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| Closed Gaming Store memories. Which defunct game store do you miss most? |
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| shfan:
--- Quote from: pizzasafari on December 23, 2017, 08:45:14 pm ---Gamestation! They were great. Their prices were really low and they always had a vibe of being passionate about games. After Gamestation went under all of its stores were replaced with Game, who are overpriced as balls and their staff talk like politicians. Christ. --- End quote --- This, definitely, picked up so many cheap games for older systems from these guys, I'm pleased GAME are still going at least, but I rarely have any cause to buy games from them (too expensive). |
| undertakerprime:
My local mall had both a Babbage’s and Software Etc in the mid 90’s, around the time I started buying my own games. Both chains were bought by a holding company and they didn’t want to compete against themselves in the same mall, so Babbage’s closed. One of my first jobs was at that Software Etc. A big perk was we could “check out” games, meaning we could take them home and try them out. Then we’d use the shrink-wrap machine in the back to wrap the game back up like new :) Occasionally local Atlanta sports stars came in. I also got to meet the pro wrestler Raven when he came to the store to promote ECW Anarchy Rules. The midnight Dreamcast launch happened while I worked there, but fortunately I wasn’t working that night :) I actually kinda liked working there. I didn’t have any Funcoland stores around me, but when we went to Minnesota on vacation I would buy things from the Funcoland stores there. I also fondly remember the big 2-page ads for Funcoland in game magazines, and they would have a huge price list for all these old games. Actually, I think that’s how I got some of my games, like Ninja Gaiden Trilogy and Dracula X, by mail-ordering them from Funcoland. |
| Warmsignal:
Well, I suppose the main store we had was Software Etc. I have to be honest though, in admitting that I didn't even realize they sold console games. I can't tell you why, but I never occurred to me. I went in their mainly to look at PC games back in the day, and never browsed the store enough to even realize they had console games too. Crazy, but true. That location is now a GameStop, it was converted after the buyout. But on a similar note, a lot of my game shopping did take place at now defunct store, if not game stores specifically. KB Toys of course, always looked at the games and bought from there, including my original Dreamcast console which I still own today. Department stores were another major source of video games for many towns which didn't have specialty retailers around to buy games from. We shopped and bought many of our games from Kmart back in the day, the very same location that is going to be shutting down this January in my town. We also bought games from Hill's (long gone), and Sears which just recently shut down. A lot of our game shopping was done at those places. |
| cirno:
I miss Blockbuster and the experience of renting games in general. Good, bad or just weird-I'd play whatever on the shelves just because I'd want something new to play, and I ended up discovering a lot of new series I liked through that, and since it was obviously cheaper than outright buying the original game I got to try new things much more often. Nowadays I know what something is before I buy it and while of course it's a good thing to not waste money on bad games, that sense of discovery is kind of lost. |
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