Black Friday and Cyber Monday (and Regular Sunday and Jewish-Sabbath Saturday in between) are almost upon us which means only one thing: It's time to heed Jim Cramer's advice and buy, buy, buy a fiscally irresponsible amount of videogames. After all, you've had a hard year, and all your cool friends are buying the latest, greatest -- well, at least the latest -- new games, and you've gotta fit in. But there's a fine line between being thrifty and plain old dumb with your money.
The good news, though, is that game developers know most customers don't care about that line, which is why they have embraced rolling out so-called "Collector's Editions" of their most anticipated titles. How exactly does one tell a Collector's Edition from the regular game? Well, if your game box is made out of vibranium alloy, contains a soundtrack CD, a cloth map, or some temporary tattoos, you may have purchased a Collector's Edition. This was likely very expensive. For a more concrete example, look no further than this $10,000 version of Fallout 3. Yes, 10,000 dollars. In bottle caps, that's almost enough money to afford the special chartreuse Nuka-Cola from the game.
To help you more wisely spend your holiday dollars, we, licensed doctors of capitalism-ology, are shining that little light thing doctors use to look in your ear on the types of extravagant, gussied-up, over-the-top editions of games you should probably skip.
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