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Six Year Old Gets GameCube as First Prize

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Perth's St John's Shopping Centre recently ran a competition called "Young Jones and the Temple of Lost Treasures" which saw local kiddies chasing around the place getting high street brands seared into their brains... whoops... looking for treasure.

See, loosely tied into the Indiana Jones movie of late.

The winner - according to the shopping centre - was "Young Jamie McNair, 6, from Auchterarder" - crazy name, crazy town. Anyway, fresh-faced young Jamie saw his name "pulled out of the hat by his namesake, and St John's Shopping Centre's Administrator, Jamie Nie!" No freaking way?!

And his prize... "The prize, a Nintendo Gamecube, was won after Jamie completed his treasure hunt entry for Indy's lost items, which were hidden inside retailer windows in the St John's Shopping Centre."
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GodsHand - 540 days 10 hours ago
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Better then nothing for his efforts. Maybe I can send the kid my old Gamecube games.
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TheRocker9122 - 540 days 10 hours ago
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1 - Really...
Give the kid a Wii at least..
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XBOX 360 - 540 days 10 hours ago
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Same thing. :p
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Tomdc - 540 days 7 hours ago
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lame story lol
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1.3 Chris Bosh | 540 days 1 hour ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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lessthanmarcus - 539 days 21 hours ago
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..................BAAAHAHAHAHA HAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAH
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Gandhi Man - 540 days 10 hours ago
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And it was a Used one at that.
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Old Snake - 540 days 10 hours ago
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How is this news?
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Vip3r - 540 days 10 hours ago
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/gobsmacked.
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BrianC6234 - 540 days 9 hours ago
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There should be a law against that. Isn't that considered cruelty giving a hunk of junk to a six year old as a prize?
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AclayPS3 - 540 days 9 hours ago
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Ha ha! The Gamecube has been dead for so long I almost forgot about the poor thing. They should have at least gave him a PS2 or a Wii at least.
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kosha - 540 days 9 hours ago
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Lol gutted, can you even buy gamecube games anymore. I suppose she could probally find some on ebay.
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Fanboy Slaughter - 540 days 9 hours ago
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Gamecubes currently sell at GS and EB for $30. Half of their games are more expensive than the system:

SSBM: $35
Zelda Twilight Princess: $45
Resident Evils 2 and 3: $45 each
and many others.

Wow, talk about a slap in the face. I mean, I know he's six and all, it sounded like they were from either UK or Australia, but nevertheless give the poor kid a Wii at least for his efforts.
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SPOnG - 540 days 8 hours ago
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9.1 - Perth Scotland
Sorry, my bad Fanboy Slaughter - the shopping centre is in Scotland not Western Australia.

Cheers
Tim SPOnG
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Fanboy Slaughter - 539 days 21 hours ago
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Thanks SPOnG, I always appreciate a good, polite correction.

Bubbles for you.
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DX F3NIX - 540 days 9 hours ago
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wow a mall that charges a lot to its customers to shop gave the little kid a freaking gamecube. i agree with everybody else they should atleast gave him a ps2 or wii or hell even a 360(there are rumors that theres a price drop) give the kid something that he will play for years to come.
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Pornlord - 540 days 8 hours ago
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Gamecube is a great little system, just hook the kid up with Ocarina of time, and see if he beats it before he's 10.
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Strife Lives - 540 days 7 hours ago
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. . . .wow. . .im shocked. . . n4g. . .this is news. This shouldnt be on N4G,more like The Daily Show.
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dieubussy - 540 days 6 hours ago
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14 - Funny article
This is a great article, I mean it is so bad it somehow became good to read. This may have happened because the person who took care of the prizes didn't know about videogame consoles and the present market. So they found an cheap Nintendo console and thought it was OK?

I say a gamecube is a very good prize for a kid, the games are sold cheap in stores, there's a lot of variety and the console is really easy to work with for a 6-year old.
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XxCYONIDExX - 540 days 5 hours ago
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Whatever keeps this kid off of online play I'm all for it.
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Gerard Way - 540 days 4 hours ago
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Well said master fred. Maybe PSN AND XBL should disable voice functions for child accounts. My buddy Evan locks up kiddie accounts all the time at work. He'll warn them, asking them to tone down or he'll suspend them for 3 days. They NEVER learn. lol.
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David Hasselhoff - 540 days 3 hours ago
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Even a PSP would have been better than an outdated Gamecube.
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RebornSpy - 540 days 3 hours ago
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17 - Lame prize...
You can get a Gamecube nowadays for like 30 dollars... If they want to give the kid a last gen console, they should just give him a PS2 or an Xbox. They must have spent their budget on the event, with little left over for the prizes.
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ASSASSYN 36o - 540 days 3 hours ago
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He got pwned.
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Teh-Venom - 540 days 3 hours ago
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super pwnd!! i wish there was a picture of the kid holding his gamecube.
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ChampIDC - 539 days 11 hours ago
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There is a picture of him holding it after the jump. He looks pretty happy actually.
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TheDeadMetalhead - 540 days 3 hours ago
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19 - Sad...
What are his parents going to tell him when he says "where are the new games, mommy?". And they will all cry. DAMN YOU MALL OF EVIL!!! lol.

Seriously, though. A GAMECUBE!? Nobody loves children. I'm serious. :(
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Jim Crowslaw - 540 days 3 hours ago
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how cute
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Perverted - 540 days ago
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Well the kid had funr unning around, beat his brother and wins a free console...not that bad...The GC was a great wee console.
Give him Zelda and SSBM and he's a winner.
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The-Only-Truth - 540 days ago
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Someone should tell Little Jimmy that he got ripped off badly...

Poor boy...
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dappaute - 539 days 23 hours ago
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how did this get approved seriously?
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drdistracto707 - 539 days 22 hours ago
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whats the point of this, its just boring!
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Peow - 539 days 20 hours ago
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I still play my gamecube. Phantasy Star is my favorite game, and my dreamcast broke so I'm stuck with the GC version :P.
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ghost-mutation - 539 days 18 hours ago
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Reminds me of my friend who sold his ps2 to buy a gamecube. That exchange took place this year after he sold his 360 to buy a used off-brand guitar which fell apart 2 weeks ago.
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lynta - 539 days 12 hours ago
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27 - OMG OMG ROFL LOL
HAHAHAHAHHAABBAHAHAHAHAHAAABAB A LOLOLOLOLOL MAN POOR KID BAHAHAHA

they could probably not get a hold of a wii.

but still OMG OMG ROFL LOL
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