Yesterday I DIDN'T Buy

Those blokes maybe could have found me Mario Baseball for less than the £130, I saw it for today on GameCube which I was very tempted to get.

And I had the money as I had a clear-out of Switch games of things likes Atelier Ryza 2, Blue Refection which I'm never going to get to and isn't something like Zelda that I collect.

Like pretty much all of the £100+ GameCube games, Mario Superstar Baseball is a great advertisement for emulation. Even at £30 I wouldn't recommend buying it, it's a game that looks so much better than it plays.

Anyhoo, yesterday I didn’t buy the copy of Fighting Vipers for the SEGA Saturn in my nearby CEX as it looked like somebody had shoved it up their arse.

Spotted at Cash Convertors at the start of the week.




 
I saw it, stopped in my tracks, thought to myself ‘what the fuck is that all about?’ and snapped a photo. On balance, a boxed PS3 for £49.99 isn’t the most honking deal. Being real though, that box is honking. Still, it’s a fun returning outing for the phrase ‘MANAGER’S SPECIAL PLAYSTATION 3 FIFA 15 & NBA 2K15 BUNDLE’, which I’d assumed had been retired from use a decade ago.

You could have got a £60 voucher in CEX, shame it wasn't a 60GB as those boxed in CEX £270.

Is that a ROG Ally above it?

What's going on? This isn't helping the feeling I've had, just woken up from a nap in the middle of the day, that I'm in a parallel universe. I mean never mind the "manager's special" (is he?) PS3 bundle... what the fuck is a ROG Ally? Quick research suggests "like a Steam Deck but... not"

You would be correct Jim, it is a PC Handheld which have been around for years before the Deck. Just now think the Switch being a success, the whole console games on the go took off (though other things have done this) with DOOM, Witcher, FIFA and indies etc people now want more POWER! And take their library on the go (or even not on the go with a Portal). Which the Deck does and then these other ones such as the ROG Ally does even more being a Windows PC in handheld form without the SteamOS & Linux of the Deck.

Soon might even be a more console version of this type of thing.