$18 at EB Games Australia
Researched, not tested. How we choose.
Opens EB Games Australia’s site in a new tab. You buy from them, at their price. Small parcel, express post, dispatch within 1 to 2 business days, longer in busy periods, then 2 to 7 business days after shipping. Returns: 7 days from the day you buy it, not the day Dad opens it. Buy this within a fortnight of the occasion or the window closes before the wrapping does.
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The dad who can still describe the first time he saw the Halo ring curve up into the sky
Preowned original Xbox shooter released in 2001, rated MA15+. The listing notes the preowned game may lack original packaging and manual.
Eighteen dollars for the actual 2001 disc on original Xbox hardware, not a remaster with the edges sanded off. It is a small gift with a precise date attached to it, which beats a generic retro present at the same money.
Dispatch and transit are separate windows and the estimate on a product page is usually only the second one. How long Australia Post actually takes.
7 days from the day you buy it, not the day Dad opens it. Buy this within a fortnight of the occasion or the window closes before the wrapping does.
Brand new and resalable, unworn, unused, unassembled, original packaging. Excludes gift cards, digital products, opened hardware, headsets, accessories and furniture.
A faulty, unsafe or misdescribed product carries a consumer guarantee no store policy can remove. EB Games Australia’s full terms.
EB Games Australia’s delivery and returns pages were read on 3 September 2026. Policies change without notice; theirs at checkout is the one that binds.
One reading so far. We record every change from here, so a sale price later in the year can be measured against this one rather than against whatever a retailer says it used to cost. Why that matters.
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The dad whose first LAN party was Halo on a borrowed Xbox and a borrowed television
The dad whose Rainbow Road record is still a contested matter of family record
The dad who was Sega in a street full of Nintendo kids and has never once conceded the argument
The dad who still argues that GoldenEye split-screen has never been bettered
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Two or three emails a year. Not a newsletter.
