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Post by marktheshark on May 10, 2018 6:11:58 GMT
Not sure if this thread belongs here or in the General Gaming Section, but oh well.
Unlike a lot of people, I don't remember seeing Toys R' Us use the paper slip system for the video games they had in stock where you apparently take a slip of paper with a game's price and name on it and bring it to a register where an employee brings the game to you from another room. The earliest I can remember visiting Toys R' Us was around 2000 or so, and even back then I don't recall seeing paper slips being utilized. When I started going more often several years later (can't remember if it was the same location or another one), the paper slips obviously weren't being used at that point although I don't know if the chain retired the slip system entirely or if it was just some of the locations here and there.
For those of you that remember paper slips being used, when did Toys R' Us phase the paper slip system out? Did stores phase it out around the same time or was it done more gradually?
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Post by Lost Monkey on May 10, 2018 11:30:01 GMT
Not sure if this thread belongs here or in the General Gaming Section, but oh well. Unlike a lot of people, I don't remember seeing Toys R' Us use the paper slip system for the video games they had in stock where you apparently take a slip of paper with a game's price and name on it and bring it to a register where an employee brings the game to you from another room. The earliest I can remember visiting Toys R' Us was around 2000 or so, and even back then I don't recall seeing paper slips being utilized. When I started going more often several years later (can't remember if it was the same location or another one), the paper slips obviously weren't being used at that point although I don't know if the chain retired the slip system entirely or if it was just some of the locations here and there. For those of you that remember paper slips being used, when did Toys R' Us phase the paper slip system out? Did stores phase it out around the same time or was it done more gradually? Probably around 98 - I remember the last Saturn titles being out on the shelf and I don't remember the Dreamcast games ever being around during the slip system era. Nothing beat waiting 10 minutes for them to come back out of the lockup and tell you they couldn't find the copy of Mega Man X you wanted to buy... Even as early as 1993, I remember they only had "current" system's games on the slip system. At that time all the Genesis, SNES, NES games used slips, but Atari, Coleco and INTV were all out on the lower parts of the racks and were generally in pretty beat up condition.
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Post by mitsuman on May 10, 2018 12:20:34 GMT
At my local toys r us, you had to take the slip over to a locked area. It was almost like a bookie window. Lexan window with a slot to pass stuff through. There would be an employee back there who would take the slip from you, then retrieve the game from the racks and racks of games right there. It was pretty awesome.
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Post by Galahad on May 10, 2018 13:10:01 GMT
At my local toys r us, you had to take the slip over to a locked area. It was almost like a bookie window. Lexan window with a slot to pass stuff through. There would be an employee back there who would take the slip from you, then retrieve the game from the racks and racks of games right there. It was pretty awesome. That's exactly how Toys r us did it here in Canada.
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Post by spenoza on May 10, 2018 13:50:18 GMT
YEah, I remember these slips, mostly in the context of TurboGrafx games, because that's when I was the perfect age.
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Post by sunteam_paul on May 11, 2018 19:28:32 GMT
Wow, that brings back memories. I'd totally forgotten about those.
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