Topic: After Christmas game sales

[idolminds]

I was just having a look at the Cheap Ass Gamer forums to look at upcoming deals or sales. Thought I'd copy and paste the interesting ones I've seen.

Toys R Us clearance starting Dec 26:

GBA
9.98
Board Game Classics Chess/ Checkers/ Backgammon
Drill Dozer
F-18 Hornet
Gunstar Super Heroes
Klax/Marble Madness
Lilo & Stitch
Lizzie Maguire 2
Nightmare Before Christmas Pumpkin King
Pinball Tycoon
Rocket Power Zero Gravity
Rugrats Go Wild
Shrek 2
Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom &Nicktoons Freeze Frame Frenzy 2pk
Sudoku Fever
Tony Hawk American Sk8teland
Top Spin 2
Tower
WarioWare Twisted
Winnie the Pooh Rumbly Tumbly
XMen Official Game
YuGiOh Championship 06
YuGiOh Destiny Board
YuGiOh RoD/SC Double Pack
YuGiOh GX Duel Academy
Zelda Minish Cap

19.98
Tales of Phantasia

DS
9.98
Advance Wars DS
Castlevania DoS
Deep Labyrinth
Metroid Pinball
Resident Evil DS
Rub Rabbits
Trace Memory

19.98
Lost Magic
Pokemon Dash

PSP
9.98
Capcom Classics Remix
Coded Arms
The Con
FIFA 06
Gradius Collection
Mercury
Metal Gear Acid 2
Samurai Warriors State of War
Viewtiful Joe RHR
XMen Legends 2

19.98
Ape Escape Academy
Go!Sudoku
Megaman Maverick Hunter X
Megaman Powered Up
Neopets PetPet Adv
Winning Eleven 9
World Champ Poker 2
Ys Ark of Napishtim

GameCube
9.98
Batallion Wars
Call of Duty: Big Red One
Chibi Robo
Donkey Konga 2
Gun
Harry Potter GoF w/Movie Ticket
NFS Hot Pursuit 2
Odama
Pacman World 3
Spiderman 2
Super Monkey Ball

14.98
Curious George

19.98
Karaoke Rev Party Bundle
Sonic Heroes/Mega Collection 2pk
Sonic Heroes/Adventures 2pk

PS2
4.98
Amplitude
Jampak 11

9.98
Ace Combat 4
Atelier Iris 2
Ape Escape 3
Call of Duty: Big Red One Collector's Edition
Curious George
Full Spectrum Warrior 10 Hammers
GRAW
Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City Bundle
Karaoke Rev Party
Monster Rancher Evo
Ratchet and Clank
Resident Evil 4
Samurai Champloo
SOCOM 3
Steambot Chronicles
Winback 2
World Champ Poker 2
XMen Official Game

14.98
MLB 2K6

19.98
Dance Dance Revolution Extreme
Driver Parallel Lines
Eye Toy Operation Spy Toy
FFXI CoP
Gallop Racer 06
Karaoke Rev Party Bundle
Sonic Heroes/Mega Collection 2pk
Tales of Legendia
TOCA Race Driver 3
Tomb Raider Legend

XBox
4.98
Breakdown
Max Payne

9.98
50 Cent Bulletproof
Aeon Flux
And1 Streetball
Atari Anthology
ATV 2 Quad Power Racing
Battlefield 2
Big Mutha Truckers 2
Capcom Classics Collection Vol 1
Finding Nemo
Full Spectrum Warrior 10 Hammers
GRAW
Goldeneye Rogue Agent
Gun
Jade Empire
Karaoke Rev Party
Matrix Path of Neo
Mercenaries
MVP 06 NCAA Baseball
NBA Street v3
NHL 2K6
Pacman World 2
Rainbow Six Lockdown
Stacked
Tomb Raider Legend
Torino 06
True Crime NYC
World Champ Poker 2
World Poker Tour
Worms Forts Under Siege

19.98
Fight Night 3
Godfather
Karaoke Rev Party Bundle

XBOX 360
9.98
NHL 2K6

19.98
Call of Duty 2 GOTY
Final Fantasy XI
The Outfit
Quake 4
Tiger Woods 06
Tomb Raider Legend
XMen Official Game

Bolded what I'm interested.

Circuit City will have Fable: The Lost Chapters (PC version) for $10 starting Dec 31st, so I'll have to go grab that one for sure. To pass the time, starting tomorrow Best Buy will have Quake 4 for $15, so I may pick it up finally.

[PyroMenace]

*gasp* Battalion Wars for 10$! Damnit... theres no Toys R Us near me, FUCK.

[Quemaqua]

Color me interested.  I've been meaning to pick up Minish Cap for God knows how long, I've been meaning to get Fable just because I played through it and never bought it, and Quake IV I wouldn't mind having around.  I could use a good shooter.

[sirean_syan]

Too bad a bunch of the Toys R Us stores bit the dust.

Most of the games I would want on there I already have. If you have a DS you should look into Advanced Wars and Castlevania. You really can't go wrong for those prices.

[Quemaqua]

I'd like both, but no DS.  =(

[idolminds]

Lucky for me I believe most of the TRUs around me avoided being closed. I'll definitely grab AW:DS and Castlevania, plus Zelda on GBA. Metroid pinball and Rub Rabbits I'm on edge...if they have em, cool. If not I wont feel bad.

Was Battalion Wars good? I don't really remember how the reviewers took it.

[sirean_syan]

It was sorta in the middle. Most places thought it was pretty cool though.

Myself, I grabbed the game in one of those two for one sales that Toys R Us had from time to time before my local one closed, but then like an idiot never actually started it up.

Metroid Pinball was interesting. The thing that bothered me was tilting the system was controlled through the touch screen, but you needed both hands to do the flippers. It was awkward to try to use your thumb to get to the touch screen or stop using one of the buttons and do it with your hand. They really should have just set it to the shoulder buttons somehow. The game itself was pretty cool though... just about as cool as a pinball could get really.

[MysterD]

Circuit City will have Fable: The Lost Chapters (PC version) for $10 starting Dec 31st, so I'll have to go grab that one for sure.

Fable: TLC's great action/RPG. Get that!!! It was worth $35 when it came out -- way easily worth $10.

To pass the time, starting tomorrow Best Buy will have Quake 4 for $15, so I may pick it up finally.

Quake 4's awesome. I paid $19.99 for the Special DVD Edition of Quake 4. If BB has that Edition, try and get that edition b/c it comes w/ TWO DVD's -- one DVD  for Quake 4 and the 2nd DVD has Quake 2 + expansions and the Making of Q4.

I should note, GRAW PC is $15 @ BB this week, as well....

[scottws]

Too bad a bunch of the Toys R Us stores bit the dust.

Did they really?  I had no idea.  We have all the same ones still around.

[MysterD]

Color me interested.  I've been meaning to pick up Minish Cap for God knows how long, I've been meaning to get Fable just because I played through it and never bought it, and Quake IV I wouldn't mind having around.  I could use a good shooter.

Fable's a steal for $10.

And Quake 4 is just another awesome entry into the Quake series, basically. Quake 4's SP feels like Quake 2 -- but w/ the new D3 tech, lots of action, and lots of AI teammates. The MP feels like classic Quake 3: Arena. This is one of Raven's best, if you ask me -- yuh, Quake 4 is great and doesn't dissappoint one bit.

[idolminds]

I just had a look at some scans of the Gamestop/EB ad for this week. They have Battalion Wars and Chibi Robo for $10 each.

They also have 30% off Guild Wars games, which ends up being:

Guild Wars = $28
Factions = $35
Nightfall = $35

Amazon sells Factions and Nightfall for that price anyway, so it's not a big deal. Though I wonder if I should grab the original at this price. Decisions, decisions....

[poomcgoo]

I say grab it.  And everyone else who doesnt have a copy grab it.  I've been wanting to get back into it, but I need motivation.

[Quemaqua]

I do want it, but I can't justify the expense.  Especially since I'm now attempting to get my hands on first edition (1889, 1893) copies of Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno books, and those don't come cheap.

[MysterD]

Nightfall's pretty good. Was worth my $25.

I need to give it more time.

Yuh, the original GW is worth $30.

[idolminds]

The only thing that concerns me is I have no idea how well GW performs on dialup. WoW works wonderfully. Theres no demo or trial for GW so I cant test it myself. I hear it works ok...but I read about it having to download towns and stuff. Having to wait an hour to load a new area would suck.

[PyroMenace]

I just had a look at some scans of the Gamestop/EB ad for this week. They have Battalion Wars and Chibi Robo for $10 each.

They also have 30% off Guild Wars games, which ends up being:

Guild Wars = $28
Factions = $35
Nightfall = $35

Amazon sells Factions and Nightfall for that price anyway, so it's not a big deal. Though I wonder if I should grab the original at this price. Decisions, decisions....

I  you idol. Yea, Ive been following Battalion Wars for a while and I was pretty excited about it. It got pretty good reviews all around, I think its main hit was its length. 10$ would be well worth the investment.

[idolminds]

Another thread at CAG says on the 26th Walgreens flyer has a coupon to get a 1GB Sandisk SD card for $20. Would be good for those Wii owners.

[idolminds]

Well, my TRU didnt have any of the games I wanted. Sucks. If anyone happens to find one with an extra copy of Advance Wars DS, I'd be happy to repay.

I ended up grabbing the original Guild Wars today thanks to my brothers gift card it was close to free. Installing now (its downloading something...damnit).

I also picked up a used copy of Crazy Taxi 3 for Xbox. I love CT...just had to get it.

*EDIT*

Le sigh....7MB downloaded so far and its at 45%.

[MysterD]

Idol, hey -- did you ever buy Fable: TLCfor the PC?

If not, Fable: TLC's gonna be on sale for $10 at CC, from 1/28-2/3

[idolminds]

Yeah, I got it. I played a little bit of it...not really what I expected. And the slight tilt/lean of the camera as you run around makes me dizzy. I've uninstalled it for the time being.