Gamestation set to destroy nearly all their oldskool stock

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13 Mar 2008, 4:43 pm

[As heard from Gamestation staff on Games central].
Gamestation,the UK gamers shop which was great for oldskool as far back as the NES,is set to destroy nearly all of their oldskool games stock,they are keeping only twenty five of their oldskool specialist shops in the country and are sending some of them the stock to them but the rest is going into meltdown.

It was as bad sounding as the possibility of EA buying out rockstar,as when GAME bought out Gamestation,and they can actually waste a history of gaming like that? why not give them to gaming museums,or to charities? what a waste.

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13 Mar 2008, 5:10 pm

but if you give stuff away there will be less people seeking to buy from you

same reason resturaunts throw away perfectly good food

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13 Mar 2008, 7:26 pm

If they can't make money one way, they'll make it another. Ah, the almighty dollar.

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14 Mar 2008, 8:56 am

It's good seeing these cabinets with old games in them. Is better than buying old consoles off eBay.

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14 Mar 2008, 5:26 pm

I remember a few years ago when Gamestation had Commodore 64s and ZX Spectrums in their cabinets. They went, followed by NES's. You still see the regular Gameboy / Mega Drive / SNES / Saturn though.

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