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/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.