Buy My Fine Corinthian Turkeys (Or Games)

Phil Stubbs did the whole false-hype-through-artificially-limited-supply thing way before Microsoft. For the record, I'm all sold out of Fine Corinthian Turkeys too. We'll be getting a shipment in after Christmas. Try paying an inflated price on eBay, so that your kid doesn't hate you for the rest of your life. I assure you I didn't withhold units from retail outlets and create my own stockpile to increase profits.

I am legitimately selling stuff on eBay, which was the purpose of this post. Burnout Revenge for the PS2, Conker's Bad Fur Day for the N64, Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life and Wave Race: Blue Storm, both for the GameCube.

I bought Conker almost a year ago, with the express intention of re-selling it.

Some might call this practice poaching. An invasion, if you will. I like to think I'm liberating this game. It needed to be free to make itself available to a wider base of people than the ones looking through the bargain bin at Zellers. You're not against freedom, are you?

With all of that bad satire behind us...

Click here to get pictures of the items, and links to the auctions on the Canadian and American eBay sites. Anyone else will just have to search with the auction number.

The auction descriptions and picture pages took a long ass time to set up, and involved my first extensive use of HTML tables for formatting. Who needs Dreamweaver when you can type <td> 200 times? On the plus side, I actually had to use my brain a little bit. Which seems to have gotten me out of the haze I've occasionally been under for the past few weeks.

I got Burnout a little over a month ago, and what little I've played is enough for me. I might write a little more about why I wasn't thrilled with it later.

Again, with Conker, I pretty much bought it to sell for a meagre profit. When I played it many years ago, I found it too similar gameplay-wise to the other Rare 3D platformers, none of which I was fond of. Any humour that was in there wasn't really a factor when I had to plod through fetch quests.

Harvest Moon is admittedly addictive, but I eventually discovered I was pretty much doing the same thing day after day, and didn't feel like continuing.

And Wave Race is the final remaining game that came with the GameCube. I got rid of Luigi's Mansion (which I liked), and Super Smash Bros. Melee (which I didn't) awhile ago. Just not my type of game.

Nothing like promoting the product, right? None of them are bad games by any means. Going by GameRankings, they're all quite good, in fact. They're just not to my personal liking, and I don't think I'll play them much. Plus, I need to pay my dad for these:



Two seasons of Arrested Development for $31USD (eventually a little under $50CAD) was too good a bargain to pass up. "Those are balls" > Any mere game.