Hey Sup Forums Before the internet.where would you get your games from when you are a kid

Hey Sup Forums Before the internet.where would you get your games from when you are a kid.
usually for me, it was kmart or target sometimes JC Penneys too.

i just sucked them out of a hose at the local public toilet

We had these stores called Electonics Boutique that used to be tops for vidya stuff. They even had imports from time to time... they would eventually become EB Games and then Gamestop which became more of an annoyance to visit.

EB Games and Walmart. I still go to GameStop

I remember K-Mart when white people shopped there. Last time I was in there it was nothing but Puerto Ricans and I shit you not I had to go through four employees before I found one that spoke English

Before the internet I was a child, and video games barely existed. So someone bought me them.

Home shopping catalogues.

Why did K-Mart become so shit?

I still go to Gamestop, with the one day early preorders they started doing.

Babbage's
The store would always smell like cotton candy. Good times. I would always read the manual on the way home

Flea markets, Hastings and GameStop.

software etc.

>ywn go into a late 90's style tech store with purple neon lights and tons of retro games to purchase the lastest final fantasy again

They couldn't keep up with the times. I actually liked Kmart more than Walmart because you could just run and our without having to get past fattiest blocking aisles or long lines. Also they'd have more obscure and hard to find games than other places.

JC Penneys? What the fuck?
I use to get them at Target since that was the only place I knew that sold games. I could swear they use to sell games at TJ Maxx though.

Toys R Us and KB Toys famalam.

I forgot what it was called, it was a game store attached to Hollywood Videos.
They always had the game I wanted in stock and if it had a pre-order item, they would include it with my purchase, because not much people goes to them.

People selling pirated copies in the middle of the street for like $5

Through their catalog. Some of the larger J.C. Penney's also sold them in store. You can even still buy games off their website.

What's the oldest games you've seen in a store.
I once saw a copy of streets of rage at Kmart 3 or 4 so years ago. It was covered in dust and the packaging was badly damaged. Tried buying it but they couldn't find a price so I just got it for $3.

funcoland and eb games were the shit. anyone who shops at the most recent iteration of gamestop should kill themselves

All the Kmarts near me have been torn down. The one closest to me still looked old as fuck though. I swear they had a Wario World poster set up until 2011 and were still selling GBA and GC games.

to rent my n64 cartridges?a shop called magnum that had tons of games and vhs videos.

>one day early preorders
Please don't tell me this means you get to preorder a game one day early. Preordering in itself is fucking stupid by having the privilege of being able to preorder something early is incomprehensible levels of stupid.

Before they knew what was going on I would buy pc games at target take the CD and return it/switch it for another one

CD key*

No, I meant being able to pick up my preorder when it arrives at the store one day before release date, $60 with no extra preorder fee as well.

my local GAME. Still exists but it really isn't the same store from way back.
Also had Gamestation but the people in there were always slobs with broken discs so I never went there.

Free games in magazines

Some game store that was debunked due to Gamestop. Fuck you, Gamestop.

Toys-R-Us -> EB Games -> Internet

Walmart, Toys R Us, Target.

Eddie Lampert

Gameboy/Nintendo up to SNES/Genesis I'd get from Service Merchandise or Sears. N64/Playstation was mostly Best Buy/FuncoLand. GBA/PS2 was Gamestop. Went mostly PC gaming or used Amazon after that.

babbages

TJMaxx if I recall mostly had old CD-ROM games that were released a few years prior, mostly stuff out of the The Learning Company (turned into a shovelware company by the end of the 1990s but still holding onto a number of classic IPs). But for me, the main places to get games was Wal-Mart or Target.

before gamestop and the internet, there was EB games and KB Toys. Also there used to be some small weeb shop at the mall that sold a bunch of imported games and anime stuff. I was the first kid on the block to have a super saiyan 3 t-shirt back when DBZ on Toonami was still in the Cell saga

Mix of K·B Toys, Nobody Beats the Wiz, Funcoland, Electronics Boutique for SNES, N64 and big box PC games

>debunked
hehe

Oh yeah I forgot they sold edutainment shit. I thought I saw them selling GBC games at one point though.

EB Games, Wal-Mart, Sears and a local game store that got shut down.

Even though I could read I picked out my games by the pictures. If I went to Blockbuster to rent a game I usually got the ones that had the wall of text on the back that was like a starter strategy guide.

>Funcoland
>they always had huge stacks of really old games from 2+ generations ago for dirt cheap
>would get rare finds a lot
>even when Gamestop bought them my store was still called funcoland and operated the same as always
>go there again one day
>it got its gamestop makeover
>all the game aisles that took up the floor space were gone
>replaced with shit like toys or just empty walkways
>only sold current gen stuff unless it was handheld
>never had any sales and even older games were full price
>scammed little kid me out of great games for pennies because I was too dumb

I usually went to GameStop since it was in the mall. The mall was great as a kid since you got lunch, a game, and usually some toys.

until mom drags you all over the place to shop for shoes and clothes
>we just gotta do a few errands first mijo

JC Penneys was the only place I ever saw a Virtual Boy to try out when I was a kid

I was a military brat so I got them at the base exchange.

During the Genesis days, I was renting games from a local, now defunct, convenience store/video rental place most of the time. But sometimes I'd get lucky and there would be a game I wanted for a dirt cheap price on their "used and want to clear out" rack.

I grew up pretty poor.

Gamestop/EB Games and Target mostly, sometimes the Blockbuster or Hollywood Video used bin.

That's where I got my GB with a copy of solar striker.

i grew up in small town texas in the late 80s and early 90s and there really was only kmart and some cd/record stores that would have small selections of games. the selection then at any given store was nothing like today unless you went to a big city and found a babbages or game store or something

Circuit City then Gamestop when CC went under