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vuefinder83 wrote:
I gotta hit up Wal-Mart before I go to work tomorrow to grab a few gifts for some co-workers, if I see that they have "8" and "10" I'll buy them and ship them off to you along with the original receipt, and you can just pay me whenever.
Sound good?
Man, that would have been good. Too bad they didn't have any.
I really hope that some Wal-Marts somewhere will still have them, or that they will come back in stock sometime soon. I really don't want to have to resort to paying the higher prices on eBay for something so recently released, but it may end up being the case that I will have to.
I tried asking a guy at the Wal-Mart I visited today if he knew whether his store might get them in stock soon, but we all likely know how helpful the typical Wal-Mart employee is. :-/
When I go to visit my girlfriend this weekend, I'll have to check the Wal-Mart where she lives.
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pinmagic wrote:
It's interesting that they use such a variety of technology for these games - some have 80s style static LEDs, and some have the latest active panels that look like a TV screen. Wonder why that is.
It seems that Wal-Mart wanting to exert its power has a large part to do with it. Based on the release history of these things, it seems that the classic static screens was going to be the original direction taken, but then when Wal-Mart caught wind of it, it seems that Wal-Mart wanted to introduce a "premium" line of the machines, so the vast majority in the Wal-Mart exclusive line gets the versions that are largely all slightly modified NES ROMs, it seems. Thus, everybody else gets the static screen versions to sell, while powerful Wal-Mart gets the versions that are closer to the arcade versions.