Were video game aisles really this awesome back in the 2000s?
They would be behind glass even in non-"urban" areas
>2000s vidyapicrelCloak & Dagger (1984) was when vg aisles were awesome. Atari at its peak.
they were good as long as you had a PS2, not those two dogshit consoles lol
>>221842942yes, they lined up all sorts of stuff to catch the eye of kids and make them come running over
>>221842942That doesnt look awesome
>>221842942No. Even in white areas, consoles (light boxes worth 500-700USD) along with games (easily pocketable items worth 40-80USD) were and are behind glass. Stores weren't retarded, like television writers.
Dude I don't think you understand the magnitud of the PS2PS2 by the end of it's run had like 4k titlesA playstation isle could had wall to wall boxes of all different games and never repeatIn my hometown we had it like this pic, but you wouldn't see the faggy spines it was the front and it was wall to wall games all aroundFor a 10yo it was like fucking heaven
>>221844331It was kinda like thisLike browsing the steam store on foot, surreal
I worked at toys r us when I was in college and my job was to literally just stand in the video game aisle and answer questions from parents. Best job I ever had. Also let me get mew on my pokemon red game cause the manager held on to a few of the giveaway codes for employees
>>221844510>held on to a few of the giveaway codes for employeesmega based
>>221842942EUfag hereYeah pretty much. The bigger shops would have multiple consoles and screens set up to play demos or even full games (no memory cards and the consoles were behind plastic coverings to prevent thefts I think)Was pretty fucking neat>>221844331>>221844484I remember my birthday was coming up in like a month when I was turning 14 and the girl at the local Electronic Boutique ended up spending like a full fucking hour going through all the new games coming out on PS2 and what was the best ones and ended up recommending GTA because of 'the girl has huge tits so you know it's good'it probably did help that I was in there like every fucking week getting the games from the Sold Out series on PC
>>221842942Not quite, the games on the comic rack in particular look like some dumb boomer thought they sell them on racks like magazines
>>221844860I'm pretty sure this is an actual toys r us setup from then
>>221843998Shut up dumbass. The consoles were kept in the storeroom and the game discs in storage behind the counter. What was on the shelves was just empty boxes and cases.
>>221842942In the 90s we'd go hang out at Best Buy and Toys R Us just to play the display game consoles all day
>>221843823and when arcades were awesome
>>221845135I remember playing new NES games at the display at Lechmere.
>>221843998In Houston Texas year 2000 my friends stole 8 PS2 games from a toys R us... literally just grabbed them and ran out the door. I was too much of a pussy( we are all 12 or 13), and was in the car one of them's older brother who was driving. We were parked down aways in the shopping complex maybe like 75 yards....And We watched like 15 redshirted employees run directly out into the parking lot and start fanning out but my friends came out and immediately turned left while running towards us and were able to slip in between like a Marshalls and a hobby Lobby or Something where we were waiting.....Anyway, point is in early 2000. They did still have that stuff out. At least at Toys r Us. Halo was what 2002? Security measures improved by then I feel... Probably due two fuckheads like my friends. Thanks for reading my blogOh yeah, I also feel like at the beginning of GameStop at least with the resold games they were just sitting there on the shelves.... Whereas new ones you picked up the box and took it to the front where they swapped it with a real deal. Am I wrong? Anybody know?
>>221845294I fucking hated arcades. I'm glad my parents were well off enough to buy me consoles.
>>221843998Autism
>>221845734Halo was late 2001. The Xbox and GameCube launched around the same time.
>>221845734All of the Toys R Us stores I've been in used the slip system where they had slips for the game in the aisle and you'd take it to the register and a guy would get them out of a caged up area in the front of the store, but I stopped going in there after the late 90s
>>221845441Holy shit I'd like to beat that kid
>>221842942picrel is basically how I remember the games section in Toys R Us and similar stores in the late 90s to early 2000s.Just long rows of games like this
>>221842942One of my friends had a Wavebird and I always hated the thing when he brought it over I played at his house because his batteries would always "run out" (bitch was LOSING) in the middle of a Smash match and we'd have to scramble to find some. Thing was heavy too. Now everybody wants one lmao
>>221846223I think some of my words went missing.
>>221846223His dumbass must've been taking the batteries out of his TV remote cause the wavebird has great battery life.
>>221845734Thanks for the blogpost Trayvon
>>221842942They sucked in the 2000s. It was all licensed slop.In the 80s and 90s they were amazing.>>221845749>i hated being able to play games with graphics and sound that were 1 to 2 generations ahead of what we had at home, on beautiful RGB monitorsWeirdo
>>221846495lol
>>221842942yea they were by the cool toys like transformers or power rangers or w/e existed at that point
>>221847355I just didn't like putting in quarters for a relatively brief period of enjoyment
>>221847459You keep putting in quarters to keep playing. If your parents were well off, they'd give you a roll or two and tell you to fuck off to the arcade.
>>221847488That's not me that you're replying to. My friends and I preferred to go to each others houses and play vidya instead of shitty arcades, that's all.
>>221843823>1984 gamingGramps? What are you doing on 4chan?
>>221844860ahh toys r us>>221844909yeah the setup is unmistakably them
>>221842942you could easily look it uphttps://youtu.be/S-4Bs96Cac0https://youtu.be/CaDUUyp3hCg
>>221843998Consoles were always locked up. Games it depended on the store.
>>221843998No they weren't. Some stores had the empty cases/boxes that you would bring to the front then they would go get the actual items. Nothing was behind glass like it is today. But then again I don't live in a negroid infested shithole so maybe it's different
>>221849854>I don't live in a negroid infested shithole>empty cases/boxes that you would bring to the front >then they would go get the actual itemsApparently you do
>>221850159Not nigs but abos
>>221845734>houston, TX >toys r us Which part of Houston? The one we had here in the southeast part of town definitely had their games on lockdown last I remember.
>>221842942>>221843186last console I bought was ps3 and it wasn't behind glass.
>>221843998Consoles were like $200 in the early 2000s, anon.
>>221842942golden age was 1997-2004 approximatelybasically during the tail end of point and click adventure heyday and concluding with inspiring but technically flawed vtmb and the rise of shitty narrative shooters spearheaded by valveinterestingly enough, golden age timeline counts both for pc and japanese (console devs) although you can end the golden age on console in 2006 with the release of shadow of the colossusthe current roguelike era is the worst gaming has ever been
best buy used to have the consoles sitting out
>>221850650shut the fuck up nerd
>>221847355>Go to your friend's house to play video games>All he has is licensed garbage like Shrek and Nicktoons games because his parents wouldn't let him play GTA or Halo
>>221850646PS2 was $300 when it launched in 2000. It was still $300 in 2001 when I got it. The Xbox was $300 and the Gamecube was $200 when they launched in 2001.
>>221850740Enjoy not owning your games, zoomie.
>>221843877This.There is but only one console that's entire catalogue deserves cinematic adaptations.
>>221842942Pokemon Gold and Silver seem like they lasted a while, I remember still seeing their guide listed for order in Nintendo Power a fair bit into the GBA/GC era.
>>221850646You have a shitty memory.
>>221843877laugh at this easily-triggered retard and his fragile ego
>>221851676They definitely did. Ruby and Sapphire didn’t come out until 2003 in North America.
>>221842942It was better in the 90’s
>>22185276190s probably was the high point. Game stores died when they stopped carrying PC games, I don't remember exactly when that happened but I think all of that was gone in places like Electronics Boutique by the mid 00s. After that it was all consoles and toys.
>>221842942Yes. Some even had consoles where you could actually play the advertised game, we would go and play after school sometimes
>>221845734I remember buying Star Ocean at a gamestop back in 2003 and they were already doing the swap at the cash register thing, I remember cause they'd swap the regular plastic case on the shelves for a case that came in a foil cardboard box.
>>221842942Im watching Carolina Caroline and being nostalgic for 2013 when Jason Isbell wasnt a cuck, and now this thread. How do you cope with time?
