Topic: Gamestop now selling retro games and consoles

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/starting-today-gamestop-is-s...

What a joke looks like the greed don't stop for Gamestop. I feel bad for people who have no other retro stores in their area but for me I won't deal with them. I am sure some are happy with this.

To be fair, I just came from another Retro shop, and saw most of those games for the exact same prices, if not more expensive. Like Super Mario All-Stars - dude said he sold 3 copies of that game a day on average...he was selling it for $40. Gamestop has it for $25, which isn't much more expensive than what I saw on eBay last night before that page went up...

Brick 'n' morter's always gonna be more expensive than eBay, unless the owner has no clue what his stuff is worth...

I don't understand who they're targeting with this, except for trying to cash in on the retro market. Remember - GS is not doing this in their brick-and-mortar locations, only online. Why is someone going to buy from GS as opposed to eBay or any of the many many other online retro retailers?

Their prices are not outrageous or anything (seem to be about par with sites like Lukie Games, for example), but i just don't get it. I suppose perhaps the thinking is that since GS is a well-known and established corporately-owned retailer, their sales are better guaranteed (which is a dubious and illogical perception), but i think it's pretty well-known that those gamers who are in the market for retro stuff generally are not fans of GS as a whole. If they really wanted to rake in sales in the retro gaming market, they'd be wise to vastly undercut any and all online competitors (like the way that WalMart runs out competitors by vastly undercutting prices of their goods).

The thing that I don't get is that retro gaming is more of a collectors thing. I can't imagine Gamestop selling C.I.B. retro games, so collectors won't bother, the only thing I can figure is people who just want to play the games may go here.

I wish they started selling Gamecube games again. I enjoyed quite a few that I bought there in the Wii days. Now there's eBay but buying the game in store is more fun than from a random person.

Whatever Gamestop is an terrible company and everybody from the Funcoland days will remember them for the horrors of the transition and people that worked there afterwards.

It was like the movie "Toys" when the general took over. Instead in gamestop they tore out all the gamestations, and hired racist people who are both white and black.

Everytime I walk into these stores I feel alienated. Down with gamestop and support your local mom and pops hobby store. In fact you should checkout the current owners of gamestop and what they think about videogames.

Did it include Super Mario World? Copies with SMW can cost a lot more.

Whenever I go to Gamestop, I still scroll through their ds and gba game bin. Their website says they sell Ninja Five-O for 4.99

I didn't see it on either of the covers.

The +SMW version just has a plain cover. Just the logos against a gradiant background. (they probably didn't put much work into that since the NTSC version was a pack-in exclusive. It seems the PAL version was sold individually though.)

I saw a fancy Mario with a cane on the cartridge of the $40 one, IIRC...

@Tasuki Gamestop is selling retro stuff. Why is this bad? Isn't good that there is another resource to buy from. I don't see how this somehow worse than anything else a business would do to make money. I mean, you make it sound like instead of selling retro games, they decided to start selling porn all of a sudden.

@Jaz007: I will let Pat and Ian explain my thoughts which is the same as theirs

Also my fear is that Gamestop because they are a big corporation will set the standards for buying and selling retro games, which means Ma and Pa retro game shops will go by their standards in order to compete.

classic games falling into the hands of these corporations is nothing but bad news for us gamers. short term, medium term and long term.

you have a game you love. you fall out of love with it for a while. you decide to sell it because money is tight and you want a newer system. i get it, we all get it. you sell it to gamestop for nothing compared to what it's worth - to you, to gamers, this almost isn't a commodity you can put a price on. but you go to gamestop and they do put a price on it, and it's disgusting. they rip off the gamer and sell it to another gamer for profit.

what are the positives in businesses getting involved in this trade? why do we need them as a middle man? gamers can sell to other gamers without being ripped off via the internet - most gamers connect with the internet. the age of going to a shop and buying something you can't buy elsewhere are over - ESPECIALLY when it comes to retro games.

sure, the second gamer is happy - they found a classic game they perhaps never thought they'd own, and they were happy to overpay for it. that's nice in a way. but do we want our fellow gamers ripped off by 'The Man' putting their completely fabricated, over-the-top prices on classic games? nobody wants to see gamers ripped off. you can go to flea markets every weekend and find the greatest games for cheap prices because people who have loved and exhausted their games want to SHARE THEM WITH OTHER GAMERS. the big businesses want THE OPPOSITE. they want to profit off us and jack the prices up on everything.

if you buy a game way overpriced from gamestop and get ripped off, you're going to keep it or try to sell it for a similar price ripping others off. it's a nasty culture that we don't want to build. it's the complete opposite of the sharing community feel that gamers have always had. down the line you wont be thinking about handing that game down to your son so he can experience it - you'll be selling it because you want to make a profit, like that $100 is somehow worth more than the memories you've had and may continue to have with future generations.

it paves the way for a culture where everything is digital, ESPECIALLY our retro games. that is the long term effect we're looking at. keep pricing these old games so ridiculously and they will fall out of circulation entirely - collectors have done their job to damage this too, those idiots selfishly keeping games in shrinkwrap, or worse, getting another company to permanently seal it in a box so you will never even look at the disc.

listen carefully. these gaming stores owned by major conglomerations are designed to take advantage of the small percentage of people who are inexperienced and uneducated. those that think "you can't find 64 games anywhere anymore! what a steal!" when they see an overpriced copy of Blast Corps at their local gamestop. they aren't catering for the hardcore gamer because they know we know it's a complete rip off. they're aiming for those people who DON'T know how easy it is to connect with other gamers, go online, find what you want.

Some of GameStop's prices there do look pretty crazy, but at least less so than ebay.

Ugh... I saw Pat the NES Punk's video on ebay "trending" prices. So now ebay is in the business of suggesting prices to sellers?
To help ebay make more in seller fees at the expense of fans who want a fair price?

There's some common SNES games that now sell for WAY more than they really should, like Mega Man X1, Castlevania IV and A Link to the Past. All very common games so why are they around $40?

speaking of pat and ian did anyone else get their hands on this sexy shirt?
http://teespring.com/cupodcast
sexy is my first name.
and middle and last.

@ogo79: No I did not I take it you are going to wear that without pants while playing Danny Sullivan's Indy?

@Tasuki: you typed exactly what i was going to type word for word...

@ogo79: What can I say, great minds think alike.

So, a major game retailer selling retro games is a bad thing now?