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Re: Is it getting harder to find new PC releases in your local stores?

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From: Lynne
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 02:51
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I agree with prior posters' comments about Best Buy and EB games. According 
to a salesman at a Scottsdale EB, most of their stores in the area don't 
carry "new" games for the PC. The few that they do have are the FPSs and 
RPGs and they are relegated to a small area on a back wall. I check Best Buy 
online for newer games by store location, then buzz over to that store 
before they're gone. They don't get many of them in. I snagged "Scratches" - 
one of 3 copies they had for sale. Both of our local Bookmans, once a place 
I could count on to carry a decent selection of used adventure games, are 
devoting more and more space to console games. Target has a smattering and, 
if you keep your eye out, they tend to mark them down comparatively fast. I 
just got Myst V today for $13.98. Fry's has a few adventure games, but I've 
not seen newer ones on a consistent basis. Finding adventure games for the 
PC is becoming as challenging as playing them :). Lynne, in Phoenix, AZ.

"Kyle Rodgers" <sd...@aol.com> wrote in message 
news:zeb1g.2979$Lm5.2806@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com...
>I live in Torrance CA (not exactly a small town) and every time a new PC 
>release comes out that I want (Tomb Raider in this case) it takes like a 
>week before the Best Buys and EBs have it. My local EB has delegated the PC 
>games to an old shelf in the back of the store. This game came out on the 
>13th and I still can't find it anywhere in my town.
> 
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