/vr/ - Retro Games

You trying to bait me, Boy?

>>6011980
Why did you change your name Gramps?
I hear they're doing some major work under I70 downtown, glad I live up north

>>6011975
Bargain box is a disorganized mess of a store that rarely sells anything interesting, with prices too high anyways. Now warp zone in Columbus, that’s a retro game store

>>6011985
It hasn't stated yet. I don't even know which ramps they plan on closing. Probably 6th street off but I can't imagine which other one we could spare.

>>6011993
You're thinking of the old Bargain Box but I agree Warp Zone is a really cool place.

>>6012003
>>6011993
>>6011975
Anything else closer to Pennsylvania?

Classic game junkie in philly

Really cool store with fuckin anything you’d think of but it’s kinda sad that niggers swamp the place, try to steal empty cases and just throw it on the street outside when they realize nothings in it. Or just recently one swiped the donation jar towards children’s hospitals and just laughed and walked out calmly. Old man behind the counter is super nice and jokes around but is always STERN the first few minutes you are in the store/talk to him because you just gotta assume everyone is trying to steal in the diverse shithole that is Philadelphia.

>>6012027
What won't Niggers ruin? Between them and the Spics I can't tell which is more violent anymore.

>>6012003
Eh, I’ve been there in the last two months or so and it just doesn’t offer much I think, they have some rare nes games, but they’re really lacking For interesting stuff, like hardly any good genesis stuff, no master system, no Saturn, no tg-16, but if you’re only really interested in PlayStation and Nintendo then I guess they offer a good selection.

>>6011975
Closed up just this past month here in Whitewater. Level Up Games had a half decent selection, but I guess it just wasn't making the guy money like it used to and he wanted something that'd allow him to be with his kids more.
Now it's just some law office or some boring shit.

>>6012027
My spot is Game Fixx in Bucks County, NE Philly. Cramped place and a little disorganized, but no better spot when I'm looking for older stuff.

>>6011975
The only place near me finally went out of business earlier this year. As it turns out selling things above eBay prices isn’t a good model lol.

>>6012003
I took at look at the ODOT sheets, they want to close two whole thru streets off, i guess so the offramp traffic doesnt hit anyone. still dumb

>>6012068
Oh that makes sense desu those streets are barely streets where they go under the highway anyway and the way they come out at the bottom of the ramps is just asking for the few people who use them to be blasted by people coming off the highway too fast. So they're not actually changing any ramps then? Good.

Brick and Morter is dying and it's not just Used Game Stores. There's entire chains going out of business. Between Amazon and Violence nobody seems to want to go out shopping anymore.

How is anything supposed to stay in business now? Even the basic functions of advertising doesn't even seem to work anymore. How do you advertise to people who don't look at or listen to any mediums that traditional forms of advertisement would be on?

Even Facebook is dying.

>>6011975
Holy shit, Bargain Box in Zanesville in back? I used to visit that store all the time at the Colony Square Mall back in 2009/2010, but it's been closed down for several years now. There's literally nothing but a wall where the store used to be now.

>>6012086
how many zanesville people are there here, jesus. I remember this cute chubby redhead girl who used to work there around 2008, she always seemed tired or high

For me its GameDude, the largest video game store in the world.

>>6012085
Last paragraph is on point. I got rid of my cable, tv box and all subscriptions in 2017 after the mist. I pretty much only get my news from what’s on /pol/ or what’s on my email’s newspage.

I’m fucking tired of ((( ))) Everywhere.

>>6012093
I don't live in Zanesville, but Newark. The drive is always worth it though, even though there's a Bargain Box in Newark too. I wonder if it's run by the same people? It's nice, but I liked the Zaneville one better.

Yeah, I think her name was Melissa? She's a qt

>>6012059
Oooo I’m gonna have to go there next

What are they like for trade in deals? I like to offload any unplayed games each time I go to a place for the trade in store credit

have literally one of the last play n trades in the country and it happens to be shit

>>6012101
oh shit thats it. Last time I was there I didnt see her, Id imagine shes long gone now.
When I went in 2016 I remeber they had a oddly big collection of laserdiscs. But the game selection was weak

>>6012103
To be honest, I never do trades there, but I can't imagine it being much better than a GameStop. If I'm trading, it's more to unload old stuff than to get trade-in credit for it

>>6011975
There used to be several, peaking around 2007. The last one shut down in 2018. A lot of people in our area drive to a place about 20-30 miles away. That one is still pretty cool and has a genuinely decent selection.

The Arcade Legacy down the road acts as both an arcade and a retroish store (they sell any used game or console, but its mainly older games). I was able to find a model 1 Sega Saturn with a model 1 controller for $70 last year there. It's a cool store. I haven't been down there in awhile though due to some financial issues I'm having.

My favorite retro store shut down :(
It was taken over by the nerd store in salt lake city and i tried buying a game from them once and two of the discs were missing. Now i pretty much only buy games off of ebay/amazon

I swing by this place sometimes after dropping off my rent boy. It's quite convenient.

>>6012095
Shout-out to /pol/acks staring late stage capitalism in the face and proudly proclaiming "ah, it's the jews!"
Y'all are a funny bunch

>>6012179
You don’t get it

>>6011975
Which one? There are dozens in my city.

>>6012093
>>6012101

>>6012093
>>6012101
She had to get a restraining order against me. Her older brother is even more cute.

>>6012252
Kek. Stay mad, Virgin.

>>6012254
You're not a virgin you just have schizophrenia and repressed homosexual tendencies.

>>6012259
Nah, I'm straight as an arrow. 0/6 on the Kinsey scale.

>>6012262
Okay, this argument is over with. my Not Gay certification is printed out and laminated and pinned to my wall. What more do you want?

>>6012221
... your favorite?

>>6012108
I went there for their old Pokemon cards and game systems. Pretty chill place. How's the new one, and where's it located at?

>>6011975
Not too bad. The owner is a cunt, though.

>>6012383
Hard to say. There's a few that have better prices, a few that have more obscure stuff, and a few that have shitty prices but have pretty much everything in stock or can get it within a few days. It's also hard to say what my favorite number or color is, because I'm not six years old.

>>6012957
Heh, easy, My favourite number is fourteen thousand eight eight

>shopping for retro games

>>6011975
>Zanesville Ohio
I really pity you Americans

>>6012724
It’s off maple, I wanna say it’s opposite side of McDonald’s

>>6011975
I am looking for a Boyfriend free girl. I am sitting here so sad and lonely.

>>6012979
>one day, I'll lead an honest lifestyle. But in the meantime, I'll just be a good-for-nothing, thieving shit scumbag

>>6012093
>>6012101

>>6013215
fuck anon, you brought back some memories. i had a crush on her back then

>>6012179
Do you use lube when you take it up the ass?

Mine just recently got shut down. The owner owed over 1.2 mil in taxes. Serves him right for trying to sell Mario 64 loose for 80 dollars

Dumb mainstream chain store called Game Over. Never have shit. The other one by my house turned into mostly comics and toys but you can buy Monopoly for the Genesis loose cart 7/10 condition for $10

Literally zero retro game stores in the city of Chicago. The only one closed like a year ago and the closest alternative is a used cd/DVD store that also stocks some games. How?

>>6012976
>Heh, easy, My favourite number is fourteen thousand eight eight

14088?

>>6011975
Most of the retro stores near me went out of business.
Sucks because now I have to frequent flea markets to get old games. Dunno about you guys, but around my area the games are always about 5-10 dollars overpriced. Still, the guys who run the stalls are pretty cool.

>>6012957
If it isn't green you're gay.

eBay prices, sometimes they have something neat in stock but they always post it to social media for it to get scooped out immediately.

>>6013356
You know her or something?

>>6011975
Pawn Shops, thrift stores that research prices and go with the highest price. Then I have the occasional yard sale or rummage sale to find cheap stuff.

>>6014267
Our sons went trick or treating together

To everyone saying "ebay prices", is that code for "going rate"? What's the issue if you are selling for what it sold for on ebay?

>>6014319
Because we might as well just save our gas and buy it on eBay? They got a MUCH better selection

>>6014323
Having an item in front of you to look at is better than rolling the dice on ebay. Also, it's nice to leave the house on my day off.

The inventory is awful.

>>6011975
Video Game Underground has the best prices on games around! By virtue of being the only retro game store in the city as far as I know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB5RI2qqnBo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt5caJjKo-g

>only interesting thing in the store is a bunch of pristine Game and Watches that aren't for sale but are in the display cabinet
No I don't want to buy an NES Advantage for "way too goddamn much", I want that G&W Fire but you fucks won't sell it

>>6011975
>Hi, do you have any TurboGrafx stuff?
>No
>Do you have any PC stuff?
>No
>Do you have any enamel pins, I'm a collector?
>No
>Are the cabinets over there for sale?
>No

They went out of business last month. Would have been great for an Xbox or PS fag.

>>6011975
Buffalo, NY reporting in. we only have a few options to buy retail. i'll list here

Oogie Games
>used to be biggest franchise in town with 5 stores
>down to 2 locations
>everything is over ebay prices, sometimes up to 3 times as much
>they mainly do their selling on ebay now
I Got Game
>sub section of an antique/consignment shop in the mall that some fat collector's parents own
>this kid buys up anything of value he can find at other local stores and marks them up in his store just to make sure other stores don't have rare or valuable stuff
Dave & Adams Card World
>sports memorabilia store that also sells games, comics and magic cards
>they sponsor the biggest comic con in the area
>surprisingly large game section and prices are decent
>hit or miss with stock, sometimes very impressive, sometime tumbleweeds
Antique World Flea Market
>there are 3 game vendors that all charge ebay prices or above
>they pick over the rest of the vendors while they're still setting up at 5:30 in the morning to make sure no one can find anything in the wild
Heart of the Game
>big store that sells vidya and /tg/
>prices are decent
>selection is hit or miss

>>6014687
Better then being on long island all i have is one play n trade and it sucks fucking ass

>>6012079
FUCK YOU FUCKER I FUCK YO ASS.

>>6014239

>>6014687

>>6012060
Can someone explain to me what these stores are thinking when they sell above or even at the same price as ebay? If its the same price on ebay what fucking reason do i have driving several miles to your store? And on ebay i can pick from many different copies for one thats in good condition and without a shit ton of corrosion of which people like to trade there corroded as fuck cartridges. Do these people not understand that on ebay you have to pay the sellers fee paypal fee, pay for the shipping and the shipping materials? Shouldn't these stores then have lower fucking prices then ebay? Is there something im missing here?

there are no good retro game stores in Melbourne, Australia. I have to get charged out my asshole by going to eBay.

>>6013208
>he doesn't rip the roms from legally purchased steam releases and put them on a flash cart

>>6012180
I think they do. They're just not as dumb as you

>>6014726
That store specifically actually does price ~5-10 bucks lower than eBay. I like buying from a local store just because I can see it physically and not have to worry about getting some bullshit that wasn't in the pictures off eBay.

>>6012027
They literally ruin everything

>>6012179
Glowing hard there Mordacai

>>6014764
Who the fuck are you the owner? Every system every controller is overpriced especially the somewhat exotic stuff. And all the fuckjng games are at ebay price except maybe in some cases the seventh and sixth gen stuff.

>>6014726
>If its the same price on ebay what fucking reason do i have driving several miles to your store?
Getting it now instead of a week or more down the road.

>>6014785
A week or more? Are you fucking kidding me? Nearly every game i buy on ebay has first class usps shipping at least 60 perxent if the time its 3 days never anymore then four

>>6014335
You sure showed them lol

>>6014764
Tell me one fucking game that you got ten dollars less then ebay. The game selection there is shit they have like five copies of a shit game for every system. Five copies of sub rebellion five copies of need for speed its fucking awful. The cartridges the last time i came in there were extremely corroded its obvious everyone just trades in there heavily damaged shit. and what do they do sell it to to people anyway, oh no we cant buy a fucking 15 dollar can of dexoit or crc so people dont destroy the fucking pins on their consoles. Even getting discs resurfaced there is over priced it used to be like five but now its seven this store just fucking sucks and it would appear every knows it too because ive never seen more then one other person in the place.

>>6014785
Every game on ebay has first class usps shipping probably like 60 percent of the time it come in three days the other 40 four days never any longer then that. Check the sellers rep before you buy a game the only time ive gotten a bad one is when i didnt read the description and it says theyll send you a cart in a condition like in the picture not the game in the picture

>>6014742
>he's of the utterly bonkers belief that all retro games ever made have had a modern re-release, and that everyone pays for Steam titles
If you download ROMs, then why wouldn't you do the dirty with PC games? What, grown a conscience just because? Have a day off. In the last few weeks, this board has been littered with download links to modern titles, with the threads featuring those links absolutely chock full of positive replies. That tells you all you need to know about this board. Cut the holier than thou bullshit, because your anonymous ass is probably guiltier than all of us.

FX GameXchange in Plano, TX.

Not a dedicated retro store, but they have some older games. Never actually purchased anything there, and chances are I won't ever purchase anything there. Dropped in once and looked around, went back again for a local meetup.

It's located in the same shopping center where the Funcoland I went to back in the day used to be, so that's something.

>>6014687
buffalo and upstate NY are the shittiest parts of this whole country

>>6014910
naa it's actually great here if you're not an extremely autistic introvert. the winter weather thing is way overblown, we have 4 complete seasons. i'll give you that the winter does make the infrastructure shit. i'd take buffalo over other rust belt cities, especially detroit, or most places in the south, excluding the carolinas or texas.

>>6015123
Are there a lot of brown people up there?

>>6015452
It’s New York

Rural areas far far away from cities? Fine

Anywhere within 30 miles of a city? Well, diversity ended up not being a strength after all...

>>6013045
What's wrong with Zanesville, Ohio?

>>6013215
AHHHH

Holy shit. Thanks Anon

>>6013215
Yeah, that's Melissa. Who's the girl with the blue hair? Good times and good memories.

>>6015463
Nothing. It’s the home of the Y-bridge

>>6014239
Why would anyone sell lower than what shit sells for on eBay? It's a fucking store. Not someones fucking bedroom. It's got overhead. Do you know how bills work?

>>6014323
Good, then go gamble your fucking money and not have the product in your hands before you pay for it. You deserve to get fucked in the ass.

>>6014783
Only liars speak in absolutes.

>>6014824
>Every game on ebay has first class usps shipping

No they don't, retarded faggot.

>>6014239
>>6014323
>>6014726

Poor Fags like you are the reason why every single Used Game Store I used to go to with in the last decade is closed down. Get Fucked Faggots.

We had three used/retro game stores in the city at one point (too many). The last one went out of business earlier this year.

A local pawn shop has taken over the retro market, but its just heaps of old sports games. They probably throw anything good on ebay.

>>6015502
Yes they really do its the cheapest shipping for the size and weight of the parcel if you've sold games on ebay you would know this.
>>6015501
Rich.... Is that you?
>>6015505
Nigger what the fuck is the point if its the same price on ebay? I can pick from multiple different carts for the same price for the one with the least damage or corrosion on the pins or i can drive several miles for a beat up rusted piece of shit for the same price, its not the consumers job to justify the stores existence its the owners.

>>6013215
Damn she's cute, but in 2008 Redmond Wa had a 10 named Makayla. The catch was she worked at a gamestop, terrible taste in music, and had some moron jock for a boyfriend. I used to go in there just to see her, but couldn't go on after I tried listening to DMB. In heaven, every girl is at least as hot as Makayla, works at a retro game store, and is lonely without boyfriend.

>>6015493
You realize you can ship it back for free check if the seller allows it and also check there rep before buying. in the event you are screwed ebay is always on the side of the seller

>>6015470
Kim

>>6015535
Cute girls always have some kinda boyfriend. The trick is WHAT kinda. Kek

>>6015462
Thats to bad. Long island is becoming long honduras

Arcade Legacy down in Cincy. It has a decent selection, and playing the cabinets is fun.

>>6015501
>Only liars speak in absolutes.
Wait, so... are you lying?

>>6015606
This. ebay is so buyer centric that I wonder why anyone even uses it to sell anymore. the buyer is way more likely to be the scammer than the buyer at this point

>>6016214
Nothing is seller centric

>>6016360
Brick and mortar stores, Craigslist.

>>6016362
Not really, you're still at the whims of the buyer. Brick & mortar stores are usually running on very thin margins.

>>6013215
ah thats at their second location in colony square mall, when they did a huge downsizing

>>6016368
Caveat emptor, Anon

>>6016372
You're fucking retarded and can't stay on topic.

They gots an ever drive

>>6016371
>their second location
Nah. Dean's original location was in Colony Square in the Lazarus corridor before it was turned into the theater. Then they moved out of the mall onto the shopping center at the corner of Maple and Taylor that has since become a car wash. They moved back to the mall in what had been Maurice's until that slot got turned into Planet Fitness and they were moved to the other side of the corridor between Spencer Gifts and the arcade, which is where that photo was taken. During that time he sold the Newark shop to Maxine and limped along there in Zanesville for a while. Cheyanne didn't seem to want to run that type of shop so ultimately he sold off all the video game stuff to the bros that opened that location there on Harding. I don't even know those guys nor do I ever go in there. I don't know what happened to all the /toy/ and /tg/ and /co/ and /tv/. He may still be hauling it around to conventions to have something to do.

>>6016374
And you have a very nebulous definition of "seller centric". In the context of this discussion though, it would be very difficult for buyers to scam Craigslist or brick & mortar sellers

>>6016394
Except it's not at all difficult you absolute fucking stain on this board.

>>6016396
Like, by using counterfeit money or..? Run me through this hypothetical "scam" or are you just thinking of pain old theft?

>>6016401
>buy item from ebay
>receive item from seller
>tell ebay you got the wrong item or didn't receive it
>instant refund and the seller gets suspended during the investigation
>investigation almost always sides with the buyer because the requirement of proof from the seller is ridiculously stringent
It's also common to have a broken item of whatever you purchased and use pictures of that to falsify that the item arrived broken. Again, ebay sides with the buyer and the seller gets fucked. There's all kinds of scams people can pull on ebay sellers because ebay is so pro-buyer.

Movie Trading Company has a lot of garbage, shitty resealing work on games, and their prices are insane. I need a better place to go and check out.

>>6014906
Was it a disgusting store or did they just not have much? I'd like to know more game stores in the DFW area.

>>6016408
Yes, buyer scams on eBay are easy that's why Anon said eBay was buyer centric. My point is that buyers cannot perpetrate scams like that on Craigslist, local Facebook groups and brick & mortar stores which makes those places seller centric by the terms of this discussion. Are we having problems with reading comprehension again? Why do people start arguments in languages they don't firmly grasp?

Why dont stores ever clean there games? Is spraying the games with some crc or wd40 contact cleaner really asking all that much?

>>6016424
Bro, I don't know about Facebook, but Craigslist is fucking trash as well though, maybe not as bad as eBay, but damn these motherfuckers with their broken shit want to meet you on some street corner next to a crackhouse, and start bullshitting once you meet and change the deal. That, or instead of money these fuckers want to trade old VHS tapes, or the seemingly endless desperate homo's in EVERY section who want to find someway to suck your dick. WTF. I feel sorry for you people honestly, eBay, Craigslist and all that shit is so fucking bad. In my country we have sites that are no problem, full of good shit for cheap, and what's written on the page is what you get, for the amount listed, no scams or dicksucking involved.

Midwestern area, Disc Replay is a franchise of sorts around here.

My local one is pretty good actually. Most things are essentially eBay price (and usually no higher) but you can get deals on shit that the employees don't care about. Bought a boxed JP Namco NeGcon controller for $20 last night.

>>6016608
"ok."

For Arizona, it's Bookman's Entertainment Exchange. It's dried up a bit for older consoles in the past few years. It's not uncommon to see multiple copies of the same games line the walls, though it still surprises from time to time. Lately it's been really good for getting ps2 games for cheap.

>>6014726
there's a much higher overhead with running a store.

>>6016380
threaten them with a civilians arrest for illegally selling ROM files and demand to confiscate the everdrive.

>>6016652
there's also fallout and zia

Placed called GameOver video games. Fuckin dude that works there is slowly becoming a full on tranny. Eveytime i go in its worse.

>>6016380
>42 bucks for Pokemon Yellow / Silver

>>6016724
which city do you live in anon?

>>6016380
>those prices
Sweet jesus
Just buy online

>>6016691
And it just so happpens to run exactly at ebay prices? Bullshit

>>6016691
Which is why you'd want to price things so they actually move off your shelf so you don't have even more overhead in a bunch of inventory that goes unsold.

>>6017282
Usually its double ebay price at a local store

Mine has a section in a display case for repros.

Pretty much like this, it's all we got. But at least the little you can find at these stores is way underpriced from what I see out there on the internet. Those N64 cartridges are like 10-15 dollars each.

>>6017297
Then how do some of them continue to exist? Also thats not my problem

>>6017302
>super famicon and SNES
damn, that's neat

>>6017302
Uhh no there not? Everyone of them ends in 2 which is ebay prices and some them have severe label damage from sitting in the sun to long and there still ebay price.

>>6011975
There’s a few that sell retro games in the Phoenix area. Most are way over priced and have the same selection of games. I did find Ace Combat 0 and the Metal Slug collection for only a few bucks.

>>6016419
I didn't look too much at the selection, a lot of what I'm guessing were modern disc games, though. I asked them about their pricing on an aftermarket DS Lite charger and it was too expensive, but beyond that I'm not really sure. Seemed nice enough on the inside. I'm not a big videogame buyer and I mostly focus on imports and non-retail shit when I do buy, so I'm probably not the best person to ask.

>>6012027
I always feel bad for these shops. There was an anime/collectibles store when I was a kid. It’s now really depressing and has the same shit that everyone else has.

Located on Illinois Highway 159, it's in a 1960s split-level house with a couple large additions built on. Games are about 70% of the business, the rest is pop culture collectable stuff. And lawn mower repair.

>>6017302
>$60 for Snowboard Kids

>>6012027

Classic Game Junkie is alright. They've pulled that shit where you bring something up to the register and they check the price on ebay real quick and I'm not really into that. Been to shittier stores in other cites. I should pop in again soon. I saw the owners at that convention out in Pheonixville last year

Also its not really in philly but eh close enough I guess

>>6014742
4d chess

>>6012179
>I can't just ignore how the rich sabotage the economy
>but I can ignore their yarmulkes
Embarrassing.

>>6017282
eBay prices are market value.

Maybe, just maybe, there's a reason this mythical retro video game store you all complain not existing doesn't exist.

>>6017295
I imagine most of these stores are running on very thin margins as it is after paying wages, taxes, rent, inventory, insurance, etc. At eBay prices, they probably make $5 per game.
I have no idea why people start these stores up in the first place.

>>6018393
No they arent. And even if they were guess what im still not going to your fucking store

>>6018649
Its bullshit dude their profit margins cuts off exactly where ebay prices are? Are you that much of a naive ingrained hoople?

>>6018393
Its bullshit dude therir profit margins cuts off exactky where ebay prices are? Are you that much of a naive ingrained hoople?

>>6018393
>eBay prices are market value.
No because every seller who's not a fucking retard puts the price up to deal with the paypal and ebay cut and handling fees. If you're doing it as an actual income source then taxes, inventory, insurgence, etc all factor in too.

Literally the only place in my state that sells retro games as a main feature of the store and has actually stayed in business and does quite well sells well below ebay prices because they're not fucking morons.

>>6018867
Yeah, that's what market value is. People with less overhead because they're selling locally, for cash, and/or on free sites can afford to sell below market value (or anyone can choose to really) but their demand will outstrip their supply - unless they're really really good at finding collections being sold off.

Basically price gets set relative to market value based on how quickly or slowly a seller wants sales to happen, which is dependent on their supply. It has very very little to do with how much YOU are willing to pay - especially now that pretty much anybody is willing to sell on eBay (unless you're willing to pay MORE than other people and are trying to drive market value UP). If you buy locally, you CAN make that argument to guys on Facebook that their prices should be maybe 20% less than eBay and that can work on small time sellers although on case by case basis there's probably even better arguments to make (best usually being "how much for everything"). Big Facebook sellers are already aware and do set their prices noticeably under eBay. Join some groups.

>>6018923
No it's ebay value, retard.

>>6016389
cool thanks for the clarification

>>6018934
Ebay being the primary market that defines pricing in other markets is exactly what you're complaining about.

>>6016839
They replace the batteries

>>6011975
>What is your local retro store like?
Overpriced and understocked. Sitting on the same 50 copies of Caesar's Palace and Blades of Steel for the past 6 years, as well as a $250 copy of Earthbound nobody has been desperate enough to buy yet. I'd say that I have no idea how they stay in business, except they seem to actually do a lot with lower class families looking for cheap XBox 360 games and DVDs, moreso than "retro" games. I haven't been in well over a year, but I always used to run into this dude who I'm pretty sure was a crook just selling stolen shit for crack money.

>>6019170
>a crook just selling stolen shit for crack money.
Well tell that dude you pay big money for "cartridge games" then

>>6019194
I don't buy shit from him. And why would he care?

>>6011975
Metro Detroit here.
Only two worth a damn are Retro-Taku Videogames and Nerdtopia. Retro-Taku focuses much more on video games and has a very large import section while Nerdtopia has a fuckton of MtG and a decent enough selection of vidya. There's also stuff like disc replay and retro replay chains and the odd record store with a video game section.

>>6019198
To know what to steal to make money to buy crack?

>>6018985
It doesn't though, you stupid fucking retard.

>>6016380
>those prices

Tell me those are in Canadian fun bucks.

>>6019431
It literally does ya birdbrain ninny

>>6019170
Literally just got back from selling my copy of Caesar's Palace and got Armored Core. Fucking coincidence that I see it mentioned.

There's 2 I enjoy. Disk Replay and "Used Electronics and Media". Disk replay is my go to for nes, SNES, and genesis, as well as the 2600 games, teir ps1 games go for $10 max. UEaM is similar, but will sell retro pokemon cards and offer you some deals for their vinyls. There's also this retailer at an indoor flea market in my area that sells Japanese games for dirt fucking cheap.

>>6012093
>tired or high
Literally everyone in Zanesville is addicted to opiates

>>6019901
He thinks that this one game store in his state is what defines market value and doesn't understand that by hook or by crook that one store managed to stay in business despite selling under market value by being the ONLY place people have to sell games other than cash advance places that don't even give a fuck about market value for things like video games and just take in whatever gets people under their thumbs, making payments to them every week.

Those are my favorite places to shop now, and this place that liquidates Amazon returns

>>6019826
Ye

There used to be a Salvation Army store nearby but the plaza that they were in was bought out and then the store got kicked out during the remodeling. Abso-fucking-lutely sucks because I was in with management and was able to get some good deals on PC games. It was like a little mini-flea market in there; All sorts of little cool shit besides games. No idea why they never came back to the area.

>>6014112
What a fucking scumbag
Main mario games are worth 10 max, as they are the most common games on each console
Fuck scalpers, fuck collectors, and fuck resellers
I just want to play some bing bing wahoo without breaking the bank or using emulation

>>6019151
So?!, gameboy cart batteries are 2$!

>>6017302
>$200 for zelda

>>6018985
ebay is the primary market for retro games. as such, it sets market value

>>6018867
You really think eBay and PayPal fees are higher thank paying rent, staff, property taxes, insurance, etc?

>>6011975
Game Trader in Beaverton Mall, Beaverton Oregon which is now Cedar Hills crossing. Completely dead mall which was bizarre to begin with. Stores been there for almost 30 years. Used to have wall to wall 16 bit games now they take up just one small rack. They have a Neo Geo 4 game cabinet which is great. Store used to have TVs that lined the wall you could watch demos from outside the store. Only place I've seen a jap PSX (the one with dvr) and Panasonic Q Gamecube in the wild. A cuet girl works there and isnt bubbly or a gamer girl in fact I've never seen her smile. Its very comfy.

>>6022306
Pic very related

>>6012093
I can't explain why zanesville in particular, but I'd be willing to bet there are a ton of Ohioans on here and in gaming in general. Why? Cuz there's just nothing to do between the end of buckeyes season and in november and the weather finally getting decent/indians starting up in late spring. I imagine plenty of places in America are the same, I know of similar stuff from people in western NY near Buffalo/Rochester too.

>>6012108
Maybe LD was big in mid-Ohio, it's the only place I ever met people with a big collection.

>>6016380
MOTHERFUCKING COOPER'S CABIN?

I haven't been to a retro game store in a long time, barring trips to Japan. I've just given up on buying in the US. Most every console I own is modded for something, so I just load roms or isos onto the card/cart/etc. and play that way. Japanese market is so much better it's not even worth bothering. Once in a blue moon I'll walk through to look at stuff. There's a shop in my old town that was mainly a used music store, but also had games. The prices tended to be bad, but occasionally you could find something they priced badly, ie. a PS3 memory card USB adapter for 5 bucks. They compare vs. ebay too so I can't say how that happened. I'd pretty much only go there now to get an original xbox or ps2 game.

Ton of decent stores used to be in Columbus, no idea if they're there anymore. Frankly I don't know what the point of running a physical store is anymore.

>>6018331
I would never shop at stores like that unless there is no sticker price.

>>6022343
Bigger and better than ever

>>6011975
Fallout Games in Tempe. Always has a good stock because retards walk in there with great shit and sell it for pennies. The last time I was there some dude walked in with CIB Chrono Trigger, Secret of Evermore, Super Mario RPG, and Actraiser. I was blown away. No idea what he got for it but it obviously had to be well below market value.

Prices are usually pretty solid, many games are maybe $5-10 above ebay value, which seems okay considering you can actually inspect the cartidge and no shipping cost. They also have a huge selection of sealed stuff. I have no idea where they get the sealed stuff. Love it to death and I've found some great shit there.

>>6014114
San Antonio? They have those all over SA and they're fucking terrible. I had to go to some game store in the Traders Village to get anything decent.

>>6016380
Lmao what the fuck. Gamestop was selling copies of Silver for $10 two years ago. Gamestop was actually selling a bunch of shit for cheap online a few years ago and then like last year they doubled and tripled the prices on everything.

>>6015735
Oh wow, you're right. It's all coming back now. Thanks

Do you think the Zanesville Bargain Box will ever move back into the mall? The atmosphere was so much better there.

>>6012085
It's depressing. Everything is becoming digital and isolated.

>>6022417
The amount of times i I've played for shipping for games on ebay: never.

>>6022729
That's some bullshit.

>>6022773
woops, sorry about that.

>>6022493
Well the mall is changng. They're bringing in chains that aren't really mall chains and they're building their own storefronts on the outside. Five Below and Planet Fitness don't even have entrances into the mall corridor at all. It's a smart thing to do to to keep the mall alive but I don't know if it's going to be worth it to even have low-rent retail outlets use the back-side slots. The movie theater and the cafe court are still on the back side so they might prefer to just have blank walls to dirt mall tier stores.

Maybe it'll just go full on ghost mall back there like Cincinnati Mills

>>6022793
One of my local malls is being torn down after having been a nearly dead mall for a good bit of time. Got pretty depressing towards the end with shit like phone stores and reflexology healing or whatever the fuck. It is sad to see old malls die, especially ones that used to be so lively and happy.

>>6022795
Stranger Things Season 3 features and brands spanking new mall in its prime. It's interesting how we're now so far removed from that it can seem alien and unsettling.

>>6022793
One of the somewhat dying malls I frequent just got a combination theater/restaurant attached so hopefully mine doesn't die off too quickly.

>>6022341
yeah Ohio is pretty boring in the winter. after living there for 15 years i realized there wasnt much to do

>>6023256
>>6022341
LOL yeah I suppose all those good Christmas video game releases followed immediately by two months of more or less being shut in played a big part in making a lot of gamers

>>6014432
What kind of rabbit hole did you drag me into anon aaaaaaaaaaaa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjcW2FbRqiU

>>6017282
Stop being so retarded.

>>6018867
No they don't.

>>6018934
Market Value, fucking faggot.

>>6022780
That's a Hundred to a Hundred and Fifty dollars Cheaper than Ebay.

>>6023570
Please learn to look at sold prices. Seriously. We can't even have a real discussion about market value of you don't know how to do at LEAST that. $399 is basically right on the money and furthermore my look at sold listings makes me think they would probably take three crisp Benjamins if you waved them in their face.

>>6023615
How do you say "I'm a faggot" in Zoomer?

>>6023814
Your pic literally shows a competed auction under $300

>>6024097
>(NO GAME)
Not that anon but are you just pretending to be retarded?

>>6023814
Jesus Christ, scroll down.

>>6023814
>>6023615
>>6023570
>>6022780
Still shit prices, for the shit version of the game anyways. it should be worth 80 AT BEST

>>6017302
>>6017939
>>6022264

>200 for cart loose ZELDA OoT

Where the Vidya go to die.......

>>6011975

>>6024115
Turns out nobody gives a fuck what you think things should be worth

>>6021369
Those..............prices..............

I wanna Die.......

Do these motherfuckers actually even SELL that stuff?, i mean, as in actually purchase it, not just let their s-oy.boy friends borrow it to control the market and get dah clickls and the green one?

>>6024256
>ASSIMILATE!

>>6014767
How I hate them

>>6014767
Fuck niggers

>>6022778
Damn, I own Silver Star.. got it cheap too.

>>6023814
>Imagine paying over $200 for a box with no game

>go to local game store slash arcade
>actually a pretty quality amount of arcade machines and games but it's all in a tiny cramped space
>go there to look at games and literally the entire time you're about 10 feet maximum away from the cashier
>cashier stares at me the entire time because he has nothing better to do
>social anxiety starts flaring up hard and have to leave because I feel so awkward
>never returned, never got a good look at what arcade machines they had
>will never return

>>6022793
oh shit, I've been in this mall before, it has a sick game store IIRC, with an arcade and tournaments. Is that store still there? Is the mall still there?

>>6022501
Which is ironic, given digital is practically everywhere. People can't seem to escape it. Maybe it's only isolating if you are not participating? I wouldn't know, I don't use social media, and that's where everybody goes. I don't feel too bad though.

>>6023570
That's actually from a year ago. At the time they were hovering at about $350 in online auctions.

>>6012085
>Brick and Morter is dying and it's not just Used Game Stores. There's entire chains going out of business. Between Amazon and Violence nobody seems to want to go out shopping anymore.
It's troubling. The major side-effect of this sell out to convenience will be mainstreets looking like this all over the world. If this is the future people want, fine I guess. But then at the same time they wonder why we feel so alienated, divided, and why everyone is "depressed," despite living in the amazing year of 2019 where everything is just click or swipe away.

Having local businesses to go out to builds social cohesion and prevents isolating yourself and your immediates (family). You often get to know the owners, fellow customers, etc, etc. Local businesses really are at the heart of any community. No one cares about any of that anymore. As long as I can get my Chinese made piece of garbage from Amazon via next day delivery and for cheap!

>>6025002
>Maybe it's only isolating if you are not participating?
It's isolating, even if you're a zoomer neck deep into Instagram, twitter, or whatever the latest flavor of the month social media service is.

Look how loneliness was actually trending downwards, even lower than 1991. Then the iPhone asteroid hit and loneliness (which no doubt leads to depression, social anxiety, and the many other things that teenagers seem to suffering from in epidemic numbers) spiked.

Correlation=/=causation, and the iPhone release did happen a year before the recession, which I'm sure had an effect here, but I think the trend is pretty convincing.

>>6011975
Mine is cool and has a great selection but the owner seems to be a little over bearing at times. the first couple of times I went in he was nice, he went and showed me all his rare stuff, kinda talked over me the entire time but it neat seeing his copies of ET that survived the factory fire.

But around the third time I went in I just kinda wanted to browse by myself. I even mentioned it to him when he greeted me that "oh im just here to buy some games today". He still kinda got out behind the counter and started telling cool vidya trivia, and the difference between screw in and screwless cartridges. I didn't really buy anything that day because he kept bringing me back to the NES section and I was looking for PS1 games that day.

His store is big but he dosen't get a lot of customers, when I go inside its usually empty, I wanna be friends with him but he is the kinda guy that talks more then he listens. I am not even sure what I would talk about since he seems to know everything I would talk to him about like the back of his hand. I just wanted a copy of digimon rumble man shoot.

Gamer's Paradise in Rochelle Park, New Jersey.

Unfortunately, I'm dorming over in Long Island for college. Do you know any good ones by Hempstead, NY?

anyone know of any good shops around dc?

>>6024115
>it should be worth 80 AT BEST
LMAO....

Oh man that's rich. I'll tell you what. I downloaded the game because I'm not retarded. And yea. It pretty much fucking blows chunks. That doesn't mean it should only be Eighty Dollars. LOL No wonder you're having such a hard time with economics.

>>6024278
They'r complete in box. They're not for fagot gripers like you who just want to play the game at yard sale prices from twenty years ago.

>>6024757
I sold the Guide for Earth Bound for a Hundred and Eighty. Just because the Stickers had never been scratched.

>>6025115
Ebay doesn't keep those listing up for that long, retard.

>>6025613
Theres nothing on long island

>>6022793
>>6022795
these photos make me o fucking sad, boomerbros. why did retail have to die? i loved being a kid and just spending hours in media play and borders and places like that, reading vidya magazines and manga and looking at metal and grunge cds and vidya.

>>6026143
Chain stores are killing the mom and pop stores and online retailers are killing them both.

>>6025709
Yes, and? I know the prices from memory because I looked them up the same day I visited that store.

>>6022306
Nice I am in Beaverton too

>>6022315
Do you like retro game trader

>>6026201
It's the circle of life.

>>6025538
that makes sense, social media is isolating to me, because you're not participating, you're only seeing what other people are doing. It's like a constant reminder of what you're missing out on in life.

>>6027317
Its supposed to feel like a competition to try to SEEM like you're doing the most amazing things but that's a feedback loop. You're actually participating at the lowest level as like an audience member but that's good because it's easier to quit. You probably just migrated to e-celebs I guess but at least they're more likely to be doing things that actually interest you and you're less likely to compare yourself to them than you are to people you went to high school with or whatever.

>>6011975
In RVA, there are two in Carytown: Bits & Pixels and Tech Exchange
B&P used to be called Play N Trade, and they still have the same /vr/ consoles in the street facing display window and they actually care about retro, prices are decent but you can tell they troll eBay to determine how to price, same for Tech Exchange
Tech Exchange though has arcade cabinets in the store, but the problem with both of them is that because they are in Carytown, which is right next to VCU, its staff and patrons are serious fucking soibois and and hairdyed SJW shitters
I mean maybe thats how it is with all retro stores, but with those two stores, particularly due to their location and it's vicinity to the uni, its a double whammy of a letdown

>>6014319

Supply and demand.

A store wont have the same demand as ebay. Ebay can be accessed by the entire planet, your store cant.

Also, if you price the same as online value, you technically make MORE since you dont pay ebay or paypal fees.

Price your shit 10% lower or get fucked. There is a reason why game shops with competitive pricing actually stay in business.

>>6025725
>>6025613

Long Island doesnt need game shops. There is a massive retro scene and people on the LI facebook groups constantly sell shit for 40% under ebay prices.

Check out the groups Game Over Long Island, and Long Island Gamers United.

It's almost exclusively where I buy my games.

East End Gaming and GameOn are the two shops we have, though.

For my Ohio Bros I recommend video game connection in Cleveland

>>6012179
>I can't just ignore how the rich sabotage the economy
>but I can ignore their yarmulkes
Embarrassing.

ah zanesville. home of the dead downtown, dead malls, and drug riddled population

I used to live in Ephrata PA, and there is a pretty great store there called Complete in Box.

I moved to Harrisburg earlier this year, and I haven't looked for any similar places near here.

>>6026636
Hoe's Mad

>>6027473
looks like a real shithole. just like ohio.

>>6011975
Decent collection, kinda small but extremely affordable. Games I’ve bought CIB here for ¥500 I’ve seen ¥1500 in Akihabara
Games I’ve bought for ¥200 here I’ve seen for $40 on eBay.

>>6027498
>>6027661
Kill yourself

>>6015505
Look! an insufferable faggot stroking his ego! Everyone look!

>>6029468
I lived in zaneville man, it was rough. Colony Mall is not what it used to be

>>6029557
EBay prices are retardedly stupid, double, triple, quadruple akihabara prices which are already double, triple or quadruple prices elsewhere.
It’s ridiculous, why pay for that?

>>6026143
There's something to be said for retail outlets. As a kid I loved going to Tiys R Us. Sure, maybe I'd only get one toy or something, but just being in a joyful environment, surrounded by fun, colorful things that made me happy made going there an experience. Still remember playing a GameBoy on one of those demo kiosks with the CRT display. Maybe getting that thrilled over cheap consumer goods is a bad thing, but still, the excitement and wonder over toys I might get and even toys I might never get was an experience in and of itself. Even now I have fun browsing booths at videogame conventions, even though I hardly ever buy anything because of the prevalence of lolwut pricing.

Last time I went to Toys R Us was around 2007-2008 and it was amazing how depressing and dead it felt. Made me wonder how much of it was simply that it was already on the way out, or if it were always that way and my kid brain just made it seem a lot nicer and happier (answer: it was probably both).

>>6015505
>Noooo! You're supposed to buy your used, crusty copy of SMB/DH for $25 from ME! It doesn't matter that I myself bought it from ebay, you buying it directly from ebay for a fraction of the cost is cheating, you poorfag!

>>6029875
You should see Toys r Us today, it’s trash. I went there I think last year just the check the game section.
Nothing, it was mostly just some Animal Crossing amiibos they couldn’t sell
EB Games? All toys now, no games

>>6029953
>Toys r Us today
Anon...

>>6029597
Things are fine in Zanesville. It's a shame that he Greenwood area like where you're pic is from became ghetto since it was historical and its a tragedy that graystones like that one ended up demolished. Habitat has come in and some what they could to slightly improve that area and the welfare programs are somewhat shifting the most problematic people into the government housing projects, some of which are also worse than others (in not saying the government is redlining but the government is redlining, though I guess they can). It's actually a lot harder to be a slumlord than it used to be. Just ask John Kemp.

>>6029840
So you're like the weeb version of that guy who still thinks prices should be like they were fifteen years ago before everyone knew about ebay. I challenge you to post fresh photos of literally any retail display anywhere with prices significantly (more than 20%) lower than eBay sold prices.

>>6014192
Aw man, I was just about to ask if there was anything around the northwest Chicago area. I moved here at the beginning of the year and the only game stores I've seen, at all, are a couple of gamestops. The best place I've seen is a fucking Half-Price Books, and all they've got is a small tucked away corner.

>>6029978
It makes me sad, there's not a single building left on that block aside from Maria Adornettos which closed years ago. and then they put in a fucking dollar general across the street.

>>6024106
Two are auctions. You almost always get burned in auctions.

>>6030004
It's just a side effect of the city having a very low cost-of-living. It's an easy place to live so people who want it easy are drawn here. The city police are also lazy which I would say is the single biggest problem but the sheriff's department is doing a lot to step up and fill in.

>>6030025
You don't get "burned" in auctions, you never pay more than what you were willing to bid. Those are competed auctions, reflecting the actual price the buyer paid.

>>6030092
>You don't get "burned" in auctions

Talking about the sellers. Should have been obvious.

>>6029962
Don’t tell me you think they’re still good?
They’re not the same as they were in the 90’s it’s absolute garbage
>>6029978
Here’s a copy of Pokémon yellow I picked up for my sister, I did a search of “Pokémon Yellow CIB Japanese” on eBay, the top result for Yellow alone is $20 plus $8 shipping, the second is $13 plus $6 shipping for the cartridge ONLY!

>>6030227
>>6029978
And here’s a screenshot from ebay
The price I got from the store isn’t 20% lower than eBay it’s literally 5 times cheaper buying in store than on eBay.

>>6029978
Here’s another photo
Star Fox on Superfamicom ¥908 ($11.11) in store, on eBay the top result is $28.59 plus $8.80 in shipping.
RockMan 8 ¥1463 ($17.91) in store, on eBay $29.23
Phantasy Star III ¥800 ($9.79) in store, on eBay $19.99
Phantasy Stat IV ¥2080 ($25.46) in store, on eBay $53.15 plus $13.29 shipping
These are akihabara prices, and eBay is STILL double the price and akihabara is known for being over priced. There’s just no reason to ever buy on eBay, you lose money every time

>>6030227
>>6030237
>>6030253
>I don't know how eBay works
Okay that explains it. See >>6023615. You're also not showing a display case, you're showing deals that you personally cherry picked which were still priced appropriately at about 20% under ebay SOLD prices minus shipping. I'm sure you found be getting somewhat better deals through Yahoo auctions if you're only shipping inside Japan, too (or if you buy enough to make using a drop shooter worth it).

It's cool that you live in, are stationed in or travel to Japan regularly but your attitude isn't very cool at all.

>>6030290
Those are sold prices
No it’s not from a display case, but these prices would be higher on average because I’m picky about condition. The only one that would be cheaper is Yellow because it doesn’t include the map, but I don’t think the map should add an extra $15 to the total price.
I’ve provided plenty of evidence showing that the prices are better in store than on eBay, you refuse to accept it because you’re a blind eBay fanboy for some reason. There’s no convincing this website that eBay is a scammers paradise.

>>6030227
Toys R Us shut down a few years ago anon

>>6030523
No it didn’t

>>6030546
It did in America, they closed their doors. Some shops are re-opening apparently, and moreover the international toys r us seem to be still open (at least there is still business in Japan) but yeah, they closed. Even in my ohio hometown, the well-anchored TRU closed, and this is a town where shit that died everywhere else still holds on (hometown only just now closed its Sears Auto, and the Big K-Mart is still alive too).

In the end I don't blame Amazon, because they're just finishing the job that Wal-Mart started. Folks where I'm from can't believe that Wal-Mart has had the gall to make attack ads on amazon calling themselves the good guys, like, do you think we just don't remember when Wal-Mart actively destroyed entire communities of mom'n'pop stores?

>>6030294
Are you seriously dumb enough to be posting Akiba prices as if everyone on an English-language, America-based image board can regularly and easily go to Akiba and buy shit? Like, news flash, most people can't just go to Tokyo for games shopping. I feel like you are having a very closed-minded view of people's living situations.

>>6030706
Well I’m Canadian I don’t care what happens in a foreign country
>>6030709
That’s not my problem, and you shouldn’t be going there anyway it’s overpriced

>>6030227
I got Pokémon yellow in Japanese a few months ago off eBay for $8 dollars CAD free shipping from japan even

>>6011975
Hello, neighbor. You should drive over to Heath and check out Video Trader.

>>6031479
Video Trader is awesome. I've been visiting that place since at least 2005.

>>6031479
I used to manage that location twenty or so years ago. That fucking buffet smell.

>>6017315
That isn't super famicon my American friend.

my local retrogame store just became a sewing machine store.
Online has murdered brick & mortar.

>>6031664
Stacy's (the restaurant in front of Video Trader) went out of business this year.

>>6029880
This guy gets it
It's like why pay more when you don't have to

Only place in town is cleverly named
The Video Game Store

>>6031815
>that stack of fat NES's

>>6031774
I think I only ate there like twice. I thought it was overpriced because drinks were included. I don't drink soda so I always drank a bunch of milk with my meal and ended up feeling sick. There's another buffet North of Myrtle Beach I like that's also that way but I don't mind as much because the foods better.

>>6031462
CIB? That’s an okay price, you still get the premium eBay price though since it’s $3 more than buying in store, you can buy 2 tall boys for that
>>6031796
Exactly why I don’t bother with eBay, it’s better to go to store. BookOff is my choice, I don’t really bother with game shops

>>6031992
You should really buy your beer in Ohio. Tall boys are obviously overpriced there.

>>6032000
I don’t live in America

>>6032000
I just checked online, it’s a loonie for a bottle of molson, how is that cheaper than paying a $1.50 for a beer that doesn’t taste like fucking shit?
Lying cunt, this is why nobody takes this site seriously
You niggers try and scam people on eBay and try to lie and say your beer is cheaper fuck off retard

>>6032002
So you're saying that a person can't be expected to travel to a foreign country to get a slightly better deal on things they buy? Hmmmmm...

>>6032012
>pic related - $3 everywhere
You know, excessive suspicion is the hallmark of a liar.

>>6032043
No I’m saying why would anyone travel to America?
To get what? An NES? Why? To play censored games? No thank you, I’ll stick to my Famicom
Natty Daddy? Never heard of it

>>6031512
It's the best store I know.
>>6031664
I've been to game stores that smell much worse.

>>6025538
probably because no one wants to go to church, which is the only thing to do in america besides go to work or consume

>look for new places to find retro games
>find place, most of it is MtG and YuGiOh themed and tables take up most of the space
>video games are in a small corner
>see stuff like DQ7, Diablo on PS1, Parasite Eve 1 and 2 (I only looked at Playstation stuff, didn't see anything worth a shit for Nintendo systems)
>guy tells me their prices go off the "video game market"
>e.g. he tells me Parasite Eve 2 they'll sell for $50, Diablo even more since they have original cases
I really fucking hate how a lot of games I never got to play when I was younger are held hostage by retards with god complexes that go off of a completely made up secondhand market. Didn't help that some games weren't even in the cases and the guy had no idea how that happened.

>>6031815
a fellow wilkes barre bro
love this place man, picked up a ps1 a few weeks back for 20 bones

>>6011975
I live in the middle of buttfuck nowhere, so i don't have a local retro store. I do, however, regularly visit a place called Game City, located in Edmonton. Last time I went i traded in a bunch of random shit, including an original pikachu edition 3DS XL. The girl at the counter tested it using a Majora's Mask 3D kiosk demo cart that some guy left there months ago, shit was cool as fuck to look at. Prices were decent considering maple money and i came home with some nice shit, including Zelda Collector's Edition, and a handful of good N64 games with boxes and manuals

>>6032598
Yeah I think the prices made the other two (gamestation&videogame post) go out of business.

>>6026143
Tower Records, anon. Tower Records.
They had everything. Vidya. VHS. Laserdisc. Best magazine racks.
And of course the CDs. ENDLESS racks of music.
Fuck, I want to cry.

>>6015535
I am pretty sure I know exactly who you're talking about, lmao. I live in Port Orchard now and the local game store owners out here are weird swingers who try to pick up people in their store.

>>6022306
I live in Port Orchard and travel to see my family right outside Beaverton. Next time I head down to Portland I outta go check this place out. How are prices?

>>6035352
Opened their first store in 1995, had a second one before they shut down in 2001
No wonder I never heard of them, everyone went to HMV for music.

>>6035472
Your Wikipedia is broken. Tower's first store opened in 1960. 1995 was when their website went live.
They had 200 locations in 15 countries at their peak. But you never heard of them because zoomer.

>>6035583
> Tower Records operated in Canada in the mid 1990s with a flagship store at the Toronto Eaton Centre at the corner of Queen and Yonge which opened in December 1995 and closed in 2001. Tower Records opened a second location in Toronto in the late nineties at North York Centre also on Yonge Street but was closed just prior to the flag ship store closing.
Straight from Wikipedia mate, so what if I’m a zoomer? I can’t help my parents had sex in 1993

>>6035593
I wasn't only in Canada, you faggot. Is your Wikipedia Canadian, too?

>>6035598
I don’t care about any foreign country that isn’t Japan, only my home and the centre of video games maters

>>6035606
the eternal FUCKING LEAF strikes aagain

>>6035609
Sorry I don’t live in an irrelevant country so I have to care about what foreigners do
I literally only read local news for my city or Japanese game news

>>6035612
>Canada
>relevant
way to live upto the stereotype

>>6035618
What stereotype? That we’re the best country in the world? You just wish your prime minister was as beloved as ours

>>6035620
you are not the best country in the world
you're not even in the top ten ffs
canadian arrogance is the stereotype, thanks for proving me right

>>6035625
Yeah whatever

>>6011975
Pink Gorilla in Seattle, it's pretty good

>>6035735
I do like that they keep imports. I have bought some Dreamcast imports from them.

>>6026818
Yes I do. Havent been there in a long time, ironically I live in Hillsboro now, so I drive by it all the time. I remember it having AES systems set up in a back room? And a Millenium Falcon model with a knob you could twist to turn the turret. I'll have to go back. They're opening a new location soon. Rainy Day Games has a special place in my heart too.
>>6035408
Decent? Not sure because I only bought things there in/of the 16 bit era. Got Rocket Knight for a good price recently. Mainly just peep in to kill time if Im in that shithole of a mall for any reason. Pop a few quarters in the MVS. Bought a slim ps2 power supply there. They just have some really cool random shit there, like I said. Panasonic Q and a PSX. Had a SNES store display console setup too, the one I first played an SNES on in 1991. Pic related

>>6012085
>Between Amazon and Violence nobody seems to want to go out shopping anymore.
Diversity (which causes Violence) is a great shopping centre emptier. Still, made me save money by getting subscriptions.
>How is anything supposed to stay in business now?
By buying from your Local Friendly Mighty Comglomerate of course! Funnily enough, we've come back to the Feudal System, where you toil your whole life to service the tiny piece of land you "own". The opposite might grow though - small communities of kin trading their goods and services, away from the watchful eye of big business.
> How do you advertise to people who don't look at or listen to any mediums that traditional forms of advertisement would be on?
Hopefully we enter a post-consumer society, where we foster things that are real: community over consumption.
>Even Facebook is dying.
Good.

>>6013208
If you think downloading ROMs for a 35 year old game is thieving you need to fuck off

>>6036190
Downloading a ROM takes more time and effort than just walking down to BookOff and buying a CIB game for a single coin

>>6031815
Imagine buying phones... Fuck that shit.

>>6032176
>held hostage by retards with god complexes that go off of a completely made up secondhand market.

What are you, a Bernie Bro?

If you're too poor for common sense just pirate it.

>>6036640
Pirating takes more effort than going to the store, if you can’t afford to pay a loonie for a game like Tekken or a toonie for Panzer Dragoon then find a better job, maybe one that pays minimum wage

>>6037251
>I don't even know who's disagreeing with me or about what
I think you have full blown autism, Canadanon.

>>6036459
Literally no.

>>6037258
Nah I agree with you
I was backing up your point
>>6037289
Let’s assume I didn’t have a BookOff walking distance from me, I hop on the train and within 15 minutes I’m at BookOff where I can buy a game like Mother for ¥500 CIB
Less if I just buy carts but I’m not a casual like metal Jesus Cuck

>>6027406
>Long Island doesnt need game shops.
I don't know about that but the ones I do know seem alright. You got Video Trading Post and Retro Games & Toys Of LI in the Tri County Flea Market (both stores being in the same town is nice). I've bought some stuff from both places over the years at pretty decent prices.

>>6035735
I just go there to flirt with Cody. What a dreamboat.

Everything not in the counter is fairly priced and cheap for the most part
Everything behind the counter is overpriced to shit
>Donkey Kong Country? That will be $80CAD sir

>CAD
feel sorry for you guys