game in serious trouble?

[King85]

I remember when I first got a PC a 486 SX33 bought from Tandy (remember them?) I was looking in Game for something to play with it and it was a toss up between Doom 2 and Cyclones...Doom 2 won the day!

The assistant even made me a boot disk there and then, I watched him type it out by hand on the computer they had in the middle of the shop for demos etc...Game was amazing back in the day.

I used to be able to make boot disks for games on my old pc when I was but a wee nipper, good times.

 

[aproctor]

I know there is nothing wrong with the product they sold. I am talking about selling it on the high street with dedicated stores.

Your examples of others are terrible.

HMV - not doing so well themselves are they? Also not a dedicated game store
Gamestation - Owned by GAME so also going bust.
Supermarkets - Not dedicated game stores and often have a limited selection anyway.

The original statement was that selling physical media was a bad business model. It isn't because it makes money.

You have taken it on a tangent (fair enough) saying selling only games is a bad business model. Which it isn't.

The reason there are limited competitors is because Game destroyed them by undercutting and overwhelming them over the past few years and other viable competitors just went online.

What small start up would/could compete against 2,3 or 4 stores and the buying power associated with it.

 

[aproctor]

HMV and supermarkets only have a small selection of games in my experience. Though Game and Gamestations's selections also left a lot to be desired for what are supposed to be dedicated stores. Whole blocks of shelves filled with the same top selling game highlights their bad stock selection.

It depends on the size of the store.

All the mid size HMVs and large supermarkets have racks of games, easily the size of most GAME stores.

On a side note, i really miss computer fairs.

Ultimate Doom £25. Boom.

 

[TheBigCheese]

I used to be able to make boot disks for games on my old pc when I was but a wee nipper, good times.

So did I, getting enough EMS to make Desert Strike work was an utter swine!

Watching it being done for the first time for my first PC was something akin to magic at the time, hence still being able to remember it!

 

[Energize]

It depends on the size of the store.

All the mid size HMVs and large supermarkets have racks of games, easily the size of most GAME stores.

On a side note, i really miss computer fairs.

Ultimate Doom £25. Boom.

The HMV I visit sometimes in Lancaster city centre is at least 8x the size of the local game and gamestation shops yet only has a small corner with games.

 

[Deep]

One of their shops was about a 20 min drive away from where I lived as a kid. Loved going there, the shop was great, aah the good old days

Upminster?

 

[King85]

So did I, getting enough EMS to make Desert Strike work was an utter swine!

Watching it being done for the first time for my first PC was something akin to magic at the time, hence still being able to remember it!

I think my first attempt was to get sam and max or day of the tentacle to run but I can't say for certain as it was a while back now.

 

[TheBigCheese]

I think my first attempt was to get sam and max or day of the tentacle to run but I can't say for certain as it was a while back now.

That brings back memories, you're right, Lucasarts games were awful to get to work...Tie Fighter caused me no end of problems...so so worth it when it worked though, still one of the best games ever made.

 

[Ysmalari]

That brings back memories, you're right, Lucasarts games were awful to get to work...Tie Fighter caused me no end of problems...so so worth it when it worked though, still one of the best games ever made.

I very much felt your pain, the filenames autoexec.bat and config.sys will forever haunt my nightmares!

But you are indeed correct, Tie Fighter was worth the effort

 

[TheBigCheese]

I still remember the feeling when I was accepted into the Secret Order for the first time, of course this was long before the Internet so it was a complete surprise when it happened.