Topic: Game Boy Player availability

[simdan]

I have been to several department stores this week looking for the GameBoy Player.  None of them have recived shipments and a couple of them had no idea what I was talking about. I still have yet to track down a GameBoy Player to buy. Is anyone else having trouble getting ahold of one?

[RickPowers]

Stop looking in department stores, and start looking in dedicated game stores.  I've seen it it Best Buy, Circuit City, Electronics Boutique, GameStop, and CompUSA.

[Rhoq]

I bought my GBP last night at the same place I was bitching about yesterday afternoon: GameStop.

[simdan]

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Originally posted by: RickPowers
Stop looking in department stores, and start looking in dedicated game stores.  I've seen it it Best Buy, Circuit City, Electronics Boutique, GameStop, and CompUSA.

I wish I could look in those places. Thing is the only store in the area is a Kmart. Drive an hour in each direction and you can find more department stores. To find the stores you have suggested, I would have to travel an hour and 40 minutes at the least. I just don't have the time, money or desire to go on a cross-country trip to find one of these. Man, north-central Iowa sucks. I guess I'll just have to find someplace on the web to buy it.....

[Rhoq]

I would have thought that a place like K-Mart would have the GameBoy Player.  

[simdan]

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Originally posted by: Rhoq
I would have thought that a place like K-Mart would have the GameBoy Player.

Let's put it this way, this store still does not have copies of The Animatrix, which came out on June 6th.

[Rhoq]

Whoa! I feel sorry for you. I couldn't imagine living in Iowa. I've always lived on the East Coast. Man I just couldn't even begin to fathom how frustrating it must be to be so behind on the times like that. If K-Mart is the only major retailer in your area, I feel as though they have some sort of responsibility to their customers to get all of the latest releases in a timely fashion. If you can't buy it from them, you really have no other alternatives (outside of purchasing on-line). I hate buying on-line (unless I am buying something on E-Bay). I would rather be able to walk into a store and buy it. That way there is no waiting for delivery and I can get a good look at the item before I commit to a purchase.

I bought the Animatrix the day it came out, but I haven't had the time to watch it yet!  

[simdan]

Iowa as a whole is not that bad, just this part of Iowa. We have only been here for four years and I spend most of my time at college in Nebraska.  This Kmart rarely have the games I want to buy when they come out. They had Metroid Prime... ....with a wavebird (a Kmart exclusive!) which I didn't need. There are Walmarts, you just have to drive an hour. The one I was able to check didn't have any. I just broke down and bought the thing off the net a moment ago.

I got the Animatrix at the same Walmart. There's some really good stuff in it, as well as just bizzare.

[Jollus]

I got lucky and EBgames.com had it with free shipping.  I would have gotten it at a brick and mortor store by when I went in they haddn't come in yet, and I work all week so I figured free shipping and I don't have to go to the mall.  Of course while I was shopping online I got BF1942 as well, so I ended up spending more money anyway.

[Doerr]

I just walked into Walmart and payed My $79 canadian for it and left last night.

[PIAC]

geez... that almost sounds worse than australia/new zealand for release of stuff, or not

but tbh, i have my GBP ^_^ its sexy allright

[Rhoq]

Simdan - Love your avatar I can see that you a fellow Mac user...

Hopefully, I will have a PowerMac G5 by the end of the year.