4 Toy and Game Stores in Columbus You NEED to Visit!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ค. 2022
- While we were in Columbus, OH, Jay (Square Pegs) and I stopped by downtown Columbus to an awesome toy store called Big Fun and we also checked out 3 of the several video game stores in the area. Capital Games, Forever Games and Game Depot.
I asked before filming in all 4 store locations.
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If a game doesn't have a price sticker, I'm not gonna ask and just walk out.
However, check out the Columbus Ohio Retro Gaming Convention video th-cam.com/video/e8zSckqeBFk/w-d-xo.html
Theres also The Laughing Ogre nearby. It's more a comic book store/hobby store/board game store
Same thing about the prices. It's annoying.
Btw those brick streets ice up in winter.
At least in the city I live in a bit north of Columbus. We have a few here.
I'm allergic to pears along with pineapple.
Did they have M.U.S.C.L.E Men?
I had Jake The Snake and Greg The Hammer Valentine.
TORG is coming in November "The Ohio Retro Gamer" Convention, get in contact, maybe you can make it back. (Ohio kinda sucks in November)
Next time your in town there are two bars that have wall to wall vintage video games. All available to play.
John, thank you so much for everything this past weekend! It was great to spend time with you!
Hey it's your game, Henry Hatsworth! Best platformer on the DS!
Two men can have a platonic love for each other.
I drove 13 hours to see Big Fun (admittedly because of Twenty One Pilots initially) and it is a fantastic nerdy store! I'd love to visit again someday.
24:57 That's my favorite handheld game of all time. Henry Hatsworth is a major hidden gem fantastic platformer. It's pretty hard to find but not very expensive so I highly recommend getting it!
GOOD SHOW!!! Found out about this game from v's DS recommended list. Like most DS games, I play it on airplanes & during movie trailers.
John Travolta filmed I Am Wrath in Columbus awhile ago, and Twenty One Pilots also filmed a recent music video at Big Fun! Maybe that’s it?
Was having a crappy morning until i saw your video seeing all those classic toys brought back happy times thank you
ALDI was founded by two brothers in 1961 in Essen,Germany. ( Karl and Theo Albrecht ). AL stands for the first two letters of their last name. DI for Discount. It is the biggest discounter worldwide with more than 1,600 stores across 35 states and over 5,600 stores worldwide. Greetings from a lost german in Miami. LOL. John, your videos are amazing !!!
As soon as you were talking about the waffle cones being made, that's always the one smell I recognize every time I'm by any ice cream shops. Love that smell! Also awesome pick up on the buckeyes, that's a Christmas tradition we have here.
Downtown Columbus Ohio looks so much like Moncton NB where we’re located. And the artwork all over the building is the same as well.
When Scott and I go somewhere, the random exploration is the best part.
This was a lot of fun to watch guys :) Like a trip back in time to everything from our childhood. Kids nowadays have no idea how cool those 70’s-80’s toys were.
Capital Games…Wow, I would have went broke!
I love your amazement in Aldi 😅, I'm from London and I'm the same way when I visit a Walmart or Target when I visit the USA 😊
I’m so gonna visit a target and Walmart 🤩 is it cooler than what we have?
We love Big Fun! They always take care of us! Glad you guys got to go!
Hello from me and all my friends in Akron, Ohio! Big-time john Riggs & thank you for an outstanding show!
Man there used to be a local chain of retro stores called Game Craze but they closed like 3 or 4 years ago. And they were as good as the ones you visited. They're greatly missed as now there's no retro stores here in Rochester, NY. I love these videos where you visit videogames stores and show what they've got great. That toy store brought back memories when I had a huge toy collection. But by 1999 I lost my job and had to sell everything really cheap as toy collecting was not what it's today. Good showing and cool video John! Thanks for sharing!👍
When I was in Columbus about a month ago I hit up capital games as well. You would never guess on the outside how deep that store goes. Probably one of the best selections I have seen from a small game store. I was even able to haggle prices with the gentleman working that day and get some good deals. Glad you stumbled across that place while you were in town.
I really need to visit more local game shops. Always great finds.
I've lived here for 5 years now and I've actually still never been to any of those yet lol. My personal favorite is a place called Warp Zone over in Hilliard and that's where I usually go for game hunting but I definitely want to check these places out now!
Warp zone is awesome. I live in Springfield Ohio we've got game cycle and champion city games
@@johndiggle2.036 I've been to game cycle before a couple times and loved it!
Ooo is Warp zone a game store?
@@gracekim25 Yep! They aren't the biggest store I've ever been to but they usually have pretty good selection at reasonable prices. They also have a pretty good amount of import stuff usually if you're into that kind of thing!
I just started following you this past winter, and now you came to my home town! Very cool, glad you enjoyed your visit. There used to be a store called video games and music exchange (VGMX) on hard road, it was a good store not sure if it is still there though I think they may have moved or closed.
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Wow! How cool to see these blasts from the past! I remember playing/collecting all the He-Man, G.I. Joe, Transformer, and M.U.S.C.L.E figures. Somewhere, I still have all that. Super awesome video!
Nice video!
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So cool to see you walking around my neighborhood. I've been living in Columbus since I went to Ohio State 20 years ago. And the smell of Jeni's ice cream is NOTHING compared to the taste. It's a must when you come back. It may literally have the best ice cream in the US. No joke.
So glad u grabbed skyline chili I'm from Cincinnati and it's the reason I've not moved from Ohio it's part of my soul by this point also glad u enjoyed the art style that's big in Cleveland Columbus and Cincinnati students at osu and uc earn credits to paint that awesome arts
The art is because of the Coumbus College of Art and Design,y Alma mater. I always visit Big Fun when I am in Columbus. Also, I was there is the early 90s and High Street was grungy and dirty and there was an all night arcade we used to frequent. High Street is really nice now.
Hey man, thank you for the content.
19:46 Hagane sighting! Really cool game store tours!
Riggs, you magnificent bastard!! 2 days in a row!!
Wow! This is so cool. I wish I could have been there.
I would have bought you a beer had I known you were in my city!
Great stuff!
This pretty dang awesome. Columbus ohio native here and proud of it!
Turtles! And Power Rangers! Love stores like those. So much random stuff all over.
Love seeing Game Gear games, awesome pickups John!
As a European it cracks me up watching you going to Aldi like it’s a novelty.
I was hoping you would highlight the amazing M.A.S.K. toys :D This is why I subscribe !!
I'm so happy that you've been to Columbus I live there I wish I known you be here I would have shown you around
I lived in that area for 30 years. It's really fun to see someone who has never been there experience it for the first time. Riggs! Did you go to PINS or 16Bit while you were in town? That's the arcade/pinball bar. There's so much to see. Thank you for visiting. Glad you had a good time.
we went to 16-bit. Great times.
OMG you were in my town!
16:46 That DK and Mario statues were made old style, with a chisel and a hammer and a six pack.
My parents are from Ohio and Dietsch Brothers ice cream is amazing. Their chocolate covered pretzels are amazing as well. Awesome video, those stores had some really cool stuff.
I’m glad you like our fly over state, well at least I think you did.
You came to my hometown, a suburb of Columbus called Grove City. That Aldi's just opened a few weeks ago. I have a membership at the Planet Fitness right next door. I live about 5 minutes from there. Hope you had a wonderful visit.
Columbus Ohio is a chill town. I wen there 3 years ago for work and enjoyed the barcade scene.
Seeing River city ransom for 30 makes me want to drive in from Indianapolis to that last store.
Live in Columbus, never seen that Crystal sculpture
my wife hails from columbus so she can confirm all the stuff said about aldi. I've never seen shopping cart security like that! man so many cool toys I wouldn't know which to shout-out first! well I guess MUSCLE since I know y'all are big into the wrestling stuff. that drive-thru liquor store though?! the wife says they're huge out there, so kinda neat to see! buck bumble! indeed the only good part was that song, haha.
Riggs… I’m from Cincinnati myself.. hands down best chili from here is empress chili.. then Dixie chili.. then gold star.. others to look up.. camp Washington chili.. blue ash chili.. btw awesome video..
Amazing! Ds wow lots and sega gear WWF raw my favorite game!
Did a pickup a while back for ye ole Henry hatsworth. Interesting platformer
With all the Superman talk I feel like you need to visit the Superman Celebration in Metropolis IL. It's coming up in June. You can see the Superman Museum and the Superman statue there too.
Chase Park right next to Wells Fargo Gardens. No idea where they got these names, but nice!
They're smart with that quarter trick. It's forcing you to put the kart back 😂
I wish you would have told me you were visiting Columbus ohio. Jk. I would have visited you. Would have met up rendezvous and showed you the state of Ohio that I know the area of the secret local spots that I know and stuff like to game hunt to eat at the best local eateries the secret local nature spots and etc!!! That's okay. Maybe next time. My brother from another mother brother. You know ever since I first started watching you it's always felt like you were related to me like your family that I always had that I never knew I had. Definitely somebody I would hang out with and all my days it's. You definitely on my bucket list of things I got to do before I die. LOL love you John Riggs keep making good videos and hopefully you make more in my area and tell me next time please. Thank you so much.
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I mentioned a few times and on social media I was going to CORGS in Columbus :)
John Riggs siting at Aldi! HAHAHAAA!
I think in Aldi when someone says “want my cart?” you just give them the quarter you would have spent to get from the stack. It just saves some runaround and unnecessary unlatching of carts etc. its only a quarter and maybe they really wanted to give to you. Just struck me as funny! Great video.
I felt bad I didn't give them the quarter (as I didn't have one) but you're right, when I left I gave my cart to someone else, they gave me a quarter. what a fun tradition.
@@JohnRiggs just 25 cents! Your first time. Ive done it and had it done to me! No biggie! Thanks as always for posting!!
My brother in law lives in Columbus, maybe I’ll check this out the next time I visit.
Ah,walking in My woods..greets
Fun fact: The Hall of Justice was inspired by Union Terminal in Cincinnati, Ohio!
so many toys n games haha
Love seeing all those Power Rangers and very cool Movie Cards! 💯
Hey I'm from Ohio good video they never disappoint
Love from the 614
Jay, "It's chocolatey jet fuel!" That's my kind of coffee! Thank you both for coming! Glad you still got to have religious experiences on your Sunday, John!
Columbus is great
Aldi in the US ! Watch out world supermarkets ! 🤣 Trollies cost £1 here 🤣
Hey John, thanks for making a video of the Columbus area video game stores. Next time I am in Ohio, I am definitely checking those out. Wow! Capital games had quite a selection. I don't think that I have ever seen a store with that many DS games! Forever Games and Game Depot were no slouches either. As for games with no price on them.......I am not too keen on that either. Every time I ask in that situation I find that the price ends up being too high. You would think that store owners would stop doing that. Wouldn't it be easier to just have the price sticker on the game? When no price is present, not only does it take more time to look it up but it can't be helping their business. Many gamers like yourself don't want to deal with the hassle and just walk out. Anyway, thanks again for sharing. :)
Funny part I go to all the place you were at
“not going inside, not going inside”
channeling his inner kid there for a moment 🤣
I wonder if Big Fun in Columbus was owned by the same people that owned Big Fun in Cleveland? Unfortunately, after many, many, years, the Cleveland store closed in 2018, I believe. It was such a great store.
Yo big John. Few ideas for ranking videos. How about a video ranking gaming consoles themselves? U cud do separate vids for 8bit, 16bit, handhelds etc. Or videos comparing console ports of games to see how the consoles compare to each other. Or how various consoles fare with arcade ports
I live in Ohio and I used to live in Columbus area back in 2014 for over a year and unfortunately that was the air where I took a break and gaming. So I hadn't visited any of those game stores while I was there. You know I only visited malls and you know like border books and half Price books and stuff like that. Because I was still involved in buying people presents and stuff and that's where I would get their presents at.
But I didn't breeze across any games while I was there to the unfortunately. Only pretty cool DVD sets in music and books
Ayyy, dis is dope AS FREAK brudah. Can I get some pogs for John Riggs??? SHEEEEEEESH.
I can't believe I got a like from the creator on this lol. 😂😅
I live near Capital Games, have never found a game for lower or comparable to the price charting value.
I go to big fun all the time
Torgs is probably 10 times bigger then corgs. Definitely worth a trip to come to. I've gone since it started it grows every year
10x! wow, that's big. The more I do conventions the more I almost prefer the smaller shows. Maybe next year.
I'm dying to know what that bigger thicker Castlevania box was in the repro section. I want it. Haha.
Hey, you were in my neck of the woods lol There a lot of cool places here in Ohio. =)
M.A.S.K! Man I loved them as a kid, I would love to buy them for my son, but I'm in Europe and they are nowhere to be found and super expensive on ebay...
Was that Q from Impractical Jokers in blue?😸
Metal Jesus needs to come to see all the Atari 2600!
As a German it is kinda surreal for me to see Big Riggs in front of an ALDI
Drew Carey if I'm getting his name right maybe that nostalgic moment came from watching his sitcom💁🏾♂️maybe
they introduced the deposits on carts in the 90s as kind of a bail money for people to take them back instead of abandoning them somewhere on the parking lot. im surprised its only 25 cents in the US. its a whole euro here, which is slightly more than a dollar.
Probably only a quarter here because dollar coins have never caught on. Us Americans hate carrying change lol
@@xslayer88
makes sense. its pretty common here to use an equal sized plastic or metal token instead of a real coin anyway. maybe theyll catch on in the US too some day. :-)
I would love to visit Warp Zone in Hillard, owned by early TH-camr Retrocalypse.
Edit: DON’T SLEEP ON JENI’S!!
Forever games is nice to
Aldi is German, but yes we have it here in the U.K.
Im an hour away from columbus how have i not heard of them before
Jerry Siegel is from Cleveland, but Joe Shuster is from Toronto.
You were two or so hours away from me, man! How did you like Ohio? Almost everyone here hates it. 🤣
Cashiers are allowed to sit because the other half of their 12 hour shift they work in back unloading trucks.
Sadly, Capital Games has a notorious reputation for not pricing things and when you ask for one, they say they have to call the boss. I did this one time and it took about 20 minutes to get a price and it was way over market price. I've also experienced where I took a ps4 game to the counter and they gave me a different case with a coffee ring on it. I didn't realize until I got home, which is an hour away.
Wow Capital games has a lot of NES titles I need. Wonder what that Snow Bros was going for?
Can always call and ask! It's not cheap, probably.
@@JohnRiggs oh for sure not cheap but I only need this and Strider and then I have the complete Capcom NES subset.
Cincinnati WKRP !
Aldi is cheaper, because of the company's philosophy of keeping operating costs as low as possible. It is the same quality like other brands. Just different labels.
I have a hard time buying in Columbus now because a lot of the stores have gone to no price stickers
Downtown Ohio looks like downtown yakima 😆
Capital games is a good store to
Riggs…glad you enjoyed Columbus! Happy to have you in my city! Too bad you had to experience Capital Games. By far the worst. Most of their games are way overpriced or don’t have a price on them at all. Many better stores than Capital 👍
Oooo I’m jellin😅
ALDI is Founded by 2 German lads 🙏🏽👍🏾
I know a lot of useless information about Aldi. Here goes. Some guy in Germany owned Aldi, and after WW2 he died, and his sons got the company. One son wanted to sell cigarettes, one did not, so they separated the company into two companies with the same name. One brother only ran stores in North Germany, the other in South Germany. They used the same exact logo, but different colors. Then they wanted to expand to other countries, so they agreed that all other countries they expanded to the one that opened stores in that country last would not use the name Aldi. So if one brother opened Aldi stores in any country, then the other brother opened stores, he would have to rename it to something else. So there are several countries Aldi operates in, and both Aldi companies have stores not named Aldi. For example, one brother opened Aldi stores in the U.S., so when the other brother opened stores in the U.S. he could not use the Aldi name, so those stores are named Trader Joes. So basically Aldi is two companies owned and ran by the same family, and both companies have Aldi stores in several countries, but the only country that both have Aldi stores in is Germany. All this because of a dispute over selling cigarettes, and I do not think either Aldi company sells cigarettes today.