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I actually live in Queens...It's weird how you found out they were gone cause that's the same exact way I found out too..even the same day (a Saturday) that I found out it was gone! LOL I really was sad when we drove up on Northern toward it and I didnt see the front of it anymore and I was like "No, it can't be gone!" but, alas, it was..*hangs head in sadness* Damn, now I'm remembering all these things about the store..I remember the 12" Darkstalkers figures too (they were on the right side of the counter on the wall) I do remember, however, that I never saw those "play it first here" cubicle things ever working in the front..The other thing was that it always eemed just a bit dk in there all the time...God, I loved that store..There is no store anywhere here that can match..A few years ago, Game Express on 34th was really cool, but they changed (like EGM! LOL) and now suck..and they always had assholes working in there too, whereas in Die Hard they were always cool (except for one guy who always seemed like my questions were too much to ask of him to answer). There was always so much I wanted to buy in there, and as soons as they were gone, a flash of everything I wanted in there went through my head and made me sad (Im still happy I got my Mega Man there since now its worth a good price LOL)
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Yeah, I'm remembering all sorets of little things about the store too...there was really no parking out front, so you had to park in the lot in back, and go up the stairs to the rear enterance. You're right about the location of the 12" Darkstalkers figures...and yeah, the "Try it now" area was never working...remember the ads for the Die Hard stores in the back of Gamefan, where they showed the "Try it now" section, and it was this huge dark room, and at the one on Manhasset it was, like, 6 TVs in a wall that were never on? And yeah, the store was a little on the dark side, but I thought that was part of it's charm. I miss it... :(
Queens, huh? Personally, I consider Queens basically a part of Long Island. Did you know that Supermario was from LI too? We should get some kind of TNL NY gaming posse going... ;)
