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Tuesday Thoughts

1. Well here's my videogame story of the day. I had eight Wii games to trade in at GameStop, because 1)I'm lazy and old and no longer interested in wastng my time on eBay and I wanted to take advantage of sales for the Tiger series as well as pick up Super Mario Sluggers.

• I bring in my eight games and see I qualify for a 30% trade in bonus. Seriously, there aren't many places you can get $10 for Wii MLB Power Pros 2007 or $11.20 for Game Party. We Love Golf only netted me $22.40, a testament to how crappy it is, while Mario & Sonic touch each other at the Olympics netted me $25.20....yet more proof that no matter how bad a game is, if it says Mario it's worth $$.
• What did I do with my $114.80 in trade in? Bought Tiger for Wii and 360 so I could compare and contrast of course. Did I also mention I have a very, very bad addiction to videogames? I got $5 off the 360 version and an EA Visor, so there's that.
• Next up, I wanted to buy Super Mario Sluggers which should be in today. GameStop didn't have it despite my preorder. WTF. I put the leftover money on SMS.
• I went to Target because their ad said SMS would be instore today. It was, so I bought it there, knowing that I can put the $9.80 on some other game...
• While I was at Target, I couldn't believe it: I found the golden deal: Madden Collector's Edition PS3 (only) for $44.99. Holy crap. I never get the deals like that. Even though I had the Wii and the 360 version, I still bought it. Did I mention that my addiction is terrible?
• I got home and had a call on my machine from 10:30 from "Mario" about SMS...then he hangs up right in the middle of the message. At 4:30 I have a call from some guy at GameStop apologizing for the delay in getting the game out. They aren't giving a discount though, which is what they usually do when they f'up preorders...grrrr....