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Oct 19, 2013 11:52 AM
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myparrotisadog
You bought it seven minutes too late.
HALOHeinz
I'm going out on a limb here and saying between the $100 bill and the time stamp, someone bought this for you as a present.
skjetch
September 9th, 1999 was a Thursday. WHAT were you doing out of school at 1:44 PM buying video games, mister?
walrusarts
70 bucks for a game is cheap in Australia. We pay a fuck ton more for our electronics than most countries.
DaveCoulierDeservedAnEmmy
Half Life 1 confirmed.
OmaHans
PLEASE RETAIN THIS COMMENT FOR EXCHANGE OR RETURN
thecapitalofromania
Upvoted all my fellow (R)Adelaidians
EulaliaSaxons
HALF LIFE 1 CONF- wait..
MegaDeuce
TIL Games have always been this expensive. Always.
iwantacorgi
See if you can get a refund
heycooldog
I feel as though $69.95 in 1999 is something like $500.00 today.
pokler
From 1999, impressive!
Solkanarmy
9/9/99... we won't see another date like this for another 8 1/3 years
NalesSurewood
Why would they call Team Fortress "Classic" if it was the only one out at the time?
thisisgamer
That and because it was also a Quake mod before Half-Life came out.
EnigmaNL
Because before it's retail release Team Fortress as a mod. When they released it as a retail game they added Classic to differentiate it.
georgegrog
Knowing Adelaide I can guarantee that this was the most exciting thing that happened on that particular Thursday in Adelaide...
osgorb
2 pictures of half life 1, 1+2=3, half life 3 confirmed.
communicationbreakdown
WOO !! Adelaidians on Imgur!
sleepyllama
Pffft Perth has been on Imgur a few times before...
Vernas
Hell yeah! That news agency is still there today as well, so awesome!
thecapitalofromania
Yeah boiiiii
KungfuKangaroo
HEY! ANOTHER ADELAIDIEN!!!..... Why did you shop in Myer of all places man? Why not.... You know..... A better store?
Drax
Same here, I bet if I pop open some old PS2 games the receipt will be behind the manual.
AmmyWhammy
I didn't know anything cost that much in '99...
chaotikmethodz
I remember smash bros. for the N64 costing 60- 70 dollars when it first came out.
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AmmyWhammy
And today I learned! :D thank you!
SirSquish
Australians have always paid a premium because of market gouging reasons. When the dollar hit parity, it still continued.
AmmyWhammy
Then again, I was seven.
OnceUponaLittleWhovian
God I feel young now. I was three.
TheSaves
Get off my lawn you little assholes!
TheSaves
I'm sorry for my outburst. I'm a bit sensitive about my age apparently.
polloloco
It's Australian dollars, so a bit different.
TotalSmartAss
1:34pm.. you were skipping school to get that, weren't you? - reddit OP that will not get this message
thehammerismypenis
It was on a Thursday, and as the only Adelaide I can find in the US is in North Dakota, where as of 2013 school starts before Labor Day (1)
TotalSmartAss
Meyer stores in Australia. Eureka, you've found it!
thehammerismypenis
I'd say, yes, he likely skipped school. Although there is a more well-known Adelaide city in AUS, and I don't know when school starts there
TotalSmartAss
Term 3 runs from the 3rd week in July to the last week of Sept... this year it was 22 Jul - 27 Sep.
TotalSmartAss
And there are no public holidays between June 10th and Oct 7th...
nickXIII
ma15 lavel on box, australia
nickXIII
label...f my spelling
seliqui
Unfortunately 7 minutes to late
clearlytoomuchfreetime
I live in Adelaide and was in the Myers Centre just today, is this my brush with fame?
thecapitalofromania
ermahgerd, we're all from Radelaide. But seriously, I'm very excited by this post
adebisislittlehat
I'm from Adelaide, I live overseas and seeing Adelaide on front page makes me want to come home. Don't know why, don't like the Myer centre.
fredski
WHOOOO ADELAIDE REPRESENT!
nspirin
mmmm... malls balls
Jujubird
I hate going to the Myer Centre at the moment, silly construction sites. I think this is our brush with fame :D
thecapitalofromania
They laid new bricks and they're already uneven and ugly. Typical Adelaide
FeySpirit
Imgur has a surprisingly large number of Adelaidians. Ive seen a few adelaide pics on here and every man and his dog puts a shout out.
Jujubird
I think it's because we're all so surprised that someone aside from us actually knows where Adelaide is.
communicationbreakdown
I refuse to go back down Rundle Mall until all that construction is done with!
EdgarAllanPoeMobile
Yeah, it is so frustrating atm.
communicationbreakdown
I was there literally 10 mins ago, seemed a lot more open than it has been lately
EdgarAllanPoeMobile
Ah okay. Admittedly, I haven't been there in a little while.
anastasiabeaverhousen
Why hello fellow adelaidian!
thecapitalofromania
Howdy doody to you too!
siroes
Hell Yeah! One of us! One of us!
Becca9904
I must be missing the point if this is on the front page.
ninmonkey
It's from /r/gaming which is the tabloid section of games.
AbusiveWankerVEVO
Yes you are. But I won't tell you.
SirAwesomeTheThird
Reddit.
anxiously
Who the fuck has $70 to spend on video games when they're 17?!?
poopmcgert
If you have a job at 17 you do, or youre jewish.
ninmonkey
It's Aus.
Inmate45
Australians... I was earning $15 an hour at that age...
EnigmaNL
Birthday money.
TwatsUpDoc
Return it.
Pineapplecheese
retun it and say it doesnt work or something
tobiderfisch
One does not simply return Half Life.
ZtZebaztian
HERESY
InformallyFormal
No one ever returns Half-Life.
Konoton
Shit, I've got 4 copies of #2 across different platforms!
EveryCommentIs140CharactersExceptMaybeThisOne
that's dedication!
xZora
I don't see a policy/time limit on there, should be able to.
heimarmarmene
Blue box in second pic. "Where the plastic seal is broken and the software is neither faulty nor defective the return will not be accepted"
PirateKingOmega
Make it defective
DaveTheBarbarian
how much will you get back after 14 years of decay.
DaveTheBarbarian
*?
voltato
half
DaveTheBarbarian
then it must be made out of 250Cf.
ImmortalLoveRodd
I know Half Life is great, but that game was 10 months old by the time you got it. And you STILL paid 70 bucks?!
FrankyFrankFrank
Maybe it came with the game guide? I dunno.
Berethian
Australia, too.
jakaii
I saw the price and nearly shit myself. I bought it for $5 at a garage sale. Then again, I'm American.
ImmortalLoveRodd
I got it for free in '08. Actually, I first had a physical copy that my dad handed down to me after he beat it a few weeks after launch.
jakaii
Nice. I also forgot to mention that to this day it's probably the best $5 I've ever spent. Half Life is tied with Halo as my favorite sci fi
EnigmaNL
GOTY edition.
ImmortalLoveRodd
What did GOTY add? There was no DLC or anything, and the expansion packs came out well after OP bought the game.
EnigmaNL
Team Fortress Classic. Bear in mind this is also Australia, where games are always freakishly expensive.
EnigmaNL
GOTY also included new multiplayer gamemodes and maps.
Icannevercomeupwithagoodorwittyusernamepleasehelp
09/09/99......
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Broducer
Probably didn't have enough for the SEGA Dreamcast
innernette0
Right before 9/11..
sian327
I was 9 :)
fansince1994
Ah yes, I remember the release of the Dreamcast well...
RexBrosven
I remember that date because MTV had that annoying commercial about the music awards..
Marmadas
I have a movie ticket stub from that day... I went to see Tarzan. I cried when Kerchak died.
MonicaCantrell
No lie, this was my 9th birthday.
hheva
That was the day that Final Fantasy VIII came out. I remember it very, very well.
malcontentus
If I'm not mistake also the american launch day for sega dreamcast
Ekajra
Indeed it was.
mentalmarshall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoMgnJDXd3k
Fierfly
This guy bought this on my 9th birthday.
ShackieFresh
this was on my 11th birthday.
RedUsagi
this was your ninth birthday? lucky :C my 9th was 9/9/04
factuallytruepoliticallyincorrect
09 x 09 = 81. 81/9 = 9. 9/9 = 3. Half Life 3 confirmed
RedUsagi
That's my 4th birthday!
NeedsMoreDragQueenGifs
That's my little brother's birthday. We were all upset that he turned 10 that year
no0ob
first thing i saw too
piconoe
I did a double take thinking it was an error before I remembered that time existed before Y2K.
theglome
I did the same thing.
JarryS88
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DontLookAtMeLikeThatTurkeyBaster
That was my first day of high school
smatman
4 9s subtract the Half Life 1 = 3; Half Life 3 confirmed
shifty18
13:44
ShutUpYouLookLikeHarryPotterWithABloodyNose
Exactly 2 years and 2 days before 9/11. He predicted 9/11.
ThndrShk2k
2 is the difference between 9 and 11, Half-Life2 confirmed.
nuclearwaffle121
2 + 2 = 22, 22+11 = 33. Half Life 3 confirmed.
Ekiriam
Half Life 3 confirmed.
LegendaryHeroOfTime
Ahh two days after my birthday!!
interrobangster
three days after mine!
Gokule
My actual birthday :D
interrobangster
6th of september? YOU ARE AWESOME
Gokule
no mate, the 9th of september. Not too sure where you got the 6th from though xD
colorsofthewind
17yr old you paid with $100 bills?
Xykonaut
10yr old me bought a PSOne with a hundred bill from my grandmother. So.
MeArePaige
His mom/dad perhaps bought it? Most people know that you cant return games (in most places). My parents would save the receipts.
guzzball
I'm not really understanding why this is a big deal.
shanana
Not uncommon in Australia. Assuming you're American, imagine a 100 being more like a 50 - it would have been worth ~60 dollars back then.
extremelyrelevant
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/087/e/1/profile_picture_by_watfaceplz-d4u7trn.png
FartedWhileMakingUpName
that explains the $70 price tag being 11 years early.
Azated
Aus game prices are, to put it nicely, fucked.
TheShadowDawn
No, we just get ripped off on games in Australia. In retail stores, they go for $100-110 AUD. On Steam, it often goes up to $90 USD.
ImGoingToWasteEvenMoreTimeHereNow
Nobody uses 50s here (USA). 100s are more common as like something you'd get in a graduation card. Mostly people use 20s for everything.
wandergeist
Back in the late 20th Century, $20s were called Yuppie Food Stamps
wandergeist
And we wore large cell phones on our belts, which was the fashion at the time.
DetectiveJohnKimball
haven't you ever heard of birthday/christmas money?
guzzball
Or a job.
TheStickyWicket
This was my first thought. Every birthday, my grandpa gives me $100, and back in the day it was in the form of a $100 bill.
TheStickyWicket
And yes, I'm saving any and all money he sends me to buy plane tickets for my husband, son & I to go visit him 2500 miles away.
LurkersGottaLurk
wtf. I got nickles.
mnemo70
Or two 50s...
FattyBalls
orrrrrr 5 20's, right?!
iy8n
Orrrr 3 20's + 10
mnemo70
You didn't think that through... ;-)
FattyBalls
Five 20's? do I have saturday brain?! I must, forgive my ignorance.
TheEmperorOfSanFrancisco
ha
utopiaa
I'm a little more confused by why there is no tax >:O!
Smayds
I don't think Aussie had sales tax in '99, but then they did what we did here in NZ and introduced universal GST. Booo.
dpash
Yeah, I remember GST was fairly recent when I was there in 2001.
TheShadowDawn
We did. It varied by state and was combined into the price on the receipt. The GST replaced sales taxes and is now printed on the receipt.
Smayds
Aha, so you guys did have sales tax before GST then. Oh well, not so much of a sudden pain in the ass then
ohgodhowdidigethereimnotgoodwithcomputers
Because most civilized countries build it into the shelf price.
TheThingNoNotThatOne
Some stores do build it into the shelf price. But in the race to have the lowest advertised price, they exclude it.
aus4000
I've always wondered why we don't do this in the US since I was a kid...
jellypeanutbutter
As an American, I'm sad now.
YuliaStark
As a Canadian, me too
Ninjafrog
As someone who lived in Oregon. NO SALES TAX BITCHES!