When I was sorting out papers recently, I stumbled across a receipt from 1995 for Solar Eclipse.

This was a fairly forgettable Saturn shooter, with the caveat that Claudia Christian did some acting work in the cut-scenes. Since I was hooked on Babylon 5 at the time, it makes sense that I had to have it… but apparently I dropped $59.95 + CA sales tax of 8.25% on it.

By way of contrast, I went to the localish ebgames yesterday and bought four games (yes, I know, I shouldn’t be buying games as I’m theoretically trying to finish them) : Justice League Heroes, Prince of Persia The Sands of Time (and The Warrior Within), and Viewtiful Joe. I’ve heard really good things about the Prince of Persia games and Joe, and, well, Hal Jordan is an unlockable character in JLH so I had to own that, right?

At any rate, 3 highly rated games and one that I’ve heard at least good words on, and it set me back all of…

31 bucks.

There are advantages to being a little behind the curve!

I think there are still a few games from this last generation that are “must play!” titles, and with my profound lack of willpower and attraction to shiny objects I’ll probably wind up owning them… but I’ll be spending a heck of a lot less than on Solar Eclipse. 🙂