Frontlane Games at TRU ($4.99 and $9.99, PS2 and GBA)

[blandstalker]

Admittedly lame, but perhaps useful to someone.

Like Best Buy, Toys R Us now has cheapie frontlane games with stickered-over UPCs. I saw this today, at Toys R Us in Oceanside, CA, near the registers at the front of the store (i.e. not in R-Zone).

Stock is similar to Best Buy, with (crossword) Puzzle Collection (PS2, $4.99) and Gunstar Super Heroes (GBA, $9.99) and others you've seen at BB or Sears/K-Mart.

Of note (in that I haven't seen them elsewhere):

PS2 Seek and Destroy $4.99
PS2 Toyko Extreme Racer Drift $4.99

I bought Seek and Destroy, and got one of those $3 survey coupons.

 

[freshzen]

Its all YMMV and the prices are usually well marked. Sometimes they'll have $5 & $10 in the cases behind register too, so its worth peaking around if you know what you're looking for.

Too bad you just missed a $5 off coupon (purchase over $25) and the 20% off all games $9.99 & under sale last week

 

[Masterkyo]

Wow! I still had $3 off survey coupon

 

[blandstalker]

[quote name='freshzen']
Too bad you just missed a $5 off coupon (purchase over $25) and the 20% off all games $9.99 & under sale last week [/quote]

Must be YMMV as to availability, then, as I was at this TRU two weeks ago and they weren't there, and I was at a different one last week (with the $5 off coupon) and they didn't have them either.

 

[Wolfkin]

gunstar super heroes is an awesome game. it's arcadey and i love that.

 

[kevzik]

Kmart is doing frontlane games as well now.

 

[melvoin]

My local target just started doing this too

 

[Masterkyo]

It's good to heard all chain stores carry budget games

 

[howard]

I saw King Kong for PS2 in the same area two weeks ago. I had a $3 coupon but there wasn't shit I wanted there so I got $3 in Sour Starburst instead. And it was the flavors before the recent crappy change.

 

[CaoPi]

what do they have at Kmart any thread on the frontlane games? same as bestbuy?

 

[kevzik]

[quote name='CaoPi']what do they have at Kmart any thread on the frontlane games? same as bestbuy?[/quote]

I think I may make a offcial thread since I have all the retail stores that have them, but in the mean time...Kmart from what I saw had the exact games with the same exact tags...pinball, future tactics, suzuki motorbikes...etc. Kmart actually has them at the checkout lanes... or at least mine did.

 

[SlimJim0725]

this is not YMMV. the TRU i work at in VA has this same thing set up. most of the games are meh, but who knows, one of you may want 1 or 2

 

[Richard Longfellow]

This pretty normal for periods when the industry transitions to newer consoles. Publishers and distributors are stuck with a lot of slow selling PS2/Xbox/GBA/GC titles and they know it's better to sell them to retailers now for next to nothing, rather than having to sit on them for another two years and pay dump fees to trash all of it.