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Dec 31 2008

Grab DS games at your airport’s Best Buy vending machine

Published by Christian at 3:30 pm
Tags: airports, Best Buy, Nintendo DS, vending machines

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This has got to be the best thing since moving walkways.

You’re traveling along through an airport, DS packed, ready to get an hour or two with some games you’ve already been playing for years. For people like us, Best Buy has placed vending machines in airports ready to spit out Guitar Hero: On Tour, Brain Age 2, Mario Kart DS, and more. If you don’t have a DS, well, that’s a sha… wait, they sell those too!

Perfect! …unless you’re in Japan…

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4 Responses to “Grab DS games at your airport’s Best Buy vending machine”

  1. # guppy06on 31 Dec 2008 at 5:07 pm

    Yeah, I noticed the Sony/PSP vending machines in JFK over Thanksgiving. Aside from my rantings against the way airports continue to turn into shopping malls, don’t forget that these vending machines include the all-important, captive audience 50 % markup that comes with all airport shopping. They’re basically betting that you’ll be so bored/desperate for something to do that you’ll actually pay the prices they’re asking.

    It’s the next logical step from those goofy quarter-fed televisions they used to have.

  2. # Christianon 31 Dec 2008 at 5:20 pm

    I should probably have mentioned that the DS games found in this particular vending machine were selling at their advertised Best Buy prices of about $35 each (and less for Nintendo titles).

  3. # The Tanooki » Grab DS games at your airport’s Best Buy vending machineon 31 Dec 2008 at 7:00 pm

    [...] The Tanooki » Grab DS games at your airport’s Best Buy vending machineFor people like us, Best Buy has placed vending machines in airports ready to spit out Guitar Hero: On Tour, Brain Age 2, Mario Kart DS, and more. If you don’t have a DS, well, that’s a sha… wait, they sell those too! … [...]

  4. # boopevon 01 Jan 2009 at 10:47 am

    But how much were the actual DSes selling for?

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