Any Cool Retro Gaming Shops in Your Area???

[turbokon]

We are currently vacationing in Houston, TX and I found this cool gaming shop called Gameover Video Games Store.  I felt like a kid in a candy store.  We don't have anything like these in Wichita, KS besides the pawn shops and flea market and even those don't have as much of a selection.  They have everything from the Atari to Xbox.  They even have a few selection of turbografx games:) I bought Transbots for the Sega Master System and Streets of Rage for Game Gear.  I'm thinking about picking up a model 1 sega cd or Atari Lynx from there.  I want to stop by there one more time before we leave.  Would live to see some pics of any retro gaming shops in your area.

[Necromancer]

Have you seen this thread (if the store has Turbobs, they're bound to have all sorts of retro gaming goodies).  That's not a bad selection of TG-16 stuff - how were the prices?

[bob]

Houston???    
(jk)

Get home safe, my TE needs you!

[turbokon]

Haha, sorry man, forgot to let you know. Anyway, we'll be home on Saturday.

[turbokon]

Necro, prices are kinda high, I paid $35 for Transbot and Streets of rage. Atari lynx is $80.

[bob]

Not a problem at all.  Hope you are having a good time.  No rush.

[RegalSin]

Auh Jesus.......

[CPTRAVE]

Hey if you go back, find out if they have an online store.

[roflmao]

I've got a couple of cool retro gaming shops (masquerading as used book shops) in my town, but sadly I've never seen any Turbobs.  However, I did pick up Darius Gaiden for the Saturn today from one of them for $6.  I'll take pics of them next time I'm there and I think about it.  Lots of good Genesis, SNES, GBA, PS1/2, Xbox/360, Atari 2600 stuff.  Some oddball stuff from time to time (the place I got Saturn Darius today also had 8-10 Sega CD games, but I don't have one, so I didn't really look at what they had.  The other shop had Earthbound, Final Fantasy III and Super Mario RPG (all for the SNES) for $8 ea and I just picked up Geist for the GC for $3 yesterday.  I'm going broke getting good deals.  Good thing I like ramen.

[turbokon]

I went back there today and they were having a TMNT night. I picked up a couple more items, RetroDuo Portable and black belt for the Sega master system. Also took a little video clip:)

They also have an online store, www.gameovervideogames.com

[Sadler]

There's a 2 store chain around here called Doc's Video Games that I enjoy. I really like the people that work there, but I'll confess their prices are generally a bit high. The good news is that they'll work deals with you and have a selection of pretty hard to find stuff, like PC Engine, TG16, Neo Geo and of course SNES, Genesis, NES, etc. Here's a pic of a Vectrex they had:

[Deletion]

I've heard of the Game Over chain from The Game Chasers show on YT. The guys hit up the stores in Austin and San Antonio in the episode linked below. They said a lot of good things about the Austin store. We don't have a chain like this in Boston, but there are some good independent video game shops in the area.

[Tatsujin]

I have some few around here

[Samurai Ghost]

Closest I can think of is Game Dude which is pretty decent but can't hold a candle to all the great shops in Japan, especially in Akihabara.

[Ji-L87]

Closest retro store I know of is one in Stockholm called Super Motaro. It used to just be your normal web shop, although they also had auctions out on Tradera, the swedish (and not as good) equivalent of eBay. Sometimes they'd show up on cons and the like as well, selling stuff.

Now they have a real little store with some sit down arcade cabinets thrown in the back for good measure. Prices are pretty decent - or rather, some things can be had for really cheap (memory cards, controllers etc) while other go for more, usually systems. There's a little bit of everything, even som PCE/TG16. It's just a bit troublesome getting there...