Whats the earliest system and game you played at the stores?
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I was at a local electronics company called The Federated Group. I tested the NES with Super Mario Bros and Rad Mobile, I had already played both at friend's houses. I also played Wonderboy, Quartet, After Burner and Missile Defense 3D on the Master System. I had saved up enough money mowing lawns to walk home with one system that day, the Master System won.
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My parent's first VCR came from a Federated. Blank tapes were still $8-10 each and my parents weren't going to buy one there, but the salesman haggled and sold us one for $1.sheath wrote:I was at a local electronics company called The Federated Group.
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hmm....probably Bonk's Adventure for TurboGrafx at a Mall.
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I remember playing playing SMB, and Ice Climber in one of those 10/12 slot NES kiosks. It was at a Pharm House retail store in NY. Anyone remember Pharm House? It was sort of like a Hills or Ames.
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Coleco Vision. I can't recall if I actually got to play the system, but I clearly remember it being physically set up for display at the department store.
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The NES for me. It was in Toys R Us & Sears when I was growing up.
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i remember the worst kios was the at walmart where they tv screen was set very high and your up against the wall looking up.
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Re: Whats the earliest system and game you played at the stores?
I can distinctly remember playing Crazy Taxi and some basketball game on a Dreamcast just after I'd moved, so that must have been in 2000. I also remember Star Wars Episode 1: Racer on an N64.
I didn't really hang out in stores before that.
I didn't really hang out in stores before that.
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i think it was star fox 64 but im 24 so their must of been earlier ones just none that stuck in my head i guess star fox must of blown me away and its burned in my memory

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They're still that way at mine. And it's not because they're old, because the closest one was recently expanded and remodeled, and the next-closest one is only a few years old.AznKhmerBoi wrote:i remember the worst kios was the at walmart where they tv screen was set very high and your up against the wall looking up.
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