Pretty self-explanatory. All the photos I took.
Despite numerous ATGames products, the Sega Genesis Flashback stands tall as the premier shelf stuffer in Wal-Mart… and even after about a year of being a dust collector, still hasn’t been discounted from its $100 CDN price tag.
Playstation Old Stuff got discounted after four weeks on the market.
Think about that for a bit.
Looks like the Sega Genesis Flashback has some competition ahead of it.
Sorry for the hastily-blurry picture, but your eyes do not deceive you.
Titanfall 2 for PS4 and Xbox One on sale at Dollarama for four dollars plus tax.
Meanwhile, the PC version is on sale at EA’s Origin site for twenty bucks… American.
Guess which is the better deal, folks.
Ordered a copy of this a couple days ago and came in sooner than I thought it would. Praise the glorious patrons of Amazon Prime for timely shipping times.
I’ve never had one of these things before (the publisher has made a bunch of these apparently), so I don’t know the general gist of what to expect beyond a bunch of pictures and some behind the scenes tidbits.
For those wondering, it’s got a few design sketches, some screenshots, some behind the scenes photos for the MMPR years, and lots of promotional imagery that we’ve seen plenty of times over the years. It’s not the deepest historical retrospective and it’s not quite the “tell-all” or “down and dirty” reference book that will reveal anything that hasn’t already been said before, but for a general overview on the history of the franchise and some choice design material to see how it came, it’s a cool little thing to check out that’s meaty enough to give each entry in the franchise a little bit to shine.
This is my bedtime read, by the way.
Meanwhile… from the same store, you have these old arcade looking plug-and-play things on sale for about $25 CAD. Yep, paying 25 bucks for a shoddy plug-and-play with an NES version of Ms. Pac-Man (and not even the good one) or a version of Frogger that’s almost arcade-like.
However, that one Namco Museum one in the back… looks semi-interesting. It’s got three games. Forgot which games… but if it’s still there next time I pass by, it could be future video fodder. And I could go for some future video fodder right about now.
So for those who can’t see the prices clearly, the two Galaga and Pac-Man mini-arcade units containing a single game each cost $39.99 CAD while the Pac-Man Pocket Player containing THREE whole games costs roughly $50.24 CAD. Plus tax.
Meanwhile, over at Walmart, you can buy one of those Pixel Player things with roughly 300 games (including some Data East classics… or at least their NES ports) for $24.99 CAD plus tax.
Mind you, I want to say this is just the pharmacy prices since their electronic goods tend to be a bit on the overpriced side… but sadly Walmart has the arcade models as well for roughly the same price.
It’d be worth it for the arcade ports… but not the subpar NES releases that are included on each.
Even the portable player is questionable, with the three games being Genesis ports of Pac-Man, Pac-Mania, and Pac-Attack.
Naturally, these would be easy avoids for any individual… and fortunately, common sense prevailed in this instance, so I saved a bunch of money.
Considering the timing required to get those precise scores, hell yeah, I’m putting this as part of the Gallery line up. This is a work of art, brother.
Okay, probably not.
Sometimes, you just go with it.
Unless you’re WWE… then you blame the fans for not giving one of their top stars the respect they feel that they’re entitled to.
From a Walmart… at retail price… and it didn’t work.
But fortunately, I was able to trade it in for one that did work.
And that’s the one presently in this picture.
UP YOURS, SCALPERS!
My buddy sent me this picture he took of a Walmart up north that was somehow selling this lone boxed copy of a Windows XP upgrade kit (complete with Service Pack 2!) An opportunity to run by said store happened a couple days ago and it’s still there.
For those who don’t understand the significance of this, Windows XP is a very old, very ancient version of Windows that saw widespread use in the early to mid 2000s before eventually getting succeeded by the controversial Windows Vista. Microsoft had discontinued all support for Windows XP about a year or two ago.
I want you folks to process this wonderful piece of business. There is a Walmart in the year 2018 that is attempting to sell a copy of WINDOWS FUCKING XP – and not even the full version; it’s just an upgrade! And on top of that, it’s well over ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS!
This is all brilliantly preposterous. I am glad to have witnessed this oddity in space and time… and on Friday The 13th no less.
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