Hey now,
Between a nagging ankle injury, less spare time, and ungodly up-pricing, my thrift runs have not been particlarly fruitful lately. However, that doesn't mean I've come away empty over the last week. Nope, quite the contrary:
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- Nintendo Power
Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker guide, $1.99:
Wind Waker is probably one of the few games that got "official" guides from both BradyGames, Prima, AND Nintendo Power. And that's
before the HD rerelease for Wii U...
- Prima
Star Wars Shadows of the Empire guide, $2.99: Not sure how useful this will be, seeing as how I don't care for the game beyond the first level, AKA the battle of Hoth where you take your snowspeeder and shoot down probe droids, chicken walkers and AT-ATs.
- CIB
Halo Anniversary, $4.99
- CIB
A Boy and His Blob, $5.95
- CIB
Tank! Tank! Tank!, $14.95: heard this one is reasonably fun, but not quite fun enough pay full retail price for it. Guess I'll find out soon enough...
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Descent Maximum (no manual) for PS1, $1.99: I'd read somewhere that
Descent was a spiritual descendant of
Epic, a generic PC fighter-simulator space battle game that I enjoyed the heck out of back in the day. I sure hope so.
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- Sega Pocket Arcade
Amazing Sonic LCD handheld game, $1.99
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Video game Master: Surefire Strategies book, $1.99
- Japanese
SaGa Frontier II: A View of the World, Sandail Chronicle guide, $0.99: The book shelf at each of my local Savers has a foreign-language section, which I always check out in the hopes of finding stuff like this. The obi band is torn in a couple places, and creased in a couple more, but is otherwise intact. It even came with what looks like a registration card (pictured to the right of guide). Oddly enough, it is formatted left-to-right, rather than right-to-left. A pleasant surprise for sure.
Speaking of imports: I also picked up a repro of the Japan-exclusive
Panorama Cotton for Mega Drive. (Read more about this pickup at
http://www.rfgeneration.c.../index.php?topic=824.1575 (second post down))
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I've been playing it here and there for the last few days, and it kicks my sorry ass every single time. Yet, I just can't get enough of it. Call me a masochist...
I also discovered yet another super-mega-awesome game to add to my stack. It's one of the few licensed games that's as good as the movie it's based on, if not more so.
As you already know, obviously I'm talking about...
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You thought I was talking about E.T., didn't you? 
And of course there's the big non-vidya pick-up. Now, don't tell upoile-Nay, but I found a eye-tay CL-elay rogrammer-pay with onstant-cay emory-may.
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For ee-thray ineteen-nay.'Bout time for me to hit the road. But before I go, I wanna introduce you to my new pal: Derpy Knux!
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Like Derpy Hooves, only not totally lame.As soon as I saw this poor little fellow crowded in a Savers grab bag with a bunch of *SHUDDER* Pokemon toys, I knew I had to rescue him from a fate far worse than death. Even with the "special-needs" stare, I think he's the coolest-looking
Sonic toy ever! For a while, I was worried that his life of isolation might hurt his chance of having a decent social life. Fortunately, he's made more than a few friends since his rescue. One of them looked over his resume, and got him a job guarding a large gem.
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Methinks the kid's gonna be all right...
'Late
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