Post by The Curmudgeon on Sept 1, 2011 23:46:17 GMT 2
So there's a series of shops in the UK called Cash Converters, basically a modern day pawn shop, where drug addicts and crooks (probably) take their old CD's, iPods, TV's, games etc to the shop and sell them for next to nothing.
Bad news for them, good news for us. Because those same stores then sell the stuff at frighteningly low prices; so low in fact you wonder why they even bother pricing them and putting them back on shelves. CD's are all a pound - even stuff that's obviously brand new and been played once. I've picked up all kinds of stuff from there, and at a pound a time, it's hardly a big risk that you might not like some of the songs. DVD's are all a pound each too. Honestly, the first time you go in you go kinda dizzy at the sheer amount of stuff that's screaming out to be picked up.
Anyway, onto the main part of the topic. Cash Convertors also sell PS3, Wii and XBox games, and while the prices aren't as low as the CD's, if you look around you can pick up pretty sweet bargains.
Examples? I got the PS3 version of the Simpson's game for £3.00 (about, what.. four dollars and twenty cents in your space age American money?). I had always wanted to play this, but after being disappointed by every other Simpson's game ever, I wasn't willing to pay £30 or whatever for it. But £3? Yeah, go on then. Result? I love it. From the inspired parodies of movies and video games (the Gauntlet and Frogger levels are genius), the fact you can run around the entire town of Springfield, the entire cast having great lines of dialogue and the absurd completist nature of the game (collect 75 beer tokens as Homer! 75 Krusty tokens as Bart! etc). It's a joy, and one of a handful of games that both myself and Mrs C are addicted to. Remove the word "Mario" from that list and "The Simpson's Game" is pretty much the only one on there.
Then there's the other game I picked up for £3.00 - Wet. This was more of a gamble because I'd never heard of it, but I hoped it would be a third person shooter like Max Payne. It's even better than I hoped it would be. It's a grindhouse inspired ultra violent, willfully and gleefully stupid shoot-em-up where your main character leaps in slo-mo and shoots two guns at the same time, slides on her knees, bends backward shooting bad guys at the same time.
Check this insanity out, easily one of the more visually impressive things I've ever seen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UBQKS50jRs
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.
Anyone else had any memorable cut-price bargains that turned into favourite purchases?
Bad news for them, good news for us. Because those same stores then sell the stuff at frighteningly low prices; so low in fact you wonder why they even bother pricing them and putting them back on shelves. CD's are all a pound - even stuff that's obviously brand new and been played once. I've picked up all kinds of stuff from there, and at a pound a time, it's hardly a big risk that you might not like some of the songs. DVD's are all a pound each too. Honestly, the first time you go in you go kinda dizzy at the sheer amount of stuff that's screaming out to be picked up.
Anyway, onto the main part of the topic. Cash Convertors also sell PS3, Wii and XBox games, and while the prices aren't as low as the CD's, if you look around you can pick up pretty sweet bargains.
Examples? I got the PS3 version of the Simpson's game for £3.00 (about, what.. four dollars and twenty cents in your space age American money?). I had always wanted to play this, but after being disappointed by every other Simpson's game ever, I wasn't willing to pay £30 or whatever for it. But £3? Yeah, go on then. Result? I love it. From the inspired parodies of movies and video games (the Gauntlet and Frogger levels are genius), the fact you can run around the entire town of Springfield, the entire cast having great lines of dialogue and the absurd completist nature of the game (collect 75 beer tokens as Homer! 75 Krusty tokens as Bart! etc). It's a joy, and one of a handful of games that both myself and Mrs C are addicted to. Remove the word "Mario" from that list and "The Simpson's Game" is pretty much the only one on there.
Then there's the other game I picked up for £3.00 - Wet. This was more of a gamble because I'd never heard of it, but I hoped it would be a third person shooter like Max Payne. It's even better than I hoped it would be. It's a grindhouse inspired ultra violent, willfully and gleefully stupid shoot-em-up where your main character leaps in slo-mo and shoots two guns at the same time, slides on her knees, bends backward shooting bad guys at the same time.
Check this insanity out, easily one of the more visually impressive things I've ever seen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UBQKS50jRs
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.
Anyone else had any memorable cut-price bargains that turned into favourite purchases?
