CRTGAMER on March 22nd wrote:Getting Gamestop to ship in games
The GBA games I have been listing were all found local, but I really wanted to get some hard to find ones at the 85% off price. another go at requesting more games shipped in. This worked in getting me Cubivore, Gotcha Force and GBA Boulder Dash EX. This time a huge list, the store does get busy and may not have time to do all the phone calls.
This works when you have built up a rapport with the local Gamestop Manager. Past purchases, sharing information and good personal comments in the survey back to Corporate at the Gamestop site. Take care of the employee and they will take care of you and go the extra step.
I searched early in the morning at the Gamestop site before the stores opened for a list of hard to find games. I keyed in random Zip Codes to find the games and then copy pasted the Zip Codes and Phone Numbers for a printout. Any games that I could find three stores, I listed all in case one store was not in stock. I brought the list that same Wednesday morning right when Gamestop opened. Why Wednesday morning? That is when price changes happen and all the Gamestops have a Manager or Senior Employee on the floor who have better pull. The morning calls are crucial especially when calling a Gamestop store back east which are ahead three hours. The earlier the better, before the stores get busy. Some games on my printout could only be found all the way across the country.
Game Boy Advance 85% Off Finds
Success! Most of the GBA games came in! Only a few strays to go, I'll hit up the Store Manager next Wednesday morning. All the games came from out of state, some all the way from the east coast! I had GBA carts coming in from Texas, Pennsylvania, Florida, New York, Colorado and other states. This was an insane order pull, my local Store Manager really came thru!
GBA DK3 Dilemma
Trying to find one game gave me problems. Even when keying in different random Zip code searches, only one store would appear. The online site searches only a 100 mile radius, however the local store computer can pull a list nation wide. Back at Gamestop only two stores showed the game in stock in the entire country! The first store stated they had a bad inventory and the manager at the other location decided to buy the game for himself! The bastard, now that is just not right. Of all the games that a Manager decides to buy, it is the one game that was in stock at only one Gamestop in the entire U.S.!
Other store still listed, someone local want to try?
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Most of the other GBA carts came in. I only have a few more to go. One of the carts has a really badly damaged label which I repaired. See if you can spot in the mug shot below, where I linked the repair procedure.
CRTGAMER wrote:So why load up on GBA games?
1. Great price at 85% off
2. GB carts works in GBA Player on the big screen
3. GBA games can be played with a full sized Arcade Stick
Advance Wars 2 - $4.99 $1.13
An in depth Strategy game, need time to dive into this.
Donkey Kong Country 2 - 12.99 $2.93
Already own GBA Donkey Kong Country 1, a nice platformer addition.
Mario Pinball Land - 9.99 $2.25
Unlike a lot of pinball games, all the action is on a single field. Pretty good game.
Metal Slug Advance - $7.99 $1.80
Ultimate side scroller Run and Gun, oh I had to get the portable version.
Metroid Zero Mission - $9.99 $2.25
Already have GBA Metroid Fusion for the Gamecube link capability. Might as well have this one too, a nice rendition that is faithful to the NES.
Racing Gears Advance - 9.99 $2.25
Any Micro Machines top down racer will like this game. Nice view of the action.
Sim City 2000 - 3.99 $1.13
City management on the small portable scale. Not as good without a mouse on the PC, but not too bad.
Sonic 3 Advance - 9.99 $2.25
I can't believe I'm playing Sonic on a Nintendo! At least the batteries hold out better.
Sonic 2 Advance - $12.99 $2.93
Another Sonic, this one is really good, close to the genesis levels.
Sonic Advance / Sonic PinBall Party - $9.99 $2.25
And yet anothe blue hedghog. Nice combo cart, got it for the pinball add on.
Super Mario Advance - $19.99 $4.50
All these year owning GBAs and I never got around to buying THE Mario carts!
Super Mario World: Mario Advance 2 $19.99 $4.50
More Mario, nice levels!
Yoshi's Island: Mario Advance 3 - 19.99 $4.50
The cartoon style really works well, only one more GBA mario to find!
Yoshi Topsy Turvy - $14.99 $3.37
Already have the Wario Twisted tilt sensor cart, had to get this one! The Yoshi twist games are not as good, but still unique due to the control. Somehow I can't picture this game in a Gamecube GBA Player
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Addendum
I'm still upset that other Store Manager back east bought the only GBA DK3 cart available nation wide at Gamestop. Stinks that he would buy it only after discovering it from the long distance phone call. To complete the collection for gorilla GBA series, I resorted to good old Amazon.
Donkey Kong Country 3 - Amazon $11.94 Shipped
The game manual is huge due to all the languages covered. The CIB game came all the way from Germany! Region not an issue for GBA games, luckily the cart I received has an English language option.
A lot of stuff inside a CIB Game
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