"It takes a special kind of person to stay up all night and stand in a line nearly 250 people long just to buy a video game -- but for rabid fans of the first Halo on the Xbox video game console, it was well worth the wait to buy the new Halo 2," reports Reuters from Los Angeles.
There are many similar reports of midnight queues for Halo in papers across the US and Canada, with New York getting the most coverage. The Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, says:
"This is the biggest video game launch of all time," said Tim Cerny, assistant manager of Electronics Boutique at The Marketplace mall. "We've never had people willing to get here in the middle of the night and stand out in the cold for a game."
But that's what they did. More than 300 people waited in line for hours for the alien-shoot-'em-up-video-game to go on sale a tick after midnight Tuesday morning. Fans started to line up outside the mall at 9:30pm Monday. The last customer received a copy about 3am Tuesday.
There are also numerous reviews like these in The Globe & Mail and the New York Post.
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