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Originally posted by breakingnews
I've never seen an EB in NJ, Philly, NYC or Atlanta that's had any N64 stuff. 
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Since Electronics Boutique's headquarters is in West Chester, the Philly burbs are _the_ best place to find oddities at EBs. Not only could I go to the EBs at the local malls (Exton, Granite Run, probably KofP) and find used N64 stuff, and probably hit half-a-dozen $20 used N64s with a thrown bread roll, but their clearance outlets (EB Gameworld) are all over the place around here.
Years ago, EB used to have one yearly sale at their warehouse, which is the old Denney-Rayburn building at Matlack St. and the 202 bypass. Great finds, but the cashier lines were beyond belief -- I remember standing in one place for an hour, watching a 3DO kiosk looping through a demo of "Twisted" over and over and over again until I wanted to kick it apart. They wised up and figured out that freaks like myself would buy used and old games year-round, and opened the first Stop & Save Software in Edgmont. I cleaned that place out regularly, and got some incredible bargains back in the day (a boxload of Duo Taps for $.10 apiece, a NIB TurboExpress for $50, a load of Turbo CD-ROMs for $5 apiece, that sort of thing).
When it took off, Stop & Save was renamed to EB Gameworld and they multiplied rapidly. The Franklin Mills store is the Home of Last Resort, where the real oddities end up accumulating when they won't sell at the "main" EB Gameworlds, but I have just as more luck with the EBGs in the 'burbs, as much of the good stuff vanishes before being shipped to Franklin Mills.
Anyway, likewise for GameStop. They're used to having major competition at their stores from EB, so they generally stock the shelves accordingly.
In Philly itself may be another story -- apart from occasional Franklin Mills visits, which barely count, the only times I go into the city itself are for sporting events, and since I dropped my Phantoms ticket plan in favor of Reading's ECHL franchise, that's pretty much over and done with.