The Bad - Impulse Buying
When I was in my early teens, I worked as a landscaper and an animal caretaker. Every week, I would pull in enough money to buy a $50 game if I wanted to. Unfortunately, I wasn't the person who did an extensive amount of research before buying games at that time, so I had my fair share of poor decisions. Nothing was as bad as the choice I made during the first few weeks of my freshman year of high school.
I had been looking forward to getting Pikmin 2 for quite some time and when it finally came out, I had my mom take me to Toys R Us. It should have been that simple had it not been this one game next to it, Amazing Island.
I don't know what drew me to it. Looking at the box at this moment makes me think it was the comparison to Mario Party. It was $40, so I decided it was worth a shot. It wasn't.
The best part, and only good part really, about it was the monster creation aspect, I had a reptile with a chain gun strapped to its chest, but the games were vastly underwhelming. I spent $40 and had nothing to show for it but this lousy game.
I ended up buying Pikmin 2 a few weeks later, but my awful decision forced me to make better buying decisions.
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