Let's have a thread to post pics which show how dedicated video game stores looked like in the 90's. I think it will be interesting to see what their demo kiosks looked like, which posters, banners, cardboard standees they used, etc.
There are so many people playing in demo kiosks here it almost feels like an arcade:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LccHwRUwpZY
>>12270916normally the kiosks were either unoccupied or there was that one fat kid standing at it for 2 hours straight while his mom shopped despite the fact that it was set up to reset the console every 5 minutes
>>12271001That was me
Anyone have pics from the game kiosks from Macy's in the early 90s? I remember their video game sections were always kinda tucked away in the back of the kids clothing section in a little four sided island of glass display cases, with demo kiosks at the corners and an employee in the center.
SNES demo kiosk with Super Mario World (from 1:39 to 1:45)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTzyz2TgGls
Club Taku in Argentina, circa 2002
This man was about to create an historical document of inestimable worth (that store might have had a NES demo kiosk, a really early pre-Sonic Genesis kiosk or a Turbografx one), but then..."I would have filmed more, but a store clerk stopped me"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_96wWKzkp4s
A video game store in Malmö, Sweden in 1995
Bump.
>>12271001This was also me. But for me it was the Nintendo Power Previews kiosks. It was on Laserdisc and you could select short video clips to watch from various games. Seeing a game in motion was rare unless you actually played it back then so this was pretty cool. All the ones in my area had a variant that had a second monitor and you could play whatever the SNES game of the month was. So I could play games while watching ads. Just put me right in front of one of these things I'd probably never leave.
Mega Drive and SNES demo kiosks, cardboard standees... a lot of stuff in this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdsAugVdSHI
The American Mall was the place to go!BabbagesSoftware, Etc.Electronics BoutiqueGame eXchangeK&B ToysAnd right outside the mall was Toys ‘R UsAnd in the 1980s:Service Merchandise
>>12276189I just realized I forgot that Sears was in the mall and also sold vidya
While searching for pictures of Software, Etc. I came across a few that showed them rebranding as GameStop. I knew GameStop bought Electronics Boutique (by then EB Games) but I did not remember they bought Software ETC which specialized in PC games as well as console games
>>12276202They actually had a decent game section and tried to advertise it as "Sears Funtronics". They always had demo stations - it was the first place I remember playing Mario Kart.
>ywn return to better simpler times visiting the local mall straining your neck playing games on a crt shopping for christmas gifts with mom.my happiest fondest memories right in the nostalgia feels. I still remember the first time I ever saw Mario 64 store demo was so amazing. I also remember even though I was a big sonic fan we couldn't afford the Saturn and I was sad but I got to play the Sonic R demo at Toys R' Us.
>>12277181This is me but with Super Mario World. It made my jaw drop.
Akihabara 1994 Mini Play With Me
we didnt realize how good we had it back then.
this is what pure joy looks like.
>>12277406>timegal>exciting game>we'll talkthey were right.
>>12277412>tfw can't afford No Time Gal TV waifu >How it started vs how it's goingIf only they knew how bad thing really are now. Wish we could go back.
>>12277181>N64SYSTEMDelete this
>>12277364>Kabuki KlashNoice.
>>12277181I played those at Toys R Us with Mario 64, shit was dope, but it was time limited, and then you get a message from Mario.
>>12276194What were those display tvs that had the games playing themselves.
>>12276091There are SOME LD rips of those kiosks discs, that one kiosk has NES previews from 92, are there any videos on YT?
The Cybertron store has this old pic in the "About us" section. If it was taken in the year they started, then it must be from 1997.
>>12277786Yes played VHS tapes of game footage, tv commercials, sales, upcoming releases
Hakuhinkan Department Store in Tokyo, Japan. November 1992
>>12277791There's plenty but it's hardly complete. Here's a playlist that also includes lots of random marketing videos. That Scott Wolf guy from the DKC video is all over the ones from 1994.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZXaljfzHhA&list=PLJJpieSAOgNNzj4PugRUYpzQhUso8nbjQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaDUUyp3hCgSNES, Mega Drive, Master System, NES, Game Gear, Game Boy gamesEuro-house and eurodance music in the backgroundVideo game hints & tricks booksMiddle part haircutsYeah, this is the 90's I remember
>>12278271They sure forgot about that rule quickly once they lost market domination.
>>12278359>>12278271lol
>>12278315>PAL landnot very comfy knowing nobody in that video beat any of the games
>>12278271Surprise Cam Clarke in a lot of these previews.
>>12277851Pokemon started in America during 1998.
Date of recording: 22.07.1997 Computer games store: Boys at Sony Playstation monitor in Bonn.
Shoppers look over the video game selection inside the Target Store in Gaithersburg MD24 November 2000
