Alright. Time for everyone to boycott GameStop.
I don't know how long this has been in effect, since I usually only shop for retro sega games, and they haven't had a genesis to "try before you buy" in a GameStop for 6 years. But they used to still have the newer systems.
Well, we were there, and my wife wanted to try out Need For Speed (no qualifiers, the original) for PS1. She says her brother used to have one of the Need For Speed games, and it was the only one she liked, and it had some specific song she liked. But she doesn't know which version it was, and has been wanting to figure it out.
Anyway, to my complete shock, they no longer have systems for you to try out games. Not a PS2, not an XBox, nothing. It's 100% buy at your own risk now. That's a crock. I told the guy working there they should complain to corporate, and he said the order to remove the try-out systems came from corporate.
FuncoLand is already dead. It died when GameStop took over. Gamestop was never as good as Funco. I guess I've just been trying to relive the glory days of neo-retro gaming by pretending the GameStops were still Funcos. But it's no use. It's time to realize Funco is gone forever, and GameStop is a lame mega-corp wanna-be, and doesn't deserve our patronage.
The local EB Games still has try-out systems and some retro games. Though after reading that article about them, I'm not so sure to trust them anymore. Also, same problem. EB Games took over Planet Games, and was never the same.
We should only support the local, non-chain-sell-out shops. For instance, in Minnesota, there's Hi-Score (formerly Raven Games) in Stillwater, DiscLand in Bloomington, and (can't remember the name! Like Toy something) in Maplewood (it's at the corner of Whitebear Ave and the road south of the mall). In Champaign-Urbana, IL, there was both Big Kids and Game Crazy north of the interstate.
Heck, even Holleywood Video's Game Crazy ain't that bad.
I don't know how long this has been in effect, since I usually only shop for retro sega games, and they haven't had a genesis to "try before you buy" in a GameStop for 6 years. But they used to still have the newer systems.
Well, we were there, and my wife wanted to try out Need For Speed (no qualifiers, the original) for PS1. She says her brother used to have one of the Need For Speed games, and it was the only one she liked, and it had some specific song she liked. But she doesn't know which version it was, and has been wanting to figure it out.
Anyway, to my complete shock, they no longer have systems for you to try out games. Not a PS2, not an XBox, nothing. It's 100% buy at your own risk now. That's a crock. I told the guy working there they should complain to corporate, and he said the order to remove the try-out systems came from corporate.
FuncoLand is already dead. It died when GameStop took over. Gamestop was never as good as Funco. I guess I've just been trying to relive the glory days of neo-retro gaming by pretending the GameStops were still Funcos. But it's no use. It's time to realize Funco is gone forever, and GameStop is a lame mega-corp wanna-be, and doesn't deserve our patronage.
The local EB Games still has try-out systems and some retro games. Though after reading that article about them, I'm not so sure to trust them anymore. Also, same problem. EB Games took over Planet Games, and was never the same.
We should only support the local, non-chain-sell-out shops. For instance, in Minnesota, there's Hi-Score (formerly Raven Games) in Stillwater, DiscLand in Bloomington, and (can't remember the name! Like Toy something) in Maplewood (it's at the corner of Whitebear Ave and the road south of the mall). In Champaign-Urbana, IL, there was both Big Kids and Game Crazy north of the interstate.
Heck, even Holleywood Video's Game Crazy ain't that bad.
... this will make it more interesting seeing that there will be at least 6 consoles by about 2 or 3 years... a system that only had 2 years in its life may go down by having there games on a shelf longer than a Ps2's...or a gamecube's... or an xbox's 
