Retail stores that still have new old game stock

phart010phart010
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It's January 2019 as I am writing this post. I visited Virginia Beach this weekend to see family and I was surprised to find that a Rite-Aid still has sealed PS1 games in the music cd section. Out of curiosity, I visited a different Rite Aid and they have some Wii games (that's not so surprising).



We also have a Rite Aid here in NC that still has some sealed GBA shovelware covered in dust. 



Does anyone else have any local retail stores that still have dusty old-gen sealed games on the shelf?

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  • andrew244andrew244
    My local Walmart still has Wii games. For the longest time they had a stack of about 30 copies of Other M they could never get rid of, completely disappeared a few months ago. Strange.



    Oh yeah, they still sell Smash Brow Brawl as well.
  • pats1717pats1717
    I had a post from 2015 make sure this wasn't one of the shovelware games they had



    http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=10&threadid=147725
  • leatherrebel5150leatherrebel5150
    My local wal mart still has either GTA Vice City or The GTA 3 pack still on the shelf for 19.99. My local Toys R Us had a few shovelware GBA games when they closed.
  • BouncekDeLemosBouncekDeLemos
    I still have some games new sealed at the store I run. I have some GBC Zeldas, GTAs for PS2, some N64 games, and maybe a Gamecube game or two.
  • The CountThe Count
    There's a Fleet Farm nearby that still has some sealed Wii games and also had sealed PS2 games as recently as early last year.
  • bootloadbootload
    Last year I phoned around to all of the Blockbusters still open and asked what their oldest games were. Many of them still had sealed Playstation 2 games.

    There are still Blockbusters operating in Alaska and Texas.
  • acromite53acromite53
    I picked up a sealed copy of Crisis Report on ps2 at my local Dirt Cheap 2 weeks ago. They also had more sealed PS2 games, original Xbox, and DS games.
  • phart010phart010
    Originally posted by: BouncekDeLemos



    I still have some games new sealed at the store I run. I have some GBC Zeldas, GTAs for PS2, some N64 games, and maybe a Gamecube game or two.

    GBC Zeldas? Are they $30 each
  • VGS_OptOutVGS_OptOut
    Here in Taiwan, I can walk into some places and see the picked over, dusty remains of Famicom, SFC, Gameboy, mega drive, Sega CD, Saturn, N64, you name it!



    It's not as exciting as it sounds, however, we are generally talking the dregs of the dregs and in poor condition. The finds do turn up every now and then, tho, so still worth looking!
  • OtterOtter
    Rite aid near me about a year ago had Gameboy color games. A few lame ones. I was surprised to see them sitting in the case.
  • BouncekDeLemosBouncekDeLemos
    Originally posted by: phart010

     
    Originally posted by: BouncekDeLemos



    I still have some games new sealed at the store I run. I have some GBC Zeldas, GTAs for PS2, some N64 games, and maybe a Gamecube game or two.

    GBC Zeldas? Are they $30 each
  • ZBomberZBomber
    It's not video game related but I remember going to Toys R Us in 2001 or 2002 or so and they had the red packaged Star Wars POTF2 figures. I had been there all the time and hadn't seen them in stores since probably 1997, so I thought it was kind of weird. They must have found a box in the back or something. They weren't there the next time I went.



    As for games, not really. Walmart has some Wii and DS games but they're shovelware and that isn't too surprising since they could still be played on the "current" hardware up until the Switch's release. I don't think I've seen a PS2 game in awhile, but I also never look at the PS sections anyway.
  • Astor ReinhardtAstor Reinhardt
    I can't remember when...maybe last year or the year before? But I saw Walmart selling PS2 games. Nothing great though. I think the best one was a GTA game I already owned.
  • SNESfinder-SNESfinder-
    I don't understand you guys finding shit at rite aid... I worked for brooks when I was in college and they changed to rite aid a few years later. What a brutal changeover. Went from working for cheech and Chong to working for hitler. Some butchy women came to train us, All the sudden we need a suit and tie! ( I will never forget that, thought it was was over the line for a pharmacy. ) brooks used to have clearance stock and piles of shit from god knows when in the warehouse and half empty isles a lot so I could understand them, but all that changed when rite aid took over. Everything got dumped and cleaned out. 10x more organized. I don't get how they have floor space for ps1 games.
  • AstralSoul13AstralSoul13
    My Rite-Aid had a bunch of sealed DS games, my Wal-Mart still has sealed PS2 games. Granted, nothing really good but still, they're there.
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