Deals of the Day: 30th June 2007
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News: Blockbuster Closing 282 Stores
Image courtesty of Business Week.
Forbes is reporting that Blockbuster is closing 282 stores to help streamline their business model. They’re going to consolidate the inventory in the stores to those that they’re keeping, but there’s probably going to be a lot of games and movies on sale while they get rid of the stores. I’ll report on it more as it occurs, but look out at your local stores to see if they’re doing a fire sale.
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Flash Friday: Truck Zilla
Truck Zilla is an interesting take on the puzzle game genre. Using the supplied arrow blocks, you have to maneuver your truck around various screens to reach the EXIT sign. On your travels, you get to add power ups and additional skills to your truck. Overall, this is a very nifty time killer that will make you think and is forgiving when you don't get a screen right on the first try.
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Flash Friday: Ultimate Flash Sonic
How Old Skool do you want to go? Sonic Old Skool? I have you covered with Ultimate Flash Sonic, a reasonably faithful remake of the original Sonic The Hedgehog game by SEGA. To hear the classic sound of Sonic collecting rings is to take me back in time to when my sister used to play this game every day for about a year – talk about knowing how to drive your family crazy.
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Flash Friday: Luigi’s Revenge Interactive
That Mario! Always getting the spotlight! Some brother he is! Grrrrr. Luigi's Revenge Interactive is a light-hearted poke at the better known of the Mario Brothers. You take to take up the mantle as Luigi and show that he's just as good at jumping over things as his red jumpsuited bro.
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Flash Friday: Bomb It
Cutesy Bomberman Clone Bomb It delivers multiplayer bomb-based action on your screen. You get to play one of the four cute male characters and blow up walls and each other to win.
A word of warning though: turn off the music. It’s very loud and very annoying. You can easily disable it from the main screen.
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Deals of the Day: June 29th 2007
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Freebies: GameTap Free Games List 28th June 2007
Here’s the list of GameTap Free games starting 28th June 2007. They’re all free until 4th July 2007. Those that I recommend are in bold.
- 1941 Counter Attack
- 3 Count Bout
- Art of Fighting
- Baseball Stars 2
- Black Tiger
- Blazing Star
- Breakers
- Bubble Bobble
- Bust-A-Move Again
- Capcom Sports Club
- DarkStalkers: The Night Warriors
- Disciples II: Rise of the Elves Gold
- Elevator Action
- Final Fight
- Ghosts’N Goblins
- Jagged Alliance 2 Gold
- Joust
- Knights of the Round
- Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend
- League Bowling
- Metal Slug 2
- Mutation Nation
- Myst Online: Uru Live
- Neo Turf Masters
- Puzzled
- Rampage
- Restaurant Empire
- Robo Army
- Robotron 2084
- Root Beer Tapper
- Scrapland
- Shock Troopers 2nd Squad
- Space Invaders
- Street Fighter Alpha
- Super Gem Fighter Minimix
- Super Qix
- Super Sidekicks
- The King of Dragons
- The King of Fighters ‘95
- Top Hunter: Roddy and Cathy
- Twinkle Star Sprites
- Warlords Battlecry III
- Wars and Warriors: Joan of Arc
Deals of the Day: 28th June 2007
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Opine: Customer Dis-Service In Gaming Stores: Today’s Norm
Today, the two Bagder cubs and myself popped along to one of the local gaming stores in town to score some of the Wizkids Star Wars PocketModel Sample Kits and some actual play packs. You know those game stores that are run by and staffed by gamers? Yeah, we hit one of those. Now, fair enough, we hit them at ten minutes to closing, but you could have cut the apathy with a large knife. The people staffing the store seriously need to lighten up and learn how to interact with customers. A nice “Hello” as soon as you walk in the door would be good. Perhaps all my years working in various areas of customer service/care/satisfaction have turned me into some sort of monster, but I believe strongly that for you to survive in retail, you need to be able to actually want customers to visit, shop and return. Call me crazy.
I’m all for supporting local game stores, but they need to want my support. Stores like this one are the reason I’ll shop online for games. I’ll forego a discount if I get a good store locally that I can get behind, but I’ve found this lacking. Living here in Columbus, OH, a central hub of gaming that hosts the Origins Games Expo every year, this shouldn’t be the situation, but it is. So, the online stores get my business, I get a discount and can get more fun for my money.
We came home with three sample kits and three $4.99 packs which netted us a number of ships, allowing for at least a decent 20 point game. Our booty included a bunch of X-Wings, Y-Wings, V-Wings, A-Wings, TIE Fighters, TIE Interceptors, a Nebulon-B Battle Cruiser, a Corellian Cruiser and some Droid Fighters. Not too bad. We scored a couple of foil rare cards as well.
Tomorrow Mrs Teh Bagder and I are going to face off across the dining room table and try to squash each other mercilessly using dice, cards, styrene ships and a modicum of strategy and tactics. Knowing my luck, she’ll whip me. She has this strange beginner’s luck that just comes out and trumps me when playing CCGs and table top games.
PS: Sorry for the cheesy YouTube video above. I couldn’t help myself. I feel too much apathy at the moment.
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