99 Cent Trends

It has been a while since I found anything good at the 99 Cent Only Store in the way of old media. I have cried before in these pages about the death of the cheap Public Domain cartoon DVD.

Yesterday I found only one new/old cartoon disk. And a lot of the stuff on the disk I already have. The only new/old things on the disk for me were Friz Freleng`s Sports Chumpions, a weird almost animated toon called the Invisible Moustache of Raoul Duffy and a New Three Stooges. New Three Stooges always make me sad with over the hill live action mixed with bad animation.



Other new trends have popped in the 99-Cent racks. Game software seems to be the new trend of the day. I picked up a very nice port of Millipede. I spent so much money of this game in the arcades it is nice to have it back on my computer even if I don`t have a track ball. Nicely the port is playable from disk without need for install. I will be trying out more of the Atari ports when I get a chance. Millipede runs like a charm.



The other trend is straight to the cutout rack failed games. In the case of the Nitro Family PC shooter it is more like a self installed virus that locks up the system, changes the desktop, and tries to call the Internet without first asking permission. At 99 cents I paid too much for this dog. I will not be trying more of these.