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Hayabusa

(2,135 posts)
Sat Jan 26, 2013, 01:26 PM Jan 2013

Small World/How the Hell did it get here?

Didn't quite know where to put this, but I was going through my Elder Scrolls collection, straightening manuals out in the cases and etc. and I ran across something interesting in my copy of Oblivion. I bought the game at an auction a little under a year ago and I haven't moved the manual at all, just getting the game out to play it. Well, under the manual was a receipt that somehow stayed inside of the game for five years. That isn't all that surprising, because I know some people do that. What was surprising was where it came from: a GameStop in Fullerton, California. I live in central Missouri.

So what the hell was a CA-purchased game doing in Mid-Missouri? The only thing that I can think of is that a college student at the local college bought it at home and got rid of it here.

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Small World/How the Hell did it get here? (Original Post) Hayabusa Jan 2013 OP
I'd almost forgot that Gamestop used to sell PC titles. Chan790 Jan 2013 #1
It was the PS3 version Hayabusa Jan 2013 #2
 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
1. I'd almost forgot that Gamestop used to sell PC titles.
Sat Jan 26, 2013, 03:39 PM
Jan 2013

It's all console games now...in fact, I'm not really sure where one buys computer games today as I buy all mine online; best buy and stores like that are reducing their computer sections to increase space for console-games (Best Buy locally has undertaken a policy of not putting prices on games either), Target and WalMart sell mostly off-label minor-publisher crap.

Where does one buy computer games in a brick and mortar store these days?

Hayabusa

(2,135 posts)
2. It was the PS3 version
Sat Jan 26, 2013, 03:43 PM
Jan 2013

They had the PC version a month or so later, but that was all they had so I didn't get it.

As for PC games, yeah, there aren't that many places that sell them anymore, thanks to Steam and Origin, which really sucks for someone with a slow internet. The PC section at my local GameStops are just two or three racks and a special section for World of Warcraft.

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