GAME To Cease Secondhand

So GAME is going to stop trading in secondhand games. I was questioning whether I should explain who GAME is, but if you’ve clicked on this story you probably already know the retailer.

If you’ve been to a branch of GAME recently you probably won’t think this is much of a lose, and I’m inclined to agree, but only in the sense that GAME has never been what I would consider a great videogame retailer. However, this decision by GAME does mean that another way for people to buy games in the real world will be gone. And although it was nothing like the 90s or early 2000s when it seemed like there was an independent games shop on every high street, the decline of public purchases and the retreat of everything to the internet doesn’t do videogames any favours — I think anyone whose old enough to have visited the a games shop with a TV or two displaying Sega and Nintendo games can agree.

GAME will now sell their remaining used stock.

Playing videogames, writing about videogames, considering videogames—that about sums it up. Videogames are the one hobby that I’ve kept since I was only little, zapping ducks on the NES or knocking out MR. X. And when I’m not enjoying classics from the bit generation of games or checking out those earliest of polygons, I’m probably playing something from today’s age of modern gaming: if I’m not complaining about it. Something I’m doing at the moment? Collecting Legendary Pokemon that I missed in Arceus and Sword the first time around.