For many years, gamers throughout the UK have been waiting Gamestation, one of the UK’s largest videogame specialist retailers, to deliver their own reward card scheme. The brand new Gamestation Elite card is just that, and is available in-stores nationwide from today.
Gary Green said: Gamestation was a chain of retail shops in the United Kingdom selling new and used games. Gamestation was founded in 1993 in York, UK, and by 2002, it had 64 stores across the United Kingdom. Gamestation’s primary competitor was GAME, who were generally considered one of the most expensive retailers for games.
Gamestation’s main method of attracting customers was to put on more special offers than its competitor as well as focusing on pre-owned games and larger discounts on older titles. Gamestation would also usually beat GAME’s prices by at least 5%, with new releases at GAME typically charged at £39.99, while Gamestation would set their prices at £37.99 for the same titles.
We now chase the best price for games, and will take a copy that is a few quid cheaper off the internet rather than venture out. You can also pre-order knowing that you won’t end up in a queue around the block come COD launch night, and be forced into a conversation about the merits of the TAR gun over the SCAR with a guy who looks like he only eats breakfast cereal.
These things have chased us from perusing the shelves of games in an actual, real-life shop, with windows and people in them and stuff, into the arms of a digital realm which also might have windows and also has people, but they tend to be less real and more naked.
"queue around the block come COD launch night, and be forced into a conversation about the merits of the TAR gun over the SCAR with a guy who looks like he only eats breakfast cereal"
This really made me chuckle :)
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