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My brother had a lot of medical issues throughout his short life. The children's floor at our local hospital had a large play area and there was a 4 sided n64 qiosk in there that I'd play anytime we had to spend time there. It was awesome!

My neck remembers the pain of those Walmart kiosks. I seem to remember the GameCube kiosks being like the ice cream machines at McDonalds, always broken.

My mom worked at KMart, and they had the Virtual Boy set up there, when they got rid of it they let her take it for us! That’s probably the coolest memory I have of a gaming kiosk type thing

My most memorable gaming kiosk memory is a GameCube one that was in my local gameshop. It had Pikmin on it, can’t remember which version though. But I remember playing on it for 30 minutes or more everytime I went there!

I worked in the electronics department at a Kmart back in the early 90s, and they had a Virtual Boy demo kiosk with Warioland in it that I used to play all the time. It was awesome.

That's Sooo Cool his items were happily sold to You. I love it when I see a collector who meets someone with the same passion who is willing to let some of his prize possessions go to somebody that would care for them as he did. Amazing 👏

When Josh said "it's just a GameCube in there." I thought he meant that it had the internals of a GameCube mounted inside of the kiosk, so it was kinda funny when the camera moves behind the kiosk and there's just an off-the-shelf GameCube inside. Edit: Josh sounds exactly like Hank Hill in the best way possible.

My local McDonald's still had one of these up until at least 2017. I was a freshman in high school then, and having grown up with a GameCube, it was awesome to see it there.

I remember the Gamecube ones from working at McDonald's. Having to go out and turn them on when I did early morning maintanence/cleaning, and taking a little bit longer to do so to make sure they all "worked" lol. I also remember a N64 one at Wal-Mart with Diddy Kong Racing, and playing that one so much. They are so much fun, congrats on that score Rick. This man's collection is incredible. Great video.

That McD's GC kiosk is rad, I can't wait to see the extra decals!

Sweet Jesus you walked into a gold mine. It’s crazy to think there are people out there with this kind of collection of collectibles and you will never know. This man has so much 🔥🔥🔥. I’m glad you were able to film this man’s collection and make some deals. Amazing video to capture this.

I could literally see the explosion coming out of your head looking at all of his stuff. Pure Treasure!! LOL

The kiosk i remember the most was back in 1996 at a blockbuster. It was summer and the n64 was right around the corner. I walked in to the store and at the time i had read every single piece of information about the nintendo 64. I was dying to see it or play it. I walked in to this blockbuster and there it was. Not the system itself, but just the controller. I was awestruck. it was like something out of a dream. I picked it up and held it and couldnt believe how much you could do with it. Before that system all i had was a super nes and a sega genesis. I got the nintendo 64 the day it was released. Thursday, September 26, 1996. I played through super mario 64 and beat it within 12 hours. No internet, no strategy guide, no help from anyone. One of the best gaming experiences of my life

My favorite Kiosk memory isn’t from the kiosk itself, but from an ADVERTISEMENT for them. My local McDonalds had the N64 machines (one had Mario Tennis, one had Mario Kart 64, and one had Tigger Honey Hunt) and I played them every time I went there. Spread across the windows of the play place was a big ass sticker of the N64 logo with the words “We have the N64”. My biggest regret in life is not asking the staff if I could have that sticker when they got rid of it along with the machines, they probably would have gave it to me.

I’ll never forget the day after school my mom took my brother and I to target when the GameCube kiosk was first on display. To see that orange alien looking controller. It felt so good to hold it in my hands.

I remember going to McDonalds with my family and playing with the N64 kiosks!!! Such good times!!

the most memorable.. early 90's, walked into Kmart to get a new nintendo. And there sat a super nintendo enclosed gaming experience I'll never forget. Star Fox was plastered all over it. I entered the enclosure and sat down, speakers were blasting, and I was blown away. Didn't play Star Fox again till the 64, but I'll never forget that night, that experience.

The kiosk I remember the most was a SEGA kiosk inside a SEARS. I remember Kid Chameleon, Vector Man, Sonic Spinball and Aladdin being playable, but it had a time limit on it and it would reset after a few minutes. I'm partial to Nintendo, but Aladdin on SEGA Genesis was the only game I was ever "jealous" of, in the SNES vs. Genesis playground "console war".

My friend has the N64 McDonalds Kiosk, It has four sides to it and you can play 4-player games like Mario Kart. He bought it from a Mcdonald's in Largo Florida before they did a remodel of the store in the late 90s. The owner was glad to get rid of it. Kids would fight over it and break the controllers. He paid 400.00 for it

I feel old, but at Kmart they had an Atari kiosk with the game "Kaboom" set up to play....... I would play it while my mom shopped

I saw a Dreamcast at toysrus and I couldn’t walk away the graphics were like nothing I ever seen sonic running down those San Francisco inspired streets 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

My most memorable gaming kiosk memory is the NES one that was at the local Montgomery Ward playing Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros, and RC Pro AM. My mom literally left me there while she shopped with my little sister...good times!

I remember a visit to Toys R' Us in the 90's. I encountered a demo kiosk for Yoshi's Island...unfortunately, the controller was broken. Yoshi could move left or right, but he couldn't jump.

I remember my Mom worked at Target and when I was little and be out with my Dad I would try to talk him into stopping there so we could "go see Mom". And then we would stop there and I would go straight for the virtual boy kiosk. We couldn't afford one and I thought it was so cool playing Mario tennis, probably because I could only ever play it for a couple of minutes at a time and the headaches didn't kick in. I'm still looking for a virtual boy to add to my collection to relive those great memories.

I played the Vectrex at a gaming convention years ago and loved it. The effect can only been seen on that type of monitor and the games were fun that I tried.

Mine was quite recent, PC World here in the UK had just gotten a handful of Xbox 360’s on launch day that weren’t pre ordered and a buddy of mine had hidden one for me but I had to buy it when he finished his shift. I was super excited and got to the store really early and they had kiosks there with Project Gotham 2 and Kameo to play and I just played them both for like two hours, I couldn’t believe I was gonna get one of these on launch day - great memory.

I have so many memories of the McDonaldland late 90’s Nintendo kiosks. So much so, that I have an official fiberglass wall decoration of a french fry friend from my local McDonald’s my sister used to work at. She got it for me for Christmas two years ago, after the final remodel of said McDonald’s. But that’s getting into a bit of a tangent of its own.

my fondest memory of playing games back in the day was definitely when I went to best buy to play the demos. fell in love with the ratchet and clank series but also play some burnout as well from time to time.

I remember being in the hospital about 30 years ago and they had a Nintendo M82 on a rolling cart that you could book time on for your room. Best thing ever for a 10 year old

Some of my best memories from primary school was after school going to McDonald's and then seeing my friend their and playing on this

One memory i have is visting a local McDonald's about 13 to 15 years ago when i was about 7 and going to eat and finding a n64 kiosks sitting in the corner. I didn't play it as some kids were already playing it but i enjoyed watching it.

So jealous. When I was a teenager in the late 90s we found the shell of one of those OG Gameboy kiosks that was essentially a 6 foot tall game boy with the TV and system missing. It sat around our basement for a few years, until my parents eventually returned it to the give and take section of the dump, as the thing was massive :-(

The first time I ever saw an N64 running at a blockbuster video in early 1996. Blew my 10 year old mind. I had to hold off from buying ultimate mk3 that year so I could get the n64 instead.

AMAZING Find! I used to play those with my brother when I was younger, I absolutely LOVE your channel, I'm jealous of all the neat stuff you find and adventures you go on, keep it up!

We had an old independent game trade store back in the early 90s used to go and play the sega mega drive that was set up road rash as the game of choice great memories.

The only memory I have of any kiosk like that at all was in Lego Land, when my family went on vacation, and one of my friends went along with me, and not only was there a Nintendo room in Lego Land, but in the caravan park right next to it (which is run by the same people and is also Lego themed) they had a WiiU kiosk in the grocery store, and we played Pokken Tournament on both the Theme Park and the Caravan Park and it was really fun! (I also got a WiiU for my birthday on that trip, so we played a bunch of Pokken and Mario Kart)

Every McDonald’s in The Netherlands had a Sega Mega Drive with Sonic in it. I had one at home, so I was the king of the kiosk every time we went to get a Happy Meal.

My first official job was as a bagger at a commissary (military base grocery store) at 14. Every time I went on break, I’d go to the PX (military base department store) and play either StarFox 64 or Pokemon Snap for most of my break time.

Like millions of other people, the Mario 64 playing on a kiosk at Toys 'R Us. It was absolutely mind blowing.

I got some stuff. Ps2,ps3,ps4 kiosk all 100% complete with unique systems inside with store marketing. I love it

My earliest memory of a game kiosk was in Walmart. My mom would go grocery shopping and there was this one kid who would hog the kiosk playing Banjo Kazooie for hours so I could only watch. That's how I managed to like Twitch as I got older but that's a story for a different time.

Ah, yes, I remember these. At my local McDonalds in Wauchula, Florida, they had one, but kids kept vandalizing it (one of the controllers was eventually ripped out) and fighting over it, so they had to remove it. It was replaced with a touchscreen game kiosk with timers so that children could take turns, but that was removed eventually as well. Nowadays, that space is completely empty.

My most memorable kiosk moment was Sam’s Club had a Sega Dreamcast under a flipped milk crate zip tied to the wire shelf with a demo disc with the first level of Sonic Adventure. I would play it over and over again.

Well I remember Walmart and stuff. But, I remember going into sears and drooling over the Atari 2600 jr, 7800 and Nes. I started collecting Atari games in mid 80's at yard sales with my mom. The old NES was out and people was dumping Atari systems.

The McDonald's near my house had 2 Sega kiosks, 1 was Sonic and the other Lion King!

Yup, Starfox 64 at a Walmart kiosk. My friend and I would stop in after school almost every day to play that bad boy

Back in '07-'08, my local sears had a gamecube qiosk that had metroid prime loaded on it. That was the first time I ever played a metroid game and got hooked on the series ever since.

do yall remember in the early 2000s the grocery stores with the play areas for kids ? they also had video game kiosks and were so awesome

Lucky! I loved these when I was younger and visited America

Most memorable gaming kiosk was when me and my dad drove to the city like 40 miles away to buy some PC components for my dad. I was like 4 at the time, so I didn't even know what a PC was back then (like 2001-2002). They had a gamecube kiosk set up, and I just stood there and played a Sonic game (had to be Adventures 2 as it fits the time frame) while he shopped for parts. I had never really played a video game before, so this was my first time. I remember getting stuck at a ramp in a level that looked like Green Hill Zone, and I couldn't progress further since I didn't know the button combinations, etc. After that first real gaming experience I had, all I talked about with my dad was about Sonic. I couldn't stop talking about how much fun I had (even though I was stuck at a ramp for like 20 minutes), so he took me to the bargain bin and we looked for a cheap PC game I could play on the computer he was building, and we got Gilbert Goodmate, a point and click game (an offbrand Monkey Island pretty much). I played that game for weeks and weeks until they got me Monkey Island 3, which I played for months lol

We didn't have game kiosks here in Norway, but I spent a lot of time in the local toy store playing on the Sega Mega Drive and such. Also, I would get really excited about the GI Joe stuff that Josh had got...

I love your videos. especially the beginning music intro. I always mum along with the beat.

When the SNES first came out I would be outside KB Toys at the mall playing a little bit of Super mario because it was the only way I could play the SNES. I had the NES at home but SNES was so much better at the time. IT was the future hehe

My most memorable game kiosk moment was playing the luigis mansion demo at McDonald’s. It was around 2002-2003 I believe, first experience with GameCube and solidified luigis mansion as one of my all time fav games!

Lol my McDonalds could barely manage the ball pit let alone a game system for play by the public 😂

Thanks for the vid! I remember the first kiosk i got to play. I was very young and they had a NES setup w Kung Fu at Service Merchandise. First games I got outside of Mario/DuckHunt on that glorious christmas were PaperBoy and The Legend of Zelda.

I didn't play on any kiosks, they weren't around yet. My local pizza joint had a Donkey Kong machine I got pretty good at though!

Free kiosk’s always better!!!😏Rad collection 👍✌️

Seeing that huge kiosk for the Atari at Towers. Playing Zelda at a mall before the game came out (I forget which store, possibly at Radio Shack).

PS3 kiosk with Motorstorm was always fun. It’d go up and show another kid the sixaxis control and their mind would be blown.

I remember a McDonald's around here somewhere had one of these. It was for Sonic 1. I played the hell out of it when I was there, it was awesome lol man, that was ages ago though..

Man you hurt that guy trying to low key skimp him on the offers, I know he was downsizing his collection but pay the man the respected collector price as a collector yourself

Playing the original *PLAYSTATION* kiosk at Toys'R'Us was Life changing for me. The *PS1* blew *EVERYBODY'S* mind when it first came out 💯

Man. No one going to comment on the MIB GI Joe 1988 Phantom X-19 just chilling in front of the Players Choice 10 cabinet!?! LOVED creating adventures for my Joes to go on back in the 80s as a kid... GO JOE!!!

I would always go play guitar hero at Walmart when my mom was shopping, I wish they still had kiosks in Walmart

would spend WAY longer than needed at MCDonalds back in the day when they had these !!!!

Nice connection Rick this guy has some heat for sure. Long box of Darkstalkers is so dope! 🧛‍♀️

I remember going to a McDonald’s in Scottsdale, Arizona when my grandmother would come down from northern Arizona to visit, when I was a kid, I remember the GameCube and PS2 kiosk very well and would play it constantly when I would go, then I remember one day I went and they took it out, that was one of the most saddest days I’ve experienced.

I've tried for the longest time to get my hands on Vectrex, nice come up !!!

I remember there was one McDonalds we occasionally went to with N64 Kiosks playing Banjo Kazooie! I was still too young to understand video games, so I just watched the intro on repeat. Luckily it was a popular game so it was easy to find out what it was when I got older. Same thing happened with Spyro at a daycare I went to, but I did play that one. Had no idea what I was doing though.

I remember being about 5 or 6 and going to my local McDonald’s at the time and playing Super Mario 64 on one of the N64 kiosks

What a score, gonna be sick when you got the mcdonalds stickers or vinyl or whatever you end up doing back on it lol. There was an n64 kiosk type thing with 3 or 4 different consoles on each side in a hospital where my mom worked as a kid and sometimes we would have to wait there for her to get off work or while waiting for an appointment or whatever and would get to play donkey kong or mario 64 on that until the time. Nostalgia af. That man has a nice collection too

RICK IS REALLY HAPPY WITH THIS ONE! you can tell

Me and my friend used to drive 15 miles from where we lived to go to a store called Apex in the Swansea mall in Swansea Massachusetts which no longer exists, we would play NHL 95 on the SEGA Genesis kiosk for like 2 hours sometimes until the manager would finally tell us we were being too loud we had to leave for the day. Awesome memories👍👍

I remember the n64 McDonald’s ones! My grandpa was a truck driver and as a kid I got to leave my little town a lot and see cool places and waaayyyy bigger McDonald’s that had big ball pins in door and these gaming kiosks!

No way! Vectrex is my holy grail. Had one as a kid and need it again.

For me, there was a GameCube kiosk at my dentist and they had it for a while, it was fun to ask another kid in the waiting room to play double dash with them (that was the most common game they put in there), but then now they replaced it with an iPad and mobile games, wow.

Dude you’re the man I have grown so much as a collector and reseller because of this channel 🙏

Wow! What a collection, would love to see more. I think you got a good deal Rick, enjoy!

My best memory was when the N64 just came out before Xmas and the Hollywood video had Starfox 64 to try out on a kiosk. I played it with my dad and we both had a blast with the game. A couple weeks later my dad got me a n64 for xmas and a couple games including starfox!!! I grew up very poor so looking back I know my dad had to bust his ass to get me that for xmas.

Here in San Jose California we had “Sears” and in the boyish clothing area they had a N64 with Mario cart… and that’s where my mama bought me my first console. Pretty random but I know my parents miss that Sears. Pops says they don’t sell pants like they used to in those days

Here’s to more kiosk vids on KZfaq! That’s a real nice green one Rick. One of my earlier vivid memories is playing a McDonald’s N64 kiosk on my 3rd birthday back in ‘97 :)

Oooh man I remember those McDonald’s kiosk’s!! The ones i saw back then were n64 ones with sissy king racing and wave race

I had a Toys R Us Gamecube Kiosk once from when our Toys R Us closed and they just chucked everything in 3 dumpsters behind the store. It didn't have TV, which was a CRT so no big loss, but still it was a hell of a lot of weight to carry home on my shoulder. Wish I had thought about it's collectability, but all I cared about was getting that system and controllers out of it. Still have them, but I didn't keep the kiosk.

Darkstalkers was my favorite Capcom fighter, such memorable characters and moves, even the music was banging.

My local arcade/used game store has one of these installed in the center of their store for SSBM. Costs nothing to play, and there's always a line and a crowd of people watching even when it isn't busy

we had such cool stuff as kids back in the day

I cannot tell you how much I played Sonic Heroes, Mario Kart Double Dash, and some sort of Shrek Racing game at McDonalds. Bright yellow kiosk next to the playground, always a great time

I remember back when I was in the hospital 20 years ago there was a McDonalds on the 1st floor. Mind you this was a children's hospital and they had an N64 kiosk. I also remember back in 2007ish I was with my parents when my mom went out to buy a new Mazda 5. At the Mazda dealership they had a random Gamecube Kiosk in the middle of the show room floor with a Mario Party game in it.

at my dentist office there is an old kidzplace gamecube kiosk and i love it.

My fondest memory would be playing Pokémon Snap N64 at my local McDonald's. Also I remember playing Crash Nitro Cart on the Ps2 or the GameCube.

My most vivid gaming kiosk memory would have to be when I was 6 years old at a Target. They had Ape Escape on the Ps1 kiosk but someone had stolen the rubber tips of the joysticks so all that remained where the metal prongs sticking up. Didn't stop me from playing though. Unfortunately the game was on the part where you first get the Water Net. For those of you who haven't played Ape Escape, to descend in the water with the water net you need to press the L3 button. It was painful.

So I was born in 98 but I always have had a good memory of my younger years. Dude. I forgot these existed and was like "what is he talking about?" Until you showed the pic of one actually in a McDonald's. Yup. I remember these for sure. I don't think I ever got to play one but I totally remember them being there.

I was going to say Wal-Mart as well. My mom worked there. My dad and I would pick her up. The N64 kiosk was right next to the soap aisle. Even till this day, every time I walk down a soap aisle, I think of playing Mario 64.

There was McDonald's that had a 64 kiosk, I remember every so often to play mario party 2!

I had heard on Reddit about McDonald's restaurants in the US having Nintendo 64 and GameCube kiosks in the play area, with some of them still having the kiosks but with CRT burn-in and/or GameCube start-up errors as they were never maintained. (1:12) A club I visited for an event a member was having had an Xbox 360 demo kiosk in their arcade, but there seemingly was no game disc inserted, and no Internet connection. It had the original 'blades' dashboard. Also, McDonald's restaurants in Singapore never had Play Place, but the old McDonald's at Changi Airport Terminal 1 (before they moved to a different location within the airport complex) had, up until they moved in the late 2000s, Internet kiosks at a big structure in front of the ordering area (this was before they had ordering kiosks). I was wondering why the Windows mouse cursor was shadowed but it had the old Windows 98 icons, and when one crashed, it turned out they ran Windows 2000 Professional, which was never sold on the consumer market, and we went straight from Windows 98 SE to Windows XP at home. When it started up, the login prompt was set to log in to a 'mcdonalds' user account. The desktop loaded, but with no desktop background, desktop icons hidden, and Windows taskbar appearing for a few seconds until SiteKiosk started up and took over, brainwashing the taskbar so there was no way to minimise windows and get to the Start menu once it launched. When they moved once, they had Windows Vista Business on their then-new Internet kiosks, but couldn't be bothered to buy a copy of a newer version of SiteKiosk, and instead used Windows SpeedState, until they removed the kiosks entirely a few years later.

They had a dreamcast kiosk set up in our local cinema with ready to rumble boxing in it. Love that game to this day!

I like the wave race music in the background

My most memorable kiosk memory would be a GameCube one at my local GameStop in the early 2000s. I remember it had Metroid Prime running on it and I was blown away by it.