4th April 2011, 11:55 AM
That's pretty cool there.
I remember playing that game with my aunt and uncle. I mostly rented as a kid myself, and it was always friends that owned the majority of their games. I also remember that Mario show being heavily based on SMB2. Super Mario All-Stars rectified it all for me as well, and later on I eventually bought a used copy of SMB2 NES (for the sake of completeness). Even though I rented a lot of them, I rented them often enough that it still felt like I "owned" them. Ah Blockbuster... Considering how much of my childhood it fueled, you'd think I would be more strongly affected by them going bankrupt, but nothing. Really all I want is to find out if they still have some warehouse full of old cases for cartridge games that I could buy a bulk set of, or even buy some actual used games from way back when. About the only thing they are selling now that interests me at all are their shelves. 1 for $75, 3 for $100. The first is a terrible deal, the second is a pretty good deal, but I don't need 3 of them :D.
I remember playing that game with my aunt and uncle. I mostly rented as a kid myself, and it was always friends that owned the majority of their games. I also remember that Mario show being heavily based on SMB2. Super Mario All-Stars rectified it all for me as well, and later on I eventually bought a used copy of SMB2 NES (for the sake of completeness). Even though I rented a lot of them, I rented them often enough that it still felt like I "owned" them. Ah Blockbuster... Considering how much of my childhood it fueled, you'd think I would be more strongly affected by them going bankrupt, but nothing. Really all I want is to find out if they still have some warehouse full of old cases for cartridge games that I could buy a bulk set of, or even buy some actual used games from way back when. About the only thing they are selling now that interests me at all are their shelves. 1 for $75, 3 for $100. The first is a terrible deal, the second is a pretty good deal, but I don't need 3 of them :D.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)