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@Puckanm2 жыл бұрын
I was born in 82 and Have a special Christmas Memory of My Dad Taking us into Babagges and Buying the NES its crazy how clearly I can remember it!
@rustyward36173 жыл бұрын
Excellent overview. I hired in at Babbage's in 1990 and left in 1999. Babbage's was a great place to work in the early years.
@luceatlux70872 жыл бұрын
You might have been one of the employees who hated me! I was the kid who kept returning a single video game for another, over and over, cuz I never had enough money to buy more than one game. I always had to tell my mother something dishonest or she wouldn't let me do this. I remember one time, I told her that the music of 'Chakan The Forever Man' was too scary (a tiny kernal of truth in the sentiment)... My mother went in with me and told the guy working there this reason I was returning the game... He looked SO INCREDIBLY pissed off at me... He marched over while I was looking at other games, picked up something like 'Baby's First Merry-Go-Round' and handed it to me, saying ultra-seriously, "This would be a good one for you."
@zerocooler72 жыл бұрын
I miss the old Babbage's and Electronics Boutique. I used to shop at both, and Gamestop is not really the same.
@mikenuelle53753 жыл бұрын
Jam-packed with information, the constant visuals are a feast for the eyes that keeps all the facts from seeming overwhelming. Very well edited and enjoyable.
@ldandco3 жыл бұрын
How is that this channel has only 529 subscribers ??? Should have thousands at least Really good content
@PostMortar3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much. Here's hoping.
@cmptar2 жыл бұрын
These videos are straight fire. So much information and extremely fun to watch.
@MyRetroLife2 жыл бұрын
Great job with this! Will have to check out more of your work. Keep it up!
@PostMortar2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! New video coming soon.
@kiansaghafi86813 жыл бұрын
I can’t wait to see this channel hit millions of subscribers soon all of your videos are so high quality I feel like I’m watching some super fancy video
@gentleuterus2 жыл бұрын
That footage of the entrance really brings me back. I remember watching clips of games like Day of the Tentacle on those TVs. I also bought Chrono Trigger there for $80.
@PostMortar2 жыл бұрын
Two of my favorites!
@gentleuterus2 жыл бұрын
@@PostMortar You have excellent taste, good sir. Great channel, btw. I've been binging on them. I hope the algorithm throws you a bone because you deserve way more subs.
@jeffreywhite89373 жыл бұрын
Great job! This brings back so many memories. I was fortunate to work at Babbage's starting in 1995... and when our store closed in 1996, I moved over to the Sofftware Etc. located in the same mall. The stores were awesome back in the day.
@AchillesKillies3 жыл бұрын
Amazing video as always. Your editing and the quality in general is great. Keep up the good work! Your so underrated. 💛
@Bates19602 жыл бұрын
This is my childhood hall of fame! Babbage's before becoming Gamestop. Forget Xbox's and PS5's. I used get my games here. The good old fashioned days. Back when SNES and Sega where the shock items. SNES games for $59.99 brand new out of the box. Those were the days.
@Emperorcalebtine2 жыл бұрын
Lord, I miss Babbage’s so much. The last game I bought there was the original Smash Bros. in April of 1999.
@PostMortar2 жыл бұрын
Nice game to it end on.
@wounded6253 жыл бұрын
Been subscribed for a while and the editing is getting better!! I'll definitely be telling friends to give you subs.
@thomdarling3 жыл бұрын
I love watching things like this! Thanks!
@PostMortar3 жыл бұрын
My pleasure! Thank you!
@MrCraigblaze2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the Upload 👍 !! Looks like Tim Russ from Star Trek Voyoger at halfway in ?? XD
@timhorn38292 жыл бұрын
I enjoy going to Babbages at North star Mall in San Antonio such an awesome store
@mikew15073 жыл бұрын
Just became your 1k subscriber. :) Great videos by the way!
@PostMortar3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! Hope you stick around for more!
@orbitalframe3483 жыл бұрын
10:36 damn that's a cozy place to play some games!
@NinjaxShadowXx2 жыл бұрын
21:33 I have to disagree there as Funcoland actually cared a lot more about the customer and was never as greedy as the competition they always offered way higher valuations for used games than the measly $0.10 cents Gamestop would offer for a used game and the had great return policies and trade in promos. Also I never met a rude Funcoland employee they were always super kind and always went above and beyond with the customer service something Gamestop and EB always lacked
@NightSprinter2 жыл бұрын
Never had Funco down in GA, but I definitely agree about how rude and needlessly-pushy GameStop employees can be. Trying to get me to give information to sneakily sign me up for something I didn't want, when I just wanted to get the Stranger Things D&D box set and those special Hori slide-in controllers for the Switch. Plus, the EB Games in my hometown's mall was pretty damned neat in high school. Was where I could get PS1 and Saturn imports (and the 4-in-1 cart to play the Saturn ones), and surprisingly had a tiny Linux section. That was where I got my first two retail Linux games from (Quake III Arena, and Heretic II).
@nobeac2 жыл бұрын
Hey what video was that one at the end where it looks like someone at gamestop is sanding down the console? Or you could arguably say he's just cleaning it really hard I guess?
@PostMortar2 жыл бұрын
He’s probably buffing out scratches. It was footage from their resale warehouse.
@cabestropaaАй бұрын
Recuerdo babages y eb games en puerto rico luego llego gamestop y habian hasta 3 en cada mall pero despues la isla cambio llegaron los taxes y todo caro y se fue gamestop de puerto rico y hasta yo me mude por que es dificil vivir en un lugar asi 😢😂
@dasmith322 жыл бұрын
Commodore 64 all day
@SomeOrangeCat2 жыл бұрын
Babbage's was my Graceland.
@JimLeonard3 жыл бұрын
Former Babbage's and Egghead Software employee here. You did a very good job on this overview; it jives with what I remember from the 1980s and 1990s. I have to ask, though: How on Earth did you track down that in-store footage?
@PostMortar3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! Cyrus Martin provided the great in-store footage! He has other good content, too. kzbin.info
@JimLeonard3 жыл бұрын
@@PostMortar Thanks so much to the both of you :-) Believe it or not, I have fond memories of working in both stores.
@jamesdouglass625126 күн бұрын
What exactly is "Post-Mortar"? In MY world, "mortar" is either a type of small explosive that is launched on a trajectory to destroy infantry, or a type of cement that held bricks together. "Post-Mortem" maybe? Oh wait (after first posting this comment), I see that is the name of the actual KZbin channel! But how is this a play on words? Unless the implication is that the dead businesses that are being described suffered such sudden and catastrophic deaths that call to mind a mortar round going off in the middle of a group of soldiers? The real implication is that the channel didn't think this through before taking that name! Or they can't spell! And don't care!
@PostMortar26 күн бұрын
“Post-Mortar” is a fun shorthand for “postmortem for brick and mortar.” I put it in the intro so people get it. ‘Brick and mortar’ refers to physical retail stores. No military relation. Thanks for watching!
@jamesdouglass625126 күн бұрын
@@PostMortar Ok then! Never considered it like that. Shut me up good!
@PostMortar26 күн бұрын
I actually like your idea of it being so catastrophic that its like mortar rounds. Smart analogy.
@jamesdouglass625125 күн бұрын
@@PostMortar I liked and subscribed to atone.😁
@BestInTheWorld3652 жыл бұрын
Bunch of old farts living in the past. Gamestop is the future.
@PostMortar2 жыл бұрын
Gamestonk
@multismashify2 жыл бұрын
"Gamestop is the future." A very old-fashioned statement in itself. Who, exactly, is living in the past here?