This week's Metroland includes an interesting profile of local vintage video game store owners Joe Pirro and Emily Petrequin. Their stores, called Pastime Legends, are in Scotia and on Lark Street in Albany.
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Their stores are fantastic! They always offer such great trade values for used video games.
They even have a little mini arcade machine on their website: http://pastimelegendsvideogames.com/arcademachine.html :)
... said Matt on Nov 12, 2010 at 2:17 AM | link
I was thrilled when that store moved in on Lark Street, and I hope they hang around. The first time I went in there, I felt like I just fell into the hot tub time machine.
... said Summer on Nov 12, 2010 at 11:08 AM | link