Ah, the wonders of a global finance system that allows me to wire money to my girlfriend in another country in seconds. Some of these were bought during the trip, but a lot were actually bought in the sixteen months between last year's trip and this one.
I've talked about the wonders of CEX before, and the Cardiff one is still very good. Since Caby's in town anyway a lot of days for school, I asked her to send me photos every so often of the Cardiff CEX's PC game selection and pick up certain things for me, which I'd PayPal her for immediately after. This resulted in me bringing home 24 fucking games this time, all of which I scanned my copy's boxart for the big collage you see below. A lot of them are budget reissues of these games, which personally, I don't mind at all. I just want the game. Most come with their manuals and other inserts, and none are cover reprinted (which I still have one of just as its own keepsake, but generally I pass on those).
If you're curious, the most expensive game below was Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, at £10, and the cheapest were the SimCity 3000 and Dark Messiah (third-party Source Engine games are neat) reissues, plus Tetrix Classics, at 50p each. Again, these are budget reissues with I guess "inferior" artwork from a few years later, and Tetrix is a funky German package of Tetris clones to go with my Pac-Max Classics from the first trip. Personally, I find the reissues neat, and the Hemming clone comps are definitely worth the 50p to fuck around and kill time with. I would've been buying these back in the day, and they go well with my eMachines Box also being rather underpowered for the time.
Now to actually start playing stuff... (Also, other than Quake, Half-Life, and Unreal Tournament, I have about everything I'd want at the moment, so she's stopped checking. No worries, I can control myself.)
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