Bugger!

I promised the wife I wouldn’t spend any more money, after having gone a little mad on Electronics since Christmas (HD TV, HD DVD, Xbox 360), but there is a new game out on Friday for the 360 that we really need to buy.

When you own a games console you need (are almost required by law) to purchase at least one game from all genres. We have a racing game (PGR3), Tomb Raider will be our adventure game, Halo is acting as our FPS (first person shooter) until a respectable 360 specific game is released, so what we are missing is a fighting game.

These are great to pick up and kick some arse for 10 mins and then put down, especially when you get back from the pub.

We do have an excellent fighting game, Mortal Kombat, but it won’t work on the new 360 as they haven’t released a software emulator to get it working. So there lays the problem, how do I purchase Dead or Alive 4 on Friday?

Options I have so far:

Buy it and say, “No honey it’s not new, I’ve had it hanging in the wardrobe for years”
Buy it as an early Birthday present for one of children (11th March is the next one)
Buy it and say I’ve borrowed it of Paulie B.
Buy it and only play it when no one is around.
Exchange some of the games that we don’t use (Doom 3, King Kong) and get money off Dead or Alive4, (technically this is still buying it)

Or the wife’s favourite, don’t buy it; “We can’t afford to splash out £45 quid on a game we don’t need, when we can’t afford to live on what we have as it is.” But that’s just crazy drunk talk, bitch.

If any one has suggestions or ideas, or spare cash?