Originally posted by: GCrites80s
Originally posted by: mutaxlock66
Yeah, I've went there for several years.
Last time I went, they were dried up and the staff didn't even know what an Action Replay Pro was for a Saturn (I went to Video Game World and they had 4 of them for 24.99$).
Their NES selection isn't bad. They have some good boxed SNES stuff time to time.
Again - someone could have came in and cleaned out their Saturn stuff. No boxed consoles aside from a NES that had a beat up box for 150$.
They also told me they didn't actually have a Saturn to test the games on, but I could bring it back if it didn't work. This was a little baffling. The drive is 30 minutes.
Never met their owner, know the owner of the other store (who is probably on here). Save Point used to have the X-Men Arcade cab - miss that guy.
Saturn just really isn't that important of a system to most stores, unfortunatley. Training time and resources are limited and a lot of times you have to focus on making sure the employees don't buy broken stuff or other garbage (this is where a massive amount of game store training efforts must be spent) before you can move on to niche systems such as Saturn and 3DO. A lot of prospective employees these days are simply too young to have any previous Saturn experience.
For example, 6th, 7th and 8th gen are positively full of booby traps that can bring stores to their knees by having all their money in broken, unsellable garbage or in the example of 8th gen, way too many copies of the same game that's losing its value extremely quickly. If you let them, people will try to sell you 10 copies of the same PS4 game in one week. Good luck getting rid of those before they are worth nothing when your customers only want GameCube. And they'll try to sell you 5 6th-7th-8th Gen systems without a working 1st party controller for each 1 that comes with one.
Video Game World in comparison has almost every high-end CIB Saturn title in a glass case, along with Saturn imports... sells Turbografx 16 games... and keeps opening new stores. Who knows. Then again, this guy also goes and cleans out entire game stores going out of business in other states with cash and a U-Haul, then sorts through the crap after the fact. I also wouldn't put the Saturn in as niche of a category as the 3DO. Given, it did horrible in the US - but nothing like the 3DO. I don't think I've ever seen a 3DO game at a retro store in person now that I think about it, or I don't remember... and I have seen Save Point have good Saturn stuff. They were just cleaned out last trip. I definitely agree - it's hard to find new employees may know the Saturn as opposed to the PlayStation.
At this point I'm buying mostly for 360 and Saturn. I sold my NES/SNES collection a few years ago and it's hard to start over on those systems.
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