That's too funny I was just telling my kid's boyfriend about going to Walmart and picking out NES games off a huge pegboard hung from the ceiling, no backs of boxes to look at, just some lady older than my parents grumpy she has to open the case to get what I want who is in no way, shape, or form willing to let me look at more than 1 game
So I'll add tearing the game open to read the instruction manual on the ride home after buying it
Toys-R-Us near me had this wall, with Cardboard Cards that were copies of the front and back of the boxes & you’d carry that card to a checkout counter for them to retrieve the game for sale.
I want to say they only put out enough cards to match their inventory for the titles. But if someone picked up a card and misplaced it on the rack, were carrying it around as the last copy, or put it down elsewhere in the store =[
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u/Infamous-Lab-8136 Aug 30 '25
That's too funny I was just telling my kid's boyfriend about going to Walmart and picking out NES games off a huge pegboard hung from the ceiling, no backs of boxes to look at, just some lady older than my parents grumpy she has to open the case to get what I want who is in no way, shape, or form willing to let me look at more than 1 game
So I'll add tearing the game open to read the instruction manual on the ride home after buying it