Final Fantasy III. Illusion of Gaia. Chrono Trigger.
I've seen each of these games go for $100+ on eBay a number of times, so I really considered it a joke when I make my first triple-digit maximum bid six days ago. "There's no way all three of these games bundled are going to fetch less than $100! It has six days to climb! This'll be fun to watch!" I thought to myself. And now? I'm stuck with a $86 U.S. Paypal charge.
I guess I won't be buying Chrono Trigger DS now!
I've been legally eligible for a credit card for over five years but I just recently applied for and received my first one, and my recent mail deluge has reminded me why I waited so long: easily spending money + myself = rich eBay sellers + red numbers. I've grabbed the following games from EB and off of eBay in the past three weeks -
-Goldeneye
-Resident Evil 2 (N64)
-Perfect Dark
-Donkey Kong Country
-Donkey Kong Country 2
-Aladdin (SNES)
-Super Castlevania IV
-NHL Stanley Cup
-Mortal Kombat II (SNES)
-Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey
-Mega Man Maverick Hunter X
-5 empty PSP cases and 4 empty PS2 cases
After I bought those last three I realized I had to stop, because it's just far too easy to spend too much money. I mean, two old hockey games and a remake of a game I never played? WTF was I thinking? (And then there's the Chrono Trigger bid I lost by 1 cent.) I knew I was dangerous for years and my first credit card statement has confirmed this. That tingly feeling when the mail arrives be damned, I can't keep doing this. I think my SNES and N64 collections are complete enough for now.
The gist of it: Sony has hammered out deals with Activision, Harmonix and Konami so that the instruments for any one forthcoming music game will be compatible with the other two. You only have to buy Rock Band 2 in order to play Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Revolution (not that anyone will).
I am extremely relieved to hear that someone at Sony has been paying attention to the collective bemoaning of us wannabe rockers and not just to the sounds of cash registers going off in their heads. I was dreading late October because of the prospect of having to spend upwards of $400 on fake instruments, and the sad thing is that if this annoucement had never come I actually might have done so. I hope compatibility with current PS2/PS3 Rock Band instruments gets hammered out in time as well, and I will actually be living on a prayer until it is.
Friends
Tracked Blogs
