trying to find good games at blockbuster like
conkers bad fur day
bmxxx
perfect dark
basically any game I couldn't check out by myself with

>>12603502
Not a game but for a little while the golden toys r us n64s were hard to get in my area. One day someone came in and traded one in for like 8 bucks (I think we were selling them for 20 at the time) I hid it in the back ran home and switched out my normal black one for the golden one and I still have it to this day. I had wanted one so bad since seeing them on display when they were brand new.

The internet was shit or unavailable in my country/city so we could not even properly pirate. Half life came out and one internet cafe had it. It was a pirate copy of course but they were not selling more copies. Only allow you to play it there in their cafe. Now I think about it, it was extremely jewish of them.

So we got there, asked for the cd to play it (I guess it was not a no CD crack or was not fully installed). After they gave us the CD, someone took it outside while the other one pretending to play. They went back to their home and made a copy and come back. And voila, we all had a copy of our own afterwards. Perfect heist

I always wanted Shantae and Nintendo Power always shoved it in your face in ads, but i never saw a single store selling it.

Finding slightly older NES games used to be a shitshow back in the NES's lifespan. I never owned my own copy of Zelda 1 because I never saw it for sale anywhere. I didn't even get to rent Zelda 2, and was jazzed as hell when I found it for sale while on vacation in 1993. Fester's Quest, Blaster Master, Bionic Commando, The Guardian Legend, Goonies 2, all big-name and popular games I never saw for rent or sale near me. One of the first things I did when I discovered emulation was try out all the games I always heard about but never had the chance to play.

Dial up was expensive as fuck and was very shitty. My allowance was like an hour a day or something. I wanted to play pokemon stadium which was like 30mb and would not finish in an hour. I had to beg my mom.

She agreed and I downloaded the rom. It did not work

>>12603502
Rented Harvest Moon 64 several times, then when the store was getting rid of all their N64 games the guy had already sold it to someone else before I could buy it, and naturally there was nowhere else to find it. I wish I could have played it more growing up. At least I managed to get Ogre Battle 64 from that store.

I bought Clayfighter Sculptors Cut for 10 dollars at a trade in store at the mall because they had it out as just the regular version. I also stupidly put back a 3 dollar copy of Stunt Racer at a different store that i was going to get.

>>12604386
>>12604236
I managed to snag a copy of Earthbound with box and a somewhat beat up guide for 10 bucks when a local video store liquidated their stock. They had TONS of great shit they were getting rid of. Getting EB was a smart move but I should have just bought everything else.

>>12603918
nobody gives a fuck about your gamer biography

>>12604968
I like it, nobody talks about what it was like it to be a gamer during the NES days.

At my local farmers market when i was a kid, there was this stoner dude who ran a shop that sold various collectibles, mostly from the 60s, 70s and early 80s. He also would sell games there and he had a snes behind the counter he played on while his shop was open. Every game he bought and was done playing, he would then sell in his shop for 5 dollars, didn't matter what it was. Bought a lot of his games this way, but the two that stood out were super metroid and wild guns.

>>12605189
Based hippie boomer

>>12603862
What country, if I could ask?

I exchanged sex for a copy of Phalanx back when I was younger and more attractive

>>12605706
I touched a turd for a copy of gameboy Tetris.

Meanwhile, people gave me games without asking for anything in return just because they knew I'd enjoy them.

>>12603502
when I was a wee lad my grandparents would ask me what I wanted for christmas and I would name some game
a week later
>the guy at Sears never heard of it
this wasn’t obscure shit either it would be something like FF3 or Chrono Trigger

>>12604968
that’s literally the topic of the thread, asshole

>>12605706
was he gentle?

I had a lot of trouble getting a hold of Dragon Warrior / Quest Monsters, I think it was out in the UK at that point but I'm not even sure whether I was able to get a hold of a PAL copy or an import, either way I had to order it from somewhere.
Also I was a big fan of the N64 Goemon games and even remember seeing Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon for Gameboy in EB but that was before I had one, by which time it was like a year later at least and all copies of the game had seemingly evaporated from existence, to the point I almost doubt having seen it in the first place even now. Thankfully I was *eventually* able to find Konami GB Collection 2 that had an english translation and colorisation of Sarawareta Ebisumaru although I had to look absolutely everywhere (and this was a PAL only release),
I also imported the Japanese version of Sonic Advance when that was still the only version available, and Tilt And Tumble as well which didn't come out in the UK

>>12605875
Oh yeah and in anticipation for OoT I had my mum go check the market stalls in town (the only place you could get SNES games at that point in 1998) for a copy of LTTP and was presented with a pretty well battered boxed copy when I got home from school. Fairly sure I completed it before that christmas, although halfway through my first playthrough the battery shat the bed and I had to start from the beginning which was galling.

Other than Chrono Trigger and Earthbound I can't think of a single time as a kid I went to a game store with the intention of getting something. It's just usually see what they have a pick then.

>>12605832
Yes he was. Cute nerdy guy