[HN Gopher] Too much of a good thing: Mourning the slow death of...
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       Too much of a good thing: Mourning the slow death of the retail
       game store
        
       Author : indigodaddy
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2021-09-04 09:52 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | smoldesu wrote:
       | Some fun supplementary reading is the multicart catalog [0]Tom
       | Fulp (yes that Tom Fulp) acquired and donated to the Video Game
       | History Foundation.
       | 
       | [0]
       | https://twitter.com/GameHistoryOrg/status/140809255481869516...
        
       | akira2501 wrote:
       | Perhaps the author never went to a game store that specialized in
       | customer service, or never thought to ask for any. While there
       | are some benefits to a purely digital market place, our current
       | offerings seem to leave this particular part of the business in
       | limbo.
       | 
       | I'm not exactly excited for the middle future we're going to have
       | to get through.
        
         | baby wrote:
         | What kind of customer service do you get from a game store?
         | Most of the time your gripes are with nintendo, sony, etc.
         | directly.
        
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