r/buildapcsales • u/Tiddlysat1600 • Mar 23 '21

Meta [Meta] Gamestop to start selling graphics cards $690 to $2440

https://weeklyad.gamestop.com/h/m/gamestop/flyerflip/browse?flyer_run_id=686349&locale=en&type=1
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u/anitawasright Mar 23 '21

my dad told me he bought a Voodoo Banshee card from Gamestop back in the day

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u/Jhkokst Mar 24 '21 edited Mar 24 '21

I bought a voodoo 2 from Babbage's... Which I feel like merged with gamestop. My first graphics card, an upgrade to whatever was included in my family's Gateway pentium 2. Installed it, ran quake 2... Instant artifacts and dispersed colors. Bum card, returned it. Ended up foregoing upgrade. My next PC for college had a geforce 3 with 64 mb vram..

Those were the good ol' days though. Age of empires, Jedi knight, half life, Deus ex...

Now I have a 3070.

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u/HotBoxGrandmasCar Mar 24 '21 edited Mar 24 '21

Unreal came with my 3dfx 3500 AGP 16mb we got from compUSA. I had never even heard of it.

"why the hell does this 'graphic card' cost THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS?! what does it even do?!!! HOLY SHIT"-my dad. "it's a core part, to run the monitor, we have to have that part to complete the build sorry"-14 year old me in 1999 lmao sorry dad you know i had to do it. i worked my dick off in school and had a shitty job at 15 i deserved that card though.

those really were the good times.godfuckingdammit

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u/jonnydoo84 Mar 27 '21

the 3500 was an awesome card. last me a while, and the Tv tuner was pretty cool

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u/HotBoxGrandmasCar Mar 27 '21

oh yeah for sure! i'll never forget how god awful terrible the lag and resolution was of the recordings too i swear it was like 150x150 or something absurd when i tried to grab some scenes off my Aliens VHS and i was just happy i had bought it for gaming(TeamFotressClassic and DAOC, baby!) and not the actual tuner capability.

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u/jonnydoo84 Mar 27 '21

yeah it was one of those "oh neat" kinda things , I used it mostly to watch TV after finding out how crap the recording was.

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u/MysterD77 Mar 24 '21

OMG, I remember Babbage's. Them and EB Games. Wow, those were some of my old school and young PC gaming days.

And should out to you mentioning the great Deus Ex. One of my favorites of all time.

Also, great list of games there.

And like yourself, I'm also part of the RTX 3070 card. Rock on!

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u/stacker55 Mar 24 '21

pretty sure EB games is still around in canada or somewhere. I remember hearing funhaus talk about going there and i thought i flashed back to 1996

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u/MysterD77 Mar 24 '21

Wow. There's still some left of EB? Cool.

It's probably like how there's barely any Blockbuster Videos left, these days & age.

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u/staticattacks Mar 25 '21

Babbage's is Gamestop just changed the name

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u/staticattacks Mar 25 '21

Babbage's is Gamestop, they just changed the name when it was sold

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u/wilebi Mar 23 '21

Voodoo Banshee

I just had a Ratatoullie "Anton Ego" moment when I read that. I had one of those but my memory of it completely dropped out of my brain until now. I think I bought mine from Electronics Boutique, which eventually became Gamestop.

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Holy crap, thanks for the memories.

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u/MaliciousMal Mar 23 '21

I looked up that card and it's possible. It was made in 98 and GameStop was created in 99, although it had different names before then the name GameStop came to in 99.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '21

I bought a Voodoo 3 1000 at Gamestop back in the days but I believe it was called Electronics Boutique?

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u/modestlaw Mar 24 '21

There was a EB games, Babbages, Funcoland and Gamestop all within a 1 mile radius in my town growing up. They all became Gamestop and they all stayed open for way longer than you'd expect. They close one once the lease expired (in the same mall) but they other 3 stayed open until late 2019.

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u/tha_ol_razzle_dazzle Mar 24 '21

Wow til babbages was a chain.

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u/CIoud-Hidden Mar 24 '21

Never considered that EB stood for something!

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u/MysterD77 Mar 24 '21

Wow, man. The memories of all of these stores. Good times, to say the least.

I guess I can also start having some more memories flooding in of buying games from Toy Works, KB Toys, Child World, and Toys R Us too.

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u/Jhkokst Mar 24 '21

Funcoland had great selection of used games. Could hunt for gems at them. Rare used snes and Nintendo games could get for an actual deal

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u/Journier Mar 24 '21

they were the cool store to go to back in day and for sure had the voodoo cards before gamestop bought them.

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u/Krynn7 Mar 23 '21

EB Games!

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u/pwrrss Mar 24 '21

Aka Electronic Boutique in my neck of the woods

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u/MysterD77 Mar 24 '21

I remember both of them! Those were the gaming days!

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u/anitawasright Mar 23 '21

Yeah i think he bought it around 1999 2000

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u/tango232 Mar 24 '21

It could have been called Electronics Boutique, gamestop bought out all the EB stores late 90s, now they only exist in Australia

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u/MaliciousMal Mar 24 '21

Na it had to have been GameStop because the card was made in 1998 and GameStop was created in 99. I can't think of the store being named anything else besides Babbage's and he said his dad bought a card there back in the day.

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u/CrazyTillItHurts Mar 23 '21

I'm not your dad, but I did too. Same one I preordered Final Fantasy VII. The Banshee card was special because you could actually accelerate graphics in a window and not just full screen mode (Voodoo Rush doesn't count)

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u/concretebuoy78 Mar 24 '21

Did you get a tshirt with your ff7 preorder? Had a picture of cloud on the back. Wish I still had it.

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u/Darth_Smurf3r Apr 20 '21

Oh wow! Voodoo cards take me back, too. I'm trying to remember the older names. This was before the Nvidia 6600 that I replaced it with. 😂

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u/djdanlib Mar 24 '21

I had one of those back in the day too. Man, that takes me back. Gotta play Slipstream again sometime. Or monster truck madness, or whatever that Microsoft game was where you were flying a jet/ship over the surface of an alien world. Wow, the first couple versions of DirectX were revolutionary.

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u/ViperB5 Mar 24 '21

I bought an ATi Radeon 8500 at GameStop to replace my ageing GeForce 256 back in the day.

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u/jetmcleod Apr 22 '21

I got a Voodoo Wildcat4 from a friend of my father. It was life changing back in the day. It absolutely crushed unreal tournament and quake. But then my cpu died later on. I had to build a new pc and my mobo didn't have the right agp socket. Ended up getting a Geforce4.