Classic Gaming Expo 2007 has come to a close. Sure, I could have spent today buying even more slightly-too-expensive crap I don't need. But why, when I could just spend an hour at the very end of the show buying really cheap crap I don't need? I know I'm already going to get out my CD-i when I get home and play some of the new stuff I have, so that means Mystic Midway, for $1, might as well get added to the pile. Just look at the cover art and tell me I'm wrong.
The CGE guys celebrated the close of the show by dumping a whole pile of games on the ground and announcing that they were a mere fifty cents each. When I saw the graffiti-smeared copy of The Goonies II (it's all over the back of the cart, too) I knew it had to be mine, as a special memento of nearly getting trampled as people pushed in behind me to get at the goods.
The label-less Game Boy games -- Super Mario Land and Tetris -- were free. There's not much more to that story. The Miracle Piano cartridge was $2. Now all I have to do is get that Miracle keyboard that I found last year hooked up to an NES, and I can start learning me some piano. Anybody got a spare cable...?
One last thing. Check out the box art for Escape From Cybercity. It's "the ultimate interactive action adventure"! Apparently starring He-Man wearing She-Ra's helmet and M. Bison's cape! What on earth kind of game could this possibly be?
Oh, it's... entirely made up of footage from Galaxy Express 999. Weird! And totally incongruous. I wonder how this plays. I'm sure that impressions are coming soon.
