Sticky Situations

Haha, Sorry for the lame title, but I had to do it!

Anyway, today while I was in a Cash Converters (Which is a Pawn Broker chain), on my normal hunt for a retro piece of gold two things happened.

1. I saw a boxed Game & Watch of Donkey Kong.
2. I saw there was a security sticker, the type that destroys everything it touches, right there on the box.

So I went from being very excited (that would have to be the coolest thing I had ever seen at a Cash Converters, and if it was not so pricey I would have added it to my collection.) to being pissed off at the fact that they had wrecked such a awesome piece of history by plastering sticker that would utterly destroy the reason they were selling it for so much.

A classic being destroyed.

Looking for the answer I knew I would get I asked the lady who worked in the store why it was so expensive, she replied because it was a rare collectors item and made rarer because it had the box, I then asked her why the sticker was on the box if it was part of the reason it was so expensive and she replied for secuirty / insurance reasons. At this point I asked to look at the Gameboy games they had on display and purchased The Castlevania Adventure for the Gameboy, but I will come back to that in a moment. What really bugged me about this answer was that not only would the sticker wreck the box, the reason is was so pricey, but the reason given, secuirty, was made redundant by the fact it was placed it a locked glass display case!

With the Donkey Kong thing out of my system, I got home, ready to play some Castlevania Adventure on my Super Gameboy, so I removed (read: Fail) the sticker from the back and this happened.

I have seen this too many times!

I swear I did'nt even try to do this, it happened when I peeled back one carner and pulled, it was'nt even until after this happened that I thought of blogging this. I know what your thinking cant you just pick the reast off with your nail, well I did that and it looked like this.

What a mess, sticky!

I could'nt get any more off with my nails, so I had to get out a cloth and some rubbing alcohol and rub the rest off, in the end I got it looking pretty good and you could'nt really notice that the sticker was there, but I mean why for the love of god do they need to put these kind of stickers on things when they are in a locked display case, its one thing to clean up a cart, but it is another thing when you put it on the box! A piece of cardboard! It blows my mind, cant they stick it on the inside of the box. There have been times when I have gone in, seen a game, seen the sticker across the label of the cart and not purchased the game. If you jack the price on something because it is a 'collectors item' treat it like one!

Did I really need to go through all that effort?

Anyway, after all of that effort to clean the game, I am off to play some Castlevania Adventure, I have the Wii 'Rebirth' so it will be interesting to see how they compare.

Stay Retro.