{"id":1367,"date":"2007-10-13T07:22:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T12:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2007-10-13T11:24:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T16:24:06","slug":"avast-buried-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1367","title":{"rendered":"Avast! Buried Treasures."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was messing around on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.half.ebay.com\/\">Half.com<\/a>. (Ebay&#8217;s sister site, no bidding) and <strong>lookie what I found<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><table width='256'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/buried_treasure.jpg' class='insetimage' width='256' alt='buried_treasure.jpg' title='buried_treasure.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Okay, No One Lives Forever isn&#8217;t that big a deal, but these other two have been out of print since before the turn of the century.<\/p>\n<p>I missed all three of these when they were new.  I will note that you can very accurately judge the worthiness of titles past by looking at their selling price on sites like this.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grim_Fandango\">Grim Fandango<\/a> (1998) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Full_Throttle_%28computer_game%29\">Full Throttle<\/a> (1995) were selling in the $15 to $30 price range, depending on the condition of the box \/ manual.  <a href=\"?p=772\">Scrapland<\/a> (2005) was selling for an abysmal  seventy-five <i>cents<\/i>.  <\/p>\n<p>I remember seeing Full Throttle in stores, but I never picked up the box and checked it out.  I saw the art and figured it was some sort of action game. With a tough guy in it.  <i>Probably some kinda lame Duke-Nukum knockoff. Meh.<\/i> By the time I knew what it was the thing was long gone. I hope I can get it to run.<\/p>\n<p>I knew Grim Fandango was good.  I heard about it.  Made a note to get it.  By the time I got around to it the thing was out of stores.  They didn&#8217;t make very many, and they sold out quick.<\/p>\n<p>I played the demo of No One Lives Forever 2.  Loved it.  Strangely enough, I love send-ups of the sixties James Bond formula more than I like the movies themselves.  I even watched Austin Powers 3 all the way through, for crying out loud.  I don&#8217;t even think Mike Meyer&#8217;s parents did that.  At any rate, here is a game from 2002 which still looks <em>fantastic<\/em> to my eyes.   <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still playing and writing about Episode One, but it&#8217;s nice to have a game to play and a few games waiting to be played.  I haven&#8217;t been in this position in <i>years<\/i>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was messing around on Half.com. (Ebay&#8217;s sister site, no bidding) and lookie what I found: Okay, No One Lives Forever isn&#8217;t that big a deal, but these other two have been out of print since before the turn of the century. I missed all three of these when they were new. I will note [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}