Today I went to Best Buy with a couple of my friends, in search of a 750GB external hard drive deal I ran across online. There was no such deal to be found at our Best Buy, but right at the entrance of the store, there were other things waiting for me.



These two copies of Odin Sphere were each bundled with a copy of Naruto Ninja Chronicles 2 for the PS2. $10 for each set, for a total of $20. In other words, the four games together, all new, cost less than a used copy of Odin Sphere.

It got better when I decided to go to GameStop to see how much they would give me for the Naruto games, which I had no interest in playing. I was really only doing it for laughs - I didn't expect to get much for them.

Turns out they wanted to give me $8 for each copy. Let's do some simple math, everyone!

$10.00
- 8.00
______
2.00

So, $2 for each copy of Odin Sphere. Now I have a copy to play, and a copy to keep sealed, since Atlus games apparently become more and more rare as time goes by.





Slightly less exciting to me, was this copy of Halo 3 Legendary Edition that Best Buy was trying to get rid of for $50. Compared to the forever that it will be in my collection, getting it later than everyone else did isn't really a bad thing at all.

I love it when they give you extra stuff with a game. It's fun, but I don't really want to pay for them. That's especially true considering my roommate has a 360 and his own copy of Halo 3, so I hadn't bought either yet. Since I won't be living with him forever and this was the same price as a retail copy of the game, I decided to pick it up.


While I was at GameStop trading in those Naruto games and laughing to myself while browsing the used games, I noticed the same Legendary box was on sale there for $80. Also of note is the fact that a used copy of Odin Sphere there sells for $30, while they had a new copy of it for $20 in the sale that is currently going on. After seeing the success of my trade-in, my friend Robert went back to Best Buy to get the other two Odin Sphere/ Naruto bundles left on the table, and plans to trade the extra stuff in later.


I guess if today's story has a moral, it's to head over to your local Best Buy and see if they have anything interesting on sale.