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7343075 No.7343075 [Reply] [Original]

when did you walk into gamestop for the first time, and what game did you buy? what experiences do you have there? will you miss them?

>> No.7343107

I can't remember when our Funcoland turned into Gamestop. Only that the mall across the street had a Gamestop, so we ended up having two across the street from each other. Google maps is telling me the mall one shut down at some point, though.

>> No.7343126

>>7343075
I bought Apple ii games back when they were still called babbage's.

>> No.7343137

>>7343075
I'll miss being able to troll in there by beating their offer when a guy brings in something for trade. The staff fucking hate that and there's nothing they can do.

>> No.7343154

>>7343137
They can literally kick you out for soliciting.

>> No.7343157

>>7343137
Then they should learn how to fucking counter-offer.
Low-balling bitches.

>> No.7343165

>>7343137
I guess none of you got that it's illegal to solicit goods in a place of business without permission

>> No.7343170

>>7343154
No fat hippy is kicking me out of anywhere.

>>7343165
Call the police faggot, I don't care.

>> No.7343171
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7343171

have cex

>> No.7343180

>>7343171
Those places are depressing. At least Cash Converters makes an attempt at presentation.

>> No.7343197

>>7343180
it's always depressing in both, you just know every game was pawned to buy heroin

>> No.7343219

>>7343075
Times were better when it was EB Games

>> No.7343225

>>7343171
is cex publicly traded? asking for a redditor

>> No.7343226

>>7343170
And I'm so sure you did it all the time

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>> No.7343249

>>7343226
Of course not, but if a guy had something I wanted or could flip, damn right I did.

>> No.7343250

First game I remember buying was a big box Chaos Gate from EB games

>> No.7343257

>>7343197
Burglarized, then pawned for smack.

>> No.7343278

>>7343107
Same here except it was a Software Etc. that turned into a Gamestop in the mall the next town over with an Electronics Boutique-turned Gamestop across the street. We had an amazing Funcoland in town but it's been shit since it turned Gamestop.

>> No.7343343

I used to live in downtown Portland, OR (moved far away now lol) and the Gamestop by PSU was managed by this big fat greasy neckbeard but he always hired really hot tatted up stripper looking chicks. While they didn't know much about games, it sure brought the customers in.

>> No.7344712

>>7343075
Never even seen a game stop

>> No.7344872
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7344872

Doom
Battle Arena Toshinden
Pandemonium!
They had everything system hooked up from NES to PS1 it was fun and they always carried games that were hard to find. It was funcoland that eventually became GameStop like everyones. I wouldn't miss them last time I went for an interview for a second job I thought I went to the wrong store. They have clothes and toys and dorky looking and acting staff and all the games where in the back. I looked around bought the cheapest PS3 game and left and never looked back.

>> No.7344921

>>7343171
There was only one cex store in my city and the morons who ran it thought it was ok to just give you the disc whenever you bought a game from them, not even kidding, you took the box manual and all to the counter and the guy took it and gave you the disc in a plastic sleeve, not content with that they also put a sticker on it, presumably so you couldn't pawn it off somewhere else. I went there once in 2016 to buy a copy of atelier rorona plus for the ps3 and left in disgust after witnessing a kid buying some CoD game for his xbone, paying the full $60 for it and leaving with the disc in his fucking finger because the jew clerk didn't want to give him the case.

>> No.7344925

>>7343278
Same except we had Stop and Save Software (did anyone else have that shit?) and Electronics Boutique. Both of which became Gamestop.

>> No.7345008

>>7343075
2002 or 2003 when I bought my GameCube
got it from a electronic store along with Sunshine, we went to GameStop and I bought a used copy of Pikmin there

was pretty bummed that I had to get a memory card in order to save the game, not sure if we went the next day or the same day to the mall again to grab one

>> No.7345026

>>7344925
I miss Electronics Boutique. They always cool weeb stuff like anime soundtracks.

>> No.7345048

>>7343197
>>7343257
Recovered heroin addict here, can confirm.

>> No.7345161

Trading in half my GC games to buy some nice shovelware for the Wii

>> No.7345306

Went into one in 2003 when visiting the US from Australia (we don't have them here). Tried to buy a game but the cashier told me it wont work in my country. So overall, a good experience.

>> No.7345351

>>7343075
I walked into Funcoland for the first time in 1999 to pick up OG FFVII. Ironically, it appears that picking up a copy of FFVIIR from my local Gamestop will be the last time I will ever visit that place.

>> No.7345869

>>7343241
rip

>> No.7345871

discord are spineless motherfucking cunts

>> No.7345975

aaand gme went from 500 to the 300s again, one hour before the market opened. i just lost 7k. thank you.

>> No.7346516

>>7345975
what happened?

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>>7344712
then your opinion is irrelevant.

>> No.7346521

>>7345975
HOLD GODDAMNIT HOLD

>> No.7346523

>>7343343
yeah the managers always seemed to do it. its kind of a scumbag movie imo. The customers are better off with people who know shit about the product.

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>>7343075
Shit. For me it's funcoland or electronics boutique

>> No.7347180

>>7343171
These shops smell of piss, the clientele and literal retards and half of the items for sale in their are damaged beyond the point of use, with no refunds offered

>> No.7347221

>>7343075
went to an eb games when I was like 10 in 2005 I wish I was smart enough to know I was getting ripped of for trade back then though

>> No.7347237

>>7343075
I dont know but I do remember my brother buying a copy of rampage total destruction for the GameCube when I was very young.

>> No.7348221

>>7343075

I don't remember. I don't remember. None of any great interest. No.

>> No.7348249

>>7343075
They're not going anywhere, they're just shifting their focus to online retail.

>> No.7348273

I traded in a gamecube to buy a ps2 after vice city came out. So I got a new ps2 and a used copy of vc. Got home and vc didn't work right at all, kept getting disc read errors. Went back to get store credit towards a new copy. The dude there gave me some whole speech about it's not the disc it's the ps2 lasers, blah blah blah. Yeah right retard, the new copy worked 100% and that 39001 ps2 was run 24/7 for months at a time repeatedly

>> No.7348304

Did anybody else's local Funcoland have bare concrete floors and all the NES peripherals haphazardly piled on a single shelf between 1997 and 2002?
Of the seven different stores (3 EB, 2 Babbage's, 1 Funcoland, 1 Software, Etc.) around here that became Gamestops, that one was the only one where the shopping experience was briefly improved by it.

>> No.7348325

I tried to trade in my Guitar Hero guitar when I was moving to a new city. The clerk only offered me $5 in store credit. Ok, whatever. But he needs to see my ID. Reach into my back pocket... oh shit, forgot my wallet today. "Sorry can't help you bud". I was so pissed I threw the guitar down on the sidewalk and drove away.

>> No.7348331

>>7343075
I've literally never been to a game stop.

>> No.7348360

> the year is 2000. I just turned 10 years old
>don't have a N64, or PS1/PS2, just SNES and NES
>go inside with $20 birthday money, NES games are all crazy cheap
>buy Ninja Gaiden, Excitebike, Wrath of the Black Manta, Dr. jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, Dragon Warrior III

Iirc correctly I had money left over and also hated Dragon Warrior III because I was expecting a side scroller

>> No.7348376

>>7348360
in those days I called every game store in town looking for metroid, only place that had it was babbages, and it cost $13
I played it and was disappointed lol

>> No.7348449

>>7343075
Thinking of madcatz controllers, dreamcast games, House of the Dead 2 with the light gun, RE3 and Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver with a free OST