Ah. Thought it was additional memory chips or extension cards or something since the ROM is probably bigger than most others since it's a big RPG and everything.

@DJ: Holy cow, that's a lot of games recently .
@Juju: Great pickup! <3 that game.

Yeah Juju I remember that the N64 Ocarina of time was a particularly heavy cartridge. I have a bunch of N64 games and none of them are even close to as heavy as Zelda.

@Art yeah, although a bunch were bought a few weeks ago, some others last week and the rest a few days ago. A few others were ordered a few weeks ago online. I just didn't post about them yet.

I wish I lived in the Netherland because games seems much cheaper there . Over here, Metroid Fusion is like $20-40 and I think I saw a copy of Metroid Prime for $70 once. They might just be in higher demand here, though, or maybe you got games translated in Dutch? (non-English/French classics tend to be cheaper because they aren't as much in demand)

Ah ok. Over here, from 1993 to 1999, every game manual were only available in English, despite Quebec province being mostly Francophone, and the only two bilingual games that came out before 2004 or so were Super Hockey (called NHL Stanley Cup here) and Diddy Kong Racing. The only unilingual French console game I ever saw in Quebec was Zelda: A Link to the Past and the Halo series. I think local laws changed afterward, though, because almost every Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii games have options to switch to French subs or even dubs. The ones that don't have such option still have French instructions most of the time and stores now warn customers that the game is in English. From 1985 to 1992, instructions were also both in French and English for NES and SNES games.

Well, for games themselves, back when they were on cartridges with limited memory I guess they didn't deemed important to translate games in French just for Québec for American releases, but some games did get translated, like Super Mario 64 which had a language choice in European releases IIRC. It's kinda weird, I own a English-only copy while I have a friend who got his in French. But now that all the games are on CDs, the developers can do what they want and only worry for NTSC/PAL issues.

Rom size was not always a problem. Some genesis games packed the english and japanese text in one rom. It detected the region of the console and showed the corresponding language. Streets of rage has that.

That's not a video game pickup, but close enough. Got an Intel Celeron D 2.66 GHz for only $20.

That's not a video game pickup, but close enough. Got an Intel Celeron D 2.66 GHz for only $20.

At least if it runs XP or lower now you can install Starcraft Brood War without having to download a 1.2 GB file and your graphic card has better chances to run it without stuttering. (the game runs slightly slower on newer computers)

Also I got UN Squadron for SNES and some rather strange NES game called Athena. I saw Valkyrie Profile for the PS1 as well but it was $139.99 >.<.