I'll probably get up off of my ass & go do a bit of "Black Friday" browsing/shopping & looking around in a bit.
During the ~3 weeks that I couldn't access the Internet at all, I did still manage to hit-up a few gaming stores (1 or 2 of them that weren't "regulars" for me).
I'll list (what I remember) of the things that I bought while I was 'gone' in a minute...
First, I just want to say that, the "best" of my finds here ("best" being *
relative* here - no extremely rare/valuable games for a buck or 2, or anything like that); at a pawnshop/"Quick-Cash" type of store that I'd been to several times before.
I guess that I bought a total of ~10 items here this time -BUT- only 2 or 3 of them were visible/displayed anywhere on the floor and/or in any of their display cases
![Huh ???](https://vgcollect.com/forum/Smileys/default/huh.gif)
I'm not really sure *why* I hadn't thought of doing this before, but, for the hell of it - I asked the manager if they had any *Other* video games for sale that *Weren't*
Visible to me/from the floor...I was expecting a "
No, everything that we have is already out" -or- maybe a "
Well, maybe a few that just came-in that haven't been 'processed' yet".
Instead, to my gleeful surprise, he answered:
"
Well, actually...we DO"!
"
They're a little more expensive than most of what's on the floor, but, we also sell games on-line; and there's probably 100 or so in the back" ![Roll Eyes ::)](https://vgcollect.com/forum/Smileys/default/rolleyes.gif)
At any rate, he then invited me behind the counter (to give me a view of his computer screen) & asked me to give him some system names & genres to sort by.
Like I said, iirc, ~7 out of the 10 things that I walked out with were things that I only knew about from looking at the screen w/ him. This also gave me the other (*Unheard* of) advantage of not only seeing the "Secret"/"Invisible"/"Bonus Content" inventory listed on his screen...but...by looking closely & quickly enough - I was also able to see how much *they* paid for the game(s) in question.
Quick example:
A PS2 copy of
Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land for the PS2 (Mint/Missing only the manual).
As some of you may know, this is a pretty hard-to-find one for the PS2.
Instead of simply asking him "how much is it" - I instead asked:
"Huh. I see you got this game for $4.99; so, I suppose that you'll sell it to me for, say, *Double* that, right"?
- (He did *AND* ended up also giving me a 10% discount on my total)!!!
Not only would I have paid well over $10 for it, but, I'm sure that if I hadn't seen/didn't know how much it cost them, that he would have happily, w/o a 2nd thought, *charged* me much more than that
![Wink ;)](https://vgcollect.com/forum/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
Just taking the time to type all of this to let the rest of ya' know that this may be worth trying at some of your local stores, too
![Tongue :P](https://vgcollect.com/forum/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)
Anyway, off of the top of my head, some of the things that I remember buying those weeks are:
1).
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (PS3/NA),
2).
F.E.A.R. 2 (PS3/NA),
3).
F.E.A.R. 3 (PS3/NA),
4).
Rise of the Argonauts (PS3/NA),
5).
Golden Axe: Beast Rider (PS3/NA),
6).
Valkyria Chronicles 2 (PSP/NA),
7).
Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land (PS2/NA),
8.
The Legend of A'Lon Dar (PS2/NA),
9).
Grand Theft Auto 2 (PSX/NA),
10).
Disney's Atlantis (PSX/NA),
11).
Paper Mario Sticker Star (3DS/NA), and
12).
" " Strategy Guide.
I feel like I'm forgetting some, but, oh well...that pretty much catches-me-up for the last couple of weeks
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