Black Friday Findings

After a deep slumber I departed from my chambers and ventured out into the madness of Black Friday. It was, of course, madness. Overall it wasn't too bad since I waited long enough for the worst of the crowds to thin out. I came away with some nice deals today, mostly of the new/modern game variety.

I got a pretty nice deal on these, but nothing too major. I paid full price on Super Mario 3D World($60), but got 40% off on another game. So that knocked DuckTales: Remastered down to about $12. Since I was planning to get both games, it made sense to go ahead and get them both while Toys R Us had this sale going on. Even though I already own DuckTales on NES, it will still be nice to see what they've done with it on the remake. CANNOT WAIT to dig into Mario 3D World!

As much as I despise Gamestop, I could not pass up this deal(of sorts). The fact that Michael Ironside did not provide the voice of Sam Fisher in Blacklist almost made me pass up on this game entirely. A friend (who is as equally fond of Ironside as Fisher) told me that the game is good enough to barely make up for that loss. So for $25, I pulled the trigger. What was real crappy/Gamestoppy was that I noticed my "new" game had multiple fingerprints and a few small scratches on the disc. Luckily, the Gamestop close to my home let me swap the disc out with one that is closer to "new" condition than the other one. Too bad the cover art has "Gamestop Edition" on the front. I can get their crappy stickers off, but they went s far as to put their name in the cover art with this one. I've never noticed that before on any game. Oh well, at least I got a good deal on the game.

Now here are two games I've been meaning to get for a long time, though neither is too high on my playlist now. This was also a Toys R Us deal. You could buy any game that was $15 or $20 and get another of the same price for $1. So I paid $21 for two sweet games. Nice!

 And to round it all out, here are three NES games I picked up at Top Games. The Three Stooges, Tag Team Wrestling, and Joust with the manual. Top Games had the "buy two, get one free" deal going on used games. So $15 buck for these three games wasn't too bad at all. Concerning Joust, which is a really fun game, there are two things to note. First, I found out when I got home that I already own a NES copy of Joust(d'oh!). Secondly, this copy of Joust came with the manual(score!).

And as a special showstopper, here are two nifty items from the belly of the beast(Wal-Mart). Tropic Thunder on dvd for $2. Aaaaaaaand the fantabulously awesome show Firefly for $10! I'll take that deal any day. Until next time.