Did you ever buy games at Toys R Us?

Did you ever buy games at Toys R Us?

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I remember getting Nintendogs and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time there.

I actually got my first GBA there and it came with Charlotte's Web. Oddly enough, it was one of the best games I played on that console.

Nope. I walked around inside and killed time for a doctors app, but other then that never cared about it.

i used to get them at distribution au consommateur when i was a kid

I stabbed a gypsy fellow near one once

Bought myself that LeapFrog with Winnie the Poo included, boi.

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got a wavebird there for like $25 a couple of years ago

I had gotten Halo Reach and ODST for me and Red Dead Redemption my brother.

I remember getting Pokemon Platinum there at launch.

Wonder how the implosion of TRU is going to affect this particular TRU store.

Will the ghost continue to haunt whoever the new tenants are?

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I bought my DS Lite there

Bought only one game from Toys R Us in my lifetime. Because someone gave me a $20 gift card. Ended up being my favorite game of all time.

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I was born in 1985, and Toys-R-Us will always be in my heart. I have so many memories of the place, specifically the one half a mile from my home. It's where I got my Gameboy. It's where I got OoT on day one. It's where my friend Greg bought us each a copy of Animal Crossing. I got my Dreamcast there. So much vidya. At least one bike. Lots of board games. My cousin used to work at the little window where you pick up the games with a ticket.

I remember in the 90s, every register was busy. Everyone was always buying toys and games. I went in one last week to buy a ball for my neice: one register open in the whole store and one customer ahead of me. Half the store is baby clothes. The one by my house has been abandoned for 10 years. Just a white building with colored stripes and the heartache when I miss those innocent days.

I bought a Neo-Geo Pocket there like 20 years ago. Only got 3 games and then they stopped supporting it. The SNK Card game was pretty cool.

all the time. It was the go to place apart from gamestop. I bought Halo 3 there.

I remember handing them a little slip of paper so they could retrieve Mega Man X3 for me. I don't think I ever bought anything else there though.

Not really. I guess that's where my parents got the Wii that Christmas though. And my grandma bought me Mario Golf for Gamecube as a birthday present there.

Legacy of Goku I and II.

my dad bought me an n64 with shadows of the empire way back in the day there

good times

I remember camping there for the Wii launch back in high school.

I always liked walking around in there and looking at all the cool shit. I'll be looking forward to the sales on board and video games.

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Bought my first system there. GBA with Dinotopia. I was a faggot and opted for that game instead of Pokemon Silver.

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Got my ps2, gameboy advanced, wii, and wiiu all on launch day there all with my big brother. So many memories, so many games bought there. Also got a lot of my bionicles there too. I'll miss toys r us dearly

I got the first smash bros there.

When I was a kid, we would go to the Quad Cities so many parents could gamble at The Lady Luck(which became an Isle of Capri location) because the casino is just over the border in Iowa and my dad had himself banned from a casino in my hometown of Peoria so he wouldn't gamble so much, but that meant he was banned from all casinos in Illinois and all casinos owned by that company(Ballys), so we had to drive 90 minutes to Iowa and spend the night/weekend there if my parents wanted to go to a casino. It was actually pretty comfy, since the casino comped everything and we could play as much Lodgenet Nintendo and rent as many movies as we want, the room service was decent, and we would always go to the buffet the next morning for brunch. One Sunday(I think I was like 8 or 10, somewhere around there) when we were about to drive back home, we stopped at a Toys R Us in Davenport and I bought some game whose name I couldn't remember. When I got home, I opened the case to find that there was no disc inside. We went to our local Toys R Us and explained the situation, they gave us the game and I think I enjoyed it. I wish I remembered what the game was, but Toys R Us did the right thing in that situation, and I have lots of fond memories as a child in that store. It's too bad they're broke.

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>Megaman X3
How does it feel to be rich today?

No. the nearest toys r us was somewhere around 60 miles away.
my town had several Mom and pops stores that still haven't gone out of business even when a Walmart, Blockbuster, Gamestop, and Target showed up and took root.
The Gamestop and Walmart are the only thing still standing besides the mom and pops stores.

Bought the Fire Emblem fates games there because there was a deal on them.

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Never bought a game there, but I have bought lots of Lego and Nerf Guns from them. Parents may have bought me games though

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I didn't want to grow up, bros ;_;

I sold it all for crack long ago. I also got Dracula X at Kmart for $40. It's funny because the guy at the counter even mentioned how rare it was and at this point it was probably only like a year old. Yeah I fucking hate myself but college was tough. I've sold untold amounts of games in my years. I keep all my shit now though, reclaimed a lot of the really important stuff I loved.

goddamnit that is the saddest story I've read all year

now I feel better about myself

what was he picking out?

What's so sad about it? I suppose it's sort of melancholy in the way that most nostalgia is, but I don't see it as especially sad.

my* parents
fuck

fucking video games breh

the gaming aisle has tickets you pay for and pick up the game from a window after you checked out

His parents are clearly degenerate gamblers but it sounds like they somehow kept their heads above water. I mean he was camped out in a hotel playing video games and watching films and then they take him to Toys R Us the next morning. It's not like they left him in the car while they were sucking off niggers for quarters to play slots.

My parent were too responsible to even let me anywhere near a Toys R Us because they know my tiny mind would explode and I would be begging them for video games and action figures.

Went to one that was closing today. Before the news everything was killed

The games were 40% off, the headset was 60%

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I camped outside of a Toys 'R Us for 17 hours with some friends back in October '06 to preorder a Wii. Was cold. Like 50+ people showed up, we were 4th, 5th, and 6th in line.

Fuck man, why was being a kid so great and comfy bros

literally all you had to do was to clear the video game aisle and you would be rich

Pokemon Blue for GameBoy.

My mom is an OB/GYN and my dad stayed home to take care of the kids. I think she currently pulls in over $1,000,000 before taxes.

Paper Mario 64. 90s games I can't remember

Wow I forgot about that ticket system. Do they still do that ?

nah, last time i checked.

maybe for consoles but not the vidya

>you don't understand what it means to die and never exist again
>if you do it's a completely abstract concept to you since you're too young to feel time chasing you down
>you have no responsibilities other than going to school which is so easy even literal retards can succeed
>everything is provided to you
>you're dumb as fuck so stupid shit seems amazing
>you probably haven't witnessed how truly terrible people are to eachother yet

should I go on?

Godamn I loved being a kid, so little time to do anything fun as an adult now

>tfw you'll never get to pick out a new SNES game because you went to the dentist or got shots again

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I think I would have needed to get gang raped by niggers before I got a sympathy game. I mean my mom didn't do fuck all for me after a $500 dentist visit and I can certainly understand why.

>you don't understand what it means to die and never exist again
Speak for yourself. I'm and I remember having distinct memories as a 4 or 5 year old with the flu and laying on the floor of our living room in front of the TV which playing Johnny Quest and running a super high fever and thinking, "When people die do they stop existing? Is heaven real?" Also, when I was 9 and at the aforementioned casino/hotel, I remember watching Thirteen Ghosts, that horror movie with Monk and Shaggy, and not being able to sleep that night because all I could think about was "what if ghosts aren't real because the afterlife isn't real and I stop existing when I die." It's something that freaks me out to this day, and it's probably a big part of why I'm an alcoholic.

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I did too but I got over it because I was a dumbass kid and it was still a pretty abstract concept. It still gets to me big time decades later but it sounds like you and I were pretty morbid. That isn't normal for a child to be focused on.

Gonna wait for them to put everything on sale.
Waiting to buy some quality board game sets cheap.
Anyone know if they sell quality mahjong sets? I don't have a chinatown nearby

Nah, but I did buy a game from KB Toys once

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it's more of an enticement game really. I notice you didn't mention your dad so you're probably a single mother faggot.

>"what if ghosts aren't real because the afterlife isn't real and I stop existing when I die."

Well you won't be around to care if so.

My parents had jobs, dipshit. They didn't hold my fucking hands together and walk me to the dentist with a freshly wrapped SNES game sitting in the car. My mom worked in the middle of the night so she was the appointment minivan driver during the day. They both worked hard to give me the things I needed.

No because they didn't display actual game boxes and just had those stupid plastic flaps with the covers printed on them and you had to bring a ticket to the cashier to actually get the game fuck you toys r us I want to hold the fucking box you pricks.

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A few times. The drunk teenager in the early 2000s manning the electronics section did not give a FUCK and would frequently ring up the wrong game when I brought stacks up and wanted to know prices.
>"Oh this one's only 19.99? I'll take it then"
>he rings up some budget gba title
>get thousand year door for $20

all the time when i was a kid

>then
"i don't wanna grow up, i'm a toys r us kid!"
>now
toys r us is dead and so is my youth

I worked there so I used my employee discount. It was only 10%, so I eventually switched to Best Buy's Gamer Club since it's bigger.

the game came after turd and you have no idea what my home life was like. my mother didn't even work so if you have two parents who couldn't afford a game maybe daddy needed to spend less money on his trap habit. what are you even doing here?

Thanks Dad, that really helped the other thousand times you said it.
I wonder what it is that makes some kids focus on death more than others. It's not like I was exposed to some traumatic or untimely death when I was a tiny kid.

I didn't make any assumptions about your home life, that was you. Are you actually retarded? Now I'm beginning to assume some things. Like your parents were so afraid of their own child that they felt they needed to bait him into doing something most parents have no problem telling their kids to "suck it up." AKA your parents were soft ass pussies and they raised another generation of soft ass pussies.

I found Xenosaga 3 for $10

nah, just tons of beyblades.

>board games on clearance
Damn you're right
>tfw no Monopoly nibbas on Sup Forums at all

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This make's me really fucking sad

I think like most other things it's a mixture of genetics and environment/experience.

You're retarded so I don't care what you think.

Tfw you will never walk down the aisle again and pick out your game.

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Fucking exactly what I'm talking about. They raised a delusional faggot who plugs his ears and screams "LALALA i can't hear you!" when called out on his faggotry.

Got a copy of Spyro and Jet Moto 2 from there.

Any out of business sales??

No you're literally retarded for reasons too complex to explain here. And stop swearing it doesn't make you look hard or real or whatever. You definitely come from a really good background and have honky ass parents who feed you this buttery spiel about doing what you're supposed to and gumption and all this because it's the only thing challenging in your life. Fuck off, I know kids who had so many games they could blow some of them off. getting new games was rare for me. Kiss my ass and have your crackhead parents do the same.

Yes, all the time. It killed me because once I was saving up to buy a neo geo pocket and I didn't have enough until the next week. When my mom and I went back, they had discontinued them. My sister also traded in our NES for Geoffrey Dollars

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>reasons too complex to explain here

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>The End is Nigh

Apt choice.

Yea, my mom took me there to buy lego star wars 2 on ps2 on her birthday because I wanted so badly

Also bought the King Kong game on ps2 from there

But my fondest memories are when I went there with my dad when I was 5-6 to buy toys. RIP

The one around where I lived when I was younger had stupidly high mark up.

So I always went to Babbage's.

It's real hard to be sympathetic to TRU because they frequently had poor inventory overpriced.
Like what's the point in going to a specialty store if their specialties and pricing suck? They were on borrowed time when online shopping got popular.
Maybe I'll swing in during their liquidation, but considering everyone else in our city probably is too, I might just say fuck it.

I liked going there with your dad too.

What do you guys expect your toys r us buildings turn into....

>getting presents for your mom's birthday

my mom was all mega selfless like that too. or maybe we're both literally Cartman.

more like ded r us haha

>2006
>mom had to take you

So why are they closing? Or more important, how did they go into bankrupcy? Was it a similar situation like Blockbuster? Not from US so I'm curious about it.

Another fucking Ross, Marshals, or TJMax.

Conkers bad fur day

I was like 7

FUCK Romney

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I hate Mitch Rodney!

Yes, infact I still go there, not for games though anymore, just to steal toys from the kids and film it for reddit upvotes

Used to buy GB/GBA games there pretty often, but I switched to Gamestop when they started to stock a good amount of used games.

They've been posting slowed profits and even losses over the last decade or so as online shopping rose in popularity. It's just hit a fever pitch lately, amazon prime posted record users, and toys r us posted record losses in it's holiday quarter this past 2017 season.

There's other reasons, but the majority of blame for this one lies mostly on amazon and other online toy retailers selling things at a significantly lower cost. So yeah, it's like blockbuster in essence, the internet just buttfucked it. It hung on when shipping online was still a week or two long affair, you could go to toys r us and get it NOW, but it's just not a thing anymore.

They're closing because they're mediocre at best and can't compete with Amazon.

What's that game that you played at the demo stations at ToysRUs that's going to stick with you for life? For me it was the first Medal of Honor.

My friend and I got Metroid fusion from there when it came out.

>FUCK Republicans
Fixed.
Also fun fact. Trump just repealed a law that said a Financial Adviser must act in the best interest of their client. Meaning it's now legal for them to screw you out of your money, again.
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