Hurray for the Local Game Shops

[Chooly]

I have watched this little shop for new & used games grow since the day it opened and it's grown substantially despite an EB games that's just in the mall across the street. I brought my old Xbox games in there and got at least twice what I think I would have otherwise.

[KarthXLR]

hurrah?

We don't really have any local game shops here. If we did, I'd check them out.

[chronomaster]

Man, I almost thought you were talking about a hobby shop.

Gotta go and get my hopes up...

[Squishy3]

I would say I know which one you're talking about but I don't think you live in Ohio. I work at one, shit is so cash.

Man, I almost thought you were talking about a hobby shop.

Gotta go and get my hopes up...

only problem with hobby shops is the stuff is so expensive. Granted the companies who make the stuff are money-grubbers, so that's to be expected.

[Eschatos]

All I have is a Gamestop down the street from me.  There also used to also be Kinetix, a big LAN gaming place, but that got shut down about a year ago.

[chronomaster]

[quote author=Chronomaster link=topic=2170.msg61992#msg61992 date=1232312624]
Man, I almost thought you were talking about a hobby shop.

Gotta go and get my hopes up...

only problem with hobby shops is the stuff is so expensive. Granted the companies who make the stuff are money-grubbers, so that's to be expected.
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When you buy a board game, you buy it for life.

[Squishy3]

[quote author=Squishy3 link=topic=2170.msg61994#msg61994 date=1232313497]
[quote author=Chronomaster link=topic=2170.msg61992#msg61992 date=1232312624]
Man, I almost thought you were talking about a hobby shop.

Gotta go and get my hopes up...

only problem with hobby shops is the stuff is so expensive. Granted the companies who make the stuff are money-grubbers, so that's to be expected.
[/quote]
When you buy a board game, you buy it for life.
[/quote]... until the pieces got lost or eaten by pets

[Eschatos]

[quote author=Chronomaster link=topic=2170.msg62008#msg62008 date=1232319122]
[quote author=Squishy3 link=topic=2170.msg61994#msg61994 date=1232313497]
[quote author=Chronomaster link=topic=2170.msg61992#msg61992 date=1232312624]
Man, I almost thought you were talking about a hobby shop.

Gotta go and get my hopes up...

only problem with hobby shops is the stuff is so expensive. Granted the companies who make the stuff are money-grubbers, so that's to be expected.
[/quote]
When you buy a board game, you buy it for life.
[/quote]... until the pieces got lost or eaten by children
[/quote]

[KarthXLR]

[quote author=Squishy3 link=topic=2170.msg62009#msg62009 date=1232319177]
[quote author=Chronomaster link=topic=2170.msg62008#msg62008 date=1232319122]
[quote author=Squishy3 link=topic=2170.msg61994#msg61994 date=1232313497]
[quote author=Chronomaster link=topic=2170.msg61992#msg61992 date=1232312624]
Man, I almost thought you were talking about a hobby shop.

Gotta go and get my hopes up...

only problem with hobby shops is the stuff is so expensive. Granted the companies who make the stuff are money-grubbers, so that's to be expected.
[/quote]
When you buy a board game, you buy it for life.
[/quote]... until the pieces got lost and eat children
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[[fr31ns]Karrde]

[quote author=Chronomaster link=topic=2170.msg62008#msg62008 date=1232319122]
[quote author=Squishy3 link=topic=2170.msg61994#msg61994 date=1232313497]
[quote author=Chronomaster link=topic=2170.msg61992#msg61992 date=1232312624]
Man, I almost thought you were talking about a hobby shop.

Gotta go and get my hopes up...

only problem with hobby shops is the stuff is so expensive. Granted the companies who make the stuff are money-grubbers, so that's to be expected.
[/quote]
When you buy a board game, you buy it for life.
[/quote]... until the pieces got lost or eaten by alljorge
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[Vongore]

We don't have major Gaming companies here, so all we have is a lot of Local gamestores, and it's awesome to search each store finding where is the cheapest game (we also have a mall where is full of different game and hobby stores)

[CaffeinePowered]

There's two smaller places near by me, but they also do DVDs and music, and cops also stake them out all the time since whenever someone steals shit they take it to these places to sell.

[Sponson]

Man, I almost thought you were talking about a hobby shop.

Gotta go and get my hopes up...

[JoKeRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR]

I have to go downtown to find a local game shop

The only store around me that sells games and isnt a bigbox store is EB games and all of them are small and cramped and full of whining kids or old people asking for Wiifit or Halo for the PS3 and they don't carry any games made in the 90s or any Gamecube games and their used games are so ridiculously overpriced, I mean like seriously a copy of Boktai for GBA uused without the box should not cost 25 dollars plus whenever I go in and they aren't busy I'm constantly bothered and they ask me to stop loitering when really I'm just browsing through the games because I like to do that because I like to criticize the box art, but when I explain that to the clerks they look at me weird, and when I'm actually looking for a specific game their shit is so disorganized I can't find it and then I have to wait like 15 minutes just to ask them if they even have the game in stock and they usually don't because they only carry shitty games because EB games sucks.

[CaffeinePowered]

Oh also, there's another new place by me that's a California chain...and they carry shit all the way back to Atari

[Squishy3]

just a hint joker, there's no point in organizing games in alphabetical or by genres or anything like that because nobody ever puts anything back where it was so it would last a day, at most. :p

[Chooly]

The big video game chain around here is EB Games, and it's basically the Canadian version of Gamestop. The thing I don't like about the way they run things is that their trades and credit system sucks. It's smart to buy used games, trading softens a high-profile title's drain on your wallet too, but basically, the credit from trades is so low, and the price is too high for a used title.
And you're shit out of luck wanting an older game except if you're shopping online, or at a little independent type store

[Wedge]

The big video game chain around here is EB Games, and it's basically the Canadian version of Gamestop. The thing I don't like about the way they run things is that their trades and credit system sucks. It's smart to buy used games, trading softens a high-profile title's drain on your wallet too, but basically, the credit from trades is so low, and the price is too high for a used title.
And you're shit out of luck wanting an older game except if you're shopping online, or at a little independent type store

Hinthint, EB Games and Gamestop are the same company, they just didn't change the name of the EB Games.

I have CD Games Exchange out here, which is a local "chain" of stores that do well, I'm sure you can guess.  No idea what their trade-in policies are, and their used prices seem to be somewhat random, but the nice thing is the more they have of a game, they'll sell extra copies at progressively cheaper prices.

I haven't traded my own games over anything but Goozex for a long time, you can get some great deals if you have the right stuff to trade away on that (I think I've traded 20 games or so and gotten 100 back or something).

[ScottyGrayskull]

[quote author=Chooly link=topic=2170.msg62052#msg62052 date=1232333527]
The big video game chain around here is EB Games, and it's basically the Canadian version of Gamestop. The thing I don't like about the way they run things is that their trades and credit system sucks. It's smart to buy used games, trading softens a high-profile title's drain on your wallet too, but basically, the credit from trades is so low, and the price is too high for a used title.
And you're shit out of luck wanting an older game except if you're shopping online, or at a little independent type store

Hinthint, EB Games and Gamestop are the same company, they just didn't change the name of the EB Games.
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Sort of. Gamestop owns EB Games, and EB Games are pretty much run like Gamestops, but they're run separately. Prices and policies at Gamespot don't always carry over to EB Games... like how Gamestop is taking preorders for the SF4 Mad Catz arcade sticks, but EB Games can't even tell me if they're getting any in stock (apparently they can only do that for games...).

[Vlambo]

EB Games have a monopoly on the Gaming Store market in Canada, but sometimes smaller stores are better. I just recently found a store that is about an hour from my house that sells all games, and i mean every new game, $10 under the normal price. And his used games are like... Ridicuously cheap. He also goes all the way back to the Atari Days