This Gamestop is so small, you might miss it if you weren't looking for it - of course if you weren't looking for it in the first place it really hasn't been missed...
That aside, this location's only downside is its smallness. The staff have always been helpful and friendly to me, even when I've been in my lookie-loo phases of checking out every used game trying to find something entertaining but also under $10 - which can happen, but it's rare now that I've gobbled up all the crappy sports games from 6 years ago that were selling for $2.99. I'm not a sports person, so I don't care who was on which team - I just want to hit people with baseballs, foul basketball players and tackle some people. Or start a hockey fight.
And they are helpful, too. They'll assist in choosing the right kind of game if you know what you're looking for. They'll chat with you about the MMORPG you're playing because you're a big nerd and Gamestop recognizes that and appropriately hires other big nerds to satisfy customers and their needs. You just need to make sure you've got the right flavor of big nerd - identify which are the RPG (role-playing game) players and which get off playing an FPS (first-person shooter) and you'll be more-easily helped.
Anyway, my point was that before the "new generation" of consoles, there was enough room for the current generation of consoles and room left over for old-timey awesome stuff to be put out. My favorite memory of Gamestop was the day that there was a bin full of used NES merchandise with ridiculous clearance prices. Add the buy-two-get-one-free sale and 10% off used games with a Gamestop membership card, and I walked out of there with a NES system, TWO Duck Hunt guns (even though the system only lets you use one at a time) and SEVEN copies of Super Mario / Duck Hunt. In case 6 of them broke or had an impenetrable layer of dust that couldn't be blown out by standard NES gaming practices.
(Yes, I wandered around my home with two Duck Hunt guns in holsters ready to quick-draw any offending ducks or roommates - because I was simply that awesome.)
Nowadays, the new consoles have taken over. The PS3 cleared out all my PS2 viewing section down to where the PS section used to be. And now there's no Playstation-classic games to rummage through.
Maybe it's just that my era of gaming is over and I have to accept that gaming stores had to clear my era out to entice the new "whippersnapper" demographic in so they can turn a profit.
They just need to enforce the posted time limit on the test systems so the whippersnappers can give "Old Man NES" a try at his 15 minutes of Guitar Hero fame... read more