/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4649524
If you still have one near you, better check it out and buy it out now.

The one in Manhattan near Astor Place has no vidya iirc

>>4649524
the last time I was in Kmart was to buy TMNT arcade game for the NES the day it was released. I always hated going to that store with my mom because I always had to take a shit in there. I don't know why. Just did.

>>4649524
Last time I was in a Kmart, they didn't even have video game cabinets anymore.

>>4649524

i highly doubt it. maybe there were a couple of copies of Fifa 2005 for psx in a kohls in the middle of nowhere

About 2 years ago I found a brand new paddle controller for the Atari 2600 in a clearance bin at a K-Mart. I was kind of shocked, shit must've been lost in the back room for decades.

>>4649619
That sounds about right. I wonder if they don't have any Madonna cassettes in the back as well.

>>4649524
>i've some people claiming internet r tru ohhaiguise
Back to your containment board sport

>>4649524
Kmart officially removed Video games from all stores in late 2015/ early 2016. After that they proceeded to further eliminate the electronics depts to be a shadow of what they were.

Whoever told you lied or was talking about the mid 2000s.

The KMart near me has new DC games. I was there last week. Nothing very good but they have a few copies of tomb raider/sonic adventure/crazy taxi

I went to Kmart a few years ago and found games over a decade old, but not PSX games.

Some of the PC games were over 15 years old, including a map pack for Age of Empires 1.

>>4649543
Bro. I thought it was just me. I've never not taken a shit in Half-Price Books. There's just something about it, the moment I step foot in there I've gotta shit. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

The last new old stock I managed to find was 3-4 years ago at Walmart. They had a new PS2 controller for $16 on clearance and I had to snatch that bitch.

I went into costco in like 2007 and they had a single spindle full of sealed castlevania: symphony of the night's/ resident evil's etc for 10 dollars each

I could only get my mom to buy me one though so I chose resident evil I knew what i was letting go, but I wanted resident evil badly.

>>4649524
I saw Total Annihilation in a Big Lots about ten years ago.

Best I can offer is that last year the Micro Center around me was unloading some sealed copies of Risk/Battleship/Clue for GBA for 3 bucks a pop. I like Battleship so I bought one.

>>4649661
Shut the fuck up you stupid elitist newfaggot bastard!

>>4649787
If that is actually true, I'd pay you for a copy of each.

The last time I saw something like this was a few years ago when a walmart near me lined an entire shelf full of new GTA Collections for the PS2. At least a dozen of them. Now the oldest stuff I see is the occasional licensed DS game

>>4652019
not worth it after shipping. you can get it for the same price on ebay. sonic adventure sealed for example is still only like 50 bucks on ebay. you might save a few bucks at kmart but nothing worth the hassle of shipping

>>4652048
What? How much are they charging at the K-Mart?

>>4652053
i don't know, i guess you would save a few bucks but still not really worth it.

>>4649793
I always liked to piss at the HPB I went too. The manga and clearance DVD section was in front of the bathroom. Must have been an omen.

>>4649524
2 years ago I found Beyond Good and Evil for PC at Sears. And the PS2 GTA games at Walmart.

>>4652031
I think that may actually be in print still. The Walmart in my town also has copies of it. One day I went and they were finally gone and then when I went back a couple weeks later and there was a brand new row of them.

>>4649845
I found Total Annihilation: Kingdoms at a Dollar Tree once.

>>4653708
They had 3rd party N64 memory cards and PSP movies at other times.

>>4652148
It costs three dollars to send a CD in the mail (in the US). Unless they are literally charging the original price for 20 year old games, it would be way, way cheaper to ship them.

Around 1998 I found a really beat up box for the power glove. There was a pile of pricing stickers on it finally marked down to $20. Got my mom to buy it for me. Piece of shit broke after 2 plays.

I visited the US and saw some sealed PS2 games in a WalMart, usually that type of thing is taken off shelves in the UK unless it's preowned or an indie store.

>>4649524
does kmart still exist?

>>4649583
same thing happened to me in a toys r us back in 2003. had a bunch of ps1, dreamcast and n64 games on sale for 50 cents each

>be me
>about 5 years ago
>working at Kmart
>corporate orders us to tear down our gaming department
>manager tells me to pull everything out of the back, catalog it, and toss it in the trash compactor
>it's like I'm digging through time
>break through the PS3/Wii layer
>brand new PS2s, Xboxs, and Gamecubes in their original packing
>go deeper
>a mountain of PS1s plus games, even some Sega Saturns
>go deeper
>palettes full of SNES and Genesis consoles and peripherals
>go even deeper
>factory sealed Game Boys, Nintendo Entertainment Systems, even Ataris
>tell manager I'll buy everything for $100 bucks
>he says it has to be destroyed so corporate will refund the store the cost of the merchandise
>mfw I'm forced to throw it all in the compactor and hit the switch

>>4654359
This is bullshit but I believe it

>>4654359
True or not, this is a horror story.

>>4654359
>be me
>about 5 years ago
>working at Kmart
>corporate orders us to tear down our gaming department
>manager tells me to pull everything out of the back, catalog it, and toss it in the trash compactor
>it's like I'm digging through time
>break through the PS3/Wii layer
>brand new PS2s, Xboxs, and Gamecubes in their original packing
>go deeper
You were doing ok up to here.
>factory sealed Game Boys, Nintendo Entertainment Systems, even Ataris
This was the point where you crossed the believability line.

I worked at kmart ~3-5 years ago. Nothing was super old. Now they don't carry any games at all.

>>4649543
>>4649793
>>4653071
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariko_Aoki_phenomenon

>>4654359
No, god damn it.
I refuse to believe this shit.
YOU'RE A FUCKING LIAR
STOP LYING, ANON

@4656384

>>4654359
looks like I won't be sleeping tonight

>>4654359
If this is true you're a retard for not finding some way to bogart a few of those.

>>4649524
No but microcenter had sealed ps1 games 4 years ago

>>4656593
>you're a retard for not stealing property

Huh? And good luck stealthily stealing something like that anyways, do you know how big most console boxes were?

That said, he is a retard for not just offering to buy them all at full price if necessary since they could be resold at 10x that if they were brand new in box.

Also, it's obviously bullshit, but sadly stuff like this does happen.

>>4656607
>stealing property
>taking something that's going to be destroyed and the store is receiving money for anyway
Pick one retard

>>4656618
Good luck using that one in court, kiddo. Even digging through someone's trash is theft and the law is enforced as such, you know? Stores have rules like merchandise that can't be returned to the vendor has to be destroyed explicitly to prevent theft, not to mention all sorts of other legal issues associated with giving away free shit to employees and/or turning a blind eye to employees taking old merchandise home with them.

>>4649524
I remember finding a PS1 and games bundle at Sams club a few years ago. When I say few this may have been like 8-10 years ago.

>>4656628
> kiddo. Even digging through someone's trash is theft and the law is enforced as such, you know?
Actually, as long as it's on the curb and/or in a designated zone, it isn't.

>>4656638
Nope, still is. Ownership is not relinquished until it's picked up by garbage collection as per the contract you enter with the waste disposal service. Your property is your property regardless of where it is until you willfully transfer ownership. Your car parked on the street is still your car. The cash in your wallet dropped in a parking lot is still your cash. The trash in your trashcan on the curb is still your trash.

It's like I'm talking to a retarded teenager or something.

>>4656649
The only retard here is you. The Supreme Court ruled that is legal. Unless you live in some Eurostan shithole or maybe some municipality within a garbage state like California, it's perfectly allowed.

>>4656649
You're a fucking idiot.

>>4656649
>LOL DUDE IF YOUR CAR IS PARKED ON THE STREET IT'S THE SAME THING AS GARBAGE, THAT MEANS TRASH IS YOURS UNTIL THE GARBAGE MAN TAKES IT LOL RETARDED TEENAGER
Lmao, imagine being this much of a pseudo intellectual faggot and still being so wrong. News flash, a car with a title and owner is not the same thing as a dumpster you dumb piece of shit.

>>4656654
not to mention that if you don't park in a designated parking area, you can be towed by a private towing company, lol...

My local K-Mart (rip) had an Oddworld Abe's Odyssey Strategy guide magazine thing that I tucked away behind some other magazines in the magazine rack and I would just look at it every time I went there. Seriously from the time I was like 6 until I was 16 every time I went back there I'd find that strategy guide. I never bought it because I didn't want to end the streak but damn I wish I had.

Also, when I was 16 (2012) they were getting rid of most of their vidya stock and had a bin out of games. I got Viewtiful Joe 1 and 2 for gamecube for $25 total. Shit was so cash.

>>4656674
>when I was 16 (2012)
>Shit was so cash.
It's time for you to leave now.

>>4656676
How old are you?

>>4656681
>How old are you?
Not 16 in 2012 and using terms like "so cash", that's for sure.

>>4654359
this is obviously horseshit, so I'm going to tell a real story. the summer after I graduated high school back in 2010 I was working as a cart bitch at the local Kmart. this was in Michigan, which is Kmart central, and the store I was working at had been around since the seventies. however, the recession fucked everything as you may remember, and the store was on life support at that point. it would shutdown a few years later, just like almost every other Kmart.

according to the one manager I was cool with there, corporate was doing everything they could think of to get back into the green. the night crew was constantly having to move shelves around and rearrange departments in an attempt to modernize the shopping experience, a task which would prove futile. this in turn made stocking a pain in the ass, as you could come in one morning to find a completely new set of instructions for where to put what. Kmart was really struggling at that point, and you could feel it in the store itself.

anyway, one slow morning there wasn't really anything for me to do, and the other managers were getting ready to fire me at that point. they asked me to go around the store and sweep, which was just a "get the fuck out of my face right now" kind of job. I was ready to not work there at that point as well, so I was moving around the store lackadaisically. the toy section was in the corner of the store, and I noticed that the space between some of the shelves there was open. normally there are kiosks at the end of shelf aisles to close off the opening, but the night crew must have moved it and forgotten to replace it.

>>4656715
Go on...

>>4656390
Learn how to quote posts faggot

>>4656715
the space was really narrow and I couldn't really see inside, so I stuck my broom in and started pulling out dust bunnies. on maybe the third pass over, I hooked onto something heavier and pulled it ahead a little before it got stuck. I get down on my knees and stick my arm in and pull out a brand new, factory sealed, yellow Gameboy Color. the plastic wrap was a little beat up, and it was covered in dust, but it was still amazing to look at and hold in my hands, like a forgotten relic of my childhood. I'm not completely sure how it got there and remained undiscovered for what might have been a decade, but my guess is that it somehow got thrown between the shelves back when the video games were kept in the toy aisle, and the shelves must have stayed in that same exact spot since then.

the price tag on it was from an older barcode system than the one we were using, and the GBC had obviously long been discontinued at that point, so I wasn't sure what to do with it. I knew if I took it to a manager it was going to get wasted, either thrown away, sent to a warehouse, or pocketed by the fucker himself. I really considered putting it back and letting it sit in the darkness until the store close. but in the end I just stole it. I put it in my dustpan, then in a bag with some shredded paper, and finally outside, where I hid it until I could throw it in my car during my break. I got fired a few weeks later because I was just a bad worker in general, but as far as I know, nobody knew about the GBC. I took it with me to college when I left that Autumn, and then traded it for oxycodone in 2013. I really regret doing that. sometimes when I visit my parents I drive out by that Kmart. the store is closed and abandoned now, but the sign is still hung up over the entrance.

>>4656735
Now this I believe... I worked in retail alot in my 20s and did see shit similar to this... Not video game related stuff but other merch that was long since discontinued that would get knocked back behind, under or inside shelving and would be found later when the store would be rearranged or whatever. You did the right thing as it surely would have been trashed or taken by your boss.

You shouldn't have traded it for oxys though. I love pain killers too but that's a real shame.

>>4649524
How recent is that pic?

As someone who last went to my local Kmart about a year ago (a few months before it closed), no. They don't have old video games. The oldest games I remember seeing were some Wii and 360 games. For the most part, they had current gen shit.

>>4656842
I would assume 2009 or early 2010 since that's when Guitar Hero 5 came out.

The last time I was in a K-Mart was around 2000. I remember seeing an entire case of sealed NES games, mostly original runs of Metroid and Kid Icarus they never sold, along with a few of the black label launch games. What I'm really kicking myself for not picking up were all the copies of DuckTales 2 I could have had for $5 a pop.

Does anyone remember when KMart briefly dabbled as a low cost dial-up ISP? Apparently its still around with Netzero. Accelerated dialup for only $27.95 a month!
https://www.mybluelight.com/

>>4656685
2012 was 6 years ago grandpa

>>4656728
I was purposely refusing to give him (Yous), you dunderpate.

I saw some 720k 3.5" floppies in a Radio Shack in about 2001.

>>4657042
>2012 was 6 years ago grandpa
Which makes you a 22 year old spermling now, as previously explained. Time to go back.

Probably not, my Kmart just has an empty corner with a few DVDs and batteries where the big "electronics" sign is.

>>4649524
Is Sears like this? I'd imagine they have boxes and boxes of Atari 2600s stacked in backrooms collecting dust.