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Luck. . . or Fate?
14 years ago
Long story short: I now have a Nintendo 64.
Long story:
Not that I didn't have one before.
See, I'm a twin. Growing up, my brother and I have always shared our video game consoles (given that it really wasn't cost effective to buy two consoles. Handhelds like the Gameboy were different). Now, we're at the age where we are going to be separate for a long time, and the issue of ownership has come up.
My brother can be a bit of an overbearing asshole at times. He does things purposefully to mock me when he can. He has basically decided that he owns all the consoles and games (because, according to him, he played them more), except the ones he doesn't like. As I said, an asshole. He lives with my Dad now, leaving me little opportunity to argue otherwise. Last thing I managed to do was grab my PS2 and a few games I wanted to play. He's had the system for over a year, and he never played it. He can let me have it for a nice long while now, dammit!
Anyways, back to the story. I know that in the end, I'm going to have to buy all these consoles and copies of the games, because I know he never will, he'll just keep taking them back. So I need my own (which is gonna be hard with old, popular games like Final Fantasy VII (which I've seen for sale at between $75 and $120)). There was a yard sale down the street. I was told by my grandmother that she "saw some cartridges there, you know, like old Nintendo games" (I use her quotes to illustrate her good intent, but he lack of video gaming knowledge. She did buy us our Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and N64, so she knows the basics of gaming, kind of. Wouldn't be able to play a game to save her life, though.). I quickly rushed over there. Thank goodness people don't know value.
Picked up a N64 console, 4 controllers (1 plain grey, 1 purple and see-through, 1 green and see-through, and one red), 6 N64 games (Perfect Dark, Excitebike 64, Pokemon Snap, Toy Story 2, Donkey Kong 64, and Banjo Kazooie), and 4 Gameboy Colour games (Hamtaro, Pokemon Yellow (and the internal battery still works!), Mortal Kombat 2, and Monster Rancher Explorer). All that for $35.
Given that Most N64s at used game stores and conventions that i see go for about $50, and that's with no games and 2 controllers, I think I got a damn good deal. And now I have my own N64, my own copy of Banjo Kazooie, and 5 other games I've never had before. Plus those 4 GBC games.
Long story:
Not that I didn't have one before.
See, I'm a twin. Growing up, my brother and I have always shared our video game consoles (given that it really wasn't cost effective to buy two consoles. Handhelds like the Gameboy were different). Now, we're at the age where we are going to be separate for a long time, and the issue of ownership has come up.
My brother can be a bit of an overbearing asshole at times. He does things purposefully to mock me when he can. He has basically decided that he owns all the consoles and games (because, according to him, he played them more), except the ones he doesn't like. As I said, an asshole. He lives with my Dad now, leaving me little opportunity to argue otherwise. Last thing I managed to do was grab my PS2 and a few games I wanted to play. He's had the system for over a year, and he never played it. He can let me have it for a nice long while now, dammit!
Anyways, back to the story. I know that in the end, I'm going to have to buy all these consoles and copies of the games, because I know he never will, he'll just keep taking them back. So I need my own (which is gonna be hard with old, popular games like Final Fantasy VII (which I've seen for sale at between $75 and $120)). There was a yard sale down the street. I was told by my grandmother that she "saw some cartridges there, you know, like old Nintendo games" (I use her quotes to illustrate her good intent, but he lack of video gaming knowledge. She did buy us our Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and N64, so she knows the basics of gaming, kind of. Wouldn't be able to play a game to save her life, though.). I quickly rushed over there. Thank goodness people don't know value.
Picked up a N64 console, 4 controllers (1 plain grey, 1 purple and see-through, 1 green and see-through, and one red), 6 N64 games (Perfect Dark, Excitebike 64, Pokemon Snap, Toy Story 2, Donkey Kong 64, and Banjo Kazooie), and 4 Gameboy Colour games (Hamtaro, Pokemon Yellow (and the internal battery still works!), Mortal Kombat 2, and Monster Rancher Explorer). All that for $35.
Given that Most N64s at used game stores and conventions that i see go for about $50, and that's with no games and 2 controllers, I think I got a damn good deal. And now I have my own N64, my own copy of Banjo Kazooie, and 5 other games I've never had before. Plus those 4 GBC games.
Though, I am hijacking the games I KNOW are mine. Unfortunately few before the PS2/Gamecube era. Actually, all Nintendo games past the Gamecube Era are mine, because I bought the console and all the games. But the Sony side, the PS2 games are shared.
So, if you know people in the south-central Ontario area who wants to get rid of older games for any console on the cheap, direct them to me.