Oooopsss....

On the way home from shopping today I decided to stop at our local electrical goodies superstore to have a look at the Xbox One prices, the Mrs waited in the car as I was only going 'to have a look'
Ended up treating myself to one, when I got in the car the Mrs didn't look happy!!
She bought me one for Xmas2

I felt pretty bad as it had blown her Xmas surprise, but she wasn't too upset as it she can return it and save herself £220

 

I've done similar things myself. Always best to wait till the season passes. Warren the trick is to only buy yourself things that she doesn't know about

 

I tried really hard to hold off until the new year, Mike! Last year the prices dropped a bit on the consoles at Christmas then went back up again after, so I thought I would grab one at the lowest they have been so far!
I did say to her a few times that I am about to order one online or pop in a shop and get one, guess she thought I wasn't serious or so eager
I guess I will be getting a couple of games for it for Xmas insteadump

 

So what games are you into? Are you a Fallout fan?

 

I haven't really been playing games for a while, Bill!
Just got back into Skyrim on the 360, started a new character so slowly building that one up. So open adventure type stuff, Fallout looks good and so does The Witcher 3.
Quite a lot of choice and the used games are pretty cheap and pretty risk free with 6-12 month warranty, don't often buy new ones to be honest, means I can try more for my money!

 

I think this is a Y-chromosome thing. "Honey, it's the day before Christmas/my birthday/our anniversary etc. Guess what I just bought for myself!"

 

In my defense..... ok you may have a point!! But I have been looking at these for a couple of months and we weren't really doing expensive gifts this year, soooo... I kind of didn't do the typical man shopping thing!

 

You're right about the cost of new games Warren.
I never buy new, I always wait for the inevitable price drop for used.
I'm sticking with my PS3 for a while longer. So many games available now for 1/3 original cost!

 

Pre-owned has worked fine for me, only had one not work even though it looked scratch free, but the shop swapped in no questions asked.
I still have the first 'proper' games computer I got, a Commodore Amiga A500 from the late 80's!! Still occasionally get together with one of my original school friends and hook it up to the tv and play the old games
It sometimes sounds like it won't fire up, but it keeps plodding along!

 

I played one of the games that came with it for few hours last night, Ori and the Blind Forest, great looking game but very frustrating Died about 30 times in 30 minutes

 

That's how I was at those Call of Duty games! If I was on your team we would loose for sure.

 

For sure! When I first played those games I would be running about pressing all the buttons, jumping up and down randomly, throwing grenades in all directions and generally causing chaos!!

 

Missed this thread... nice mention of the A500

 

Still love the old A500! A lot of those games had great game play and kept you hooked for ages

 

Right now I am thinking of Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight

 

That was good! I seem to remember a werewolf or something?
There are sooo many others! Xenon 2, Kick Off, R-type, Lemmings, Shadow of the Beast, Double Dragon, Golden Axe, Outrun, Test Drive, Super Cars etc etc....

 

Yeah that one was one of the most brutal games on the system
You're listing some really good games and some of them with great music!
I should add the lotus series to that

 

Yep, Xenon 2 had some great music by Bomb the Bass!! Those were the days:cool1