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I went to the Fred Meyer's store (A West Coast department store chain) yesterday, and when I was in the electronics section, I saw something strange. I always stop by their little DreamCast graveyard <IMG SRC="smilies/frown.gif" border="0"> and see what they have left. It has been dwindling more and more of late.
As I was approaching, I saw several stacks of cubical boxes, long flat rectangular boxes, and square flat boxes. They were your basic cardboard brown with diagonal dull yellow stripes running around them. There were no labels on any of them, and no writing. I noticed that they were of approximately the same size as various DreamCast peripheral boxes (keyboard, controller, mouse, VMU, etc.). They were placed respectively over new price labels for these items.
I opened one up, since they were just closed by folding cardboard tabs, and sure enough, the contents of the boxes matched the price labels. Did SEGA not want to print up any more boxes for their product, and then decide to just dump their remaining stock in some generic cardboard boxes and get rid of it by selling it to the Eskimos or something?
Oh, yeah. One other thing. There was one box that was more cubical that the others, and it was on the top shelf shoved to the back. No price label on the shelf. I thought it might be a DreamCast console. I got it down and opened it. What was inside?
Well, let me just say that the box contained some items that I thought had only been sold through SEGA's website, and that those of you without Maraca's to play Samba De Amigo are really going to hate me now. <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">
[ December 18, 2001: Message edited by: BioMotor_Unitron ]
As I was approaching, I saw several stacks of cubical boxes, long flat rectangular boxes, and square flat boxes. They were your basic cardboard brown with diagonal dull yellow stripes running around them. There were no labels on any of them, and no writing. I noticed that they were of approximately the same size as various DreamCast peripheral boxes (keyboard, controller, mouse, VMU, etc.). They were placed respectively over new price labels for these items.
I opened one up, since they were just closed by folding cardboard tabs, and sure enough, the contents of the boxes matched the price labels. Did SEGA not want to print up any more boxes for their product, and then decide to just dump their remaining stock in some generic cardboard boxes and get rid of it by selling it to the Eskimos or something?
Oh, yeah. One other thing. There was one box that was more cubical that the others, and it was on the top shelf shoved to the back. No price label on the shelf. I thought it might be a DreamCast console. I got it down and opened it. What was inside?
Well, let me just say that the box contained some items that I thought had only been sold through SEGA's website, and that those of you without Maraca's to play Samba De Amigo are really going to hate me now. <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">
[ December 18, 2001: Message edited by: BioMotor_Unitron ]
