Retro & used game shops

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I’m wondering what people’s experience with retro & used game shops have been around the world.

I live in Vienna and there’s like 8 used game shops in town (GameStop has stopped doing business in Austria), but most of them are super overpriced. I’ve seen them sell Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow for like 200€ CIB when you can get the same game for a fifth of that price on our local Craigslist equivalent.

There’s one shop I go to regularly however that tends to have fair prices (around 10-20% more than online, rather than 2-3 times the price) and they often open to haggling.

I kinda wish the stores we have had more of a cozy recordstore type vibe, rather than dollar shop atmosphere.

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there used to be a retro and game rental shop right next to where i live, i got Manhunt, WCW vs the World, and NBA Live 2000 from them many years ago. it’s been a cleaning materials shop for a few years now, even before the pandemic i think

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