Toys R Us Xmas Shopping in 1991 :wow: :mjcry: you 80's babies had it good

[Spence]

Toys R Us was dope. You had to pick up a video game slip from the video game aisle, and then geaux to the dept closet area and give them the paper and buy the game.

You can’t ever replicate that feeling of securing the bag

We used to be a proper country

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Toy stores and video game shops…

Yep.

The thing that many ppl fail to understand, especially the ones who prefer online shopping, is just actually being in the store. You don't even have to buy anything, just being able to play the Sega or Nintendo the store had on display. Your parents actually seeing you enjoy the toy you get to actually play with and them putting it in their mind to get it for your birthday or Christmas.


Hell, our local video store where we rented movies and games, had the snes and Sega out for customers to play. It was on our way walking to and from school. One the way home, it wasn't shyt for us to go in there and spend 30 minutes playing Sonic or Madden

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

Yep we had it the best

 

[AVXL]

The old Toys R Us off of Candler Rd by South Dekalb Mall used to be the spot

Held me down every Christmas throughout the 90s

Now that shyt is a fukkin police precinct

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

A relic of better times

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

Toys r us made their stores too big

I don’t remember people buying carriages and shyt like that from there

They shoulda focused on what their name states..keep their stores about half the size to reduce their costs

 

[CHICAGO]

Yep. The 90s was just too damn lit as a kid/teen

AS A HUMAN PERIOD



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[Spence]

Yep.

The thing that many ppl fail to understand, especially the ones who prefer online shopping, is just actually being in the store. You don't even have to buy anything, just being able to play the Sega or Nintendo the store had on display. Your parents actually seeing you enjoy the toy you get to actually play with and them putting it in their mind to get it for your birthday or Christmas.


Hell, our local video store where we rented movies and games, had the snes and Sega out for customers to play. It was on our way walking to and from school. One the way home, it wasn't shyt for us to go in there and spend 30 minutes playing Sonic or Madden

Mom would park me at the shop and go to the mall shopping for hours, it was connected to the food court so if I got hungry, eat, then back to Funcoland

If we were at Blockbuster, same drill.

 

[QU Hectic]

I got Public Enemy “Apocalypse 91” & Hammer’s “2 Legit 2 Quit” for 91 Christmas

 

[CashmereThoughts]

I actually went to Kay Bee Toys more than Toys R Us. Especially when that Xmas/BDay money came through

Any time your mom went shopping for shoes or a dress in the mall Kay Bee was right there

Sega genesis games, wrestling action figures and nerf guns