[General Discussion] Classic Games and Future Generations?

Originally Posted by orion_mk3

help get them appriciated in a scholarly, literary, or cultural context.

Yeah, good luck with that. Lemme know when we have game history professors, text books talking about the Konami code, and studies on the cultural impact of warp pipes.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Any big box or EB is gonna put up shelves and shelves of what sell. You're not going to miraculously find tonnes of copies of Okami if you go south of the border. Those games are niche in all markets, just not up here.

You want a damn game that might not be common, thanks to EB's dirty business model, you'll be pretty much FORCED to preorder it. They won't order titles if there's little to no interest expressed. It's not the optimal way of doing things, but it probably beats online retailers with shipping charges and sometimes ridiculous "we won't ship that to you" BS, like with the AC6 stick or the Mass Effect LE or whatever.

You're going to find this anywhere. The consumer gets fucked no matter what, and that's partially (maybe even mostly) EB/GS's fault. Where we get fucked more than the yanks is often with Canadian allocations from publishers, not necessarily the retailers.

There's nowhere I can't reach.