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| - One night I was trolling craigslist for old video games and I found this post that had a big list of all the systems they had for sale... just come down to their store in Tempe. Well, turns out, the place is only a mile away from me so the next day I drove on down to Southern and McKlintock in Tempe and found a store called Fallout Games... right behind Long John Silvers as their ad promised.
I walked into the store and after about a minute I realized I had found something really special. This place has a huge selection of games for all sorts of systems and lots of cool touches around the store, like vintage N64 and Dreamcast store displays. They also have this homemade kiosk with three 20 inch LCD monitors hooked up to Genesis and NES systems. Very cool to know there is a store a mile away that has Bubble Bobble cued up at all times.
I'm guessing the main guy behind the store does 9am - 5pm type hours because when I go after I get off work it's always his very helpful wife running the place. I first visited Fallout Games a week ago and after my third visit tonight(yep, I like it that much) there still hasn't been any change in the stock they have on the floor. I noticed there are lots of games and systems on the floor behind the counters so hopefully I will see new items soon. I was told they have over 500 games for the Atari 2600 but there is only about 15-20 on the shelves for sale at the moment.
I have seen reviews on other sites complain about the pricing system here. 90% of what is on the floor has a price... but if you ask for something on the shelves behind the counters you will have to wait for the store employee to look it up on ebay and give you a price. This is annoying, but overall, their prices are pretty fair. You probably won't get a great deal on anything here because of this system but you will usually always get a fair deal.
Anyway, it's an awesome store that I hope is around for a long time. Apparently, they have another location and it's right by my work so I'll be checking that one out very soon, as well.
Fallout Games also sells used games for the current generation of video game systems, which is usually what other customers are looking at when I am browsing.
So, in conclusion... I love you Fallout Games. Make some T-shirts and I'll give you guys some free advertising.
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