/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.4840206]

Whats your local retro game store like?
Mine is a small place that mostly sells MtG cards now

[Anonymous No.4840246]

ebay lol

[Anonymous No.4840297]

>>4840206
Mine is an overpriced meme shop full of douchebags that don't know very much about video games.

[Anonymous No.4840316]

Mine is in a big open space with huge wire racks lining the walls.
All the gems are held behind a glass display counter. Although they have a decent stock of vidya, most of the space in the store is taken up by giant tables where kids play yugioh (i think the place is an official yugioh league host or something like that)
I visit every other month or so, the owner is cool, but the stock sucks since you have to constantly monitor their Facebook page to see when the good stuff comes in and try and beat other nerds to it, otherwise you'll find nothing but old sports games and jeopardy on ps1

[Anonymous No.4840339]

I live in middle of nowhere in Eastern Europe. There are no games stores here.

[Anonymous No.4840343]

The name is FX Game Xchange.

I've never been inside, though it is in the same strip mall where there used to be a Funcoland that I would go to many moons ago. Maybe I'll check it out eventually.

[Anonymous No.4840387]

There's a chain that sucks, a hole in the wall that's decent, and a card store.

[Anonymous No.4840460]

One in Shoreline Washington I go to is pretty good. Whenever there's new games coming out I like to preorder there to support them. I make a walk there every time listening to some IDM music then excitedly walk home, I got Yakuza 6 there recently.

[Anonymous No.4840471]

I live pretty close to eStarland, but I don't see any reason to go. I've checked their website and everything costs the same as buying it online. Their trade in values are crap too.

[Anonymous No.4840490]

>>4840471
Hey me too, NOVA bro. Their game exchanges were worth going to, though, but they haven't hosted one in nearly a year. Do you know what's up with that?

[Anonymous No.4840510]

>>4840460
Whoa had no clue Another Castle did stuff out of barcades.

[Anonymous No.4840517]

>>4840490
I never knew they used to do stuff like that. A shame they aren't happening anymore, because that sounds like it might actually be useful.

[Anonymous No.4840521]

>>4840206
Two guys I went to middle school and high school work in mine so I refuse to go in there. It's only about 5 min from my house but I refuse to shop there since I never want to see them again and the few times I've been there the service and selection was terrible.

I drive out to the city instead. I live in Chicago so I have to deal with some higher prices on occasion but typically stores in the city will have pretty good stock actually and the people inside will be cool so I'm fine paying $5-10 more, though I don't go over that.

[Anonymous No.4840532]

>>4840521
You got bullied huh :(

[Anonymous No.4840538]

>>4840532
Not bullied but I hate both of them. One is a man child who still talks like he's in highschool and the other is a stoner burnout who lives with his parents

Last thing I want to do is make small talk with people from high school.

[Anonymous No.4840541]

>>4840538
Yeah, you got bullied :(

[Anonymous No.4840542]

>>4840521
>>4840538
:(

[Anonymous No.4840545]

>>4840538
You're posting in /vr/ What makes you better than them?

[Anonymous No.4840547]

Sadly in my city its all overpriced resellers. I still to ebay.
Even the old people the run flea market stalls charge inflated prices now.

[Anonymous No.4840551]

>>4840541
I was bullied in high school, I won't lie, but not by them. All three of us were among the loser group, just different losers. I was friends with the stoner in middle school but by high school we got out of touch.
>>4840542
:(
>>4840545
>>4840545
I did something with my life after high school.

I didn't think this would cause this much of a commotion, all I said was I don't feel like seeing some burnouts I went to high school with.

[Anonymous No.4840558]

>>4840206
There's a really nice place nearby that I forgot to snap photos of. It has pinball machines on top of that.

[Anonymous No.4840560]

I live in a bumfuck town so I have to go to Lansing to get my vidya stuff, small store called the Swap Meet.

[Anonymous No.4840574]

>>4840206
Closed down.

Adam Koralik visited it once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrRWFA6J4Bc

[Anonymous No.4840580]

>>4840541
no one who works at a retro game store has ever bullied anyone.

[Anonymous No.4840587]

>>4840580
This. I've never been in a retro game store and not seen a guy like this behind the counter.

[Anonymous No.4840724]

>>4840587
I don't look like that, but I do have long hair, and I bullied someone in middle school.

[Anonymous No.4840735]

>>4840206
All but one store in my area are either:

>owned by an enthusiast who basically uses the store as a museum for their personal collection and won't take less than what they see people asking on shitbay

>owned by a scalper/hoarder who has 2,000 copies of every N64 sports game and tries to sell you dirty, malfunctioning hardware

The one good store has a tight, catered selection and has a nice arcade in the back. Been to a few TTT2 and T7 tournaments there. It's called the Gaming Zone in Tempe, AZ.

[Anonymous No.4840738]

doesn't exist

[Anonymous No.4840746]

There's a very good retro game location about 30 minutes from me in Youngstown, FL. Found an unopened copy of Castlevania SotN there the other day. Tons of cool shit from Atari games to weeb figures. Weird fuckin location but I guess it's a pretty untapped market out there.

[Anonymous No.4840747]

>>4840206

I live very close to a store owned by a guy in his sixties who has been selling games since the early 90s.
it's cool because he knows a lot about how all the games were distributed back then and all the regional differences in game availability.

[Anonymous No.4840754]

I have not been in there but they seem overprice from their listing online.

[Anonymous No.4840757]

>>4840206
Which one? We have dozens here. They range from ripoff tourist traps to little mom and pop places that are less of a rip off. For the latter ones I occasionally do repairs on some of the more obscure/valuable consoles or take broken shit off their hands.

[Anonymous No.4840774]

>>4840587
>What can I do ya for?

[Anonymous No.4840798]

decent selection, but their prices are some of the worst I've seen. $60 for a loose mario 64 kart is horrendous. They do have some stuff like a vectrex though which is pretty cool.

[Anonymous No.4840831]

>>4840206
Local boy, eh?

[Anonymous No.4840857]

>>4840521
I feel the same way man.
>go to any store
>see someone you know but generally hate conversing / seeing them ruins your day
>can't go to that store anymore
or worse
>go to store to pick up sometimes embarrassing shit (condoms, medicine, junk food)
>a friend has to check you out when you leave
>can never go there to pick up that shit again even though it was already your "go here to pick up embarrassing shit" store.

[Anonymous No.4840904]

>>4840857
the self-checkout lanes at Target or Walmart are godsend for buying that stuff.

[Anonymous No.4841056]

>>4840551
>I did something with my life after high school.
Whine about two people who probably don't even remember who you are on /vr/ of all places?

[Anonymous No.4841064]

>>4840206
I was actually going to type out the story surrounding my store, but it's too fuckin' long. Basically, a douchebag used to own it a long time ago, then he sold it to this young black dude. The new guy did a really good job of maintaining it and had good business practices, and made it a genuinely fun place to hang out. (While he owned it, there was always at least one person hanging out in the store, playing vidja or at least a round of MtG. He also had at least SOMETHING going on each weekend. Obscure fighting game tournaments, smash Bros, Pokemon TCG... Something!)

After owning that place for like ten years he actually got a job offer at some game store in Japan. He said that he couldn't pass that up, so now he lives over there, and he sold the business to a new dude.

The new guy was just fucking awful, but he eventually got arrested for unlawful interactions with minors in his store, and then he ended up selling it to someone else, who's basically made it into a "Bazinga!"-tier capeshit and trendy "geek" crap store. From what I've heard, he babysits his wife there by giving her a "job", and she's a real cunt.

[Anonymous No.4841065]

>>4840538
>One is a man child

You're the one who refuses to enter a business because you're still bitter about high school

[Anonymous No.4841168]

>>4840574
He visited mine too lol

https://youtu.be/pBasJmsd4t4

[Anonymous No.4841179]

>>4840754
I go here very very rarely. I used to go more often like ten years ago when the prices weren't so inflated. Now I only go if I'm looking for something specific that requires me to look through a bunch of stock. I went to find a 1chip snes, because they have a billions snes consoles and I could just ask them to look for one. I plan to eventually go again for a Master System that has Snail Maze as the bios game.

[Anonymous No.4841208]

>>4840560

Hello friend. I live in Lansing currently, but I grew up in a bumfuck town near here. Where you from?

Anyway, I used to go to the Swap Meet all the time, but they're a bit too scummy for my standards. It's too bad Game Hits closed down. I had been shopping their for as long as I can remember. Disc Traders shoved them right out. Have you tried Replay Exchange in Old Town?

[Anonymous No.4841210]

>>4840735
The one off 14th street?
Pretty nice store, I like fallout games, even though I haven’t been there in a while. The have three locations I think. Bookmans is usually too expensive and has the sports game problem. There’s also The Game Zone in Gilbert which usually has a small selection but I’ve found some gems there, it’s generally the most expensive shop but part of me just likes that it’s ran by some old lady. I don’t stop in much at all but when I did I always bought something.

[Anonymous No.4841246]

>>4840587
lol this is so true

>t. works at game store

[Anonymous No.4841252]

I went in to look for Dreamcast games. In a condescending tone they told me they didn't carry them because you can apparently play copies without a chip. No fucking shit. Meanwhile their shelves were filled with Wii games which are just as easy to play via softmod. The store went out of business last winter.

[Anonymous No.4841287]

>>4840746
>Found an unopened copy of Castlevania SotN there the other day.

Holy crap. How much did you pay for it ?

[Anonymous No.4841289]

>>4840747
Nice. I bet that guy got some interesting stories to tell. I'd love to hear some of them.

[Anonymous No.4841314]

>>4841252
>because you can apparently play copies without a chip
holy shit what a bunch of idiots. going by your description, they sound like they deserved to have gone out of business.

[Anonymous No.4841317]

>>4841252
If you're going to worry about piracy you might as well just close up shop since all video games can be trivially and perfectly copied at extremely low cost.

[Anonymous No.4841323]

>>4840538
> im totally not jealous of them at all.. no, totally not.

this is what im reading.

[Anonymous No.4841340]

>>4841208
Hastings, or Podunk as I like to call it
I'll have to try Reply Exchange, I've driven by it several times but never been in.

[Anonymous No.4841351]

>>4841340

Not to one-up you, but I grew up 5 miles outside of a town whose population was about 550.

Replay Exchange is pretty grimy. They moved from their East Lansing location a year or two ago, and it feels like they haven't brought in any new stock since. They're the only place around that's willing to haggle, though.

[Anonymous No.4841373]

>>4840206

Douchey owner who is into anthropomorphic human dragon hybrid art, aka furry with scales and not fur. I'm not joking about this. He and his wife (or girlfriend) have drawings of them as dragon-people.

Tons of sports games or shit tier games with no brains on how to clear them out. Put those fuckers on sale or throw in one with another purchase, like a buy one get one (must be sports or a certain section) free.

They have slightly improved in that most commons are now labeled with prices (it took them two years to get to this point). The most annoying thing is anything over about $10 isn't labeled and they literally look it up on pricecharting.com in front of you. They say they price it slightly below ebay, yet somehow their torn and stained label games are always at least $2-4 over ebay value.

They basically give you 10% of the value of your games/systems if you trade in and that's only for decent games. Have a copy of Earthbound and a SNES setup with all cords and 2 controllers? I can do $45, but that's only because SNES is popular and sells fast and the one you're selling is pristine with no yellowing.

There is also a dude working there that looks like he's about 23-25 who looks either stoned or inbred to stupidity, yet I think he's 100% sober. When you buy something he can't count change and afterwards he says in the most socially awkward monotone way "Thank you Thssuuurr." I'm not a dick to anyone and treat him nicely but that "Thank you Thssuuuurr" almost drives me insane.

[Anonymous No.4841382]

>>4841373
How the fuck do people manage to find women like that? My girlfriend is as normal as you can get.

[Anonymous No.4841396]

>>4841382

I have no idea dude. The guy also looks like chewbacca, longish hair and unkempt curly beard. The woman looks normal, but you kind of get a "Dreamcast era obsessed Sonic" vibe from her. I've not had much interaction with her as she's not there often but seems like a decent person, just a bit odd.

It's kind of like two stereotypical 4chan users got together and started a relationship and a store. I'm happy for their relationship, they definitely both march to the beat of a different drum.

[Anonymous No.4841397]

Judge for yourself, my local retro game store allows a google maps online tour:

https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x487a717a31a9045d:0x361341e297e927a9!2m22!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i20!16m16!1b1!2m2!1m1!1e1!2m2!1m1!1e3!2m2!1m1!1e5!2m2!1m1!1e4!2m2!1m1!1e6!3m1!7e115!4shttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipMB1wE6TXVVbHFxV84Z9IgXVz8wc_GpVghP1HF0=w284-h160-k-no!5sshogun%20games%20stafford%20-%20Google%20Search&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipOLzp-t9NAglnFQAgw5NhuuJQiBKg9xmjd04Doe&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjBrZbij9jbAhUHQMAKHWlLAcwQoioIiwEwCg

Sadly it's mostly gen6+ and the stock doesn't update as often as I'd like, but I try my best to support them because I fear its days may be numbered. It actually got popular enough to upgrade to a larger store, but every time I go now it's just me or 1 other person.

It's also the only independent gaming store left, and only 1 of 3 gaming stores which stocks any retro games at all (and 1 of the stores is rarely open).

[Anonymous No.4841423]

>>4841397
>Shelf labeled Retro
>Wii and DS games only.

[Anonymous No.4841424]

>>4840206
We have a regional chain, Game Xchange. I don't think there are any small self owned stores.

Game Xchange has a really good selection back to NES and probably other systems in that gen but I ignore them. There are NES/SNES games from about $10 to $30-50s or so for more coveted series. It's also any game instore under $10 is buy two get one free. Real steals for PS1 and later systems.

[Anonymous No.4841509]

>>4841314
This. Might as well tell customers who want to buy a megadrive or SNES game to order a flashcart instead.

[Anonymous No.4841538]

>>4840754
the one by me (park north) fucking sucks. i remember getting bloody roar and mr driller for like 10 bucks 3 years ago. now everything is fuckin overpriced

[Anonymous No.4841547]

only visited this store once.

[Anonymous No.4841549]

>>4841547
Jesus, what a clusterfuck.

[Anonymous No.4841557]

Our "retro" shops only have a tiny selection of games and the focus is on other products, such as tabletop gaming or comic books. We do have greasy resellers at flea markets/swap meets trying to get $150 for Mario/Duck Hunt, though.

[Anonymous No.4841562]

>>4841557
I always laugh when people sell dirt common games like SMB and Zelda over 25 dollars,I don't get who they're trying to fool

[Anonymous No.4841572]

>>4840206
I wish I lived in town for this kinda shit. Would be nice to just walk down to the local shop, would make more of an experience out of it.

[Anonymous No.4841651]

>>4841549

Not the guy you're responding to, but I think it looks comfy. It looks like you're entering a true hobbyists den rather than a calculated business, and hunting for gems amongst it would be fun too.

Compare it to shit like:

>>4841397

That looks generic as fuck, and would still be bland even if it was stocked full of retro games and consoles.

[Anonymous No.4841664]

>>4841547
We akihabara now

[Anonymous No.4841691]

>>4841179
Don't they all have snail maze? There's some key you can hold to skip hang on/safari hunt

[Anonymous No.4841694]

>>4841651
To each his own, a store should look lively and inviting but it shouldn't look like it's run by CWC

[Anonymous No.4841778]

>>4841691
No, some don't.

My first master system had alex kidd built in an no snail maze.

[Anonymous No.4842009]

>>4841651
I agree. The only retro store in my area (which has closed down) was even worse than the one shown in >>4841397
It just had simple white tile floors and white walls with no decoration at all. Totally sterile and uninviting.

[Anonymous No.4842186]

>>4841538
The one near me is West Anderson. I remember I got Goof Troop once for a couple bucks. Now the same game is behind glass at like 30. I will say very rarely I'll come across a game that isn't retardedly priced. I think when this happens it must be by accident.

[Anonymous No.4842239]

>>4842186
Goof Troop is a damn good game like every other Disney Capcom game but 30 bucks? Jesus

[Anonymous No.4842351]

>>4840206
Where I am now, small and overpriced. I buy anime merch there mainly and once I got Solstice because I couldn't be bothered with ebay bidding.

Where I was before is more reasonably priced but still small.

[Anonymous No.4842412]

Mine has been there about 15 years, although I think it changed owners once. The selection of old stuff stays picked pretty clean and all the prices are the same or even higher than eBay, but I still go buy a thing or 2 there every few months.

I feel like people are really attached to their gameboy/SNES/N64 stuff right now, so they just don't get much traded in I guess

[Anonymous No.4842993]

>>4841547
Is that Sudden Impact?

[Anonymous No.4843070]

>>4841179
>>4841778
Why do you care what built-in game the SMS has?
You can just load the whole library on an everdrive.
Does the video and/or audio quality vary between SMS hardware revisions and the built-in game is an indicator for which motherboard it has?

[Anonymous No.4843079]

I don't know because I don't go to any, emulators all the way baby

[Anonymous No.4843168]

>>4840206
Mine is a shitload of Ebay upsell stock slammed into a converted house ran by some fat fucks three times my size.

[Anonymous No.4843178]

>>4840206
There are quite a few in vegas. I love brick and mortar shops but the selection just can't compare to ebay and sites like it.

[Anonymous No.4843193]

>>4840460
dude holy shit
wya?? i love that place

[Anonymous No.4843206]

Sorry to get off topic but >>4840521 here, I noticed some comments directed toward me and some I made were deleted, something happen with my post?

[Anonymous No.4843228]

Closest one near me is Level Up Games. A small hole in the wall store in Whitewater. Not too bad a selection of games, but their retro stuff is a bit pricey, so usually I go there for newer, used games. (Whitewater is nothing but a glorified college town) Only place I ever saw SSB4 for less than $40.
Other than that, Mega Media Xchange is the best bet. That's a smallish (4-5 stores) chain that sells DVD's, to laptops, to TV's to videogames. If you want some retro vidya, it's not terrible, and in fact pretty fair (I saw them selling a CIB Mario 3 for $30 once) but those stores are far away.

[Anonymous No.4843405]

>>4843206
In case you aren't playing dumb and you actually are that same anon: blogging isn't allowed, let alone recommended. You also shouldn't use emoticons on an imageboard because the whole point of an imageboard is that you can add an external image to your posts.
INB4 some idiots who think they're funny and reply to me with useless blogs and emoticons

[Anonymous No.4843413]

>>4843079
There's always got to be an all-emulator fag in a hardware related thread and a hoarding collector fag in an emulation thread ... stop with the false-flagging shitposting dude, you're not fooling anyone. Everyone has done both at least and knows about both advantages and disadvantages they've got and whatever they prefer is up to them and not to some anonymous idiot on a website.

[Anonymous No.4843431]

ebay

[Anonymous No.4843478]

>>4840206
Mine has great deals and some bad ones too. Good place. It also sells legos

[Anonymous No.4843509]

>>4841547
Looks like an episode of Hoarders.

[Anonymous No.4845152]

>>4841547
jesus how do they organize anything

[Anonymous No.4845157]

>>4841547
reminds me of pic related

[Anonymous No.4845175]

It's like this.

[Anonymous No.4845180]

>>4840343
Ayyyyyy Plano

Me2mate

I'll keep my eyes open for a faggot

[Anonymous No.4845231]

>>4843178
I went to that one next to the pinball hall of fame.
They didn't have any games I wanted, but they had every console ever made on display.

[Anonymous No.4845495]

>>4845175
All these vape stores popping up are just fronts for money laundering right? I never see anyone inside them.

[Anonymous No.4845510]

>>4845180
I remember there being at least one other poster from the area, maybe two, in a thread a while back.

[Anonymous No.4845515]

>>4840343
I live near here. Madness is my shit I'll keep my eye open for two fuck boys,

[Anonymous No.4847206]

>>4840857
>>4840904
Amazon? Or are you worried mom might open the box?

[Anonymous No.4847214]

>>4845495
I assume most of these places have a decently low over-head, and are most likely holding out for legalized marijuana.

[Anonymous No.4847230]

>>4847214
I live in Colorado and there are still plenty of vape stores around despite legalized weed. It's got to be something else.

[Anonymous No.4847361]

>>4842993
Yes

[Anonymous No.4847390]

>>4840206
I called my local gaming store, "Mike's" because of it's owner. He does sell cards, pricey dicey, mangas, /toy/ shit, board games, and even video games. I'm also one of the seven owners in my country to have possession of an elusive GB game which makes a full copy of Shantae seemed plentiful.

[Anonymous No.4847576]

>>4847390
Nobody cares about your Gameboy copy anon.

[Anonymous No.4847881]

My local is a store called luna video games. A r
reasonably priced selection of games and employees are knowledgable and like a chat, always ready to cut a pretty good deal to

[Anonymous No.4847898]

>>4840206
I don't like going outside.

[Anonymous No.4847965]

Since wayback. Shame that one ive been to a few days ago were selling Megaman X2 for like $400. I think the dream is over

[Anonymous No.4847968]

>>4847965
The rarest thing ive bought here for dirt cheap was either Mario Party 3 or The Punisher, I'm really surprised they sold MP3 at the price of a used Wii title, a Mario game of all things

[Anonymous No.4847970]

>>4847390
Is that the Felix the Cat game where he tears his face off?

[Anonymous No.4848954]

>>4841423
You joke, but this will be /vr/'s future.

[Anonymous No.4848971]

>>4847965
I know your pain, anon.

Used to have one a 10 minute walk away, and got some decent games like Shadow Dancer for £3 and Final Fantasy 7 CIB for 30p but it closed down back in 2014, and whenever I check their stock online it's usually awful or overpriced. I mean they sell controller for fucking £10 and usually mislabel them.

The last thing I did buy was Power Stone 2 CIB for £30, not a great deal but it's slightly lower than it would've been in Cex, and I could see the box I was buying. I also got Rocket Knight Adventures for £18 CIB back in September which I was quite happy with since I had just finished it a few days prior.

I'm still pissed that Cex and Gamestation (RIP) no longer have 6th gen games at a decent price now that I have income. Back in 2012, I found SoA:L for £22 now it goes for £70+ on Cex, bought Twin Snakes in 2013 for £32, and it's now £60+. Wish I bought more GC games.

[Anonymous No.4848993]

>>4847881
Go cut your straw hair, Ian.

[Anonymous No.4849000]

>>4845180

Where in Plano? I live in Addison and the only things near me are those stupid Movie Trading Company things. They told me a used copy of Twilight Princess (just game) would be over $200

[Anonymous No.4849028]

Mine is a store that sells more game related shit like mugs and pillows than actual games.
On the upside, the retro shit they do have is moderately well priced, with a few daft exceptions. They'll sell Super Mario 3 for $8 but want $160 for FF12:ZA, FF7 for $20 but Zelda 3 for $60. Nonsense.

[Anonymous No.4849117]

I have one that has an owner who's always pushing reproductions on me even though I've never brought one and never will, one thats owned by over-charging bastards who camp Craigslist to lowball unwitting grandmas, one that is run by a nice (but weird) guy who sadly also immediately lists his boxed games on ebay as well as selling them in store and one that is a massive corporation full of pleb nerds who like modern Harry Potter and Funkos. Oh, and then there are the flea-marketers...

[Anonymous No.4849149]

>>4841549
>>4841664
>>4842993
>>4843509
>>4845152
>>4845157

For those wondering, >>4841547 is a place called Sudden Impact, it's in Winthrop, Massachusetts. Ive been there twice myself. Its really is as it appears to be, an extremely small, narrow store. The Owner came across to me as little eccentric but a good guy.

[Anonymous No.4849154]

While Im on the subject of the New England region, the best place I've been to is Core Gaming in Salem, NH.

[Anonymous No.4849208]

>>4849000
Not him, different Plano area anon, but wow, I didnt realize Movie Trading Company had gone to shit. I used to buy anime DVDs and stuff from some of their locations a decade or so ago. Last thing I bought from one was PlayStation DOOM, which I assume was roughly ebay price at the time. That would've been maybe 3 to 4 years ago, I guess.

[Anonymous No.4851628]

it's called "the exchange" and is part of a chain. They also do music and movies. I go in there more to browse anymore since their prices are often way too high, especially on game consoles. However, I do luck out with a good deal every once in a while, so it pays to walk in every now and then, and it's close to where I work so it's rather easy to go there.

[Anonymous No.4851650]

>>4841064
Shame, I wonder what the black dude's experience working in Japan is like. I'm sure that has some interesting culture shock moments baked in. Can't say I wouldn't take the offer myself though.

Don't be sad about the cunt+co that run it now, just be happy about the awesome decade or so.

[Anonymous No.4851654]

>>4843070
maybe he's a very particular collector of system hardware? Just guessing since I don't know either.

[Anonymous No.4851657]

We don't have a local retro game store, and if the local gamestop keeps underperforming, we won't even have a game store anymore

[Anonymous No.4851672]

>>4841547
This looks fun to visit once in a while when I want some high octane weird shit but "Hey I want X, Lets check out my LGS" this place would likely be the last place I try.

[Anonymous No.4851706]

My main store. We don't got much for options in GA, you gotta run 30-40 min out for anywhere decent, but this store is run by good people and the selections usually pretty good.

They went POP NUTS at some point, but the owners told me the numbers, and I totally get why. Check them out, GA bros. Recommend me stores too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCa9_sSo32I

[Anonymous No.4851712]

>>4851657
What do you mean?
I'd hope that Gamestop's smoldering ash could fertilize a new store ready to take over and succeed considering the very low bar set by Gamestop.

[Anonymous No.4851723]

>>4849208

It’s a great place for DVDs, but their video game selection is stupid. Then again, that may be the one by me at Belt Line and Preston.

The last game I bought from them was Pokémon Platinum for $35 used

[Anonymous No.4851728]

>>4849154
I remember going to Funcoland in Nashua as a youngin

[Anonymous No.4851748]

>>4851723
That one and the one by Collin Creek Mall were the two locations I went to regularly. I vaguely recall the Belt Line one having a bin of 2600 games, but that could be a faulty memory.

[Anonymous No.4851776]

Anyone from chicago here? Ever since People Play Games closed things have been kind of hard finding stuff. The only other places I know of are the two Exchanges and their stock is kinda weak. Anyone know any other good stores for retro game stores worth checking out?

[Anonymous No.4851919]

>>4841547
I would go here just because it looks fucking insane

[Anonymous No.4852057]

>>4841547
>this is also the closest retro game store to me and it's still a 45 minute drive away because it's located on a peninsula with only two entrances

[Anonymous No.4852065]

there's 2 here, one pretty much ONLY sells used games (and disc golf shit) and has pretty low prices but the staff kinda blows and the selection is hit or miss. the other one has tons of shit, lots of rarities, and a small but awesome arcade. lots of weeb shit for sale there, too.

[Anonymous No.4852067]

>>4852057
>All that Nintendo stuff
>Fan games and repros they're happy to sell you
>No Sega stuff in sight
Yikes.

[Anonymous No.4852073]

>>4841289
i remember one time the older one of the two told me he used to get a lot of mario rpg trade-ins from mexican kids who couldn't read english.

[Anonymous No.4852093]

The guy sold me a bootleg vita charger that fried my computer's onboard audio card.

[Anonymous No.4852097]

>>4852067
I usually go there only if there's a specific game I'm looking for, and that's only to see if it's cheaper than getting it online. It becomes too congested in there as soon as another customer walks in so you cant really window shop. Even though there's a lot of reproduction stuff, he has pretty much every console and a good amount of rare games.

I guess there's a huge market for reproduction carts since scalpers are resorting to compulsive hoarding as legitimate cartridges get older/more scarce. I went on eBay to look for an authentic Pokemon Emerald and I'm greeted with this shit. So before I pay for a beat-up cartridge sight unseen, I'm going to at least check to see if this store has it. I doubt he has any legitimate copies, but I'll check this weekend even though they are resold almost immediately after trade-in.

[Anonymous No.4852357]

>>4840521
yo is that a Slacker's?
Or maybe the neon spike labels are ubiquitous, I dunno. My local one had to move twice and is now stuck in the shitty mall but still has that feel and smell

[Anonymous No.4852360]

>>4852057
those red mother carts…gotta get one of 'em

[Anonymous No.4852648]

>>4852057
I wish Pokemon Green was actually released here, Venusaur is the best starter.

[Anonymous No.4852650]

>>4852067
Dreamcast VMUs in the background
Sega doesn't sell as well I guess.

[Anonymous No.4852679]

They actually opened up a second location that was only a three minute drive from their first. Not sure why they thought they could sustain the business when 99% of their inventory never seems to change because it's overpriced shovelware shit. Sometimes I would visit the two locations in the same day and the same games would have different prices. The second store closed down after a few years. They're just not priced to sell. The only guy I buy games from anymore is a dude at the flea market who collects games on the side, so it's not his only source of income, so he isn't such a jew when he prices his stuff. Every week at least 50% of his inventory gets moved while some dick in another stall is trying to get $90 for Super Metroid.

[Anonymous No.4852684]

>>4852648
>I wish an inferior game was released just because it has a different picture on the label
Okay, then.

[Anonymous No.4852689]

>>4852067
>>4852650
Sega doesn't have a current console and a Smash Bros. game to keep casuals apprised of their history.

[Anonymous No.4852703]

>>4852684
They could have still used the sprites from Blue. And the script from Red and Green instead of using Blue so we wouldn't have 'the Raichu you traded me went and evolved'.

Western RB is the Japanese Blue translated but with the locations and trades from Jap RG used.

[Anonymous No.4852714]

>>4852703
I'm aware of that, junior. My point is that you don't really want green version, you just wanted Venusaur on the label instead of Blastoise.

[Anonymous No.4852737]

>>4847230
It makes sense there. Pussy niggas can't roll a blunt.

[Anonymous No.4852753]

>>4852737
Or, you know, smoking joints makes you smell like a skunk and destroys your lungs.

[Anonymous No.4854018]

I always lurk these threads whenever they pop up, just to see if any anon is talking about the store I work for, whether they found good deals or a bad experience I can bring up to try and fix. Never seen anything either way, though.

[Anonymous No.4854043]

>>4854018
Same here dude.

[Anonymous No.4854047]

Get Your Game On in Ann Arbor.

They’re okay, nothing rare there, just they typical games you’d expect for the respective consoles. The prices are the same as eBay. They have a decent enough SNES and Genesis selection. They do hardware repairs too and do a good job at that. My most recent buy from them was PS2 component cables.

[Anonymous No.4854058]

>>4854018
>>4854043
Curious, where about do you guys live?

[Anonymous No.4855625]

>>4854058
Nor Cal bay area.

[Anonymous No.4857321]

>>4840206
Mine is barely hanging on selling Funko Pop! figures. If people stop buying those, I think it would go under.

[Anonymous No.4857367]

>>4840206
As far as the SNES goes, dead. Only lots of worn out cartridges of shitty sports games. Guess why they are still there, nobody wants them.
Bought a Super Gameboy there for five bucks, and a fake N64 controller I didn't end up using much.
I think I saw Skies of Arcadia there quite some time ago for a decent price, but I wasn't interested at that time. And damn, is it expensive now on eBay.

[Anonymous No.4857381]

>>4840297
This