New Zealand has EB games

+Rerez I always assumed EB Games became Game Stop, with the red and white logos being the same, and just how EB disappeared and Game Stop showed up. I used to love Babbage’s, & I also had no idea they became EB. I guess I never cared enough since I could buy games anywhere.

Von Solo the Oldest Millennial maybe just a New Zealand thing, back in the day we used to have gamesman

Yeah I remember growing up with EB games in both New York and Cali

We could've kept Kiddy and younger Tiny!

TheCartoonGamer8000 We kind of did with barrel blast on the Wii.

But that isn't the same.

Thinking of mr.pants’ name reminded me of EAT PANT Remember when that was a meme ?

@@malikrulez15 and diddy kong racing

Have you been waiting for 20 years?

@@OnlyEpicEmber yes

ninjasec did you get a refund?

@@matthewferraro8020 of course not. Hes still waiting to get it.

Kevin Lippes I was going to mention this as well. I live in the metro-Detroit MI area and rememeber Twelve Oaks mall a few miles from my house having both an EB Games and a Gamestop. I bought a PS2 from EB Games in the JC Penny wing because they had better trade in value toward new consoles, but bought most of the games from the Gamestop that was in the central atrium of the mall because at the time, they had better used games pricing. Both existed even for a couple years after the buyout occurred, then EB Games turned into an Auntie Anne's I think.

I remember Electronics Boutique fondly in the glory days of malls.

@@LikaLaruku I had an Electronics Boutique in a mall in Pennsylvania in the late 90's early 00's. It switched to a Game Stop later on.

I remember EB Games. But do you remember Funcoland?

Indeed, this resulted in some rather humourous situations. As an example, when they rebranded all EB Games stores in the US as GameStops, this resulted in Lloyd Center Mall in Portland, Oregon having *two* GameStops, one on the first floor and one on the second, less than 20 metres away. This was all a result of GameStop having set the one on the first floor up in direct competition to the older EB Games on the second floor. When they bought EB Games, part of the purchase agreement was that they couldn't close any EB stores for five years, nor rebrand them for three. Exactly at the three year mark, they rebranded all of them, resulting in the oddity in Portland. The moment the fifth year exhausted, they stopped paying rent on two storefronts in the same mall.

Still think it should have been the Meowth version of Gitaroo Man.

actually it appears in pokemon channel

It's not really a game. It was a Gamecube demo. Then those demo assets were repurposed for Pokemon Channel.

I honestly find it hard to believe that tech demo was ever planned to be a full game. Every model except Meowths is ripped straight from Pokemon Stadium.

I've got a copy!

I only remember that game because I saw an ad for it in Nick magazine (RIP)

Yup...and they still are feeling the effects of that buyout. They are now pretty much a non-existing company.

No it wasn’t.

Microsoft is bad for everyone XD

+Quube Are you talking about Banjo - Cars of Dissapointment? TBH I have to agree woth Cool Spot here, the quality of games from rare has dropped immensely after the Microsoft aquisition. With two exceptions on different sides of the spectrum: Star Fox - Dinosaur Planet was a pretty boring and directionless Zelda clone and happened (obviously) before the aquisition and Viva Pinata was pretty good and happened after the aquisition. But on average rare lost a lot of thunder.

+Quube I have to conceit that I have not played Grabbed by the Ghoulies and actually forgot it even existed. But I did make a point about going into Nuts and Bolts with an open mind and giving it every chance I could, but I just couldn't enjoy it. Sea of Thieves is another game I haven't played myself, but literally everyone I know and every video game outlet I follow (which is, like 5 podcasts) were disappointed by it. But, for fairness sake I won't argue against it as I haven't played it. I wasn't a fan of Perfect Dark for N64 or X360, so that's a tie in my eyes. It seems like a cheap shot even mentioning that, but rare were kinda forced into developing for Kinect, which I felt hindered them from developing something worthwhile. Yet again, that is subjective, I know... But in the end all I can give is my opinion, so I think that is a fair point.

Can confirm. My local mall use to have both a Game Stop and EB.

Eb used to be more about computer games, but then when they merged with Gamestop they became Gamestops in all but name, until eventually they even changed the name.

Can also confirm. My mall had an electronics boutique next to the arcade so i always went in there. Than they moved down the street to become ebgames and they are now gamestop. Insert evil empire music here. Now all game stores are gamestop muahhahahahha sigh i need to proof read more. Stupid spelling errors.

Same here. One mall in my town had a Babbages, the other an Electronics Boutique, which changed to EB Games, and a FuncoLand. The Babbages disappeared, the FuncoLand disappeared, the EB changed to a GameStop, and then like 10 other GameStop locations popped up.

Same, our mall had an Electronics Boutique (which eventually changed their name to EB Games) and a GameStop. Then the merger happened and we we had two Gamestops for a while before they closed one of them. I'll never forget being a kid in a different mall and making the connection that Electronics Boutique and EB Games were the same store lmao

If He didnt copyright it you still could

Why not Games Flop?

Why Games Shop?

ReplayStation your user name sounds nice for a Game Store and you don't have to limited yourself with just PS games since I've seen some game stores in my life with Nintendo related names and they handled most about anything you can think of.

Yeah, I can remember when they announced that Retro was making Metroid Prime and how everyone was saying that the game was going to tank and it was a stupid decision by Nintendo. Then it came out that it was going to be a FPS and people were so disappointed. Well, we all know how that turned out heh.

Plus unreleased Zelda games could have been it's own episode.

Rare killed themselves. Most of the original staff from the golden era left after Perfect Dark. There was nothing stopping them from making good games on the Xbox platform, an essentially more open platform than Nintendos but they didn't. Nintendo wouldn't sign Rare because they were annoying to work with and often times went overbudget.

Yeah that would have looked great. I believe they even showed off some demo consoles with the window still on the lid back in the day.

GameStop bought them out and changed the name eventually in the US, but kept the name in Canada

Funnily enough, the same thing happened in the UK; we had EB games/electronics boutique but then GAME bought them out in the UK, with GAME being our version of GameStop but it's not actually owned by them, they're their own company.

@@OnlyEpicEmber that doesnt necessarily mean that eb games originally created in Canada eb games was a direct competitor to game to stop in the 90s and early 2000s. Eventually yes they were bought out and merged with gamestop but to say ebgames originated from Canada without and physical proof is just non sense

EB Games was founded in Pennsylvania. He's an idiot.

Did they say they were founded in Canada? I don't think he did. I'm pretty sure he called them canadian which isn't really false as the only place I know of where they still have the name EB games in Canada

Let's hope that Nintendo and Microsoft/rare work together

Since Microsoft and Nintendo have been all friendly lately it would be interesting if they worked on a project together

With Xbox live being somehow on the Switch with Minecraft and Microsoft being on record allowing their IPs (esp. Banjo) to appear in Smash Brothers if Nintendo wants them to I actually see a chance. Also Microsoft already releases all their stuff for Windows anyway so pure Xbox exclusives are a thing of the past it seems.

Martell Tha Cool hell no

I mean, Nintendo did fine post-Rare. Sure, DKC was dormant for a while, but that's really the most they suffered. Judging by Rare's later projects at the time like Star Fox Adventures and Grabbed by the Ghoulies, it's clear they were kind of going down hill even before the buyout. A lot of old staff had already left by that point.

They're still called EB games here in Australia too