W-T-T, first off, forget the $1 deal. I\'d bet that was a deal between a bud and Live, not a retail price (Live, feel free to correct me if I\'m wrong).
Since MGS is now part of Sony\'s Greatest Hits lineup, you should be able to purchase it for around $19.99US or less full retail pretty much anywhere. If you check out the previously played section of EB or Babbages, you should find it for around $15.00US or less.
Now, regarding MGS...however you buy it...buy it! Period. If you\'ve never played this game before, then your in for a treat & you don\'t need to be wasting your time & effort over a buck or two savings when you could be playing one of the finest designed & thoughtout games ever to grace a home console.
Remember this, however. One day you will purchase a PS2. When you DO, promise yourself you will remember to pull out your "old" copy of MGS and set the "smoothing" feature on on the PS2. No matter how many times you might have played MGS on your PSX by that time, seeing what the PS2 can do to the MGS graphics (with the smoothing feature turned on), your jaw will simply drop.
- w1ngman
PS. Yeah, MGS:SOL will be out for PS2 down the road & will blow MGS for PSX away,...but the fact is, MGS offers itself up as one of the best PSX games to show off the smoothing feature on the PS2...