Video Games, Movies, Comics, & Pop Culture

In November 2017, Half Price Books had their coupon week. This is a week where each day has a coupon off your most expensive item. 20% on Mon/Tue, 30% on Wed/Thur, 40% on Fri/Sat and 50% on Sunday. To get the coupons, you just need to sign up for their mailing list. This week, held 2-3 times a year, normally kills me because I do a full range around the DFW area, checking every Half Price Books for good finds. It’s been shrinking a bit as my PS3 and Wii collections are complete, but PS2 and the occasional older title still pops up now and then.

Phil and I did a run to see what was there, more planning to scout for a Sat or Sun buy than anything. A tip on this sale: Half Price Books will let you put an item on hold for 2 days. So if you go on Friday and find something that just can’t be passed up, you can put it on hold until Sunday and get the half price coupon on it. Some stores won’t do this during the sale week, but a good number don’t stop you either. And they know what you’re doing and are okay with you working with their system for the best deal.

We ran a full gamut and wound up going back to a few stores over the course of the week, but ultimately, I got a few things:

Jak & Daxter Lost Frontier
Earthworm Jim CIB
Persona on PSP
Final Fantasy PSP Sealed
Little Nemo CIB
Metal Gear Solid Peacewalker
Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops
Sword of the Berserk
Digimon World 4
Front Mission 4
Baroque
GTA V on PS4
Shining Tears
Dynamite Headdy
Conquest of the Crystal Palace
Legend of Zelda Collector’s Edition CIB

Not all of these were for the collection. Some were marked below average value and then the discount lowered them further to make them worth picking up for trades or flipping. The Legend of Zelda Collector’s Edition for GameCube was a nice addition since I had just gotten the disc only copy for next to nothing. I ultimately was able to sell it and essentially cover the complete copy for my library.

Amidst the running around, we also stopped at a Game X-Change where I was further irresponsible and bought Captain America and the Avengers on NES complete in box, Silver Surfer, Robocop 3, and A Bard’s Tale on NES.

Everything, all said and done.

At this point, we were, once and for all, tapped out. Paypal was drained. Wallets were drained. GameStop credit was getting low. There was no more money to spend and so Phil and I both agreed we were done for the year, aside from Black Friday purchases. It was November and Christmas shopping was coming up. We could not do another retro game hunt.

Oh how wrong we were….

In my next post, I will finally get around to detailing the events of the biggest retro game haul I’ve ever had.