Nostalgia for the Lost Joy of Used Video Game Bargain Bins
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Rebekah Valentine
Summary
A nostalgic reflection on the lost joy of digging through bargain bins of cheap, used video games at stores like GameStop. The author uses a personal memory of discovering the obscure Nintendo DS game "Contact" for $5 as a springboard to lament the decline of physical game browsing and the serendipitous finds that came with disorganized discount bins.
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There's this funny little Nintendo DS RPG called Contact, developed by Grasshopper and inspired heavily by Earthbound.
I have profoundly fond memories of this silly little game, and it's all thanks to a jumbled-up used video game bargain bin at a GameStop where I found it at random one day over a decade ago.
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