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So, earlier in the week, Rei crossposted a bit of information from CheapAssGamer. There was some good stuff on the list! I was wanting to try Soul Calibur IV and Too Human and Infinite Undiscovery, so I set my phone to let me know to go, and then I went.

I got there 15 minutes early. People starting pulling up. Oh, there was some Grandpas and Grandmas. Oh, here’s someone with a laptop to take to Geek Squad, I guess. The coast looked clear. Then, the college kids started rolling up. A guy pulled up on a moped, and stood right outside the door, prompting everyone to get out of their cars, including me. We waited. We were all here for the same thing. I watched, and noticed when the guy moved to unlock the door before everyone else. I got into position.

We all kind of rushed in at the same time. Not a run, but pretty well to the highest amount of walk one could get without running. I was under the impression they were all supposed to be in a bin, but I saw no bin! But wait, there they all were, on a side shelf. I rushed in and grabbed, dodging around people. There’s Soul Calibur, grabbed two Copies. Infinite Undiscovery, a copy of that, thank you… Too Human… where are you Too Human? No? No… gone already, forget it… Ninja Gaiden DS is down there, grab that… oh, the Neopets game was Puzzle Adventure? I was going to buy that for the PC when it hit 10 bucks so I could grab that too… okay? Okay.

An older lady came up and asked me “Is there a sale going on?”
I turned and politely responded. “Yeah, all these games are $10.”
“Are they computer games?”
“No, they’re console games, as well as DS. These won’t run on a PC.”
“Oh, well, then I guess they’re something I don’t know about then.”
Behind me, there was another mom asking about Pure for the PS3. She couldn’t find it among all of us gamers who knew exactly what we were doing. Her son had asked her to get it. In a shocking display, I saw a guy offer her one of the multiple copies he had grabbed to flip. It was a nice gesture.

I checked out, using my $5 coupon, and left. $48 bucks for all those games. (though one of them is for Essner, who’ll pay me back) Not bad! Hopefully they’re worthwhile. At least I had a little adventure of some sort before the boring work of today, I suppose.

I was pretty shocked that I was so successful. I was almost counting on me NOT being successful, much like my recent PSP game run to Gamestop during their Game Days sale. I collect so many games and barely play them. It’s kind of silly. But last time I went to one of these Best Buy clearances, there was nothing there by the time I walked inside. Two guys had EVERYTHING immediately. So I wasn’t expecting to win. But I did. So that’s cool.
I really don’t know why they advertised this in the paper, though. I would bet money that every single person who got most of the games there were people who heard of this sale on CAG. By the time the older set see the flyer in the paper and make it out there, there won’t be games left. It just seems like a waste of money to advertise it, as they’re going to sell out anyway. But eh, I’m not a Best Buy ad guru, so what do I know, I suppose.

Anyway, we’ll see how these games are. I would expect me to ramble about them in the future. So far, the only one I’ve popped in is Infinite Undiscovery, and had a sad reaction to the unreadable super tiny text in the thing. Oh well, we’ll see how it goes.