They took this from you.
zoomers took it
This type of store is in Fukuoka/Kyoto/Osaka right now
On one hand it's sad to grow old and see the things you loved as a kid disappear, on the other seeing the normalfag mainstream AAA slop scene go with it has been great. You take the good with the bad.
Probably not that many people here younger than 40 who physically goes to the store to buy games these days
Imagine having nostalgia for fucking Gamestop that's sad dude
>>733761730I remember early gamestop being kino, but that's also right around when they bought out funcoland, and they were the REAL OG kino niggas.
i havent been to a game store in like 8 years
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>>733760809Good riddance
i know you're young op, because all we ever did on this board for years was shit on gamestopthey embody everything wrong with corporate america for starters
>>733760809No, you threw it away when you sipped from the poisoned chalice that is internet connection for consoles.
>>733760809>06gaming was already dead at that point
>>733760809Fuck GameStop and those stupid ass stickers they would absolutely plaster on everything.
>>733762443Pretty much this.The culling of 16-bit stuff happened in early 2005 and the rest of the 32-bit/64-bit stuff was gone by mid-2006 to make space in the 'old stuff' area for the PS2 stuff moving off the walls.
>>733760809By the time it was game stop it was already bad.The days of Electronics Boutique were good.
>>733760809They can keep it. I would like CRTs back though.
>>733760809>They took this from you.so what? i ripped and sold all my cds eons ago. i backed up isos of all my old console games, and emulate them. i ripped and sold all my dvds eons ago, then i deleted those because i never watch them. holding on to plastic is silly.
>>733760809no, i stopped buying from them the day they handed me an opened copy as "new" just because they hadn't sold it to anyone else before. the fact that the average millennial gamer let them get away with this shit is the reason the industry became the way it is.
>>733762731waaaah i could afford games but not a bottle of isopropyl from walgreens for $2.99
Gamestop? Meh. Now if we're talking something like Funcoland or whatever your local non-franchise equivalent was, yeah.
>>733760809Thank god. I fucking love digital games.
>>733760809I brought in 50 old games and they wanted to give me like $20 for them. Eat shit and die. Rest in piss, gamespot.
>>733761589Seeing AAA slop go kicking and screeching into the night is worth it imo.
>>733760809GameStop has always sucked. They always pushed their preorders, trade ins, and warranties so hard even though I never wanted them.
>buy used metroid fusion cartridge from gamestop>does not work so I bring it back>they replaced it and even gave me the original boxpre-wii era gamestop was great
>>733760809Stores were infinitely worse than the current way of buying games. Doubly so if you weren't some retarded kid who only bought the most mainstream shit imaginable.
>>733760809Now who is going to pre-open my brand new games and shove the discs into paper sleeves?
>>733760809>They took this from you.Feels good man.
>>733763387Good luck when they're stuck directly on the artwork.
>>733760809>gamestop dead>crashing console shits with no survivors>sending hardware prices to the moon so only the most sophisticated nerds can afford a decent PC>casuals and newfags stagnate and find another hobby starving the corporate vampires>rebirth of AA gamingcrank up the chemo dripwe're nearly so back
>>733763949heatgun or blow dryer (appropriate temperature of course) is way easier to melt/loosen old adhesive. failing that, just find high res scans and just go print a new cover at a copy shop.
>>733760809i miss my local pawn shop that had games in the back, but the owner knew nothing about video games so it was one those thing where every game was like $10, and "retro" games were $5 regardless of the title
>>733764502Fucking miss goodwill circa 2011/2012. I bought a $3 Genesis model 1 as a young lad. Now you'd be lucky to find some shitty PS2/Wii game for $4 there, not even considering most assholes just steal the discs out of the cases now.
the real loss of the 00s was high trust society
>>733760809Who is "they", the Jews?
>>733763949It's just a little glue dude, figure it out.
>>733760809>security camera feed on the wallIn the late 90s I worked at a Babbages in the mall (which was bought by EB then Gamestop). We had those tinted domes all over the ceiling. And not a single one had a camera in it. They were all fake to discourage shoplifting. Shit was funny.
>>733760809I still make a point to stop by game stores in the vague hope I walk inside one and they actually have games instead of being basically a nerd gift shop.
>>733768603Now it's the other way around. The camera looking ones are fake and the tinted domes are real.
>>733763387lmao at your poorfag assI'd just switch out the whole fucking case. I had like 100 of them, all factory new
>>733760809I wonder why people don't like going to communal places like this anymore. Personally I've always been antisocial so it works out for me.
>>733760809you don't miss gamestop, you miss being a child.you would not pay more money to have to get up and drive to the store and hope they've got the game you want in stock when you could just buy it on steam for less money and play it immediately, or pirate it for free to the same effect. this is everyone's revealed preference. you want other people to shop there so you can maintain the comfortable fantasy that your childhood still exists, while you still get to benefit from all the conveniences of the internet age.
