It’s one thing to get beaten to a garage sale, but the competition is starting to become obnoxious. While garage sailing this past weekend I went to several sales and gave my usual greeting of “Good morning… you don’t by chance have any Nintendo for sale do you?” Usually I get told “sorry we don’t”, or “sorry I’m keeping it”, and occasionally I get told “you should have been here earlier.” Now I can understand the getting there earlier thing and of course the desire to keep these little treasures, but I was told something new last weekend that I hope is just a one off. I approached this one sale and was told that the games had already sold….no big deal… as I said I get that all the time (hey, you can’t hit every sale at once!) Now what was interesting about this particular sale was that this family was supposed to have this event two weekends ago, but the weather was cold and wet so they cancelled. Apparently, some jerk came to their door anyways and asked for the games. I was astounded… how obnoxious! I can’t imagine someone coming to my door wanting to buy something when I don’t have a sale going on. My wife tells me that this is just the type of thing that the people I watch on Youtube do, but I think this is well past most of us. Or is it… what do you think?
Anyways the above two games are what I found garage sailing as most regular people do, and for the price of $4, how could I go wrong?! Now when I first saw these games, I recognized Harvest Moon as being a fairly popular title. I had never heard of Radiant Dawn before, but was somewhat familiar with the Fire Emblem series. Apparently this is one of the rarest, most sought after, and expensive Wii games out there. Xenoblade Chronicles falls behind all three categories, and that’s saying something because supposedly it is an incredible game. So no, I’m not going to sell/trade it…at lest not yet. I want to see what all the hype is about. Is it just expensive because it’s rare? Lets face it, the Nintendo has put out some pretty crappy games that are now rare and expensive because no one bought them when they were first released…. Colour a Dinosaur, Donkey Kong Junior Math, etc.). Is this the fate of Radiant Dawn? Well I think this is worth a look-see and I plan on hooking up my Wii to give this baby a test drive. This is the first really rare video game I’ve ever owned so I’m rather excited about it. And if it sucks I’ll sell it for 100 bucks and take my wife out on the town. In the end I’m doing all this collecting for her! I love you honey;)
I found the above book in a bin at a yard sale. Too bad that this was the only Nintendo item they had. It would have been pretty sweet to get the games that this guidebook goes with. In fact, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons is the only Zelda title that I am missing… oh no wait, I don’t have a copy of Hyrule Warriors either so I take that back.
The Sega Dude actually got me to use my PS4 as something other than a device that plays Netflix. He kind of bullied me into playing a game called “The Division” with him, and I must say I’m rather glad he did. I enjoy gaming, but lately the newer games are a bit much for me… I must be getting old! But The Division is actually pretty good. The mechanics and graphics are great, though I fear it will become rather repetitive and boring as I work my way through the game. That being said I’ve not entered the Dark Zone yet and I hear this is where it really gets interesting. I’m going to go rogue and get me some loot! Anyways after we were done playing, the Sega Dude asked if I wanted to go visit the Retro Game Bros.. As I’ve not been there in a while I figured why not?! They are a pretty cool bunch of guys that like to talk about retro games. Hopefully they aren’t getting tired of it yet. Actually I’m rather envious of them as they have done what I can only dream of doing… opening up a retro game store. The thing that’s held me back is that I would have to quite my day job that I already do okay at, and don’t entirely hate. The other reason is that I really feel that the popularity of video game collecting right now is just a fad. I mean even three years ago games were about half as expensive as they are now. Those were the days… actually ten years ago were the days for retro collecting. It is so popular now that it has almost become cliche, and I’m starting to feel like a moron every time I ask for Nintendo at yard sales. Since when has that stopped me though?! I just don’t think I’ll be going door to door asking for games just yet… but hey, desperate times call for desperate measures… and times are becoming rough for game collectors like us:(
Until next time,
Nintendo Joe.
My Nintendo Dimension 