Funcoland Memories

[Nes Freak | 584]

ah funcoland....  first game i remember getting from there was starfox 64.  i had to decide weather i should get  it used or new.  i got it used cause i couldn't afford it new.  its where i got a lot of my first n64 games.   i also remember selling my genesis a few games to help get a GBA when it came out. (only time i sold my game to get a console)  but then gamestop bought them all out shortly after.

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,104]

I don't remember going to Funcoland much as a kid. The mall had a Babbages on one end and an Electronics Boutique on the other along with a Toys R Us across the street so that's where any new games I got came from. My main memory of Funcoland was later on going there to buy loose NES games that they had in a dollar bin when you first walked in the door. Every game was $1 except SMB 3 was always $5.

[8bitsupremacy | 208]

4 hours ago, Bearcat-Doug said:

I don't remember going to Funcoland much as a kid. The mall had a Babbages on one end and an Electronics Boutique on the other along with a Toys R Us across the street so that's where any new games I got came from. My main memory of Funcoland was later on going there to buy loose NES games that they had in a dollar bin when you first walked in the door. Every game was $1 except SMB 3 was always $5.

My mall had the exact same setup.   Gurnee Mills in Gurnee, IL.

[Foochie776 | 1,051]

I remember saving my allowances around age 7-8 so 1999-2000 and buying Felix the Cat for NES. 

 

Prior to that I had one green Funcoland dust sleeve that I’d always place on my favorite game at the time. Which was usually Super Mario Bros 3:

[xcing1030 | 10]

Ahhh getting my copy of Kirby super star, it was the only SNES game i bought with my own money and I was 13-14 at the time.  I remember getting it for $39.99 or so and it was worth every penny 

[PineappleLawnchair | 88]

Practically one of my first memory is going with my Parents to the Funcoland out in Laurel, and buying a copy of Sonic 2, because they didn't want me playing any of the games my Uncle had(Mortal Kombat) on the Genesis

 

[MachineCode | 159]

Mixed feelings. Great for buying, shit for trading. Like others, I wanted that new PSX (refurbished with a metal fan in my case). Well, Christmas 96, Danbury, CT, they gave me $2 for my NES console and really not much for a solid collection of games. I realized the error of my ways by around 01-02 and started collecting.