I live about 20 min from EBs ex HQ in a West Chester. I literally went to college and parked my car across the road from the HQ. My local mall Granite Run (Gone for about 10 years now) and King of Prussia were the two most local malls to them EB was originally a calculator store at KOPYeah the EB sticker is cool. I can't imagine paying $245 in 90s money for World Heroes 2.
That’s it and probably for cOnTenTS everyone has ADD now anyway.I guess this is what most people new to rEtRo GaMiNg are like?
So I guess someone must have had to sell the games as open items after they were returned? (I don't know if they just put them back on the shelf for sale back then.)I actually worked for EB around college and afterwards as a manager for a year or two when my local game store I worked at closed. My job when I quit was basically going around opening stores for them from Virginia to Connecticut, so I spent time with the DM going around and talking to him. he worked for them around the release of the Neo and said with their return policy you could buy one Neo Geo game at $245 and then just continually return them for a new game so it was almost a subscription rental service that’s when they stopped selling them in stores because of that.
They always “gutted” games anyway for the shelf back then.So I guess someone must have had to sell the games as open items after they were returned? (I don't know if they just put them back on the shelf for sale back then.)
My local mall had a gamestore before it was EB as well. I know at one point it was a Babbages. But I cant remember if the other non-EB name was something else but honestly the name Games n Gadgets seems really familiar. I was in south TX as a kid, not Westchester but yeah for some reason that rings a bell.Games N Gadgets.
I had a similar experience. I specifically remember Baseball Stars and thinking this must be the most amazing baseball game ever.seeing the Nam 1975 and Baseball Stars carts for sale there and they were around $250/$275 and I thought these must be the best games ever if they charge that much
Baseball Stars Professional probably seemed amazing in 90/91, but it kinda sucks now.I had a similar experience. I specifically remember Baseball Stars and thinking this must be the most amazing baseball game ever.
I wonder what early adopters thought. The launch games were decent games, but offered very little over much cheaper counterparts.
“He only wanted $300 for Riding Hero”
I cant be arsed, is that the same chick from earlier in the thread that said Metal Slug was one of her favorite games of all time and was clearly playing it for the first time in her life?
Yup.I cant be arsed, is that the same chick from earlier in the thread that said Metal Slug was one of her favorite games of all time and was clearly playing it for the first time in her life?