/vr/ - Retro Games

As far back as I can remember you never saw many actual games on shelves. They were either behind glass at the checkout counter or you got a slip of paper like at Toys R Us and exchanged that for the game.

The only time I remember seeing new games just left out for purchase is when a console was being discontinued and you'd see a bin filled with the same five shitty games.

>>5606825
that looks like a hipster turd trap made to mimick japanese stores, but not in a good manner.

But yeah anon, i do Missed Toys R Us

>>5606825
The had everything from DOS-ROMs to Sega System apps.

>>5606825
>Don't you miss the old video game malls?
Absolutely not, no. I don't understand how anyone who actually lived through this and then later on discovered the modern miracle of all those games and more getting transferred to a purely digital state and released all over the public internet would ever look back at that and miss it. If you asked me as a kid if I'd like to have any game I want, instantly, just by typing some keys on a computer but in exchange all physical video game stores will spontaneously catch fire and never get rebuilt after it wouldn't even be worth a second of deliberation.

>>5606825
Yes

yes, but mine looked more like this

>>5607279
That store sold Sega System apps as well as DOS-ROMs.

>>5607279
>blurring out the ads

I miss some old videogame stores. I used to visit a videogame store that had arcade cabinets on it. There's no arcades in my city, very few places that sell any retro stuff (also pricey and in awful condition, of course) and we only have those shitty GAME stores. Being a yuropean is suffering.

>>5606825

tfw live in Asia and we still have these all over the place.

>>5606868
That's at Pink Gorilla in Seattle, so yes.

>>5606834
I had two local shops and both of them had one dummy copy of each game on the shelf, and the owner would get a fresh copy from the back room once you paid. I don't know why you'd need multiple copies of each on display, especially if you're paying full price for a boxed game that's already scuffed and damaged (most cases were cardboard).

>>5606825
>video game malls
Dude, you are literally the only person in the wold, zoomer or otherwise, that uses that term. Whatever you want to call it I don't miss them because we still have plenty of them here. We still have Toys R Us so I don't miss that either.

>>5607279
loved when the local EBs started selling a lot of toys including some import stuff, I remember buying Evangelion figures in one

also buying anime across the mall at Suncoast, I miss the smell of the tapes brah

>>5608752
I miss that too, don't think any electronics or game retailer does it like that anymore. I miss buying Duke Nukem and Diablo figures at Best Buy, or McFarlane figs at game stores. Probably gone for good.