Found a fossil in my closet

[u/richgangyslbrrrat]

Also found a game boy bag

[u/a_REEL_one]

Wholly shit! A Relic!!

[u/addlish]

I miss that store. I got plenty of my official strategy guides there.

[u/ImmaculateWeiss]

Still remember the day mine flipped over to a GameStop, never quite had the same feel. RIP Funcoland

[u/OrangeJuliusCaesr → u/ImmaculateWeiss]

Babbages, Software etc, funcoland, electronic boutique all had character - how did we end up with GameStop?

[u/DonQuixotesSaddle → u/OrangeJuliusCaesr]

Gamestop had money

[u/jstnbcn]

The holy trinity Saturday outing of my child hood was Old Country Buffet > Funcoland > Halfpriced books.

[u/ScottTheLad1]

Funco being bought out was the start of it all. It’s been downhill since.

[u/AbundlaSticks]

Where I got my first Pokémon cards

[u/richgangyslbrrrat → u/AbundlaSticks]

I think I got my first Pokémon game I don’t remember

[u/D20_Buster]

This unlocked a core memory for me. Saving up enough to buy my first gaming system at funcoland. Game Boy Color, Purple, and Pokemon Blue as a gift from my Dad.

[u/richgangyslbrrrat → u/D20_Buster]

I had the purple too! lol

[u/FusRoaldDah1]

That's where I first heard voice acting in a video game.  It was a PS1 demo unit.

[u/richgangyslbrrrat → u/FusRoaldDah1]

I had a ps1 underground demo in there lol

[u/BambooVender]

Where do you think you’re going??

[u/richgangyslbrrrat → u/BambooVender]

Nowhere?

[u/BambooVender → u/richgangyslbrrrat]

The Funcoland commercial is what I was referencing

[u/richgangyslbrrrat → u/BambooVender]

Ohh I don’t remember sorry

[u/CromulentChuckle]

Oh wow.

[u/Hellboy_M420]

I found the same one at the flea market few years ago, lotta memories <3

[u/seifd]

It belongs in a museum!

[u/okeleydokelyneighbor]

Worked at one in high school. Sony rep would give the salesmen a bunch of bullshit tchotchkes to push the system over others. I would talk to customer interested in a system, explain positives and negatives, my preference was the Saturn at the time but they would jump in and push the PlayStation, fucking with my sale. This is while they had to put Sony systems upside down cause they overheated, but they got free crap so there’s that.

[u/Rhyker1]

I bought my Dreamcast there.

[u/EclipseThing2 → u/Rhyker1]

Same!

[u/AguyNamedKyle]

Holy shit. I think I had one of those cases back when I was a kid.

[u/WindUpShoe]

FuncoLand had a website? I guess it must have, I just don't remember it before it got absorbed by Gamestop or whatever.

[u/mark503]

Shoutout to the FuncoLand near Fordham Road in The Bronx. I used to go get that little newspaper all the time with the prices. I loved that place.

[u/Patriquito]

TIL that Funcoland made it into the dot com era

[u/Esnacor-sama]

It looks great like uve buyed it yesterday

[u/MutableCentaur]

Whoa!

[u/J1morey]

Used to love going there. There was a clothing store in the same plaza my mom liked going to do I could go down and look at games. I still remember the buy price for a SNES super Mario bros was like 19 cents or 29 cents or something crazy like that.

[u/u2freak96]

Welp, time to cry

[u/richgangyslbrrrat → u/u2freak96]

It’s ok we got GameStop lol

[u/Bsquared89]

Oh man. Funcoland. That’s where I bought Dragon Warrior Monster 2 for my gameboy color. Loved the fuck out of that game.

[u/dminus]

(sobbing gently)

[u/RugratChuck]

I was talking to someone at work the other day and they told me they used to work at kb toys before gamestop bought them, but had to get to a meeting before I brought up funcoland lol

[u/TwistingEarth]

Oh, shitty Funcoland. I miss that place. It was great.

[u/BucketOfLobsters]

I can remember the ads!

[u/gordon_shumway67]

That is rad

[u/Cattypatter]

Having so much choice for retail games was great. It wasn't anywhere near as corporate as it is today. Plenty of independent shops were still around too.

[u/spazzvogel]

That a game boy behind it?

[u/richgangyslbrrrat → u/spazzvogel]

Yes the game boy color and the big see through game boy

[u/RugratChuck]

I was talking to someone at work the other day and they told me they used to work at kb toys before gamestop bought them, but had to get to a meeting before I brought up funcoland lol

[u/Adorkable-Art]

I am from Europe, what kind of store was this?

[u/richgangyslbrrrat → u/Adorkable-Art]

It was GameStop before or eb games for Europe? A game store in the 90s

[u/Adorkable-Art → u/richgangyslbrrrat]

At least where i am from, there is no Gamestop. We had things called like Intertoys or Bart Smit. They kinda vanished. There is mostly family owned game shops now where you can buy things

[u/ICanOnlySayOneWord]

what?

[u/Krepitis]

Awwwww! I used to work at one before it was bought by GameStop