The Fair Shake
Psycho Fox
If you’re over the age of say, 25, you most likely remember the Toy’s R’ Us video game aisle. No games were actually stocked on the sales floor. Instead, an entire aisle with pictures of game boxes lining one wall greeted you. You grabbed a small ticket off the wall under a picture of a game box that represented the store’s inventory. No tickets left for a paticular game? SOLD OUT. The elderly woman working the counter of the small bank-teller like room up front, way past the cash registers, would hand you a game in trade for a ticket, after you paid for it, of course. It was fun and added to the excitement of buying a game, for me anyway, like ‘OMG this is a big deal’. Often times you had one game on your mind that was ‘coming soon’, checking each visit to the store, waiting and hoping for that game to arrive whenever you walked down the game aisle.