@ChocoMintPuppy but you're a real pet, not a virtual one

@noiob are you sure? uwu

@ChocoMintPuppy idk I've never pet you irl

@noiob :emipensive:

@ChocoMintPuppy one day,,

@noiob @ChocoMintPuppy i want to pet the emi too

@Siph @noiob take me on a date to 5 Bd Voltaire, 75011 Paris, France thank u

@ChocoMintPuppy @Siph nerrrrd

@noiob @Siph that's why people like me
i think
maybe

@ChocoMintPuppy @noiob ooooh Boulevard Voltaire. There’s a ton of retro game stores here though it’s not as good as it used to be in the 2000s-early 2010s bc of how high prices used to be

Back in 2009 this is where I found my cartridge of Pokémon Green for 14€. I was 11 and couldn’t buy shit online it was like the holy grail for me

@Siph @noiob feels bad thinking about how unaffordable every single retro game related thing is nowadays. fucking youtubers and influencers and capitalism ;w;

@ChocoMintPuppy @noiob seeing how a lot of these stores have rebranded as "geek stores" that sell funko pops. bleh. The store I bought Pokémon Green at was kinda legendary and now it’s an insurance agency :( though it seems to have become a franchise with other locations

@Siph @noiob Sad... ;w;
I only bought stuff at big stores honestly when i was younger, cause it was almost always parents getting me something. Except one time I went into this used game store, and got like HL2 for PS2 and a cheap usb keeb and mouse (for use on ps2 lol) for like, 15euro :3

@ChocoMintPuppy @noiob these stores were here all the way back in the late 80s, they weren’t "retro" back then and more import stores. A few French magazines were raving about the NEC PC-Engine and so they started importing it, and there was a very active PC-Engine niche in Paris because of that. NEC ended up officially releasing it in France (under the PC-Engine name, not TurboGrafx-16) in 1989 with a local partner