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Thanks for the advice, just sent them an email.

And it looks like I missed a 'bonus auction' by one day, cripes.

You don't even know what was at the auction. There could have been absolute crap.

^^True. I'll try to keep that in mind.

I'll let ya know what they respond to regarding the email.

yeah, it's tough to tell. I usually will go to the farmer' market to get other things. I've generally found the flea market to be terrible for games.

Originally Posted by duffclown70 Also, anyone ever been to Gamecrazy? It was recommended to me to special order Phoenix Wright from there but I've never been there. Can any of you fellas tell me what it's near landmark wise?

The only GameCrazy I know of in OKC is located just South of Penn and SW 89. They are pretty good about honoring requests for ordering stuff. Some time back, I ordered a used XBox memory card and was able to get one within a week. When it came in they gave me call to let me know it had arrived. I like dealing with GameCrazy, but it seems Best Buy has better deals ($10 coupon anyone??).

I dunno, I think I've had the best luck at TRU with all of their BOGO, 2fors, and greentags...

looks like in moore this weekend (fri,sat,sun) there will be an arcade game sale at some place called storage U10 at 213 NE 12th. no clue about costs of items, so it may be a waste of time or heavily overpriced... hard to tell.. can't seem to locate the place, wondering if this is somewhere between norman and moore on sooner rd/12th.

I'll have to keep that in mind this Saturday. Thanks physics

Oh and do you have the exact address? May try to map quest it.

Cool! Thanks for the heads up physics!

nah, that's the best I could get from the newspaper classified ad with regard to the location. no phone number, either.

I tried looking it up on my mapping program, but I don't even know if there is a 12th ave in Moore.... but I could see how someone from the area might want to call Sooner Rd. something like 12th if they used to live in Norman or if it is just north of norman... (12th in Norman becomes Sooner Rd. as you head toward Moore).

As I have said, I just saw this sale in a local classified ad newspaper that comes to my house every week. I wish I could give you more info... Personally I know I'd love to go on friday if I had a better sense of where it was... There were at least 2 games they listed that I'd be interested it... I'd still suggest bringing an extension cord, truck, etc.. no clue if these items will work, if they can be plugged in easily, and I'm sure you'll need to transport them out of there as soon as you buy them... might consider bringing a strong friend too.. as noted in another post of mine, these things weigh a lot... picking up a dolly from Lowes for $19 isn't such a bad idea either...

I know someone who lives in that general 12th/Sooner area, I might be able to ask them what that storage place on 12th/sooner is called... my guess is that someone just has a ton of stuff in a storage container/garage location and wants to dump it all... as such, I'm expecting credit cards are out, and I'd probably rather pay with cash than a check (not to mention, they might want the cash for as-is games as well).

my cousins live about a block away from the okc GC there good about price matches

Did anyone go to that arcade game sale?

nah, got pretty tied up. hopefully that person will do it again and put better directions on the ad.

I wanted to make it to the auction, but was unable to find time this weekend...

Please post if you find another one.

no problem.

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Originally Posted by CorporalJackson random MONKEY!!!

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Oklahoma legislature passes games bill

Measure that would classify violent games with pornography passes the House without a single opposing vote.

While a piece of Utah legislation seeking to have video games with "inappropriate violence" classified under the same statute that applies to pornography fell into legislative limbo earlier this month, a similar Oklahoma bill has gathered a full head of steam.
Last week, the Oklahoma House of Representatives approved HB3004 unanimously, with 97 Representatives voting for it, none against it, and four excused from the voting. Utah's bill faced slightly tougher opposition in its House of Representatives, passing by a vote of 56-8, with 11 legislators absent or not voting.
The Oklahoma bill makes it illegal for stores to sell or allow minors to view any game with inappropriate violence to minors. If passed, retailers would not even be able to display the games for sale unless the bottom two-thirds of their covers were obscured by "blinder racks" in the same way that adult magazines are.
While the bill's formatting on the matter is a little different, the text bears a striking resemblance to that of Utah's piece of legislation when it comes to defining inappropriate violence. According to the law, that term would be defined as any depiction in a game that, when taken as a whole, has the following characteristics:
"a. the average person eighteen (18) years of age or older applying contemporary community standards would find that the interactive video game or computer software is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community with respect to what is suitable for minors, and
b. the interactive video game or computer software lacks serious literary, scientific, medical, artistic, or political value for minors based on, but not limited to, the following criteria:
(1) is glamorized or gratuitous,
(2) is graphic violence used to shock or stimulate,
(3) is graphic violence that is not contextually relevant to the material,
(4) is so pervasive that it serves as the thread holding the plot of the material together,
(5) trivializes the serious nature of realistic violence,
(6) does not demonstrate the consequences or effects of realistic violence,
(7) uses brutal weapons designed to inflict the maximum amount of pain and damage,
(8) endorses or glorifies torture or excessive weaponry, or
(9) depicts lead characters who resort to violence freely"
The bill's definition of inappropriate violence specifically mentions games, so similar depictions in books, movies, or music would not be covered. If passed, store owners caught selling such games to minors would be charged with a misdemeanor and fined $500 on a first or second offense, and $1,000 on future offenses.
Having passed the House, the bill has now moved to the Oklahoma Senate.

From Gamestop

It really doesn't shock me too much, but like most Oklahoma bills presented under the guise to try and 'protect minors', I'm sure it is faulty. Lawmakers in this state have often thrown out bills to curb underage drinking, etc., without any real thought as to the flaws of said bills and whether the bill actually is doing what they 'think' it is doing... Certainly, no lawmaker in this state wants to walk back to their voters and have someone claim 'hey, these guys are pro- violent games', which you know is what would happen in a bible belt state. Rather, I'm sure those who are against the bill are just passing it hoping that someone will challenge it later.

For these bills, the key issue in my mind that really will come into play is in the 'artistic' merit of games... clearly, lawmakers are too afriad to attack violent mainstream movies (i.e., the Sin City sort) or music (heck, most of it) because they know they can't avoid the nightmare that is that these media are viewed as 'artistic'... To me, there is nothing additionally 'artistic' about most graphic movies and the better-made graphic epic games like God of War. Both cost millions. Both feature just about everything on those above lists... but since one is a game (which is rooted in historical figures, and prominantly features the violence and sex that mythology has often been associated with), it gets treated like porn, while the other is considered 'art' despite being 100% fictional. Sorry, I don't buy it.

In my mind, the real issue is and always has been the rating of games versus the rating of movies. Parents understand the Movie rating system... To me, instead of covering up violent games, why not change the ratings to those comparable to movies... We've tried the whole 'MA' thing... it doesn't register. If a game like God of War was an R-rated game (which I believe it is), there shouldn't be any confusion... To me, I've only known of 2-3 games that really ever pushed the R-rating limit in my mind, and one of them, Grand Theft Auto: SA, was still only pushing it because of the 'Hot Chocolate' game that 99% of all owners would have never even been able to access anyway... and even among those who did, they were SUPPOSED to be MA game players anyway!! So a whole bunch of lawmakers got upset about a group of 17+ year olds playing a hidden mini-game that they really never even played anyway because they couldn't readily access it! No kids should have been playing this game in the first place...

More to the point, the issue shouldn't be coving games up and going after any game with a drop of blood, it should be enforcing that MA games should not be sold to minors. That's it! And if that means calling MA games R-rated games just to make sure parents understand, fine... What bothers me is that plenty of games fall under these 'guidelines' and are clearly not 'bad games'. Does anyone honestly believe a game like Diablo on PC is similar to porn? Probably not, and if Diablo were a movie, it'd probably be an R-rated movie (no swearing, and just killing arbitrary monsters, say as in Army of Darkness)... and as a game, it was MA... but does this game really need to be covered up where as any kid in the world can look at any R-rated movie?