Another Piece of the 80's Lost...

[ParanoiaDragon]

Many a memory I have riding my bike down to TRU for Turbo games.  I wish I had some video's of the Turbo section among other things.

However, on that note, here comes KB Toys back from the dead?!?

https://tformers.com/were-going-to-save-the-toy-industry-kb-toys-to-be-revived-in-the-wake-of-toysrus-destruction/33354/news.html

[TheClash603]

KB was my primary toy store.  It was in the mall, so I could get into it without having to convince my parents to do a drive to a separate toy store.  I llloooovvvveeeeddd KB, which is the toy store I have the most actual nostalgia for.

I remember getting my Jaguar and about  15 games for about $100 on clearance at KB.  Also bought Shaq Fu at KB.  Place had nothing but the best.

[xelement5x]

KayBee was in the mall for me too, their clearance bins were always fun to dig through as a non-driving mallrat in the 90s as well.

[TR0N]

Many a memory I have riding my bike down to TRU for Turbo games.  I wish I had some video's of the Turbo section among other things.

However, on that note, here comes KB Toys back from the dead?!?

https://tformers.com/were-going-to-save-the-toy-industry-kb-toys-to-be-revived-in-the-wake-of-toysrus-destruction/33354/news.html

I wouldn't have a problem if kb toys was revived.80's&90's was my go to as well for toys&games at kb.Still,a full on retailer or having just having locations setup in malls i wonder.

[bob]

I remember getting ActionMax from KB back when they were clearing them out.  All the tapes were 4.99.  Grabbed them all, but played the shit out of Pops Ghostly

[seieienbu]

Kaybee Toys was always higher priced than most places in my hometown so I only recall picking up a couple of games from them.  I got Shadow of the Ninja and Double Dragon 3 on NES from Kaybee Toys.  I don't recall them ever having Turbo stuff off the top of my head. 

They had a really nice selection of action figures though.  I recall getting a lot of Transformers from them.

[nopepper]

Since I grew up with the Sega Master System, Phantasy Star 2 made the Genesis a necessary choice for a starving teenager. But back then, I knew the Turbo was still a worthy adversary and that, some day, when I was a grown up and shit, I would get one.

Toys R Us was the ONLY place I could peruse the catalog so intimately, as magazines could only do so much, and I did not know anyone with one (and my passion for gaming).

For that, it will always hold a place in my heart. It's unfortunate for them that Amazon is just so convenient in comparison...

[ParanoiaDragon]

And the founder of TRU has now died!  http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/22/news/companies/toys-r-us-founder-obituary/index.html?sr=fbCNN032218companies0303PMStoryLink

[Fidde_se]

Toys'R'Us are unaffected in the Nordic countries for now, there it will live on for some time, stores are owned by TOP-TOY A/S (Denmark) and runs a license to be Toys'R'Us and that license seems to be valid even if the mother corporation goes under, it's only TRU and BR (Fætter BR, Danish too) that's left of all the big toy stores around here, but TRU also sells a lot online here.

Back in the 80 we had Big&Little that was THE toystore here back then, that has somehow
remerged online for being gone in like 20 years time, nostalgic for us...

That logo is for us what TRU are for Americans.

[EvilEvoIX]

I will miss going there as a child with a fist full of Jeffery Dollars and getting a Game Boy or a Game Gear or a giant Super Soaker.  Tragic

[crazydean]

I went there today. Anything good was either 5% or 10% off. Their stuff is still more expensive than everywhere else. What a joke. No surprise they are closing.

[xelement5x]

I went there today. Anything good was either 5% or 10% off. Their stuff is still more expensive than everywhere else. What a joke. No surprise they are closing.

Yeah, same thing in my area.  A couple sections were a bit more discounted, but it was not very much. 

[esteban]

Back in the 80 we had Big&Little that was THE toystore here back then, that has somehow
remerged online for being gone in like 20 years time, nostalgic for us...

That logo is for us what TRU are for Americans.

Ok, that is awesome.

We need to bring back mascots like this.

SRSLY.


PERSONALLY, although I purchased my TG-16 and first few games from TRU, most of my memories purchasing games are from a local mom-n-pop (TG-CD, Splatterhouse, Bloody Wolf, Final Zone II, etc)

And Electronics Boutique and Software Etc.  In the mall.

I think most games were from the mall?

Probably.

[Zero_Gamer]

I will miss going there as a child with a fist full of Jeffery Dollars and getting a Game Boy or a Game Gear or a giant Super Soaker.  Tragic

You will miss going there as a child now that it's closed, or you've always missed going there since being a child lol[emoji23]

[ParanoiaDragon]

I went back n forth between TRU & Babbage's for most my games, bought a few at Die Hard out in the San Fernando Valley, & a few here & there from TZD.  I don't think I bought any from Software Etc., though I do think there was one on the Oaks Mall at the time.  Don't recall buying anything there until PS1 was already out, & I would go in there looking for Jag & 3DO stuff on clearance.  Years later, I got more of my games from Game Dude....besides ebay of coarse.

As for a piece of the 80's, Judge Harold T Stone died yesterday at 65.  That makes me sad.