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Babbage's

>> No.5095263

What?! They don't got no Turbografix games?!

>> No.5095270
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5095270

smell ya later

>> No.5095294

>>5095270
Oh, how I weep for thee, FuncoLand. You were my highlight of the summer when I went up to visit my grandparents.

>> No.5095298

SoftwareEtc.

>> No.5095303

Bought Lunar: Silver Star Story and countless other great games here and at Electronic's Boutique.

>> No.5095317
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5095317

This store always seemed just ok

>> No.5095320
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5095320

He hasn't shown up yet?

>> No.5095367

>>5095270
Had a pretty surreal conversation with a coworker recently; found out he worked at the funcoland in my child hood town, and he was most likely working the counter when I first laid eyes on SMRPG. 20 years later, he's sitting next to me at work.

>> No.5095371

>>5095317
Never heard of it. Looks like it's stuck in the 80s though, with that metallic, Terminator-like font and that hot pink neon.

>> No.5095484

>>5095320
dude wat

>> No.5095494
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>>5095317
best
I used to play Wolf3d and Isle of the dead as a kid
unattended

>> No.5095503

>>5095303
>Electronic's Boutique.
They never left canada. every mall still has one. THey never switched to the gamestop name like they did in America.

>> No.5095631
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5095631

>>5095270
I miss her.

>> No.5095634
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5095634

>>5095317
>software etc

>> No.5095636

>>5095294
loved going to funcoland
>>5095367
thats pretty cool and or spooky
>>5095631
ours mailed these out to customers who wanted every other month. was always fun as a kid to get it in the mail.

>> No.5095640

>>5095636
I loved picking up one in the store and easily having an idea of what games were worth at the time. Also being able to test out games I was interested in before buying blew my mind. Gamecrazy had its charms for a while there but nothing compares to Funcoland.

>> No.5095643

>>5095640
wow I had actually forgotten they actually let you play almost any game they had at the demo stations instead of just new popular shit they were trying to shove down your throat.
shame they wen't out of business compared to clown shit like gamestop

>> No.5096817

Age of 16 I began my career in Sears Video game section. By 18, I moved on to a real job, and as anyone with a real job knows starting out is hard. I quit sears, and got a job at "Media Play" where I worked on weekends. I think it was part of a larger chain, and obviously went out of business too. Years later I was well on my way in my construction career, and wanted to do something with my spare time over the holidays and worked at Babbages. I refused to use the register, and I was the only PC-centric employee in the whole store. I was exceptional at alphabetizing the displays and took keeping the floors clean very seriously. That was the last retail job I worked. The employees there were just like me....Just trying to make it.

I do miss some of these places...but times have changed. Online retail is the new hotness. I avoid new stuff because I see it as a money pit, but that is because I am just a Xoomer.

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5096842

Canucks report in

>> No.5096895

>>5095503
Do they carry older games, still?

>> No.5097019

>>5096842

I once bought a brand new copy of Snatcher for the Sega CD at a Microplay for around the price of $10.00. I miss them.

>> No.5097175

>>5096895
they're exactly like gamestop, different in name only

>> No.5097190

>>5095631
I wish I knew about this place growing up. I was always a "generation behind" with my video games. My most up to date console until 99 was an NES for example. At the time I never even considered buying additional games for it. Available to me were Mario 3, Punch-Out, Rad Racer, Ultima 3, and Golf. I could've browsed funcoland or similar places and gotten all the best games for dirt fucking cheap back then. Oh well.

>> No.5098650

>>5095503
They changed name in the UK and not Canada. That's weird.

>> No.5098659

I was always partial to CompUSA for some reason.

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5098683

>>5096895
>Do they carry older games, still?
No they got rid of the old game wall to make room for more funco pops.

>> No.5098687 [DELETED] 

>>5098683

>> No.5098849

>>5096842
I was just at the one in Guelph today. Got Ridge Racer Type 4 there. There used to be one in Burlington, but they became an independent game store completely about 10 years ago.

>> No.5098850

>>5098683
>pre-ordering Funko
christ

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>>5098659

>> No.5100991

>>5098849
It's nice to know there's still one out there. The last one in Winnipeg closed at least a decade ago.

>> No.5101064

>>5095298
Will always be my favorite defunct game store. I bought my GBA and PS2 from one and a bunch of cool games. It was in a mall and driven out of business by the EB games in the same mall, which was then driven out by Gamestop in the same mall.

>> No.5101089

>>5098683
It's honestly quite sad how little games GameStop carries, at least the one by me. Half the store is merchandise and console accessories.

>> No.5101108

>>5095251
>ywn again claw through their discount pc games looking for a gem to take home

:(

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>>5095367

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>>5101115

>> No.5101246

>>5095251
I miss EB.

>> No.5101380

>>5100991
There's still one in Cambridge, Kitchener, London, North Toronto, and Ottawa. There's actually a bunch in Quebec still, I think the company is actually based out of there.

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5103039

Fuck you, Blockbuster.

>> No.5103257

>>5095251

Gramps.

https://youtu.be/c7wb_viKJ7A

>> No.5103664

>>5098683
these things are fucking satanic.
next thing I know they will have entire stores devoted to them like beanie babies.
fucking pvc bobbleheads who thought this shit was good idea

>> No.5104135

>>5103664
>next thing I know they will have entire stores devoted to them like beanie babies.
I hope so. Maybe then they can stop hogging shelf space everywhere else.

>> No.5104828

>>5095270
I remember going here and seeing that the most expensive NES games were maybe 12 bucks

>> No.5104845

>>5103257

Is that really him?

>> No.5104859
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5104859

>>5098683
What's worse?

Pre-ordering Destiny Funko Pops or
Pre-ordering Destiny itself?

>> No.5105175
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5105175

Good-bye hitech world.

>> No.5105193

>>5103664
>fucking pvc bobbleheads who thought this shit was good idea
i think the success of those little pieces of petroleum byproduct shows the absolute state of our culture and society. we're fucking doomed.

>> No.5105206

>>5095270
more like fucnoland

>> No.5105217

>>5104859
I think worse is caring which is worse. I like neither but I don't spend time thinking about them either.

>> No.5105368

>>5104845
That's not me but that guy seems pretty cool except for the hamsters. He should also step up his backdrop.

>> No.5105435
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5105435

Now it's just another fucking Fry's.

>> No.5105470

>>5105435
To be fair, Fry's isn't terrible. I really wish I had a local one.

>> No.5105475

>>5105435
Tempe?

>> No.5105503

>>5096842
I've been pretty a lifetime customer at the one in Ottawa.

>> No.5105506

>>5105503
>pretty much

>> No.5105525

>>5105193
this.
nothing wrong with deriving enjoyment out of little things but holy fuck, are you fucking pushing 40 with piles of this shit on your desk? WHY!?

>> No.5106179

>>5105475
Sacramento

>> No.5106184
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5106184

electronics boutique

>> No.5106202

>>5105525

Because muh childhood is the only thing that makes me happy!

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>>5106202

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>>5105525

they're like those little ceramics ladies used to get in boxes of tea but for the basedboys. shit i am seeing a business opportunity for onions.

Its time to save the environment, ah whats that you see my collection of useless oil byproduct bobbleheads that serve no purpose other than to revel in my love for pop culture and consumerism?
pray to yellowstone, focus on the magma chamber.

>> No.5106313

>>5105435
AT LEAST YOU'VE GOT A FUCKING FRY'S
Mine's been a Home Depot for more than two decades.

>> No.5106321

>>5106179
Ah wow, that's uncanny. The front is an exact clone of the one in az.

>> No.5106337

>>5096842
Ah shit, this one hurts. The one in Square One was alright, they actually priced their games to sell, not just to show off a $99 copy of FF7. They went a bit crazy right near the end, though.

>> No.5106627

used to have a local place called game edge in maryland that sold bootleg anime vhs ontop of all the old/used games
the magic of actually seeing the "if you paid for
this free fansub you've been scammed" was great
they also paid better than funcoland and the whatever some other shithole was for used games which was great.

>> No.5108126

>>5106321

Some Incredible Universe stores used existing buildings (usually warehouses).
When they built their own, they all looked exactly like that.

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5108382

Western Canada represent

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5108412

*gives you 15 dollars for a paper grocery bag full of 40 PS2 games*

>> No.5108449

>>5108412
The last of these shitholes went out of business in my city. They complained they can't compete with the internet and that people realized what old games were really worth.

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>>5095251
Cabbages.

>> No.5109819

>>5095251
We had ONE of these in my old childhood mall (Danbury Fair Mall in CT), and it always smelled like sweat, jock feet and Subway sandwiches. The carpet was a gross dark gray with stains that were ancient and there were wire buckets in the middle of the store filled with games missing their packaging, damaged or previously opened and poorly rewrapped. Triggered my autism to no end when I was a little kid

>> No.5110031

>>5095631
Me too. Too bad that page is old as fuck. My favorite thing to do would be to go in to see if the price of Dragon ball gt final bout had gone any higher. I remember it reaching >150$.

>> No.5110046

>>5105368
Gramps is it true you lived in Zanesville? What do you think of Bargain box?

>> No.5110276

>>5095317
I can't even pinpoint when mine was turned into a gamestop

>> No.5110312

>>5109819
my mall used to have a puppy mill store with a Ms Fields cookies next door. It always smelled like dogshit and cookies

>> No.5110316

my childhood was renting n64 games,didn't increase my snes library and i only started t buy games when i got a ps1 and ps2.