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I used to collect NES games and there was a point were you could get any Color Dreams or whatever from FuncoLand for like $1. This was like 17 years ago or so when the NES wasn't that many console generations behind and before every douche in the world decided age 25 was the time for nostalgia to kick in
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JebanyPedal posted:Seeing the box for the original Diablo and not knowing what the gently caress it was but being drawn by the sinister artwork and the crazy cool gothic fantasy poo poo on the back is a pretty powerful memory. Yeah, the first PC game I ever bought was Quake. I had no idea what it was, but as a 13 year old it looked badass. Turned out to be one of the best games ever made. It's the only game box I still have.
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Ramsus posted:Yeah, the first PC game I ever bought was Quake. I had no idea what it was, but as a 13 year old it looked badass. Turned out to be one of the best games ever made. It's the only game box I still have. lmao if you didn't buy the Quake shareware CD and then download that keygen that let you play id's entire back catalog that was also on the disc. raditts fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Nov 24, 2014 |
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Nov 24, 2014 05:03
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Moridin920 posted:no you download the game and then use a legit CD key to install it when it asks
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Nov 24, 2014 05:06
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you had to download Subspace, that poo poo was great until they decided to charge hourly or whatever it was for it e: keygens had the best music, though.
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Nov 24, 2014 05:07
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Gamestop was one of those places I was always surprised still existed when I'd go to the mall.
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Nov 24, 2014 05:10
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I went into a gamestop a few weeks ago. Behind the counter was a guy I haven't seen in nearly 14 years, who then proceed to tell me how he's got a step-kid now.
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Nov 24, 2014 05:16
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:
this is so totally my poo poo
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Nov 24, 2014 05:18
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SpicyMeatSandwich posted:I used to collect NES games and there was a point were you could get any Color Dreams or whatever from FuncoLand for like $1. This was like 17 years ago or so when the NES wasn't that many console generations behind and before every douche in the world decided age 25 was the time for nostalgia to kick in yeah I remember going to funcoland in like the late 90s with like 20 bucks and walking out with 10+ NES games
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Nov 24, 2014 05:24
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Flintstones Surprise At DinoSaur Peak 9.99?? Mom fire up my time machine I'm going out! 
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Nov 24, 2014 05:29
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Gamestop serves no purpose for game collectors since everything is in their lovely boxes or hosed to Hell. Also they don't carry anything older than like, PS3.
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Nov 24, 2014 06:23
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Those lines for the midnight releases are the worst things ever. And they smell loving terrible. If you want a physical copy of the game and have to have it that very night, why not go to Wal-Mart directly across the street where they have no lines (remember, midnight) and will get you out of the store at an efficient pace? Never understood that. Maybe there's an appeal in waiting in line talking with smelly strangers about how excited you are about this new game. I don't see it.
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Nov 24, 2014 06:32
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Does anyone else use Gamestop as a bank? I got really pissed off with US Bank because I kept overdrafting my account even though I opted out, and the same thing happened with my credit union when I got a debit card. Now whenever I get paid, I go preorder a whole shitload of games. Whenever I need money, I go to the nearest gamestop and ask for my money back on a game I don't want and make a withdrawal. The lines are shorter at gamestop than at the bank and I can trade in old games and have money go straight to my savings account. Gamestops are just as prevalent as banks in my town, and I work at a mall, so it's even more convenient than running an errand to the bank or using an ATM and getting charged. The gamestop people are starting to catch on that I'm just moving money around and only buying one preordered game a year, if that, but there isn't poo poo they can do about it. The best part is, since I always preorder every game coming out I'm still guaranteed to get all the exclusive content whether or not I'm sure I want a certain game. It's like they're rewarding me for banking with them.
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Nov 24, 2014 06:49
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Where did you c/p that from.
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Firmy Shoyombo posted:Does anyone else use Gamestop as a bank? 
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Nov 24, 2014 06:53
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I bank with gamestop. I can loan games for a week at zero % interest and then return them it's Hella Sick. Bankstop
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Nov 24, 2014 06:54
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If I have to have a physical copy I just get the poo poo off Amazon and end up having it show up on release day anyway. I used to get used games at GameStop but they aren't even that much cheaper anymore.
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Nov 24, 2014 06:57
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I thought amazon and digital downloads would have obviated Gamestop a long time ago. I'm surprised they still exist at all.
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Nov 24, 2014 06:58
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Gamestop will be responsible for the next recession.
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Nov 24, 2014 06:58
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gamestop has an official credit card now, so get to bankin' goons.
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Nov 24, 2014 07:00
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Last year when the new Zelda 3ds game came out I pre ordered it for the bonus and gamestop was right down the hall from the place I was bartending at. It was also the same night the xbone or ps4 came out. So I got out of work at like 1145 and they let me come in a couple minutes early since I was paying in cash and going home. Lol at the nerds that parked their fat asses there at 2pm so they could be the first person in that 5 mile radius to have one.
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Nov 24, 2014 08:00
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Anybody else work at GameStop back when they were Babbage's and want to swap stories about selling PC games in giant cardboard boxes that came on nine discs or 32 floppies?Maldoror posted:i miss going into electronics boutique and seeing a huge wall of pc games and programs in cardboard boxes with brightly colored graphics and teenagers playing pc games on the store's demo system and shouting extreme expletives whilst doing so 
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Nov 24, 2014 08:24
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im gonna pay full price for this EA game i cant play yet, so i can get some exclusive content
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Nov 24, 2014 08:30
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i work in a video game store, i don't even know what putty is
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:
No joke, I was always super excited to go into FuncoLand and grab the newest price guide, if only to fawn over the giant list of games. I miss FuncoLand. The day I went there and found out it was a GameStop was a black day for me. 
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Nov 24, 2014 08:44
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i miss playing games at kiosks. i would go to toys r us after school and play pokemon snap and dreamcast. then we'd steal poprocks. have a single parent who didn't come home til really late owned
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Santheb posted:Those lines for the midnight releases are the worst things ever. And they smell loving terrible. If you want a physical copy of the game and have to have it that very night, why not go to Wal-Mart directly across the street where they have no lines (remember, midnight) and will get you out of the store at an efficient pace? Stocking new releases exactly at midnight isn't really a thing to expect from a Walmart. Maybe come back on Friday and they'll have gotten around to unpacking that particular box with the new GTA or whatever in it. Like there's a chance they may have it but it's really drat rare. Luckily we now live in a digital age and I just download that poo poo and never have to wait in line with you smelly fucks.
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Nov 24, 2014 09:51
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Harald posted:Value Tarps - a value trap? 
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Nov 24, 2014 12:03
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Oh maaaaaaan. Now the hyper nerds are going to have even less female contact. Good.
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Wtf since when did gamestop become the Starbucks of game stores by hiring cute women?
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I wouldn't say cute or woman but every time I go past or into one there's a young girl with dyed hair behind the counter.
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Nov 24, 2014 12:24
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I had a friend that worked in a Software Etc in the late 90's and he had two really cute female co-workers. This was before games stores learned to capitalize on such things, and going in there to see my friend and watching the manager toss some creeper out was always worth the price of an EGM.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:I wouldn't say cute or woman but every time I go past or into one there's a young girl with dyed hair behind the counter. Yea, its usually just some nerdy girl aged 17-19, usually there's more than one in the mall naturally so we can all continue to avoid gamestop really.
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I'm always surprised to see people in a Gamestop, like you play video games, which probably means you know that you can just download them from home at the same price or cheaper without the lingering smell of patchouli and feet.
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COMIN' TO GET CHU
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You guys are forgetting how awesome it is to borrow games from your friends at school. It's cool to lend them as well. I love getting my copy of twisted metal back all scratched up
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Ramsus posted:You guys are forgetting how awesome it is to borrow games from your friends at school. It's cool to lend them as well. I love getting my copy of twisted metal back all scratched up Still remember my friend tossing the green Battlezone CD into my locker and telling me how you can download full games at happypuppy.com.
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yeah downloading games is cool and all but they tend to charge way to much for old games why would i pay 40 bucks to dload it when i could buy it at store for 20 or less?
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none of you assholes know the exquisite agony of your dad buying a loving mac during the 90s. yeah it ran great but i would get laughed at when i called eb or compusa asking "uh, do you guys sell mac games?" sometimes compusa did but eb never loving did. top 5 mac games from my childhood Command and Conquer Sim City 2k Power Pete Lode Runner Some LucasArts x-wing game by the time I finally got loving diablo a bulb had blown on the screen and everything had a green tint to it and the game was unplayable. then my parents bought us a hideous gateway piece of poo poo that was supposed to compete with the imac and at least it played d2 and the sims for my sister. of course we still had like dsl or dial up so i'd frequently die from fire or catapults in the frozen planes or whatever that was. RIP javazon 
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This thread should now be about posting pics of gamestop girls you took with your phone secretly while browsing the second hand bins. If you can post a series where their hair colour perfectly matches the order of colours in a rainbow I may buy you plat.
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