It's not really luck, we had a subscription to Nintendo Power for a long time The game looked amazing, I had to have it as soon as it was out...which was difficult back then, you couldn't just look up the release date online, or search different stores' websites to find out who actually had it in stock (because a few places we checked did not know what it was). I can't even remember where we did buy it.
I remember the day my friend came over, though. He had rented it a couple times from a grocery store, and that day he came over and said "Guess what I rented!" and I said "Guess what I BOUGHT!" He was floored.
NP also had this awesome looking game called Harvest Moon, but unfortunately, I never bought that one =/ A lot of games in that series are worth a bit of money, these days.
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I'll brave the storm to come, for it surely looks like rain...