/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1464961]

Ask someone who works at a /vr/ gamestore anything.
>that feel when a boxed tg-16 comes in for the first time ever
>that feel when the district manager buy's it before you're even done with the sale
>for only $60
Same guy also brought in a boxed NES, chrono trigger, earthbound, and several rpg's for the ps1+dreamcast.

[Anonymous No.1464969]

>>1464961
Quit tempting me with photos of glorious nippon. Aren't many retro games quite cheap there, too?

[Anonymous No.1464972]

Have you ever caught an autistic manchild shoplifting anything?

[Anonymous No.1464981]

>>1464969
Yes, cheaper than the us by far. I was actually looking on ebay at some nip pages and shit like ogre battle 64 is only like $5. Granted you need to know at least a little moon to understand anything, but still. As long as you dont care about condition you can get some amazing deals, and by that I mean even a crease on a box flap is enough to knock off like 1/3rd of the price for them.

[Anonymous No.1464979]

Are most of your customers in their 20's, 30's, or 40's?

[Anonymous No.1464982]

Do you let people play the games?

Do you over charge?

>>1464979
Do you get many younger people in there? Kids?

[Anonymous No.1464983]

>tfw the closest /vr/ game store is 45 minutes away

[Anonymous No.1464985]

Is it a franchise, or independently owned? Do you know how much it cost to start up? Are you making a decent living off of it? What kind of area is your shop located in, and what kind of horror stories do you have to share?

>tfw no /vr/ shop within an hour's drive despite plenty of retro gamers in the area

[OP No.1464990]

>>1464972
yes, lots of them. story in a sec.

>>1464979
overall, 20's
we do movies (dvd/blueray) and current gen stuff too, so that has an impact on the demographic quite a bit.
movie buyers are almost always in their 40's.
gamers average out to about 20 I'd say, but generally the older the system the older the player. 360 is kids (under 16), ps3 is college+high school. Retro is college students and up, usually in their late 20's. and xbox/ps2/gamecube is poor people and mexicans regardless of age.
I've seen a few children express interest in the SNES, but that's it as far as anyone under ~25 goes. Teenagers dont give a shit about the /vr/ at all, at least if they do, it's all done with emulators on their phone.

[Anonymous No.1464995]

>Teenagers dont give a shit about the /vr/ at all, at least if they do, it's all done with emulators on their phone.

[Anonymous No.1464992]

Where does your store make most of it's money from? You seriously can't turn a profit from selling SMB3 for $20 to soccer moms can you?

[Anonymous No.1464998]

>tfw my retro store went out of business
>tfw I didn't hear about it and see my friend with Pokemon Stadium 2, and Mario Kart for only $5

[OP No.1465015]

>>1464982
>Do you let people play the games?
kinda, we have some flatscreens set up with a ps3, 360, and a shitty 3-in-1 snes/nes/genesis console. we keep some chairs set up in front of the tv's so people can sit down and play, but most of the time they're in and out in a few minutes, or chatting with us about whatever the fuck they chat with us about.
>Do you over charge?
I'd like to say no, but it really depends. most prices are slightly below ebay, some are slightly above, and a handful are ridiculously under priced. The Earthbound that came in today for example would have sold for $140, though I have a feeling it's going to get passed around by the employee's for a few months until one of us pony's up the dosh for it. My model 2 Sega CD however was $25, and it came all the cables required, including the headphone to rca for a model 1 (though no model one extension piece sadly ;_;). NES and SNES are $45 each (but come with 2 controllers and a zapper). Most of the games are priced generically ($4 NES, $6 SNES, $8 PS1/DC/Sat, etc...) with the exception of rare games or ones in high demand, things like Pokemon, Final Fantasy, and Zelda.
we also do a buy 2 $8 and under get one free.
also we dont charge extra for boxes, but likewise we dont pay extra for boxes when people trade stuff in.

>>1464985
Franchise, though the nearest store is like 2 hours away, and this section of the company is like a little outpost several states away from the HQ.
Dunno about start up costs, but I do know that when a new store opens up, all the existing ones pull at least one duplicate for any game that we have more than 3 copies of, and send it over to them.
Area is an older part of a semi small town (25,000 people I think), not quite a downtown area, but older, if that makes sense. Not a shitty part of town either, though the demographic is overwhelmingly white trash and nigga's, with a handful of autists that come in so often you'd think they live next door.

[OP No.1465018]

>>1464992
1.Our stock is almost 100% trade ins
2.We sell dvd's, which we pay $1 in credit or .50 cents in cash for regardless of what it is, and then sell it for either $5, or $7 if it came out within about 8 months or so ago. unless its a box set, then its depends upon what the show/movie is.
3.We jew people worse than gamestop on trade ins if they ask for cash, which surprisingly a lot of them do. if they do in store credit, I think we give them around 1/3rd of what we charge for it.
4.We actually charge $14 for SMB3... when we have it.

>>1464998
Look for retro vidya facebook pages, a lot of them have been popping up recently.

[Anonymous No.1465027]

I was going to apply at my local /vr/ store but then I learned that the people who worked there were dudebros and shoplifted items from their own store, since the actual owner lives in a different area.

[Anonymous No.1465032]

>>1465018
14 bucks? Damn. I could never deal with it.

I bet they want cash for drugs or something. People don't really know or care about what their stuff is worth.

[Anonymous No.1465036]

>>1465027
I'm not sure why this stopped you. You didn't have to have anything to do with the stealing.

[Anonymous No.1465040]

>>1465036
Its literally three stoner dudes in Mass Effect hoodies who don't really even know the shit about what they're selling. If I wanted to get a job that I always wanted, I wouldn't want to burn myself out on it because of co-workers who wouldn't have the same passion that I do.

They couldn't even check to see what revision a SNES cart was.

[OP No.1465046]

ok story time
>autist numero uno
>aka, Blondie
>first day on the job
>Blondie walks in, and notices me from a few times I was in the store pre-employment
>we exchange hello's, and he takes off his backpack, which contains a top loading PS3
>I am completely unaware of his missing puzzle-piece nature at this point
>he want's to trade it in for store credit and buy a wii
>we hook it up to a tv behind the counter to test if it works
>nothing
>look at the cables
>just fine
>look at the ports, make sure their in all the way
>weird yellowish gunk that looks like velveeta cheese crammed in them
>clean it out with a q-tip and some 90 proof
>herewego.jpeg
>still doesnt work, other employee messes with it while I sort discs
>he keeps mumbling something about resetting the hard drive to solve the problem
>try to tell him that resetting it won't fix his problem
>he still insists
>finally get it fixed
>powers on just fine, video comes up on the screen, everything's hunky dory.
>he's happy, we're happy, the little mexican kid watching us is happy, overall its a good time
>suddenly boobs
>his background is a somewhat /h/-level pic of chun-li
>tactically unfuck my situation by turning off the tv
>he is visibly distressed by how the screen suddenly went black
>give him some bullshit about the tv being shitty and how we need to do some cable management after we finish up with the other customers
>get everyone else's stuff done, its now only us and him in the store
>get it hooked back up
>he looks like the fucking cat from alice in wonderland the way he smiles at dos boobies
>keeps mumbling "awwwww yeeeeeaaahhh" to himself
>other co-worker is a human of the female type
>he asks her if she likes chun-li
>twix-moment agreeable mumbles emerge from her
>audible slurping noises can be heard from him as I change the background to a more family-friendly default one.
>put in a game to test the system, won't play
>try another
>same result

CONT...

[Anonymous No.1465052]

>that feel when I've had a tg-16 since 1993 because i'm not a retro poser jumping on the latest collector trend

[OP No.1465057]

>>1465040
>They couldn't even check to see what revision a SNES cart was.
Shit man, if you asked me that I'd have to stealth google it behind the counter.
You don't seriously expect game store employees to be a fucking video game encyclopedia do you? Just because we sell games doesn't mean we know everything there is about them. When I worked at a McD's none of us even had the menu memorized and there's only like 50 things on it. Now think about how many video games there are, we're not going to know this shit.

Besides, this could be your chance to turn that place around and become a manager or something.

[Anonymous No.1465061]

>>1465057
This. I have no idea how you'd check the revision of any cart.

[OP No.1465082]

>>1465052
so what you're saying is, you had one before they were cool?

>>1465046
CONT...
>tell him we can't buy it because its broken and we dont do repairs.
>instead he sell's us all his games and controllers
>ring him up
>he starts chatting with she-worker beside me
>"whispers" in her ear if she know's what hentai is
>show's her a non-nude picture of raven from teen titans with a camel toe and pointy nipples
>eyebrows wiggle
>smile widens
>head nods
>he has achieved his final form
>as he ascends out the store, laden with his bundle of store credit, a gentle, yet kind wave is given to us, with only a hint of downs noted in the "Bye-bye" that is shouted in our direction
>all of which is topped by him stumbling into a family of four who are trying to enter as he walked backwards, attempting to open the door
>get on the floor
>everyone walked the dinosaur.
he looks exactly like Adam Sessler btw if any of you were wondering. Just with more craters from past acne. maybe I should have called him that instead.

[Anonymous No.1465086]

>>1465027
>get job
>report other dudes for stealing
>have friends apply and replace fags
>be happy

[OP No.1465095]

>>1465082
We have camera's in the store for hopefully obvious reasons, and also create a profile in our system when people sell something to us or use a credit card. That way we have their ID when shit goes south. Anyways, when we catch someone shoplifting, we take a photo of them from our camera's as they pocket their pilfered goods, include their info if we have it, and also look up their Facebook profile if we know their name. All of this information (Name, birth date, DL number, shoplifting photo, and FB profile image) gets printed onto a single sheet of paper and tossed into a binder.
A binder that I found later that night. A binder that happened to have a sheet of paper with him on it.
Apparently he comes in often enough and accounts for so much of our profits, both in sales and trade in's, that its better to let him steal a few $2 genesis games than take him to the police.
And judging by the number of times I've seen him in the store, I have no doubt that it's true.

[Anonymous No.1465096]

>>1465082
I want this to be true, but even as a weird, awkward pervert, I guess my sense of shame makes it nearly impossible for me to believe that someone is autistic enough to show complete strangers softcore porn of an underage-ish character in public.

[OP No.1465101]

>>1465096
I'd give you proof, but that'd give too much personal info away, and you'd probably call me a faggot for it anyways.
You're just going to have to trust me on this. Or get a retail job, then you can experience this shit first hand.

[Anonymous No.1465104]

Ever thought of getting a real job?

[Anonymous No.1465105]

>>1465095
I'm calling bullshit. How the fuck would you know if you've gotten stolen stuff?

[OP No.1465117]

>>1465104
yes, thats why I quit working in fast food.

>>1465105
>"hello, I'm officer buttfucker, we know a gamecom system 3 was stolen and we think it was sold here."
>"could you show us any gamecoms you've gotten in the past 4 days?"
>show him all our recently acquired gamecoms
>show him our receipts from when we took them in
>pull up the info of the person who sold it to us
>they recognize jerome's name in our lists
>they take the games
>we get fucked for however much said games cost us
>Jerome gets his butt hole widened by bubba in the county jail.
>everyone sleeps well that night
>except for jerome

[eTan !OD.c6PSqx6 No.1465120]

I'm curious, duder, where are you located?

Fellow retail /vr/ slave here.

[Anonymous No.1465123]

>>1465117
oh god.
>tfw fast food job
my degree at the University of Subway is at least making me money.

[Anonymous No.1465130]

>>1464983
>Entitled little shit
Don't even have an /vr/ game stores here

[Anonymous No.1465134]

>>1464961

what sallary is how much?
can i come work in gamestore without green card?

[Anonymous No.1465135]

>>1465117
>officer buttfucker
Was that really zir name?

[Anonymous No.1465139]

>>1464995
>implying that's a bad thing

[OP No.1465142]

>>1465120
Oklahoma

>>1465134
You'll have a lot of competition for that job, and they're not common.
also I make just above minimum wage. $8 an hour. Granted I'm a low level employee, but still, not really enough to support anyone other than yourself. And even that's barely possible.
I'd check to see if there is any other job you can do that is specific to your nationality. Language teacher perhaps?

>>1465135
yes

[OP No.1465149]

>>1465134
also I cant comment on the green card.
I dont know anything about those, how to get them, or if you need one or not.

[Anonymous No.1465152]

How do you guys price things?

[Anonymous No.1465159]

>>1465142
i blow away competition im expert, deep knowledge about video game. Dendy, Polystation, Terminator, Vii, all of it
I know english grate, i can touch it. 8$ an hour, lots of money $____$, very good.
I like game, give me job, i fly to american kingdom

[Oakland No.1465163]

Why the fuck does every /vr/ store have no goddamn Saturn or Sega CD games?

I also wonder why the hell mine has a Master System, but no games for it. You'd think...

[eTan !OD.c6PSqx6 No.1465164]

>>1465163
because they very rarely come in. we see more saturn games than sega cd or master system games. Just not something people are letting go of, and not much to go around with to begin with.

[OP No.1465165]

>>1465152
dunno, it's done through corporate, though I'm fairly certain ebay does play a part in the process.
How much, I can't say.

>>1465159
Well shit man, tell you what, you can move in with me, and we'll remove kebab and sell dendy's together. Just dont forget to bring your tracksuit.

[Anonymous No.1465168]

>>1465163
Saturn and sega cd games probably won't come in often.

As for master system games if you are in America they didn't sell well at all the marketing was really bad for it just import from europe if you want master system games

[Oakland No.1465172]

>>1465164
I guess there's always conventions...

I think my store actually keeps their Sega CD games in the back for some reason, while the rare PSone games are up front.

And two copies of Arc the Lad Collection.

[Anonymous No.1465173]

>>1465165
What the fuck!!!!!
I was just messing dude, but you pinpointed my nationality perfectly.

Also, my dendy collection will be hard to import. I have a lot of stuff.

[OP No.1465175]

>>1465173
Can I lick your ass each night?

[eTan !OD.c6PSqx6 No.1465178]

>>1465172
If its a rarer title that does not sell well (or would sit around for a while), we list it online. This happens with much of the old sega system stuff. Just doesn't sell in store, no one comes in looking for Phantasy Star or Lunar on Sega CD. :(
So we kind of keep them in back, too, haha, with all our listed stuff.

[OP No.1465179]

>>1465163
see
>>1465164

We have 1 Sega CD game, and its a football title. We did have sewer shark for a little bit but idk what happened to it. Not that it matters, since there's no copy protection on the system.
But holy fuck Saturn and Dreamcast are a desert out here, I've had both of those consoles for over a year now and no games.
>tfw your computer's drive can't properly burn CD-G format

[Anonymous No.1465180]

>>1465175
I would love to!
Do you mind haemorrhoids ;_; ?

[eTan !OD.c6PSqx6 No.1465184]

>>1465179
We at least have a good selection of dreamcast games, including shenmue and every goddamn sonic game in existence.

Just depends on your customer base, I suppose!

Do you guys do reservations/prepays?

[Oakland No.1465194]

>>1465179
>>1465184
Dreamcast selection isn't too bad. Infact, I got a shitload of my Dreamcast games there. I got a copy of SA2 that was fucked to hell, but it's not like I couldn't just burn it, which I did.

I just wish I could find certain games for the Saturn since owning a model 2 Saturn sucks.

[OP No.1465206]

>>1465175
thats not me, but as long as its clean and you've got the common courtesy for a reach around I'm fine. Just dont be upset when I give my gf more attention than you.

>>1465172
only "rare" ps1 game we have right now is FF tactics. which is kept in the counter (its glass).

>>1465178
We're supposed to send rare or CIB stuff in to corporate to sell on an ebay page that I have yet to see, but that never happens. instead one of the employee's usually ends up buying it off the customer (we step outside and do a private sale) for slightly more than what the store would give, but still vastly cheaper than what the store would charge. That or we put the cart in with everything else, and toss the box in the back, which is given to the customer when they buy the game, or to an employee if they want it. or in some cases we just shrink-wrap the box with the game inside and toss it in a case. Which, like I said earlier, costs the same amount as a loose cart, since we don't price based upon condition.

[eTan !OD.c6PSqx6 No.1465210]

>>1465206
ouch. FF tactics 'rare'?

How big is your store inventory wise per system?

[OP No.1465221]

>>1465184
>Do you guys do reservations/prepays?
For customers, we can hold a game until the end of the day, other than that we only do layaways.
Employee's are officially allowed 5 items to be put on hold indefinately, although our manager's rule is that we can never have more stuff on hold then him. which is extremely generous since he's got a pile of at least 15 things at any one time in the back.
None of our stock is new unless one section is woefully empty, so preorders aren't an option. unless someone brings in a system or copy of a game, we don't have it. We haven't had any NES/SNES/N64/Genesis in stock (or at least more than one in stock) for awhile now because of that. And our selection fluctuates in sync with welfare/college disbursement checks as well, which say's quite a lot about our demographic.

[OP No.1465243]

>>1465210
by "rare", I can also mean "in demand". it only sells for like 1$5-20 I think, and we've got at least 5 copies of it. It's just that none of our other PS1 games go over $12, which is the limit for stuff out on the floor.

Inventory wise, I know we have over 2,000 PS2, and 1,707 Xbox huge disks, because thats what I did today. Most systems are between 500-700 disks/carts, and about half that in individual titles. That's not counting the mountains of duplicates and sports games we have in the back. we have an entire rubbermaid bucket filled with just madden N64 games, and thats not even all of them.
we also have 50 used 360 controllers out front and 3 Rubbermaid totes full of them in the back.
whereas we've got about 10 used dualshock 3's total, with maybe 5 more off-brand used ps3 controllers. thats not counting the new dualshock three's or new off-brand controllers we've got for the system though, which are always kept stocked to a reasonable amount.
That example is an outlier though, as nothing else in the store compares to the excess of 360 controllers and N64/PS2/Xbox sports games we have.

it's got about as much square footage devoted to games as a gamestop does, only difference is that we keep as many copies of games out on the floor as possible, so no side-by-side individual cases like they tend to do.

[OP No.1465251]

>>1465243
meant to say
> it only sells for like $15 or $20 think
sage because 3 back to back posts

[Anonymous No.1465256]

>>1465251
>>1465210
do either of you ever run into resellers?

[eTan !OD.c6PSqx6 No.1465269]

>>1465256
Not that I know of. Our prices aren't really garage sale low, we're closer to ebay prices or a tad bit lower.

Though I'll be honest, some of my coworkers pick up something from a customer to flip it on ebay. I've done it once myself, though mostly because when we get in wrapped games from customers we're -required- to open it up to check if the disc is there/etc. A lady was trading in Starfox Adventures mint, I told her I'd give her our buy in price + some extra, and threw it on ebay since I figured someone else would want a mint copy of that game.

We get a lot of collectors, though.

[OP No.1465298]

>>1465256
Yes, unfortunately. We're within walking distance of a goodwill, salvation army, and "resale barn", which means that stuff from there almost always comes straight to us. Which is good since it gives us a nice variety, but it also means no cheap deals. Resellers around here aren't smart enough to realize they'd get more if they sold it themselves though. There's this one lady who goes around to garage sales and buy's up anything video game related and brings it to us, either in exchange for a shit ton of movies, or a very meager profit in cash, assuming it's profitable at all with how we jew people on cash trade ins.

>>1465269
> when we get in wrapped games from customers we're -required- to open it up to check if the disc is there/etc.
same, that goes for anything the store takes in, movies, ipods, phones, tablets, anything. either one of us will pick it up, or tell them to put it up for *insert dollar amount here* on Craigslist or somewhere similar.

[Anonymous No.1465364]

>>1465142
>Oklahoma
I'm gonna try and see if you work at the nearest retro vidya store to me while keeping it ambiguous. (Sorry if this comes off as creepy/weird)

Does the chain/brand name of where you work start with a V?
Is your store next to a burrito restaurant?
Do you also sell things such as comics, music CDs, and action figures?
When you walk in the front door, are the games to the right?
Do you have (or recently sold, I haven't been there very recently) a Sega Genesis system that hasn't been sold for a very long time?
Do you have a few TVs hanging from the ceiling playing movie trailers?

Like I said, sorry if this is freaky, I'm just having a "small world" type feeling right now. Of course, feel free to ignore/refuse to answer this.

[Anonymous No.1465378]

we have a retro store here but its the shittiest thing ever
all the game are over priced and its always filled with bronies playing magic over the displays and being extremely loud
feels bad man I used to go there a lot to just look but everythings too expensive

[OP No.1465393]

>>1465364
No, to literally all of those things.

[Anonymous No.1465397]

>>1465393
Does the name have an X in it?

[Anonymous No.1465407]

>>1465393
Darn. Well, its still pretty cool to see another person from Oklahoma on here. Or dare I say... an Oklahomie (please forgive me for that shitty pun, I just had to)

[OP No.1465468]

>>1465397
also a no.

>>1465407
sounds like a kinda cool place.

I remember about 6 or 7 years ago there was a place called gamerxone near me that was in, I guess technically a basement, of an old building downtown. the walls had wood paneling and it was extremely cramped in there. the shelves were set up in a maze as well, like they almost spiraled towards the center of the room and then reached a dead-end. there was also "room" on the back sides of the shelves where they had a card table set up to play /tg/ stuff. They sold comics and tabletop rpg's too, but idk how anyone read them since it was so dark in there. There were no windows and the only light source came from these tiny ass tv's hanging from the ceiling, really dim tube lights like the ones businesses use, that were placed at the top of each shelf, and a lamp hanging above the card table. A literal lamp like you would set on a table, that they hung from the ceiling with a piece of rope.

[Anonymous No.1465550]

Only "retro" place near me is a Sound-Go-Round like a half hour away, and they really jew on their prices. I wanted to buy one of their saturns or dreamcasts, but wasn't willing to spend 80 dollars on just the system and another 20-30 on two controllers.

[Anonymous No.1465703]

>>1465095
>>1465082

Please stop shoving apostrophes in whenever an S approaches.

also
>a gentle, yet kind wave
>as he ascends out the store

What the fuck am I reading.jpg

[Anonymous No.1467693]

>>1465163
The store I go to used to have a few, but then some asshole came in and bought out ALL of their Sega and Atari 2600 games, except for a copy of Lunar that was in a display case. Now all their Sega stuff consists of a bunch of loose Genesis games (that they probably got a lot off of ebay just to have some), a few undesirable DC games, a single Master System game, and Lunar. Good thing I had gotten all the good shit on previous visits.

[Anonymous No.1467754]

>>1464983
be glad you even have one you little shit!
the only store that sells retro games is my local game, and they charge like 20$ for super mario bros for nes

[Anonymous No.1467797]

>>1465164
> see Master System games
> Hang-On
> Safari Hunt
> Alien Syndrome
> Chopper Lift
> Great Tennis

Seriously -every fucking time.

Though I did see Wonderboy the other day.

[Anonymous No.1469451]

>>1464961

>NTSC-J

Thought it was valuable until I discovered their region.

[Anonymous No.1469765]

>>1465046
>>1465082
I would have died from the embarrassment of being near that guy.

[Anonymous No.1469838]

Jesus, this threads still up.
Well you guy's are in luck. Here's something that happened today. btw, my manager said that this is the craziest thing he's ever seen happen in the 8 years he's worked here, and it was during my shift.
>black chick walks in (early 20's I'd guess, maybe younger)
>snooty as all hell
>has a big ass purse thing over her shoulder that she keeps bumping into the [glass] counter
>texting on her phone as she walks
>bumping into people too, not giving a shit about them though
>she pulls out a ps3 a, ps2 controller, and a copy of GTA5
>literally drops them on the counter
>says she want's to sell them
>no power or video cables
>I ask if she has them
>"a what now"
>"do you have the cables to hook this up with ma'am? A plug for the wall and an HDMI cable?"
>"Oh, naw I ain't got no pluuug, what the fuck is an eich-dee-em-eye, I ain't never heard of that shit."
>show her one
>"never seen one dem befow"
>"ok them ma'am, do you have one of these?"
>show her a standard R/W/Y multi-out
>she's still texting
>"naw"
>grab some from behind to counter to test the system
>works fine with HDMI, use a copy of angry birds to test if disks work, and they do.
>controller connects just fine
>try using the multi-out
>nothing
>reset the consoles video settings
>still nothing
>multi-out port doesn't work, pins are visibly damaged
>probably yanked the cable out when she unplugged it to bring it in
>"I'm sorry ma'am but we cant take this as the system only works with HDMI, however we can take this game in if you'd still like to sell it"
>"well thats k cuz I dont got one dose"
>still texting, barely paying attention to me
>restate last sentence
>she finally realizes what I said
>"well what da fug, I taught yew sold games here niggah, done chu buy sheet too?"
>at this point I just want her gone
>ask her to please tone down her language while she's in the store
CONT...

[Anonymous No.1469843]

>>1469838
CONT...
>ask for ID, so I can take in the game and [ps2] controller.
>she doesn't have it
>no ID at all, no wallet, no credit card, nothing.
>despite the fact that she drove there
>bitch mode engaged
>starts yelling at me for not taking the games anyways
>at the top of her lungs
>suddenly, amidst an untold number of fugs, cracka's, nigga's and sheeits
>"I fuggin broked into that sheeitbag exes house, and jacked dat shit and yall nigga's wont even pay fo eet jus cuz I dont got no paypuhs, dafug wong wit chu? you know what kinduh bulllllsheeit I had to go throug wit dat lany ass beeeitch"
>coworker grabs phone
>calls cops
>no warnings given
>none needed
>she overhears him
>"SHHEEEIITT"
>runs out the door
>knocks over a bunch of DVD's on her way out
>gets in her car
>floors it out of the parking lot in her niggermobile
>cops come
>she parked directly in front of the store
>her plate is visible on the camera's
>they talk with the manager about cop stuff n' whatnot
>watch it on the cameras with them
>they leave
>I have to clean up the fucking DVD cases
And I'll probably have to show up for court because of this shit too. goddamnit.

[Anonymous No.1469875]

>>1469838
>>1469843
Sounds like an episode of hardcare pawn

[Anonymous No.1469882]

>>1469875
that's exactly what my manager said

[Anonymous No.1469883]

You ever get those really greasy fucks that record themselves walking through the store trying to find their great deals?

I saw some guy doing that at a Goodwill and a retro vidya shop. Only thing he was missing was the fedora.

[Anonymous No.1469885]

>>1469843
Congrats, you survived a category 2.

[Anonymous No.1469890]

>>1469883
Never actually seen anyone do that, but then again people who do that and have even the half a braincell hide the fact that's what they're doing.

I work again tomorrow, so I'll see if I can get anything interesting to post here for you guy's. doubt I'll have a new greentext though, the two I've given so far are not at all normal for a day.
I did manage to snag a copy of valkyria chronicles though.

[Anonymous No.1471661]

>>1469890
nice, VC is a pretty fun game

[Anonymous No.1471695]

>>1465046
>>1465082

>>1469838
>>1469843

I just don't know anymore.

[Anonymous No.1471704]

As expected, nothing super crazy happened today.
But there was a little kid who kept going on about megaman though, wanted to know if we had MM7 (we dont) since he'd already beaten the others.
This kid was probably about 7 or 8 by the way.
and he's beaten the other 6 mega man games, a fucking 8 year old dude. And I know he wasn't shitting me because his dad had evidence on his phone.
>mfw
I told him if it came in I'd hold on to it for him, and I mean it.
>he said megaman's his favorite game

[Anonymous No.1471706]

>>1471704
Faith restored.

[Anonymous No.1471707]

>>1471661
I've been playing it while watching GCCX.
Totally not what I expected gameplay wise, but I like it.
a lot.

[Anonymous No.1471727]

>>1465378
>Watch GCCX
>All those retro games stores just packed with games
>Retro Japanese games aren't suffering from resellers, hipsters, and hoarders

I need to really learn moon and visit japan sometime. Feels way easier to deal with than stuff in the states.

[Anonymous No.1471742]

>>1471727
>start learning moon
>9 months later
>finally able to go to nipland
>spend a grand on plane tickes
>spend another grand on games
>spend another grand on food+hotels
>spend a final grand on a return ticket
Yep, you sure saved a lot there.
>better option
>get English teaching job in nipland
>spend a grand to get there
>learn as you go
>get paid several grand
>spend extra income on games and return ticket
>you more or less get free games and vacation just for talking to asian kids
Granted you need a bachelors degree, but you should have one of those anyways.

[Anonymous No.1471746]

>>1471727
Well sorry to burst your bubble but Akihabara is full of overpriced shit meant to take advantage of tourists, mainly obnoxious French ones. The clerks at Super Potato are usually apathetic and disgruntled and spend most of their time making fun of foreigners to their faces. Also it tends to be 80-90 degrees F with no A/C and aisles too narrow to turn around in. Excited yet?

[Anonymous No.1471751]

>>1471742
Your "better option" sounds rather dubious.

[Anonymous No.1471754]

>>1471707
the surprising thing is that the story is actually pretty good. Shame that the sequels are pretty terrible.

[Anonymous No.1471756]

>>1471746
Sounds better than having to spend 50+ dollars for any NES and Snes games worth a damn from a retrostore because "That's what it sells for on ebay!"

[Anonymous No.1471757]

>>1471742
I was expecting your post to go more like
>start learning moon
>9 months later
>finally able to go to nipland
>spend a grand on plane tickets
>spend another grand on food+hotels
>spend a final grand on a return ticket
>massive tsunami hits Fukushima and Japan must evacuate or die during your visit

[Anonymous No.1471759]

>>1471751
would you rather spend around $5000 and stay a week, maybe two, or spend $1000 (while making it back in the next month or so) and stay there for at least a year, maybe more.

[Anonymous No.1471779]

>>1471759
I'm fairly certain you're not just going to waltz into a job teaching English in Japan without also knowing a significant amount of Japanese. You would need to also factor in all kinds of cost of living, and that isn't cheap at all. I don't know what they pay teachers in Japan, but if it's anything like America it isn't a lot. I'm not saying you couldn't do this, but it's nowhere near as easy as you make it out to be, else we would see a huge amount of weeaboos moving to Japan, and I've not heard of such an exodus.

[Anonymous No.1471782]

>>1471756
>better than having to spend 50+ dollars
>implying thats not what super potato charges
I've been there, and they're just as bad if not worse than most resellers here.
It's a cool place to look around in, but actually buying something there is probably the most retarded thing you can possibly do.

[Anonymous No.1471792]

>>1471782
I realize travel to japan would be too expensive and is a pipedream. I'm just kinda fed up with how hard it can be to buy retro vidya without having to buy everything online.

[Anonymous No.1471803]

>>1471779
Actually there are a large number of companies who prefer that you dont know japanese. ALT (assistant language teacher) jobs are the #1 thing foreigners are hired for outside of the US military.
and you would be correct that they don't get paid a lot, on average its $30,000 a year. However 99% of these jobs are for little towns out in the ass end of nowhere, so the cost of living is about the same as the US, assuming you change your lifestyle to match that of the rest of the country (public transport only, japanese food diet, no fresh fruit, etc...)
>I've not heard of such an exodus.
thats because you don't know where to look.
>http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5Ure7omY1nU5bozq7qVAww
The only requirement for most jobs is that you have a bachelors degree, and thats not actually a job requirement, but a visa requirement. Doesn't matter what it's in either.
As for weaboo's, they tend to get weeded out in the interview process, though some still slip through.

[Anonymous No.1471805]

>>1471759
Why are you just making up numbers? I spent a month in Japan last summer, rented a nice apartment in Yoyogi and traveled all over the country for less than 5 grand. That includes game shopping in Akiba and Den Den.

[Anonymous No.1471809]

>>1471792
Well if it makes you feel any better a concrete example would be the Japanese version of Turtles in Time (cart only!) for Super Famicom, which sells for about $40 in Akihabara. Same as eBaying a US copy.

I got lucky and found stuff like a nice condition SFC copy of Castlevania at Book Off in Shibuya for like $8, but that was a fluke. These myths of stores filled with brand new and CIB SFC games are just that, myths. Super Potato and Mandarake charge out the ass for anything someone would actually want.

[Anonymous No.1471813]

>>1471805
>implying I'm going to research the exact prices for this shit
>just to show that its cheaper to buy things here than buy a plane ticket for game shopping.
I assumed he would
>get a ticket within a few weeks of leaving
>rent a hotel room in a major part of tokyo
>do it around a holiday (because of work)
>not be smart enough to check out back-alley and mom+pop stores
>eat 20 big macs every day
if you don't plan it well 5G's can go by pretty quick

[Anonymous No.1471817]

>>1471813
Fair enough, I see what you're getting at.

[Anonymous No.1471838]

>>1471809
hey, you're scaring him.

Its not completely a myth, but it's definitely not as easy as people on /vr/ say.
It's just that the games that go for huge amounts here unusually go for about 1/2 that in japan. RPG's for example are printed in insane amounts over there because they know people will play them, therefore they're still cheap. You're not going to find 100% CIB games all the time, loose carts are still the main way you'll find them. Often with little Watanabe's name scribbled on the back with a marker.
Just like here, if you want good deals you'll have to hunt for them, and that means poking around thrift shops (hard-offs usually).
So yeah, the stuff you're interested in will most likely be cheaper, but japan has its earthbounds too.

[Anonymous No.1471848]

>>1471838
By "myth" I was thinking mainly of all the times GCCX goes to game shops and people react like, "wow! you can just walk into a store and buy brand new SFC games!" Which is true if you're looking to buy a copy of Tecmo Bowl or something. It's hilarious walking into a used book store and finding CIB copies of Chrono Trigger for 120 yen and thinking to yourself "if this was in English I'd be rich." Personally I'm into weird and less popular stuff that tends to have kids' names scribbled on it so my shopping trips are pretty cheap.

[Anonymous No.1471858]

>>1471848
Oh, yeah GCCX is pretty misleading that way.
And I agree with having names written on carts,as long as its not on the label.
If it comes between a scribbled on cart and just a plane cart, I'll go with the scribbled on one.
But if its not too much more I'd go for the CIB one instead.

[Anonymous No.1472050]

>tfw our /vr/ chain closed down

It was a regional or national chain with a few stores here. Play and Trade I think it was called, had lots of /vr/ stuff. Bought an SNES four score there and tons of stuff. Then it was robbed overnight one holiday season, cleaned out of pretty much all of it's stock. They cashed in the insurance and closed the place down shortly afterwards. Fucking terrible.

[Anonymous No.1473252]

>>1471742
The point is not saving money by going on a shopping trip to japan, the point is that I want to go there at some point in my life anyway so I might as well take a few extra hundred with me and spend it on videogames while I'm there.

[Anonymous No.1474309]

>>1469843
hahaha if this is real...
then your coworker definitely should have been more discrete. Kick their ass.

[Anonymous No.1474338]

>>1473252
My second option still stands as a better one.
A few weeks, maybe a month vs a whole year.
You can even stay several years if you wanted, Jet, which is the #1 company for this, has a 5 year limit. But by that time you could probably find a permanent job with the school system there, instead of having to go through a contractor company.
Plus you might even meet a slanty eye'd waifu who's willing to give you a marriage visa, which means you can spend however long you want there and retain your US citizenship.
Think about it, you get cheap games, AND freedoms.
>thisismyfetish.jpeg

[Anonymous No.1474378]

>>1465468
Does it have pictures of peach, sonic, and a bunch of other game characters on the front and have king in the name? I'm visiting my brother in Oklahoma this week and saw a vr store in his relatively small town

[Anonymous No.1474447]

>>1474378
no