Made it to a thrift store the other day, got some stuff and realized I hadn't put up anything from PRGE either.....
Thrift store stuffs:
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Some PC games, a couple of which I may already own, and the Directors Cut of THX 1138 on DVD. Somehow I've never made it through that whole movie but always wanted to, now I can.
PRGE 2015 stuff:
I have more pictures of what went on at the show, maybe I'll get those up sometime too.
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Wife has wanted a Kinect for a long time. This one is one of the first things I bought at the show. It is nearly complete and was all of $10. The guy selling it told me they had gotten theirs because
his wife wanted one too. He acted like he wasn't expecting to be able to sell this one
I put it in my backpack right away so no one would see me walking around the show floor with it.
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Getting non-game finds out of the way.....Laser Discs, didn't find too many at the show we were interested in. I don't buy every LD I see but when I do it's either a different version or something you can't get otherwise, or the novelty of it being in that format is worth it. Wife got the stack of comic books, who knows whats in there?
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Got the Kinect so we had to buy nearly every game for it we saw. Fable was the only one that cost dollars rather than cents. Padded out the Halo collection and bought a SMS game, 'cause they're awesome.
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The Wondersawn was the very first thing I touched at the show. Walked around the rest of the time looking for games only to be told by sellers I was the 3rd guy that day asking for Wonderswan games
They don't sell for much on ebay but of course much of the library requires you know Japanese to play it. Airwolf LCD is a gift for a friend who is an Airwolf fan, so much so his phones ringtone is the theme song. Monster Hunter is also a gift for a nephew, paid as much for that as anything at the show
Wife picked out the other DS games and has been playing them with the little 5 year old girl who spends a lot of time here.
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I now have over half the Intellivison library! Yay! Some of these cost real money too, I think one of them I paid more than $10 for. I'm finding that the games, for the most part, aren't really that expensive but some aren't super common. About a 1/3 of the library (total INTV library is 120 games) I see all the time and people essentially try to give them away at these shows, the other 2/3rds don't show up much, even if some of them only sell for $2 CIB.
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In the end I didn't buy tons of stuff like I have in the past. My wife and I had a great time though and spent much of it walking around with Russlyman, which was awesome! There is tons to do at that show, we sat in on a panel were Al Alcorn talked. We watched the final 8 of the Tetris World Championships live. My wife went to the Howard Scott Warshaw panel and had Bob Smith (of Atari and Imagic fame) sit right next to her, they talked a little bit. We got to see Retrorage and Mrs Retrorage for about two minutes before they went and hid in the huge arcade for the rest of the day. Jerks!
I played an alpha version of a game called XO - Escape to Rigel Alpha IV
http://jmpdrv.com/ which is a vector-based space RTS game. Seemed fun, looks awesome. Got to talk to a dev for a little bit. The game is Greeenlit for Steam. They gave me a sticker.
Wife played another alpha for Harmonia Tactics
https://steamcommunity.co...filedetails/?id=312332300 which is also Greenlit on Steam. She played it for nearly half an hour while I talked to the dev. If you think of Final Fantasy Tactics but in real time with a pixel aesthetic it's like that. I talked to the dev guy for the whole time about all sorts of stuff, he seemed like a pretty good guy. Wife liked the game too. She got a sticker for that game too.
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