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Funco Inc. 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 is the story of a guy who pulled a success story out of a corporate bankruptcy. David Pomije, the Minnesota-based founder of Funco, didn’t have things easy when he launched his budding used video game empire. In fact, he was running at a deficit to get the thing off the ground.
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Jun 13, 2014 · FuncoLand had a newsletter that they printed every month with the price list of all their games, and I do mean ALL. Here is a copy of one I found online: 9 cents for Super Mario Duck Hunt, 79 cent controllers, and even SMB 3 for $2.49!
In 1998, they made 1.6 million dollars in sales from selling products online. The year before, they had made only $450,000 in sales online. In September of 1999 when the Dreamcast was released, it helped the company set a one-day sales record and their earnings for the fiscal year of 2000 was 52.7 million dollars.
A few years later, practically every suburb had one. Brings back memories! Worked at Funcoland in high school. Was a sorta fun job, but ultimately it was retail and had all the pros and cons of that. It was best when Barnes and Noble bought them because they upped the discount on new games.
I remember going to Funcoland and trading all my old games so I could afford the new Tony Hawk Pro Skater game on PS1. I did the same for Goldeneye 007, traded as many N64 games as I could. This was back when trade in values were actually reasonable, which stopped when GameStop bought out Funcoland.
One mall near me, for awhile, had Gamestop (may have still been branded Software, Ect.), Babbages, and Funcoland. I would check out each. I rarely bought anything from Funcoland because they had some employees at our location who liked to lie to customers to sell extended warranties & system cleaners.
