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| Friday, 09 May 2008 09:27 | ||||
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I've told this story a few times to a few people now but I'll tell it again because it's one of those annoyances in life for gamers. The conundrum is you have games you've played and beat (pick a console) and you no longer want them anymore but you don't want to go through the hassle of polling your friends/family to see if they want to buy them from you and equally you're trying to stay away from ebay, half.com, or Amazon. So you take them down to the local Slackers, Hastings, Game Stop, EB Games, etc. to see what they'll give you. The nice thing is that the more you have to turn in the more you get back (just by simple total addition) but you can lose each individual games worth because they just scan them all, tell you the total, and they send you on your way.
What's this leading up to? My trip to our local Hastings with 6 games in tow. 1 XBox 360 game, 3 XBox games, and 2 Wii games ended up being valued at approx. $70. Well I was generally happy with that total. HOWEVER. The XBox 360 game I turned in came out in November of 2007. It was Assassins Creed which was an AWESOME GAME but I beat it and once you beat it you can then...feel free to beat it again...so I turned it in. I bought this game used at Hastings about 2 months ago for $53.99. They gave me $8.............not happy. Wouldn't have been that bad had they not immediately packaged the game for re-resale with the same used price I bought it for while I was still there! Oh well. In computer news I removed my ATI Radeon x1600 Pro 512MB GDDR3 AGP video card to troubleshoot the computer restarting all the time. Well I think I found the restarting problem but it wasn't the same thing so I disabled a voltage monitor on my system and haven't had the problem. Consiquently though not having the video card in there has drastically lowered the temp of my computer. I'm still hoping to get a new system this year but at least this will hold it off for a little bit. Shoot I may even keep it now once I do replace it. Could be time to give the ol' silver HP Pentium 3 650mHz server (that you're accessing right now to see this site) a rest. Long live the Silver Server.
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