Man, I love these stories of winning games.
Me too! Not Turbo related, but I'll share a story.
I was a huge fan of the Saturn, and I was eagerly anticipating the release of the Dreamcast. At the time I was 19 or so, working a low paying job but still living at home, so one day I just decided I wanted to play Virtua Fighter 3 so I drove to Raleigh which had the nearest import shop, asked them how much a Japanese DC was, and bought it and Virtua Fighter. A week later Sonic Adventure came out, so I also got it and a few other games.
Fast forward to 9/9/99, I was working at Best Buy now in the PC department, but was excited to see the US DC launch first hand. I lent my first hand knowledge to staff and customers since I had been playing it all along. I thought about buying a US system, but I was only part time now so I didn't want to waste $200 on a duplicate system, and I figured it was a matter of time before someone figured out how to bypass the region lock.
In December, someone had figured out a really ghetto method that worked, so I was having my system modded, I dropped it off on a Friday. On Sunday, there was a special friends and family thing for Christmas at BB where employees got all kinds of specials, there was a party, it was cool. One of the things they did was have a raffle for a Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure, $1.00 per ticket with the proceeds going to charity. I wasn't going to participate, since I didn't need one, but a coworker friend was really excited and wanted one, and convinced me to buy two tickets 10 minutes before the drawing.
Now here we were, standing in a circle as the store manager drew a name. Lots of the young guys wanted the system the couldn't afford. A lot of the older people wanted it for their children for Christmas. Me, I'm just happy to see excitement over Sega's latest console.
Naturally, the name that was drawn was my own.
I was the most hated person in Best Buy that night. I did enjoy playing Sonic Adventure in English, finally! A few months later I was strapped for cash and needing to pay a bill, so I sold the DC to that excited friend for $70 since that was all he could afford, but was enough to pay my bill.
