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Check this out, I made the quite the haul recently. I've been trying to find local places to get games since all the ones I knew before disappeared other than the giant that is GameStop. GameStop is ok but usually their prices leave something to be desired and them not carrying systems older than last gen just doesn't do it for me (although I did pick up a Monster Cable component cable there for Xbox for $7.19!!). Also, I hate paying $5+ shipping for one game only from the Internets for $5 games.

I was looking around pawn shops for games when I was told to check out a "place down the street that has lots of games" called Price Busters. I figured what the hell and checked it out. I had to rub my eyes to make sure I was not in heaven. NES, SNES, Genesis, GBA, N64, PS2, Xbox, GameCube titles galore with a bunch of DVDs and some Xbox 360 games for added fun.

Just some of the stuff they had:





I spent $35.43 and walked out with all the below:




It was money I didn't really have - I was supposed to be going to this big car show a couple of states away with my girlfriend. I'm so lucky to have such a cool girlfriend. She told me not to worry about it. She even got her a Game Boy micro and a couple of games. The next day we went back and I picked up these for $19.34:



Could you do this at GameStop? I think not. Consider this a Public Service Announcement: if you are into old games, do yourself a favor and look up "video game stores" for your area in the phone book. You may be glad you did. Make sure to support these places and maybe they'll be able to stick around.

On a side note, I did stop at a GameStop awhile back and picked up The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons for Game Boy Color for $5 but I can't get the damn thing to work, even after cleaning it. It just shows a scrambled Nintendo logo. It does that on my Game Boy Color, Advance SP and Game Boy Player for the GameCube. Anybody have any ideas on that?



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fuck you
i cant find mystical ninja anywhere.
the gamestop dude laughed at me, snorted, and told me he owned it and it sat in his garage unused, than added another snort to prove that he was being funny.

i wish i had a Price Busters
oh and about the gba game.
tell gamestop its fucked up and demand a new copy immediately.
Damn that sucks man. I was shocked they had it. I freaking loved that game but I never owned it myself. Everybody seems to have played the SNES one but not the N64 one. Myself, I never cared for SNES game. But hey, I was really shocked that there was a game store like this in my town. I mean, we never have ANYTHING good here. That's why I recommend to look in the phone book. If it wasn't for that lady telling me about it, I'd have never known, and it's only 5-10 minutes from my work. I had to drive by a couple of times to find it even after being told about it.
Well it's a Game Boy Color game actually. I only say that because I seriously doubt they have another copy of it. Being that it's only $5 also and that GameStop is about 30 minutes from my house, I don't think it's really worth taking back.
OMG!!!!111!!!!

Thank you SOOOO much! I was trying to remember the name of that game I rented one time for the N64...it was Mystical Ninja all along!

I'm going to have to find some way to pick it up again. My local game store used to be Rhino Games before they got bought out by Gamestop, but even after the take over they still carry a bunch of old nintendo games. I picked me up Goldeneye and Clayfighter 63 1/3 not too long ago!

By the way Bottled Dark: 9 used and new from $14.90...dear god though, $68 for a NEW copy!
Holy shit...did they even make that many 64 games?

I came.
Yeah the game is great and really underrated. It's worth the $10 I paid just for the crazy Japanese songs alone.

The awesome opening


More songs
every local game shop by me has died, i blame the gay that is gamestop and EB games...
Burn Quest 64! Burn it I say! The box has already scarred my eyes...no the memories are coming back...WHY GOD!? WHY!? Oh thank god you got tales of symphonia and two metroid games. Only through the power of that many games could you even hope to balance out the suck that is Q64.
I liked Quest 64.

Anyway, there was a good one not too far from me, but it closed down. I saw good, in that it had a good selection of games, but the store itself always felt kind of sketchy (business wise).
You paid money for Quest 64? I need to find a decent game store, the only one near me that isn't a game stop has a terrible selection and everything is horribly over priced.
Yeah, now that one I was taking a blind leap on. I hadn't played it before and I thought I might like it from the stuff I'd seen before. I tried giving it a chance but it turns out it isn't for me. Oh well.
Tales of Symphonia is awesome. I almost beat it but stopped playing it. Probably my favorite RPG for Gamecube.
We have a local game store and a GameStop. The other two stores we had closed down because of various reasons unrelated to GameStop, but I still shop only at the local game store.
yeah, we have a game store just like that in our city. But daaaamn, if it had that kind of a selection, it would be like heaven on earth. (I bought Turtles in Time for SNES from that store last week for only $10 :D)
If you're in the Baton Rouge, LA area theres a store in the mall called GameWare. Good stuff there, and can buy just about every vintage system and games for it. Also, they have an arcade as well...its a haven for gamers compared to the gamestop upstairs; I always bought from there.
We have a store like that in my town. It's called FunTrade.
The people that work there are dicks usually, but I got Beyond Good & Evil, Spider-Man 2, and Jet Grind Radio for like $30 about a week ago. All great games.

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