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!!!THIS COULD BE A GAD ATTEMPT, ALTHOUGH I DOUBT IT WILL BE LONG ENOUGH!!!
I was thinking (reminiscing one might say) the other day. Wasn't Head-hunter great. Then I thought of the tale of how I got my copy for my lovely and similarly underrated Dreamcast.
I, like many others, once read a fabulous publication called DC-UK. I heard of a game from some Swedish people (I think) and thought ooh, that looks good.
So, around November time I went along to GAME (as it was, and now is still called) looked for a copy, found it, and gave the shopkeeper a £5 off voucher I had received in the aforementioned fabulous publication, along with £25. God, weren't games cheap in those days.
I took it home and played it for an awful long time. I repeat:
an awful long time.
It was genius. Exactly how MGS(1&2) should have been: movie-like, stealthy and with a good story line. And scary too. On occasion. Anyone remember that naked zombie who chased you around a lab?
And the impossibly difficult motorbike sections. Weren't they great?
Anyway to cut an extremely long and uninteresting story short. I completed it near Christmas. I the first dreamcast game I ever completed. (I usually just stop playing when I get stuck)
So, what do you do with a completed games with little replay value?
One day, I was scrounging in my wallet and what did I find but the receipt from GAME. Listen to your mother. What does this mean you say? It was after Christmas, surely they wouldn't take it back. But then I remembered something else. XMAS RETURNS POLICY.
I scavenged through piles of magazines and Zelda guides to find THE XMAS GAME CATALOGUE!!!!! Inside it said. We will accept returns of game bought after 21st November until 21st December. When did I buy the game you say? 21st November I say.
I ran to the shop for I had but not long to complete my epic quest. I approached the one with long, ginger hair who worked in EB in Bromley (don't ask me why he was working in GAME at the time) His long locks shined like a spring morn. Rejoice I exclaimed! Rejoice, for the ginger one is here.
I reached out my hand in it my copy of the game and the receipt. He said, in a soft tone: "Do you want cash or credit?" What kind of a stupid question is that, I thought to myself, but I daren't convey my feelings to him. "Cash please."
He fiddled aroung with a machine for a while, the epic and perilous journey almost complete. His hand outstretched. In it lay a crisp twenty pound note, and What's this?, a crisp ten pound note also. Was I just about to make £5 on a game I owned, completed and then returned. Yes, it was true.
I scurried out of the shop, filled with glee, not daring to turn around.
I was thinking (reminiscing one might say) the other day. Wasn't Head-hunter great. Then I thought of the tale of how I got my copy for my lovely and similarly underrated Dreamcast.
I, like many others, once read a fabulous publication called DC-UK. I heard of a game from some Swedish people (I think) and thought ooh, that looks good.
So, around November time I went along to GAME (as it was, and now is still called) looked for a copy, found it, and gave the shopkeeper a £5 off voucher I had received in the aforementioned fabulous publication, along with £25. God, weren't games cheap in those days.
I took it home and played it for an awful long time. I repeat:
an awful long time.
It was genius. Exactly how MGS(1&2) should have been: movie-like, stealthy and with a good story line. And scary too. On occasion. Anyone remember that naked zombie who chased you around a lab?
And the impossibly difficult motorbike sections. Weren't they great?
Anyway to cut an extremely long and uninteresting story short. I completed it near Christmas. I the first dreamcast game I ever completed. (I usually just stop playing when I get stuck)
So, what do you do with a completed games with little replay value?
One day, I was scrounging in my wallet and what did I find but the receipt from GAME. Listen to your mother. What does this mean you say? It was after Christmas, surely they wouldn't take it back. But then I remembered something else. XMAS RETURNS POLICY.
I scavenged through piles of magazines and Zelda guides to find THE XMAS GAME CATALOGUE!!!!! Inside it said. We will accept returns of game bought after 21st November until 21st December. When did I buy the game you say? 21st November I say.
I ran to the shop for I had but not long to complete my epic quest. I approached the one with long, ginger hair who worked in EB in Bromley (don't ask me why he was working in GAME at the time) His long locks shined like a spring morn. Rejoice I exclaimed! Rejoice, for the ginger one is here.
I reached out my hand in it my copy of the game and the receipt. He said, in a soft tone: "Do you want cash or credit?" What kind of a stupid question is that, I thought to myself, but I daren't convey my feelings to him. "Cash please."
He fiddled aroung with a machine for a while, the epic and perilous journey almost complete. His hand outstretched. In it lay a crisp twenty pound note, and What's this?, a crisp ten pound note also. Was I just about to make £5 on a game I owned, completed and then returned. Yes, it was true.
I scurried out of the shop, filled with glee, not daring to turn around.
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!!!THIS COULD BE A GAD ATTEMPT, ALTHOUGH I DOUBT IT WILL BE LONG ENOUGH!!!
I was thinking (reminiscing one might say) the other day. Wasn't Head-hunter great. Then I thought of the tale of how I got my copy for my lovely and similarly underrated Dreamcast.
I, like many others, once read a fabulous publication called DC-UK. I heard of a game from some Swedish people (I think) and thought ooh, that looks good.
So, around November time I went along to GAME (as it was, and now is still called) looked for a copy, found it, and gave the shopkeeper a £5 off voucher I had received in the aforementioned fabulous publication, along with £25. God, weren't games cheap in those days.
I took it home and played it for an awful long time. I repeat:
an awful long time.
It was genius. Exactly how MGS(1&2) should have been: movie-like, stealthy and with a good story line. And scary too. On occasion. Anyone remember that naked zombie who chased you around a lab?
And the impossibly difficult motorbike sections. Weren't they great?
Anyway to cut an extremely long and uninteresting story short. I completed it near Christmas. I the first dreamcast game I ever completed. (I usually just stop playing when I get stuck)
So, what do you do with a completed games with little replay value?
One day, I was scrounging in my wallet and what did I find but the receipt from GAME. Listen to your mother. What does this mean you say? It was after Christmas, surely they wouldn't take it back. But then I remembered something else. XMAS RETURNS POLICY.
I scavenged through piles of magazines and Zelda guides to find THE XMAS GAME CATALOGUE!!!!! Inside it said. We will accept returns of game bought after 21st November until 21st December. When did I buy the game you say? 21st November I say.
I ran to the shop for I had but not long to complete my epic quest. I approached the one with long, ginger hair who worked in EB in Bromley (don't ask me why he was working in GAME at the time) His long locks shined like a spring morn. Rejoice I exclaimed! Rejoice, for the ginger one is here.
I reached out my hand in it my copy of the game and the receipt. He said, in a soft tone: "Do you want cash or credit?" What kind of a stupid question is that, I thought to myself, but I daren't convey my feelings to him. "Cash please."
He fiddled aroung with a machine for a while, the epic and perilous journey almost complete. His hand outstretched. In it lay a crisp twenty pound note, and What's this?, a crisp ten pound note also. Was I just about to make £5 on a game I owned, completed and then returned. Yes, it was true.
I scurried out of the shop, filled with glee, not daring to turn around.
I was thinking (reminiscing one might say) the other day. Wasn't Head-hunter great. Then I thought of the tale of how I got my copy for my lovely and similarly underrated Dreamcast.
I, like many others, once read a fabulous publication called DC-UK. I heard of a game from some Swedish people (I think) and thought ooh, that looks good.
So, around November time I went along to GAME (as it was, and now is still called) looked for a copy, found it, and gave the shopkeeper a £5 off voucher I had received in the aforementioned fabulous publication, along with £25. God, weren't games cheap in those days.
I took it home and played it for an awful long time. I repeat:
an awful long time.
It was genius. Exactly how MGS(1&2) should have been: movie-like, stealthy and with a good story line. And scary too. On occasion. Anyone remember that naked zombie who chased you around a lab?
And the impossibly difficult motorbike sections. Weren't they great?
Anyway to cut an extremely long and uninteresting story short. I completed it near Christmas. I the first dreamcast game I ever completed. (I usually just stop playing when I get stuck)
So, what do you do with a completed games with little replay value?
One day, I was scrounging in my wallet and what did I find but the receipt from GAME. Listen to your mother. What does this mean you say? It was after Christmas, surely they wouldn't take it back. But then I remembered something else. XMAS RETURNS POLICY.
I scavenged through piles of magazines and Zelda guides to find THE XMAS GAME CATALOGUE!!!!! Inside it said. We will accept returns of game bought after 21st November until 21st December. When did I buy the game you say? 21st November I say.
I ran to the shop for I had but not long to complete my epic quest. I approached the one with long, ginger hair who worked in EB in Bromley (don't ask me why he was working in GAME at the time) His long locks shined like a spring morn. Rejoice I exclaimed! Rejoice, for the ginger one is here.
I reached out my hand in it my copy of the game and the receipt. He said, in a soft tone: "Do you want cash or credit?" What kind of a stupid question is that, I thought to myself, but I daren't convey my feelings to him. "Cash please."
He fiddled aroung with a machine for a while, the epic and perilous journey almost complete. His hand outstretched. In it lay a crisp twenty pound note, and What's this?, a crisp ten pound note also. Was I just about to make £5 on a game I owned, completed and then returned. Yes, it was true.
I scurried out of the shop, filled with glee, not daring to turn around.
I love topics like this.
I remember this.
Oh how we laughed when you finally completed a game. And that fiver. What did you use it for? Oh, I remember, buying Sega Worlwide Soccer, Uefa Striker and Virtua Soccer 2002. For a grand total of £2.96.
I think you spent the rest on some hair dye, or something.
And only you found those motorbike bit hard. If I remember, I completed one or two of them for you (maybe I'm just lying though)
Oh how we laughed when you finally completed a game. And that fiver. What did you use it for? Oh, I remember, buying Sega Worlwide Soccer, Uefa Striker and Virtua Soccer 2002. For a grand total of £2.96.
I think you spent the rest on some hair dye, or something.
And only you found those motorbike bit hard. If I remember, I completed one or two of them for you (maybe I'm just lying though)
Yes. Twas fun. In Dixons in Croyden (or Croyers as I prefer, like Bromers)
£2.96 pence for all those quality hours of gaming.
SWWS was hilarious. As was the noise it made on Vitua Striker when you tackled. "CRACK", I think it sounded like.
£2.96 pence for all those quality hours of gaming.
SWWS was hilarious. As was the noise it made on Vitua Striker when you tackled. "CRACK", I think it sounded like.
I found the motorbike bit hard, thankyouverymuch. :D
Stupid cars in the way. But great fun. The beach was best for that.
Stupid cars in the way. But great fun. The beach was best for that.
"For a Goalkeeper, that was the equivalent of scoring a goal"
And I still have your SWWS perched in my Dreamcast, next to all the old copies of DC-UK, which, it appears, was only ever read by you and I.
And I still have your SWWS perched in my Dreamcast, next to all the old copies of DC-UK, which, it appears, was only ever read by you and I.
Nice stuff.
I love screwing shops out of money. HMV had a sale on and this game called "pizza syndicate" was about £4. So I bought one to see what it was like (terrible) and decided to see what trade it I could get for it. To my surprise I got £8 for it. So I went to HMV and bought a few more and traded them in, I made about £24 from the shop altogether and got me donkey kong 64! Ahh it was a good game.
I love screwing shops out of money. HMV had a sale on and this game called "pizza syndicate" was about £4. So I bought one to see what it was like (terrible) and decided to see what trade it I could get for it. To my surprise I got £8 for it. So I went to HMV and bought a few more and traded them in, I made about £24 from the shop altogether and got me donkey kong 64! Ahh it was a good game.
im with grix
You Be-Hatche. Gimme it back you. I'll break your legs.
I still have your demo from Official Dreamcast Magazine. (or as I like to call it Dreamcans. O ras NOM liked to call it The Dreampants)
Kecksbox
Greystation
And the best............
Greystation Poo (or as they will now be calling it: Our Greystation Poo)
Or maybe not
I still have your demo from Official Dreamcast Magazine. (or as I like to call it Dreamcans. O ras NOM liked to call it The Dreampants)
Kecksbox
Greystation
And the best............
Greystation Poo (or as they will now be calling it: Our Greystation Poo)
Or maybe not
Oh, if you didnt get that, it was a subtle hint for you to stop saying (or as I like to call it) It really annoys me. Thankyou :_)
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