More Pick Ups and a Birthday

Well I was at it again, picking up some more games this week. So lets see on the Super Famicom I got Super Adventure Island ($2.50) to go with the copy of Super Adventure Island II that I already had. I also got a copy of Mario Paint ($1) to go with the SFC Mouse I had got at Hard Off. On the Gameboy I got Castlevania ($5) I have the second game back in the USA.

For the Sega Saturn it was a pretty good week, I actually found a few deals at Mandarake for a change. First up was Marvel Super Heroes which I got for only $1 I really like the disc art on this one and then the rare Cleopatra Fortune that was only $12.

 I also picked up Gradius Deluxe Pack ($6) then at Book Off I found Kyukyoku Tiger II Plus it was a little pricey at $25 but I picked it up as it goes for about double that. I also found Guilty Gear X for the Dreamcast for $1, Final Fantasy VII ($2.50) for the PS1 and looking in the bargain bin I picked up Shinobi for the PS2 also for a $1.

Back at Mandarake I picked up Bare Knuckle II and III (known as Streets of Rage in the USA) ,  I don't actually like the third game but its rare and I was just going to resell these anyway. I got the second game for $8 and the third for $31, 2 goes for about $25 and 3 is in the $90 to $100 range.

While I was there I found Shooting Love 200X for the Xbox 360 for $25, its a collection of I believe four shoot-em up games. I'm getting a lot of these types of games lately, for some reason they never get released in the west. On a side note I still don't have my Xbox back its still in the repair phase and is getting quite annoying, writing anymore about it at this moment will give me a headache (I can already feel it coming on...Grrr stupid Microsoft)

Finally the reason I had made this particular trip was to pick up a SFC game called BioMetal. They were selling a copy for $29 and it typically goes for around $80.

They also have a boxed white Sega Saturn that I have been debating whether or not to pick up they are only asking $35 for it.... hmmmm.

So moving on, my wifes birthday was this week, I also would like to take this time to wish my brother in law a happy belated birthday as well as a big happy birthday to my now 2 year old niece. Wish I were there to celebrate with you guys. So back to my wifes birthday on Saturday we went out with some of her friends. A few of them have birthdays around the same time so it was kind of a group thing. We went to this restaurant which was pretty nice you basically make your own soup, it was pretty good. We were there for quite sometime we ended up leaving around 1:30 AM, during that time I may have had a few drinks and may have become a little drunk, not really but I was feeling pretty good.

The next day, which was actually her birthday, I picked up my wife from work and we found a place to eat dinner. We took a risk on a Italian place, it was really small and there didn't seem to be too many people in it but we thought it would have food that we would both like. The atmosphere was really nice and homey, when you wanted to order or had a question or needed a refill on your drink you would shake a clapper that was at the table and the 3 people that were working there (I told you it was small) would all shout "Yes!" it was funny every time but in a good way.

The food was really, really good, I tried to take pictures as the things came out but we kept forgetting would eat half of it before remembering to take the picture. The salad was good, the appetizer was good the pizza was all hand made from the dough on up and that was really good. The best thing we had was between the fried pork and cheese and the crispy chicken in awesome sauce ( I don't know the name of it but it was awesome), I think the winner was the chicken I just wish I had saved some bread for that sauce that would have been money. We finished with some tiramisu, which I don't really care for but my wife likes.

 It was really a great place and we will defiantly go back again.