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Remember the olden days of gaming, for most of us it was the time of the Master System and NES, then the Megadrive and SNES and so on. It was also the time when gamers really depended mostly on small independent shops to buy games and get advice & news on what was coming out, new stuff and all that gubbins.
Where are they now, the local video game shops ? Mostly gone, finished off by the larger chains like GAME and the now finished Electronics Boutique.
At the end of the main street in my town the shell of the only local games shop is still there, still boarded up with the name sign hanging on the boarding, faded and broken down. There¡¦s a still a few independent shops out there, but not as many as there used to be.
Is it a bad thing ? We can get cheaper games, sales, and easier returns and so on. Games cost less. Even so, I can¡¦t help feeling that places like GAME aren¡¦t really video games shops, that they¡¦d just be selling whatever was popular if games weren¡¦t so popular now.
I don¡¦t know about everyone else, but my local shop was great, the two guys who ran it always had pre releases a week before they were out, you could play them, they gave away freebies and promotional stuff ¡V I¡¦ve still got the fluffy Sonic from Sonic 2 ! ¡V and they always gave good advice. Not GAME and Woolworths (e.t.c.) ¡§we want to sell this because we¡¦re stuck with it¡¨ advice. It was the same with trade ins, you always got 70% of the retail price for any game you traded in ¡V pretty decent that. More importantly you knew you could trust them and if you had any problems with games and trying to find hard to get titles they could always help.
I can¡¦t help feeling that gaming has lost something with the loss of so many independent retailers, because a lot did it because they enjoyed it and were really interested in games, not like some of the sales people today¡K¡K.grrrr @ Dixons ƒº
~~Belldandy~~
Where are they now, the local video game shops ? Mostly gone, finished off by the larger chains like GAME and the now finished Electronics Boutique.
At the end of the main street in my town the shell of the only local games shop is still there, still boarded up with the name sign hanging on the boarding, faded and broken down. There¡¦s a still a few independent shops out there, but not as many as there used to be.
Is it a bad thing ? We can get cheaper games, sales, and easier returns and so on. Games cost less. Even so, I can¡¦t help feeling that places like GAME aren¡¦t really video games shops, that they¡¦d just be selling whatever was popular if games weren¡¦t so popular now.
I don¡¦t know about everyone else, but my local shop was great, the two guys who ran it always had pre releases a week before they were out, you could play them, they gave away freebies and promotional stuff ¡V I¡¦ve still got the fluffy Sonic from Sonic 2 ! ¡V and they always gave good advice. Not GAME and Woolworths (e.t.c.) ¡§we want to sell this because we¡¦re stuck with it¡¨ advice. It was the same with trade ins, you always got 70% of the retail price for any game you traded in ¡V pretty decent that. More importantly you knew you could trust them and if you had any problems with games and trying to find hard to get titles they could always help.
I can¡¦t help feeling that gaming has lost something with the loss of so many independent retailers, because a lot did it because they enjoyed it and were really interested in games, not like some of the sales people today¡K¡K.grrrr @ Dixons ƒº
~~Belldandy~~
Woah.. nice post but what was wrong with it? It was hard to get my head round those weird symbols....
game still do trade ins,i traded in luigis mansion and sonic adventure 2 battle for resident evil, and they game me £20 trade in for each which i thought was pretty good considering they were selling luigis mansion for £25 which is only £5 mark up, but your are right none of the staff have a clue about games
We had a local shop a while ago, it was about 5 minutes away from my house.
Although unfortunatly the guy who run was a ____ and he charged high prices and always tried to con all his customers.
Just you wait until I go to university, I'm gonna get a job in a games store AND I'll actually know what the hell I'm talking about :)
Although unfortunatly the guy who run was a ____ and he charged high prices and always tried to con all his customers.
Just you wait until I go to university, I'm gonna get a job in a games store AND I'll actually know what the hell I'm talking about :)
OK, I give up writing topics outside of life.....
~~Belldandy~~
~~Belldandy~~
Belldandy wrote:
> At the end of the main street in my town the shell of the only local
> games shop is still there
Fair enough...
> There¡¦s a still
> a few independent shops out there, but not as many as there used to
> be.
Didn't you just say that was the last one? Oer do you mean that there are stll a few out in the world.?
> At the end of the main street in my town the shell of the only local
> games shop is still there
Fair enough...
> There¡¦s a still
> a few independent shops out there, but not as many as there used to
> be.
Didn't you just say that was the last one? Oer do you mean that there are stll a few out in the world.?
oops, wrong forum...should have been FOG Chat... :)
~~Belldandy~~
~~Belldandy~~
Remember the olden days of gaming, for most of us it was the time of the Master System and NES, then the Megadrive and SNES and so on. It was also the time when gamers really depended mostly on small independent shops to buy games and get advice & news on what was coming out, new stuff and all that gubbins.
Where are they now, the local video game shops ? Mostly gone, finished off by the larger chains like GAME and the now finished Electronics Boutique.
At the end of the main street in my town the shell of the only local games shop is still there, still boarded up with the name sign hanging on the boarding, faded and broken down. There¡¦s a still a few independent shops out there, but not as many as there used to be.
Is it a bad thing ? We can get cheaper games, sales, and easier returns and so on. Games cost less. Even so, I can¡¦t help feeling that places like GAME aren¡¦t really video games shops, that they¡¦d just be selling whatever was popular if games weren¡¦t so popular now.
I don¡¦t know about everyone else, but my local shop was great, the two guys who ran it always had pre releases a week before they were out, you could play them, they gave away freebies and promotional stuff ¡V I¡¦ve still got the fluffy Sonic from Sonic 2 ! ¡V and they always gave good advice. Not GAME and Woolworths (e.t.c.) ¡§we want to sell this because we¡¦re stuck with it¡¨ advice. It was the same with trade ins, you always got 70% of the retail price for any game you traded in ¡V pretty decent that. More importantly you knew you could trust them and if you had any problems with games and trying to find hard to get titles they could always help.
I can¡¦t help feeling that gaming has lost something with the loss of so many independent retailers, because a lot did it because they enjoyed it and were really interested in games, not like some of the sales people today¡K¡K.grrrr @ Dixons ƒº
~~Belldandy~~
Where are they now, the local video game shops ? Mostly gone, finished off by the larger chains like GAME and the now finished Electronics Boutique.
At the end of the main street in my town the shell of the only local games shop is still there, still boarded up with the name sign hanging on the boarding, faded and broken down. There¡¦s a still a few independent shops out there, but not as many as there used to be.
Is it a bad thing ? We can get cheaper games, sales, and easier returns and so on. Games cost less. Even so, I can¡¦t help feeling that places like GAME aren¡¦t really video games shops, that they¡¦d just be selling whatever was popular if games weren¡¦t so popular now.
I don¡¦t know about everyone else, but my local shop was great, the two guys who ran it always had pre releases a week before they were out, you could play them, they gave away freebies and promotional stuff ¡V I¡¦ve still got the fluffy Sonic from Sonic 2 ! ¡V and they always gave good advice. Not GAME and Woolworths (e.t.c.) ¡§we want to sell this because we¡¦re stuck with it¡¨ advice. It was the same with trade ins, you always got 70% of the retail price for any game you traded in ¡V pretty decent that. More importantly you knew you could trust them and if you had any problems with games and trying to find hard to get titles they could always help.
I can¡¦t help feeling that gaming has lost something with the loss of so many independent retailers, because a lot did it because they enjoyed it and were really interested in games, not like some of the sales people today¡K¡K.grrrr @ Dixons ƒº
~~Belldandy~~