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You are such a fucking shit. You should have at least took them forward in time on your machine (don't forget the crystals) so that they could buy it. I hate you so much right now.

I do actually possess a time machine TRUFAX.

I also have a time machine, but it can only send you forward in time by one minute.

Also, it takes a minute to work.

WHO WANTS TO COME AND HAVE A GO IN MY TIME MACHINE?

Only £10.

Don't you think I know that? *stands in doorway, slightly crouched over* hnnngghh.

Help quickly! Grim...s time machine has turned Dimrill into Bruce Forsyth.

Again? Dammit! No problem, we'll fix him.

* goes to fetch claw hammer, saw and blender.

Right! I'm going to destroy the time machine! The risks are just too great... as this incident proves.

Noooooo! Actually go on, I'll just buy a new watch.

The thing I hate about Rock Band and Guitar Hero, is that they mean that Harmonix won't ever produce a next-gen Amplitude, which is clearly head, shoulders and about 3 feet of torso above the silly plastic guitar games. Because they can't make humongous amounts of cash off silly plastic instruments if there are none.

I am a sucker for the idea of plastic drums.

I guess I always wanted to try to play drums. I have a guitar - actually, two, need nothing at all to sing, but I have never sat at a drum set. If Rock Band never had drums I perhaps would be so captivated by the idea, but I am genuinely excited about it all arriving.

Also, in the back of my mind I know that Guitar Hero games tend not to depreciate in value too sharply, so if I ever got bpred of it I think that I could just sell it on, and I would have had the enjoyment and yet still get a decent sum of money back.

The RRP for SFII was actually £65. I just got a SNES & SFII for a hundred quid - console cheaper than game?! Madness.

Metal tin SFII Turbo was indeed £60. As was pretty much any big-name SNES game.

This is far from uncommon. I don't play any instruments, and have never been a band, but I've hung around some. Whenever the practice session had a break, everyone always zoomed in on the drums and started clumsing about on them. Drums are clearly just very visceral to play.

Thought so. With some rough averaging of nearly two decades worth of inflation, that's the equivalent of a little over £100 today. For a single game with no plastic instruments.

Thirteen-and-a-half years as two decades is a bit of a push


Also: I am old...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Fighter_II says 1992; 2008-1992=16. I actually looked the inflation up too, the price index was 140ish in 1993 (earliest the dates went) and 205 in 2008. So my inflation quote was accurate although my timespan less so.

Wow three threads have converged. The LostWinds thread (with my thoughts on how short it is), the Penny Arcade thread (with the cost of the game) and this thread (about peripherals).

I used to want duration/cost to be maximised, but now I realise I want experience/cost to be maximised. So whilst I won't pay more than £35 for a new game, and typically wait till I can get it at about £10 - £15, if a game gives me enough "new" then I'm willing to pay more.

But to buy GHIII required waiting till xmas, and WiiFit was worth it because self improvement and that, but Rock Band can fuck off and die at that price.

GHIV is copying it, and so hopefully I'll just be able to pick up the game and a drum kit for a more reasonable price (£60) otherwise, no sale.

I sold Wii Fit on Amazon tonight for £109.99

I'm all for a bit of wiki action, but you quoted me saying metal tin Turbo, and that was the big game of xmas 1994.


[edit] 1993 actually. Heh. Whatever the case, that's a lot of spondoolix.

OK, so it puts us in the around £100 ballpark then. As you say, that still makes Rock Band (at least at the £127 I paid for it... less so at the £180 RRP) look like a better deal.

Wow. Wow, wow.

If I sold mine how long before I could buy another copy I wonder. I'm willing to miss it for a week or two, though I would probably put all the weight back on. But for £40...

Apparently Amazon (proper Amazon, not the marketplace) has some in stock pretty much every day, although you may have to get lucky to actually order one.

Date In Day Times Time in stock
22/05/2008 Thursday 15:43 - 15:44 1 Min
22/05/2008 Thursday 13:26 - 13:28 2 Mins
22/05/2008 Thursday 13:17 - 13:18 1 Min
22/05/2008 Thursday 10:14 - 10:15 1 Min
22/05/2008 Thursday 10:12 - 10:13 1 Min
22/05/2008 Thursday 10:10 - 10:11 1 Min
22/05/2008 Thursday 09:42 - 09:43 1 Min
21/05/2008 Wednesday 06:39 - 06:41 2 Mins

rick as guitar hero on company party, tuesday



and i already have plastic drums for donkey konga..

Don't Amazon have an automated ordering thing? Where, if an item is out of stock, you can specify how much you're willing to pay if it comes back in stock, and so when it does, it completes the order automatically?

If I'm right about that and not losing my mind, it might explain the short windows of opportunity.

Just thinking about this - does anyone actually buy stuff at RRP these days?

here the RRP often stands a long time, so while in theory games cost about the same, it is quite unusual to see the cheap deals you are getting
(althoguh play.com et all deliver here natch)

I can't see any sort of options to do this, but I could be looking in the wrong places.
I'm assuming the short windows of opportunity are down to them releasing stock in batches (hence there being several opportunites per day) and them all being snapped up pretty quickly by genuine buyers and people that re-sell them on the marketplace at nearly twice the price.

The instrument pack for Rock Band seemed to be sold out in my local Game and Gamestation today. I wish I had £180 of disposable income to blow on one game. Play's price is (almost) reasonable I suppose.

Can you believe after all I've said in this thread, I'm on a mission to buy Guitar Hero 2 so I've got two guitars for when my sister comes to stay tomorrow?

I'm a gimp.

I got my GHII cheap from Woolies, if you have one near you, Mypster. I already had GHIII and only bought the game itself, mind.

Yeah I have, too. I looked into getting just a guitar on its own, but the cheapest I could find one was £50. I'd rather spend an extra £10-15 and get the game, too.

is the wii version of Gh3 fixed now? and which is the better version 360 or wii?

xbox probably for online play and DLC, dont know if they'll post to holland but zavvi have it for 45 quid with guitar.

I managed to find it in Argos for £59.73 - result!