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Continuing… (It's Part 6 in the saga, I fucked up. Sorry.)
So, after a few re-fueling and impromptu cigar-purchasing stops in South and Central America, we wheel up to the deserted jetway at LAX.
“Thought we were going to Elmendorf?” I asked.
“This isn’t it?” the pilot replied, feigning worry.
“No.”, I replied, “Looks like California. Fruits and nuts. All around. What’s going on? One minute we’re off to Texas, then Cali, then Texas again, now we end up here at the California airport of the iconic tower.”
“Yeah, it’s confusing enough haulin’ civilians around. But when we get a call from Virginia, we tend to comply without any questions,” the pilot explains.
“Aw, shit!”, I sort of exclaim, “Rack and Ruin called?”
“Yeah”, the pilot replies, “Figures you’d know these guys. They said they were closer to LAX rather than Texas and had us divert here. In fact, you look over there, see that dark blue Chevy? That’s them; and evidently, your ride.”
I tipped the airman from earlier a couple of cigars as he helped me with my gear off the plane and into the trunk of Rack and Ruin’s plain-Jane blue late modeled Chevy. Had to move the Sidewinder Missiles off to one side, though.
“Most honorable Agents Lack and Luin!” I quipped in my faux-racist greeting. “What the hell, guys? I’ve got to get to Japan and get some newly rigidified digits.”
“Let’s see your hand”, Agent Rack asks. “Nasty.”
“Yeah”, I sigh “And with the medicos in South America and their penchant for plaster, I don’t so much have a left hand as more of an ankylosaur tail.”
“Or Thagomizer”, Agent Ruin tittered. “Anyone gives you grief, and one upside the head should set them right. Or dead.”
“You’re a riot, Ruin.” I replied, “But not entirely incorrect.”
We all agreed that I really didn’t need any extra accouterments to make myself look more dangerous. I mean with my severe haircut, stern beard clip, and perpetual ‘Go fuck yourself’ scowl.
“Yeah”, I replied, stroking the aforementioned beard, “I just can’t get that. I’m such a people person.”
After Agents Rack and Ruin finished drying their eyes from laughing what I thought was en extremis, we finally got down to business.
“So, what’s the skinny, guys”, I asked. “New marching orders?”
“No. Not as such”, Agent Ruin said, still sniggering over my ‘people person’ comment.
I see we’re moving. Agent Rack is just driving casually, like Chewbacca when they were waiting to see if the Empire went for that expensive Bothan code.
“Then, what?” I asked, getting a slight bit piqued.
“Well”, Agent Ruin noted, “When you went to South America, you took some of your artillery collection with, correct?”
“You know I did. You even made some snide comments about my personal choice of sidearms and their ‘excessive’ calibers, if memory serves”, I reiterated.
“And if you are proceeding normally, as you always do, they’re all nestled in the trunk of this very car. All cleaned, quiet, unloaded, and smelling sweetly of Hoppe’s Number 9 and WD 40, correct?” Rack inquired.
“Yes?” I cautiously venture.
“Well, ya’ big dummy, do you think they’re going to let you saunter into Tokyo armed like the Third Fleet?” Agent Ruin chuckled.
“Um…well…I do have a Diplomatic Passport.” I ventured.
“That’s not going to work this time.”, Agent Ruin said, shaking his head. “They’re tighter than Dick’s Hatband about sidearms. Want to bring in your Rigby SXS .500 Nitro Express double rifle? Not a problem. Sidearms, especially in your alien hunting calibers, nope.”
Well, that’s just….*dandy!”, I reply, semi-put out. “Now what the hell am I going to do?”
“Ever think that’s why Ruin and I are here, now?”, Rack asks.
“And here I thought it was just so you could bask in the warm glow of my fucking wonderful personality. Or that you actually cared about me as a real goddamn human”, I joshed.
“Ummm…yeah”, Rack replies, “There’s no way we can answer that without going on some Deadpool list. “
I agreed.
“OK, here’s the deal: you get your sidearms, ammunition, speed loaders, brass knuckles, Asp, laser range finders, Sap, Zeiss scopes, Kukri, Wisconsin Cheese Whittler, Buck folding skinner, Marine K-Bar, those two ultra-illegal Cheburkov Cobra titanium switchblades...”
“Three. Olga the KGB lady sent me one for Geologist’s Day.”
“Ahem. Those three ultra-illegal Cheburkov switchblades, that Wyoming Speedholer, your MASER Time-Distance Computer, garrote, pocket rail gun and whatever else lethal you carry and deposit it in the iron box in the trunk. We’ll ensure that it’s delivered to Esme post-haste. And by post-haste I mean one of our guys will deliver it personally.”
“Well…I suppose”, I conceded, “But best send someone who’s been to the house recently. I don’t know how much bigger Khan has grown since I left on this little fantasy trip. Wouldn’t want a star on the wall in Langley for someone eaten by a mastiff. Want to see a picture….Oh, bother. That’s right. My phone’s at the bottom of fucking Lake Maracaibo.”
“Good point”, Ruin interjects, “Guess we’ll do a little road trip and deliver it ourselves. Best call Esme and let her know what’s going on.”
“I have no objections to your proposals. Please give Esme this when you see her. I had some luck in the Calaveras Casino and if I don’t send her some mad money. Ouch. She’ll never forgive me for not taking her along to Japan.” I asked.
“But I thought Esme hated Japan? Too crowded and too ‘fussy’, I believe was her estimation.” Ruin asked.
“Yes, but once she saw the Ginza, all bets were off. Shopping the likes of which even Allah himself hasn’t seen.” I replied, slowly shaking my head.
“I see”, Ruin said, “Well, since you’re off to Sapporo, perhaps you can do a recon for Esme on the shopping there.”
“Not bad. Not bad at all.”, I smiled, “Now I know why I let you guys hang around with me.”
So, as advertised, I am now standing on the tarmac at LAX, basically feeling naked.
“Can’t I keep just one switchblade?” I moaned to Agent Rack.
“Go ahead, if you’re really keen on donating it to Japanese customs”, he replied.
“Fuckbuckets.” I groused.
“There, there now. That’s the usual Dr. Rocknocker of which we’re all so fond.” Agent Ruin chuckled.
“Remember, you do have that wallet-sized credit card gizmo from the Company. So you’re not entirely ‘naked’. Think of it as an emergency breechcloth.” He smiled.
“I’d like a larger model if you don’t mind. It’s chilly out here.” I joshed.
After Agents Rack and Ruin stripped me metaphorically naked as they de-weaponized me, they handed me a Business Class ticket to Tokyo, and a pass to the Japan Airlines Hospitality Suite and Lounge.
“So sorry you guys can’t hang around and have a few farewell snorts”, I chided, “But you’ve got a bit of a drive, so best be off before the weather turns to shit.”
“Who says we’re driving?” Agent Rack asked as he hooked a thumb over his shoulder at the ready and waiting C-130 cargo plane currently taxiing slowly in our direction.
“Well, in that case”, I smiled even more broadly, “Let’s invite the flight crew to join us. That’ll make the flight home all that much more interesting.”
After near tear-jerking farewell sentimentalities, i.e., “Piss on you”, “Get stuffed” and “Take a fuckin’ hike”; Agents Rack and Ruin, my weapons and the Agency’s plain-Jane Blue Chevy were all nestled snugger than buggers in ruggers in the belly of the thundering C-130.
Now truly on my own, I trudge the hundred thousand or so centisteps to my departure terminal, make a quick recon that my flight’s still slated to go in a generally westward direction, and hightail it to the nearest courtesy desk to ask for a motorized cart to take me and my remaining luggage to the JAL Hospitality Suite.
Hey. I’m old, infirm, and currently among the walking wounded.
Anyone that disagrees risks an Ankylosaur tail club swat or Thagomizer to the skull.
Finally ensconced in the JAL Hospitality Suite, Polo Lounge of course; I was drinking Tokyo Teas (3 oz. vodka, 2 oz. gin, 2 oz. rum, 1 oz. triple sec, 1 oz. Midori, good splash of lime juice, a slight splash of 7-Up (diet, of course), over ice with a lime wheel) with Pabst Blue Ribbon Extra 1844 chasers and Hangar One’s “Fog Point” vodka on the side, hiding from the brutish realities of this foul year of two thousand and twenty-something, Common Era…
I’ve already called Esme and we’ve had a good, long chat. She still managed to give me her shopping list for whenever I find myself bored on the Ginza.
She’ll be shocked when she learns that I’m not going to be in Tokyo long, but have 1st class tickets on the Bullet Train to Sapporo. Still, I’ll probably find myself in Pole Town or the Stellar Place there, trading piles of US greenbacks for locally produced Japanese curios and clothing.
I can hardly wait.
I order another round of drinks, as the wonderful attendants in the Hospitality Suite were bored out of their skulls because of the COVID-induced drop-in customers flying anywhere that requires a hospitality room stay, and I was virtually the only one around. They tried their level best to outdo each other when it comes to Japanese efficiency and friendliness.
After a couple of hours, they ask if I would like something from the grill, as the day chef had “the COVID” and the night chef just arrived. A quick perusal of the menu and I chose a 28-ounce dry-aged Porterhouse and another round of drinks.
I usually don’t like to eat too much before I fly, but JAL tells me the flight is going to be virtually empty, something like <121 pax, all told, so restroom availability shouldn’t be too much of a concern.
Plus, who am I to say no to a free, blue 28-ounce dry-aged Porterhouse?
There was a bit of difficulty conveying to the chef through the intermediaries of the hospitality just how I wanted my steak.
“Blue,” I said.
“Brue?” was the reply.
“Rare. Very, very rare.” I continued.
Look of total bewilderment.
I drag out my Personal Language Pro, speak “Steak, very, very rate” into the infernal gizmo, and hand the contraption to the attendant.
“珍しい、非常に珍しいステーキ?”[ Mezurashī, hijō ni mezurashī sutēki?]
“Raw! Nama!” I say, louder than need be.
They toddle off to find the chef.
“How is it sir, that you would like your steak cooked?” he asks.
“Very rare. Just a minute or two per side. Inside still cold.” I instructed.
All I got for the trouble was a puzzled smile.
“Give me the language gizmo…” I type in a few words…
“お尻を洗い、角をノックオフして、ここから出してください”
[O shiri o arai,-kaku o nokkuofu shite, koko kara dashite kudasai.]
“Wash its ass, knock its horns off, and walk it out here.”
“OH!” as the lightbulb pops. “Rare. Got it! Excellent!” the chef laughs and zips back to the kitchen.
Like I always say, I’m nothing if not the international ambassador of amity and goodwill.
“Crack tubes!”
Dinner was fantastic. I do wish I could have somehow mailed the Porterhouse bone back home for Khan. After that hambone incident, he might even taste it.
Finally on the plane, in an almost empty Business Class, the flight captain informs us that we’re headed to Haneda Airport Tokyo and anyone not headed in that direction better ‘haul ass off’ the flight or forever hold their peace.
Late-night international flights tend to be a bit more wooly than your average Chicago to Omaha gig.
Especially when the flight’s damn near empty and we have the next 12 hours or so to be best friends.
We taxi, turn and head into the wind. I’m doctoring up a couple of dossiers and keeping my personal cabin attendant, Luna since there were two of us in Business and two business flight attendants, busy with her trying to play ‘Stump the Geologist’.
“I’ll bet you never had this before.” She beamed and handed me a tumbler of very dangerous-looking brown liquor.
I cautiously sniff, take a modest gulp, swirl and glug the rest down.
“Ohishi Single Sherry Cask”, I say with a muffled belch. “Light. Fruity. An Englishman’s drink.”
“Oh. You knew. Let me try again.” She smiles beatifically.
“I have no objections to your proposal.” I smile as nicely as this crotchety old Komodo Dragon could.
She returns with another flagon of spirits; it smells of obsidian, leather, and earth.
I just had some of this back in LAX. I take a snort, smile, and shotgun the rest.
“Hibiki Japanese Harmony…lovely stuff.” I smile. “A little light for my jaded palate, but I’d never turn it down if it were free.”
“Oh, you win again. Wait. One more.” She smiles and skitters off to the galley.
She returns with another soupçon of some more dangerous brown liquor.
“Here, try this. It will make you very popular at social gatherings”. She smiles.
Sniff. “Splendid.” Snort. Swirl. Smile. Shotgun.
“Kanosuke New Born, if I’m not mistaken.” I smile back. “Very nice. I really do like this one.”
“You too good at this. One more!” she stands and stomps off defiantly. She returns in a trice and hands me the glass.
“Hmm…brown. Light notes of earth, leather, dating your daughter, and Kentucky…
“Beam Suntory, right?”
“You know them all!” she says, feigning irritation.
“And I thank you. Those were all excellent. Now, anything in the dangerous clear liquor category? I asked.
Luna smiled as I palmed off a 20k yen tip.
“Oh, no sir. Wait until we land.” She demurred, referring to the gratuity; which is know is not de rigueur in the Orient, but she didn’t seem to mind.
“Just in case we never make it to Tokyo”, I laughed, unknowingly presciently.
We both chuckled about that last line as she tried out various sakes and shōchūs and an actual Japanese ‘White Liquor’ (ホワイトリカー), which were all excellent as was the company.
I tell her that I need to get some work done and could she bring me a tall Rocknocker. After explain the origins and construction of the eponymous drink, she brings me one that must tip the scales at 1 or so liters.
She settles down to an empty seat and I get after the work that I need to finish before we land. I’m about ½ way through my drink when it felt as if the plane hit a brick wall. She quivered and quaked and clutched at herself while I made some comments about the pilot’s mental health.
We dropped like a paralyzed falcon, then just as suddenly, felt like it was an express elevator to Angel’s 11. The plane bucked and shimmied, wickedly. Then we slam-danced right and fell a few more stories. It was like we were in a Mixmaster and the owner was trying out every speed.
The emergency lights in the 777-300ER popped on, and the fasten seat belt sign barked loudly so even sleeping travelers could enjoy the show.
Rinse. Spin. Shudder. Repeat.
Finally, the ride smooths out and we hear the captain on the blower.
“This is your captain speaking…ah, we seem to have hit some uncharted turbulence back there.”
“Thanks, Captain Obvious”, I muttered.
“Everything’s A-OK. “ he reports.
“That’s good”, I note.
“But…”
“There’s always the but…” I groan.
“…we have a couple of warning lights for which we can’t quite account. So to just be safe and certain, we’re going to divert to Hawaii, get a clean bill of health and resume this flight once we make sure everything here is hunky-dory.”
There were scattered groans and applause. Add them together and divide by two and the average response on the flight was “Meh. Whatever.”
Except for the other guy in Business, with whom I hadn’t shared two words. He began to absolutely lose his shit.
“Oh, man! We’re so screwed! Mechanical malfunction? What does that mean?” he positively fizzed with fear.
The flight attendants tried to calm him down, to no avail. They basically gave up and said they’d report his misgivings to the Captain.
I motioned over to my personal flight attendant, Luna, and asked if I could be of service.
“Oh, Doctor Rock”, she smiled at me, “If you could speak with him. You are so calm, and he is…”
“Losing his bloody mind”, I chuckled as I finished her sentence for her. “Of course, I’ll take a stab at it.”
So, I grab my drink and ease over to my Business Class partner and introduce myself.
“Hey, pal. How’s it going? I’m Dr. Rock, gentleman, scholar, and connoisseur of cigars and things alcoholic. You doing OK?”
He looks at me with an ashen face and his eyes the size of bloodshot dinner plates.
“Yeah. I’m Todd Schotts. I’m flying to Japan for business.” He mumbles
“No surprise there,” I reply calmly and take a slug of my drink.
“But now we’re all going to die. The plane is busted and we’ll crash…” he started off again.
“So, Todd is it? Good. You drink?” I asked.
“Yeah?”, he stammered back.
I asked Luna to make us a fresh batch of my eponymous cocktails.
“OK, Todd, listen up”, I began after the drinks were served, “I have flown literally millions of miles over the last 4 decades. On Aeroflot when it was still the USSR. On TACA (Take A Chance Airways), on Chalk’s in the Caribbean, on Bob’s Verrifast Plane Company in Rhodesia, on regional carriers that don’t even exist anymore. All over the world. Had some bad experiences flying, and me ol’ mugger, this ain’t one of them. This is nothing more than the glitch for this mission.”
I chuckled lightly and complimented Luna on a fantastic drink.
“Yeah…yeah…yeah…but we have to land and check out some lights…” Todd squealed.
“Well now, Todd. It would be rather difficult to do any external assessment while in flight, don’t you agree?” I asked.
“But we’re diverting. We have to land and that adds more risk. We’re going to crash and die!” he was coming more and more unglued.
“I will bet you every cent you have on your person and home bank accounts that that will not happen”, I chuckled.
That took him by surprise. At least it shut him up for a while.
“Look, Todd. This is Boeing’s latest model. They have the most incredible safety record. And if a little clear air turbulence were to be knocking planes out of the sky, don’t you think we’d hear about it as the press went berserk?” I asked.
“But they don’t know what the lights mean! What if one of the engines’s out? How far can we fly on one engine?” Todd stuttered.
Having my fill of a supposedly grown man with inane childlike fears, I calmly replied,
“All the way to the crash site.”
He went white.
“...hope we hit something hard. I don’t want to limp away from this.”
He went limp.
Then I went to my seat and motioned for Luna to prepare a reload.
Of course, 45 minutes later, we land without incident at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, Honolulu Hawaii.
We were told to just wait around until they figure out what the problem if any, was.
They had officials waiting at the end of the jetway to check our COVID status and passports before they let us loose in the terminal.
I asked Luna if she knew this airport. She noted that she did.
“Is there a JAL hospitality room here at this airport? I asked.
“Yes, Doctor. It’s the Sakura Lounge. It is located on the third level above The Local, Terminal 2.” She replied.
“Please notify whoever needs to know that that’s where I’ll be for the duration”, I smiled and handed her my business card. “See you soon, I hope.”
“Oh, Dr. Rock”, she replied, “I am sure it is nothing much. We’ll be back in the air within mere hours.”
“Well then”, I smiled, “Guess I’d better get ready to hoof it to the lounge.”
“Oh, Doctor Rock”, she smiled, “No rush. I will call for you a courtesy cart. You are injured, you are Business, you are priority.”
“I love that Asian efficiency.” I smiled back and toddled down the jetway.
At the terminus of the jetway, I show my COVID-clear papers, dates and times of my Anti-Virus vaccine administrations, the letter from Virginia clearing me of all detention, and my red Russian diplomatic passport.
While in the cart, whizzing our way to the JAL lounge, the driver said “Man! You must be some kind of VIP. You were through that welcoming committee in less than two minutes!”
“Me? Nah!”, I chuckled, “Just an old phart of a geologist that they didn’t want to mess with. Not on such a bright, sunny day as this.”
“I see you’re not wearing a mask.” The driver quipped.
“Very observant. There are reasons for that.” I replied.
He careens around a corner and if this were a normal pre-Covid day, I’m certain we’d have killed hundreds. However, the airport, as I’ve come to grow accustomed to, was virtually deserted.
“Yeah? Like what?” he asks.
“Well, Scooter, 1. I have an active and hardworking immune system that I let off the chain every once in a while for exercise. Got to let it know what it’s up against, right? 2. I’ve had all my shots and some that were experimental. They seem to have worked. And 3. I find it difficult to drink and smoke cigars while wearing a mask. However, if you’d prefer, I will mask up. No problem, though it still is optional.”
“Nah, man”, he said, “I was just wondering if you were one of those religious idiots or conspiracy nuts.”
Nope”, I smiled back, “Just another geologist out in the world plying his trade for cash. Y’know, whorin’ around for money.”
He laughs aloud as we skid to a stop right in front of Lounge.
I slip the guy a $20 and ask if he’d listen for the JAL flight I was just on. If we’re going on ahead today, I’d need him to scoot by and putt-putt me back to the plane.
He laughs and pockets the $20 as quick as a mink ruts.
“No worries. I’ll just hang around this area. I hear anything about the flight, I’ll come and let you know.” He grins.
“Good man”, I say, as I hand him my card. “I’m Dr. Rocknocker. Call me Rock”.
“And I’m Kapula Mano, call me Kap” he replies.
“Good man”, I say again, “Hope to see you in a while.”
He grins, floors his electric cart, and peels out at speeds approaching 4.5 MPH.
I wander into the lounge, show my credentials, and am escorted to a post up on Mahogany Ridge.
The bar is very quiet. Besides the bartender, I can’t see anyone else in the darkened and Smooth Jazz-infused drinking emporium.
I order a local drink, a Mai Tai, just for the experience and something a bit different.
It’s served in a goldfish bowl on a stem, bedecked with a slice of lime, a sprig of mint, a stick of sugar cane, a polychromatic orchid, and the obligate paper umbrella.
“Ah. Mai Tai. I will enjoy it.” I said to no one in particular.
One was enough, and I decided to go back to the old standard. Once I explained to the bartender what that was, he made them heroic and enthusiastically.
I’m reading up on a random dossier, making notes in a new file, and puffing away on a Fuentes Onyx double Maduro Churchill cigar.
I hear a slight cough coming from my right, and this here lovely lady, she sat to my immediate starboard and looked at me semi-quizzically.
Not in the mood for shenanigans of any stripe, I give her the obligate Baja Canada nod and tilt of the drink. I return to my dossiers and continue to read and take notes.
“Excuse me!” I hear.
Fearing the worst, either the woman is Karen-oid anti-smoking or a religious fruit-and-nutburger, I slowly turn to face her and reply, somewhat glacially, I have to admit.
“What?”
“That cigar…”
“Here we go…” I mutter, eyes rolling northward.
“Smells exquisite. Could you tell me the brand? My husband would enjoy some like that.” She notes.
Instantly my demeanor switches 180^0.
“Yes, ma’am. It’s an Arturo Fuentes Onyx. Churchill size, or 60 ring x 7” length, double Maduro. Here, take one for your husband. I have an ample supply.” I smile.
“Oh, no. I couldn’t. Could I?” she asks.
“Please. I insist.” I smile the best I could given the circumstances.
“Thank you. You’re too kind…umm…Mr….?”
“Doctor. Doctor Rocknocker. World traveler, oilman, and international ambassador of amity, good drinks, and fine cigars. Call me Rock” I said.
“Oh! A Doctor?” she brightens.
“Yes, of Petroleum Geology and Engineering. Not medicine.” I chuckle.
She chuckles back.
“And I am Hella Aaberg”, as she offers her hand for a quick shake.
“Interesting name, Hella. Scandinavian or Old German heritage?” I ask.
“On my father’s side. He’s Finnish.” She replies.
“But I’ll wager your mother is not Scandinavian, correct?” I ask.
“She was from Truk, an island…”
“In the South Pacific, Micronesia. Was she from Weno city?” I asked.
“Why yes. How could you possibly know that?” she asked.
“Oh, I’ve been there. Great diving amongst the WWII wrecks. I think it’s actually called ‘Chuuk Lagoon’ or something like that now.” I said.
“That’s right! Amazing. Where else have you been?” she asked.
“Anywhere there’s oil, strife, booze, cigars, heavy explosives and typically long distances from whatever most normal people call civilization,” I replied with a chuckle.
Suddenly, I hear a voice booming out behind me.
“Why don’t you save that rapier-like wit for those musky-fuckers back home, Rocko?”
My expression changes. My eyes pop fully wide open.
“Hella?” I asked.
“Yes?”
“May I ask you a favor?”
“You can ask…”
“Thank you. Now, looking over my shoulder, is there a hulking goon of a person, thin up top, paunchy halfway down with the most ridiculously tiny sized shoes you’ve ever seen for a so-called grown man?” I ask.
“Yes. Yes, there is.” She replies.
“I thought so. Many thanks.”
I spin and launch off my barstool and grab Toivo by the hand. He hadn’t seen my left-hand Thagomizer yet.
“Toivo! You old sumbitch. What the flying fennec fox fuck are you, of all people, doing in Hawaii?” I laughed.
“Just keeping an eye on you, Rock!” he laughed equally as loud.
“No, fucking-A, seriously. What the actual fuck? What are you doing in this actual nice place?” I asked.
“Just headed to Tokyo to conduct a bit of service company business. I walked into the lounge and smelled a foul cigar. I figured it can’t be the venerable Dr. Rocknocker. He’s back at some school up north terrorizing geology and engineering grads and undergrads.” Toivo laughed.
“But there I was. Surprise!”, I laughed and pumped his hand.
“What the fuck, Rock. Now what did you do?” he asks, referring to my Ankylosaur tail club left hand.
“Ah, fuck. Long story. Oh, pardon me. Toivo, this is Hella. We were just talking about the South Seas Islands.” I said.
“Planning on running off together?” Toivo laughs, to the amusement of neither party.
“Oh, and this idiot is Toivo, a man with a congenital foot-in-mouth disorder. He’s mostly harmless.” I noted to Hella.
Greetings were shared all around. Hella made some small excuses and said she needed to depart. I gave her another cigar for her husband, shook her hand, and wished her well.
“Here’s my business card. If your husband has any questions, have him drop me a line.” I noted.
Hella smiled beautifully. She said she would. Then she thanked me shook our hands, and like that, there she was, gone.
“Well Toivo, you old bastard. Don't just stand there in the doorway like some lonesome goddamn mouse shit sheepherder, get your ass over here and have a drink.” I motioned over to my perch on Mahogany Ridge.
“Don’t mind if I do”, he says as he deftly winds his way to a seat to my left, snagging a cigar out of my pocket on the way over.
“You might want these”, I say in an exasperated tone, and hand him my gold Dunhill Hobnail lighter and V-cutter gizmo.
He cuts and fires up his heater.
“What you drinkin’, Rock”, he asks.
“Anything with alcohol, as usual. You know that Toiv.” I reply.
“No. I mean right now.” He clarifies.
“Well, I had a Mai Tai. Very nice if you like fruity, flowery drinks. It’s the locals’ favorite.” I reply.
“Sounds good. I’ll have several. And you?” Toivo asks.
“My usual. The bartender is already apprised of the situation.” I reply.
Toivo smiles the smile of one knowing his sobriety is going to be taken out for a swim. Hell, taken out and tossed into the deep end.
Toivo and I sit there, swapping lies, smoking cigars and sipping at our toddies.
Hell, Toivo was slurping them like a sump-pump during an extra-wet summer.
We chattered about family, work, whether or not Tokyo was going to host the Olympics or if the COVID-boogie man scared everyone off.
Toivo, always one afflicted with TB (“Tiny Bladder”) got up to go to the loo for the third time that hour. He left his pocket organizer on the bar and I swear on a stack of Origins of Species, I didn’t touch it.
I reached over to his vacated seat to retrieve my cigar lighter when I looked down and saw in his organizer a tab that reads “Rack & Ruin”.
“Oh. No. Fucking. Way.” I recoiled as I’d just reached out and petted a 6-foot hungover scorpion.
“One of my best friends? Secretly allied with the Agency? No. Not possible.” I drained my drink and called for another.
“No. No. No. It can’t be. No. No fucking way…” as doubt began to dissolve when I thought back to all those times I had just ‘run into’ Toivo.
“But he’s oil patch as well. That could be chalked up to coincidence.” I ruminated quizzically in my brain.
I quickly reflected back on J.M. Darhower: “Yes, you see, there’s no such thing as coincidence. There are no accidents in life. Everything that happens is the result of a calculated move that leads us to where we are.”
She may be the author of the execrable New Adult Sempre series, which Esme likes and I loathe, but she might just be right on this occasion.
Toivo return, lighter in the bladder and good sense. He never even noticed he’d left his organizer out in broad bar light for all to see.
“So, Toivo, when’s your flight?” I ask.
“Oh, man. Was I lucky. The JAL flight to Tokyo from Los Angeles had mechanical trouble and had to divert here. I got a ticket on the plane for that flight, when it continues.
“You mean ‘if it continues’,” I replied.
“Yeah. Yeah. That’s what I meant. Hey! Was that your flight?” he asks innocently. He’s really innocent of fieldcraft.
I decide to have some fun at my old friend’s expense.
“Yep. Hit some CAT (Clear Air Turbulence) and the JAL pilots reported some lighting problem. No apparent ruin to any of the systems. They relay racked their brains to figure it out, but they couldn’t that’s why I here.” I said, waiting for the words to swim upstream in Toivo’s coconut and make some sort of connection.
“Yeah. Double lucky. No problem with the plane and I get to go to Japan early.” Toivo crookedly grins.
“So, no trouble with the plane? Then why haven’t I heard that the flight’s going to resume?” I asked as I pushed a fresh, seriously strong drink to Toivo.
“Oh, must have heard it in the john.” Toivo countered and tried to cover his tracks by taking a huge gulp of his drink and damn near dying coughing.
I pound on Toivo’s back.
“Heimlich time?” I ask.
Toivo signals ‘no’.
“Jesus Christ, Rock. What was that?” he asks.
“Just my usual”, I innocently replied.
“Holy fuck. No wonder you have the reputation of…” Toivo realizes too late that he’s said too much.
“Yeah. They can rack you out. Really ruin a person if they’re not careful.” I reply icily.
“Why, Rock. Whatever do you mean?” Toivo slurred as he realized he’s been caught out.
“The jig is up, you turncoat. You know Agents Rack and Ruin from the agency. Right? You keeping tabs on me for them? You Quisling! You Benedict Arnold!” I almost was on the verge of losing my cool.
“It was nothing. They approached me years ago as I kept being mentioned in your reports. They asked me for some information. One thing leads to another…” Toivo was ready for an Ankylosaur tail club swat to the bean.
“Oh, put your fucking hands down, you asshole.” I smiled and chuckled.
“You’re not mad?” Toivo slurred badly. I had the bartender make him another special drink.
“No, Toivo. Not mad. Just disappointed.” I said, smiling like a Komodo Dragon just finishing up a fortnight-old wildebeest.
Toivo sat there and puzzled and puzzled until his puzzler was sore.
“You’re not going to kill me or anything rude like that?” Toivo asked, half-assedly trying to inject humor into the proceedings.
“Nah. The paperwork’s too ridiculous for me to do another liberation. But, Jesus Fucking Christwagons, Toivo; you could have mentioned it to me. Fuck, I thought we were friends to the end?” I said, dejectedly.
I was really getting through to Toivo. I could tell he was loaded; feeling like shit and massively deplorable.
Great fieldcraft, indeed.
I told him things “are what they are” and that I won’t blow his cover nor his honorarium.
He began to feel better. I often wonder if he was serious about the sanctioning thing.
Then I delivered the strategic missile strike.
“Just remember, Toivo. I wrote your dossier for the Company…”
He swivels to look at me.
“And one for the KGB. Olga says ‘howdy’.” I grin evilly.
Toivo short-circuited at that. Russia is his company’s bread and butter. Now he has the KGB as well as his best buddy looking over his shoulder at every move.
I bought him a few more drinks and continued to needle him about his ’leading a double life’. He was well and truly fuckered when the electric tap-tap driver from before came looking for me to whisk me back to the plane.
Seems it was simply some knocked-out wires on the plane, or slammed bulbs that were generating a false positive, indicating something other than the system that alerts one to something haywire went haywire.
Toivo was pretty much down for the count. I got him sober enough to hand them his ticket and ensure that he was really supposed to be on this flight. Thing was; h e was in Economy, and I was, as always, in Business.
I spoke to Luna, and the plane was going to be even less crowded than previously because some folks could or wouldn’t wait, or didn’t want to go on with the rest of the trip on a ‘damaged’ aircraft, or were just stupid and superstitious.
“Luna, could I pay for the difference between Business and Economy for my less than 100% conscious friend here? He’s had a rough day.” I asked.
“Dr. Rock. Just put him into Business. No one will be the wiser. Luna says so.” As she gave us a grand smile.
“Luna, I owe you. Thanks so much.” I said.
“Now get on board. Your friend looks like he needs all the downtime he can get.”
“Yes, ma’am!” I said and saluted here be best I could which dragging a schnozzled Toivo down the jetway.
I dumped Toivo in a window seat well away from my seat. I know Toivo. He snores like a semi-load of live hogs rocketing downhill locking up the brakes at 88 MPH.
Surprise! There was no one else in Business. Luna looked at me, at Toivo, and gave me a thumbs up.
Whatever I can write to further her career at JAL, she’ll have it before I deplane.
We finally get everyone settled, and with Captain Kangaroo at the helm, we bounced gracelessly off the tarmac, into the warm, tropical Hawaiian air, finally headed for the Land of the Rising Sun.
Toivo was snoring like a chainsaw hitting rusty nails as I worked on the various letters, communiques, and dossiers which needed updating before we reached touchdown. I gave Luna a thick letter with instructions not to open it until we were on the ground and Toivo and I were well off and away into the terminal.
We left Hawaii at 1300 hours, so we should arrive at Tokyo Nareda around 4:00 pm, the previous day. I was so bereft of time and time zones, I couldn’t figure out what time it really was, as judged by my biometric rhythms, so I asked Luna for a stiff drink as I was kicking off my boots and going to attempt to get some kip.
She brought me another liter or so eponymous drink. I was sawing logs by the time I slurped the last swig of that nifty drink.
Suddenly, or later, I have no idea really, some loudmouth drunk asshole from way-the-fuck-back in economy-land toward the ass end of the plane staggered into Business demanding free drinks.
Luna was nothing but civil, and asked him to both shut up and return to his seat. His air cabin hostess, or whatever the fuck they’re calling them these days, will attend to his needs.
“Naw they won’t! They want me to pay for more drinks! I’m broke but I demand more booze! You fucking owe me.” railed the asshole. “I sat at the bar in Hawaii for four hours. Them fuckers charged me an arm and a leg!”
“No, they don’t owe you shit”, I said in a voice that unmistakably loud and clear.
“Fuck you, old man! You stay the fuck out of this!” he bellowed. “Shut up or I’ll do ya’!”
“’Old man’? ‘Do me’? Excuse me. Luna, may I have a word alone with this individual?” I asked sweetly.
Luna shook her head in the affirmative, and I stood up to confront this flagrant asshole.
“Now look, Scooter. You have gone way, way over the fucking line. You are loud. You are abusive. You are obnoxious. And you stink. Plus you insulted a person who is just barely containing his righteous wrath right now. So, I’m giving you one and one only chance to shut up, sit back down before your body spontaneously develops all sort of bruises, contusions, broken bones, and unconsciousness.” I said calmly, evenly, and threateningly.
“What da’ fuck you think you’re going to do…old man?” he screeched, trying to inflate himself into full mammalian threat posture, all 5’ 9” of it.
He didn’t notice Toivo walking up quietly behind him, as Toivo was returning from the head, quiet as a moose.
“Well, Scooter, I am an Air Marshall. Duly appointed, fully trained, and properly pissed off. Right now, I can arrest you, physically detain you, turn this flight around and take you to the Hawaiian police, at your cost for the inconvenience of the entire flight. Or I could arrest you, physically detain you, and turn you over to the Japanese authorities when we land. It’s really your choice. Choose wisely.”
To be continued…⇝

All prices include shipping to the US (with the exception of Hawaii and Alaska).
I always give discounts on purchases of multiple games/consoles. Feel free to make your own offer on multiple items. The only prices that aren't negotiable are individual items.
This post is organized as follows. There's a TON here, so please check out everything, as items can be easy to miss!

• 1) Consoles/Console Lots
• 2) Controllers/Accessories
• 3) Games
• 4) Factory Sealed Games
• 5) Build Your Own Commons Bundles (designed for completionist collectors)
• 6) Amiibos, Strategy Guides, and Art Books
• 7) Cases and Manuals

Feel free to ask for detailed pictures on anything! Pictures for a lot of items are hyperlinked throughout the post. If you want more photos on any items, just ask! I'm honestly cool with taking as many photos as you'd like.
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1) Consoles/Console Bundles
Consoles are all tested thoroughly and working. ALL consoles listed have all cords needed to play right away
Nintendo
Handhelds

• Galaxy 3DS XL with Charger -$89
  
• Black and Red 3DS XL in Box with Charger -$85
  
• Blue 3DS XL (includes car charger only) -$68
  
• Metallic Rose DSi XL in Box with Charger -$55
  
• Gameboy Advance Fuschia with attachable light -$29
  

Regular Consoles

• Top Loading NES with 2x OEM Controllers -$87
  
• Super Nintendo with Controller-$47
  
• Wii U 32 GB Black with Gamepad, Charger, Sensor Bar -$100
  

Sega

• Sega Genesis Model 2 with OEM Controller -$40

Sony

• Playstation 3 Slim 250GB with 3rd-Party Controller -$62

2) Controllers/Accessories
Controllers are all OEM and tested thoroughly. Any defects are noted.
Gamecube

• Black Controller (partial separation in bottom left-hand corner) -$15
• Platinum Controller (missing rubber over joystick, has some wear) -$15
• Official Gamecube Microphone -$7

NES

• NES Advantage Controller -$19
• NES Four Score Adapter -$18
• NES Max Controller -$9
• NES Max Controller in box-$22
• Gray Zapper -$9
• Orange Zapper -$9
• Joycard Sansui SSS Controller-$17

Playstation

• Original Playstation Controller, Factory Sealed -$55
• Original Playstion Controller -$7

Sega Dreamcast

• Mad Katz Blaster Controller -$30

Sega Genesis

• 3-button Megafire controller -$7
• 3-button controller in box -$20
• 6-button turbo controller -$13

Sega Saturn

• 3D Analog Controller -$33

Wii/Wii U

• NHL Slapshot Bundle -$25

XBOX

• Green S Type Controller -$16

XBOX 360

• 120 GB Hard Drive -$8

3) Games
Games are CIB, unless otherwise noted. Games are all working great, and condition of games ranges from good to like new. As a precaution, assume discs and cases will show normal wear. Feel free to ask for pictures of any game(s)!
Gameboy Advance (Game Only)
All $5 handheld games are buy one get one free

• Bomberman Max 2.0 (Blue Version) -$7
• Cabbage Patch Kids -$5
• Cartoon Network Speedway -$5
• Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon -$6.25
• Driver 2 -$5
• Ed Edd and Eddy Jawbreakers -$5
• Garfield Search for Pooky -$6
• Harlem Globetrotters -$5
• Kim Possible -$5
• Lizzie McGuire 2 -$5
• Lizzie McGuire 3 -$5
• Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga -$12
• Mario Golf -$12
• Mario Kart Super Circuit -$10
• Mario Tennis -$12
• Mario vs Donkey Kong -$10
• Metroid Fusion - $25
• Metroid Zero Mission -$36
• Monster Trucks Mayhem -$5
• Nicktoons Battle for Volcano Island -$5
• Phil of the Future -$5
• Shrek 2 -$6
• Sonic Advance -$11
• Super Mario Advance -$9
• The Sims 2 -$8
• Wario Land 4 -$14
• Wario Mega Microgames -$19
• Wario Ware Twisted -$29

Gameboy ColoGameboy (Game Only)
All $5 handheld games are buy one get one free

• Bases Loaded -$5
• Dragon Warrior Monsters 2 Cobri's Journey -$15
• Driver -$5
• George Foreman's KO Boxing -$5
• Kirby's Dreamland -$11
• Kirby's Dreamland 2 -$16
• NFL Blitz -$5
• Pokemon Pinball -$10
• Radar Mission -$6
• Super Mario Bros Deluxe -$13
• Super Mario Land (Gameboy) - $9
• Tetris DX -$9
• Wario Land II (Gameboy) -$11
• Yoshi -$7

Gamecube

• Black and Bruised-rental sticker on top of disc, does not affect gameplay -$8
• Crash Wrath of Cortex -$10
• Dragon Ball Z Budokai 2 -$17
• Freedom Fighters -$12
• Jimmy Neutron, Attack of the Twonkies -$7
• Jimmy Neutron, Jet Fusion -$7
• Kao the Kangaroo Round 2 (Game and Case) -$7
• Karaoke Revolution - $6
• Legend of Spyro a New Beginning -$16
• Legends of Wrestling II -$6
• Lost Kingdoms -$21
• Lord of the Rings the Third Age (Game and Case) -$6
• Madagascar -$6
• Madden 2007 -$5.25
• Mario Golf case and case paper have several flaws, including a few small tears -$10
• Mario Party 7 (Game and Case) -$28
• Medal of Honor, European Assault -$9
• Naruto Clash of Ninja 2 (Game and Case, Player's Choice) -$7
• NBA Live 2004 -$5.25
• Nicktoons Unite -$8
• NHL Hitz 2002 (Game and Case) -$7
• One Piece Pirates Carnival -$10
• Pac Man World 2 -$11
• Pac Man World 3 -$17
• Pikmin 2 (Game and Case) -$34
• Prince of Persia, Warrior Within -$8
• Resident Evil -$12
• Robots (Game and Case) -$5.25
• Robotech Battlecry (Game and Case) -$8
• Sims 2 Pets (Game and Case) -$7
• Sonic Adventure DX (Player's Choice) -$14
• Sonic Adventure 2 Battle (Game and Case, Player's Choice) -$19
• Sonic Gems Collection (Game and Case) -$17
• Sonic Mega Collection -$8
• Spiderman -$7
• Super Bubble Pop -$6
• Super Mario Sunshine (Player's Choice, disc has discoloration, but tested and working great) -$32
• Super Smash Bros Melee (Player's Choice, Game and Case) -$34
• Tales of Symphonia (Game and Case) -$16
• Tarzan Untamed (Game and Case) -$5.25
• The Sims -$7
• Tiger Woods 06 -$6
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (Game and Case) -$6
• Tony Hawk's Underground (Game and Case) -$8
• Ty the Tasmanian Tiger (Game and Case) -$10
• Wario Ware Mega Party Games (Game and Case) -$21
• Winnie the Poo, Rumbly Tumbly Adventure -$7
• Wrestlemania XIX (Game and Case) -$10
• WWF Day of Reckoning (Game and Case) -$9
• WWF Day of Reckoning - $10
• Zelda Wind Waker & Ocarina/Master Quest Combo (Game and Case) -$63
• Zoocube -$6

N64
CIB

• F1 World Grand Prix -$10
• Knockout Kings 2000-$12
• NBA Hangtime -$20
• NFL Quarterback Club 98 -$10
• NHL 99 -$12
• Turok Dinosaur Hunter -$34

Game and Box

• Cruisin' USA (has writing on box) -$12

Game Only

• Biofreaks -$6
• Cruis'N Exotica -$18
• Madden 2001 -$5.25
• Mario Tennis -$18 *Add manual for $7
• Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits, Volume 1 -$8
• NBA Courtside -$5.25
• Scooby Doo Classic Creep Capers -$11
• Tony Hawk -$10
• Wave Race 64 -$9
  • Add manual for $4
• WCW v NWO World Tour -$5.25
• World Cup 98 -$5.25

NES
CIB

• Bad Street Brawler -$22
• Karate Champ -$13
• Pro Wrestling (no manual) -$39
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit CIB - $30

Carts Only

• 10-Yard Fight (5 Screw) -$6
• 1942 (5-Screw) -$13
• 3-D WorldRunner (5-Screw) -$9
• 720 -$6
• Abadox -$8
• Adventure Island -$9
• Adventures in the Magic Kingdom -$8 *~~ Adventures of Bayou Billy -$6~~
• Adventures of Dino Riki -$8
• Air Fortress -$6
• Airwolf -$7
• Archon -$10
• Arch Rivals -$6
• Astyanax -$6
• Athletic World -$5.25
• Bad Street Brawler -$7
• Bandai Golf Challenge Pebble Beach -$6
• Barker Bill's Trick Shooting - $8
• Baseball Simulator 1.000 -$6.25
• Bases Loaded -$6
• Bases Loaded 2 Second Season -$6
• Bases Loaded 3 -$6
• Batman The Video Game -$10
• Battle of Olympus -$12
• Battletank -$8
• Battletoads -$19
• Black Bass -$6.25
• Blades of Steel -$6
• Bo Jackson Baseball -$6
• Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout -$8
• California Games -$7
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers -$13
• Captain Skyhawk -$6
• Casino Kid -$5.25
• Championship Bowling -$6
• Cobra Command -$6
• Cobra Triangle - $7
• Commando 5 Screw -$7
• Days of Thunder -$6
• Deadly Towers -$6.25
• Donkey Kong Classics -$13
• Double Dragon -$9
• Double Dribble -$5.25
• Dr. Mario -$7
• Dragon Warrior -$15
• Dudes with Attitude -$9
• Dynowarz The Destruction of Spondylus -$7
• Excitebike 5 Screw -$10
• Family Feud - $10
• Fester's Quest -$6.25
• Fisher Price I Can Remember -$7
• Fisher-Price Firehouse Rescue -$18
• Freedom Force -$11
• Friday the 13th -$11
• G.I. Joe: The Atlantis Factor -$28
• Galaga: Demons of Death -$12
• Gauntlet -$7
• Ghostbusters -$8
• Golf -$5.25
• Gotcha -$6
• Gumshoe 5 Screw -$11
• Gyromite - $6
• Heavy Barrel -$14
• Hogan's Alley 5 Screw -$10
• Hudson Hawk -$13
• Hunt for Red October -$6 *Hydlide -$6
• Ice Hockey -$5.25
• Iron Sword Wizards and Warriors II -$6
• Jaws -$6
• Jeopardy -$5.25
• John Elway's Quarterback Challenge -$6
• Jordan vs Bird One on One -$6
• Jurassic Park -$13
• Karate Champ -$6
• Karnov -$8
• Kickle Cubicle -$14
• King's Knight -$6.25
• Kung Fu - $5.25
• Kung Fu Heroes -$6
• Legend of Zelda -$18
• Mach Rider -$7
• Magmax -$6
• Maniac Mansion -$17
• Marble Madness -$6
• Mega Man 5 -$68
• Metroid -$14
• Mickey Mousecapade -$6
• Mighty Bomb Jack 5 Screw -$10
• Mike Tyson's Punch-Out -$19
• NFL Football -$6
• Ninja Gaiden -$11
• Ninja Gaiden II The Dark Sword of Chaos -$11
• Operation Wolf -$6
• Othello -$5.25
• Pac-Man (Tengen) -$10
• Paperboy -$9
• Pinball 5 Screw -$9
• Play Action Football -$6
• Predator -$11
• Pro Wrestling -$6
• Punch-Out -$11
• Puss N' Boots: Pero's Great Adventure -$13
• Quattro Adventure -$8
• Rad Racer -$5.25
• Rad Racer II -$8
• Rainbow Islands -$23
• Rambo -$7
• Rampage -$12
• RBI Baseball -$6.25
• Remote Control -$6
• Ring King -$7
• Road Runner -$10 *Robocop -$7
• Rock 'n Ball -$8
• Rocket Ranger -$6
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms -$12
• Section Z 5 Screw - $8
• Seicross -$6.25
• Sesame Street 123 -$6
• Sesame Street ABC -$6
• Sesame Street Big Bird's Hide and Speak -$6.25
• Shadowgate -$7
• Side Pocket -$6
• Silent Service -$6
• Skate or Die -$6
• Skate or Die 2 -$10
• Ski or Die -$6.25
• Skull and Crossbones -$8
• Smash TV -$9
• Soccer -$7
• Solomon's Key 5 Screw -$14
• Spiderman Return of the Sinister Six -$12
• Super C -$15
• Super Mario Bros -$11
• Super Mario Bros 2 -$10
• Super Mario Bros 3 -$9
• Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt -$6
• Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet -$5.25
• Super Team Games -$5.25
• Swords and Serpents -$7
• TaleSpin -$16
• Talking Super Jeopardy -$6.25
• Target Renegade -$7
• Tecmo Bowl -$9
• Tecmo Super Bowl -$15
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles -$7
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II the Arcade Game -$11
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III The Manhattan Project -$22
• Tennis 5 Screw -$10
• Terminator 2 Judgement Day -$8
• Tetris -$7
• The Karate Kid -$6
• The Mafat Conspiracy -$9
• The Simpsons Bart vs the Space Mutants -$7
• The Uncanny X-Men -$10
• Tiny Toon Adventures -$11
• Tiny Toon Adventures -$11
• Toki -$42
• Top Gun -$6
• Top Gun The Second Mission -$6
• Town & Country Surf Designs: Wood and Water Rage -$6
• Track and Field II -$6
• Ultimate Stuntman -$8
• ~~Wheel of Fortune -$6v
• ~~Wheel of Fortune Junior Edition -$6v
• Willow -$10
• Win Lose or Draw -$6
• World Class Track Meet -$5.25
• Wrath of the Black Manta -$6
• WWF King of the Ring -$12
• WWF Wrestlemania -$6
• WWF Wrestlemania Challenge -$6
• Xenophobe -$6.25
• Xevious -$6
• Xexyz -$12
• Yo Noid -$12
• Yoshi -$7
• Yoshi's Cookie -$7
• Zelda II The Adventure of Link -$12

Nintendo DS

• Alvin and the Chipmunks, Chipwrecked -$5.25
• Crafting Mama -$6.50
• iSpy Castle -$5.25
• Monster High, Ghoul Spirit -$5.25
• Namco Museum -$9
• Nintendogs Chihuahua and Friends -$5.25
• Plants vs Zombies -$9
• Pokemon Black -$28
• Pokemon Black Version 2 -$45
• Pokemon White Version 2 -$40
• Science Papa -$5.25
• Sim City Creator -$6
• Super Princess Peach -$22
• Ultimate Spiderman -$12

Loose Games

• Advance Wars, Days of Ruin -$14
• Bolt -$5
• Diddy Kong Racing DS -$9
• Kids Learn Music -$8
• Rio -$5
• Sonic Classic Collection -$9
• Spiderman Edge of Time -$7
• Spongebob's Boating Bash -$6
• Spongebob Plankton's Robotic Revenge -$6
• Super Mario 64 DS -$10

Nintendo 3DS

• Angry Birds Trilogy (game only) -$6
• Asphault 3D -$8
• Gabrielle's Ghostly Grooves 3D -$13
• Mario Kart 7 -$12
• New Super Mario Bros 2 (Game Only) -$11
• Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Gates to Infinity -$22
• Pokemon X -$20
• Shifting World -$6
• Super Mario 3D Land (Game Only) -$9
• Super Mario Maker 3DS -$15
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Movie Version (game only) -$7
• The Hidden -$10
• The Smurfs (game only) -$6
• Zelda a Link Between Two Worlds -$14

Playstation

• Area 51 -$9
• Armored Core -$24
• Broken Helix -$9
• Cool Boarders 3 -$6
• Cool Boarders 4 -$6
• Cool Boarders 2001 -$6
• Covert Ops, Nuclear Dawn -$10
• Crash Bandicoot (Greatest Hits) -$15
• Crash Bandicoot 2 (Greatest Hits)-$8
• Criticom (Long Box) -$12
• Dave Mirra BMX - $5.25
• Driver -$8
• Grand Theft Auto (From Collector's Edition Pack) -$10
• Grand Theft Auto 2(From Collector's Edition Pack) -$10
• Grand Theft Auto Mission Pack London -$10
• Gran Turismo (Greatest Hits) -$8
• Gran Turismo 2 -$6
• Gran Turismo 2 (Greatest Hits) -$8
• Gunfighter the Legend of Jesse James -$7
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone -$8
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets -$8
• Hi Octane (Long Box) -$10
• Kiss Pinball -$5.25
• Krazy Ivan, Long Box (no manual, Blockbuster disc) -$11
• Lego Racers -$11
• Madden 2001 -$5.25
• Magic the Gathering Battlemage -$11
• Megaman X4 -$18
• Mega Man 8 (Greatest Hits) -$12
• Mortal Kombat Trilogy (Greatest Hits) -$18
• Moto Racer -$6.25
• NBA Live 2000 -$5.25
• Need for Speed 3 Hot Pursuit (Greatest Hits) -$7
• Need for Speed V Rally -$7
• NFL Blitz -$8
• NFL Gameday 2000 -$5.25
• NHL 2000 -$5.25
• NHL Faceoff (Long Box) -$7
• NHL Rock the Rink -$5.25
• Perfect Weapon -$6
• Polaris Snowcross - $5.25
• Rally Cross 2 -$6.25
• Rampage 2, Universal Tour -$16
• Rayman, Greatest Hits - $11
• Rayman Brain Games -$6
• Resident Evil 4 (Greatest Hits) - $7
• Rugrats Search for Reptar -$10
• Snocross Championship Racing -$5.25
• Space Invaders -$7
• Spongebob Squarepants, Supersponge (Greatest Hits) -$6
• Spyro the Dragon (Greatest Hits) -$12
• Star Wars, Dark Forces -$9
• Street Sk8er 2 - $5.25
• Team Losi RC Racer - $8
• Tekken 2 -$10
• Ten Pin Alley (Greatest Hits) -$5.25
• Tiny Tank -$10
• Tomb Raider II -$8
• Tony Hawk 2 -$9
• Tony Hawk 4 -$10
• Top Gun (Long Box, no manual) -$8
• Toy Story 2 - $10
• Triple Play Baseball -$5.25
• Triple Play 2000 -$5.25
• Twisted Metal III Greatest Hits -$11
• WCW NWO Thunder -$7
• Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits - $8
• World's Scariest Police Chases -$8
• World Worms Party -$10
• Wrestlemania the Arcade Game (Long Box, case has some damage) -$25
• WWF Smackdown 2, Know Your Role -$8
• Xena Warrior Princess - $10

Playstation 2

• 007 Nightfire -$7
• Activision Anthology -$7
• American Idol -$5.25
• ATV Off Road Fury 2 (Greatest Hits)-$5.25
• Barbie Horse Adventures Wild Horse Rescue -$9
• BMX XXX (Game and Case) -$6
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer -$14
• Bully (Greatest Hits) -$10
• Burnout 2 -$8
• Call of Duty 3 -$5.25
• Chaos Legion (game and case) -$9
• Conflict Vietnam - $7
• Corvette (Game and Case) -$5.25
• Crash of the Titans (Game and Case) -$8
• Crash Wrath of Cortex (Greatest Hits) -$7
• Dark Cloud 2 -$21
• Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX (Greatest Hits) -$5.25
• DDR Disney -$5.25
• DDR Max 2 -$5.25
• Destroy All Humans 2 -$9
• Dora Saves the Mermaids - $5.25
• Dragon Ball Z, Budokai 3 - $14
• Dragon Ball Z, Budokai Tenkaichi -$10
• Dragon Ball Z, Infinite World -$35
• Dynasty Warriors 4 -$7
• Enter the Matrix -$5.25
• Eragon - $5.25
• Eternal Poison -$40
• Everquest Online Adventures -$5.25
• Evil Dead Regeneration -$18
• Extermination -$14
• Fairly OddParents: Breakin Da Rules -$8
• Falling Stars -$10
• Fantastic 4 - $5.25
• Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer - $5.25
• Fifa 2004 -$5.25
• Fight Night 2004 (Greatest Hits) -$5.25
• Finding Nemo (Greatest Hits) -$5.25
• Frogger, Ancient Shadow -$6
• Frogger The Great Quest -$7
• Full Metal Alchemist Broken Angel -$12
• Grand Theft Auto 3 -$6
• Gran Turismo 3 (Greatest Hits) -$5.25
• Gran Turismo 4 -$5.25
• Guitar Hero II -$5.25
• Guitar Hero III -$5.25
• Guitar Hero Rock the 80s -$5.25
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire -$6
• Harry Potter Quidditch -$6
• Hitman Blood Money -$7
• Hitman 2 (Greatest Hits) -$5.25
• ICO -$12
• IHRA Professional Drag Racing 2005 -$5.25
• Inuyahsa Secret of the Cursed Mask -$13
• Jeopardy -$5.25
• Justice League Heroes -$9
• Karaoke Revolution Party (Game and Case) -$5.25
• Kingdom Hearts -$8
• King Kong the Movie - $5.25
• Legend of Spyro, A New Beginning -$11
• Legend of Spyro, Dawn of the Dragon -$29
• Lego Star Wars the Video Game -$5.25
• Madagascar -$5.25
• Madden 2001 (Game and Case) -$5.25
• Madden 2004 -$5.25
• Madden 2006 -$5.25
• Madden 2007 -$5.25
• Madden 2007 Hall of Fame Edition -$5.25
• Mark Davis Pro Bass Challenge -$5.25
• Marvel Nemesis Rise of the Imperfects -$8
• Metal Gear Solid 2, Sons of Liberty (Game and Case) -$6
• Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater -$6
• Midnight Club -$5.25
• Midway Arcade Treasures - $8
• MLB 07 The Show -$5.25
• Monopoly Party -$5.25
• Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance - $8
• Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks -$18
• Mountain Bike Adrenaline -$5.25
• MX v ATV Untamed (Greatest Hits) -$5.25
• MVP Baseball 2003 -$5.25
• MVP Baseball 2005 -$5.25
• Narc - $9
• Nascar 07 -$5.25
• NBA 2K2 -$5.25
• NBA Live 06 -$5.25
• NBA Street, Greatest Hits -$8
• NCAA Football 2003 -$5.25
• NCAA Football 2004 -$5.25
• NCAA Football 2005 -$5.25
• NCAA 06 March Madness -$5.25
• Need for Speed Carbon Collector's Edition -$12
• Need for Speed Most Wanted -$12
• Need for Speed Underground -$8
• Need for Speed Underground 2 -$10
• NHL 2K5 -$5.25
• NHL 06 -$5.25
• NHL 08 -$5.25
• Nicktoons, Battle for Volcano Island -$7
• Nightmare of Druaga -$11
• Odin Sphere (Greatest Hits) -$10
• Outlaw Golf 2 -$5.25
• Pac Man Fever -$7
• Radiata Stories (Game and Case) -$13
• Ratchet: Deadlocked -$7
• Ratchet and Clank, Going Commando -$8
• Rayman Arena -$7
• Rebel Raiders -$5.25
• Red Faction -$5.25
• Ring of Red 3 (rental store copy) -$13
• Rumble Racing -$11
• Rygar -$5.25
• Shadowman 2 -$8
• Shark Tale -$5.25
• Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder -$5.25
• Shining Force Neo -$21
• Shrek 2 -$6
• Shrek Superslam -$6
• Silent Scope -$5.25
• Silent Scope 2 -$6
• Sky Odyssey -$6
• Sly Cooper (Greatest Hits, Game and Case) -$6.50
• Sly 3 (Greatest Hits, Game and Case) -$6.50
• Smuggler's Run -$5.25
• Socom US Navy Seals -$5.25
• Sonic Riders -$9
• Sonic Unleashed -$7
• Spiderman Friend of Foe -$8
• Spongebob Creature from Krusty Krab -$9
• Spongebob Revenge of the Flying Dutchman (game and case) -$7
• Sprint Cars, Road to Knoxville -$5.25
• Spyro, Enter the Dragonfly-$10
• Stacked -$5.25
• Star Wars Battlefront II -$8
• Star Wars Battlefront II (Greatest Hits) -$10
• Star Wars Episode III (Greatest Hits) -$5.25
• Star Wars Jedi Starfighter -$5.25
• Star Wars Starfighter -$5.25
• Star Wars the Clone Wars -$5.25
• Suikoden Tactics -$16
• Summoner 2 -$9
• Superman Returns -$6
• Superman Shadow of Apokolips -$7
• Syphon Filter, Dark Mirror -$5.25
• Tak and the Power of Juju -$9
• Tak 2 -$7
• Teen Titans -$14
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles -$10
• Tekken 5 (Greatest Hits, Game and Case) -$7
• Terminator 3, Redemption - $10
• Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines -$5.25
• The Davinci Code (includes movie ticket) -$5.25
• The Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring -$6
• The Simpsons, Road Rage (Greatest Hits) -$7
• The Simpsons Skateboarding (writing on top of manual front page) -$9
• Tom and Jerry War of the Whiskers -$10
• Thinkfast! -$5.25
• Thunderstrike -$5.25
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003 -$5.25
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2008 -$5.25
• Time Crisis 3 -$10
• Time Crisis: Crisis Zone -$12
• Tomb Raider, Angel of Darkness (Greatest Hits) -$5.25
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon (Greatest Hits) -$5.25
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell -$5.25
• Tony Hawk Proving Ground -$6
• Top Gun (no manual) -$5.25
• Transformers -$9
• Transformers the Game -$5.25
• Trigger Man -$5.25
• Wave Rally -$5.25
• Wheel of Fortune -$5.25
• World Championship Poker -$5.25
• Ultimate Spiderman -$14
• Van Helsing (manual has rip) - $7
• Virtua Fighter 4 (Greatest Hits) -$5.25
• X-Men (Game and Case) - $5.25
• X-Men Legends -$8
• X-Men Next Generation -$9
• Zapper -$5.25

Playstation 3

• Air Conflicts Pacific Carriers -$11
• Army of Two -$6
• Assassin's Creed II-$5.25
• Battlefield 3 -$5.25
• Battlefield 4 -$5.25
• Call of Duty Black Ops -$6
• Call of Duty, Black Ops II -$7
• Call of Duty Black Ops 3 -$11
• Call of Duty Ghosts - $5.25
• Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 2 -$5.25
• Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 4 (GOTY) -$5.25
• Crysis 2, Limited Edition -$7
• Dark Void -$6
• Destiny, Taken King Legendary Edition -$9
• Diablo 3 -$7
• Dishonored - $6
• Dishonored (Greatest Hits) -$5.25
• Dragon Age Origins -$7
• Dragon Age Origins Awakening Expansion -$8
• Fallout 3 -$7
• Fallout New Vegas -$6
• Far Cry 2 (Greatest Hits) -$6
• Fifa 10 -$5.25
• Fifa 12 -$5.25
• Final Fantasy XIII -$6
• Formula One (F1), Championship Edition -$8
• Fuse - $5.25
• Ghostbusters -$13
• Ghost Recon, Future Soldier -$5.25
• Grand Theft Auto IV -$6
• Grand Theft Auto V -$9
• Gran Turismo 5 -$6
• Gran Turismo 6 (game and case) -$11
• High Velocity Bowling -$7
• Infamous (Greatest Hits) -$5.25
• Injustice Ultimate Edition -$9
• Killzone 2 -$5.25
• Little Big Planet Kart Racing (no manual) -$7
• Lord of the Rings Conquest -$9
• Madden 2007 -$5.25
• Metal Gear Rising, Revengeance -$7
• NBA Live 10 -$5.25
• NCAA Football 2010 -$5.25
• NCAA Football 2013 -$8
• Ni no Kuni, Wrath of the White Witch -$12
• Persona 4 Arena -$12
• Plants vs Zombies, Garden Warfare -$9
• Red Dead Redemption -$10
• Resident Evil 5 -$6
• Resistance, Fall of Man -$6
• Resistance, Fall of Man (Greatest Hits) -$5.25
• Resistance 2 -$5.25
• Saints Row II (Greatest Hits) -$9
• Sniper, Ghost Warrior 2 -$11
• Splinter Cell, Double Agent -$9
• Star Wars the Force Unleashed -$9
• Street Fighter X Tekken - $9
• Tales of Symphonia Chronicles (Game and Case) -$9
• Tales of Xillia (Game and Case) -$9
• The Chronicles of Riddick -$9
• The Darkness -$10
• The Last of Us -$6
• Tomb Raider -$7
• Topspin 3 -$5.25
• Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 -$13
• Uncharted 2 -$6
• Uncharted 3 -$6
• Untold Legends, Dark Kingdom -$5.25
• Warhawk -$5.25
• X-Men, Destiny -$10

Sega CD

• Amazing Spiderman vs. Kingpin (game only) -$25
• Hook (game only) -$12

Sega Dreamcast

• Gunbird 2 -$84
• House of the Dead 2 (disc and manual) - $12
• NFL 2K -$7

Sega Genesis
Games are cart only unless otherwise noted
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• Asterix and the Great Rescue -$5.25
• Bonkers -$9
• Boogerman (Game and Case) -$27
• Bugs Bunny in Double Trouble CIB -$10
• Clue -$5.25
• College Football's National Championship II -$5.25
• Crystal's Pony Tale (damage to sticker) -$
• Dinosaurs For Hire - $21
• Double Dragon (CIB) -$50
• Dune, the Battle for Arrakis (Game and Case) -$50
• Fatal Labyrinth -$9
• Fatal Rewind (CIB) -$19
• Flashback, the Quest for Identity -$8
• Final Zone (Game and Case) -$32
• Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude! -$7
• Last Battle -$5.25
• Liberty or Death CIB -$30
• Lotus II (CIB) -$10
• MS Pacman (CIB) -$10
• Mutant League Football CIB -$32
• Mystic Defender (label has tear) -$12
• NBA Jam Tournament Edition - $8
• Newman Haas IndyCar featuring Nigel Mansell -$5.25
• NHL '96 -$5.25
• Pacman 2 the New Adventures -$5.25
• Pagemaster -$8
• Pirates! Gold -$28
• Power Monger CIB -$14
• Primal Rage -$8
• Rocket Knight Adventures CIB -$48
• Rolling Thunder 2 (Game and Case)-$40
• Samurai Showdown (Game and Case) -$13
• Sega 6 Pack -$8
• Shadow of the Beast II -$10
• Shining in the Darkness -$17 (Game and Manual)
• Sonic 3D Blast -$9
• Sports Talk Baseball -$5.25
• Sub Terrania -$7
• Super Hang On -$10
• Super Off Road -$10
• Super Street Fighter II (damage to sticker) -$7
• Sword of Sodan (CIB, box not in great shape) -$12
• Sword of Vermilion -$9
• T2: The Arcade Game -$7
• Tazmania -$5.25
• Taz in Escape from Mars CIB -$9
• Tecmo Super Bowl (Game and Case) -$10
• The Jungle Book CIB -$15
• The Terminator (Game and Case) -$18
• Thunder Force III (Game and Case) -$59
• Tiny Toon Adventures, Buster's Hidden Treasure -$10
• ToeJam & Earl -$34
• ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron -$17
• Toy Story -$6
• Trampoline Terror -$7
• Valis III -$27
• Wacky Worlds Creativity Studio -$5.25
• Warrior of Rome II (Game and Case) -$13
• Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits (Cardboard Box) -$10
• Wonder Boy in Monster World -$28
• World Series Baseball ‘95 -$5.25
• WWF Super Wrestlemania (Game and Case) - $9
• WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game -$11
• X-Men (Game and Case) -$13

SNES Carts
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• Bulls vs Blazers NBA Playoffs -$5.25
• Championship Pool -$5.25
• College Football 97 -$8
• Donkey Kong Country -$14
• Donkey Kong Country 2 -$17
• Family Feud -$5.25
• Hit the Ice -$10
• Hole in One Golf -$5.25
• John Madden Football -$5.25
• Jungle Book -$6
• Ken Griffey Jr.'s Winning Run -$7
• Lamborghini American Challenge -$14
• Madden 97 -$5.25
• Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse -$16
• Mario's Time Machine -$10
• Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the Movie -$28
• Monopoly -$5.25
• Mortal Kombat 3 (label faded, rental sticker) -$8
• Nastume Championship Wrestling -$12
• NBA All Star Challenge -$5.25
• NBA Live 95 -$6
• NCAA Basketball -$5.25
• NHL 94 -$6
• NHL 96 -$7
• Roger Clemens MVP Baseball -$6
• Super Caesar's Palace -$5.25
• Super Mario World -$12
• Top Gear -$10
• Toy Story -$10
• UN Squadron -$23
• egas Stakes -$6
• Wheel of Fortune Deluxe Edition -$5.25
• World Heroes -$8
• Wrestlemania the Arcade Game -$7
• Yoshi's Cookie -$10
• Yoshi's Safari -$10

Wii

• 30 Great Games, Outdoor Fun -$5.25
• Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None -$8
• Alvin and the Chipmunks (game and case) -$5.25
• Alvin and the Chipmunks the Squequel(Game and Case) -$5.25
• Angry Birds Star Wars Edition (game and case) -$5.25
• Bakugan Battle Brawlers (Game and Case) -$5.25
• Barbie Horse Adventures Riding Camp -$7
• Battleship -$5.25
• Big Beach Sports -$5.25
• Bigfoot Collision Course -$6
• Big Time Rush Dance Party -$5.25
• Bolt (Game and Case) -$5.25
• Boogie Superstar -$5.25
• Brunswick Pro Bowling -$6
• Call of Duty Black Ops -$6
• Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 -$6
• Cars (Game and Case) -$7
• Cars Mater National Chamionship -$6
• Cars Race o Rama - $6
• Carnival Games -$5.25
• Cate West Vanishing Files -$6
• Chicken Blaster -$5.25
• Cold Stone Creamery Scoop it Up -$5.25
• Crash of the Titans -$9
• De Blob -$5.25
• Deal or No Deal -$5.25
• Deca Sports -$5.25
• Despicable Me -$7
• Disney Channel All-Star Party -$5.25
• Disney Guilty Party -$8
• Disney Planes -$9
• Disney Princess, Enchanted Journey -$7
• Disney Sing It! -$5.25
• Disney Sing It! Family Hits -$10
• Disney Sing It! Party Hits -$5.25
• Disney Universe -$5.25
• Donkey Kong Country Returns -$9
• Dreamworks Superstar Kartz - $9
• Family Game Night -$9
• Family Game Night 3 -$14
• Fishing Master -$6
• Fortune Street -$11
• Game Party -$5.25
• Ghostbusters -$10
• Go Diego Go Safari Rescue -$5.25
• Go Play Lumberjacks -$5.25
• Goosebumps Horror Land - $9
• Guiness World Records -$5.25
• Guitar Hero III -$5.25
• Happy Feet Two -$5.25
• Hot Wheels Beat That -$5.25
• Hot Wheels Track Attack -$5.25
• How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Game and Case) -$7
• Ice Age, Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Game and Case) -$5.25
• I Love Horses, Rider's Paradise -$10
• Imagine Fasion Party -$5.25
• Incredible Hulk -$6
• Jeopardy -$5.25
• Jillian Michael's Fitness Ultimatum 2009 -
• Jump Start Pet Rescue - $5.25
• Kidz Sports Soccer -$6
• Kirby Return to Dreamland -$20
• Legend of Spyro Eternal Night -$13
• Lego Batman-$5.25
• Lego Batman 2 (Game and Case) -$6
• Lego Harry Potter, Years 1-4 -$9
• Lego Indiana Jones -$6
• Lego Indiana Jones 2 -$6
• Lego Pirates of the Caribbean -$5.25
• Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga -$7
• Lego Star Wars III - $5.25
• Little League World Series Baseball 2009 -$7
• Link's Crossbow Training -$8
• Looney Toons, Acme Arsenal -$5.25
• Madagascar Kartz -$5.25
• Madagascar 2 -$5.25
• Madagascar 3 -$5.25
• Madden 09 -$5.25
• Mario Party 8 -$17
• Mario and Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games -$10
• Megamind, Mega Team Unite -$5.25
• Minute to Win It -$5.25
• Monsters vs Aliens -$5.25
• Monster Jam, Urban Assault -$6
• My Sims Agents -$5.25
• My Word Coach -$5.25
• Nascar Kart Racing -$8
• NBA Live 09 -$5.25
• New Super Mario Bros Wii - $12
• NHL Slapshot Bundle -$25
• Nicktoons MLB -$7
• Night at the Museum (Game and Case) -$5.25
• Nights Journey into Dreams -$6
• Okami -$8
• Phineas and Ferb, Second Dimension -$5.25
• Pirates of the Caribbean, At World's End -$5.25
• Planet 51 -$5.25
• Playground -$5.25
• Puss N Boots -$5.25
• Rabbids Go Home -$5.25
• Rango -$5.25
• Ratatouille -$6
• Rayman Origins -$7
• Rise of the Guardians -$5.25
• Rio -$5.25
• Scooby Doo and the Spooky Swamp - $11
• Scooby Doo First Frights - $8
• Sega Bass Fishing -$
• Sengoko Basara, Samurai Heroes -$15
• Shrek Forever After -$5.25
• Skate It $5.25
• Sim Animals Africa -$6
• Sim City Creator -$7
• Sonic and Sega All Star Racing -$9
• Sonic Colors -$7
• Speed Racer -$5.25
• Spongebob Squarepants: Plankton's Robotic Revenge (Game and Case) -$5.25
• Star Wars Clone Wars -$6
• Star Wars, the Force Unleashed -$5.25
• Super Smash Bros Brawl -$16
• Super Swing Golf Season 2 - $8
• Table Tennis -$5.25
• Tales of Symphonia -$8
• Tangled -$5.25
• The Smurfs, Dance Party -$5.25
• Tiger Woods 09 -$5.25
• Tiger Woods 10 -$5.25
• Toy Story 3 (Game and Case) -$7
• Toy Story Mania -$8
• Up! -$5.25
• Vet Life (Animal Planet) -$7
• Wall-E -$5.25
• We Ski -$5.25
• Wheel of Fortune -$9
• Wii Fit -$5.25
• Wii Play -$5.25
• Wii Sports -$10
• Wii Sports Resort -$12
• Winter Sports -$6
• World Championship Poker -$5.25
• World Party Games -$5.25
• Wreck it Ralph -$9
• WWII Aces -$5.25
• Zelda, Twilight Princess -$10
• Zhu Zhu Pets 2 -$5.25

Wii U

• Amiibo Festival -$6
• Amazing Spiderman -$20
• Amazing Spiderman 2 -$14
• Just Dance 2014 -$6
• Just Dance Disney Party 2 -$6
• Mario and Sonic at the 2014 Olympics -$14
• Mario and Sonic at the 2016 Olympics -$42
• Mario Kart 8 -$14
• Mass Effect 3 - $7
• Minecraft -$18
• Super Mario 3D World -$10
• Super Mario 3D World (Nintendo Selects) -$10
• Super Smash Bros Wii U -$16
• The Smurfs 2 -$11

XBOX

• Batman Begins -$7
• Bard's Tale -$8
• Black -$8
• Colin McRae Rally 2004 -$5.25
• Crimson Skies -$5/25
• Destroy All Humans - $9
• Freedom Fighters (Game and Case) -$7
• Halo 2 Map Pack -$6
• Hunter the Reckoning -$10
• Madden 2003 -$5.25
• Madden 2004 -$5.25
• Madden 2005 -$5.25
• Madden 2006 -$5.25
• Max Payne 2 -$6
• NBA Street Volume 2 -$7
• Need for Speed, Underground 2 -$9
• Oddworld, Munch's Oddyssey -$8
• Outlaw Golf -$5.25
• Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy -$12
• SSX 3 -$10
• Star Wars the Clone Wars/Tetris -$5.25
• The Cat in the Hat -$7
• Toca Race Driver 2 -$5.25
• Tom Clacny Splinter Cell Chaos Theory -$7

XBOX 360

• Aliens Colonial Marines -$6
• Assassin's Creed III -$5.25
• Battlefield Bad Company 2 -$5.25
• Brutal Legend (game and manual)-$5.25
• Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 -$5.25
• Captain America, Super Soldier (Game and Case) -$16
• Chaotic Shadow Warriors (game and manual) -$5.25
• Dance Dance Revolution Universe 2 -$7
• Devil May Cry - $8
• Dirt 3 -$12
• Disney Universe -$9
• Elder Scrolls Skyrim -$5.25
• Fantastic 4 -$5.25
• Fifa 06 -$5.25
• Fifa 10 -$5.25
• Gears of War -$7
• Gears of War Limited Collector's Edition -$13
• Kinect, Disneyland Adventures -$6
• Mafia II -$10
• Max Payne 3 -$6
• Midnight Club Los Angeles Complete Edition (Platinum) -$7
• NCAA Basketball 2009 -$14
• NHL 12 -$5.25
• Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles -$7
• Pocket Bike Racer -$5.25
• Prototype 2 -$5.25
• Sega Superstars Tennis/Live Arcade -$5.25
• Sesame Street Once Upon a Monster -$6
• Spiderman, Shattered Dimensions -$21
• Spiderman, Web of Shadows -$19
• Splatterhouse -$13
• Splinter Cell, Double Agent -$7
• Star Trek Legacy (Game and Case) -$9
• Tales of Vesperia -$8
• Tiger Woods 07 -$5.25
• Transformers -$9
• Vanquish -$10
• Virtua Tennis 2009 -$5.25
• WWE '12 -$7
• X-Men Origins, Wolverine -$10

5) Factory Sealed Games
Playstation

• Metal Gear Solid (Greatest Hits) -$23
• Pac Man World -$30

Playstation 2

• Jak and Dexter (Greatest Hits, has tear on botton part of seal) -$15
• Lego Indiana Jones (Greatest Hits) -$7
• Madden 08 -$7
• MLB The Show 09 -$7
• Ratchet and Clank, Up Your Arsenal (Greatest Hits) -$24

Playstation 3

• NBA 2k18 -$18

Wii

• Namco Museum Remix -$8
• Trauma Team -$19

XBOX

• Midway Arcade Treasures -$20
• Pac Man World 2 (Platinum Hits) -$20

XBOX 360

• Borderlands 2 with Add-On Content Pack -$16
• Dishonored -$8
• Halo Reach -$10
• Ice Age Continental Drift -$11
• Jimmy Johnson's Anything with an Engine -$14
• Ultimate Action Triple Pack -$20

5) Build Your Own Commons Bundles (designed for completionist collectors)
*I have a lot of respect for people who go for complete and near-complete sets of games, and I want to help other collectors check off common games in bulk. Of all the games above priced at $5.25 or $6, you can build any custom bundle from these options: *

• Bundle 1 - Choose any 10 games for $30
  
• Bundle 2 - Choose any 15 games for $40
  
• Bundle 3 - Choose any 25 games for $55
  

6) Amiibos, Collector's Items, Strategy Guides, and Art Books
Amiibos

• Greninja (new and sealed) -$15

Collector Items
Please note that while all other prices reflect shipping cost, the prices for collector's items do *not include shipping, since they are so big.*

• Halo 5 Limited Collector's Edition for Xbox One, Complete in Box -$55 plus shipping
• Halo Reach Legendary Edition -$75 plus shipping

Strategy Guides
New books are still sealed, although the seals themselves may have a few a holes (as is the case with almost all sealed books)

• Assassin's Creed Origins Prima Guide -$9
• Call of Duty World War II Prima Guide (Brand New) -$8
• Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy (Prima's Official Strategy Guide, Brand New) -$6
• Darksiders 3 Prima Collector's Edition Guide (hardcover), Brand New -$9
• Elder Scrolls Atlas Prima Guide -$9
• Elder Scrolls Summerset Prima Guide (Brand New) -$9
• Fallout 76, Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Collector's Edition (Brand New) -$9
• Far Cry 5 Collector's Edition (Brand New with Poster) -$13
• Final Fantasy NT Collector's Edition Guide (Brand New, Dissidia) -$7
• Harvest Moon, Light of Hope (Brand New) -$13
• Mastering Minecraft 4 Edition -$7
• Playing with Super Power (Prima's SNES Classic Guide) (Brand New) -$10
• The Evil Within 2 Prima Guide (Brand New) -$10
• Wolfenstein II Prima Guide (Brand New) -$9

Art Books

• Art of Assassin's Creed - $6
• Art of Dead Space -$8
• Art of the God of War III -$11

7) Manuals
(I know $5 is steep on some of these, but it's the lowest I can go without losing money from shipping and fees; feel free to make aggressive bundle offers with these!)
Manuals
Gameboy

• Donkey Kong Land 2 -$8
• Gameboy Instruction Booklet -$5
• The Pagemaster - $5.25

Gamecube

• Godzilla Destroy all Monsters -$5

N64

• Cruisin Exotica -$10
• Cruisin World -$5
• Mario Party 3 -$11
• Mario Tennis -$10
• Pokemon Stadium -$11
• Wave Race 64 -$7

PS2

• Castle Shikigami 2 -$7
• Fatal Frame -$11
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More Interesting Times (Part 2)
by Jayge 8^J
In 2017, Jeff Bezos of Amazon is said to have made $107 million a day on average, adding $40 billion to his fortune, now estimated at $150 billion. Every year war, disease, poverty, illiteracy, and famine remain unresolved, while our billionaire blight grows. Are these mere coincidences or something far more serious? Tim predicted that for each of the next 10 years that same pattern will continue, making matters ever worse than they are today. Billionaires create poverty & misery in society, not wealth. Speaking of worthless billionaires brings us to covfefe, psycho liar Trump and his 3,001 'alt-truths' since his fat ass landed in the Oval Office. “We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” ― Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, a Zionist before Zionism turned ugly. Trump's now angling for a Nobel Peace Prize, yet we know it's really about his ego and profiteering. Supporters say he's a real estate branding genius playing 4D chess, but we see shameless chutzpah & 1D checkers. What about his Trump U. swindle? Lady Liberty and Mother Earth better beware of Trump, like demon Kissinger, cuz the republic has never been in worse hands. His new top Jewish economic adviser is Larry Kudlow, who allegedly was ousted from Bear Stearns senior management in the mid-90s with a monthly $100K cocaine habit. Trump is surely an enigma worth investigating. His Wikipedia page provides some facts of his life, while skewing or omitting others. Curiously, his net worth is said to be $3.1B, while he claims over $10B and others maintain that his bankruptcies made him a debt slave to Russian, Jewish, Arab, and/or Italian mobs. Let's ban billionaires. If $999,999,999.99 isn't enough for you, then we don't want you & your U.S. assets will be used to solve society's problems, a reminder of this century-old ragtime classic, "The rich get rich and the poor get poor / In the meantime, in between time / Ain't We Got Fun".
'Dark Journalist' Daniel Liszt shows startling revelations in his livestream YouTube presentations, including that Trump's 'nuclear' uncle, electrical engineer John George Trump, had private access to Nikola Tesla's papers after his death & in 1987 President Nixon sent Trump a letter, urging him to run for president, cuz he would win. Trump keeps it on display. Also, he found a series of X steganography, from Egyptian & Mayan hieroglyphs, Mystery Schools, to planet X, to secret Eisenhower X-program, to fresh JFK assassination info, to LBJ library's 'X' document, to Nixon insider Robert Merritt & White House 'extraterrestrial time capsule', to journalist-author Frank Scully, source of The X-Files character Dana Scully, & much more. Zachary K. Hubbard exposes info about elite-coded news headlines, sports fraud, deaths of celebrity, political, & sports figures, CNN is CIA, & much more, all Kabbalah numerology Gematria based & their divide & conquer ritual methods in his book Letters & Numbers, free to find truth blog, The Gematria Effect weekly radio show, & YouTube channel Gematria Effect News, after his other channels were deleted by Google's YouTube. He & Thom Hartmann are rare sane radio voices amid a sea of rabid, fear & war mongering, far right extremist stochastic terrorists, evolution, globe, or climate change deniers. George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, & Barack Obama aren't the root of evil. It's the fascist GOP, stupid.
Back in 2018, after unwinding each phi vector taken, Travers was visited by Men in Black who had probing inquiries about his recent whereabouts, activities, & encounters, as well as stern directives & threats not to speak to anyone about them. He now felt that all of his noble intentions & efforts had failed, but unknown to him things were about to get interesting. Amid clouds of corruption uncovered by Robert Mueller's investigation, Trump suddenly resigned along with Mike Pence, the former to serve prison time abroad for tax evasion, the latter to try televangelism. Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House of Representatives was next in line, but declined so President pro tempore of the Senate Orrin Hatch was sworn in as 46th U.S. president. Something quite unprecedented was occurring.
"Donald John Trump is the 45th and current President of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received an economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He took charge of his family's real estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded it from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan. The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, including licensing his name for real estate and consumer products. He managed the company until his 2017 inauguration. He co-authored several books, including The Art of the Deal. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and he produced and hosted the reality television show The Apprentice from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion." -- Wikipedia
Apparently, Time Lord Jefferson took matters into his own hands & carefully set them aright. He had a stenographer secretly record his Monticello meeting. While Travers slept tight in a feather bed, Jefferson borrowed his Cronosoar. With Benjamin Franklin, he devised a solution to Travers' conundrum & spied on the White House to ascertain the situation, using a special Franklin-made drone. A plebiscite outlawed lobbying & dissolved the legislative branch of government along with corporate boards to reform with all new faces, while those ousted faced corruption charges. He made America fair again. We the People got new systems for our Founders' broken model. Several ambitious parties sprang up, including Native Law, Gaia Greens, Latin Power, Black Rights, & Young Turks, replacing the splintered Democrats. Out of a rebranded GOOP, which now stood for Geezer Obsolete Obstructionist Party, a more apt appellation, rose Libertarians, Constitutionalists, & a mega MAGA Mad Hatter's Tea Party. To be an American was honorable once more.
Franklin said or wrote, "Time is money." "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." "Well done is better than well said." "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." "We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." "Half a truth is often a great lie." "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." "Where liberty is, there is my country." "When you're finished changing, you're finished." "There was never a good war or a bad peace." "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." "He that lives upon hope will die fasting." "Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75." "Energy and persistence conquer all things." "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." "The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance." "Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn." "The doors of wisdom are never shut." "Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late." "There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self." "It is easier to prevent bad habits than it is to break them." "When in doubt, don't." "Never confuse motion with action." "Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste." "If time be of all things the most precious, then wasting time must be the greatest prodigality." "The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands." "He that can have patience can have what he will." "Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure." "Lost time is never found again." "One today is worth two tomorrows."
"Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSE was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He founded many civic organizations, including the Library Company, Philadelphia's first fire department and the University of Pennsylvania." -- Wikipedia
NATO forces on joint military training operations with the IDF sprung a surprise trap netting top Zionist brass & placed the tiny nation under strict martial law, while UN peacekeepers & NGOs moved in to secure nuclear weaponry to prevent their insane Samson Option & conduct mass migrations. Palestinians were freed to inhabit West Bank settlements, while boycott denial non-Semitic militant white Zionists were herded into work camps in Gaza & the West Bank under miserable apartheid conditions they had made, ultimately for themselves. Israel roared empty claims of anti-Semitism at UN headquarters & in their global media Kabbalah cabal, but got no response. "Revenge is a dish best served cold." -- Klingon proverb (from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) Similar roundups by the FBI in the U.S. netted KKK, CIA, NSA, neo-Nazis, Saudi royals, white nationalists, racist skinheads, Dark Money fat cats, & Proud Boys, who soon found themselves in Gaza, where ex-President Trump was torn apart by some who felt betrayed by him in a vicious civil war between far right militant Zionists & farther right militant Zionists. A great weight was lifted off humanity's back, the International Red Cross finally released its meticulous WWII camp statistics, & seemingly miraculous drops occurred in nosy spies, Spam emails, & most surprisingly 99% of the Pentagon budget, followed by reciprocal defense moves worldwide. The elite's 3,000-year-old Abrahamic religions experiment was banned as dangerously counter-productive. Our planet entered the Aquarian Age, brimming with green energy opportunity, exploration of the Cosmos, resources on other worlds, & extraterrestrial communication.
"The Samson Option is the name that some military analysts and authors have given to Israel's deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons as a "last resort" against the specific country whose military destroys Israel. Commentators also have employed the term to refer to situations where non-nuclear, non-Israeli actors, have threatened conventional weapons retaliation." -- Wikipedia
Silly coincidence theories of 19 'Muslim hijacker' clowns led by a CIA clone in a cave, 'magic bullet', 'lone assassin', Nazi Reichstag fire, 'surprise attacks' of Havana Harbor, Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, Gulf of Tonkin, & 9/11, didn't stand the test of time. Travers laughed when he read that Ari Quotient, Max Ernst, & Elbert Dreistein were in line for the quadrennial 2022 Fields Medal, so-called 'Nobel Prize' in mathematics, for their elaborate so-called proof that time travel is impossible.
Chillin' later at the beach with network maven yogi bud CEJ, while simultaneously wondering whether eigenvector matrices were quasicrystalline spin networks, they saw Garrett Lisi parasailing & approached the easy-going theorist-adventurer. After Tim's talk with Newton, he tried once more to grok gravity by asking Lisi for insight, who said, "All fields of the standard model and gravity are unified as an E8 principal bundle connection. A non-compact real form of the E8 Lie algebra has G2 and F4 subalgebras which break down to strong su(3), electroweak su(2) x u(1), gravitational so(3,1), the frame-Higgs, and three generations of fermions related by triality. The interactions and dynamics of these 1-form and Grassmann valued parts of an E8 superconnection are described by the curvature and action over a four dimensional base manifold." "The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe operates." "I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around nd dancing over space-time." "I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity." "There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it." "I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind fall outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory." "Surfing is simply the most fun I know how to have on this planet." "Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted." "You cannot think when you're ecstatic." "Science is our last and greatest frontier." "The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and elegant."
"Antony Garrett Lisi, known as Garrett Lisi, is an American theoretical physicist and adventure sports enthusiast. Lisi works as an independent researcher without an academic position. He is a strong proponent of balance in life, in his case between scientific research and enjoyment of the outdoors." -- Wikipedia
"In quantum mechanics, the Planck time (tP) is the unit of time in the system of natural units known as Planck units. A Planck unit is the time required for light to travel in a vacuum a distance of 1 Planck length, which is approximately 5.39 × 10 −44 s. The unit is named after Max Planck, who was the first to propose it." -- Wikipedia
"An attosecond is...one quintillionth of a second. For context, an attosecond is to a second what a second is to about 31.71 billion years." -- Wikipedia
"The Wheeler–DeWitt equation is...part of a theory that attempts to combine mathematically the ideas of quantum mechanics and general relativity, a step towards a theory of quantum gravity...time plays a role different from what it does in non-relativistic quantum mechanics, leading to the so-called 'problem of time'. -- Wikipedia
Hugh Everett III, colleague of John Wheeler & Bryce DeWitt, wrote Universal Wave Function Theory that proposed a many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
"Just for scale, one unit of Planck time is less than a trillionth of a trillionth of the attosecond described above!...for things that happen below the Planck scale, time disappears." -- Gregg Braden, Fractal Time, page 102, doing his best impression of Paul Charles William Davies
"Einstein’s 1905 paper came out and suddenly changed people’s thinking about space-time. We’re again in the middle of something like that. When the dust settles, time—whatever it may be—could turn out to be even stranger and more illusory than even Einstein could imagine." -- Carlo Rovelli
"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive." -- Albert Einstein
"Terence McKenna...Timewave Zero...fractal modeling of time" -- Wikipedia
Today Travers' weltanschauung took a serious hit when he was informed that Wikipedia, which he had contributed occasional editing, was another tool of the ruling elite. There was no doubt Tim needed some math tutoring, but now he had all the time in the world. CEJ, born in the year of the Wheeler–DeWitt equation, took Tim's Cronosoar for a proper shakedown cruise so both of them might study Lisi's ideas without sacrificing vacation time. They crossed paths once with John Titor, towing him out of a 'temporal causality loop', like that experienced by USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D crew & USS Bozeman under Captain Morgan Bateson (Kelsey Grammer) in "Cause and Effect" season 5 episode 18 of Star Trek: The Next Generation. In appreciation, he shared some 2036 trove coordinates & his ""stationary mass, temporal displacement unit powered by two top-spin, dual positive singularities", producing a "standard off-set Tipler sinusoid"...Two magnetic housing units for the dual micro singularities... An electron injection manifold to alter mass and gravity of the micro singularities...A cooling and X-ray venting system...Gravity sensors, or a variable gravity lock...Four main cesium clocks...Three main computer units" -- Wikipedia However, they steered clear of Doc Brown's device & the McFly family, due to many time anomalies they were well-known for. Besides, that flux capacitor DeLorean was a fire hazard.
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising each time we fall." -- Confucius
"Observe good faith and justice with all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all." -- George Washington
"We spend a great deal of time studying history, which, let's face it, is mostly the history of stupidity." -- Stephen Hawking
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." -- Will Durant
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." -- Aldous Huxley
"The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves -- a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to foretell the future." -- Carl Becker
"History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
"History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce." -- Karl Marx
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." -- Mark Twain
"History proves that the white man is a devil." -- Malcolm X Little
Travers' work playlist was predictable: Time Warp from Rocky Horror Picture Show, Time Has Come Today by the Chambers Brothers, Back in Time by Huey Lewis & the News, Time by Pink Floyd, Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce, Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper, Does Anybody Know What Time It Is by Chicago, Times Like These by the Foo Fighters, Feels Like the First Time by Foreigner, Clocks by Coldplay, Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley & the Comets, Time Is on My Side by the Rolling Stones, Love Me Two Times by the Doors, Old Time Rock & Roll by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, The Longest Time by Billy Joel, Good Times Roll by the Cars, Too Much Time on My Hands by Styx, Big Time by Peter Gabriel, Where Have All the Good Times Gone by the Kinks, Time for Me to Fly by REO Speedwagon, If I Could Turn Back Time by Cher, Wasted Time by the Eagles, Your Time Is Gonna Come by Led Zeppelin, Foreplay / Long Time by Boston, The Last Time by the Rolling Stones, Time to Move On by Tom Petty, Time Waits for No One by the Rolling Stones, Out of Time by the Rolling Stones, Three Times a Lady by the Commodores, Time by the Alan Parsons Project, Every time You Go Away by Paul Young, Ain't Wastin' Time No More by the Allman Brothers, Tulsa Time by Eric Clapton, Sign o' the Times by Prince, By the Time I Get to Phoenix by Glen Campbell, Long Time Gone by Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, How Many More Times by Led Zeppelin, Nothin' But a Good Time by Poison, Knock Three Times by Tony Orlando & Dawn, Time (Clock of the Heart) by Culture Club, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack, This Time by Bryan Adams, Time Stand Still by Rush, Anytime at All by the Beatles, Killin' Time by Clint Black, No Time This Time by the Police, Party All the Time by Eddie Murphy, Remember the Time by Michael Jackson, Isn't It Time by the Babys, Bad Time by Grand Funk Railroad, Child in Time by Deep Purple, Only Time Will Tell by Asia, Time Is Running Out by Muse, This Time Tomorrow by the Kinks, Man Out of Time by Elvis Costello, King of the Night Time World by Kiss, Sour Times by Portishead, Comes a Time by Neil Young, Do That to Me One More Time by Captain & Tennille, Another Place Another Time by Jerry Lee Lewis, Where Have All the Good Times Gone by Elton John, Sea of Time by George Martin Orchestra, Get It Right the First Time by Billy Joel, I've Had the Time of My Life by Jennifer Warnes, The Times They Are A-Changin' by Bob Dylan, No Time by Guess Who, Time Won't Let Me by the Outsiders, Time of the Season by the Zombies, Time Machine by Grand Funk Railroad, Give Me Just a Little More Time by Chairmen of the Board, Time to Fly by Spirit, & Kashmir by Led Zeppelin.

Can a DIY play with “quantum computing” at a low cost?
I have some quantum for you, at home, cheap – maybe.
I have worked as a cryptographer. Random numbers have always been the second coolest numbers after primes. I’m retired now, but random thoughts keep popping up.
Radioactive decay seems about as random as it gets, it is quantum. I have worked with systems where a more radioactive source drives a counter (that is turning over rapidly) and a lesser source determines when to latch the counter’s contents. Pretty random.
Sitting around with other cryptographers, enjoying beer after hours, we’ve come up with ideas where the above system generates a number that is fed into a counter that will be stepped by that amount each time a third source clicks – and more – just how “random” does anybody need?
As I understand “Schrodinger’s Cat”, Schrodinger argued against the Copenhagen Interpretation that said things like radioactive decay are governed by quantum rules that allow a particle to be in two places at once, or to be decayed and not, and a lot of even weirder stuff. Schrodinger used the macro scale cat in a sealed box to link it to the fate of an unstable atom – a quantum atom that Copenhagen says has already decayed and not yet decayed. Anyway, as I get it, he argued what I call a “Common Sense” argument that of course the cat can’t be dead and alive at the same time, and therefore, Copenhagen is wrong.
Since that time (~1930) a lot of experiments have shown Copenhagen to be correct at the scale of the sub atomic. Absolutely a free-for-all zoo down there. But things as big as a cat – well, cats seem to live about as long as they should, definitely alive, then they die, and stay that way.
As you climb out of the rabbit hole of the very tiny, up to the atomic scale, things settle down a lot – but there is plenty of weird stuff at this scale. Bigger seems to be “less quantum”. There is no dividing line between big and small.
I have read of some experiments with results that have visible Q effects a very good naked eye can see.
When you reach the scale of a cat things are pretty much rock solid Newtonian.
What scale is a subroutine? How much Q can you play with with?
I happen to have an old Aware Electronics RM-60 Pro Geiger counter that I bought way back, so far back that I used it with a computer running DR DOS. I think that today they make one with WiFi or Bluetooth, mine has a serial port interface and needs a tether. I found some old open source software by an Aware tech written in C. I lifted the relevant code to set up an interrupt that triggers each time the RM60 clicks. I also have a pocketful of slightly radioactive rocks I’ve picked up.
Modern computers running Linux can ask the OS how long since midnight UTC 1970 in microseconds (modulo 1 million I think). It was trivial to write a function that returns this number modulo 256 – return 8 bits, a byte, a character.
In my mind’s eye it seems that the time since 1970, in partial microseconds, must be picking up SOME “Q” from the very Q radioactive decay that sent a particle at the Geiger tube.
The fact that it is tied to 1970 doesn’t matter, what does is the fact that this counter rolls over nearly 4,000 times a second, so if your radiation source takes around one second between clicks – a string of numbers from this source should show no correlation to one other. Casinos don’t accept a “Wheel of Fortune” spin to be less than some number of revolutions because the spin (or Geiger click time) can be at least partially algorithmic.
How close can the clicks get and still have “really” random numbers?
Is 1 bit per click 8 times more Q than 8 bits per click? 256 times?
I say I have a virtual cat in a sealed virtual box. I say that if the cat is “light enough” or “small enough” it will pick up some “Q” in the process of generating a quite random number. In Schrodinger’s language – this cat CAN be somewhat dead and alive, I think.
DIY
Here is a pseudocode representation of my DIY project. The hardware cost $5 for a serial port header cable so the code is 99% of the project.
Main program
correct=0 total=0 do forever flag=0 call subroutine if flag ==1 correct++ total++ print (whatever statistics about number of “correct” guesses vs total)
subroutine [sealed box] pause till click from Geiger get number of micro-sec since 1970 make that modulo 256 if the random number==57 flag=1 return Any common sense Newtonian programmer would look at that and tell you that after a while the statistics would show that on average once every 256 calls to the subroutine would show a flag of 1.
But what of MUI? Multiple Universe Interpretation
What happens INSIDE the box, where everything stops till a quantum moment? WHAT IF the universe splits in the black box? Seemed to me that if this gadget was PERFECTLY quantum it would return a flag of one EVERY time – because reality would split so many ways that some (universe, version, ghost) would have 57 as “its’ ” random number. ONLY the “universe” that had 57 as a random number would change the flag to 1 and all other “universes” would leave it alone. That’s a mouthful and it is in the above subroutine.
Look at the subroutine – it changes flag only if random number is 57. So if random is NOT 57 the subroutine leaves flag ALONE – this is important! There should be 1 chance in 256 that 57 is the random number, in a Newtonian solid non quantum computer.
I would be glad to help any other DIYer do the same. If it turns out I am wrong, you end up with a cool random number generator.
Also – I see other possible sources of Q are all around – I am in love with my counter that lives in the OS and is very accessible so I see Q in time variant things – like for instance ping time on the internet in microseconds. Internet Q might be more Q than what I did with a Geiger counter.
Keyboard timing involves neurology, muscle response, tension on the spring under the key – so a different subroutine that asks you to type something should also be a handy source of Q.
What I’m saying is that some Quantum weirdness must be absorbed by a “random number” and that if it stays IN THE BOX (sub routine) it can leave an imprint (a flag set too often).
The “box” subroutine could factor (look for N mod X == 0) and set a return flag to X if the mod=0. This would be the most simple minded trial division sieve. If the subroutine were 100% Q this very bad factoring method would actually be the fastest method. (Its not 100% Q)
I guarantee a good time for anybody that plays with what I call Quantum Data.
I have never read a scientific paper that says you will get 1 in 256, less that 1, or more than 1. Exactly 1 in 256 would be an indicator of a good random number generator.
It seems to me that if you get 1 in 256 consistently, then Schrodinger was correct at the macro scale, you have nothing more complex than Newtonian physics to worry about; but if not – well you live in a world where Q can sneak “up” on you.
Try it for free using ping-time.
I didn’t give my results, did I?
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