Gamestop is THROWING AWAY ALL SEGA AND N64! [Archive]

cyberfluxor

03-20-2008, 03:07 PM

There are over a dozen Game Stop locations in the area and many employees know of classic and retro game stores around here. I'm sure they're already digging around and plan on selling to them and online so I'd doubt it's worth my time. On top of that, most older titles GS *had* were sports and worthless, horrible reject games not even kids could talk relatives into buying. I still have around 300 loose sports cartridges in the garage that came from a pawn shop, all worthless individually and shipping costs more than they're worth. Truthfully, they are best used as target practice and help raise the rarity.

aaron7

03-20-2008, 03:10 PM

Well here's the haul so far. Going for more!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/aaron7/000_0001.jpg

DreamTR

03-20-2008, 03:16 PM

And you might get $10 for all those games if they are sports!

Nebagram

03-20-2008, 03:17 PM

I weep for the cartridges that will get trashed... but laugh at the freebies that will be claimed at Gamestoop's expense.

Push Upstairs

03-20-2008, 03:19 PM

GS hasn't had Genesis games here for like four years.

Damaramu

03-20-2008, 03:41 PM

Same here. All the stuff my local GS had is LONG gone.... Lame ass Gamestop. They could at least donate the fucking games instead of trashing them. I'm sure some charity could put them to good use.

Gapporin

03-20-2008, 03:42 PM

TonyTheTiger

03-20-2008, 03:44 PM

I feel like this is one of those times where the saying "too good to be true" really hits hard. Other than the fact that virtually no Gamestop (at least in my area) will have any games to throw out, whatever they do throw out will be the stuff that nobody wanted for the years they sat in the bargain bins and none of the employees ever wanted to take themselves. Every now and then you hear about someone who strikes gold during these escapades but something tells me this isn't one of those times. I don't think anyone will be finding a Gamestop about to throw out Gunstar Heroes.

bangtango

03-20-2008, 03:49 PM

Why is that Gamestop location suddenly cleaning Genesis games out of their backroom now? Do they need space for all the Dreamcast, PS1 and Xbox disc only sports games that are headed out there to take their place?

ryborg

03-20-2008, 03:50 PM

The Gamestops in my area actually still sell Genesis/N64 stuff, so I will break the dumpster-diving gloves out of retirement (after I make sure the store isn't still selling them first) and have a look.

mailman187666

03-20-2008, 04:24 PM

I think I'm going to pass just because of the fact that the gamestops I've had around me have been cleaned out of genesis since before ps2 came out if i remember correctly. I really see there being no chance of there being any games worthwhile.

thedeityofhardcore

03-20-2008, 04:40 PM

what kind of gamestops do you have?

Yeesh mine don't even have PS1 games let alone Genesis

Trebuken

03-20-2008, 04:51 PM

At least E.T. won't be alone any more...

k8track

03-20-2008, 04:54 PM

I'll have to call my "inside man"
Michael?

FantasiaWHT

03-20-2008, 05:13 PM

Maybe you could sell them to the metal-reclaiming sweatshops in third-world asian countries - think of all the metal on those circuit boards!

ssjlance

03-20-2008, 05:33 PM

I thought GameStop as a whole stopped selling anything pre-PS2. I remember when Rhino was clearing out Saturn stuff. Got A ton of games and a gun for about $20. And I mean good games (Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Virtua Fighter, etc.)

Nero 99

03-20-2008, 05:34 PM

I can't think of a Gamestop in Northern NJ that still has any of either.

Same here for MN, I havent seen a gamestop carry any n64 or any othergames past the ps2 for at least 3 years.

aaron7

03-20-2008, 05:37 PM

Like I said before, our GameStops haven't had cartridge games for a LONG time... these must have been in the back room.

Reason they are in bags is because I got there and they were going to toss them. That's how I found out about it. These didn't make it to the dumpster!

I guess last week they got a notice from corporate to trash all cartridge games.

Pantechnicon

03-20-2008, 05:55 PM

I haven't seen Genny carts at local Gamestops in years. There are a handful of N64 carts which are usually relegated to being in the case with the GBA/DS carts or they're behind the cashwrap with the consoles. The carts are either sports crap or high-end games...no middle ground. So if somebody happens to finds a Paper Mario or maybe Battletanx drop me a PM and I will give you teh monies.

consolecrusader

03-20-2008, 08:45 PM

I been to a lot of GS in New Jersey and I haven't seen any that sell or still have Genesis N64 or even PS1 DC games? Am I wrong? Hell the only way I found out about the DP store was because a guy at the Clifton GS told me thats only place you can get PS1 games or DC games.

cosmicpsycho

03-20-2008, 10:15 PM

Whether they're sports games or not, finding hundreds of games for free still sounds pretty damn sweet to me. Keep us informed, I would like to see more pics or a list.

Greg2600

03-20-2008, 10:59 PM

One, the more populated areas sell out of much of the old stuff. Out in the middle of nowhere, might be a different story. Second, remember many of the GS stores might be new, meaning they haven't been around that long. Third, I know of and have read of many a story about people working at GS or EB, finding really old stuff piled up in the stock room. Fourth, no chance I am dumpster diving for any Genesis games.

Aaron7, thanks for the post though, was interesting anyhow.

The 1 2 P

03-20-2008, 11:09 PM

My local Gamestop's haven't had N64 or Genesis games for years. Plus, if they had some in the back, I'm sure the employees would have gotten first dibs. Plus, if the majority of them are only sports games--they have a street value of like 5 cents each...and thats being generous.

DefaultGen

03-20-2008, 11:43 PM

.....

FrakAttack

03-21-2008, 12:23 AM

what kind of gamestops do you have?

Yeesh mine don't even have PS1 games let alone Genesis

If you can find a larger one that's out of the way they're more likely to have old games, and more DVDs and accessories, too. The narrow little ones in the prime spots just don't have room for it.

Frankie_Says_Relax

03-21-2008, 12:37 AM

So, Aaron, have you sorted through all the junk...er, games?

Can we have a blow-by-blow list of exactly how many Genesis EA Sports titles you have now aquired?

I think you should glue them all together and make some type of modern art sculpture out of them.

Ed Oscuro

03-21-2008, 03:23 AM

I suppose I'll go ask at my local GameStop this weekend...put in my preorder for Ninja Gaiden DS for good measure

strassy

03-21-2008, 03:34 AM

so what the heck do you do, just wander into gamestop and say "uh, i heard you are throwing out all your cartridge games...can i have them?" seems a bit awkward. that said, if i got a bunch of genesis sports titles, maybe i could sell them for .25 each on craigslist. some sucker has to see that and say "OMFG THE MONEY SO MUCH ON EBAYS FOR RARE OLD GAMEZ!!!!1"

Oobgarm

03-21-2008, 06:11 AM

"OMFG THE MONEY SO MUCH ON EBAYS FOR RARE OLD GAMEZ!!!!1"

I implore all to use this phrase.

I wish stores around here still carried older stuff. It's nothing but PS2 and beyond around here AFAIK.

JSoup

03-21-2008, 06:27 AM

My first thought when reading the topic title was "What, again?"

Didn't they do this, like, two years ago and it was advertised?

Even GameCrazy trashed retro a while ago :D

I don't know, the GameCrazy here in Stockton, Ca. still has Genesis and SNES games for sale.

Now that I think about it, all the SNES games are in a glass case while all the Genesis games are in a box right by the door.....

Slate

03-21-2008, 11:14 AM

I think I saw some N64 games in a gamestop near pittsburgh, But I'm not going all the way to those stores now.

mailman187666

03-21-2008, 11:41 AM

I wanna know what games you got in those bags. Bring them to an idiot flea market vendor that you don't like and see how much he'll give you for them or something. Hold out the bags and tell him for $25 he can have them.

dcware

03-21-2008, 04:16 PM

That's nothing, the Gamestation (now part of blockbuster) near me (in the uk) threw out a load of XBOX360 titles recently, got me some goodies :)

TonyTheTiger

03-21-2008, 07:01 PM

Why the hell would a store throw out Xbox 360 games?

AZ Legend

03-21-2008, 07:31 PM

anyone else had luck with this, or was it just one store???

kainemaxwell

03-21-2008, 08:23 PM

I can't think of a Gamestop in Northern NJ that still has any of either.

Same. I'm sure if the Gamestop in the Rockaway Mall threw theirs out (if they had any) when they renovated the store a month ago.

JSoup

03-21-2008, 09:03 PM

Why the hell would a store throw out Xbox 360 games?

For that matter, why would ANY store just throw out merchandise? I don't buy that crap about it 'not selling'. There is always at least one person who wants whatever junk you have.

TonyTheTiger

03-21-2008, 09:13 PM

I agree. May as well put it in a big box and sell them for 50 cents each. Hell, since most of the cartridges are plastic and metal they'd probably be better served in a recycling bin than a dumpster.

JSoup

03-21-2008, 09:34 PM

Hell, the Game Swappers here in town has all of it's GB/GBC games in a big box marked as such in the glass case. When asked, they said they don't sell well enough to display, but we do have them.

mills

03-21-2008, 09:50 PM

If you dug all those carts out of the GameStop trash, how come they were put in GameStop branded plastic bags? Did you ask the guy behind the counter, "Excuse me, we're going to go diving in your dumpster out back, mind if we use a couple of your bags, please?"

Do you think the game stop employees carried each cartridge out to the dumpster one by one? Or did one of them say "get a few bags so we can throw this stack of Genesis games out."

??

JerseyDevil65

03-21-2008, 09:50 PM

There is one GS in my area that still has Genny stuff. The same old sports and Spiderman crap that I wouldn't buy for 50 cents, theres no way I would dig through trash to get them for free. :)

AZ Legend

03-21-2008, 11:49 PM

There is one GS in my area that still has Genny stuff. The same old sports and Spiderman crap that I wouldn't buy for 50 cents, theres no way I would dig through trash to get them for free. :)

That was great JerseyROFL

jb143

03-21-2008, 11:56 PM

Goodwill sells Genesis games for $4 no matter what they are. So you'd probably be better off donating all the games to them and deducting it from your taxes. :p

The 1 2 P

03-22-2008, 12:55 AM

Theres a video game store down here in Maryland that would buy all those Genesis sports games from you...for like 40 cents each. It's small but its better than nothing.

-hellvin-

03-22-2008, 03:45 AM

For that matter, why would ANY store just throw out merchandise? I don't buy that crap about it 'not selling'. There is always at least one person who wants whatever junk you have.

Actually that is exactly why they are thrown out. I've never understood why we do it at best buy, but we sure do. It's mostly junk like video game guides. Once they're pennied out, instead of selling them for one cent, they are carted up, have the covers ripped off and are thrown out. Lots of other stuff is thrown out as well, mostly promos, freebies, and/or demo discs.

Sothy

03-22-2008, 04:39 AM

I went dumpster diving tonight. Got poked with a few syringes and shot by a night watchman with a .357 magnum in the thigh but snagged 187 loose copies of madden 94!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!@

Push Upstairs

03-22-2008, 04:46 AM

You better cash in some of those copies of Madden to help fix that hole in your leg.

Cryomancer

03-22-2008, 06:57 AM

I'll call mine tomorrow if I remember, ask if they sell genesis or 64 games, and await a no. if i get a "well we were just gonna get rid of them", i'll tell them to hold on for a half hour and go pick em up. Why not? Even if it's shit...well I'm sure could shingle a roof with em or something.

jb143

03-22-2008, 11:04 AM

They'd probably make nice coasters and doorstops too.

aaron7

03-22-2008, 11:10 AM

I have nearly 100 SMB/Duck Hunt carts... was gonna glue them all together and make shelves!

The 1 2 P

03-22-2008, 04:56 PM

Actually that is exactly why they are thrown out. I've never understood why we do it at best buy, but we sure do. It's mostly junk like video game guides. Once they're pennied out, instead of selling them for one cent, they are carted up, have the covers ripped off and are thrown out. Lots of other stuff is thrown out as well, mostly promos, freebies, and/or demo discs.

Best Buy, Toys R Us and Gamestop use to sell the pennied out strategy guides for an actual penny. And Circuit City use to do the same thing fo their preorder promo demos. Once the official game came out, they would sell those $5 promo demos for a penny. That was one of my great ebay hustles selling those penny demos and strategy guides for $10-25 each:king:. I wonder why they all stopped selling these items.

erehwon

03-22-2008, 05:30 PM

Best Buy, Toys R Us and Gamestop use to sell the pennied out strategy guides for an actual penny. And Circuit City use to do the same thing fo their preorder promo demos. Once the official game came out, they would sell those $5 promo demos for a penny. That was one of my great ebay hustles selling those penny demos and strategy guides for $10-25 each:king:. I wonder why they all stopped selling these items.
I've been into those penny guides for awhile. That's how I got most of my guides. Most of them aren't worth much, but I've tried to focus on the best games and RPGs. I like having the guide to go with my RPGs.

I was really never able to get any penny guides from CC. Toys r Us I did once, but they are a real pain about them. I got several from GS/EB/Babbages. When we had a Babbages, I got several from there. I only ever got a few from EB and I didn't get to many from GS. I did get a bunch from diving at a GS though. They threw out some interesting stuff every once in a while. Best Buy was the best place for me, but I think mine is starting to crack down. Oh well, I'm kind of glad since I've run out of room and don't have any places to put any more guides.

debian4life

03-22-2008, 07:32 PM

The Gamestop's in my area don't carry them anymore. Game Crazy though Still has Sega, NES, SNES, and PS1.

Daria

03-22-2008, 08:50 PM

For that matter, why would ANY store just throw out merchandise? I don't buy that crap about it 'not selling'. There is always at least one person who wants whatever junk you have.

It's so they don't encourage customers to wait for shit to go on clearance.

It's fucked up, but most corporate logic is.

FantasiaWHT

03-22-2008, 10:48 PM

For that matter, why would ANY store just throw out merchandise? I don't buy that crap about it 'not selling'. There is always at least one person who wants whatever junk you have.

Well then why don't you call up GS headquarters and offer to buy every piece of merchandise that they would normally throw out, and you can sell it yourself to that one person out there who wants it?

Yes, there is somebody out there to buy it, but GS stores have limited space, it costs money to ship stuff around to where there might be a demand for it, and it would likely cost GS more to find that rare buyer than they could possibly make back from the sale.

Seriously, though, if you think it's that easy, start a company that buys up unwanted merchandise for pennies and try to resell it for a couple more pennies.

I'd wager the cost in manpower and transportation would even cost more than GS would be able to save in taxes by deducting the value as a donation to goodwill.

The 1 2 P

03-23-2008, 02:13 AM

I've been into those penny guides for awhile. That's how I got most of my guides. Most of them aren't worth much, but I've tried to focus on the best games and RPGs. I like having the guide to go with my RPGs.

I was really never able to get any penny guides from CC. Toys r Us I did once, but they are a real pain about them. I got several from GS/EB/Babbages. When we had a Babbages, I got several from there. I only ever got a few from EB and I didn't get to many from GS. I did get a bunch from diving at a GS though. They threw out some interesting stuff every once in a while. Best Buy was the best place for me, but I think mine is starting to crack down. Oh well, I'm kind of glad since I've run out of room and don't have any places to put any more guides.

Circuit City here had various $1.00 strategy guide sales. And Toys R US put a 1 cent price tag on every strategy guide they had at one time just to get rid of them. I got like 50 so they definitely go rid of them.

But besides the sales I made, I was able to get alot of guides for my own collection. This is nice because theres no way I would pay $12-20 for a strategy guide when I could get the same info online for free. Don't get me wrong, I love having the actual guide in my hand/collection, but the money it cost could go toward more games.

JSoup

03-23-2008, 04:48 AM

Well then why don't you call up GS headquarters and offer to buy every piece of merchandise that they would normally throw out, and you can sell it yourself to that one person out there who wants it?

Because they don't do business like that?

That's actually a good idea. Fill a box full of all the crap they can't sell, slap a $5 price tag on it and ship it off to some dude who might get some use out of it.

Yes, there is somebody out there to buy it, but GS stores have limited space, it costs money to ship stuff around to where there might be a demand for it, and it would likely cost GS more to find that rare buyer than they could possibly make back from the sale.

It doesn't take much floor space to put all that stuff in a box and place it in an easily visible place. Hell, they do it all the time, just walk into an GameStop and you might notice they bargain bin sitting in the middle of the store.

Seriously, though, if you think it's that easy, start a company that buys up unwanted merchandise for pennies and try to resell it for a couple more pennies.

Been there, done that, made a decent living. My cousin has two stories that operate like that. It's not an entirely unheard of thing.

You don't even need a store to do something like this, as there is this wonderful new invention called 'the intrawebs', on which one might be able to connect to 'the eBay' and perform 'intraweb auctions'. Crazy, yeah?

erehwon

03-23-2008, 11:40 AM

But besides the sales I made, I was able to get alot of guides for my own collection. This is nice because theres no way I would pay $12-20 for a strategy guide when I could get the same info online for free. Don't get me wrong, I love having the actual guide in my hand/collection, but the money it cost could go toward more games.

I really haven't sold that many guides. I would usually get one extra besides the one that went into my collection and trade the extra for other guides. CAG is a pretty good place for guide trading.

I can understand about not wanting to pay $12 or more on guides. My usual limit is $10. I got a lot of my Doublejump guides from GS for that price. The SMT: Nocturn guide will be definitely worth that $10 once I get around to playing it. I will pay more than $20 for a guide, but it has to be a hard to find one. Finding either of the ps1 Lunar guides for under $20 would require some real luck.

I do wish that they would mark down guides more instead marking them as a penny and destroying them. Most of the places in my area are strict on these and I hate seeing get thrown into the dumpster. I'd buy more guides if they were marked down a little more.

guitargary75

03-23-2008, 12:02 PM

:D:bigmac:When gamestop bought Rhino, I made out like a bandit. I bought about 250 nes, 300 genesis and about 340 snes games. Most of them were .50 or less. And I mean games like Secret of mana, Dragon warrior 3 and 4 and all the snes and nes megamans. I cleaned them out. My friend was a manager and he told when they were going to discount them. So the next day when they opened, I bought everything I didn't have. One of the best weeks of my life. I think now it will get more and more difficult to find old school games, because hardly anyone sells them anymore. If I were to buy those games today, it would have cost me thousands of dollars. Plus I got a additional 10% off with my gamestop card, WOW.

Frankie_Says_Relax

03-23-2008, 12:05 PM

Apollo

03-23-2008, 01:11 PM

I went dumpster diving tonight. Got poked with a few syringes and shot by a night watchman with a .357 magnum in the thigh but snagged 187 loose copies of madden 94!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!@

Lucky!!

Nes

03-23-2008, 01:25 PM

So do you want to give us a rundown of how many games of each title you were able to secure?

dcware

03-23-2008, 02:01 PM

I figure this is US only then?

Damaramu

03-23-2008, 02:23 PM

I'm still waiting for a list of exactly what was in that bag.

If you're going to start a thread like this and tease us with photos of bag-fulls of games, you could at least detail the fruits of your labor/spoils...even if it is all worthless sports games.

The topic of this thread is more than likely pure :bullshit:.....that is unless it's taking him 3 days to sort through his haul.

Frankie_Says_Relax

03-23-2008, 02:27 PM

Lucky!!

100 copies of Madden 94 is worth a little bit of AIDS.

Flack

03-23-2008, 04:01 PM

I visited 3 GameStop locations yesterday morning. One of them had their trash bins locked up behind a fence. The other two bins were out in the opens. I looked inside and neither one had anything interesting inside. If the OKC GameStops were throwing out games, they've done been thrown.

Dreamcast

03-23-2008, 04:11 PM

That's just it! Ours didn't either... I guess their backroom was full of them or something as they threw out a ton!

i got some dreamcast stuff before they threw it out

Gamingking

03-23-2008, 10:20 PM

Can you take pics of the carts??.

Jimmy Yakapucci

03-23-2008, 10:51 PM

Theres a video game store down here in Maryland that would buy all those Genesis sports games from you...for like 40 cents each. It's small but its better than nothing.

Where is this store located?

JY

The 1 2 P

03-23-2008, 11:35 PM

Right off of RT 40 in Essex/Golden Ring area of Baltimore County. They have games for sale from the Atari 2600 and up to all the current systems. They are always buying game, dvds and cds. Alot of my penny strategy guides went to them. It's also the place I found the Brady Games Final Fantasy 7 strategy guide for $11:)

Slate

03-24-2008, 12:38 PM