Well that's that. We all knew about the whole GAME chain being in trouble and not being able to stock games for a while now. The one sure fire way I knew they were going under was when they wouldn't stock Mario Party 9.
Then there was that spring sale they had where prices were greatly reduced — but not enough in my opinion — right up until this past weekend when I last visited. Right now all the shutters are down with sheets of paper taped up saying "THIS STORE IS NOW CLOSED". I wonder what's to become of the stock that was there?
I have some good memories of the place. It was the only store I remember that sold Chibi-Robo for the Gamecube back in 2006. The same year I remember asking for Final Fantasy IV Advance and the assistant thought I was talking about a PS1 game. Good thing I had it pre-ordered from them.
To go back even further to the mid '90s I remember looking at the games and the security guard would nearly look at them with you. I remember buying Pop n' Twinbee for the SNES there. I remember being amazed by the musical intro to a new N64 game called Banjo-Kazooie on the multiple TV screens they had there and my little brother glaring at me as if I was crazy. I remember one Christmas where a beaming smiling girl with a nose ring behind the counter told me I was the luckiest kid in Cork as she handed me my Donkey Kong 64 purchase.
I still feel really sorry for the guy working there who had to stand outside the shop last year or the year before trying to sell Xbox 360s to passing strangers. That must've been an early sign.
So what's the oldest game store in Cork now? Is it Smyths?
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