Memories
Have you ever thought of something…only to forget it? Or forget a good start to an article?
Gaming is just like that, one minute you remember that there are games and you need them, the next you’re sitting there waiting for it in shops or just plain forget about it.
Most games coming out will end up like this, now you can guess what this article is turning into, another “Why the hell is Australia so lazy with Video games” article, if you guss that then your right.
Going to a “local” (Well I was on holidays so I would call it local for that reason only”) BigW I look around on the launch day for Another Code: 2 Memories, only to find, there out of stock or haven’t got it in, wait it was that they haven’t got it in.
Reluctantly trying another store chain, I go to Target only to find the same thing, I then look at EB, BigW and a few other shops only to find that they haven’t gotten the delivery yet.
The next day I didn’t have time to check out any shops, nor the next because I was going to Sydney. When I got to Sydney I recently felt the evil gas and pollution smells coming to a conclusion of “How do people live there?”. Then I went to the new Westfield shopping center that opened up at Bondi junction. There was an EB there, as you can guess the game was there, only one copy, but it was $70 like all EB DS games. I look at the box and get a shock at the ratting M+15. At the moment that is the highest you can give a game, but soon the new ratting system will come into play. Anyway why M+15? If you read my article about it you would see that the people who ratted that game were pansies and didn’t like the story and fought it was to horrifying for the game to be G or G+8, so they gave it M+15. Now look at Europe they have 7+ playing the game, why can’t we do the same.
Asking my dad if he can buy it he adamantly asked the price, when I told him $70 he said lets go and then we went into this weird shop which sold kiddy things like those mad ball objects which have “hairs” on them.
It was all fine then. I could live with dad not buying it then, but when I got back to the city I was staying it I found out the cries was worse then before. Yep not in stock, and it was about 4 days after the launch. Talking to the lady at the counter who knew nothing about video games (she did say that to me to ^. ^) she basically took along time just to look through a big folder then she said “There’s nothing in here about Video games only CDs and DVDs”.
Then it got worse, coming home after 1 day I decided to check out BigW as it was the only shop open at the time, to find, nothing in stock. I relied then that “Nintendo should get off there @$$ and publish more games of good titles”. I checked to see if it did came out, and so it did (I didn’t have any internet access while I was on holidays).
I then checked some online shops looking around I sore the following in bold on a lot of sites. “Out of Stock”, “Shipment coming soon”, “Back Order”, “We are a uninteresting shop which doesn’t have the game you want (not really)”, so then I decided to look at more only finding the same 3 lists, some didn’t have anything but hinted that it was “Out of Stock/Shipment coming soon/Back Order..ect.”
I added it to my wish list on DVD crave, and also got some updates about the game in there newsletter. So hopefully I will get something soon, because I’m board of waiting for such a master piece of quality from Cing/Nintendo.
My last hope is to check out EB games on the weekend (they recently opened in my small country town lol) to see if they have it, hopefully they will and I can stop waiting, for a game which wont come due to Nintendo’s bad decisions to ship less titles of the games, which delays in shipments ect. Have been happing a lot recently.