I have some good old Sega Master System carts that have been through hell and back AND still work with a little blow.

the blow is priceless, yeah so many times i missed carts when my gaùe won' t play because of scratches, or when the console lens starts screwing up... years ago all you need is a blow

I like the idea of heading up to my local game store, browsing the shelves & shooting the breeze with the employees I talk to. There' s a reason mail-order never replaced window shopping. Sometimes it' s about the experience more than the outcome.

I' ve bought and dl' d loads of games over the net, and it' s actually a lot easier. Too easy, that sometimes I buy games I dont actually want! It' s cheaper for the developer without all the restrictions of having to pay to be green-lighted by publishing companies and then competing for shelf space. As long as those benefits reach the consumer then its all good.

The only drawback is that you never really feel as though a game is really ' yours' , if that makes any sense. Having a chunky physical representation of something that you can unwrap and plug in just feels good, rather than just getting a new icon on your desktop...

I like the idea of heading up to my local game store, browsing the shelves & shooting the breeze with the employees I talk to.

Thats usually the worst part of my experience when i go to my local game stores

Despite, treating them with a lot of care I always worry about damaging my discs. Carts on the other hand can go through hell and still survive!

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I like the idea of heading up to my local game store, browsing the shelves & shooting the breeze with the employees I talk to.

Thats usually the worst part of my experience when i go to my local game stores

It definately depends on where you go. Our local Gamecrazy & all the local Gamestops are managed by stoners or 30-something out-of-work Ford employees. The EB Games I go to actually has competent human beings behind the counter. There are certain advantages to knowing the clerks by name though, I got to play the Wii the first day they got a unit in, instead of a week later like everybody else was forced to wait!

And let' s not forget Neo Geo cartridges... they were bigger than your house!

And cost just as much!

It definately depends on where you go.

Tell me about it

... I have to go 2 hours away to get competence from game shop employees

Bummer dude.[:' (]

I don' t think cartridges were that great, actually. I mean, yeah, there were no load times, but the fact that there was always eventually some malfunction between the cartridge and the slot sucked. Also, I like having dvd cases. They look nice and neat on the shelf.

To be honest it' s probably because I' ve never had even one problem with a scratched disk or anything like that. Of course I keep my disks in pristine condition, as well as my hardware.

And we ALL know that solid state storage is too expensive to be considered. I mean, yeah, they may drop drastically in price, but will they ever be as cheap to produce as a dvd (or Blu-ray, eventually)? Probably not. So in I can manufacture a game on a 2¢ dvd, or put it on a $10 memory card (or flash drive, or whatever). Which one would YOU choose if you weren' t a game-player, but a manufacturer?

Bummer dude.

Yeah, but i always have my cousin at walmart. Thats much less frustrating than arguing with gamestop [:' (]

Seriously, why would you talk to gamestop/whatever employees?,I know about 10 times more about games than them.

Seriously, why would you talk to gamestop/whatever employees?,I know about 10 times more about games than them.

Thats the thing, I prefer not to, but they' re like car sales men, they want you to buy half the store. Any time I purchase a game thats on multiple consoles they feel that they need to point out that its on other consoles, then they try to get me to get that version [:' (]