pan6467

Thought I'd start a thread on bargain games you have found that you became addicted to or just loved to play and got more than you money's worth.

I've spent some bucks on big named games I never really played because once I got them, they didn't hold my interest. Yet my latest find was 99 cents .....

Here's my experience.

I was in a CVS recently and they had a box of CD-ROMs for 99 cents. So I looked to see what they had and found a game called "Football Manager" and now am addicted to the game.

It's very basic and easily beatable.

The object is to manager your football team with salary cap to win the World Championship. And you can go for years upon years. The game starts in 2003 and I have managed to take it up to 2048, so far.

I have won many championships and AFC 's (I'm playing as Cincy), I have had a few "bad" seasons and came across an 0-16 season. However I have more often won than lost.

There are some flaws, the drafts suck one year you can have all 7 picks be great potential and then for 5 years after each guy you drafted sucks.

The season I just played is going to be a horrid offseason, in that all my key players are F/A now and I am over the cap by $5000 and on minimum roster (53) so I can't cut or trade anyone to lower my cap to sign the players I need..... so I'll lose them all.

It's also very easy to sell your draft picks then go and "signing bonus" F/A to the minimum........ but again, even at minimum this last season, I am over cap and cannot sign anyone....... so the problem exists and I have to find a way to rebuild...... just fun and addictive.

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ratbastid

I found Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time in the bargain bin about two weeks after it was released, priced at $6.95. Their mistake, my score!

Prophecy

Planescape: Torment, it's one of the best PC rpgs i've ever played, I saw it for $19.99 at Walmart a while back.

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Far Cry for 9.99, picked it up when my cable modem went down over the weekend, still played it when it came back up...

tecoyah

Red Alert...got all the early versions for 5.99.....but I had to load it in an old Machine...heh

Still alot of fun....with all the Mods

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paulskinback

Maniac Mansion

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Man I loved that game. Still have it somewhere. And yeah, it always annoyed me that it wouldn't run in 2000/XP...

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Siege

I also got Red Alert in the bargain bin. Gotta love the Tanyas and mammoth tanks.

Anyone ever play the original Command and Conquer? Anyone ever play it with the strategy guide with inaccurate maps? Good times running around the map to the wrong location!

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Coppertop

$10 - Fallout 1 & 2
$ 3 - Tony Hawk 3
$10 - Motorcross Madness & Mechwarrior 3

Cynthetiq

i love the bargain bin... i don't buy many games for even discounted retail...

i hunt them all the time... never got one for .99 but 5-15, 19 tops for something that never usually goes on sale or ever dips in price.

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Freedom Fighters

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amplitude for ps2: 10$
fucking awesome game.

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thesupermikey

Decent: Freespace and freespace.

Space Flight seems are a lose sort of games.
I guess back in the day they were popular b/c they didnt need to render background other than the blackness of space. But i say Goddamn. I had an bitchen time playing X-Wing v. Tie-fighter Freespace 1/2 and Tackyon.

Good days

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Antikarma

This game rocks. and DAY OF THE TENTACLE. Man oh man, my childhood games come back to haunt me.

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Yup, I picked up Frequency for $10, later Amplitude for $15. Well worth it.

Oh, Twisted Metal Black/TMB Online for $9. Pwnz.

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I got Beyond Good and Evil for $10 not too long ago. Oh yeah, and get this, I got the PSX Suikoden games (some of the finest games ever made) for $20 and $30 respectively back when they were relatively new, but just not selling, me and my bro had no idea what kind of treasure we were recieving. Kinda funny considering now Suikoden 2 can sell for up to $200 on Ebay.

tspikes51

Streets of Sim City. It was confusing as hell and had no real point, but being able to drive through a city that you built was just an irresistable concept. Hint to game makers.

And the greatest budget game of all time: ChexQuest! You know, the one you got free with the cereal and was built on the Doom engine? If you haven't played it, search the net and find it.

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tupacalypse1622

ROFL @ chexquest I remember playing that when it I bought chex cereal just to try the game. The monsters are basically all variations of green goo.

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*Terminal Velocity - AU$20 (US$14? something like that...) - awesome, old school 3d, futuristic fighter plane game by 3D Realms
*Broken Sword 1 for PC - AU$10 - One of the best adventure games I've ever played

japhyryder

Original Hearts of Iron $9.99 couldn't stop playing it for months

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sailor

Hahaha, yes! That's bringing back some old memories...

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soma

Tribes 2: $9.99

I paid roughtly $.0000000000001 per hour of gaming. What a bargain.

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Red Alert - I will NEVER get tired of Tesla coils.

F22: Air Dominance Fighter - Still one of the best flight sims out there, despite being released in 1998.

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Argh... all this talk of Red Alert is making me want to... Ahem... Aquire a copy. Of course I left my old CDs at home, who would have thought I'd get the jones to play that game now?

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longbough

Tron 2.0 for $4.95 used @ amazon.com
Deus Ex: Invisible War $9.95 new @ CompUSA
Half-Life 2 for $14 used @ amazon.com
Longest Journey $9.95 new @ CompUSA

silver26

Killer7 (gc) - $19.99
Dark Cloud 2 (ps2) - $19.99 with a controller, lol.

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Coppertop

I've recently started replaying The Temple of Elemental Evil. With the Circle of Eight mod it is considerably improved and almost plays like a whole new game. It can be found for $10.

longbough

wahoo! My $14 copy of Half-Life 2 just arrived in the mail and it's not used ... it's brand-spanking-new! ENVY ME!

Toaster126

Planescape: Torment has been mentioned, but I'll mention it again. Even though they had some company problems which affected the end of the game, it is still one of the best games I've ever played. You can get it for less than $20.

I also like to play the Sierra\Dynamix flying games: Red Baron, Aces Over Europe, Aces Over the Pacific. These were being sold as a bundle for very cheap.

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tspikes51

Can't sell 'em used.

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longbough

I just realized that when I installed it.

In any case it was $14 for a new copy.

pan6467

Sounds like some real kick butt games found cheaply.

I'm still playing my Football manager, made it to the year 2101, retired and started again.

Bad thing is after awhile it stops responding and freezes the computer so I have to ctrl-alt-del and shut the program down.

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