Toys Were Us Part 5
Back in the day, you strolled down the video game aisle at Toys ‘R’ Us and perused the hanging, plastic cards for each game. All you really had to go on was the replicated box art and description, unless it was a game you had played or read about in Nintendo Power. You pulled out a paper ticket, paid, and retrieved your purchase from the video game cage worker. Looking back, it was kind of like solitaire Hell in the Cell.
— This is not an official LEGO comic. This is a tribute.
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I had forgotten about this, buying video games via ticket from the cage at Toys R Us. It really puzzled me as a kid, because it was pretty much the same as how you bought everything at Service Merchandise, which was never a fun experience.
What an awful name, “Service Merchandise”, and what an awful video game retailer they were, mostly because their selection was pathetic. Maybe 10 games per console, their boxes displayed on plexiglass racks. They somehow managed to need an entire aisle for the amount of merchandise that wouldn’t fill one corner of the Babbages in the mall.
Back to Toys R Us, I had a wonderful time buying video games there, especially during the last days of the Sega Saturn when I picked up a bunch of cool games and accessories on the cheap.
I feel like I have a vague, vague memory of hearing of Service Merchandise. lol