I'm up in Manc for the weekend and was wondering if there were any decent import/retro stores in the city centre? I know where Gamestation is already.
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Jesus Christ - this is spooky - I'm going to Manchester AGAIN tomorrow - and this thread just happens to come back from the dead!
In relation to the first post, I went up to Manchester and visited CEX, which is a really depressing shop now. GAME and Gamestation are the only two videogame stores I know of, which is sad for a city of that size.
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Not in Mancherster but... whilst at lunch today, walking my usual route, I stumbled across an excellent little import store. Must have walked past it a hundred times and never noticed! Loads of top notch Saturn/Dreamcast and Playstation goodies.
Just shows what you can find when you actually open your eyes...
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Where are CEX & Gamestation then? I can't remember seeing them before. Though reading all the hate directed at the former I can image a picket line throwing veg at anyone trying to enter so it's probably best I don't bother with that one
I get back there tomorrow too Duddy. I gotta buy myself an umbrella
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Originally posted by carbon boyNot in Mancherster but... whilst at lunch today, walking my usual route, I stumbled across an excellent little import store. Must have walked past it a hundred times and never noticed! Loads of top notch Saturn/Dreamcast and Playstation goodies.
Just shows what you can find when you actually open your eyes...
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Originally posted by gIzzESorry, I meant....
and...where is it??I forgot the most important part.
Just off the Tottenham Court Road, up a little side street (forgotten the name), on the corner of Charlotte Street. The guys working in there were really helpful and I got the impression that they offered a personalised import service.
I'm going back tomorrow. If they do offer this service and anyone is interested, I'll forward any details.
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yeah, I live in manchester and there is absolutely nothing at all. I'd quite like to open one if anyone is interested in joining forces to create the best retroshop in the universe.
My dream is to make a retro game/ coffee/ cake shop. Each weekend I will host torunaments. ?3 to enter and there will be a sweet prize bought with the winnings. Like a pub quiz sort of. People will flock from across the planet to visit us. Street fighter alpha 3 tournaments, king of fighters torunaments, bomberman tournaments - everything. It'll be ace.
Then, when we make our first million We can open up a game themed pub next door called 'the gradius' It'll be so fantastic, seriously. you know thos brass ducks that old people have nailed to their walls? a small one, medium one and a big one? well, I'd custom make some brass vic vipers for behind the bar. there will be arcades running gradius and we'll have a range of cocktails named after bosses from the gradius games. the most powerful cocktail will be called 'destroy the core' - 5 parts whiskey, 2 parts wine and topped up with tomato juice with a marshmallow vic viper floating on top.
No doubt some chancer will open a pub called the parodius opposite us, but we will relish the competition and make ever more exciting cocktails and revamp our sign outside so it incorperates a more dynamic picture of vic viper shooting twice as many lazers out. We could even hire really cute girls to work there but dress them up as those little walker bots from the gradius games. Topless walker bots, so we can see the little 'chest cores' poking out!
Maybe we could have a amateur dramtics night with local groups doing live action plays based on gradius. Think how cool that could be...Last edited by boxhead; 14-02-2006, 15:39.
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