Current Events > Has anyone else here been to a midnight release?

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In addition to my planned midnight release for the SNES Classic I've also been to a midnight release of Super Smash Brothers Brawl and DS, Pokemon Sun, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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I think Halo 3 was the last video game one I went to.

For movies...probably Revenge of the Sith.

Movies, plenty of times. Video games, I only went to a Halo Reach release at Gamestop with a buddy. They did a Halo 3 tournament while everyone waited.
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The last Harry Potter book and Gears of War 3

Totally worth it
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Movies more than I can remember.

Games, I went to launch of the Wii at the Nintendo Store in NYC. It sucked. Literally just stood on line in the freezing cold with a bunch of goons, they handed you bag after waiting for hours and then you left. That was it. Never again for a console launch.

However, SNES classic is a different situation, camping out is necessary which changes everything.

XxKrazyChaosxX posted...

Movies, plenty of times.

Also I camped out in front of Target for the Wii, does that count?
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No, but the closest was The World's End that was a Thursday evening thing instead of a midnight deal.
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Never for a video game, but many many movies.

Off the top of my head Green Lantern, Avengers, Dark Knight Rises, Harry Potter DH Part 2 (got home around 4 am that day), one of the Captain America movies, and some more I'm forgetting.
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Yup, last one I went to was for Skyrim. One of my friends who went with me didn't fucking preorder it so then all of us went through the line a second time because they weren't selling any copies until everyone that preordered got their copies. We give him shit about it to this day.
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the most recent one would be Wonder Woman
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Tons of movies.

Games- I think CoD MW3 with my buddy who was getting it.

WoW Catacylsm for sure.
Diablo 3
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I went into Walmart a few times at midnight to buy a game but never an actual "release." There were like 4 people there waiting for them to take it out as opposed to hundreds in line at Gamestop across the street...
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A few. For the release of one Call of Duty game Walmart had a tourney where if you won you ge thte game for free. I wasn't planning on buying the game and I won the tournament. I played it for at most 2 weeks. I also bought Uncharted 3 and never beat it.
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sabin017 posted...

Thursday evening thing instead of a midnight deal.

I'm so glad theaters started doing that instead having to actually wait until midnight.
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Back in the day for MW3
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Last two Harry Potter books. Good times

XxKrazyChaosxX posted...

sabin017 posted...

Thursday evening thing instead of a midnight deal.

I'm so glad theaters started doing that instead having to actually wait until midnight.

Yeah tbh, watching a movie at midnight was fun but by almost 2 am I would start to get tired and zone out.

Love going at 7pm

I don't think so. Sad!
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I went to a bunch of midnight releases at Nintendo World Store for a few games.

Pokemon XY: Took a short train ride from my college and got in line at 5:30 pm. It was supposed to be a pre-release event from 8 pm until 12 am. I guess I got in line way too late because I didn't end up getting to Rockefeller Center until 11:12 pm. There was a huge party going on at Rockefeller with tons of activities, music, Pokemon trivia, etc. I don't remember where I bought XY (Probably from the GameStop close to my college), but I bought a Fennekin plushie and an XY 3DS case while I was there. I streetpassed TheJWittz while I was on line too. I didn't know until a few years later, but apparently official Pokemon staff filmed the lines and the party and included them in an official Pokemon special episode, I think it was the Pokemon XY: New Years Special.

Smash Bros 3DS: I pre-ordered SSB 3DS at my local GameStop, so I went to the midnight release fully knowing I'm not buying the game there and I'm just there for the free merchandise. This midnight release didn't go as well as I expected, they ran out of Smash merch early in the line and I was on the corner of 6th and 49th. I guess it was good just for the experience.

Pokemon Sun/Moon: My Thursday night class got canceled that day conveniently, so I was able to go to Nintendo NY earlier than I expected. Got there around 6 pm for a midnight release. Wasn't as good as the XY release, but we still got some merch on line. Everyone was given a set of these starters in the picture here, and we got some free posters, lanyards and pins too. I had pre-ordered Sun and Moon the month before while I was in New York for the Game Grumps live show, so I got the double pack of SM which had two codes for 100 Poke Balls each.



I'm going back to Nintendo NY for the midnight release of Ultra SM too.
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Been to maybe two or three my whole life for games. I went for RE7 a few months back. Never been to a movie at midnight, I watch them either when they're nearly ending their theatrical run or when they're out on Blu-Ray

The last midnight release I went to was GTA 4. I installed the game, played for five minutes and went to bed. I also went to the midnight release for Star Wars Episode 3 and The Dark Knight. Someone called in a bomb threat and we had to leave after the bank heist.
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Went to midnight release for a few pokemon games and a few Madden's
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Just one for a ps2.
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fan357 posted...

The Dark Knight. Someone called in a bomb threat and we had to leave after the bank heist.

You saw TDK in 4D?

Only for the Switch because I work at Walmart.
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