it below VGPC's suggested price though.
20. Soul Nomad PS2
- Another game I've been wanting for so long, but just could never find. I finally caved and threw an ebay saved search together and just kept an eye on it until a listing popped below market rate and snatched it up.
21. Shantae 1/2 Genie Hero display repro box
- Not pictured. I've tried to buy this multiple times. 1st time seller cancelled immediately because he didn't mean to list it so low. 2nd time seller cancelled because "he oversold" when in reality he didn't like that the auction ended at $10, so he cancelled and relisted as a BIN for $50. 3rd time it finally arrived, after sitting in USPS xmas/covid limbo for nearly a month... only cost me like $17.
22. Gamestop's dumb B5G11 Free deal
- I don't remember exactly how crazy the deal was, but it was nuts like that where the B3G2 deal turned into like B5g11 free, but I got a lot of stuff from GS from that deal. Most not pictured because it was loose disc.
23. Tomba 2
- Almost complete, just missing the cover of the manual. Got it for $37.
24. 2 years of PS+ for $20 total
- Obviously not pictured, but a heck of a deal considering how much plus costs.
25. Xbox Series X
- Target let me preorder, use my 5% red card discount, a birthday discount, and a site wide 10% discount knocking the preorder down to mid $400 range.
26. PS5
- Nothing special other than the fact that I managed to get one preordered with no hassle.
27. The random internet orders
- So many random internet orders sprinkled into previous pictures!
Uh... I guess that's it.