Woo Hoo! Local Score!

[Hydian]

One night last week I discovered a new store in one of the local strip malls called "Game Stop". Apparently it's a chain of at least two stores, no idea if it's a franchise of a larger entity. But they have

 

Gamestop owns Funcoland, Babbages, and Software etc and is in turn owned by Barnes & Nobel. (per their site.)

[raindog]

ah. Disappointing, but the guys there are nice and at least if it's a chain it stands a chance of being in the strip mall a little longer.

 

Their "classic system" category on the web only goes back as far as the NES (and they'll even sell you a console) but they do sell that irritating replica of an Atari joystick with a bunch of badly hacked paddle games built in, and when the guys heard I like Atari the first thing they did was fire up a demo Activision collection disc on the PS2 and let me play Pitfall. So they're at least trying

 

Rob

[Albert]

Their "classic system" category on the web only goes back as far as the NES (and they'll even sell you a console) but they do sell that irritating replica of an Atari joystick with a bunch of badly hacked paddle games built in, and when the guys heard I like Atari the first thing they did was fire up a demo Activision collection disc on the PS2 and let me play Pitfall.  So they're at least trying

 

There are several GameStops here in Austin, along with Funcolands, which are now the same company. I've never seen anything pre-NES in any of them, although I bet people bring in old Atari stuff to trade in all the time. I wonder what they tell these people. These stores must make a mint on buying used games dirt cheap, and then selling them for about 80% of what the new games go for (especially with newer systems).

 

There's also a local chain called Gamefellas and they *do* have some Atari stuff, with 2600 games usually priced around $3. But the pickings are usually pretty slim and nothing to write home about.

 

..Al