Posts Tagged ‘buy’

Until recently (I’d say at least the last 10 years), living in NZ we have been subject to games being released months after their release dates, same with movies and music, it’s only in recent years that we have caught up due to things like the internet and publishers realising they can’t with hold product from us for too long otherwise we may find other ways to watch/play/listen (this doesnt always stop them from holding back though).

This will probably be the last in the line of the Thrill Of The Hunt series, I wanted to keep it strictly inside NZ but at Armageddon I had people asking questions about imports from overseas.

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Wow.

What. A. Weekend.

Sorry this didn’t get done Sunday night, but I think you can probably forgive me for doing 3 x 10+ hour days in a row relating to Armageddon. I slept from 9pm-10am last night so am suitably refreshed and my back is sore from standing up all that time.

Anyway, onto the write up!

We ripped down our timetables, and just let people play what they wanted, kicking off the day with Sonic and Mario Kart (which never failed to draw a crowd). I was seriously deluded in thinking Sunday was going to be a quiet one, and I couldn’t have been more wrong with the Cosplay competition kicking off the day in the main area an hour after the TSB Arena opened to the public.

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Wow. What a day! Busier at the booth than we honestly expected, and even with 3 people we were run off our feet!

Early technical problems plagues the booth with me running around like a headless chook when both the Master System and the N64 decided to play up, and were fixed with 5minutes to spare before the torrent of people swarmed the TSB arena floor for what seems to be one of the biggest Wellington Armageddon Expo’s yet!

Write up,  more pictures and a video after the break!

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A few people have asked me where I get my games from, and I figured what better place to tell about how to source things than RetroActive NZ.
The reason I prefer original games has to be something ingrained inside me along the lines of not previously being able to own all these brilliant games as a
kid. I got 5 pounds in pocket money each week, and most games cost 20 or thirty and when you’re a kid, saving isnt an option. There were too many other
things I wanted.

Now I work full time, and still dont have enough for all the new games I want, but the old games are cheaper (for the most part…). They may not be easy to
find, but this is the fun of it. I spent 3-4 odd years trying to find Starcraft for the N64. I was exstatic when I finally got it. Like a kid at Christmas.
Retro Games are surprisingly easy to find in NZ, more so after finding a certain store. So here’s my top 5 tips for finding those games you loved, strictly
within NZ…not all of us trust/use Ebay.

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