Star*Cade, Heritage Park Mall’s arcade closed its doors at the beginning of this month. Today, the owners auctioned off their remaining stock (games). Auctions like this are bittersweet — while you hate to see a family-owned arcade (or any arcade, for that matter) go out of business, their loss typically means cheap games for me.

Dirt Dash was my only purchase of the day. To tell the truth I didn’t even want the game, but no one else was bidding on it so I got it pretty inexpensively. It’s got some minor steering issues which I’ll take care of this week. I haven’t decided if this is a keeper or a seller yet. A lot of that depends on if it’ll fit through my own arcade’s door. This game is big, and heavy.