Halo ODST has been anticipated for a long time. I never preordered it from anywhere, but I knew that as soon as it hit the shelves I was going to buy it. A friend of mine told me that Gamestop was having a midnight release sale of the game. I had a plan to go get it at my nearest one. I left out an hour and a half before midnight and headed to Gamestop. Detoured to Wal-Mart, which was next door, just to kill time until the release. I kinda figured Wal-Mart would release the game around that time too, or well a 24 hour one. While at Wal-Mart I met a man named Joe, he asked me if there was anything he could help me with. I explained I was waiting until ODST's release. Joe told me that they couldn't release anything like that until midnight. Joe is this night shift electronics department guy, almost 4 foot tall, 50ish year old computer illiterate, trek obsessed geek. I educated him about laptops, listened to his stories about Star Trek and learned of his triple bypass surgery. I ended up talking to this guy for the better part of an hour about Star Trek and electronics.

  Midnight came and I had brought up the ODST and the fact that I was going to get it at Gamestop shortly. Joe looked through his bin of things to release onto the shelves and it wasn't there. I thanked him and said goodbye on my way to Gamestop next door. I expected there to be a croud waiting to purchase the game. There wasn't but a teen with his parents and about 6 Gamestop employees. I got the game, said no to the year warranty and proceeded to go home and start playing.