They say what’s old is new again, and that’s the case for some GameStop locations. Certain locations of the video game chain have returned to selling those video games you grew up with, including two in NoVA.
GameStop announced late last month on social media that its GameStop Retro locations would sell older consoles and games. Those classic systems are everything from Game Boy to Nintendo’s Wii.
While it’s sold the older games online, GameStop’s website now lets you search for locations where you can find the games old-schoolers loved to play and newbies may want to try, just to see what all the fuss and fun is about.
In NoVA, two GameStop locations are listed on the website: 9446 Main St. in Fairfax and 6575 Frontier Dr. in Springfield.
GameStop listed the following games as ones the Retro stores would carry.
- NES (1985)
- SNES (1991)
- Game Boy (1989)
- Sega Genesis (1989)
- PlayStation (1995)
- Sega Saturn (1995)
- Nintendo 64 (1996)
- Sega Dreamcast (1999)
- PS2 (2000)
- Game Boy Advance (2001)
- Nintendo GameCube (2001)
- Original Xbox (2001)
- Nintendo DS (2004)
- Xbox 360 (2005)
- Nintendo Wii (2006)
- PS3 (2006)
- Nintendo Wii U (2012)
- PS Vita (2012)
Feature image of a Nintendo 64 console by Jon Anders Wiken/stock.adobe.com
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