Flojomojo Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Maybe someone can pick up both Gamestop and Atari SA as a double creature feature. Corporate synergy and retro-future cryptocurrency or something. Get a speaker hat with every $100 worth of trade in (which they will turn around and sell for $500). Note: Gamestop stock is $12-$15 a share, Atari is more like $0.50. I'd rather hold Gamestop ... if you put a gun to my head. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keepdreamin Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Someone said it above... some people really need to work on analogies. Woah, those were all in there? Kudos for the dedication and replying. Originally reading that post, my eyes crossed and blurred at the second line of Ford something, so I didn't bother and just tapped out. . 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 Maybe someone can pick up both Gamestop and Atari SA as a double creature feature. Corporate synergy and retro-future cryptocurrency or something. Get a speaker hat with every $100 worth of trade in (which they will turn around and sell for $500). Note: Gamestop stock is $12-$15 a share, Atari is more like $0.50. I'd rather hold Gamestop ... if you put a gun to my head. Screen Shot 2018-07-06 at 3.39.46 PM.png Gamestop can diaf. I'll continue to patronize our local GameXChange, who actually give two shits about retro games and quality service. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMaddog Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Now GameStop is really getting desperate, cause now they're selling comic books! https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/06/26/gamestop-diversifies-away-from-games-with-comic-bo.aspx Now those obnoxious clearks will become Comic Book Guys.... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Kai Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Great plan. Video gaming isn't a jock hobby but I never associated it with Howard Walowitz level of super geek. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Now GameStop is really getting desperate, cause now they're selling comic books! https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/06/26/gamestop-diversifies-away-from-games-with-comic-bo.aspx Now those obnoxious clearks will become Comic Book Guys.... worst. move. ever. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Kosmic -- I don't know the answers to your questions, but I see some "good old days" assumptions in them. I know music has always been hit-driven, and that selling albums wasn't always the primary sales driver. Singles have always been important -- except when CDs were being pushed hard (and people were buying them). Indeed. The 1st album, if what I read was right, was actually a collection of songs from Disney's Snow White. What is that? 30 years after recorded music came out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 worst. move. ever. What Gamestop needs is an exclusive deal on the "Everyman" comic to put the final nail in the coffin: For further reading... http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Everyman http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Homer_the_Whopper The sooner Gameflop goes under, the sooner boutique brick and mortar resale shops (like the others Gamestop bought out decades ago) can take over filling the void in the used gaming marketplace, and do it right for a change. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godslabrat Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Um... no way am I going to GameStop for comics. Comics need to be sold by people with a great understanding of them and a keen eye for condition. Game "Hey, aren't all N64 games blue?" Stop does not qualify. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Um... no way am I going to GameStop for comics. Comics need to be sold by people with a great understanding of them and a keen eye for condition. Game "Hey, aren't all N64 games blue?" Stop does not qualify. If more people would apply that same logic to games, Gamestop would have never even existed. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Manhattan Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 I'm gonna catch a lot of heat for this. I like GameStop and I hope they do not go under. I love being able to pay off games a little bit at a time like some cheap pawn shop. It's very convenient for me. I never sell them my used stuff though. I usually offer that stuff for a reasonable price on my local Facebook group and it always sells. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegadot Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 I'm gonna catch a lot of heat for this. I like GameStop and I hope they do not go under. I love being able to pay off games a little bit at a time like some cheap pawn shop. It's very convenient for me. I never sell them my used stuff though. I usually offer that stuff for a reasonable price on my local Facebook group and it always sells. No reason for any hate. If they offer a service that's good for you, woohoo. Our nearby one is actually pretty good. The workers are friendly and helpful enough. Most of the local shops are retro shops, which normally I'd like, but they don't tend to have anything I want and prices are generally more than I'm willing to go for. I don't go to any shops all that much anymore though. I'm way too back logged. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blazing Lazers Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 The only real reason that I don't want Gameflop to go away just yet is because of what will happen to 360, Wii, and PS3 prices once they do. And they will go away, within 5 years most likely. But I won't care by then because I'll have finished off getting everything I want for those systems. For those who think the price spikes on cartridge games were crazy, just you wait and see what happens to the last gen stuff. All that's holding down prices on them is their ready availability at Gameflop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 RIP Radioshack, ToysRUs, Sears... Gamestop is next, I'd bet money on it. Seems they have larger retail space devoted to Pop vinyl figurines and other video game / comic related collectible junk than actual games. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 RadioShack? Sears? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakasama Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Um... no way am I going to GameStop for comics. Comics need to be sold by people with a great understanding of them and a keen eye for condition. Game "Hey, aren't all N64 games blue?" Stop does not qualify. That would be a great idea, if comic shops aren't closing down a lot nowadays due to poor sales of new comic book issues, I see Gamespot is becoming a pop culture shop just like the surviving comic shops. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 That would be a great idea, if comic shops aren't closing down a lot nowadays due to poor sales of new comic book issues, That's a different issue altogether. New comic books aren't selling because they decided to ignore what the long time fans wanted and instead published what they wanted. Guess what? People want to read what they like not what you want them to like. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Speaking of shut downs, but I got to wonder, in the last couple of weeks in the area I've seen 2-3 Walmarts that have been around for a long time shuttered, no idea what's up with that. They spread like terminal cancer and have for a long time, don't usually see them with the closed sign out front. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godslabrat Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 That's a different issue altogether. New comic books aren't selling because they decided to ignore what the long time fans wanted and instead published what they wanted. Guess what? People want to read what they like not what you want them to like. Indeed. Comic shops have always been a tough road to hoe. Nearly impossible to start, but once you're established, you can go for decades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybercylon Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 RIP Radioshack, ToysRUs, Sears... Gamestop is next, I'd bet money on it. Seems they have larger retail space devoted to Pop vinyl figurines and other video game / comic related collectible junk than actual games. GS, Hot Topic, dedicated Think Geek Stores, and many nameless mom and pop ones all seem to be selling the same stuff... especially those cussed pop vinyl figures. Those are everywhere and I don't see the appeal. Well, maybe there is an appeal to taking a butane torch to those figures.... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slab0meat Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 Speaking of shut downs, but I got to wonder, in the last couple of weeks in the area I've seen 2-3 Walmarts that have been around for a long time shuttered, no idea what's up with that. They spread like terminal cancer and have for a long time, don't usually see them with the closed sign out front. I noticed this within the last few months, around my workplace. The two closest ones were randomly closed up when I tried going there. I don't think I'd ever seen one close up before. On the flip side, I have a Wal-Mart very close to my home, and a new, bigger one recently opened up, not too far away from the other one. Both are open and busy. Dunno. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Video Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 Wal-Mart is one of those rare exception stores that sticks around long enough to outgrow its location. In the past twenty years, we've had three Simi close ones close, all replaced with larger supercenters. I've heard and seen nothing that says their in trouble, but it's still weird to drive by one you've gone to for decades and it's abandoned. At least until it becomes another stripmall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godslabrat Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 The closest wal-mart has ever been to being in trouble is deciding that the "Wal Mart Neighborhood Markets" sub-chain was more trouble than it wa worth... so they shuttered a lot of those unless they were making sick cash. Otherwise, they basically shut down stores just to make bigger ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Wal-Mart is one of those rare exception stores that sticks around long enough to outgrow its location. In the past twenty years, we've had three Simi close ones close, all replaced with larger supercenters. I've heard and seen nothing that says their in trouble, but it's still weird to drive by one you've gone to for decades and it's abandoned. At least until it becomes another stripmall. I've seen cases where a Walmart opens in the boon-docks. Who the hell drives that far out to shop? Certainly not the cows? Five years later the Walmart is still there and the farms that originally surrounded it are replaced by strip malls. And behind the strip malls are ritzy new suburbs full of two story, 500 grand+ homes. Did walmart predict future development, or was it cause and effect? A bunch of rural luddites recently protested the planned opening of a Walmart north of my town. Why? So you now have a store to walk to in your jammies to buy beer and chips at 2am? Or was it the whole gentrification thing? Hillbilly rednecks getting displaced by high end real estate developments? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+GoldLeader Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 I was at the second WalMart here the other day and the employees told me this store was on the "poor" side of town and has lower prices than the "rich guy" WalMart I usually shop at. The store is laid out completely differently but I swore it did seem to have (some) lower prices! The centrally located WalMart is about 4 or 5 miles from my house, but the other one (the so called poorer side of town) is more South and East and is probably 11 miles or so away...If they hadn't told me about this, I never would have thought there might be different prices in different WalMarts. I always thought they were all the same... Back on topic to GameStop...Last time I was in there I saw they had Atari Flashbacks...Portable or SD...Same as WalMart. They had No variety whatsoever...I asked where is the Atari Flashback 8 Gold (HD)? Where's the Activision model? How about the deluxe model with paddles? Then I kept going...Do you have the Genesis Flashback HD? Extra controllers for a Nintendo Classic mini? I might as well have been speaking Chinese. If I wanted such things I'd have to find a Video Game Store... I might go back when I need a coffee mug... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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