GameStop

Honestly, I visit this location even though I don’t live nearby because it’s never jam-​packed and the customer service is great. I haven’t been gaming in awhile so I got great recommendations and a lot of insight from the bald, buff dude who currently works there. Also, they have certain games I look for in stock more often than others — maybe b/​c they don’t get as much business? idk.

Been to this location a few times. I’m not much of a gamer these days, so I turned to the staff for recommendations.
Anthony (I think that was his name) set me up with a game that I am really enjoying.

This is absolutely one of the worst, most inconsiderate Gamestops I have been to. To describe my first and LAST experience with them, I called the store 3 TIMES ahead of time to reserve a Nintendo 3DS XL. I informed them that I was en route to the store, and they assured me that the system would be there upon my arrival. Once I got there, they had the sheer audacity to tell me that the 3DS that I specifically taken all of the measures to place on hold had been sold mere moments before I arrived. The manager even had the nerve to have a nonchalant attitude about the situation, telling me «you snooze, you lose.» I was shocked and appalled at this behavior and attitude about the situation, and have proceeded to make sure that corporate heard about this. If you would like someone to be more considerate in terms of how important your patronage is, please make haste to another Gamestop.

The location isn’t the best, but the employee I had was nice and friendly. Beside, this one is the closest one to my house and they have all the same stuff as any other Gamestop despite it being smaller. The parking lot is mostly packed and it can be a hassle depending on when you go. I like the one on Canal and Roosevelt more as well, but this location is convenient.

This GameStop is great because it is very convenient and unique. They have all the games you can think of, new and old. You will notice it very easy because it is not in a big plaza. This is a great GameStop!

This Gamestop is decent despite being cramped and very easy to miss. The staff is knowledgeable and friendly, the selection is pretty good and its a hop skip and a jump from my house. I like the one on Canal and Roosevelt but this one is closer and just as good. Definitely stop by!

This Gamestop is so small, you might miss it if you weren’t looking for it — of course if you weren’t looking for it in the first place it really hasn’t been missed…
That aside, this location’s only downside is its smallness. The staff have always been helpful and friendly to me, even when I’ve been in my lookie-​loo phases of checking out every used game trying to find something entertaining but also under $ 10 — which can happen, but it’s rare now that I’ve gobbled up all the crappy sports games from 6 years ago that were selling for $ 2.99. I’m not a sports person, so I don’t care who was on which team — I just want to hit people with baseballs, foul basketball players and tackle some people. Or start a hockey fight.
And they are helpful, too. They’ll assist in choosing the right kind of game if you know what you’re looking for. They’ll chat with you about the MMORPG you’re playing because you’re a big nerd and Gamestop recognizes that and appropriately hires other big nerds to satisfy customers and their needs. You just need to make sure you’ve got the right flavor of big nerd — identify which are the RPG (role-​playing game) players and which get off playing an FPS (first-​person shooter) and you’ll be more-​easily helped.
Anyway, my point was that before the «new generation» of consoles, there was enough room for the current generation of consoles and room left over for old-​timey awesome stuff to be put out. My favorite memory of Gamestop was the day that there was a bin full of used NES merchandise with ridiculous clearance prices. Add the buy-​two-​get-​one-​free sale and 10% off used games with a Gamestop membership card, and I walked out of there with a NES system, TWO Duck Hunt guns (even though the system only lets you use one at a time) and SEVEN copies of Super Mario /​Duck Hunt. In case 6 of them broke or had an impenetrable layer of dust that couldn’t be blown out by standard NES gaming practices.
(Yes, I wandered around my home with two Duck Hunt guns in holsters ready to quick-​draw any offending ducks or roommates — because I was simply that awesome.)
Nowadays, the new consoles have taken over. The PS3 cleared out all my PS2 viewing section down to where the PS section used to be. And now there’s no Playstation-​classic games to rummage through.
Maybe it’s just that my era of gaming is over and I have to accept that gaming stores had to clear my era out to entice the new «whippersnapper» demographic in so they can turn a profit.
They just need to enforce the posted time limit on the test systems so the whippersnappers can give «Old Man NES» a try at his 15 minutes of Guitar Hero fame…