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Have you ever bought things randomly because of nostalgia?
Hurray Banana:
does this count.
I bought a barcode battler and then spent loads of money buying crap I didn't want because it had a decent barcode.
I remember when I bought it (when I was about 24) the woman in the shop thought I was a sad git.
Benevolance:
I had to look up barcode battler on wikipedia. I still disbelieve this was an actual product. ???
Hoopz:
--- Quote from: Benevolance on July 10, 2010, 06:08:01 pm ---I had to look up barcode battler on wikipedia. I still disbelieve this was an actual product. ???
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+1
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: Hurray Banana on July 10, 2010, 02:29:17 pm ---does this count.
I bought a barcode battler and then spent loads of money buying crap I didn't want because it had a decent barcode.
I remember when I bought it (when I was about 24) the woman in the shop thought I was a sad git.
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I remember this. It was featured in EGM at one time. Article described a soup can that couldn't stay on the shelves because it presented near impossible stats to the gamers.
I also remember being super excited about this and I searched high and low for it. Of course, at the time, I had no access to what passed for the internet back then and I had no clue about the existence of import stores.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: hypernova on July 10, 2010, 12:51:08 pm ---
--- Quote ---The worst thing is I buy the same thing more than once
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I kid you not, I work with a guy who is on his THIRD Wii console. He keeps buying then selling them back to Gamestop about a month after he and his wife get bored with it. This along with untold other things. He's about 40 years old, and is constantly flushing money down the toilet by doing this exact thing with video games and such. He bought a PS3, only to sell it back about two months later.
Funny thing is he doesn't have wads of cash to do this.
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Yeah, I had a friend that did this. Bought a N64 while he was over seas, then sold it three months later. Did the same with a Saturn (IIRC). His reasoning was a little different though, his logic was that if he ever got to the point he couldn't fit everything he owned into a duffel bag and two milk crates when it came time to move, it wasn't worth keeping. Keeping the N64 would've meant getting rid of either his meager comic book collection or tossing his MtG and LotR TCG. He ditched the N64.
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