Jay St Video Games

They have lots of retro games for all the mainstream systems going back to the Atari 2600. For some of the popular systems, they have dozens or even hundreds of games, most at reasonable prices. Hard-​to-​find games are not really part of their inventory, or they are asking high retail prices if they do have them.
The staff is pretty young, to the point where they were not alive when most of these games came out. Despite that, they know their stuff and seem to be genuine video game enthusiasts. We struck up a conversation with a guy who might have been 20 at the oldest about Sega Master System and he knew a lot, off the top of his head. Impressive!
One thing I thought was quite weird is the response I got when I asked where all the games came from. I was curious if they bought out a warehouse somewhere, bought out another business, raided ebay, etc. The employee told me they are all customer trade-​ins, which I find very difficult to believe. I mean, 10 different people brought Atari 2600 Combat cartridges into Destiny Mall in Syracuse? Not likely. I don’t really like being given a line when I’m asking a legitimate question, and it made me question whether I wanted to spend money there.

I’ve been to Jay St Video Games and honestly i think it’s a great place, more often than not especially for recently released and new games as well as old school they give better prices and trade in value than most other game stores. The rare games are expensive of course but you’re more likely to get better prices here than online. If you go and don’t get the best value you for your games odds are it’s because they don’t sell or they have to many already but most other stores don’t take games like that anyway. All in all thought the staff was friendly and helpful a lot of really cool old and new games i’d stop in again for sure

Stopped in to see what games they had, as Im a collector and always check game stores while traveling. First thing I ask to see was Snow Brothers for NES, the label was destroyed and the employee told me, «it’s a rare games, that’s why it’s so expensive», multiple times, as if my collection wasn’t worth more than this entire store. The same pretentious jackass employee also chased me out of the store to accuse me of not paying for items.
IF YOURE LOOKING TO BUY GAMES TO GO VOLTAGE! Their prices are actually reasonable, and the staff was awesome.
This was last night, March 6^th, around 9PM.

Terrible for trading or buying any classic games. All classic games are insanely over priced and the store credit they give you for trade-​ins extremely low.
I traded in an N64 game and received $ 4 store credit, went back there 1 day later to see them selling the game i traded them for $ 20. Truly regret doing business with them.