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Wandering Swordsman
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Posted: 21st Jun 2006 22:02 Edited at: 21st Jun 2006 22:38
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Here comes another thread of pointlessness, where you can brag to the world about your VG finds.

Ok, the question:
What is the least you've ever paid for a video game Retail.

The Rules:
- The game 'must' have been new. Can't have been used/pre-owned.
(No internet downloads either, just off the store shelf/bin/etc.)

- It can be either console or PC.
(If the game is cross-platform Like ObsCure, list the system your versions for.)

- It can have been in a jewel-case or a box.
(Please include whether you got it in a box or jewel-case, etc in your post.)

- Clearance/Sales/Bargain-Bin/Etc 'ARE' allowed.
(The best places to hunt the elusive prey that is the 'good buy'. )

- No Theft!
(Thought that one was a given...)

- Saw it but didn't buy it? Tell your tale!


I'll start the ball rolling.
I snagged a clearance copy of Requiem: Avenging Angel in a sealed Jewel-Case for $0.01 (Marked down from 40$ to 29$ to 20$ to 14$ to 8$ then finally one cent! This game had been in the store for about four years, maybe more.)

Come on, step up and brag of your VG deal location skills!

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Megaton Cat
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I swiped a copy of Perfect Dark for $0 when I was a kid. Beat it.


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Jeku
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Free. Project Gotham 3 for my 360.


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45p-A poor Asteroids clone.

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Wandering Swordsman
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Megaton Cat:
Quote: "Beat it."

I got a copy of Surface Tension (Or was it) G-Nome in it's original sealed box for free. (Legally, I bought a tone of games and the store owner gave it to me for free. )

*Quickly updates the rules to exclude theft...*
No swiping!

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I got some games in belgium for about a pound.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic got taken off the shelves the day it came out because it came up on the machines as 1p. The thing is that I think they have to sell it at that price, so someone somewhere got the cheapest new game ever.

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I wonder if anyone's ever been given money to buy a game? Maybe if it's a prank.

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I heard there are still people out there who pay for videogames, let alone get paid to play videogames.


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£0 FF X for ps2 on release date!

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Posted: 21st Jun 2006 22:26 Edited at: 21st Jun 2006 22:39
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Megaton Cat:
Quote: "I heard there are still people out there who pay for videogames, let alone get paid to play videogames."

QA? (AKA) Beta Testers? Yeah. (Lot of QA/Beta Tester scams out there though so watch out! Send us your money and we'll sign you up lol.)

I once found a copy of Diablo 2 that was marked as $9.00 with a product sticker reading "Barbie Adventure..." (Day it came out too.)

I turned it into the clerk instead of buying it at the mislabeled price. "Hey man, I don't think Barbie's loose in Diablo 2 eh?"

(Maybe Blizzard will make that a playable character in Diablo 3! Mwa ha ha! )

Could have saved about $60.00 lol.

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What the hell is with that mobygames sig/image thing in each of your posts?
(One of them has 2)

Get rid of it before a happy mod slaps you.


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They're not my sig, those are images of the game boxes mention in my post.

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the site dont allow external linking

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Posted: 21st Jun 2006 22:37 Edited at: 21st Jun 2006 22:41
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I was not aware of this. *Edits the posts in question...*
(Thanks for the warning. )

Can we link images from a web site we own?
Or are all images save sigs restricted?

(Ack... the topic is straying...)

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When I was a nipper I swapped a crappy Scalextrix set for a C64 with over 150 games. Beat that bitches!

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I have the ultimate Pwnage...I was given a free, original Pong machine back in the very late '70s. I just wish I still had it



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Posted: 21st Jun 2006 23:08 Edited at: 21st Jun 2006 23:09
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I picked up Pariah on the PC for 99p from PC World about a week ago, thought that was a bargain!!!!

Also got Jade Empire for £1.99 for Xbox from PC World, both brand new and boxed.

Not free but still mega cheap!!!!... I like my games just like i like my women!
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I got Pariah for 99p at the local PC World - and it wasn't even worth that...

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The cheapest I ever paid for a game (above $0) was $0.07 for an Xbox game from Wal-Mart. I don't even remember the name (I resold it), but for $0.07 I thought what the heck. Wal-Mart sure knows how to clearance games


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I bought 5 oldish games in their original packaging in a £3 for 5 deal. Mainly because I wanted the sequel to the incredible machine (or whatever that mouse trap game was called). The rest are still unwrapped. Bought them around 1997 I believe. Hmmm, just looked and Space Quest IV might be worth a punt.

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I got G-Nome for free as well. In a box. IT came with my PC. Anyways, I walked into gamestop once and got Ridge Racer 64 for free. o_O

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Quote: "Hmmm, just looked and Space Quest IV might be worth a punt."


Only one of the best games ever made--- just look at my avatar


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I didn't buy it, I don't have an XBox, but I can't remember what it was called, it was sold well, 50p, or if not, £2.99 - Thief 3 straight from the shop

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Quote: "Only one of the best games ever made--- just look at my avatar "

Ok Jeku

is the game an attack of the missing links?

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I once got pack of 135 games for about 2$. They were all for Windows 3.1, I bought them last year. Although it did have Duke Nukem before he got so grungy(Very first game).

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I don't think it was the cheapest I'd ever gotten a game, but I got Starcraft from Costco for $8. What was so great about this, was that I went back to Costco and saw that it was now going for $24.99. I guess people remembered how awesome it was.


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haha

"Beat it."

I stole a game once from gamestop and they payed me for it! so i bought a game for -$10.

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theft in any form is really bad, it only shows your lack of respect and morals.

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Oh boo hoo.

Nobody has morals at 10 years old.


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you are not the sharpest tool in the shed are you mate.

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Oh I really feel bad now. Well done.


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I think my best one has to be that I currently have approx 25 copies of Myst for PC sitting on my desk. When we were doing builds in the run up to Gold, we bought boxes and boxes of DVDs - and each box came with a copy of Myst. So, I just hoarded them.

So, 25 copies of the same game, for free. That's my record. (No, I don't know what I'm going to do with them - I'm a hoarder

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What's more revealing is "What's the MOST you've paid for a game?"

I personally have paid more for one pair of pants (regular jeans, nothing fancy), then I have for a game. In other words, I have yet to spend more then $20 on a game.

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I bought HL2 the week it came out. Yes, it cost alot.


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The most eh, well lets see, #1most expesnive is Halo 2 for me....then i got a 20% discount on all 7 of my 360 games, tho 5 were given to me and i bought Oblivion and GRAW myself.

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The most? Probably Guitar Hero - because that came with the guitar controller. Can't remember how much it was though.

If you're taking inflation into account, then the most I ever paid was for 3d Construction Kit on the Spectrum - I had to order that through the post in an ad in a magazine. Had to send off a postal order and everything. And I never made anything worthwhile with it. *sighs*

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Oh wait nvm, i remember getting The legend of Zeld for the n64 for like $65

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Quote: "3d Construction Kit on the Spectrum "
I had that! Wasn't it the same people who did Driller? (Freescape engine?). Top stuff. I made a 3D representation of my BTEC college at the time (on the ST version which I upgraded to if I remember rightly). My stuck up lecturer wasn't impressed though. B***h...

Also had that Isometric game creator (mate of mine got published in one of the Spectrum mags with an american football inspired game from that creator), plus PAW (handy for the current competition...) and that other adventure creator that I can't remember the name of right now. And no, I didn't make anything worthy out of any of them Apart from STOS where I made a sweet LOM engine that converted to a DM engine when you went into a building. Annoyingly I was in Uni at the time (lots of time to program) and socialising became more important

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The most I ever paid for a game was $80 for The 7th Guest the day it was released. What's pathetic is I was visiting my grandparents who lived about 3 hours away, and I could have waited until I got back home five days later to get it at $69.

What's even more pathetic is that I didn't even have a computer at my grandparents


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That's the saddest story I've ever heard Jeku...


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The 7th Guest was that expensive when it first came out?!?

(I was playing it at age 7, now 4 months to go and mother has started beleiving the age on the case)

The advantage of having a lousy computer is the fact that you don't buy any expensive games, because they won't run.

The most money I ever spent on a PC game was about £25/£30 on Morrowind GOTY
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bah i was kidding i didnt steal anything... i was just one upping megaton. why would they have payed me 10 bucks? if they knew i took it the big hairy guy wouldve jumped on me.

and thats besides the point that i never stole anything hahaha.

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I paid £70 for the original Turok on the N64 release day. Thats $128.... Oh yes... Total outlay that day was, if I remember rightly, something like £500. £250 for the N64, £70 for Turok, £50 for Mario 64, £50 for that star wars game, and various bits. Thats $913. At least Mario was one of the best games of all time (IMHO). Sigh....

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£4.99 is the lowest I've paid for an off the shelf game. Normally one of the sold out range. £12 for a regular titles that's been out for 4 - 6 months if it sucked big time, and 12 months if it's a decent title or there's a sale on.

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Quote: "and thats besides the point that i never stole anything hahaha."


Bull.


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Flindiana Jones:
Quote: ""What's the MOST you've paid for a game?""

$80 + Plus Tax.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
(I bought it solely based off the hype surrounding the game and the hope that it'd be everything that The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall was, and more... I will not be spending that much on a game that I have never played again. )

I learned my lesson. Try the demo first, wait for the price to drop.

Jeku:
Quote: "$80 for The 7th Guest"

Ack, that bites.
(I just saw a copy for $3. )

OddMind:
Quote: "I stole a game once from gamestop and they payed me for it! so i bought a game for -$10."

Theft don't count. You've made the Kiwi cry --->

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I get every new game at around 0.70$ as pirating was legal here until a year ago, and there are still many computer shops that sell pirated games. Most I paid for a game was 10$ as i actually bought a 3cd game, not rent it as i ussualy do now.
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Quote: "I bought HL2 the week it came out. Yes, it cost alot."
Sucker! j/k. HL2 was a very bad game in my opinion. It was too short and has little replay value.

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