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MOAR STUFF for sale!

Quark goes berserk and explodesI’m selling MOAR STUFF on eBay! This round of goodies, including the much-loved Kick arcade game and some very rare, very out-of-print limited edition cartridges, is being liquidated to pay my expenses to GlitchCon 2012 in Bentonville, just five weeks away. I’m not really wanting to get rid of any of it – when we start talking about games that I bought not from a faceless eBay seller, but in person on the floor at CGE or OVGE, we’re talking about stuff with some pretty specific (and usually good) memories attached to it. But I do believe strongly that, what with me being out of work (running up on month nine of that particular issue), anything I do like this should be done without hitting the “house account” that’s paying the bills. It’s a gamble: I make a sacrifice now, pay for my booth, buy more copies of the book to sell, and make my best pitch on the show floor (which is a daunting prospect in and of itself – anyone who knows me knows that there’s a reason I don’t go for sales jobs). If all goes well, there’s money to be made that I can bring home and put in the house account, but I can’t, in all good conscience, put the family income on the line for that kind of crap shoot. So here I am on eBay again.

Quite a few of the leftover white bucket games from OVGE will wind up on the block before it’s all said and done.… Read more