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15 Comments on tuesday, august 02, 2005 : special feature

  1. benl

    awesome episode. really great music to go along with it too. good job guys.

    that tattoo guy was hardcore gamer. wow.

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  2. annie

    I love how much passion these guys have for their hobby.

    That store looks neat! I always thought of “retro” video games as… Pong. Thanks for showing me more, Rocketboooooooom!

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  3. Ed S.

    One of my favorite RB’s so far. I like when you guys go out in the field, and I love all games. I pretty much based my Atari 2600 cartridge collection on a windfall from a videogame store that was purging all their “classic” console stuff to make way for the new (then PlayStation). I picked up two garbage bags full of carts for $10.

    It’d be interesting to see you contrast that story with a tour of the new Nintendo (once Pokemon) store in Manhattan.

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  4. steve garfield

    Great report. I’m so happy that you asked to see that guy’s tattoos.

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  5. Rahul

    I love video games. I have been playing them since I was a little over two, back in 1989. Of all the games ever made, my favorite series is The Legend of Zelda. That was a nice little feature for today, so thanks! And that guy with the tattoos rocks!!!

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  6. Ming

    Wow, that guy really loved games. I’d pay to see him beat Zelda I in record time.

    I’ll pass by this place for sure next visit to NYC.

    Amanda, did they have any ti-99 games for you? Btw, Munch Man is the greatest ti-99 game ever. pretty much the only highlight of 4th grade.

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  7. Pk

    This is just a commercial promotion! Very little redeeming social value.

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  8. B Cort

    btw “ka ta ma ri-da ma shi i” is there.
    http://katamaridamacy.jp/

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  9. Neo

    Is the shop owner italian?His accent seems italian to me…and I’m italian too..

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  10. Mike W.

    Promotion aside, I was glad to see such a retro game mecca profiled in any way. That tatoo display at the end was neat, too. Amanda, you really know how to bring out the best in people.

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  11. kc

    PK, Mike:

    This isn’t commercial promotion. Come on, Mike: think about it. If this is your definition of commercial promotion, then what do you make of your own blog post about Boothby Graffoe?

    Come on, PK: watch the piece again. Look past the surface and see what’s really going on there. The cultural significance is that it’s an old school, local merchant staying alive in world of big box WalMart global supply chains. The significance is that he seems less interested in profit than in helping sustain a local gamer community. (He has no frikkin website for chrissakes!) The cultural significance is in the joy of that one gamer’s face when he recounts the first time he found the store. If you don’t see the significance in subtle details like that, I have a president on my side of the pond that you might enjoy. Would you like me to send him your way? ;)

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  12. Ed S.

    The entry is about a commercial place, but so what? If all you see in this post is a “commercial”, then you’re not looking hard enough. And what’s wrong with promoting places you love, be they a business, park or state of mind?

    More like this, you guys. I loved it.

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  13. duey

    i apluad teh vblog as it is…these retro stores are getting harder and harder to come by….video games of the past and thoes of the present are very much diffrent and i salute any site willing to blog the subcalture….gamers never die they just go retro :)

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  14. Pk

    Ed S wrote: “And what’s wrong with promoting places you love, be they a business, park or state of mind?”

    OK, my mistake, I guess it’s just about stuff the reporter enjoys then? Seems like a wrong direction to me.

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  15. G

    PK, if it happened every day, you’d be absolutely right, but I’m not sure that’s the case here.

    If all blogs, vlogs, and traditional media talked about were the things a person already knew or liked… that would get boring in a hurry. It’s a nice change of pace to be turned onto something new.

    And if you looking for complete objectivity, neutrality, and the absence of personal influences from a vlog, well, you’ll probably be disappointed. Often. By many sites.

    I thought it was a nice glance into a piece of the world I’d never seen before now. And darned if it didn’t hold my interest the entire time.

    ‘Course, that’s my muddled, unrequested opinion.

    4 years ago  ∞
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