You can only bring back one. Which do you choose?
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Demos have been dying out faster than physical media for years too
That does not match my own experience.
Back in my day, I received a couple of demo disks packed in with my PS1, and I got a couple more through other means like magazines and the famous Pizza Hut promotion. Some games would include demos for other games too: Spyro and Crash Bandicoot used to do that a lot. Now that I think if it I don't remember ever seeing any cartridge-based demos at all for any Nintendo or Sega systems, even the later ones like GBA and N64. There were kiosks in public places, but I never saw anything intended for a consumer to have- carts were just too expensive.
By the PS2 era demos had mostly dried up. I have a God of War demo that came with a magazine and that's about it. I could only speculate as to why, but I suspect increasing game sizes and DVD's being more expensive than CD's may have been a factor?
I'll admit I stopped paying attention to demo's for a while, so maybe I missed a peak at some point from like 2010-2020. But nowadays Steam, the Switch, and the PS5 all have a category or filter option to look through demos. There's tons of indie games trying to get attention, and of course tons of shovelware too. But most of Nintendo's published games have demos on Switch. Scrolling through the PlayStation store I see EA sports games, Persona 3, Power wash Simulator, Ys, Diablo 4, FF VII Rebirth, Tekken 8, Crow Country., Chants of Senaar, Sea of Stars, Ghost Trick (I didn't even know that was on the PS5 lol), Like a Dragon, Resident Evil 4... So Square, Capcom, Sega, EA, Activision-Blizzard, tons of indies, and more. Sony is the only publisher whose absence I noticed, unless you count VR stuff. The number of demos available today is overwhelming, if you look for them.
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wouldn't they all die again though? i'd bring back hh gregg for the song
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Toys R Us didn't die. It was murdered by venture capital leeches.
Similar with Radio Shack, though I don't know the details of why they went from basically the only electronic parts shop to a giant mall kiosk.
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Sure? Thought they are now called Smyth's or something.
Not here; They're still called Toys "R" Us.
And from looking at the Wikipedia for Smyths it seems that they bought the Toys "R" Us stores in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Not really the same thing as here (Portugal, btw), I think, since they kept the branding, but IDK, I'm not an IP lawyer...
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An obligatory "Fuck Blockbuster:" They sucked compared to the local rental shops.
This is probably true, but I remember Blockbuster was good at renting out trash movies. While Netflix does this also, some of them no streaming service wants to or can pick up today. Like the old Mario movie or the weird Red Riding Hood movie with Henry Cavill.
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Toys R Us. No contest.
I thought they were already opening some stores.
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What is a Friendly's?
That is the one I miss. It was an ice cream shop/ restaurant.
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RadioShack, with the drawers of capacitors and resistors.
I want DYI kits for everything!
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That is the one I miss. It was an ice cream shop/ restaurant.
Oh, ok. thank you for the info.
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The only of them that we had in Germany: Toys'r'us.
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Aren't some of those still open?
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RadioShack, with the drawers of capacitors and resistors.
Yes the old radio shack not the new one which was just a 3rd party cell phone carrier.
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Radio Shack. And not the recent version. The OLD version with breadboards and soldering irons and electronics kits.
Yes please!
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Aren't some of those still open?
Last I checked there's a Radio Shack in Los Alamos. Uncanny vibes, but it's there
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RadioShack, with the drawers of capacitors and resistors.
The drawers are the best everywhere. RadioShack? Component drawers. Home Depot? Fastener drawers. On and on.
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Radio Shack
No one else has electronic components
Fry's. Some Microcenters. Al Lashers.
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How about independent pharmacies
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Last I checked there's a Radio Shack in Los Alamos. Uncanny vibes, but it's there
The radio shack brand got bought up by the guy who did the "I'm in my garage" ads and now is a front for a crypto exchange.
It's a completely different company using the shell of Radio Shack for brand recognition
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Aren't some of those still open?
I know some who still works for RadioShack in KS. It’s official RadioShack but also it’s its own thing. Idk maybe a franchise or something.
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a restaurant called bravissimo in chile or something like that was called, i remember eating there as a kid, it was colourful and kinda funny looking.
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Aren't some of those still open?
Party city closed this year. Corporate raid, like toys r us.
