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FuncoLand was an American video game retailer based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, that specialized in selling new and used video game software. It is considered the first major video game retailer to allow consumers to sell and trade used video games.
Mar 29, 2018 · The story of FuncoLand, the retailer that made the used video game market a thing—and how GameStop, which bought Funco, sort of bastardized that mission.
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It debuted in August 1991 when video game retailer FuncoLand started publishing an in-house newsletter. The publication is now owned and published by GameStop, who bought FuncoLand in 2000. Due to this, a large amount of promotion is done in-store, which has contributed to the success of the magazine.
My strongest memory of Funcoland is when I was browsing their wall of NES games and one of the staff members behind the counter made fun of me for playing old games and told me I should buy a Playstation. That could even have been the day I bought Rescue Rangers 2 for $16. (Current list price: $224) Well, who's laughing now?
FuncoLand was started by a man named David R Pomije. In 1985, Pomije was running a company named Protectronics which started off selling Commodore 64 computers but would switch to video games when the Commodore market stopped being profitable on its own.
FuncoLand was an American video game retailer based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, that specialized in selling new and used video game software. It is considered the first video game retailer to allow consumers to sell and trade used video games.
