Games in a place/time they should not be

Ok, since I can't embed from Instagram with the caption attached, here's a link (https://www.instagram.com/p/BJq2RexgjFl/?taken-by=lastcallgames).

Basically I was at Wal-Mart a few days ago to see if I could get a cheapish Vita game for the Vita I just picked up.

They had as many different Vita games as they had Game Boy Advance titles. In the year 2016. One of each, BTW. Though the GBA cart has 4 games on it, so I guess there's more GBA games than Vita ones.

So I got to thinking, what are some times you saw a game in a place or time it didn't belong?

 

I do remember seeing some "new" PS1 games in a shop in France some years ago

 

Few monthes ago, I got two 1080 snowboarding, one Turok seed of Evil and a Banjo Kazoie, all brand new, for free, in a little food supermarket in France. I was so surprised to see a stock like this in this kind of place ! There was no price on the box so I asked the price to the cashier. She said that she doesn't have a price in the price database. She then called her Manager. The manager told me that it was probably an old stock but the games can't be found in the shop database. So he told me to take them for free.

 

You sir, are very lucky

 

(nvm)

 

I remember seeing a sealed copy of Earthworm Jim at Zellers (a now defunct canadian department store) sometime around 2004, I believe.

Just last year, I went into a small neigbourhood convenience store and they had what I think if memory serves were Soul Caliber controllers nib for Gamecube. They still had their original price of like $60 even though they had been there for years and were severely sun bleached

 

A local Walmart STILL has a copy of the GTA Trilogy for PS2, which still makes me smile everytime I pass by it.

 

The Atari 2600 bin in the front of a local Lowes (US home improvement store). Got my copy of E.T. new for $1 there.

 

Mine does too, actually two I think.

 

Since that post it is now gone sadly but it lasted a good while.

 

Lowes sells Atari 2600 games? How? Why? What?

 

Only in the early/mid 80's.

 

Right before our K-Mart closed in 2003, there were sealed Saturn games in a back glass cabinet still going for their retail prices.

 

Back in the DC era of gaming, KB Toys had some very old stock left. The cashier found a copy of Star Tropics for NES and a few Virtual Boy games, and neither would ring up. So she pulled the price tags off and just handed them for free. That was a good day Shame they didn't have even more.

I also remember several copies of Ecco the Dolphin for Sega CD in a bargain bin at Sears somewhere past the PS2 era. It was always fun to check up on that gaming area there whenever visiting that mall and still seeing the copies of the game just sitting there. I eventually bought one while the rest just sat there until Sears eventually got rid of their gaming area. They also had 32X titles like Kolibri.

 

Haven't been in a while, so I don't know if its still the case, but you used to be able to occasionally find really old PC and PS2 games at Fry's Electronics. Games would stay on the shelf until they sold every copy they had, no matter how long that might take.

 

I was in Wal-Mart last year and saw Madden 2007 on PS2. Cover was pretty faded.

 

Yours too? I know the GTA trilogy was released sometime in the mid to late 2000's, but its crazy to think GTA III is still being sold at retail on the original console it was released for back in 2001.

 

GTA trilogy was still being sold at the two walmarts around me along with some other stuff (including a Friends PS2 game). It's actually a good deal for $20 if you own a PS2 and don't wanna pay the high PSN download prices for the PS4.

Also, this website is definitely worth checking out if youre into this sorta thing: https://consumerist.com/tag/raiders-of-the-lost-walmart/

 

I went to a different one today and it had Ski and Shoot, which looked like 2006 shovelware or something.

 

I forgot to post this here, but this is at my local Walmart. Has been for years.