• Gestrid@lemmy.ca
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    I still remember Toys R Us had a separate section for video games. I don’t just mean a separate aisle. A separate corner of the store. Though I don’t recall whether or not anything was locked behind glass. The more expensive stuff, like the consoles, was probably behind the counter, though.

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      Yeah - you had to take a paper ticket to check out and they would ring it up and give you a copy. Unless it was an older game. Then you could just grab it and take it to the counters

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        Maybe I’m remembering before they did paper tickets or after they stopped it, because I feel like I’d remember something like that. The one I went to didn’t seem to have that, though I didn’t go often because I was a broke kid. They just had the games on the shelves when I did go, though.

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      Wal-mart had a separate aisle. It was by itself, and the nearby aisles were kind of split 50/50 for “boy” or “girl” toys. Like I think lego and action figures were on one side, Barbie on the other?

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      I remember first they had a paper ticket and an aisle in the NES and SNES Era, but by the N64 Era they had the “Gamezone” corner.

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      You had to pick up a slip of paper for the cartridge you wanted, and then go to a security window after paying for it to actually get it.

      The consoles I never actually saw on the store floor…