September 3, 2004
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Well I finally did it, I traded off several of my xbox games for some
pre-orders that I wanted (Fable, X-Men Legends, DOA Ultimate). I
pretty much traded off used / budget titles that I originally bought
for cheap ($15 – $30), that I don’t intend on playing much again.
They are Crimson Skies, Hunter The Reckoning Redeemer (the first one is
better anyways), Indiana Jones, and Burnout2 (part 3 comes out on
Tuesday). All four of those gave me $39 of credit. I
originally paid about $90 – $100 for those four combined, so I lost a
little over half. Oh well, don’t care.
The biggest trade I made though is my copy of Steel Batallion.
That’s the game where you have a whole huge 40+ button controller, that
comes complete with foot pedals as well. I bought it used a year
and a half ago for $170, and I surprisingly got $120 for it.
That’s not bad at all, as I expected to get less than that. As
much as a collector’s item it is, I had to trade it because I can’t
even pass that one mission, and it’s more or less taking up space in my
room. I mean, just look at this thing…
This pic doesn’t show the foot pedals though.What was pretty cool was that even though my three preorder games rang
up to $164 (with tax), and my trades gave me credit of $159, I didn’t
have to pay that $5 difference. Didn’t ask why that is, all I was
told that I “used up the whole credit” and “you’re all done.” Oh
well, my gain.p.s. on a side note, while I’m on the subject about gaming, I found this article about Halo 2 humorous
