There is blissful fantasy. Then there is the harshness of reality. Rarely shall the twain ever meet. This example is by no means an exception to the rule. I speak, of course, of my recent purchase of an Xbox 360 Core pack.
Fantasy: Purchase the Xbox 360 at a bargain basement price along with all the trimmings.
Reality: Purchase the Xbox 360 at an unprecedented low price (for the local area anyway), though still not worthy of a parade of pigmy elephants. Trimmings are very minimal - an extra controller (a must have really, though it was wireless) and a VGA video cable (excellent buy).
Fantasy: Buy a large handful of stellar titles to waste away days of your free time until you pass out from exhaustion.
Reality: Buy a small handful of cheap, nice-but-past-their-prime titles and waste away hours of your free time until you get bored and move onto something else.
Fantasy: Buy a hard drive to vamp up your bargain console to the class of the Pro pack.
Reality: Buy a memory card at RRP (really rip-off pricing) and keep the console well within the Core pack class.
Fantasy: Buy a new copy of Halo 2, along with other classic Xbox games and play for hours on end.
Reality: Buy a second hand copy of Halo 2, find out that you should have spent the extra on a hard drive instead of the memory card (you cannot play it without one) and then wipe the sweat from your brow when you realised you've dodged a bullet by limiting your original Xbox game purchase to a single title.
Fantasy: Go overseas to Hong Kong or Japan to purchase desired Xbox 360 accessories at real cheap prices.
Reality: To be continued....
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