Gamestop Launching "Retro Gamestop" Stores

Well .. The X360 is going to turn 20 next year.
that can't be right...

Aging Jamie Lee Curtis GIF
 
that can't be right...

Aging Jamie Lee Curtis GIF
My friend is dating a Gen Z gal and we were all out to lunch a few weeks ago and the topic of 9/11 got brought up. She said "Oh yeah, we studied that in history class!" I have never actually felt my age until that very moment. We all laughed about it, but I also died inside.
 
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Not gonna lie this might actually convince me to step foot back into a GameStop.

Though I'm expecting their GameCube selection to be sparse or entirely non-existent like most retro game stores these days so it'll probably not do me much good
 
I like this idea a lot, although the prices will probably be absurd and I'd be better off shopping online. Anyway, GameStop left my country 4-5 years ago...
 
Isn't Retrogaming already overpriced?
For some generations, definitely. I collect for OG Xbox atm and that's still relatively affordable. Saturn and Gamecube are insane, Dreamcast I have almost given up on, and you can never trust people to package those games well enough.
 
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So they have a major backlog of old games they couldn't sell the first time around and stuff that was traded in to peddle to nostalgic "geriatric" millennials. Wouldn't be surprised if it is a huge success in Portland.
 
No thanks

Their used stuff now is always in such terrible condition. Also, I imagine that the majority of the things they'll sell will not have cases/boxes/etc., so just loose. Will they actually be testing this stuff thoroughly before selling it? For old cartridge based games, will they be verifying authenticity (there are a lot of fakes on the market now) or swapping out aging CMOS save batteries? Are they going to resurface (i.e. "more quickly degrade") the CD and DVD based games to make them playable?

Honestly, GameStop is the last company I would trust to do any of these things correctly.
Yeah i would buy a lot of GC games from them 5 years ago or so when they ran too good to be true deals and returned at least 33% of them because they didn't work. And then they flagged me for returning too much stuff.
 
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Idiots got rid of every retro game they had prior to the current generations a few years ago. And also quit taking them in.
 
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