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got mine preordered but decided to go and take virgins cheap flights offer up, save £400 on 2 flights by leaving on the 29th as opposed to the 1st.

so no, I won't be making the midnight launch. Be there for xbox 360 though, just to come home and fall asleep without playing it......... Which is what I did with halo2..

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I was living in student halls when the GC was released. Being the good preorderer I am me and a bunch of mates went to the pub than at about 11:40 left to go to Game. We stopped off to get kebabs on the way and had to stand around outside eating them cause they were fucking messy. They didn't let all my mates in (there were a lot of us) I think it was three at a time. When I got in there they called out our names and asked us if we wanted anything else- I got a few extra pads for monkeyballing, which seemed to impress some of the geekiest folk there somehow. Some of the geeks were asking if they could buy the cashiers t-shirt (it was a special gamecube one) which was terribly sad. I got the stuff, headed back to halls, and the entire floor crammed into my room to see what it wa like, then the floor above tred to cram in to see what was going on and we all continued drinking. Great times, great times.

This scares me.

20 people, who you possibly don't know, all cramming around and touching... christ, touching your new console? What if their hands were dirty, or they weren't quite as gentle and caring as they should be with such stuff? The mere thought of it is petrifying.

All I can see is some idiot not realising that the controller and console are connected by wires and walking straight through that gap between the two.

I can't be the only one this anal, can I? Other people must get just as nervous as me in those kinds of situations.

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I can't be the only one this anal, can I? Other people must get just as nervous as me in those kinds of situations.

I don't let anyone touch my handheld machines. Nobody - not even the closest of my closest friends.

I have a rule.

I brought this rule in after I realised that one in every ten times I let someone borrow something of mine, it got fucked up. The final straw was after I lent a friend a copy of R-Type Delta on the grounds that he look after it and not let his flatmates at it. When I went over his place a few days later I found it sitting face down on a concrete slab in front of the fireplace.

So now I have a rule.

Nobody touches my shit, ever. If they want to argue, they can take it up with the guy who left my copy of R-Type Delta on a slab.

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To be honest, after pre-ordering the PSP myself, I don't see the point of going to the store at 12am to get it.

Imagine that the store is packed during the day, would it not be much better to just stride in during the day amidst the crowds, go straight to the counter and pick it up no fuss at all?  B)

All apart from the nice, long, inevitable que.

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To be honest I'm not anticipating much of a que in the Belfast branch of Game. I've been in quite a bit recently and it's fairly quiet; and I when I pre-ordered the list only had 3 other names on it.

Anywho I don't mind a que.

(I may be forced to eat my words if I pass my Driving test on Monday though, I don't know if I could resist going to get it early if I could get there myself.)

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All apart from the nice, long, inevitable que.

Hahaha

NO

Theres is always a que at midnight launches, the cube one I went too, I waited 35 fucking minutes to get my cube because every wanker there had only come to get a...yes a cube.

Avoid the headache and just walk into the store the day, pay and take it home without headache or the stink of anticipation from all those geeks getting their hands on their new console

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I can't be the only one this anal, can I? Other people must get just as nervous as me in those kinds of situations.

I try not to be like this, but I can't help being nervous. It also depends which of my mates we're talking about, the ones who are pretty big gamers like myself, I'm mostly ok with, but then you get experiences with the more casual gamers, like a guy conceding a goal on Virtua Striker and bashing the top of my Dreamcast with his fist, no joke. I almost started crying. I also tend not to get things back too, I have no idea where my GC OoT is, it got passed round three mates and they all claim one of the other two has it, luckily I don't really like it so it doesn't bother me too much, also a 'mate' has my KotoR (which I've completed) and Toca Race Driver (which I have the Live version of too) so that's not all bad, I could ask for them back but we had a big falling out over a woman, and I'd rather lose the games than speak to the twat again.

Hmm, maybe I should have a rule. I let the Dreamcast bashing guy touch my PSP the other day, when he got up to check on his pizza and took it with him I realised it was probably a poor idea.

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I try not to be like this, but I can't help being nervous. It also depends which of my mates we're talking about, the ones who are pretty big gamers like myself, I'm mostly ok with, but then you get experiences with the more casual gamers, like a guy conceding a goal on Virtua Striker and bashing the top of my Dreamcast with his fist, no joke. I almost started crying. I also tend not to get things back too, I have no idea where my GC OoT is, it got passed round three mates and they all claim one of the other two has it, luckily I don't really like it so it doesn't bother me too much, also a 'mate' has my KotoR (which I've completed) and Toca Race Driver (which I have the Live version of too) so that's not all bad, I could ask for them back but we had a big falling out over a woman, and I'd rather lose the games than speak to the twat again.

Hmm, maybe I should have a rule. I let the Dreamcast bashing guy touch my PSP the other day, when he got up to check on his pizza and took it with him I realised it was probably a poor idea.

You need new mates. They sound like cunts.

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I'm probably the only forumite who never bought a console on the launch date. Nearly did it with the xbox, but €450 (or something) is a ridiculous ammount of money for a console. So I waited a few months, and bought it for €260 (again, no idea if that was the actual price), with JSRF and Sega GT. Nyaah.

Did the same with my gamecube, had to wait a month, before someone sold his Gamecube, with two controllers and 2 of the launch titles for less than €150.

Won't stand in a line to buy one of the nextgen consoles either, still have loads of games to complete, don't feel the need for better looking games (more floating pixels and texturesmipmapthingies! Dear god, give me a PS3!), and the first value packs will be released within months.

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I can't be the only one this anal, can I? Other people must get just as nervous as me in those kinds of situations.

Nah, I'm the messy one. I once spilt two different kebabs over two different books leant to me by the same fellow. As long as you PUT THE DISC BACK IN THE BOX really couldn't care less.

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This scares me ...

... I can't be the only one this anal, can I? Other people must get just as nervous as me in those kinds of situations.

When I get the PSP I will be afriad to touch it.

I once saw a news report on BBC Breakfast where a reporter had one, said her piece and then dropped it, that's right DROPPED it back on the table!!! Scary moment that, so obviously a non-gamer, so obviously like my non-gamer girlfriend. I fear for my future PSP. ;)

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I can't be the only one this anal, can I? Other people must get just as nervous as me in those kinds of situations.

I am by nature, but I try not to be. For instance: Xbox launch day. Much like the cube story above, there was a lot of interest in my new toy. So me and a few mates got back to mine and hooked it all up for some Halo goodness. I leave the room to get some more beers... When I return I find that one *notoriously accident prone* mate was resting his feet on top of my brand new Xbox, which was itself on a table.

Not everyone's a complete tosser though. Another mate (who is a messy bastard) leant a load of games to someone he knew... Well it was basically just a box of random stuff in no order (mostly without boxes). When he got it back it had all been cleaned and indexed ;)

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I don't understand anyone who lives in the UK and is going to buy a PSP - you're basically going to become a walking advertisement for getting robbed should you play it in public (which, being a portable machine, you likely will be). This is a country where the idea of even taking a laptop to a coffee shop is looked on as bizarre, so something like that is a mugger's paradise.

Any idea what the insurance on a PSP is?

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I don't understand anyone who lives in the UK and is going to buy a PSP - you're basically going to become a walking advertisement for getting robbed should you play it in public (which, being a portable machine, you likely will be). This is a country where the idea of even taking a laptop to a coffee shop is looked on as bizarre, so something like that is a mugger's paradise.

Any idea what the insurance on a PSP is?

Goodness me you're paranoid. Most mobile phones are worth more than the PSP, yet 12 yr olds flash them about everywhere. I know, they're idiots, but you can't deny yourself something out of fear.

Get some balls man.

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Goodness me you're paranoid. Most mobile phones are worth more than the PSP, yet 12  yr olds flash them about everywhere. I know, they're idiots, but you can't deny yourself something out of fear.

Get some balls man.

Heh, well I wouldn't have been that harsh, but yeah, don't be too paranoid. As long as you know what areas you can and can't flash your toys about in you should be fine.

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So is it possible to buy a PSP on the midnight launch in centre London without a pre-order? I'm in London during the PSP launch and thought it would be fun to witness a midnight launch, but hopefully get to buy a PSP. Any ideas of places where to go in London (where I don't need to fiddle with a map like I'm some sort of tourist.. which I am)?

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regarding getting mugged for your PSP you just need to be a little careful. I have used mine in all situations...especially for a gaming fix at lunchtime at work... But i never felt threatened even at the midnight launch of the DS i sat playing my PSP outside Game in a street in wolverhampton waiting for midnight. Buses, trains, planes and pubs used it on/in them all...just enjoy it. You'll be amazed how few people even clock it. Just us Geeks assume everyone will be drooling over it. Fraid not. Except the waiter in Pizza Hut when i first got mine back in february.

Can't wait for Virtua tennis though!!!

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