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Let's have a recent purchase/pickup thread, /vr/. Anyone get any goodies lately?

>> No.2380709

got Tetris for the NES and Wild Arms 2 for about $6
I was thinking about picking up Anticipation and the other copy of Tetris the thrift store had but I'm kind of low on funds

>> No.2380714
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Just got this for $5 after shipping. A really bad cover art but I'll enjoy playing this on the PS2 with my kids.

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>>2380714
The hell was up with marketing teams focused more on grossing you out than actually explaining what the game was even about during the mid to late 90s?

>> No.2380731

>>2380727
Marketing to those early teens, yo.

>> No.2380734

>>2380727
My guess is that they thought that shocking = eyecatching = good, and/or indecipherable and irrelevant edginess = appealing to teens = good to use to sell anything to teens.

>> No.2380736

>>2380734
>My guess is that they thought that shocking = eyecatching = good


I won't lie, I remembered that ad for Gundam Battle Assault I posted years after I saw it in a Gamepro. Keyword here being "ad" cause I sure as fuck didn't remember the game only that nasty ass hand until a month ago.

>> No.2380737

>>2380727
This is Akklaim we're talking about, not exactly a savvy company.

>> No.2380739

>>2380737
As shitty as Akklaim was at least they brought us Turok.

>> No.2380741

>>2380737
Seriously. Little kids and girls would have ate up Bust-A-Move but a cover like that basically hid the cute dinosaur puzzle game from them.

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>>2380739
For every Turok or Mortal Kombat 2 they published, there were a dozen other Bart vs the Space Mutants or Mary Kate & Ashley game. They were also responsible for a ton of terrible Marvel games, as well as the awful BMX XXX.

>> No.2380975

Rummage sales are the best. I got Zombies at My Neighbors and Congo's Caper for $5 total.

There were some other games I should have bought (Yoshi's Island...) just to resell because they were so cheap - especially considering how much SNES shit is going for on ebay these days