How much would you pay for this?

Snowcone

I was at Wal-Mart with my son yesterday and, as we always do, we walked through the game section. I'm always on the prowl for good deals on older games so I walked by the Xbox section and saw this...

Apparently Wal-Mart missed the memo that it's not 2002 anymore and that the Xbox is no longer a viable system. Gamestop sells NBA Live 2003 for $1.99...

Ichinisan

They still charge $49.88 for "Eternal Darkness" and Nintendo's "Magical Mirror starring Mickey Mouse." They just flew under the radar of "The Clearance Harbinger of Oblivion." At least it means that those are still around for the people that must find them new at any cost.

durandal4532

Diablo 2 was $19.99 at my local Gamestop. I mean... good game. But seriously, it's been 7 years.

cloudeagle

About three years after the Gamecube was released, Wal-Mart was selling Conker's Bad Fur day for $60.

I also vividly remember the time, shortly after the N64 came out, Wal-Mart sold Yoshi's Island for $20. I immediately snapped it up. The next year, the very same Wal-Mart sold it for $50.

Oddly enough, Wal-Mart isn't always the best place for discounted older games.

Drakeon

durandal4532 wrote: »

Diablo 2 was $19.99 at my local Gamestop. I mean... good game. But seriously, it's been 7 years.

It's that much everywhere, It still sells a lot of copies (as does Starcraft). The Diablo 2 Battlechest is still $40 if im not mistaken.

DesertBox

Why doesn't it cost $49.99? (or $49.88 as Wal-mart likes to do)

Wasn't the standard price for xbox games $49.99? Did Wal-mart actually raise the price of this game over the last 5 years?

drhazard

This is like the FYE in Arundel Mills, MD selling a copy of Forsaken as late as two years ago, in the original big cardboard box, for $50.

LewieP

Although at a good price, I saw VIrtua Fighter 1 for the PC in my local tesco recently. It was priced at £1. It also had a sticker on it saying "Hurry, whilst stocks last"

This games is iirc like 12 years old.

Ichinisan

DesertBox wrote: »

Why doesn't it cost $49.99? (or $49.88 as Wal-mart likes to do)

Wasn't the standard price for xbox games $49.99? Did Wal-mart actually raise the price of this game over the last 5 years?

I've seen upscale Wal-Mart stores, or rather, Wal-Mart stores in an upscale area, add a markup.

Drez

Sometimes a retail chain will mark up a cost instead of marking down the cost of a soon-to-be clearance item just as a way of organizing by price. It's kind of dumb and sometimes they forget about a few titles, which is probably what happened with NBA Live 2002 up there.

FunkyWaltDogg

cloudeagle wrote: »

About three years after the Gamecube was released, Wal-Mart was selling Conker's Bad Fur day for $60.

I also vividly remember the time, shortly after the N64 came out, Wal-Mart sold Yoshi's Island for $20. I immediately snapped it up. The next year, the very same Wal-Mart sold it for $50.

Oddly enough, Wal-Mart isn't always the best place for discounted older games.

I picked up the original Unreal at Wal-Mart for $30 right after it came out. A year later, they marked it up to $50.

Sheep

Gimme fifty cents and I'll toss it in the trash for you.

Mr Heist

Ah... I'll buy it at a high price!

Snowcone

The best part is that this was not the only copy they had.

Daisuke Spoon

drhazard wrote: »

This is like the FYE in Arundel Mills, MD selling a copy of Forsaken as late as two years ago, in the original big cardboard box, for $50.

I go to the Arundel Mills FYE all the time. I don't know why, everything there is usually waaaay over priced.

Lucky Cynic

Assholes at Game Stop were selling Age of Mythology, (coincidentally, also from 2002) and still were trying to move it for $20. I later found it at Target for $10.

Zarcath

Snowcone wrote: »

I was at Wal-Mart with my son yesterday and, as we always do, we walked through the game section. I'm always on the prowl for good deals on older games so I walked by the Xbox section and saw this...

Apparently Wal-Mart missed the memo that it's not 2002 anymore and that the Xbox is no longer a viable system. Gamestop sells NBA Live 2003 for $1.99...

You're asking Wal-Mart, a store that largely only stocks full-screen DVDs, to make sense?

HydroSqueegee

I was in best buy years ago looking for a new game to play. Saw Roller Coaster Tycoon for $14 on the shelf. Since i loved themepark when i was younger I snatched it up. A week later, ads for RCT started appearing on the TV and the price shot up to $50 at the BB i bought it at. i still giggle about this.

Lost 3 months of my precious teenage life to that game.

h8b1llg8ts

Ichinisan wrote: »

They still charge $49.88 for "Eternal Darkness" ....

I saw that a couple of months ago at Wal-Mart too but with no price. Asked the guy to scan it for me because I was really looking for that game at the time and he confirmed the $49.88 price. When I asked him to also scan the last Zelda Edition Gamecube it also came back $49.88.

He didn't see the irony ...

bluemaggit

walmart is the devil as far as im concerned

Lucky Cynic

h8b1llg8ts, your sig is huge man, consider resizing it before some mod takes it down. It's about as twice as tall as it is recommended to be.

CZroe

Daisuke Spoon wrote: »

drhazard wrote: »

This is like the FYE in Arundel Mills, MD selling a copy of Forsaken as late as two years ago, in the original big cardboard box, for $50.

I go to the Arundel Mills FYE all the time. I don't know why, everything there is usually waaaay over priced.

If they ring it up, it'll probably be $2. FYE/Coconuts/Strawberries (TWE stores) had all N64 games for $2 a while back. That said, I have the game sealed on PC.

Anonymous Robot

LewieP wrote: »

Although at a good price, I saw VIrtua Fighter 1 for the PC in my local tesco recently. It was priced at £1. It also had a sticker on it saying "Hurry, whilst stocks last"

This games is iirc like 12 years old.

Whilst?

Ichinisan

Anonymous Robot wrote: »

LewieP wrote: »

Although at a good price, I saw VIrtua Fighter 1 for the PC in my local tesco recently. It was priced at £1. It also had a sticker on it saying "Hurry, whilst stocks last"

This games is iirc like 12 years old.

Whilst?

Pip pip!

Rook

Our local Game has a Geforce 2 MX for £49.99.

xWonderboyx

My friends and I recently got back into Diablo 2 and they all went out and bought the Battle Chest at 40 bucks a pop.

Shows the staying power of that game.

Einhander

h8b1llg8ts wrote: »

Ichinisan wrote: »

They still charge $49.88 for "Eternal Darkness" ....

I saw that a couple of months ago at Wal-Mart too but with no price. Asked the guy to scan it for me because I was really looking for that game at the time and he confirmed the $49.88 price. When I asked him to also scan the last Zelda Edition Gamecube it also came back $49.88.

He didn't see the irony ...

Wait... Are you telling me that Zelda for the GameCube is $50 or the GameCube itself is $50?

This is important because tomorrow is payday and I am in the mood for a hunt.

projectmayhem

Einhander wrote: »

h8b1llg8ts wrote: »

Ichinisan wrote: »

They still charge $49.88 for "Eternal Darkness" ....

I saw that a couple of months ago at Wal-Mart too but with no price. Asked the guy to scan it for me because I was really looking for that game at the time and he confirmed the $49.88 price. When I asked him to also scan the last Zelda Edition Gamecube it also came back $49.88.

He didn't see the irony ...

Wait... Are you telling me that Zelda for the GameCube is $50 or the GameCube itself is $50?

This is important because tomorrow is payday and I am in the mood for a hunt.

http://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-GameCube-Console-Indigo/dp/B00005QEFF/ref=pd_bbs_7/102-2998744-3344934?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1185482264&sr=8-7

Einhander

Speak of the Devil

Why I would be glad to fork over $300 for a factory sealed GameCube to a company with a 74% positive rating.

Oh God they're selling GBA SPs for $179.99 and oh God.

GTA San Andreas for $99

DS Lite for $249

Fable, MGS3, Final Fantasy Dawn of Souls, and Wind Waker for $60!

This thread should turn into a really really shitty price on the internet scavenger hunt.

CZroe

projectmayhem wrote: »

Einhander wrote: »

h8b1llg8ts wrote: »

Ichinisan wrote: »

They still charge $49.88 for "Eternal Darkness" ....

I saw that a couple of months ago at Wal-Mart too but with no price. Asked the guy to scan it for me because I was really looking for that game at the time and he confirmed the $49.88 price. When I asked him to also scan the last Zelda Edition Gamecube it also came back $49.88.

He didn't see the irony ...

Wait... Are you telling me that Zelda for the GameCube is $50 or the GameCube itself is $50?

This is important because tomorrow is payday and I am in the mood for a hunt.

http://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-GameCube-Console-Indigo/dp/B00005QEFF/ref=pd_bbs_7/102-2998744-3344934?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1185482264&sr=8-7

In case you didn't know, the sealed Zelda disc alone is worth more than that. The hunt will be difficult because it's likely the old Black Friday deal (with the free disc case). If it's the Collector's Edition deal, that's pretty damn good too. If it's the Wind Waker/Master Quest deal, that specific "single case for both games" version is even more rare/valuable. Wal-Mart had all of these bundles.

Snowcone

This same walmart had maybe 10 GCs, no Wiis, plenty of 360s, and plenty of PS3s.

Einhander

I know about the Zelda thing, I only ever saw it come in once back when I worked in game retail, both Zelda discs at the same time, and we damn near had a riot followed by a bidding war followed by another riot before the end of the day.

I'd be interested in picking up a brand new GameCube alone for $50 though. Mainly for REmake and Twin Snakes. I'm sure I'd find other games as well, and they're dirt cheap nowadays to boot.

I would have picked up a used GameCube a while ago, but the majority of them have been owned by kids and are usually beat to hell and filled with jelly and boogers.

But if I could score a new one for $50 I could pick up some Nattie Ice and some Axe Bodyspray on the way home and get my Bro Rape on.

Magus`

Just get a Wii.

cloudeagle

Magus` wrote: »

Just get a Wii.

That implies that he'd be able to, y'know, actually FIND a wii.

Einhander

cloudeagle wrote: »

Magus` wrote: »

Just get a Wii.

That implies that he'd be able to, y'know, actually FIND a wii.

Or want a Wii. But now we're getting sidetracked.

h8b1llg8ts

Einhander wrote: »

h8b1llg8ts wrote: »

Ichinisan wrote: »

They still charge $49.88 for "Eternal Darkness" ....

I saw that a couple of months ago at Wal-Mart too but with no price. Asked the guy to scan it for me because I was really looking for that game at the time and he confirmed the $49.88 price. When I asked him to also scan the last Zelda Edition Gamecube it also came back $49.88.

He didn't see the irony ...

Wait... Are you telling me that Zelda for the GameCube is $50 or the GameCube itself is $50?

This is important because tomorrow is payday and I am in the mood for a hunt.

This was like 3 or 4 months ago. Good Luck though ...

Lucky Cynic wrote:

h8b1llg8ts, your sig is huge man, consider resizing it before some mod takes it down. It's about as twice as tall as it is recommended to be.

Thanx for the heads up, I just checked the rules and say that ...

Dangerous

Zellers here are even worse for keeping old games at high prices. Last time I was in there they still had quite a few nintendo 64 games for $30+. I recall seeing a couple gameboy color titles as well. They had SNES and sega cartridges a while ago, bundled together at fair prices but it still made me go wtf.

Orogogus

IN 2004, Interplay released an Interplay 20th anniversary edition of Freespace 2 (which originally came out in 1999), with no added features whatsoever, for the low, low price of... $49.95. And this was after the source code project was already up and running.

Coincidentally, the company seems to have gone all kinds of broke since then.

Dr_Keenbean

Daisuke Spoon wrote: »

drhazard wrote: »

This is like the FYE in Arundel Mills, MD selling a copy of Forsaken as late as two years ago, in the original big cardboard box, for $50.

I go to the Arundel Mills FYE all the time. I don't know why, everything there is usually waaaay over priced.

From what one of the register biscuits there (as in, that very FYE) told me once, they tend to get in Wiis and 360 Elites and no one even knows to go there to buy them.

There's a reason to go in.

But yeah overpriced. Though they do have a lot of ancient stuff.

drhazard

Dr_Keenbean wrote: »

Daisuke Spoon wrote: »

drhazard wrote: »

This is like the FYE in Arundel Mills, MD selling a copy of Forsaken as late as two years ago, in the original big cardboard box, for $50.

I go to the Arundel Mills FYE all the time. I don't know why, everything there is usually waaaay over priced.

From what one of the register biscuits there (as in, that very FYE) told me once, they tend to get in Wiis and 360 Elites and no one even knows to go there to buy them.

There's a reason to go in.

But yeah overpriced. Though they do have a lot of ancient stuff.

Oh, I wander in there every time I go, usually because it's right next to DuClaw. I think I bought something there once in the clearance bins. I'm almost sure it was a gag gift.

citizen059

This is one of my favorites I like to pull out every now and then.

I got a flyer in the newspaper for one of those rent to own places in town, it had this in it:




AWESOME.