You probably could have gotten it at Fry's for $30. Many of the Fry's were running this promotion. Some just ran the ad in the paper later than others. My Fry's didn't even put it in the paper until Wednesday. Anyhow, you don't get the free crappy 3rd party hundred something blocks memory card, but you could have bought that same card for $6 at Fry's.
Anyhow, the game is absolutely jaw dropping. Takes about 5 minutes to get use to the controls. And I'm glad they stayed as true to the original as they did. Please, everyone with a GC run out and buy it so, we can have a chance at receiving MGS2. And a rat's ass hair of a chance of receiving MGS3.