The Color of Money
I tried selling Viewtiful Joe to one of my brother’s friends the other day for seven measly dollars. He didn’t buy it. For the life of me I don’t know why. I mean it’s freaking Viewtiful Joe. The reasons for me trying to sell the game I will get to in a moment. Someone told me they will give me twenty bucks for my GTA Double Pack on the X-box tomorrow. And if I am lucky, a guy at work will give me fifteen for my King Of Fighters games on the GBA. Of which I have both Howling Blood and Neoblood.
I happen to be broke at the moment. Terribly broke. And my car happens to be in some trouble. I need this car to get me to and from a lousy job. I had a high-school teacher that said all of life’s problems start when one buys their first car. And the man, as pretentious and conceited as can be, may have been right. The last new game I bought was Metal Gear Solid 3. The next game I plan on buying for full price is Timesplitters: Future Perfect (not Street 3). For any person who loves games this can suck. Not only am I selling old games but I can’t afford buying new ones either.
I still have plenty to play. I have logged in fifty-five hours on the Kingdom Hearts Gameboy game. And since I have always stayed exactly one game behind in the Grand Theft Auto series, I have been playing a lot of Vice City. Not too mention Will told me I could borrow Resident Evil 4 whenever I wanted and my buddy Jeff’s wife said she would hook me up with Paper Mario 2.
So no money, and a love for games.
Tonight when I got off work I went to the mall with a coworker because he wanted a pair of low-top Converse Chuck Taylors, preferably black. I am not much for malls to begin with. Especially on Friday nights when all the teenyboppers and too cool kids decide to make their appearances. We went to a couple of shoe stores and then a couple of trendy stores. It got to be too much at some point and I ran outside to smoke a cigarette. I wasn’t prepared to walk back into the Hot Topic so I went somewhere I could feel a little more comfortable, Gamestop.
This particular Gamestop used to have an employee I was quite smitten with. So smitten I would find excuses to just walk in and see if she was working. One of those excuses included me purchasing Mobile Light Force 2. Afterwards I went to buy a pair of Gap pants, that I happen to be wearing right now, just to try and impress an old friend I was smitten with. Some other “excuses” for me to walk into this Gamestop include No One Lives Forever 2, an X-box and Halo and the gold edition of Quake 3.
I haven’t seen the girl I nicknamed “Software Girl” in about a year. And she wasn’t there tonight when I walked in to escape the outside. A kid was there trying to talk his mom into buying him Counter-Strike on the X-box. I wanted to tell him to either pick up Condition Zero or if his computer is infinitely better than mine Half-Life 2 for CS: Source. But I kept my mouth shut.
The store was crowded. I managed to make my way to the X-box games and noticed they had dropped the price of Kingdom Under Fire to twenty bucks. A quick check of the wallet reassured I had the twenty dollars needed to purchase the game. But then I remembered that car batteries are expensive. So are all the other things I need the money for, like bills and such.
Sadly I walked out of the store without the game. I don’t regret it. In fact I consider it good. Because it means I may have the responsibility for the other things I need to do in my life. Like get back in school. And hopefully quit my lousy job. I love games. I love games so much I can sit and play a Gameboy game for hours on end just to find all the cards and max out my level. But this ordeal has given me an immense appreciation for playing games. Not purchasing them, and letting them sit on a shelf, but playing them. It’s a lovely thing.
Wes
I happen to be broke at the moment. Terribly broke. And my car happens to be in some trouble. I need this car to get me to and from a lousy job. I had a high-school teacher that said all of life’s problems start when one buys their first car. And the man, as pretentious and conceited as can be, may have been right. The last new game I bought was Metal Gear Solid 3. The next game I plan on buying for full price is Timesplitters: Future Perfect (not Street 3). For any person who loves games this can suck. Not only am I selling old games but I can’t afford buying new ones either.
I still have plenty to play. I have logged in fifty-five hours on the Kingdom Hearts Gameboy game. And since I have always stayed exactly one game behind in the Grand Theft Auto series, I have been playing a lot of Vice City. Not too mention Will told me I could borrow Resident Evil 4 whenever I wanted and my buddy Jeff’s wife said she would hook me up with Paper Mario 2.
So no money, and a love for games.
Tonight when I got off work I went to the mall with a coworker because he wanted a pair of low-top Converse Chuck Taylors, preferably black. I am not much for malls to begin with. Especially on Friday nights when all the teenyboppers and too cool kids decide to make their appearances. We went to a couple of shoe stores and then a couple of trendy stores. It got to be too much at some point and I ran outside to smoke a cigarette. I wasn’t prepared to walk back into the Hot Topic so I went somewhere I could feel a little more comfortable, Gamestop.
This particular Gamestop used to have an employee I was quite smitten with. So smitten I would find excuses to just walk in and see if she was working. One of those excuses included me purchasing Mobile Light Force 2. Afterwards I went to buy a pair of Gap pants, that I happen to be wearing right now, just to try and impress an old friend I was smitten with. Some other “excuses” for me to walk into this Gamestop include No One Lives Forever 2, an X-box and Halo and the gold edition of Quake 3.
I haven’t seen the girl I nicknamed “Software Girl” in about a year. And she wasn’t there tonight when I walked in to escape the outside. A kid was there trying to talk his mom into buying him Counter-Strike on the X-box. I wanted to tell him to either pick up Condition Zero or if his computer is infinitely better than mine Half-Life 2 for CS: Source. But I kept my mouth shut.
The store was crowded. I managed to make my way to the X-box games and noticed they had dropped the price of Kingdom Under Fire to twenty bucks. A quick check of the wallet reassured I had the twenty dollars needed to purchase the game. But then I remembered that car batteries are expensive. So are all the other things I need the money for, like bills and such.
Sadly I walked out of the store without the game. I don’t regret it. In fact I consider it good. Because it means I may have the responsibility for the other things I need to do in my life. Like get back in school. And hopefully quit my lousy job. I love games. I love games so much I can sit and play a Gameboy game for hours on end just to find all the cards and max out my level. But this ordeal has given me an immense appreciation for playing games. Not purchasing them, and letting them sit on a shelf, but playing them. It’s a lovely thing.
Wes
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