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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.
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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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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.
FuncoLand was significant because it was the first large-scale multi-store business where you could sell games you no longer wanted to play and buying used copies of games was about half the price of what a new copy of the game would cost.
Jun 13, 2014 · FuncoLand was the coolest place on earth when I was a young teenager. The start of my true frugal roots most likely started with video games. If we take a ride in the wayback machine to 1998, the video game industry was an expensive place.
The first two FuncoLand retail stores opened in late 1990 and brought in $200,000 in sales by the end of the year. Funco, Inc. had grown from a family enterprise to a 40-employee operation in its first two years. Funco managed its inventory by balancing the buy and sell prices of the used games.
Every FuncoLand had loads of empty boxes and stacks of manuals just sitting in the back office. The price was the same regardless of what came with it. The completionist mentality didn’t start until collectibility was a major driving force of the retro game market, almost a decade after Funco was bought by GameStop.
I went to FuncoLand back when it was just a warehouse with a tiny room where you could sell your games. I remember having my parents take me there with an NES and about 25 games and leaving with a Sega Genesis and Revenge of Shinobi. A few years later, practically every suburb had one.
