Tip #7 get drunk!! In all seriousness though I'm quite lucky. The local game store opens for midnight releases regularly even though I live in a fairly small town. Even on big launches there's usually just a few dozen of us and we all pretty much know each other. They have a great system in place too, you go into store and pay for what you want during the day, they bag it up and staple a numbered ticket to it. You bugger off to the pub, come back inebriated at midnight and wait for them to call your number, go in, pick up bag and stumble toward home usually stopping for a kebab or pizza on the way. However, I'm missing midnight launch this time and I won't lie, I'm a bit gutted. It's like a ritual, it only happens a few times a year.