AU Deals: Super Early Boxing Day Game Savings, Winter Sale Deep Discounts, and More! – IGN
Time groweth short if you’re not planning on not being a Grinch this holiday season. Bargain-priced presents (which I suspect are early Boxing Day deals leaked early) can still be yours, particularly if you have the Super Fast Delivery perk unlocked via an Amazon Prime membership. I’ll still be on board over these holiday periods because I’m right there with your mentality—I cannot resist discounts and kick myself if I’ve missed them.
In retro news, I’m celebrating the Aussie birthday of a rare and expensive bird, the SNK Neo Geo CD. Released in limited numbers in Oz around the $600 ballpark ($1,299 in ’24 bux), this bad boy delivered near-perfect arcade-quality games, though it was a “budget” alternative to the hilari-expensive, cartridge-based Neo Geo AES. Being CD-based marred this unit with lonnng load times, though the gruelling wait for Metal Slug, Samurai Shodown, and Fatal Fury was always worth it. Here’s a shot of the beast I sold a kidney and a lung for. Laser: still going strong.
This Day in Gaming 🎂
Aussie birthdays for notable games.
– Neo Geo CD launch, 1994. eBay
– Kirby & the Amazing Mirror (GBA) 2004. eBay
– WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2007 (PSP) 2006. eBay
– Harvest Moon DS: Sunshine Islands (DS) 2010. eBay
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Introduces some interesting new features, particularly the fast-paced and compelling Rush mode, but much of the package beyond that feels overly familiar.
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Or gift a Nintendo eShop Card.
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Or just get a Steam Wallet Card
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Tekken 8
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Interesting tweaks to Tekken’s classic fighting systems, a full suite of fun offline modes, great new characters, incredible training tools, and a vastly improved online experience all add up to a fighting game. 9/10, amazing.
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Or just invest in an Xbox Card.
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Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
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Reliving a story that was foundational to my youth, looking and sounding as great as I remember it, with the opportunity to alter it in sometimes dramatic new ways is clever.
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Or purchase a PS Store Card.
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Animal Crossing: Dodo Airlines
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When you think safe air travel, think extinct bird airlines.
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This holiday season, I’m doing something different with the LEGO section. In Mathew Manor, my sons and I are racing LEGO Advent Calendars—we open our respective ones daily and compare the mini-prizes for “Coolness” and “Actual Xmas-ness”. Winner gets extra eggnog.
If you’re also feeling festive, here are the cheapest prices for the three calendars we’re using. Or just live vicariously through us.
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Adam Mathew is our Aussie deals wrangler. He plays practically everything, often on YouTube.
