The Hunt and the Haggle

The Hunt:

I wasn't looking for anything in particular and a routine trip to the normal outlets: The Goodwill, The Salvation Army, and the local pawn shops would suffice. You never know what may turn up at a pawn shop, and even though I thought I had exhausted all the possibilities, just to be thorough, I looked at the Playstation pile. I found it! A game I had wanted to own since I played a demo back in the playstation's heyday, in a pile under the usual Jet Moto, and Madden ' 97 in a nice clean uncracked case was *pause....... Intelligent Qube.

The Haggle:

The sign on the glass case read "Playstation games $5", but I had a few typical NES and Genesis games in hand (JAWS, Subterrania, etc.) and I had a rapport with the shopkeeper... A deal was in order! I asked if she could reduce the price since I was buying four or five games and she sold me the game for $3! Intelligent Qube's average value at the time was $55.00 and now goes for around $48.00, not too shabby.

- Blake Leftwich, gamebot