Black Friday Finds

[NE146]

Finds? Nah I just bought:

Metroid prime 2, Mario Tennis, Metal Gear Solid 3, Donkey Konga, GBA classics Castlevania, Taiko Drum Master, Paper Mario, Gradius V.

Alls for 20% off, w/ no tax. Not too bad for current "hot" games.

[Twitami]

Lol, progressive Scan DVD player $17.99 after rebate. I worked at Best Buy, and the last few years they have had the same DVD player promo: the Norcent or the Cyberhome. Want to know why they are $17.99? They have close to a 60% defect rate.

The concept of these things has always boggled me. Who would you give an $18.00 DVD player to for Christmas? If someone gave it to me, I woudl hit them in the heaqd with it. Especially when for about $50-$60.00 you can buy a Toshiba, Philips, or even a Sony on a good day. How is $18.00 a better deal when you have to replace it in 6 months?

Personally, if someone just only wanted to spend about $20.00 on a present, I would rather have a great DVD movie, and buy my own dvd player.
But, I rant....

Brian

[jenzyme]

Picked up some good stuff today:

EB:
Alpha Centauri
Arcanum
Operation Flashpoint
One Must Fall: Battlegrounds
Tron 2.0
Alice
Homeworld 2
Homeworld Cataclysm
Rainbow Six 3
Baldur's Gate 2
Half Life GOTY
Beyond Good and Evil
Icewind Dale
MDK 2
Freedom Force
Anachronox

All used on PC, $37.24

Gamestop:
Dragon Warrior VII (PSX)
R-Type 3 (SNES)
Onimusha 3: Demon Siege (PS2)
Destiny of an Emperor (NES)
PS2 Component Cables (Monster brand)
Bandit Kings of China (NES)
Dudes with Tudes (NES)
Skull and Crossbones (NES)
Xevious 3D+G (PSX)

Total: $30.68

Another Gamestop:
GTA: San Andreas
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Metroid Prime 2:

Total: 87.66

I spend too much money on this stuff.

[esquire]

Lol, progressive Scan DVD player $17.99 after rebate. I worked at Best Buy, and the last few years they have had the same DVD player promo: the Norcent or the Cyberhome. Want to know why they are $17.99? They have close to a 60% defect rate.

The concept of these things has always boggled me. Who would you give an $18.00 DVD player to for Christmas? If someone gave it to me, I woudl hit them in the heaqd with it. Especially when for about $50-$60.00 you can buy a Toshiba, Philips, or even a Sony on a good day. How is $18.00 a better deal when you have to replace it in 6 months?

Personally, if someone just only wanted to spend about $20.00 on a present, I would rather have a great DVD movie, and buy my own dvd player.
But, I rant....

Brian

Please don't threadjack, and BTW, it was not intended as a gift you arrogant assuming ass.

[Twitami]

Haha, a bit sensitive about that purchase eh? Sorry, didn't mean to offend you, was just ranting in general. Yours may have just been an extra DVD for the basement or something, but most of them sold are for gifts (In fact, a lot of the ones returned usually have bits of wrapping paper taped to them). Again, just ranting, no offense intended. But, fyi....you will probably not use it much, then in about 7 months you will decide to play a DVD on it. You will insert the movie, and the unit will make some noise for a while and then say "no disc". Or, it may just not open. The Norcent is BY FAR worse than the Cyberhome for this--if you bought one, take it back.

[Chunky]

Haha, a bit sensitive about that purchase eh? Sorry, didn't mean to offend you, was just ranting in general. Yours may have just been an extra DVD for the basement or something, but most of them sold are for gifts (In fact, a lot of the ones returned usually have bits of wrapping paper taped to them). Again, just ranting, no offense intended. But, fyi....you will probably not use it much, then in about 7 months you will decide to play a DVD on it. You will insert the movie, and the unit will make some noise for a while and then say "no disc". Or, it may just not open. The Norcent is BY FAR worse than the Cyberhome for this--if you bought one, take it back.

your thinking is nothing new, so shush already. cheap is cheap my apex 19.99 one is still going 2 years now, but i did buy it to *ahem* fix the bios on it....anyways. enough.

[vision89]

I went to GameCrazy for the buy 1 get one free special. I got Gunstar Heroes for the Genesis and Secret of Evermore for the SNES at $15 for both. Not the greatest deal in the world, but not too bad either.

[youruglyclone]

ending up swinging by BB to pick up a NEC projector for 600 needless to say I'm very happy with it..and to see san andreas in a 40+ display

[digtempest]

Metal Arms A Glitch in the System at C. City(a $9.99 price match from a B. Buy ad). But the cashier wouldn't give the 10% difference. The game had a C. City sticker price of $49.99. It rang up for $19.99. I didn't feel like fighting the cashier to save an extra $1.05.

[stuffedmonkey]

I got the gamecube bundle at eb:

The Platinum gamecube, 2 controllers mario kart double dash, animal crossing (free game - comes with memory card) all for 99$ - plus a gift certificate for 15$ off a game!

[dethink]

i sold my DS and took advantage of the EB GC deals...

i ended up with a metroid bundle, echoes, metal gear solid, NBA street 2, and f-zero, plus whatever the big memory card is now, and i still have $50 left over.

[snoopthree]

I didn't get anything in the way of games, but I did brave the waters of Fry's BF sale and got"

Sharp Mini DV camcorder $149.00
HP 3.1 Megapixel Digital Camera $49.00
Laptop Computer $499.00 (Which will have many emulators on it!)
Wireless router for notebook $15.00
Wireless card for $10.00

It's cool as it is all stuff we have needed and saved a bunch. I have to kive Kudos to them as well, while it was chaotic it was well run, and I was in line no more then 3 minutes to check out thanks to the 60! registers they had open. (To get the deals I was there about an hour before they opened, and about 250-300 in line at that point)

Evan

[TRM]

For $7 I got the following (all loose)

Freedom Force (NES)
Racket Attack (NES)
Super Gloveball (NES)
Mafat Conspiracy (NES)
Burai Fighter (NES)
Remote Control (NES)

[TheSmirk]

Nothing really, at an EBgames, I took advantage of their buy 2 used get one free and got

MK Trilogy (PSX)
Pro Pinball Big Race USA (PSX)
Gamecube Demo Disc 2 (GCN)

all three for about $6

[LiquidX01]

I got just a few things for myself.

Grand Theft Auto: Double Pack. (Xbox) $20

Found it cheap enough for me to actually buy it.

Outlaw Golf 2 (Xbox) $15

Ghost Recon 2 (Xbox) $50

Didn't get a deal on it, but I really wanted it.