DragonmasterDan, I live in the Chicago area, where and what is this place that you speak of? I must know because I would love to check it out sometime! The best place I know of around here for video game good's is Sean Kelly's (one of the biggest game collectors) Video Games Etc..., which is in Norride, Illinois (it's quite a long drive from my house, actually).
The place that I went to is a Disc Replay in Roselle Illinois (just West of Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg). I know a great number of game stores around the area though, there is a place called "High Score" in Oak Lawn in the South Suburbs that has a lot of Master System and even some Turbo stuff, but their prices are lousy. They are also open odd hours as I think it's just the owner working there most of the time.
FYI the disc replays are nice places to pick retro stuff up though their selections vary and are somewhat limited, not all of them have games though. Where in the area are you again? (I think we discussed this before at one point).
http://discreplay.com/pages/1/index.htmThere are a number of independent places selling games still remaining in Chicagoland (as you would expect of an area with a population of 10 million) but at the same time the big chains (Gamestop, EB, and GameCrazy) have run a lot of the smalltimers out of business and over the years about 4/5 of the independent game stores died. Most of what you find are used CD/DVD places that also sell games (ala CD trader). There's a lot of one store non-chain used DVD/Game/Music shops you'll find on the North side of the city that have stuff. Finding less common (Anything besides NES, SNES, GEN, GameBoy, Game Gear, PSone, N64. PS2, Xbox, GC and occasional Dreamcast crap) is almost impossible at the chain stores which is why its important to patronixe the few reminaing independent shops.
