Longest ever traveled for a video game related item?

[Porkchop]

[quote="Elaundar"]2600 miles (really 2747, but 2600 is just cool )

Last July 4th we took a week long trip for the sole purpose of finding games we were missing for most of the major systems..

Day 1: 6/30/03
10:00 AM - Fort Worth,TX - get car, board cat at vet
2:30 PM - Lawton,OK (2 small independent shops)
4:30 PM - Norman, OK (1 Game eXchanges)
5:30 PM - Oklahoma City,OK (3 Game eXchanges)
2:00 AM - Little Rock, AR

Elaunder,

If you make that trip again, just wanted to let you know there is another gameXchange in the OK City area you missed. I think the new one is right on I35 in a small town just south of OK City. I don't remember the name of the town but it is the one that keeps getting hit by tornados.

I traveled there on business this past April and discovered GameXchange stores. They are Great Stores! I had to buy another bag to everything home on the plan. I wish they had them here on the east cost.

Anyway does it count is you go on vacation and look for video games? I made two long trips:

1. I went from Washington DC to Seatle and BC Canada and bought some games.

2. I took a trip ot Turkey About 9 hours flying time each way and bought a famicom multi cart.

[atomicthumbs]

Depending on how an auction goes today... It will be 19 hours round trip. I will not tell until the auction has ended for fear of you psychos bidding against me (I'll let you know later today).

GOT IT!!!

Been looking for one of these since 1999! They were all supposed to be donated to the Children's Miracle Network (which I found out later that they were gutted for the TV and N64). So, any ones that found their way home to shady employees are probably either trashed or kept in a garage or something. Auction says that he can't get it to work, but thanks to the picture of the inside, the only reason it's not working is because it's missing the game cart. SCORE!

[-hellvin-]

Then back on the road to meet Shai Hulud to buy a 29" MVS Candy Cab in St. Louis. Arrived there at 12:30AM.

So you mean you bought an arcade machine from Shai Hulud? Holy crap thats great. I'm a huge fan of theirs. I saw them a year or so ago in Chicago. Kind of goes with the story, I drove 6 hours to see them play.

I believe shai hulud is a person on these forums.

[atomicthumbs]

I believe shai hulud is a person on these forums.

Indeed he is.

[Gnarkill]

I once traveled about 2 hours for a second DC contoller(the day of its release), after checking every store until I found an ebgames in a mall, just to play PowerStone with 1 of my friends. 2 hours back and took awhile to stop and search everystore along the way.

[atomicthumbs]

6 hours round trip to a Toys 'R Us so a friend and I could each get an exclusive Extreme Green N64 controller.

[Nez]

Went on the trip to Tucon Az with -Hellvin- took all day and I got a cold from it. Blech the only thing I found was Panzer Dragoon.

[SegaAges]

If I had the money to do a 1000 game trip I would.

The farthest I have traveled for a game, um...
about 10-15 miles to the other side of Omaha (I live there). I bought about 3 or 4 games hehehe.

I don't want to try and steal this thread by any means, but how much are you guys paying for games when you do these 2000 game trips?

[gamergary]

About an hour to go pick up my top loader.

[ubikuberalles]

I have travled out to Vegas the past 3 years for cge thats like a 6 hour plane ride one way. This year im going to San Jose which is even longer. Does that count?

Ditto for me. It's an eight hour drive to Vegas for me. I also drove to Tulsa for OKGE which is also an eight hour drive each way. This year I'll be driving to San Jose which will be about 16 hours each way.