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Hard Sarge -> RE: Hey, why was my other thread killed? (8/8/2007 2:43:25 AM)
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LOL
I remember when
(story time, go hide)
I think it was Lowbow came out (helo flightsim) what was odd was it came out on a Tues (nothing came out on Tues) I looked and wanted it, but, 59.99 for a helo flightsim when I do not know if I like helo was just too much) so said ahhh, guess I will wait
went back in Fri and my buddy told me, hey we got a deal for you, that game I was looking at dropped in price, from what he was saying, they hadn't sold a single copy, and all of there stores were stuck with them, so I got it for 39.99, that weekend, people found out it was released, and by monday, none of there stores had any copies left, the reason it didn't sell, was nobody knew it was out yet, monday it was full price again and some heads rolled for dropping the price
was on Vac once, and went to the store and they had 4 new games (well, 4 that I wanted, it was a great week for games releases !) but, I couldn't bring myself to buy 4 new games, so bought two of them, Master of Magic and Col (not even gonna try spelling that, it was by Sid Meyers), played them soild for two days and then snuck back out and bought the other two (I could talk myself into buying 4 games in a week, but not in a day :)
that was a good store, I knew all of the people who worked there, and in the end, I was there way longer then any of the workers, but I used to get calls when something good came in, or if something they knew I liked came in, also since the store didn't have a computer, but they got free stuff to show off on the computer, I tended to get a lot of freebies (and some of them were pretty good ones, got Links for free)
the manager used to go to the Cons and bring back boxes of goodies, pens and badges and junk, but one time, when Avlon Hill was getting into Computer games, I was always asking if there was any news, on the flight by, the manager was sitting next to the owners of Avlon Hill, and mentioned that I always bugged him for any news, they got to the airport and went to get there bags and the owners gave him a ton of freebies to give to me !
(manager was a little miffed, I hope you are happy, I had to lug this stuff around since Washington DC Airport !!!!)
used to get my joysticks replaced for free too (the old Thrustmaster, like a 100 dollar stick, but the fancy spring tended to give and it couldn't easily be replaced) they would put it in a box and give me back the one from the box and say, opps, must of been a bad stick :)
you know, I really missed when they all quit and got real jobs
LOL, way back when, I remember there was a space game, but the price was unreal (even today, it would be a monster, something like 120.00) I kept looking at it and wondering if it was any good, 3 of the people who worked there, pooled there store discounts togeather so the price would be something I could buy,
game was bad, but it was one of those with alot of great ideas, that they couldn't really get to work yet, that showed up in many later great games
(still wouldn't pay 120.00 for it though)
are we there yet ? nope not yet
are we working ? yea, I think so, I got chewed out this morning, so I guess I am working em
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