Has anyone else started searching for the game at small, non-chain, video game stores?
Every time a game is released that I’m super hyped for, I usually have luck finding it at least a couple days before the street date from one of those small shops. One week out is usually a good time to start “the hunt.”
So far, I’ve checked about 11 stores in my area. Two of them said they might be getting it in a late shipment today… Anyone else having any luck?
I’m waiting on walmart to screw up and put them out early. They aren’t very smart there and will possibly put it out early, I will find, complain why they won’t sell it to me, make a huge fuss and deal out of it and walk away happy, much like I did with my Big Milliem Falcon I found a month early.
My brother said the same thing about walmart.
I tried calling a couple of targets yesterday, but they told me not til next week… I took the 16th and 17th off from work, so I might as well just wait.
I wish I had some vacation time to use for GB release. I took a whole week for halo 3.
A whole week just for Halo3? That’s awesome.
I rarely use my vacation hours; I have over 4 weeks built up. I’ll be taking a week off come July, but I think 2 days for the gbtvg would give me plenty of time to beat the game and play a little online multiplayer.. 
and then that weekend I’ll get together with some friends and play s’more!
Most places, if you break street date the store get heavily fined.
Yep, the whole week. My manager wouldn’t let me take my vacation until after summer. Which really made me mad. He told me late September. I figured why not for halo 3.
That stuff will not fly at my wal-mart. We will just laugh at you and kick you out.
XD
It worked when I got my Big Millium Falcon. They put it on the shelf 1 month early. I got the the register, lady scanned it and said she couldn’t sell it, I right then asked for a C.S.M. I told the C.S.M. that I didn’t care what the reason was, they tryed to say it was recalled, I said it wasn’t supposed to be released, but it was on the shelf with about 4 others and said you shouldn’t put stuff out that you don’t plan to sell. I was more than prepared to ask for the next level in management, but he just sold it to me. He was super cool about it.
Unfortunately, not all Wal*Marts are as organized and well-run as yours seems to be. Oh the horror stories I could relate from my local store. Tell me, is it standard for a non-24 hour location to start filling the aisles (and I mean filling the aisles) with pallets full of merchandise 2 hours before closing time? I’ve abandoned my cart several times because I seriously could not maneuver through some aisles anymore.
Regardless, if you find a small, local store, you might get lucky. I have a location here that I’m going to try and weasel the game from. They don’t use computerized sales systems, so it’s less likely they’d get caught breaking street date.
If anyone gets lucky, let us know!
Funny, the one item I found early was a super center about 5 years old in a major metropolian area of Roanoke, VA. My local super center screwed up and put out star trek movie toys about 3 days early, computer in sporting goods said not to sale, got to register and it went through. There was another item I got somewhere early, but I can’t remember what it was.
Is it too much just to wait those five more days and get it on the official date of release?
+1. I’ve waited now, almost 27 YEARS (my whole life!) for this game…I think I can wait a couple more days.
And, yes I know, GB came out in '84 (when I was 2), so it’s not exactly, my whole life, but 
Yes… for some. I can wait, but getting an advance copy of a game is always exciting, I must admit.
I’ve waited almost all my life for this game as well. I was one of those angry kids of the 80s wondering why the old Ghostbuster NES and Sega games were such garbage. I KNOW Im not the only one who wanted to smash the cartridges in disappointment.
Oh yeah… and don’t forget about The Real Ghostbusters for Game Boy. It was pretty awful.
If I can get my hands on a copy for the release date, thats what I am going to do. Now that I have read this thread I am totally going to try and I won’t even be mad at about it “I can tell ya that much” (in my best billy madison Voice)
Look, just so everyone’s clear, I’m not saying that I want to get the game by any illegal means. In fact, I’m buying the game twice for the PS3. Once for myself to play early (if I find it through tomorrow), then once again at Gamestop on the 16th using my pre-order (to get the bonus stuff). I’m then giving one of those copies to my younger brothers, who want their own to play (as they live far away from me).
IF I had a midnight release party to go to like the one in Texas (so lucky, btw), then I’d wait for the 16th for sure. But as there appears to be no local Ghostbusters club (regardless of the fact that I live in one of the largest cities in the world) and no special midnight release party, I see no reason not to pick up the game if I can find it early.
So, the hunt continues!! 95% sure I’ll have it by midday tomorrow.
Funny story:
So, I called a nearby Toys R Us just for the hell of it. The woman in the games section said they hadn’t received it yet. She then put me on hold to check when it would come in. When she got back, she had a surprised, yet somewhat “I could give a ■■■■” tone to her voice. “Oh, so, there’s been a change,” she said, “I guess the game has been delayed or somethin’, turns out it won’t be released until October…”
“Oh really?” I said, “October, huh?”
“Yeah,” she replied, lackadaisically.
“October?”
“Yeah.”
“You’re sure about that? I mean, you don’t want to check the date again?”
“Yeah.”
And so it continued for about a minute more.
In all my years of gaming, this has to be one of the more moronic phone calls I’ve had. Wal*Mart use to be at the top of my list for places not to call while looking for games pre-release, but I think this one just took the cake.
Bravo Toys R Us employee!! Bravo!! I shall have a gold statue award made in your honor!!
Oh ya, I totally forgot about toys r us.
I called a couple of walmarts a minute ago and they said they’re not putting it out til next week I’ll try toys r us later tonight.