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So no one goes to Toy R "Us" to buy toys.

 

I remembered I bought Gameboy Ms. Pac-Man, Super Marioland 2, and James Bond from this store.

I didn't have a Toy's R Us in my town, nor where I went to college...

 

But I went there once (70 miles away or so) in 1992 and bought the game The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout for NES.

 

A fond memory actually

As far as returning games...

 

I did that Just a Couple of Times at EB (Or was it called Babbage's then? Either way...Pre Gamestop). They used to Always tout their policy that if a game sucked you could always return it for store credit. I'd say I kept 90% of what I bought because I had a pretty good sense of what looked like fun to me and I was usually right.

 

But I guess there were others that really began to abuse the policy. There were kids who treated it almost like a rental place. They'd buy a game, take it home, beat it, if possible, then just take it back like they hated it and get something else, often doing the same thing. I hated kids like that because they ruined it for the rest of us. Then when I really got a game that sucked, I was stuck with it, Because they changed their policy. I think it would have been a good policy if they kept it under the table. Just say nothing, but for the rare instance where people complain, you give them store credit. But by flouting the policy in people's faces, they practically encouraged this behavior...

 

Also our EB was in an imaginary battle with the toy store next door (Kaybees). They didn't need this policy as Kaybee's already had higher prices, generally smaller selection, and they screwed up preorders...