Circuit City clearance - bitter tears

bruin

Don't get too excited, I've found that usually with this type of sale chances are most of these games are gone already, but it's worth swinging by and checking it out.

via CAG

$8.96 Titles

PS3 Icon
PS3 NBA Street Homecourt
PS3 College Hoops 2007

PS2 Eyetoy Kinetic w/ Camera
PS2 Yakuza
PS2 Onimusha Dawn of Dreams
PS2 Karaoke Revolution Country
PS2 Toca Race Driver
PS2 Godhand
PS2 Wild Arms 3
PS2 Luminus Plus

XB360 Bullet Witch
XB360 Tiger Woods 07
XB360 Project Sylpheed
XB360 Chromehounds
XB360 Far Cry Instincts Predator
XB360 Call of Duty 2 w/ Bonus DVD (YMMV - varying UPC code)
XB360 Condemned
XB360 NHL 2K7
XB360 Lego Bionicle
XB360 Quake 4
XB360 DOA Xtreme Volleyball
XB360 College Hoops '07
XB360 NCAA '07 March Madness
XB360 GUN
XB360 Meet the Robinsons

Wii Avatar Last Airbender

GC HULK - Ultimate Destruction

XB GTA Doublepack
XB Jade Empire Limited Edition

DS Chocobo Tales
DS Children of Mana
DS Elite Beat Agents
DS Ace Attorney Phoenix Wright (1st one)
DS Custom Robo Arena
DS Dragon Quest Heroes Rocket Slime
DS Mario & Luigi Partners in Time
DS Magical Starsign

PSP Kingdom of Paradise
PSP Parappa the Rapper
PSP Street Fighter 3 Alpha
PSP Chili Con Carnage
PSP Medievil
PSP Megaman Meverick Hunter
PSP Guilty Gear Judgment

GBA Final Fantasy IV
GBA Final Fantasy V
GBA Wario Twisted
GBA Naruto Ninja Council 2

$16.96 Titles

PS3 Untold Legends : Dark Kingdom
PS3 Full Auto 2 : Battlelines
PS3 Armored Core 4
PS3 Mobile Suit Gundam Crossfire

PS2 Okami
PS2 Eyetoy Play 2
PS2 Karaoke American Idol ($12.99)
PS2 Karaoke American Idol w/ Mic ($29.99)
PS2 MGS3 Subsistence
PS2 DDR Extreme 2
PS2 NFS Most Wanted Black
PS2 Snoopy vs Red Baron
PS2 Valkyrie Profile 2 Silmeria
PS2 Taiko Drums (actually still $29.96)

XB360 LOTR: Battle for Middle-Earth II
XB360 Tomb Raider Legend
XB360 Blitz the League
XB360 Ninety Nine Nights
XB360 Winning Eleven PES 2007
XB360 FIFA '07
XB360 King Kong
XB360 Star Trek Legacy
XB360 Hitman Blood Money

Wii Marble Mania
Wii Metal Slug Anthology
Wii Driver Parallel Lines
Wii Elebits
Wii Dragonball Z Tenkaichi 2
Wii Tiger Woods PGA Tour '07

DS Metroid Pinball
DS Lunar Knights
DS Trauma Center
DS Harvest Moon
DS Hotel Dusk 215

PSP Sid Meier's Pirates!
PSP Valkyrie Profile

Couscous

The DS games look nice, but the 9 dollar ones I want, Elite Beat Agents and the Slime game, are almost certainly bought out.

Shens

Man...

I just got Wii Metal Slug Anthology for full price around Christmas. That is a killer deal.

ChewyWaffles

Went to check at my CC. They had the $8.96 sale but had nothing but PS2 games. My CC always sucks for these sales though.

powersurge

My CC almost never has any of these sale titles but I got lucky yesturday and found:

Bullet Witch (360... yeah yeah but I've been wanting to try it since before it came out and $9 ain't much more than a rental fee)
Yakuza (Will we ever see 2 state side? hrm)
Elite Beat Agents (seems like a cult hit among the various forums. Its fun but I'm awful at it)

cheez

Man, both of the Valkyrie Profiles in the $16 categories. If only there were a Circuit City near me.

slash000

Most of the games I would want, I already have. Most of the ones I'd otherwise buy, are probably already gone.

Due to the holidays, I've acquired 6 new games that I'm just now sinking my teeth into, which should last me at least a couple of months.


I don't feel too bad about not taking CC up on this deal.

frrser

a good list, also a great deal for games

Vert1

Will check this out.

catalyst

I'd definitely like to pick up Chrome Hounds for that cheap..

But it's almost always a given that CC never has what I want.

Fig-D

What I wanted:

PS2 Godhand
XB360 Condemned
DS Ace Attorney Phoenix Wright (1st one)
DS Dragon Quest Heroes Rocket Slime
DS Mario & Luigi Partners in Time
GBA Final Fantasy V

What my Circuit City had:

...


My CC fails. Hard.

Dark Shroud

I'll check this out tomorrow, my CC fails at most things so I don't expect much.

FyreWulff

I'd be all over FCIP if there was actually a CC here..

Ah_Pook

i would pick up okami and godhand, but im pretty sure my CC will not have them. thats how these things end up 99% of the time.

edit: im pretty tempted by snoopy vs the red baron also

LBD_Nytetrayn

I wish they had Circuit Cities here. There are a few I want, like Custom Robo, but what I REALLY want is Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time.

cloudeagle

Well, shit. I'd love to pick up God Hand, but I'm sure it's gone.

Evander

powersurge wrote: »

I got lucky yesturday and found:

Bullet Witch

That is the opposite of luck.

It is like pure, unfiltered, anti-luck.

bruin

I'm going today and I hope to find Bullet Witch too, I know it didn't get great reviews but I've seen enough pockets of fans of it around forums that it's worth $9 to me. I also want Sylpheed and Mario & Luigi.

RoundBoy

pretty soon the racks the games are on will be $9 and $16.. then its an even better deal.

Evander

Guys, seriously.

Bullet Witch is unplayable.

You are WASTING ten dollars.

FUCK! If you need to get rid of ten dollars so badly, donate it to charity.

NickTheNewbie

I got hotel dusk the day it came out, and I HIGHLY recommend it.

Local H Jay

I picked up the GTA double pack so I can play them through again, and man. Time has not been kind to these graphics. Still, running around as the lead singer of Lovefist is too fun to be legal.
All they had for 360 games was Bullet Witch and NHL, so yeah...not great variety.

TxdoHawk

For the people who have never gone to these kinds of clearances before, let me highlight the following terms:

Don't get too excited

most of these games are gone already

Between employees getting first crack at the titles, people with printed lists showing up at 8am the first day, and questionable stock to begin with...these clearances get cleaned out faster than a housemaid on meth vacuuming your living room.

Cilla Black

Just so you know, employees don't really get a first crack at the games. I work at my CC and was barely able to get a copy of Custom Robo, and wasn't able to find Godhand or Valkyrie Profile 2 at all.

Gyral

Looks like I'll be making a CC run for lunch. Never hurts to look.

Lunker

Evander wrote: »

powersurge wrote: »

I got lucky yesturday and found:

Bullet Witch

That is the opposite of luck.

It is like pure, unfiltered, anti-luck.

So very true. I rented it for one night and that one lone achievement stands as a pock mark on my gaming history, forever unerasable.

Those looking for mindless third-person blow-em-up action need to put that money toward Earth Defense Force 2017 instead, which I've seen as low as $15-$20 at Blockbuster and, IIRC, used from Gamefly. And it's leaps and bounds above Bullet Witch.

TxdoHawk

Cilla Black wrote: »

Just so you know, employees don't really get a first crack at the games. I work at my CC and was barely able to get a copy of Custom Robo, and wasn't able to find Godhand or Valkyrie Profile 2 at all.

Depends entirely on the store you work at, how far in advance the lists are printed for a particular sale, your manager's aversions to titles being "misplaced" in the back, and so on.

I should also point out that it's not a condemnation either: Having worked more than my fair share of retail, I can easily say that the people who work at these stores deserve what few "perks" they get and then some.

MoogPaul

I went rummaging today. I didn't find much; however, I was very pleased to find a brand spanking new sealed version of GBA Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones for a whopping 4.99. Consider I was under the impression it was out of print for some time, I'm feeling good about it.
It's always nice to not leave empty handed.

catalyst

Went today to look, found absolutely nothing that was on the list. On top of that, all of the games were not even close to being alphabetized and random titles were stacked on top of each other. I gave up after a while.


P.S. When did CC start selling used games?

TxdoHawk

I left empty-handed. Unsurprising, but what can you do, and I had other reasons to be in the area at least.

bruin

My Circuit City had nothing left, I guess resellers completely cleaned it out already

NickTheNewbie

Both circuit cities near me had plenty of copies of quake 4.

Varega

I just got back from picking up FFV, the only FF i haven't beaten. Man, it's gonna be awesome.

The_Spaniard

I went after work and found


NOOOOOOOOOTHING!

Ok maybe not nothing, I did find a copy of Pirates, but that was it, store was picked clean. Though good thing I found ONE item on my list or there would have been doom, doom, doom, dooooooooooom... GO HOME NOW!

LewieP

Invader Zim is so damn good.

j0hnz3r

picked up Project Sylpheed for like, $9. Not bad to add to the collection and the only one I didn't already own.

Also grabbed Senko no Ronde for like, $8 at CompUSA across the street.

Two quirky titles for under $20, so a good weekend for me.

bruin

New thread title is go!

The_Spaniard

LewieP wrote: »

Invader Zim is so damn good.

8====D<3

Veevee

The_Spaniard wrote: »

LewieP wrote: »

Invader Zim is so damn good.

8====D<3

You have climbed several million points higher on my greatness scale. Let it be known that The_Spaniard is just under mcc for all time coolest PA peoples.

mcc has you beat for being one of the best G&T mods ever.

Darklyre

Ha ha ha ha ha, bitches.

I just picked up God Hand and Valkyrie Profile 2. I was even able to ask an employee to keep a copy of VP2 on reserve for me overnight. This was at two different CC stores, as well.

cloudeagle

Goddammit, no God Hand anywhere.